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January

 * January – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
 * January 5
 * U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona announces that he will seek the Republican Party nomination for President.
 * In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem.
 * January 7 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba.
 * January 8 – In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty".
 * January 9 – Martyrs' Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers.
 * January 10 – Introducing... The Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records' release of Meet the Beatles!, scheduled for January 20. The two record companies fight over Vee-Jay's release of this album in court.
 * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).
 * January 12
 * Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a United States Navy destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens.
 * Routine U.S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.
 * January 13
 * In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
 * Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
 * January 15
 * Whisky a Go Go opens its doors on Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. Johnny Rivers become the first house band at the club, which helped pave the club's way to international fame and contributed to the beginning of rock n' roll on the Sunset Strip.
 * Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract in the United States.
 * Major League Baseball executives vote to hold a free agent amateur draft, officially known as Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in New York City.
 * San Francisco Giants make champion outfielder Willie Mays the highest-paid player in baseball when they sign him to a new $105,000 per season contract.
 * January 16
 * Musical Hello, Dolly! opens in New York's St. James Theatre.
 * John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, resigns from NASA.
 * January 17
 * John Glenn announces that he will seek the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
 * Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in the United States. It will later be published by George Allen & Unwin in the United Kingdom on November 23.
 * January 18 – Plans to build the New York City World Trade Center are announced.
 * January 20 – Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing... The Beatles. The two record companies battle it out in court for months, eventually coming to a conclusion.
 * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia.
 * January 23
 * Pope Paul VI institutes the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. During this celebration the Pope reminds the universal Church that still today salvation comes to everyone. It continues to be celebrated every Fourth Sunday of Easter (also known as Good Shepherd Sunday).
 * Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly two years after its passage by the United States Senate, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
 * Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens Off-Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
 * January 27
 * France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.
 * U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
 * January 28 – A U.S. Air Force jet training aircraft that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt; all three crew men are killed.
 * January 29–February 9 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.
 * January 29
 * The Soviet Union launches two scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.
 * Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon.
 * January 30 – General Nguyễn Khánh leads a bloodless military coup d'état, replacing Dương Văn Minh as Prime Minister of South Vietnam.

February

 * February 1 – The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", starting the British Invasion in the United States.
 * February 3 – Protesting against alleged de facto school racial segregation, Black and Puerto Rican groups in New York City boycott public schools.
 * February 4 – The Government of the United States authorizes the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, outlawing the poll tax.
 * February 5 – India backs out of its promise to hold a plebiscite in the disputed territory of Kashmir. In 1948, India had taken the issue of Kashmir to the United Nations Security Council and offered to hold a plebiscite in the held Kashmir under UN supervision.
 * February 6 – Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in reprisal for the U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida.
 * February 7
 * A Jackson, Mississippi, jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963, reports that it cannot reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.
 * The Beatles arrive from the UK at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of "Beatlemania" in the United States.
 * February 9 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television. Seen by an estimated 73,000,000 viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the mid-1960s "British Invasion" of American popular music.
 * February 10 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: 82 Australian sailors die when an aircraft carrier and a destroyer collide off New South Wales, Australia.
 * February 11
 * Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
 * The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China.
 * February 17
 * Wesberry v. Sanders (376 US 1 1964): The Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
 * Gabonese president Léon M'ba is toppled by a military coup and his archrival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place. However, French intervention restores M'ba's government the next day.
 * February 23 – Chrysler's second generation hemi racing engine debuts at the Daytona 500. The 426 hemi-powered Plymouth of Richard Petty (#43) wins. Hemi-powered Plymouths finish 1-2-3.
 * February 25 – Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.
 * February 26 – U.S. politician John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio, apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Democratic Party Senate nomination.
 * February 27 – The Italian government asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
 * February 29 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that the United States has developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 mi/h and of altitudes of more than 70,000 ft.

March

 * March 4 – Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a federal jury of tampering with a federal jury in 1962.
 * March 6
 * Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul.
 * Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party.
 * Boxer Cassius Clay announces the change of his name to Muhammad Ali.
 * March 9
 * New York Times Co. v Sullivan (376 US 254 1964): The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.
 * London Fisheries Convention signed, giving signatories the right of full access to fishing grounds within 12 nautical miles of the western European coastline.
 * The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
 * March 10
 * Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany; the 3 U.S. flyers parachute to safety.
 * Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican primary.
 * March 12 – Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam.
 * March 13 – The New York Times misreports that 38 neighbors of Kitty Genovese, 28, fail to respond to her cries, as she is being stabbed to death in Queens, New York City, prompting investigation into the bystander effect.
 * March 14 – A Dallas, Texas, jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
 * March 15 – Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) in Montreal.
 * March 18 – 1964 Moscow protest: Approximately 50 Moroccan students break into the embassy of Morocco in the Soviet Union and stage an all‐day sit-in protesting against sentencing of eleven people to death for the alleged assassination attempt of King Hassan II of Morocco.
 * March 19 – The American Geraldine Jerrie Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world from March 19 to April 17.
 * March 20–June 6 – The first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development takes place.
 * March 20 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
 * March 21 – Non ho l'età by Gigliola Cinquetti (music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 for Italy.
 * March 26 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency.
 * March 27 (Good Friday) – The Great Alaskan earthquake, the second-most powerful known (and the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history) at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 123 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
 * March 28
 * King Saud of Saudi Arabia abdicates the throne.
 * Radio Caroline becomes the United Kingdom's first "Pirate" radio station, broadcasting from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters on the east coast.
 * March 30 – Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! debuts on NBC; Art Fleming is its first host.
 * March 31 – The military overthrows Brazilian President João Goulart in a coup, starting 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil. It ends in 1985.

April

 * April 1 – Deployed military rule in Brazil ends the government of democratically elected president, João Goulart.
 * April 2 – Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, is released on $450 bond after spending two days in a St. Augustine, Florida, jail, for participating in an anti-segregation demonstration there.
 * April 4
 * The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented achievement. The top songs in America as listed on April 4, in order, are: "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and "Please Please Me".
 * April 6 – Jigme Palden Dorji, premier of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, is shot dead by an unidentified assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian border.
 * April 7 – IBM announces the System/360.
 * April 8
 * Four of 5 railroad operating unions in the United States strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning, bringing to a head a 5-year dispute over railroad work rules.
 * Gemini 1 is launched, the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.
 * From Russia with Love premiers in U.S. movie theaters.
 * April 9 – The United Nations Security Council adopts by a 9–0 vote a resolution deploring a British air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier, in which 25 persons have been reported killed.
 * April 10 – Demolition of the Polo Grounds sports stadium commences in New York City.
 * April 11 – The Brazilian Congress elects Field Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco as President of Brazil.
 * April 12 – In Detroit, Malcolm X delivers a speech entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet"
 * April 13
 * The 36th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
 * Sidney Poitier is the first African-American to win an Academy Award in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lilies of the Field.
 * April 14 – A Delta rocket's third-stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
 * April 16
 * The Rolling Stones release their debut album, The Rolling Stones.
 * Sentences totaling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train traveling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that becomes known as the Great Train Robbery.
 * April 17
 * In the United States, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public.
 * Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York.
 * April 19 – In Laos, the coalition government of Prince Souvanna Phouma is deposed by a right-wing military group, led by Brig. Gen. Kouprasith Abhay. Not supported by the United States, the coup is ultimately unsuccessful, and Souvanna Phouma is reinstated, remaining as Prime Minister until 1975.
 * April 20
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.
 * Nelson Mandela makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a key event for the anti-apartheid movement.
 * In the UK, BBC Two television starts broadcasting for the first time.
 * April 22Unisphere.jpg: 1964 New York World's Fair]]
 * British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.
 * The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York (later King James II) and being renamed New York in 1664. The fair runs until October 18, 1964, and reopens April 21, 1965, finally closing October 17, 1965. Although not internationally sanctioned, due to being within ten years of the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, so that some countries decline to attend, many have pavilions with exotic crafts, art and food.)
 * April 25 – Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark (Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997).
 * April 26 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

May

 * May 1 – At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first computer program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which they have created. BASIC is eventually included on many computers and even some games consoles.
 * May 2
 * Vietnam War: Attack on USNS Card – An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos causes carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
 * Some 400–1,000 students march through Times Square, New York, and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, WI.
 * United States Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
 * Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten, murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
 * May 4 – The United States Congress recognizes Bourbon whiskey as a "distinctive product of the United States".
 * May 7
 * Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
 * At a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany), three people are killed by a rocket explosion.
 * May 9 – South Korean President Park Chung-hee reshuffles his Cabinet, after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and trade relations with Japan.
 * May 11 – Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.
 * May 12 – Twelve young men in New York City publicly burn their draft cards to protest the Vietnam War; the first such act of war resistance.
 * May 19 – The United States State Department says that more than forty hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
 * May 23
 * Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 mi from Paris.
 * Pablo Picasso paints his fourth Head of a Bearded Man.
 * May 24–25 – The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riots over a referee's decision in the Peru-Argentina game; 319 are killed, 500 injured.
 * May 26 – Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the nomination.
 * May 27 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies; he is later succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
 * May 28 – The Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is released by the Arab League.
 * May 30 – Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald are killed in a fiery crash during the 1964 Indianapolis 500.

June

 * June 2
 * Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
 * Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are offered for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out.
 * June 3 – South Korean President Park Chung-hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police.
 * June 6 – With a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven are terminated.
 * June 9 – In a federal Court in Kansas City, Kansas, 28 year-old army deserter George John Gessner is convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union.
 * June 10
 * The U.S. Senate votes cloture of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.
 * The Deacons for Defense and Justice (Black self-defense organization) is founded in Jonesboro, Louisiana.
 * June 11
 * Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus.
 * Cologne school massacre: In Cologne, West Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21.
 * June 12
 * Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a 'stop-Goldwater' movement.
 * Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
 * June 16 – Keith Bennett, 12, is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in the north of England. His body has never been found.
 * June 17 – American author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters embark on their cross-country trip aboard Further (bus) spreading the gospel of LSD.
 * June 19 – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed.
 * June 20 – The Ford GT40 makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It does not see its first victory, however, until 2 years 1966. At the same event, the AC Cobra wins its class in its second Le Mans appearance.
 * June 21
 * Civil rights movement: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner – Three Congress of Racial Equality workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, are abducted and murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan with local law enforcement officials involved in the conspiracy. Their bodies are not found until August 4.
 * Spain beats the Soviet Union 2–1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.
 * Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first in the National League since 1880.
 * June 26 – Moise Tshombe returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from exile in Spain.
 * June 29 – Manx Radio commences broadcasting from Douglas, Isle of Man after receiving its first Low power broadcast licence from the United Kingdom's General Post Office.

July

 * July 2 – President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, officially abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
 * July 6 – Malawi receives its independence from the United Kingdom.
 * July 8 – U.S. military personnel announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA.
 * July 16 – At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, U.S. presidential nominee Barry Goldwater declares that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice", and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue".
 * July 18
 * Six days of race riots begin in Harlem.
 * Judith Graham Pool publishes her discovery of cryoprecipitate, a frozen blood clotting product made from plasma primarily to treat hemophiliacs around the world.
 * "False Hare" is the final Warner Bros. cartoon with "target" titles.
 * July 19 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
 * July 20
 * Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
 * The National Movement of the Revolution is instituted as the sole legal political party in the Republic of the Congo.
 * July 21 – Race riots begin in Singapore between ethnic Chinese and Malays.
 * July 22 – The second meeting of the Organisation of African Unity is held.
 * July 24 – There is a minor criticality accident at a United Nuclear Corporation Fuels recovery plant in Wood River Junction, Richmond, Rhode Island. 37-year-old Robert Peabody dies two days after the incident.
 * July 27 – Vietnam War: The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
 * July 31 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the Moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound telescopes).

August

 * August 1 – The final Looney Tune, "Señorella and the Glass Huarache", is released before the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack Warner.
 * August 2 – Vietnam War: United States destroyer Maddox is attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks one gunboat, while the other two leave the battle.
 * August 5
 * Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
 * The Simba rebel army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo captures Stanleyville, and takes 1,000 Western hostages.
 * August 7 – Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
 * August 8 – A Rolling Stones gig in Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after about fifteen minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police.
 * August 13 – Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen become the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom.
 * August 16 – Vietnam War: In a coup, General Nguyễn Khánh replaces Dương Văn Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new constitution, drafted partly by the U.S. Embassy.
 * August 17 – Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano, sings the role of Turandot in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's Fair.
 * August 18 – The International Olympic Committee bans South Africa from the Tokyo Olympics on the grounds that its teams are racially segregated.
 * August 20 – The International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat) began to work.
 * August 22
 * Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.
 * Goalkeeper Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player to play in the Football League, aged 15 years and 185 days.
 * August 24–27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
 * August 27 – Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles, based on the 1933 book. It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress. It is the first Disney film to be nominated for Best Picture.
 * August 28–30 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests.

September

 * September 2 – Indian Hungry generation poets are arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state and obscenity in literature.
 * September 4 – The Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth.
 * September 10 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) is founded.
 * September 11 – In Jacksonville, Florida, John Lennon announces that the Beatles will not play to a segregated audience.
 * September 14
 * The third period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
 * The London Daily Herald ceases publication, replaced by The Sun.
 * September 17 – The James Bond film Goldfinger opens in the UK.
 * September 18 – In Athens, King Constantine II of Greece marries Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, who becomes Europe's youngest Queen at age 18 years, 19 days.
 * September 20 – At the autumnal equinox, the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) is founded in England.
 * September 21
 * The island of Malta obtains independence from the United Kingdom.
 * The North American XB-70 Valkyrie makes its first flight at Palmdale, California.
 * September 24 – The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, is published.
 * September 25 – The Mozambican War of Independence is launched by FRELIMO.
 * September 26 – The sitcom Gilligan's Island, starring Bob Denver as Gilligan premieres on CBS in the United States.

October

 * October – Dr. Robert Moog demonstrates the prototype Moog synthesizer.
 * October 1
 * Three thousand student activists at University of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
 * The Shinkansen high-speed rail system, the world's first such system, is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka.
 * October 2 – The Kinks release their first album, Kinks, in the United Kingdom.
 * October 5
 * Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
 * Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada.
 * October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.
 * October 12 – The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. The flight is cut short and lands again on October 13 after 16 orbits.
 * October 14 – American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
 * October 14–15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.
 * October 15
 * The Labour Party wins the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule. The new prime minister is Harold Wilson.
 * Craig Breedlove's jet-powered car Spirit of America goes out of control in Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and makes skid marks 9.6 km long.
 * October 16
 * Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Conservative government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which has been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.
 * 596 (nuclear test): The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.
 * October 18 – The New York World's Fair closes for the year (it reopens April 21, 1965).
 * October 21 – The film version of the hit Broadway stage musical My Fair Lady premieres in New York City. The movie stars Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison repeating his stage performance as Professor Henry Higgins (which will win him an Academy Award for Best Actor). The film will win seven other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
 * October 22
 * Canada: A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official Flag of Canada.
 * A 5.3 kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, 21 mi from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as part of the Vela Uniform program. This test is the Salmon phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Dribble.
 * October 24 – Northern Rhodesia, a former British protectorate, becomes the independent Republic of Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule.
 * October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth between 1959 and 1963.
 * October 27 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians hostage.
 * October 29 – A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including the 565 carat Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
 * October 31 – Campaigning at Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great Society.

November

 * November 1 – Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces rains on the Bien Hoa Air Base, killing four U.S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying five B-57 jet bombers and other planes.
 * November 3
 * 1964 United States presidential election: Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
 * The Bolivian government of President Víctor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Ovando Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
 * November 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 3 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails.
 * November 9 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain.
 * November 10 – Australia partially reintroduces compulsory military service due to the Indonesian Confrontation.
 * November 13 – Bob Pettit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes the first American National Basketball Association player to score 20,000 points.
 * November 19 – The United States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95 military bases and facilities, including Fort Jay, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
 * November 21
 * Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, is promulgated.
 * The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge across New York Bay opens to traffic (the world's longest suspension bridge at this time).
 * November 24 – Belgian paratroopers and mercenaries capture Stanleyville, but a number of hostages die in the fighting, among them American Evangelical Covenant Church missionary Dr. Paul Carlson.
 * November 28
 * Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.
 * Vietnam War: United States National Security Council members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor, agree to recommend a plan for a 2-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam, to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
 * France performs an underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria.

December

 * December 1
 * Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes office as President of Mexico.
 * Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam (after some debate, they agree on a 2-phase bombing plan).
 * December 3
 * Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly protested the U.C. Regents' decision to punish student activists for what many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict.
 * The Danish football club Brøndby IF is founded as a merger between the two local clubs Brøndbyøster Idrætsforening and Brøndbyvester Idrætsforening. The club wins the national championship Danish Superliga 10 times, and the Danish Cups six times, after joining the Danish top-flight football league in 1981.
 * December 5 – Australian Senate election, 1964: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies hold their status quo, while the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell lose one seat to the Democratic Labor Party, who hold the balance of power in the Senate alongside independent Reg Turnbull.
 * December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, premieres on NBC. It becomes a beloved Christmas tradition, still being shown on television more than 50 years later.
 * December 10 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
 * December 11
 * Sam Cooke, African American singer-songwriter (b. 1931), is shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles, California.
 * Che Guevara addresses the United Nations General Assembly. A bazooka attack is launched at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
 * December 12 – Jamhuri Day: Kenya becomes a republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President.
 * December 14 – Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (379 US 241 1964): The U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodation must refrain from racial discrimination.
 * December 18
 * In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal, the U.S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty.
 * The deadly Christmas flood of 1964 begins; It becomes one of the most destructive weather events to affect Oregon in the 20th century.
 * December 21
 * The James Bond film Goldfinger begins its run in U.S. theaters. It becomes one of the most successful and popular Bond films ever made.
 * The General Dynamics F-111 makes its first flight.
 * December 22
 * Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to 4 months in prison, concluding a 6-month obscenity trial.
 * A cyclone in the Palk Strait destroys the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, killing 1800 people.
 * The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird makes its first flight at Palmdale, California.
 * December 23 – Wonderful Radio London becomes the United Kingdom's fourth "Pirate" radio station, broadcasting from MV Galaxy (a former US Navy minesweeper) anchored off the east coast of England, with an American-style Top 40 ("Fab 40") playlist of popular records.
 * December 24 – Bombing of the Brinks Hotel in Saigon.
 * December 26 – Lesley Ann Downey, 10, is abducted by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in Manchester, England.
 * December 27 – The Cleveland Browns defeat the Baltimore Colts, 27-0, in the National Football League Championship Game.
 * December 30 – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) established as a permanent organ of the UN General Assembly.

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 * Spring – First recognition of cosmic microwave background radiation as a detectable phenomenon.
 * Jerome Horwitz synthesizes zidovudine (AZT), an antiviral drug which will later be used in treating HIV.
 * Farrington Daniels's book Direct Use of the Sun's Energy is published by Yale University Press.
 * Rudi Gernreich designs the original monokini topless swimsuit in the U.S.
 * The Vishva Hindu Pariṣad is founded in India.
 * The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies is established at the University of Birmingham, England, by Richard Hoggart.
 * The first fatality occurs at Disneyland in California: a 15-year-old boy is injured while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and dies three days later as a result of his injuries.
 * The Pontiac GTO, the first vehicle officially dubbed a "muscle car", debuts as a trim level of the Tempest.
 * Germaine Greer becomes the first full female member of Cambridge University Footlights revue after joining in her first week at Newnham College, Cambridge.
 * Pete Townshend of The Who destroys his first guitar at the Railway Hotel, London.

January

 * January 1
 * Moussa Dadis Camara, Guinean general and 3rd President of Guinea
 * Juliana Donald, American actress
 * Dedee Pfeiffer, American film and television actress
 * January 2
 * Noriah Kasnon, Malaysian politician (d. 2016)
 * Pernell Whitaker, African-American boxer (d. 2019)
 * January 3 – Jon Gibson, American Christian musician
 * January 4
 * Alexandre Fadeev, Soviet figure skater
 * Dot Jones, American actress and retired athlete
 * January 5 – Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Spanish golfer
 * January 6
 * Colin Cowherd, American talk show host
 * Henry Maske, German boxer
 * Jacqueline DeLois Moore, American wrestler
 * Anthony Scaramucci, American financier, entrepreneur, and political figure
 * Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan swimmer and sports commentator (d. 2005)
 * January 7 – Nicolas Cage, American actor
 * January 11
 * Patrícia Pillar, Brazilian actress
 * Yolanda Hadid, American television personality
 * January 12 – Jeff Bezos, American Internet entrepreneur
 * January 13
 * Bill Bailey, British comedian
 * Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
 * January 14 – Mark Addy, English actor
 * January 15
 * Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
 * John Eric Williams, American Mechanical Engineer
 * January 16 – Chris Dittmar, Australian squash player
 * January 17
 * Michelle Fairley, Northern Irish actress
 * Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
 * January 18 – Jane Horrocks, British actress
 * January 19 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
 * January 20
 * Koko Pimentel, Filipino politician, 28th President of the Senate of the Philippines
 * Fareed Zakaria, American journalist
 * January 22 – Kim Kwang-seok, South Korean singer (d. 1996)
 * January 23
 * Mariska Hargitay, American actress
 * Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyanese politician and 7th President of Guyana
 * Kelly Parsons, American actress and model
 * January 25 – Mark McPhee, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
 * January 27 – Bridget Fonda, American actress
 * January 29 – Andre Reed, NFL player, 2014 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
 * January 31 – Jeff Hanneman, American rock guitarist (Slayer) (d. 2013)

February

 * February 1
 * Philippe Casado, French road bicycle racer (d. 1995)
 * Sharon Bruneau, Canadian bodybuilder and fitness competitor
 * February 5
 * Laura Linney, American actress
 * Duff McKagan, American rock musician, songwriter
 * Martha Fiennes, English film director
 * Ha Seungmoo, Korean Poet, Pastor, Historical theologian
 * February 6 – Gord Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Tragically Hip) (d. 2017)
 * February 8 – German Gref, Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia
 * February 10
 * Glenn Beck, American conservative broadcaster
 * John Campbell, New Zealand broadcaster
 * February 11
 * Sarah Palin, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
 * Ken Shamrock, American mixed martial arts fighter
 * February 15
 * Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
 * Mark Price, American basketball player
 * February 16
 * Bebeto, Brazilian footballer
 * Christopher Eccleston, British actor
 * Valentina Yegorova, Russian Olympic athlete
 * February 17 − Angelica Page, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter
 * February 18
 * Matt Dillon, American actor and film director
 * Tommy Scott, British musician and frontman of Space
 * February 19
 * Nik Novecento, Italian actor and television personality (d. 1987)
 * Jennifer Doudna, American biochemist
 * Jonathan Lethem, American author
 * Richard A. Scott, American illustrator
 * February 20
 * Willie Garson, American character actor
 * French Stewart, American actor
 * February 22
 * Ed Boon, American video game designer
 * Diane Charlemagne, English singer (52nd Street, Urban Cookie Collective) (d. 2015)
 * February 23 – Eizo Sakamoto, Japanese musician, singer and songwriter (Anthem and Animetal)
 * February 24
 * Todd Field, American actor and director
 * Ute Geweniger, German swimmer
 * February 25 – Lee Evans, British comedian and actor
 * February 28 – Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist

March

 * March 2 – Mike Von Erich, American profesional wrestler (d. 1987)
 * March 3 – Rod Jones, American football player (d. 2018)
 * March 4
 * Paul Bostaph, American drummer
 * Emilia Eberle, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
 * March 6
 * Skip Ewing, American country singer
 * Yvette Wilson, American actress and comedian (d. 2012)
 * March 7
 * Bret Easton Ellis, American author
 * Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakh cross-country skier
 * Wanda Sykes, African-American comedian and actress
 * March 9
 * Juliette Binoche, French actress
 * Tomomitsu Niimi, Japanese criminal (d. 2018)
 * Steve Wilkos, American retired police officer; talk show host
 * March 10
 * Edith Lucie Bongo, First Lady of Gabon (d. 2009)
 * Neneh Cherry, Swedish-born singer-songwriter
 * Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, British prince and third son (youngest child) of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh
 * March 11
 * Emma Chambers, English actress (d. 2018)
 * Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah) (d. 2018)
 * Shane Richie, British actor
 * March 13 – Trevor Gillmeister, Australian rugby league player
 * March 16
 * Pascal Richard, Swiss road bicycle racer
 * Gore Verbinski, American film director
 * March 17 – Rob Lowe, American actor
 * March 18
 * Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
 * Mika Kanai, Japanese voice actress
 * Rozalla, Zambian singer
 * Keren Mor, Israeli actress and comedian
 * March 19
 * Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
 * Jake Weber, English actor
 * March 20 – Michael Keith Smith, American bass player and builder
 * March 23 – Hope Davis, American actress
 * March 24
 * Liz McColgan, British long-distance runner athlete
 * Steve Souza, American singer (Exodus)
 * March 25
 * LisaGay Hamilton, American actress
 * Mike Henry, American actor and voice actor
 * Vince Offer, American writer, director, comedian and pitchman
 * Alexey Prokurorov, Russian cross-country skier (d. 2008)
 * March 26
 * Todd Barry, American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor
 * Martin Donnelly, Northern Irish racecar driver
 * Cynthia MacGregor, American tennis player (d. 1996)
 * Ed Wasser, American actor
 * March 27
 * Clive Rowe, English actor
 * Jessica Soho, Filipino broadcast journalist
 * March 29
 * Michael A. Jackson, sheriff of Prince George's County, Maryland
 * Catherine Cortez Masto, U.S. Senator from Nevada
 * Ming Tsai, Chinese-American chef
 * March 30
 * Tracy Chapman, African-American singer
 * Sigurd Haveland, Gibraltarian triathlete and cyclist
 * Ian Ziering, American actor and voice actor
 * March 31 – Dave Wyman, American football player

April

 * April 1 – Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager
 * April 3
 * Nigel Farage, English politician and MEP, leader of the Brexit Party
 * Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
 * Yelena Ruzina, Russian Olympic athlete
 * April 4
 * David Cross, American actor and comedian
 * Robbie Rist, American actor, voice actor, singer, and musician
 * April 6
 * Tim Walz, American politician
 * David Woodard, American businessman
 * April 7
 * Russell Crowe, New Zealand-born actor
 * Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
 * April 8 – Lisa Guerrero, Hispanic American actress, model and sportscaster/reporter
 * April 10 – Hiroshi Tsuburaya, Japanese actor (d. 2001)
 * April 13 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress and comedian
 * April 14
 * Brian Adams, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
 * Jeff Andretti, American race car driver
 * Takumi Yamazaki, Japanese voice actress
 * April 15 – Lee Kernaghan, Australian country singer
 * April 16 – Esbjörn Svensson Swedish jazz pianist (d. 2008)
 * April 17
 * Lela Rochon, American actress
 * Maynard James Keenan, American singer, actor, and winemaker, frontman of Tool
 * April 18 – Lourenço Mutarelli, Brazilian underground comic book writer
 * April 19 – Harris Barton, American football player
 * April 20
 * Andy Serkis, English actor
 * Crispin Glover, American actor
 * Sean A. Moore, American writer (d. 1998)
 * April 21 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete
 * April 24
 * Augusta Read Thomas, American composer
 * Cedric the Entertainer, American actor and comedian
 * Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor and model
 * April 25
 * Hank Azaria, American actor, voice artist and comedian
 * Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter
 * Vince Offer, Israeli-American actor, director, comedian, and pitchman
 * April 26 – Zhu Jun, Chinese host
 * April 28 – L'Wren Scott, American fashion designer (d. 2014)
 * April 29
 * Federico Castelluccio, Italian-born actor
 * Radek Jaroš, Czech mountaineer
 * April 30
 * Pooky Quesnel, English actress
 * Misa Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
 * Abhishek Chatterjee, Indian actor

May

 * May 1 – Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed-skater
 * May 3 – Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player
 * May 4
 * Gary Holt, American guitarist (Exodus and Slayer)
 * Zsuzsa Mathe, Hungarian born painter and visual artist, founder of Transrealism
 * May 5
 * Heike Henkel, German Olympic athlete
 * Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer (Two-Mix and DoCo)
 * May 6 – Dana Hill, American voice actress (d. 1996)
 * May 7
 * Doug Benson, American comedian
 * Ronnie Harmon, American football player
 * Leslie O'Neal, American football player
 * May 8
 * Melissa Gilbert, American actress and president of the Screen Actors Guild
 * Bobby Labonte, American race car driver
 * Dave Rowntree, English drummer (Blur)
 * May 10
 * Mark Andre, French-born German composer
 * Orna Datz, Israeli singer, actress and television presenter
 * May 11
 * Tim Blake Nelson, American actor, writer, and director
 * John Parrott, English snooker player
 * May 12 − José Casanova, Peruvian footballer (d. 1987)
 * May 13 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian, political commentator, and television personality; host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
 * May 14 – Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
 * May 16 – John Salley, American basketball player and talk show host
 * May 17 – Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling valet and model (d. 2007)
 * May 20
 * Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat, author, print journalist and broadcaster. Younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
 * Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach (d. 2007)
 * May 21
 * Rui Maria de Araújo, East Timorese politician
 * Danny Bailey, English footballer
 * May 22 – Marcus Dupree, American football player
 * May 23 – Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
 * May 24 – Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer
 * May 25 – Ray Stevenson, Northern Irish-born actor
 * May 26
 * Caitlín R. Kiernan, American author and paleontologist
 * Lenny Kravitz, American singer, songwriter, and actor
 * May 27 – Adam Carolla, American comedic radio personality and television personality
 * May 28
 * Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
 * Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipino actress and pop singer
 * May 30
 * Tom Morello, American musician and political activist (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage)
 * Wynonna Judd, American country singer
 * Mark Sheppard, British-American actor and musician

June

 * June 1 – Deirdre Bolton, American broadcast journalist and business news and commentator
 * June 3
 * James Purefoy, British actor
 * Kerry King, American guitarist (Slayer)
 * Daniel Lieberman, American paleoanthropologist
 * June 4 – Sean Pertwee, British actor and voice actor
 * June 5
 * Dukagjin Pupovci, Kosovo Albanian professor
 * Rick Riordan, American author
 * June 6 – Guru Josh, British musician (d. 2015)
 * June 7
 * Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
 * Petr Hruška, Czech poet
 * June 9
 * Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
 * Wayman Tisdale, American NBA basketball star and smooth jazz musician (d. 2009)
 * June 10
 * Ben Daniels, British actor
 * Kate Flannery, American actress
 * June 12 – Paula Marshall, American actress
 * June 13 – Kathy Burke, English actress and comedian
 * June 15
 * Courteney Cox, American actress
 * Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer and manager
 * June 18 – Uday Hussein, eldest child of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
 * June 19
 * Bill Barretta, American puppeteer and producer
 * Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Laura Ingraham, American radio host and political commentator
 * June 20 – Michael Landon Jr., American actor, director, writer, and producer
 * June 21
 * Doug Savant, American actor
 * Sammi Davis, English actress
 * Josh Pais, American actor
 * Patrice Bailly-Salins, French biathlete
 * Tania Mathias, British ophthalmologist and Conservative Party politician
 * Keith Stevens, English professional footballer
 * Dean Saunders, Welsh football manager and former professional footballer
 * Kiyoshi Okuma, Japanese football player and manager
 * David Morrissey, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
 * June 22
 * Amy Brenneman, American actress
 * Dan Brown, American author
 * Hiroshi Abe, Japanese model and actor
 * Cadillac Anderson, American professional basketball player
 * Miroslav Kadlec, Czech football defender
 * Nico Jalink, Dutch footballer and football manager
 * Angelo Tsarouchas, Canadian comedian/actor
 * Henrik Mestad, Norwegian actor
 * Tom Crebbin, Australian rules footballer
 * Paterson Joseph, British actor
 * June 23
 * Astrid Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan actress
 * Tara Morice, Australian actress, singer, and dancer
 * Tomonohana Shinya, Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Joss Whedon, American screenwriter
 * June 24
 * Günther Mader, Austrian alpine ski racer
 * Kari Kennell, American actress
 * Christopher Steele, British intelligence officer
 * Alfredo Tomassini, Peruvian football player (d. 1987)
 * June 25
 * Matt Gallant, American television host
 * Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
 * June 26
 * Ian Tracey, Canadian actor
 * Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish rally driver
 * June 27
 * Michael Reilly Burke, American actor
 * Kai Diekmann, German journalist
 * Park Jun-gyu, South Korean actor
 * June 28 – Mark Grace, American baseball player
 * June 29
 * Bradley Bell, American television writer and producer
 * Wendy Kilbourne, American attorney and actress
 * June 30
 * Rebecca Hollweg, English singer-songwriter
 * Mark Waters, American screenwriter, director and film producer
 * Ivan Trojan, Czech actor

July

 * July 1
 * Yu Long, Chinese conductor
 * Clayton Lamb, Australian rules footballer
 * Paul Coyne, American TV producer and editor
 * Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
 * Loli Sánchez, Spanish basketball player
 * Chie Satō, Japanese voice actress
 * July 2
 * Stéphan Bureau, Canadian journalist, TV interviewer and producer
 * Jose and Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball players; twin brothers
 * July 3
 * Joanne Harris, English novelist
 * Aleksei Serebryakov, Russian-Canadian actor
 * Peyton Reed, American television and film director
 * Yeardley Smith, American actress and voice actress
 * Toshiharu Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
 * July 4
 * Mark Slaughter, American singer and musician
 * Martin Flood, Australian quiz show winner
 * Edi Rama, 33rd Prime Minister of Albania
 * July 5
 * Ronald D. Moore, American screenwriter and television producer
 * Stephen H. Scott, Canadian neuroscientist and engineer
 * Lee Ee Hoe, Malaysian businessman
 * Jimmy Demers, American singer-songwriter
 * July 6
 * Kim Jee-woon, South Korean film director and screenwriter
 * John Ottman, American film composer and editor
 * July 7
 * Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet
 * Shinichi Tsutsumi, Japanese actor
 * Dominik Henzel, Czech-Swedish actor and comedian
 * Tracy Reiner, American actress
 * Jennifer Gibney, Irish actress
 * July 8
 * Rodziah Ismail, Malaysian politician
 * Lam Suet, Hong Kong actor
 * July 9
 * Courtney Love, American musician/actress
 * Rainer Matsutani, German film director and screenwriter
 * July 10
 * Urban Meyer, American college football player and coach
 * Dalton Vigh, Brazilian actor
 * Eom Yeong-seop, South Korean cyclist
 * July 11
 * Craig Charles, British actor
 * Goran Radaković, Serbian actor
 * July 12 – Gaby Roslin, British TV presenter
 * July 13
 * Leanne Benjamin, Australian ballet dancer
 * Charlie Hides, American drag queen and comedian
 * Pascal Hervé, French road racing cyclist
 * July 14 – Kippei Shiina, Japanese actor
 * July 15
 * John Brzenk, American armwrestler
 * Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji, Malaysian politician
 * July 16
 * Andy Abraham, British singer
 * Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist
 * Canti Lau, Hong Kong actor
 * July 17
 * Norbert Dobeleit, German television personality and athlete
 * Heather Langenkamp, American actress
 * Craig Morgan, American country music singer-songwriter
 * July 18
 * Evan Stone, American pornographic actor
 * Wendy Williams, African-American former radio host and current talk show host
 * July 19
 * Miyeegombyn Enkhbold, Mongolian politician
 * Peter Dobson, American actor
 * Masahiko Kondō, Japanese singer
 * July 20
 * Chris Cornell, American singer (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog) (d. 2017)
 * Dean Winters, American actor
 * Deon Lotz, South African actor
 * July 21
 * Ross Kemp, British actor
 * Susan Swift, American actress
 * July 22
 * Adam Godley, British actor
 * Bonnie Langford, British actress
 * John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor
 * David Spade, American comedian, actor and television personality
 * July 23 – Nick Menza, German-born American drummer (Megadeth) (d. 2016)
 * July 24
 * Barry Bonds, African-American baseball player
 * Pedro Passos Coelho, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
 * July 25 – Lisa LaFlamme, Canadian journalist and news anchor
 * July 26
 * Sandra Bullock, American actress and film producer
 * Anne Provoost, Belgian author
 * July 27 – Rex Brown, American musician and author (Pantera)
 * July 28 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
 * July 30
 * Vivica A. Fox, American actress
 * Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer-manager and retired player
 * July 31 – C.C. Catch, Dutch-born German singer

August

 * August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
 * August 3
 * Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician (d. 2007)
 * Joan Higginbotham, African-American astronaut and engineer
 * Ye Qiaobo, Chinese speed skater
 * Abhisit Vejjajiva, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand
 * August 5 – Adam Yauch, American rapper (Beastie Boys) (d. 2012)
 * August 6 – Gary Valenciano, Filipino musician
 * August 6 - Brent Corley, American Country Singer
 * August 7 – Tom McGrath, American animator and voice actor
 * August 8
 * Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister
 * Nina Hoekman, Dutch draughts players (d. 2014)
 * Jan Josef Liefers, German actor, producer, director and musician
 * August 9
 * Brett Hull, Canadian hockey player
 * William Martens, American computer engineer
 * August 10 – Hiro Takahashi, Japanese singer (d. 2005)
 * August 11 – Héctor Soberón, Mexican actor
 * August 15 – Melinda Gates, American wife of Bill Gates
 * August 16
 * Jimmy Arias, American tennis player
 * William Salyers, American voice actor
 * August 19 – Dermott Brereton, Australian rules footballer
 * August 20 − Markus Flanagan, American actor
 * August 21 – Alfonso Lacadena, Spanish Mesoamerican epigraphist and academic (d. 2018)
 * August 22
 * Diane Setterfield, British author
 * Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
 * Andrew Wilson, American film actor and director
 * August 24 – Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut
 * August 25
 * Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
 * Blair Underwood, American actor and director
 * August 26
 * Dave Boyes, Canadian male rower
 * Allegra Huston, English-American author
 * Bobby Jurasin, Canadian football defensive lineman
 * Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer
 * Torsten Schmitz, German boxer
 * Sabine Hyland, American anthropologist

September

 * September 1
 * Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Ray D'Arcy, Irish radio and television host
 * Holly Golightly, American author and illustrator
 * Gary Mavers, English actor
 * Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini activist
 * Charlie Robison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * September 2
 * Jimmy Banks, American soccer defender (d. 2019)
 * Andrea Illy, Italian businessman
 * Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor and musician
 * September 3
 * Adam Curry, American-Dutch businessman and television host, co-founded mevio
 * Spike Feresten, American screenwriter and producer
 * Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer-songwriter and guitarist (Vital Signs) (d. 2016)
 * Holt McCallany, American actor
 * Nigel Rhodes, English actor and guitarist
 * September 4 – Anthony Weiner, U.S. Representative for New York's 9th congressional district
 * September 6
 * Todd Palin, American husband of former governor Sarah Palin
 * Rosie Perez, American actress and comedian
 * September 7 – Andy Hug, Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickboxer (d. 2000)
 * September 8
 * Michael Johns, American health care executive and Presidential speechwriter
 * Mitchell Whitfield, American actor and voice actor
 * Raven, American professional wrestler
 * September 10
 * Jack Ma, Chinese business magnate and billionaire internet entrepreneur
 * Yegor Letov, Russian singer (d. 2008)
 * September 11
 * Alexandre Lippiani, Brazilian actor and voice actor (d. 1997)
 * Damares Alves, Brazilian Minister of Human Rights, Family and Women
 * Ellis Burks, American baseball player
 * September 12 – Greg Gutfeld, American television personality
 * September 13 – Simegnew Bekele, Ethiopian engineer and public administrator (d. 2018)
 * September 14
 * Faith Ford, American actress
 * Stephen Dunham, American actor (d. 2012)
 * September 15 – Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia
 * September 16 – Molly Shannon, American actress
 * September 18 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer
 * September 19
 * Kim Richards, American actress
 * Trisha Yearwood, American country singer
 * September 20 – Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
 * September 21 – Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan musician
 * September 22
 * Ian Culverhouse, English footballer
 * Juha Turunen, Finnish politician turned criminal
 * September 23 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
 * September 24
 * Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver (d. 1996)
 * Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-American baseball player
 * September 25
 * Anita Barone, American actress
 * Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress
 * September 26
 * Scott Brower, American ice hockey goaltender (d. 1998)
 * Brett Climo, Australian actor
 * September 27 – Stephan Jenkins, American musician
 * September 28 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
 * September 30
 * Trey Anastasio, American musician
 * Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and model

October

 * October 1
 * Harry Hill, English comedian, writer and actor
 * Christopher Titus, American comedian and actor
 * October 2
 * Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
 * Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler
 * October 3 – Clive Owen, English actor
 * October 4
 * John Ralston, Canadian actor
 * Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper (d. 2009)
 * Yvonne Murray, Scottish athlete
 * October 5
 * Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
 * Korina Sanchez, Filipino broadcast journalist
 * October 8
 * Martin Marquez, English actor
 * CeCe Winans, African-American Christian musician
 * October 9 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
 * October 10
 * Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
 * Maxi Gnauck, East German gymnast
 * October 12 – Francisco Gattorno, Cuban-Mexican actor
 * October 13
 * Matt Walsh, American actor, comedian, director, and writer
 * Masaya Onosaka, Japanese voice actor
 * Gordy Hoffman, American screenwriter and director
 * October 14
 * Joe Girardi, American baseball player-manager
 * David Kaye, Canadian voice actor
 * Jim Rome, American sports T.V. and radio host
 * October 16 – Kathryn Edwards, American reality television star
 * October 18 – John Swasey, American voice actor
 * October 19
 * Jorge Luis González, Cuban boxer
 * Ty Pennington, American carpenter, model and television personality
 * October 20 – Kamala Harris, American politician, U.S. Senator from California
 * October 22
 * Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
 * Paul McStay, Scottish footballer
 * TobyMac, American-born Christian musician
 * October 23 – David Sobolov, Canadian voice actor and director
 * October 24
 * Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer and composer
 * Paul Bonwick, Canadian House of Commons member
 * Grant Gee, English film maker, photographer and cinematographer
 * Danny Mastrogiorgio, American actor
 * October 25
 * Nicole, German singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1982 winner
 * Kevin Michael Richardson, African-American actor and voice actor
 * October 26
 * Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer (d. 1989)
 * Irving São Paulo, Brazilian actor (d. 2006)
 * October 28
 * Onofrio Catacchio, Italian artist
 * Nyakweba Lawrence Ombasa, Kenyan teacher, lecturer, entrepreneur and political aspirant
 * October 29 – Yasmin Le Bon, British model
 * October 30
 * Tabitha St. Germain, American-born Canadian actress
 * Mark Steven Johnson, American screenwriter, film director, and producer
 * Abdel latif Moubarak, Egyptian poet
 * October 31 – Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer and manager

November

 * November 1 – Daran Norris, American actor and voice actor
 * November 3 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress
 * November 4
 * Douglas Wilson, American television personality and interior designer
 * Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress (d. 2016)
 * November 6 – Greg Graffin, American rock musician (Bad Religion)
 * November 7 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
 * November 10
 * Gao Chengyong, Chinese serial killer and rapist (d. 2019)
 * Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
 * Magnús Scheving, Icelandic producer
 * November 11
 * Ai-Ai delas Alas, Filipino actress
 * Calista Flockhart, American actress
 * November 12
 * Vic Chesnutt, American folk rock singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
 * David Ellefson, American rock bassist (Megadeth)
 * Michael Kremer, American development economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
 * Barbara Stühlmeyer, German musicologist, church musician and writer
 * November 13 – Tzufit Grant, Israeli actress
 * November 14
 * Jay Moloney, American Hollywood talent agent (d. 1999)
 * Rev Run, African-American rapper (Run–D.M.C.)
 * Patrick Warburton, American actor and voice artist
 * November 16
 * Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer
 * Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian-French actress
 * November 17 – Mitch Williams, American baseball player
 * November 18
 * Rita Cosby, American television personality
 * Seth Joyner, African-American football player
 * November 19
 * Susie Dent, British lexicographer
 * Fred Diamond, American mathematician
 * Shawn Holman, American baseball pitcher
 * Phil Hughes, Irish footballer and coach
 * Eric Musselman, American college basketball coach (Sacramento Kings)
 * Nicholas Patrick, English astronaut
 * Peter Rohde, Australian footballer (Carlton F.C.)
 * November 20 – Doug Ford, 26th Premier of Ontario
 * November 21
 * Shane Douglas, American wrestler
 * Sean Foley, British director, writer, comedian and actor
 * Liza Tarbuck, British actress and broadcaster
 * November 23
 * Erika Buenfil, Mexican actress and singer
 * Boyd Kestner, American actor
 * November 24
 * Garret Dillahunt, American actor
 * Conleth Hill, Irish actor
 * Alistair McGowan, British actor and comedian
 * Chris Reccardi, American animator (d. 2019)
 * November 26
 * Gary Love, British actor and film director
 * Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier
 * November 27
 * Robin Givens, African-American actress
 * Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress, writer and filmmaker (d. 2016)
 * November 28
 * Giorgi Bagaturov, Georgian-Armenian chess grandmaster
 * Michael Bennet, American lawyer, businessman and politician, senior U.S. Senator of Colorado
 * Jorge Capitanich, Argentine politician
 * Ken Charlery, St Lucian international footballer
 * Naoto Hori, Japanese football player
 * Paul Kostacopoulos, American college baseball coach
 * Eugene Licorish, Grenadian long jumper
 * Michelle McKormick, American talk radio personality
 * Oscar Muñoz, Colombian wrestler
 * Zurab Sturua, Georgian chess grandmaster
 * Roy Tarpley, American basketball player
 * Craig Wilson, American baseball third baseman
 * November 29
 * Don Cheadle, African-American actor
 * Cork Graham, American author

December

 * December 1 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
 * December 3
 * Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 * Scott George Huckabay, American guitarist
 * December 4
 * Sertab Erener, Turkish singer-songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest 2003 winner
 * Marisa Tomei, American actress
 * Chelsea Noble, American actress
 * Jonathan Goldstein, American actor, director and musician
 * December 7
 * Hugo Blick, English filmmaker
 * Patrick Fabian, American actor
 * Roberta Close, Brazilian transgender model
 * Curtis Hughes, American wrestler
 * Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey coach
 * December 8 – Teri Hatcher, American actress
 * December 9
 * Larry Emdur, Australian game-show host
 * Hape Kerkeling, German actor, presenter and comedian
 * Johannes B. Kerner, German TV personality and sportscaster
 * Paul Landers, German rock musician (Rammstein)
 * December 10
 * Bobby Flay, American chef and host
 * Edith González, Mexican actress (d. 2019)
 * December 11 – John Mark Karr, American murder suspect
 * December 12 – Sabu, American professional wrestler
 * December 13
 * hide, Japanese musician (d. 1998)
 * Tony Roper, American racing driver (d. 2000)
 * December 14
 * Rebecca Gibney, New Zealand-born actress
 * Antje Vowinckel, German radio artist and musician
 * Karey Kirkpatrick, American screenwriter and director
 * December 15
 * Jerry Ball, American football player
 * Denis Scheck, German literary critic and journalist
 * December 16
 * Heike Drechsler, German track-and-field athlete
 * Billy Ripken, American baseball player
 * December 17
 * Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and scout
 * Steve Marmel, American television writer and producer
 * December 18 – Stone Cold Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
 * December 19
 * Ben Becker, German film and theatre actor
 * Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
 * December 22 – Mike Jackson, former MLB pitcher
 * December 23 – Eddie Vedder, American rock singer (Pearl Jam)
 * December 26 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author
 * December 27 – Theresa Randle, American actress
 * December 29 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor
 * December 30
 * Sophie Ward, English actress
 * George Newbern, American actor and voice actor
 * December 31 – Michael McDonald, American actor and comedian

Date unknown

 * Juan Carlos Alom, Cuban photographer
 * Fiona Joy Hawkins, Australian composer and pianist
 * Famke Janssen, Dutch actress (approximate date)
 * Jiang Yu, Chinese politician
 * Sabine Weyand, German European Union official

January

 * January 5 – Leslie Holdsworth Allen, Australian academic and poet (b. 1879)
 * January 7 – Cyril Davies, British blues musician (b. 1932)
 * January 8 – Julius Raab, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1891)
 * January 9 – Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish novelist (b. 1884)
 * January 11 – Bechara El Khoury, 2nd Prime Minister of Lebanon and 6th President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
 * January 15
 * Tawfiq Canaan, Palestinian doctor (b. 1882)
 * Jack Teagarden, American jazz trombonist (b. 1905)
 * January 17 – T. H. White, British author (b. 1906)
 * January 19 – Joe Weatherly, NASCAR championship driver (b. 1922)
 * January 21
 * Joseph Baumgartner, German politician (b. 1904)
 * Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (b. 1896)
 * January 22
 * Lissy Arna, German actress (b. 1900)
 * Marc Blitzstein, American composer (b. 1905)
 * January 23
 * Benedetta Bianchi Porro, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1936)
 * Lucila Gamero de Medina, Honduranian novelist (b. 1873)
 * January 24 – Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, Nigerian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1903)
 * January 27
 * Norman Z. McLeod, American film director (b. 1898)
 * Waite Phillips, American oil man, banker and real estate investor (b. 1883)
 * January 29
 * Adolfo Diaz Recinos, 2-time President of Nicaragua (b. 1875)
 * Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
 * January 31 – Louis Allen, American civil rights activist and businessman (b. 1919)

February

 * February 3
 * Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (b. 1901)
 * Giuseppe Amato, Italian producer, director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
 * February 5 – Matilde Moisant, American pilot (b. 1878)
 * February 6 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
 * February 7 – Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, three-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
 * February 8
 * Boshirō Hosogaya, Japanese admiral (b. 1888)
 * Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
 * February 10 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
 * February 12 – Gerald Gardner (Wiccan), founder of Wiccan religion (b. 1884)
 * February 13 – Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer (b. 1896)
 * February 15 – Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, French theologian (b. 1877)
 * February 18 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile and founder of Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
 * February 22 – Verrier Elwin, British anthropologist and missionary (b. 1902)
 * February 25
 * Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor (b. 1887)
 * Johnny Burke, American lyricist (b. 1908)
 * Mariano Jesús Cuenco, Filipino politician and writer (b. 1888)
 * Maurice Farman, French aircraft designer (b. 1877)
 * Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
 * February 26 – F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, British World War II hero (b. 1901)
 * February 27 – Orry-Kelly, Australian-born costume designer (b. 1897)
 * February 29 – Frank Albertson, American actor (b. 1909)

March

 * March 1 – Davíð Stefánsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1895)
 * March 4 – Edwin August, American actor and director (b. 1883)
 * March 6
 * Paul of Greece, King of Greece (b. 1901)
 * Edward Van Sloan, American actor (b. 1882)
 * March 9 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
 * March 12 – Abbās al-Aqqād, Egyptian journalist (b. 1889)
 * March 13 – Friedrich Lahrs, German architect (b. 1880)
 * March 18
 * Sigfrid Edström, Swedish industrialist, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
 * Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (b. 1894)
 * March 19 – Leo Maximilian Baginski, German entrepreneur (b. 1891)
 * March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer (b. 1923)
 * March 22 – Addison Richards, American actor (b. 1887)
 * March 23 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
 * March 25 – Alfredo Bigatti, Argentine sculptor (b. 1898)
 * March 30 – Birinchi Kumar Barua, Indian folklorist (b. 1890)

April

 * April 1 – Božidar Kunc, Yugoslav composer (b. 1903)
 * April 3 – Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden (b. 1891)
 * April 4 – Georgia Caine, American actress (b. 1876)
 * April 5 – Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan after World War II (b. 1880)
 * April 6 – Jigme Palden Dorji, 1st Prime Minister of Bhutan (b. 1919)
 * April 7 – Bruce W. Klunder, American Presbyterian minister and civil right activist (b. 1937)
 * April 13 – Veit Harlan, German film director (b. 1899)
 * April 14
 * Tatyana Afanasyeva, Soviet mathematician and physicist (b. 1876)
 * Rachel Carson, American biologist and environmental writer (b. 1907)
 * April 18
 * Fumio Asakura, Japanese sculptor (b. 1883)
 * Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
 * April 20
 * Joseph-Alphida Crete, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
 * Dimitar Ganev, Bulgarian communist politician, head of the State (b. 1890)
 * April 24 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
 * April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (b. 1882)
 * April 29
 * J. M. Kerrigan, Irish actor (b. 1884)
 * Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, Spanish journalist and novelist (b. 1885)

May

 * May 2 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (b. 1879)
 * May 5 – Tadao Ikeda, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1905)
 * May 6 – José Maza Fernández, Chilean politician, lawyer and diplomat (b. 1889)
 * May 10 – Carol Haney, American dancer and actress (b. 1924)
 * May 13 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (b. 1906)
 * May 17 – Steve Owen, American football coach (New York Giants) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1898)
 * May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
 * May 27 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
 * May 30
 * Dave MacDonald, sports car driver (b. 1936)
 * Eddie Sachs, auto racing driver (b. 1927)
 * Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born American physicist (b. 1898)

June

 * June 3
 * Raoul Magrin-Vernerey, French army officer (b. 1892)
 * Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
 * June 6
 * Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1886)
 * Robert Warwick, American actor (b. 1878)
 * June 7
 * Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee, wife of former British PM Clement Attlee (b. 1895)
 * Charlie Llewellyn, first non-white South African Test cricketer (b. 1876)
 * June 8 – Carlos Quintanilla, 44th President of Bolivia (b. 1888)
 * June 9 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1879)
 * June 11
 * Catharine Carter Critcher, American painter (b. 1868)
 * John Eke, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1886)
 * Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai field marshal and 3rd Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1897)
 * June 12 – Paul Carpenter, American actor (b. 1921)
 * June 17 – Clarence G. Badger, American film director (b. 1880)
 * June 18 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890)
 * June 21
 * James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
 * Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
 * Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
 * June 24 – Stuart Davis, American painter (b. 1892)
 * June 25 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
 * June 27
 * Salvatore Aldisio, Italian politician (b. 1890)
 * Mona Barrie, English actress (b. 1909)
 * June 29 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist (b. 1928)

July

 * July 1 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
 * July 2 – Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver and a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame (b. 1929)
 * July 4 – Hank Sylvern, U.S. radio personality (b. 1908)
 * July 6 – Zeng Junchen, Sichuan's 'King of Opium' (b. 1888)
 * July 7 – Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
 * July 11 – Maurice Thorez, leader of the French Communist Party (b. 1900)
 * July 13 – Stephen Galatti, Director of AFS, American Field Service (b. 1888)
 * July 14 – Prince Axel of Denmark (b. 1888)
 * July 15 – Luis Batlle Berres, Uruguayan political figure, 30th President of Uruguay (b. 1897)
 * July 16 – Alfred Junge, German-born art director (b. 1886)
 * July 21 – Jean Fautrier, French painter and sculptor (b. 1898)
 * July 22
 * Leonid Baratov, Soviet director (b. 1895)
 * Gildo Bocci, Italian actor (b. 1886)
 * July 23 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet and politician (b. 1876)
 * July 25 – John Latham, Australian politician, judge (b. 1877)
 * July 26 – William A. Seiter, American film director (b. 1890)
 * July 29 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
 * July 31 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (b. 1923)

August

 * August 3 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
 * August 6 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
 * August 7 – Aleksander Zawadzki, Polish political figure, 12th President of Poland (b. 1899)
 * August 9 – Fontaine Fox, American cartoonist (b. 1884)
 * August 11 – André Aymard, French historian (b. 1900)
 * August 12
 * Isidro Fabela, Mexican judge and politician (b. 1882)
 * Ian Fleming, British writer (b. 1908)
 * Ernst Kühnel, German art historian (b. 1882)
 * Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Soviet astronomer and inventor (b. 1896)
 * August 13 – Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Indian musician (b. 1878)
 * August 14 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
 * August 18 – Mohammad Gul Khan Momand, Afghani politician (b. 1885)
 * August 20 – Anthony de Francisci, Italian-born American sculptor (b. 1887)
 * August 21 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party (b. 1893)
 * August 22 – Symeon Lukach, Soviet Eastern Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1893)
 * August 23 – Estella Canziani, British painter (b. 1887)
 * August 27 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian, known as part of the comedy duo Burns and Allen (b. 1895)
 * August 28 – Lumsden Hare, Irish-born actor, theatre director, and theatre producer
 * August 30 – Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin, Soviet commander (b. 1893)
 * August 31 – Peter Lanyon, British painter (b. 1918)

September

 * September 2
 * Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
 * Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese military officer and politician, 12th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
 * Alvin Cullum York, American hero of World War I (b. 1887)
 * September 5 – Angel Cruchaga Santa María, Chilean writer (b. 1893)
 * September 6 – San Tiago Dantas, Brazilian journalist (b. 1911)
 * September 9
 * Sir George Abercromby, 8th Baronet, British baronet (b. 1886)
 * Herschel Bennett, American baseball player of St. Louis Browns (b. 1896)
 * September 15 – Herbert Heywood, American actor (b. 1881)
 * September 18
 * Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
 * Seán O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
 * September 21 – Otto Grotewohl, East German Communist politician, 1st Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1894)
 * September 23 – Fred M. Wilcox, American film director (b. 1907)
 * September 28
 * Nacio Herb Brown, American songwriter (b. 1896)
 * Harpo Marx, American comedian (b. 1888)
 * September 29 – Fred Tootell, American Olympic athlete (b. 1902)

October

 * October 1 – Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (b. 1887)
 * October 10 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, comedian and dancer (b. 1892)
 * October 15 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (b. 1891)
 * October 19 – Russ Brown, American actor (b. 1892)
 * October 20 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
 * October 21 – Margaret Gibson, American actress (b. 1894)
 * October 22
 * Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistani political figure, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1894)
 * Whip Wilson, American actor (b. 1911)
 * October 25 – Joe Henderson, American rhythm and blues and gospel music singer (b. 1937)
 * October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke, Australian serial killer (b. 1931)
 * October 27
 * Pierre Cartier, French jeweller (b. 1878)
 * Rudolph Maté, Polish cinematographer (b. 1898)
 * October 29
 * Claudio Ermelli, Italian actor (b. 1892)
 * Henry Larsen, Canadian explorer (b. 1899)

November

 * November 2
 * Charles Walter Allfrey, British general (b. 1895)
 * José Ramón Guizado, Panamanian politician, 17th President of Panama (b. 1899)
 * November 5
 * Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator (b. 1879)
 * John S. Robertson, Canadian film director (b. 1878)
 * November 6 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
 * November 10
 * Jimmie Dodd, American actor and television personality (b. 1910)
 * Sam Newfield, American movie director (b. 1899)
 * November 11
 * Franciszek Barda, Polish Roman Catholic clergyman and servant of God (b. 1880)
 * Juan de Dios Filiberto, Argentine violinist (b. 1885)
 * Eduard Steuermann, Austrian-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
 * November 12 – Rickard Sandler, Swedish politician, 20th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1884)
 * November 13 – Oskar Becker, German philosopher (b. 1889)
 * November 14 – Heinrich von Brentano, German politician (b. 1904)
 * November 18 – Tommaso Besozzi, Italian journalist (b. 1903)
 * November 21 – Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (b. 1905)
 * November 24 – William O'Dwyer, American diplomat and politician, 100th Mayor of New York City (b. 1890)
 * November 25 – Clarence Kolb, American actor (b. 1874)
 * November 28 – Charles Meredith, American actor (b. 1894)
 * November 29 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1904)

December

 * December 1
 * Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta, Congolese Roman Catholic religious sister (b. 1939)
 * J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist (b. 1892)
 * December 3 – Charles P. Snyder, American admiral (b. 1879)
 * December 5 – V. Veerasingam, Ceylon Tamil teacher and politician (b. 1892)
 * December 6 – Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1877)
 * December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet (b. 1887)
 * December 10 – Mariano Rossell y Arellano, Guatemalan clergyman (b. 1894)
 * December 11
 * Sam Cooke, American singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
 * Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
 * Alma Schindler Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler (b. 1879)
 * December 13 – Ernesto Almirante, Italian actor (b. 1877)
 * December 14
 * William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
 * Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born composer (b. 1888)
 * December 15 – C. J. Hambro, Norwegian politician and journalist (b. 1885)
 * December 17 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
 * December 21
 * Algernon Kingscote, Australian tennis champion (b. 1888)
 * Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
 * December 22 – Rosa Borja de Ycaza, Ecuadorian writer (b. 1889)
 * December 24 – Kuksha of Odessa, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1875)
 * December 27 – Francesco Spoto, Italian priest (b. 1924)
 * December 28 – Cliff Sterrett, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
 * December 29 – Vladimir Favorsky, Russian artist and engraver (b. 1886)
 * December 31
 * Gertrude Michael, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892)
 * Henry Maitland Wilson, British field marshal (b. 1881)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Prokhorov
 * Chemistry – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
 * Physiology or Medicine – Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
 * Literature – Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Peace – Martin Luther King Jr.

January

 * January 1
 * The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
 * Greenland is withdrawn from the European Economic Community.
 * First UK cellular mobile phone network launched by Vodafone.
 * January 7
 * Cellnet launches 2nd UK cellular network.
 * Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
 * January 11 - Was realized the first night of festival Rock In Rio with a legendary show of Queen and Iron Maiden.
 * January 13 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
 * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
 * January 17 – British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.
 * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
 * January 21 – President Ronald Reagan is publicly sworn in.
 * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed.
 * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February

 * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.
 * February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
 * February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered March 5)
 * February 12 – Rafael Addiego Bruno is sworn in as interim President of Uruguay.
 * February 14 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
 * February 16
 * Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
 * The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a program issued in Beirut.
 * February 19
 * William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital.
 * China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are 22 minor injuries and 2 serious injuries, no one is killed.
 * The first episode of the long-running British soap opera EastEnders is broadcast on BBC One television.
 * February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
 * February 28 – 1985 Newry mortar attack: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March

 * March – The GNU Manifesto, written by Richard Stallman, is first published.
 * March 1 – After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay.
 * March 3 – The 8.0 Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and about a million people homeless.
 * March 4 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
 * March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people, injuring 200.
 * March 11
 * Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
 * Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.
 * March 15 – Vice-President José Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill the day before. Sarney would later become Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death on April 21.
 * March 16 – Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is released on December 4, 1991.
 * March 17 – Expo '85, a World's Fair, is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.
 * March 18 – Australia's longest-running soap opera, Neighbours, debuts on Seven Network.
 * March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40,000 km, 26-month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
 * March 23 – OCAM is dissolved.
 * March 24 – United States Army military intelligence officer Arthur D. Nicholson is shot by Soviet military sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev at a Soviet military base in Ludwigslust, East Germany.
 * March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.

April

 * April – Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union begins to transfer the burden of fighting the mujahideen to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, an origin of the Revolutions of 1989.
 * April 1
 * Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.
 * Eighth seeded Villanova Wildcats men's basketball defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66–64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
 * April 11
 * The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.
 * First Secretary Enver Hoxha, leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania dies.
 * April 12 – El Descanso bombing: A terrorist bombing attributed to the Islamic Jihad Organization in the El Descanso restaurant near Madrid, Spain, mostly attended by U.S. personnel from the Torrejón Air Base, causes 18 deaths (all Spaniards) and 82 injuries.
 * April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
 * April 19
 * The Soviet Union performs a nuclear weapon test in eastern Kazakhstan.
 * Siege of White Supremacist Group The Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) Begins in Arkansas
 * April 21 – Brazilian President Tancredo Neves dies; he is succeeded by Vice President José Sarney. The Vice President post is left vacant until 1990.
 * April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
 * April 28 – The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.

May

 * May 1 – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport officially opened, which also became the new international gateway into Indonesia.
 * May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway.
 * May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
 * May 9 - The 3rd total Victory Day Parade, the first in 1945 and the next in 1965, is held on Red Square in Moscow, RSFSR. It features T-34-85 Tanks, Veterans of WWII from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union, and is the first parade to be held during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev.
 * May 11
 * The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.
 * Fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during a football match, killing 56 people.
 * May 13
 * Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire.
 * The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to vote. The right is revoked in 1999 and re-instated in 2005.
 * May 15
 * An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at University of California, Berkeley.
 * Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentinian administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish Argentina's claim to the islands.
 * May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.
 * May 19 – John Anthony Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for passing classified naval communications to the Soviet Union.
 * May 23 – Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
 * May 25 – Approximately 10,000 people are killed when Bangladesh is affected by the storm surge from Tropical Storm One (1B).
 * May 26 – A new guard in auto racing took place as young gun Danny Sullivan beat the old guard Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500 and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
 * May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-eight spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
 * May 31 – Forty-four tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, killing 90.

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 * June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
 * June 13 – In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
 * June 14
 * TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed. Greek police arrest a 65-year-old Lebanese suspect on September 21, 2019.
 * The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at this time) 5 states with no internal border controls.
 * June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.
 * June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
 * June 20 – A series of bomb blasts occur in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.
 * June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.
 * June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
 * June 25 – Irish police foil a Provisional Irish Republican Army–sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacation resorts.
 * June 27 – U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

July

 * July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.
 * July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.
 * July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
 * July 10 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
 * July 13
 * Live Aid benefit concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
 * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush serves as Acting President for eight hours, while President Ronald Reagan undergoes colon cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
 * July 19
 * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
 * The Val di Stava Dam in Italy collapses.
 * July 20 – State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.
 * July 23 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.
 * July 27 – The 63 Building officially opens as the tallest skyscraper outside of North America in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea.

August

 * August – ATI Technologies is founded (originally as Array Technology) in North America by Lee Ka Lau, Francis Lau, Benny Lau and Kwok Yuen Ho.
 * August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
 * August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
 * August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people (the worst single-aircraft disaster in history).
 * August 14 – The Accomarca massacre takes place in Ayacucho, Peru.
 * August 15 – Three miners die in an accident at a coal mine in southeastern Kentucky.
 * August 20 – Iran–Contra affair: The first arms, 96 BGM-71 TOWs, are sent to Iran in exchange for hostages in Lebanon and profits for the Nicaraguan Contras. The public does not know about the arms sale.
 * August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its takeoff roll and 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
 * August 25 – Samantha Smith, 13, "Goodwill Ambassador" between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.
 * August 28 – The first smoking ban banning smoking in restaurants in the United States is passed in Aspen, Colorado.
 * August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.

September

 * September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
 * September 2 – Hurricane Elena makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast after reaching a Category 3 status
 * September 4 – Catcher Gary Carter of the New York Mets ties a record with five home runs in two games.
 * September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31.
 * September 11 – Pete Rose becomes the all-time hit leader in Major League Baseball, with his 4,192nd hit at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
 * September 13
 * Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
 * Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in order to found NeXT.
 * September 19 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing 5,000–45,000 and injuring 30,000.
 * September 20 – The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.
 * September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.
 * September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.
 * September 26 – Kalina, the first captive orca born at SeaWorld as well as the first to survive past infancy, is born at SeaWorld Orlando.
 * September 28 – Brixton riots are sparked with the shooting of Dorothy "Cherry" Groce by the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, South London.

October

 * October 1 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters near Tunis.
 * October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
 * October 4 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, US.
 * October 7 – The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.
 * October 18 – The first Nintendo home video game console in the United States is released as the Nintendo Entertainment System.
 * October 25 – Emirates Airlines, establishes in Dubai and performs its first flight to Karachi.

November

 * November 5 – In an all English match, Mark Kaylor defeats Errol Christie to become the middleweight boxing champion, after the two brawl in front of the cameras at the weigh-in.
 * November 6 – Palace of Justice siege: Members of the M-19 Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia, and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.
 * November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.
 * November 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.
 * November 13
 * Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars in the town of Armero, Colombia.
 * Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
 * November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
 * November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
 * November 23 – EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
 * November 25 – 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.
 * November 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
 * November 29 – Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.

December

 * December 1
 * The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura) (OEI) is created.
 * The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.
 * December 8 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is established.
 * December 11 – Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento, California computer rental store by a Unabomber explosive, becoming the first fatality of the bombing campaign
 * December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 people – 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula.
 * December 16 – In New York City, American Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino crime family.
 * December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.
 * December 24 – Extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. Rice suspects the family of being Jewish and Communist and claims his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.
 * December 27
 * Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
 * American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
 * December 31 – American singer, songwriter and actor Ricky Nelson dies in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.

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 * Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest.
 * The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene (C60) is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the United States.
 * DNA is first used in a criminal case.
 * The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.
 * The Tommy Hilfiger clothing brand is established in the United States.
 * Multiple cases of espionage in the United States prompt the media to label this "The Year of the Spy".
 * The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa (We Are the World) and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.
 * Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.

January

 * January 1
 * Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
 * Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
 * January 2
 * Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
 * Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player
 * Damien Bodie, Australian actor
 * January 3
 * John David Booty, American football quarterback, USC
 * Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
 * January 4
 * Danielle Campo, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
 * Al Jefferson, American basketball player
 * Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
 * January 5
 * Michael Cuccione, Canadian child actor and activist (d. 2001)
 * Lopez Lomong, Sudan-born American Olympic runner
 * Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
 * January 7
 * Lewis Hamilton, British 5-Time Formula One world champion
 * Tiger Kirchharz, German dancer
 * Wayne Routledge, English footballer
 * January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American Christian singer
 * January 9 – Bobô, Brazilian footballer
 * January 10 – Martiño Rivas, Spanish actor
 * January 11
 * Newton Faulkner, British rock musician
 * Rie fu, Japanese pop and rock musician
 * Lucy Knisley, American comic artist and musician
 * January 15 – Brandon Mebane, American football player
 * January 16
 * Joe Flacco, American football player
 * Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist
 * Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
 * Renée Felice Smith, American actress
 * January 17
 * Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior)
 * Simone Simons, Lead singer of Dutch rock group Epica
 * January 19
 * Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter
 * Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs
 * January 20 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
 * January 21
 * Aura Dione, Danish pop musician
 * Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
 * January 22
 * Akira Nagata, Japanese singer (Run&Gun), actor and voice actor
 * Orianthi, Australian rock musician
 * January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
 * January 25
 * Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
 * Claudia Kim, South Korean actress and model
 * January 26
 * Edwin Hodge, American actor
 * Rusko, British musician
 * Michael Trevino, American actor
 * January 28
 * J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer
 * Tom Hopper, British actor
 * András Kállay-Saunders, Hungarian American recording artist, songwriter and record producer
 * January 29
 * Bosh Berlin, American drummer (Living Things)
 * Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
 * Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
 * Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
 * January 30 – Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist (Tasmanian)

February

 * February 2 – Fontel Mines, American football player
 * February 4
 * Bashy, English recording artist and actor
 * Bug Hall, American actor
 * February 5
 * Vicki Chase, American porn actress
 * Laurence Maroney, American football player
 * Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
 * February 6
 * Kris Humphries, American basketball player
 * Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
 * Crystal Reed, American actress
 * February 7
 * Donald Moatshe, South African musician
 * Tegan Moss, Canadian actress
 * Tina Majorino, American actress
 * Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
 * February 8
 * Seo Min-woo, South Korean idol singer and actor (d. 2018)
 * Jeremy Davis, American bassist (Paramore)
 * Bob Morris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hush Sound)
 * Trevor Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
 * February 9
 * David Gallagher, American actor
 * Rachel Melvin, American actress
 * February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
 * February 11
 * William Beckett, American singer and songwriter
 * Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player
 * February 12 – Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
 * February 15 – Natalie Morales, American actress
 * February 17 – Zelda Harris, American actress
 * February 18
 * Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress and singer
 * Todd Lasance, Australian actor
 * Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican serial killer
 * Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist
 * February 19
 * Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
 * Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
 * February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer
 * February 21 – Larisa Bakurova, Ukrainian actress and model based in Taiwan
 * February 22
 * Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
 * Zach Roerig, American actor
 * February 25
 * Benji Marshall, Australian rugby league player
 * Joakim Noah, American basketball player
 * February 26
 * Shiloh Fernandez, American actor
 * Miki Fujimoto, Japanese actor and pop singer
 * February 28
 * Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer
 * Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
 * Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player

March

 * March 1 – Cole Sanchez, American voice actor and artist
 * March 2
 * Reggie Bush, American football player
 * Robert Iler, American actor
 * Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner
 * March 3
 * Alena and Ninel Karpovich, Belarusian twin sister musical duo, members of 3+2
 * Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
 * March 7 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
 * March 8 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model
 * March 9
 * Brent Burns, Canadian hockey player
 * Rachel Nabors, American cartoonist
 * March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
 * March 11
 * Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
 * Hakuhō Shō, 69th Yokozuna
 * March 12
 * Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
 * Stromae, Belgian musical artist
 * March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
 * March 14
 * Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
 * March 15
 * Eva Amurri, American actress
 * Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
 * Curtis Davies, English football player
 * Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor
 * March 17 – Dominic Adams, British actor and model
 * March 18
 * Krisztián Berki, Hungarian artistic gymnast
 * Bianca King, Filipina actress and model
 * March 19 – E. J. Viso, Venezuelan race car driver
 * March 21
 * Ryan Callahan, American hockey player
 * Adrian Peterson, American football player
 * Sonequa Martin-Green, American actress
 * March 22
 * Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
 * Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
 * Mike Jenkins, American football player
 * Justin Masterson, American baseball player
 * Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
 * March 23 – Maryana Spivak, Russian actress
 * March 24
 * Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
 * Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
 * March 25 – Yūsuke Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
 * March 26
 * Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer
 * Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer and dancer
 * Keira Knightley, English actress
 * March 27
 * Blake McIver, American singer-songwriter, actor, model and pianist
 * Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player
 * Caroline Winberg, Swedish model
 * March 29 – William Chak, Hong Kong actor
 * March 31 – Jessica Szohr, American actress

April

 * April 1
 * Danilo Caçador, Brazilian footballer (d. 2018)
 * Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
 * Beth Tweddle, British artistic gymnast
 * April 2
 * Barry Corr, Irish footballer
 * Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player
 * Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
 * April 3
 * Leona Lewis, British pop musician
 * Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
 * April 4
 * Lance Dos Ramos, Venezuelan actor, model and animator
 * Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player
 * Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
 * April 5
 * Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor (d. 2008)
 * Lastings Milledge, American baseball player
 * April 6
 * Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director, and producer
 * Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
 * Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor
 * April 7
 * Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress
 * KC Concepcion, Filipina actress and singer
 * April 8
 * Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player
 * Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
 * April 9
 * Tim Bendzko, German singer-songwriter
 * David Robertson, American baseball player
 * Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
 * Brian Elliott, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * April 10
 * Christie Laing, Canadian actress
 * Dion Phaneuf, Canadian NHL hockey player
 * Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
 * April 12
 * Brennan Boesch, American baseball player
 * Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician
 * Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actress
 * April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model
 * April 16
 * Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
 * Benjamín Rojas, Argentine singer and actor
 * April 17
 * Rooney Mara, American film and television actress
 * Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
 * Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
 * April 18
 * Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
 * Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer
 * April 19
 * Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer, actress, presenter, and writer
 * Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player
 * April 20 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
 * April 22
 * Kristin Fairlie, Canadian actress
 * Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
 * April 23
 * Taio Cruz, British hip-hop musician
 * Angel Locsin, Filipino actress
 * April 24
 * Courtnee Draper, American actress, singer and voice actress
 * Joséphine Jobert, French actress and singer
 * Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * April 26
 * Nam Gyu-ri, Korean actress and pop singer
 * Jemima Kirke, English-American artist and actress
 * April 28 – Brandon Baker, American actor
 * April 30 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

May

 * May 1 – Drew Sidora, American actress and singer
 * May 2
 * Lily Allen, British pop musician
 * Kyle Busch, American race car driver
 * Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
 * Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (d. 2011)
 * May 3 – Meagan Tandy, American actress and model
 * May 4 – Bo McCalebb, American/Macedonian basketball player
 * May 5
 * Clark Duke, American actor
 * Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
 * May 6
 * Chris Paul, American basketball player
 * Dent May, American pop musician
 * May 7
 * J Balvin, Colombian-born reggaeton singer
 * Andrew Carroll, American ice hockey player (d. 2018)
 * May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * May 9 – Chris Zylka, American actor and model
 * May 10
 * Odette Annable, American actress
 * David Miranda, Brazilian journalist and politician
 * May 11 – Jadyn Wong, Canadian actress
 * May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
 * May 13 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor, singer and musician
 * May 14
 * Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist
 * Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
 * Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
 * May 15
 * Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer and musician, six-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars
 * Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
 * Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
 * Tyrone Savage, Canadian voice actor and theatre, film and television actor
 * May 17
 * Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
 * Matt Ryan, American football player
 * May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
 * May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist
 * May 21
 * Mutya Buena, British urban singer and was member of Sugababes
 * Alison Carroll, British artistic gymnast, actress and model
 * May 22
 * Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model
 * Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
 * May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer
 * May 24 – John Vigilante, American ice hockey (d. 2018)
 * May 25
 * Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress
 * Lauren Frost, American actress and singer
 * Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler
 * May 26 – Ashley Vincent, English footballer
 * May 27
 * Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
 * Andrew Francis, Canadian voice actor and actor
 * May 28
 * Colbie Caillat, American musician
 * Carey Mulligan, British actress
 * Emily Wilson, American actress
 * May 29 – Blake Foster, American actor and martial artist
 * May 30
 * Sam Gifaldi, American actor
 * Turk McBride, American National Football League player
 * May 31
 * Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress
 * Navene Koperweis, American progressive metal musician

June

 * June 1 – Ari Herstand, American singer-songwriter
 * June 2 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress
 * June 4
 * Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
 * Lukas Podolski, German footballer
 * Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
 * Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress
 * June 6 – Abbie Cobb, American actress and author
 * June 7 – Marie Miyake, Japanese voice actress
 * June 9
 * Eusebio Henrique de Almeida, East Timorese footballer
 * Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model
 * Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
 * June 10
 * Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist
 * Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier
 * Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
 * Celina Jade, American actress
 * Kristina Apgar, American actress
 * June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer
 * June 12
 * Dave Franco, American television and film actor
 * Blake Ross, American software developer
 * June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer
 * June 17
 * Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
 * Andrea Demirović, Montenegrin pop singer
 * Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
 * June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor
 * June 19 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
 * June 20
 * Mark Saul, American actor
 * Matt Flynn, American football player
 * Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
 * June 21
 * Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, rock musician
 * Sharna Burgess, Australian ballroom dancer
 * Lana Del Rey, American pop musician
 * June 22
 * Aaron Lim, Malaysian racing driver
 * Douglas Smith, American actor
 * Lindsay Ridgeway, American actress
 * Rosa Kato, Japanese actress and model
 * June 23
 * Marcel Reece, American football player
 * Kavka Shishido, Japanese drummer and vocalist
 * June 24
 * Tom Kennedy, English footballer
 * Aste, Finnish rapper
 * Justin Hires, American actor and stand-up comedian
 * Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player
 * June 25
 * Ehra Madrigal, Filipino actress
 * Mohd Fitri Omar, Malaysian footballer
 * Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
 * Maria Kristin Yulianti, Indonesian badminton player
 * Annaleigh Ashford, American actress, singer and dancer
 * Ethan Klein, American YouTuber
 * June 26
 * Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
 * Bobo Sollander, Swedish footballer
 * Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
 * Cameron Tovey, Malaysian-Australian basketball player
 * June 27
 * Martin Sensmeier, Alaska Native actor
 * James Hook, Welsh rugby union player
 * Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
 * Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion
 * June 28
 * Phil Bardsley, English footballer
 * Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan footballer
 * June 29 – Steven Hauschka, American football player
 * June 30
 * Michael Phelps, American swimmer
 * Hugh Sheridan, Australian actor, musician and television presenter
 * Lasarus Ratuere, Australian actor
 * Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler

July

 * July 1
 * Nineteen85, Canadian hip-hop producer
 * Spose, American hip-hop musician
 * Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player
 * Léa Seydoux, French actress
 * Ocean Mushure, Zimbabwean footballer
 * Zohre Esmaeli, Afghan-born fashion model
 * July 2
 * Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis
 * Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
 * Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor (d. 2018)
 * July 3
 * Dean Cook, British actor
 * Keisuke Minami, Japanese singer and actor
 * July 4
 * Mariana Rios, Brazilian actress and singer
 * Pei Yuwen, Chinese footballer
 * Lartiste, Moroccan-French singer and rapper
 * July 5
 * Judith Chemla, French actress
 * Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress
 * Nick O'Malley, British musician
 * François Arnaud, French-Canadian actor
 * July 6
 * Matt Overton, American football player
 * Killian Scott, Irish actor
 * Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
 * D. Woods, American pop musician
 * July 7
 * Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player
 * Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire
 * Zulkifli Che Ros, Malaysian male weightlifter
 * Seo Woo, Korean actress
 * July 8
 * Emanuele Abate, Italian athlete
 * Jason Day, Peruvian actor
 * July 9
 * Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
 * Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
 * Ashley Young, English footballer
 * July 10
 * Mario Gómez, German footballer
 * Tidiane Sane, Senegalese footballer
 * Bastian Schulz, German footballer
 * Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
 * July 11
 * David Narváez and Sergio Narváez, Spanish footballers
 * Tobias Jesso Jr., Canadian musician
 * Lilian Marijnissen, Dutch politician
 * Ele Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter
 * Robert Adamson, American actor
 * July 12
 * Jasper Brinkley, American football player
 * Casper Brinkley, American football player
 * Adam Gregory, Canadian singer
 * Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
 * Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
 * Natasha Poly, Russian model
 * July 13
 * Charlotte Dujardin, English dressage rider
 * Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
 * Andrew Wolff, Filipino-British Rugby Player
 * July 14
 * Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower
 * Lee Kwang-soo, South Korean actor, entertainer and model
 * July 15
 * Pedro Carvalho, Portuguese actor
 * Agniya Kuznetsova, Russian actress
 * Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician
 * Crowd Lu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
 * Tomer Kapon, Israeli actor
 * July 16
 * Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress
 * Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer
 * Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
 * Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
 * July 17
 * Tom Fletcher, British musician
 * Tom Cullen, Welsh actor, writer and director
 * Caitlin Van Zandt, American actress
 * July 18
 * José Carlos Júnior, Brazilian footballer
 * Hopsin, American rapper and record producer
 * James Norton, British actor
 * Chace Crawford, American actor
 * July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
 * July 20 – John Francis Daley, American television and film actor
 * July 21 – Guillaume Bastille, Canadian short track speed skater
 * July 22
 * Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
 * Blake Harrison, English actor
 * Ryan Dolan, Irish singer
 * Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
 * Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
 * July 23
 * William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2018)
 * Scott Chandler, American football player
 * July 24 – Teagan Presley, American porn star
 * July 25
 * James Lafferty, American actor and athlete
 * Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
 * Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver
 * July 27
 * Aljin Abella, Australian actor
 * Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
 * July 28
 * Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
 * Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
 * July 30
 * Aml Ameen, British actor
 * Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer

August

 * August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr., British-Canadian professional wrestler
 * August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand Rugby League player
 * August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter
 * August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
 * August 7 – Rick Genest, Canadian artist, actor, and fashion model (d. 2018)
 * August 8 – Toby Flood, English rugby union player
 * August 9
 * Anna Kendrick, American actress
 * Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
 * Filipe Luís, Brazilian footballer
 * August 10 – Jared Nathan, American child actor (d. 2006)
 * August 11
 * Asher Roth, American rapper
 * Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan-born Indian Bollywood actress
 * August 14
 * Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic actress
 * Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
 * August 15
 * Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, and songwriter
 * Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (d. 2019)
 * August 16
 * Agnes Bruckner, American actress
 * Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
 * Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer
 * August 19 – David A. Gregory, American actor
 * August 20 – Brant Daugherty, American actor
 * August 21
 * Melissa M, French singer
 * Jake Pitts, American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides)
 * Laura Haddock, English actress
 * August 23 – Juss Haasma, Estonian actor
 * August 25
 * Andien, Indonesian jazz singer
 * Wynter Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter
 * August 27
 * Alexandra Nechita, American artist
 * Kayla Ewell, American actress
 * Sean Foreman, American singer, songwriter and performer; member of electro hop group 3OH!3
 * August 28 – Ashlyne Huff, American singer-songwriter and dancer
 * August 29 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
 * August 30
 * Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
 * Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
 * Richard Duffy, Wales international footballer
 * Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer
 * August 31 – Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

September

 * September 1
 * Lilan Bowden, American actress
 * Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress
 * September 2
 * Allison Miller, American actress
 * Yani Gellman, Canadian/Australian film and television actor
 * September 3 – Yūki Kaji, Japanese voice actor
 * September 4
 * Morgan Garrett, American voice actress
 * Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
 * Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer
 * Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer
 * September 5 – Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
 * Oleksandr Akymenko, Ukrainian football striker
 * Jan Mazoch, Czech former ski jumper.
 * Dario Jertec, Croatian football midfielder
 * Weronika Deresz, Polish rower
 * September 6
 * Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian
 * Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
 * September 7
 * Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre actress
 * Alyssa Diaz, American actress
 * Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
 * Rafinha, Brazilian football player
 * September 8
 * Justin Bradley, Canadian actor
 * Vanessa Baden, American actress
 * Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
 * September 9
 * Amy Manson, British actress
 * Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
 * J. R. Smith, American basketball player
 * Robert Sanford, Philanthropist
 * September 10 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian film and television actress
 * September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model
 * September 14
 * Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
 * Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
 * September 15
 * Kayden Kross, American porn actress
 * Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model
 * September 16
 * Madeline Zima, American actress
 * Max Minghella, English actor
 * Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer
 * September 17
 * Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
 * Jon Walker, American musician
 * September 19 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor, model and host
 * September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
 * September 23
 * Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice season 5
 * Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
 * Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
 * September 24
 * Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
 * Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress
 * Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
 * September 26
 * Talulah Riley, English actress
 * Marcin Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter
 * September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer
 * September 29
 * Calvin Johnson, retired American football player and contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 23
 * Michelle Payne, Australian jockey
 * Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
 * September 30 – T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor

October

 * October 1
 * Sicily, American actress
 * Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long distance runner
 * Porcelain Black, American industrial pop singer-songwriter
 * Matt Healy, lead singer and guitarist of the band Rock Incorporated
 * October 3
 * Courtney Lee, American basketball player
 * Megumi Takamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * October 5
 * Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian actress
 * Nicola Roberts, British singer
 * Brooke Valentine, American singer
 * October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player
 * October 8
 * Jesse MacDonald, Leader of new-wave band "The Fruit Patrol", Lazy Rights Activist
 * Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer
 * Kimberly Kevon Williams, American actress
 * Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
 * October 9 – Frankmusik, English electropop musician
 * October 10
 * Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter
 * Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor
 * Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
 * Aaron Himelstein, American actor
 * October 11
 * Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist (d. 2018)
 * Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter
 * Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
 * October 14
 * Daniel Clark, American-Canadian actor
 * Justin Forsett, American football player
 * Sherlyn, Mexican actress
 * October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
 * October 18 – Iori Nomizu, Japanese voice actress, actress and singer
 * October 19 – RR Enriquez, Filipino model, television host and actress
 * October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
 * October 22
 * Manpei Takagi, Japanese actor
 * Shinpei Takagi, Japanese actor
 * October 23
 * Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
 * Chris Neal, English footballer
 * October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
 * October 25
 * Ciara, African-American singer
 * Christopher Sean, American actor
 * John Robinson, American actor
 * October 26
 * Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player
 * Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
 * October 27 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
 * October 28 – Anthony Fantano, American music critic
 * October 29 - Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer and actress
 * October 29 – Janet Montgomery, English film and television actress
 * October 31 – Kether Donohue, American actress and singer

November

 * November 2 – Josh Grelle, American voice actor
 * November 3
 * Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
 * Philipp Tschauner, German footballer
 * November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (d. 2012)
 * November 5 – Elizabeth Rice, American actress
 * November 7 – Paul Terry, English actor
 * November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
 * November 10
 * Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
 * Ricki-Lee Coulter, former Australian Idol contestant and singer
 * November 11
 * Remona Fransen, Dutch athlete
 * Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
 * Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
 * Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
 * November 12 – Daria Bijak, German artistic gymnast
 * November 13
 * Rahul Kohli, English actor
 * Michael Bennett, American football player
 * Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
 * Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
 * November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
 * November 15
 * Lily Aldridge, American model
 * Casnel Bushay, Vincentian sprinter
 * Nick Fradiani, American singer
 * Jeffree Star, American musician and YouTuber
 * November 17 – Bea Saw, Filipino actress
 * November 20 – Dan Byrd, American actor
 * November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player
 * November 23
 * Katie Crown, American actress
 * Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
 * November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier
 * November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
 * November 28
 * Nathan Keyes, American actor
 * Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer
 * Ryan Sampson, British actor
 * Karen Gillan, Scottish actress and filmmaker
 * November 30
 * Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
 * Kaley Cuoco, American actress and producer
 * Chrissy Teigen, American model

December

 * December 1
 * John Coughlin, American pair skater (d. 2019)
 * Philip DeFranco, American YouTube star and video blogger
 * Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician
 * Chanel Preston, American porn actress
 * December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
 * December 3
 * László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
 * Amanda Seyfried, American actress, model and singer-songwriter
 * December 4
 * Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer
 * Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
 * December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver
 * December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican singer and actress
 * December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler
 * December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
 * December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
 * December 10
 * Raven-Symoné, African-American actress and singer
 * Edmund Entin, American actor
 * Gary Entin, American actor
 * Meghan Linsey, American singer-songwriter
 * Matt Forté, American football player
 * December 11 – Samantha Steele, American sportscaster
 * December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer
 * December 14 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
 * December 17 – Greg James, British radio DJ
 * December 18 – Hana Soukupová, Czech model
 * December 19
 * Christina Loukas, American diver
 * Lady Sovereign, British rapper
 * David Reale, Canadian actor
 * Gary Cahill, English footballer
 * December 21
 * James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
 * Tom Sturridge, English actor
 * December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter
 * December 23
 * Harry Judd, English drummer
 * Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
 * December 26
 * Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
 * Beth Behrs, American actress
 * December 27
 * Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
 * Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress
 * Halley Gross, American screenwriter
 * December 28 – Taryn Terrell, American professional wrestler
 * December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist
 * December 30 – Anna Wood, American actress
 * December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast

January

 * January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
 * January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
 * January 5 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
 * January 7
 * Ruth Godfrey, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Mary Hardy, Australian actress and comedian (b. 1931)
 * January 11 – Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
 * January 13 – Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942)
 * January 14
 * Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress (b. 1891)
 * Anagarika Govinda, German buddhist lama (b. 1898)
 * January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909)
 * January 19 – Eric Voegelin, German-American philosopher (b. 1901)
 * January 20 – Gillis W. Long, American politician (b. 1923)
 * January 22
 * Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
 * Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator (b. 1899)
 * January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)
 * January 29
 * Georges Portmann, French physician (b. 1890)
 * Billy Cook, Australian jockey (b. 1910)
 * January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1905)

February

 * February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director (b. 1906)
 * February 6 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (b. 1932)
 * February 8
 * William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer (b. 1901)
 * Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
 * February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898)
 * February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
 * February 18 – Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher (b. 1902)
 * February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 21
 * Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893)
 * Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
 * John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (b. 1907)
 * February 22
 * Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist (b. 1889)
 * Alexander Scourby, American film, television, and voice actor (b. 1913)
 * February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * February 27
 * Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (b. 1902)
 * Iain Moncreiffe, Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms (b. 1919)
 * J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)

March

 * March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)
 * March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908)
 * March 8 – Edward Andrews, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1914)
 * March 10
 * Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
 * Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 * March 11
 * Tom Adams, Barbadosian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
 * Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902)
 * March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1899)
 * March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)
 * March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921)
 * March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896)
 * March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908)
 * March 23
 * Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)
 * Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
 * March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
 * March 29
 * The Singing Nun, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
 * Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
 * March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)
 * March 31 – Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883)

April

 * April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh-language author (b. 1891)
 * April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
 * April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1901)
 * April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b. 1888)
 * April 8 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
 * April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean statesman (b. 1898)
 * April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist politician, leader of the Party of Labour 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
 * April 14 – Noele Gordon, British actress (b. 1919)
 * April 15 – Jack Medica, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914)
 * April 16 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
 * April 17 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)
 * April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888)
 * April 19 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev, Russian ethnologist (b. 1899)
 * April 21
 * John Welsh, Irish actor (b. 1914)
 * Tancredo Neves, Brazilian elected president and former Prime Minister (b. 1910)
 * April 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
 * April 23 – Kent Smith, American actor (b. 1907)
 * April 24 – Mildred W. Pelzer, American artist (b. 1889)
 * April 25 – Richard Haydn, English actor (b. 1905)
 * April 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908)

May

 * May 1 – Denise Robins, (akas: Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)
 * May 4 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
 * May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
 * May 6
 * Pete Desjardins, American Olympic diver (b. 1907)
 * Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
 * May 7 – Dawn Addams, British actress (b. 1930)
 * May 8
 * Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (b. 1918)
 * Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
 * May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
 * May 10
 * Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1889)
 * Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer (b. 1890)
 * May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)
 * May 13
 * Selma Diamond, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
 * May 15 – Rama Devi, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889)
 * May 16
 * Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
 * Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell, American artist (b. 1886)
 * May 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter (b. 1886)
 * May 19 – W. H. Diddle, American amateur golfer (b. 1882)
 * May 20 – Ben Hall, American actor (b. 1899)
 * May 22
 * Charles Murphy, American architect. (b. 1890)
 * Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
 * May 28 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist (b. 1914)
 * May 30 – George K. Arthur, English actor and producer (b. 1899)

June

 * June 1 – Eugène Séguy, French entomologist (b. 1890)
 * June 5 – Lord George-Brown, British politician (b. 1914)
 * June 6
 * Norman W. Walker, British businessman (b. 1886)
 * Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher and musicologist (b. 1903)
 * June 7
 * Georgia Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
 * Gordon Rollings, British actor (b. 1926)
 * June 9
 * Clifford Evans, British actor (b. 1912)
 * Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
 * June 10 – George Chandler, American actor (b. 1898)
 * June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
 * June 12 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1891)
 * June 15
 * Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)
 * Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1927)
 * June 17 – George Jackson, English footballer (b. 1893)
 * Either June 18 or June 19 - Bonnie Nettles, American religious leader (b. 1927)
 * June 21 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
 * June 27 – Elias Sarkis, Lebanese lawyer, 27th President of Lebanon (b. 1924)
 * June 28 – James Craig, American actor (b. 1912)
 * June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)

July

 * July 1 – Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and priest (b. 1910)
 * July 2
 * David Purley, British race car driver (b. 1945)
 * Hector Nicol, Scottish entertainer (b. 1920)
 * July 4 – Jan de Quay, Dutch politician and psychologist, 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
 * July 8
 * Phil Foster, American actor (b. 1913)
 * Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
 * July 9
 * Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
 * Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
 * July 14 – Lluís Solé, Spanish geographer and academic (b. 1908)
 * July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 * July 17 – Margo, Mexican-born American actress (b. 1917)
 * July 19
 * Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
 * Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters (b. 1902)
 * July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
 * July 22 – Matti Järvinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
 * July 23
 * Kay Kyser, American bandleader (b. 1905)
 * Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor (b. 1920)
 * July 25 – Grant Williams, American actor (b. 1931)
 * July 26 – Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver. (b. 1890)
 * July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (b. 1903)

August

 * August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and museum curator (b. 1931)
 * August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)
 * August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898)
 * August 6
 * Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
 * John Harmon, American actor (b. 1905)
 * August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
 * August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
 * August 12
 * Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
 * Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
 * August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
 * August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
 * August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)
 * August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895)
 * August 25
 * Paul Harris, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972)
 * August 28 – Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1896)
 * August 29
 * Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)
 * Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)
 * August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900)
 * August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

September

 * September 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957)
 * September 4
 * Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891)
 * George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
 * September 6
 * Little Brother Montgomery, American musician (b. 1906)
 * Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)
 * September 7
 * Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1914)
 * José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
 * George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887)
 * September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)
 * September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * September 10
 * Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
 * Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
 * September 11
 * William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
 * Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer (b. 1905)
 * Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957)
 * September 14
 * Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925)
 * John Holt, American writer and educator (b. 1923)
 * September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
 * September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
 * September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912)
 * September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
 * September 30
 * Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
 * Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale (b. 1900)
 * Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

October

 * October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
 * October 2
 * Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
 * George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
 * October 4 – Franklin Merrell-Wolff, American philosopher (b. 1887)
 * October 5 – Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906)
 * October 6
 * John W. Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary (b. 1895)
 * Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
 * October 10
 * Alexander Buchanan, Australian politician (b. 1910)
 * Yul Brynner, Russian actor and performer (b. 1920)
 * Orson Welles, American actor and director (b. 1915)
 * October 12
 * Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
 * Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)
 * October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)
 * October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917)
 * October 21
 * Masuiyama Daishirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1919)
 * Dan White, American politician and murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations) (b. 1946)
 * October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor (b. 1905)
 * October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen (b. 1899)
 * October 25 – Morton Downey, American singer (b. 1901)
 * October 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)
 * October 31 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)

November

 * November 1
 * Rick McGraw, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 * Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
 * Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)
 * November 2 – William Lummis, British military historian (b. 1886)
 * November 4 – Cus D'Amato legendary boxing trainer who was a mentor to hall of famer boxers Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and José Torres.
 * November 5
 * Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
 * Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
 * November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)
 * November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
 * November 11
 * James Hanley, British novelist, playwright and writer (b. 1897)
 * Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender (b. 1959)
 * November 13
 * William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
 * George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
 * November 16
 * Stuart Chase, American economist (b. 1888)
 * John Sparkman, American politician (b. 1899)
 * November 17
 * Lon Nol, Cambodian general and statesman, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia and 7th President of Khmer Republic (b. 1913)
 * Jimmy Ritz, American actor (b. 1904)
 * November 19
 * Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
 * Stepin Fetchit, American actor (b. 1902)
 * November 24 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911)
 * November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet, writer, critic (b. 1905)
 * November 27
 * Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
 * Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
 * November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

December

 * December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist (b. 1922)
 * December 6
 * Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)
 * Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
 * December 7
 * Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)
 * Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
 * December 8 – Bill Wambsganss, second baseman in Major League Baseball (b. 1894)
 * December 12
 * Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)
 * December 13 – Paul Caraway, American general and High Commissioner (b. 1905)
 * December 14
 * Catherine Doherty, American Roman Catholic social worker (b. 1896)
 * Roger Maris, American baseball player (New York Yankees) (b. 1934)
 * December 15
 * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
 * Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (b. 1899)
 * December 16 – William H. Pettit, Christian missionary to Bangladesh (b. 1885)
 * December 21 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
 * December 22 – D. Boon, American musician (b. 1958)
 * December 23
 * Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899)
 * Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914)
 * December 24
 * Kouzou Sasaki, Japanese politician (b. 1900)
 * Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)
 * December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
 * December 27
 * Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)
 * Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
 * December 28 – Renato Castellani, Italian director (b. 1913)
 * December 30 – Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (b. 1907)
 * December 31
 * Ricky Nelson, American actor and musician (b. 1940)
 * Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer (b. 1903)

Date unknown

 * Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886)
 * Kaare Bratung, Norwegian cartoonist (b. 1906)
 * Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer (b. 1928)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Klaus von Klitzing
 * Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
 * Literature – Claude Simon
 * Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
 * Economics – Franco Modigliani
 * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein