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'''1966''' '''(MCMLXVI)''' was a Common_year_starting_on_Saturday (link goes to calendar)
==Events==
===January===
* January_1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel_Bokassa ousts president David_Dacko and takes over the Central_African_Republic.
* January_2 - Strike of Public_transportation workers in New_York_City - ends January_13
* January_3 - First Acid_Test at The_Fillmore, San_Francisco
* January_4 - Military coup in Upper_Volta (later Burkina_Faso).
* January_4 - Prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow
* January_5 - Fire due to a Gas_leak in Feyzin_oil_refinery near Lyon, France - 12 dead, 80 injured
* January_10 - Pakistani-Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow
* January_10 - French paper ''L'Express'' publishes a story of Georges_Figon, who took part of the kidnapping of Mehdi_Ben_Barka. January_18 French police announces that Figon has committed suicide just before he was about to be arrested
* January_11 - Conference about the situation in Rhodesia begins in Lagos
* January_11 - Indian prime minister Lal_Bahadur_Shastri dies
* January_12 - Lyndon_Johnson states that the United_States should stay in South_Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
* January_13 - Robert_C._Weaver becomes the first African_American Cabinet member by being appointed United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development.
* January_15 - A violent military Coup in Nigeria
* January_15 - Moscow announces that Sergei_Korolev is dead
* January_17 - The Nigerian Coup is overturned
* January_17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton Hydrogen_bombs near the town of Palomares and one into the sea
* January_17 - Carl_Brashear, the first African_American United_States_Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
* January_18 - About 8000 US soldiers land in South_Vietnam - numbers of US troops total 190.000
* January_19 - Indira_Gandhi is elected Prime_Minister_of_India - sworn in January_24
* January_19 - Australian Prime Minister Robert_Menzies resigns
* January_20 - Demonstrations against high food prices in Hungary
* January_21 - Italian Prime Minister Aldo_Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party
* January_22 - Military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa has been killed during the coup
* January_26 - Harold_Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert_Menzies retires
* January_26 - Three Beaumont chrildren disapper on their way to Glenelg Beach Adelaide SA, Australia. Never to be seen again
* January_27 - British government promises USA that British troops in Malaysia stay until more peaceful conditions in the region
* January_29 - The first of 608 performances of ''Sweet_Charity'' opens at the Palace Theatre in New_York_City.
* January_31 - United_Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia
* January - First SR-71 spy plane goes into service.
===February===
* February_1 - West_Germany has purchased 2600 political prisoners from East_Germany
* February_3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna_9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon
* February_4 - Japanese passenger jet crashes into Tokyo Bay - 133 dead
* February_6 - Fidel_Castro blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among Cuban soldiers
* February_10 - Soviet writers Yuli_Daniel and Andrei_Sinjavski are sentenced for five and seven years, respectively, for anti-Soviet writings
* February_11 - Belgian government resigns
* February_14 - The Australian Dollar was introduced at a rate of two dollars per pound, or ten shillings per dollar.
* February_19 - Naval minister of United_Kingdom, Christopher_Mayhew, resigns
* February_20 - When Valeri_Tarsis, Soviet author and translator is abroad, Soviet_Union negates his citizenship
* February_23 - A military Coup in Syria replaces the previous government with a Ba'athist regime.
* February_24 - A military Coup in Ghana raises sacked general Ankrah to power while president Kwame_Nkrumah is abroad.
* February_26 - Curfew in Jakarta
* February_28 - US astronauts Charles_Bassett and Elliott_See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis, MO
===March===
* March_1 - Soviet Space_probe Venera_3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first Spacecraft to land on another Planet's surface.
* March_1 - The Ba'ath_Party takes power in Syria
* March_2 - Kwame_Nkrumah arrives in Guinea and is granted an asylum
* March_4 - The_Beatles: In an interview published in The Evening Standard, John_Lennon comments, "We're more popular than Jesus now," eventually sparking a controversy in the United_States.
* March_5 - Massive theft of nuclear materials revealed in Brazil
* March_7 - Charles_De_Gaulle asks US president Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France
* March_8 - Anti-communist demonstrations in Indonesian foreign ministry
* March_8 – Ronald_Kray, one of the Kray_twins, shoots rival gangster George_Cornell; the incidents leads to brother's incarceration
* March_8 - Vietnam_War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam
* March_8 - A IRA bomb destroys Nelson's_Pillar in Dublin
* March_10 - Crown Princess Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands marries Claus_von_Amsberg.
* March_10 - Wedding of Beatrix, the crown princess of Netherlands and Claus_von_Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom, because he is German
* March_11 – Indonesian president Sukarno gives all Executive_powers to general Suharto
* March_11 - French president Charles_De_Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year
* March_16 - Gemini_8 docks with Agena target satellite
* March_17 - More anti-communist demonstrations in Indonesia
* March_17 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin Submarine finds a missing American Hydrogen_bomb.
* March_23 - Pope_Paul_VI and Dr Arthur_Michael_Ramsey, the Archbishop_of_Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Catholic and the Anglican_Churches
* March_26 - Demonstrations again the Vietnam_War in USA
* March_27 - In South_Vietnam, 20.000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government
* March_28 - Indira_Gandhi visits Washington_DC
* March_29 - 23rd Communist party conference in Soviet_Union - Leonid_Brezhnev demands that US troops leave Vietnam and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying
* March_31 - The Labour Party under Harold_Wilson win the British General Election
* March_31 - The Soviet_Union launches Luna_10 which later becomes the first Space_probe to enter orbit around the Moon
===April===
* April_2 - Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United_Nations
* April_4 - Luna_10 enters orbit around the Moon
* April_7 - The United_Kingdom asks the UN Security Council authority to use force to stop Oil_tankers that violate Oil_embargo against Rhodesia. Authority is given April_10
* April_8 - Buddhists in South_Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for Free_elections
* April_12 - Jan_Berry of Jan_&_Dean suffers brain damage in a serious automobile accident in Beverly Hills, California
* April_14 - South_Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3-5 months
* April_15 - anti-Nasser conspiracy exposed in Egypt
* April_18 - China declares that it stops economic aid to Indonesia
* April_21 - Artificial_heart installed to the chest of Marcel_DeRudder in Houston hospital
* April_21 - The opening of Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom is televised for the first time
* April_27 - Pope_Paul_VI and Soviet premier Gromyko meet in the Vatican - the first meeting between representatives of the Catholic_Church and Soviet_Union
* April_28 - In Rhodesia, security forces kill 7 ZANLA men in combat- ''Chimurenga'', ZANU rebellion begins
* April_29 - US troops in Vietnam total 250.000
* April_30 - regular Hovercraft service begins over the English_Channel (discontinued 2000 due to Channel_Tunnel)
===May===
* May_1 - Floods in Finnish coast
* May_4 - Fiat signs a contract with Soviet government to build a car factory in Soviet_Union
* May_6 - The Moors_Murderers Ian_Brady and Myra_Hindley sentenced for life imprisonment
* May_12 - African members of the UN Security Council say that British army should blockage Rhodesia
* May_12 - Radio_Peking claims that US planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan - US denies the story the next day
* May_14 - Turkey and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in Cyprus
* May_15 - Indonesia asks Malaysia for peace negotiations
* May_16-July_1 - Seamen's strike in Britain
* May_15 - South_Vietnam army besieges Da_Nang
* May_24 - Troops of Uganda army arrest Edward_Mutesa_II_of_Buganda and occupy his palace
* May_24 - Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country (until the January_17 1969)
* May_25 - Explorer_program: Explorer_32 launches
* May_25 - In St._Louis,_Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert_Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart_Udall dedicate the Gateway_Arch as part of the Jefferson_National_Expansion_Memorial
* May_26 - Guyana achieves independence.
* May_28 - Fidel_Castro announces a Martial_law in Cuba because of possible US attack
* May_28 – Indonesian and Malayan governments declare that Indonesian_Confrontation is over. Treaty signed in August_11
* May_31 - Philippines reform Diplomatic_relations with Malaysia
===June===
* June_2 - Eamon_de_Valera re-elected as Irish president
* June_2 - Surveyor_program: ''Surveyor_1'' lands in Oceanus Procellarumon the Moon, becoming the first Spacecraft to soft land on another world
* June_2 - Four former cabinet ministers executed in Zaire for alleged involvement in a plot to kill Mobutu_Sese_Seko
* June_3 - Joaquín_Balaguer elected president of Dominican_Republic
* June_5 - Gene_Cernan completes second U.S. spacewalk (which lasted 2 hours, 7 minutes) on the Gemini_9 mission.
* June_6 - James_Meredith, Civil_rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi
* June_13 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in ''Miranda_v._Arizona'' that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them
* June_14 - The Vatican announces the abolition of ''Index_Librorum_Prohibitum'' index of banned books
* June_17 - Air_France personnel strike begins
* June_18 - CIA chief William F. Raborn resigns - Richard_Helms will be his successor
* June_20-July_1 - Charles_De_Gaulle visits Soviet_Union
* June_21- Opposition leader Arthur Calwell injured when shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman, Sydney, Australia
* June_28 - In Argentina a Junta deposes president Arturo_Umberto_Illia in a coup and appoints general Juan_Carlos_Ongania to lead
* June_29 - Sailors' strike, organised by the National_Union_of_Seamen ends in the United_Kingdom
* June_29 - Vietnam_War: US planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong
* June_30 - France formally leaves NATO
===July===
* July_1 - Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
* July_3 - Rene_Barrientos elected President_of_Bolivia
* July_4 - North_Vietnam declares general Mobilization
* July_4 - President Lyndon_B._Johnson signs the Freedom_of_Information_Act into law. The act goes into effect the following year.
* July_6 - Malawi becomes a republic
* July_7 - Conference of Warsaw_Pact ends with a promise to support North Vietnam
* July_12 - Indira_Gandhi visits Moscow
* July_12 - Zambia threatens to leave British_Commonwealth because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia
* July_12 - US lieutenant major W.H._Whalen arrested for spying
* July_14 - Israeli and Syrian jet fighters fight over the Jordan_River
* July_14 - In Chicago,_Illinois, Richard_Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory
* July_14 - Gwynfor_Evans becomes member of Parliament for Carmarthen, the first Plaid_Cymru MP in the UK.
* July_16 - British Prime Minister Harold_Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about Vietnam_War - Soviet Government refutes his ideas
* July_17 - Richard_Speck arrested - he tries to commit suicide but fails
* July_18 - Gemini_X lifts off for earth orbit with astronauts John_Young and Michael Collins, setting a world altitude record of 474 miles.
* July_18 - The Hough_Riots break out in Cleveland,_Ohio, the city's first race riot.
* July_19 - Chinese delegate in Netherlands, Liu_en-Tsiu, is declared Persona_non_grata because of death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office
* July_22 - Chinese government announces Dutch delegate G._J._Jongejans Persona_non_grata but tells him not to leave the country before group of Chinese engineers has left the Netherlands
* July_23 - Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt in support of the exiled minister Moise_Tschombe. Mutiny lasts several weeks
* July_24 - U_Thant visits Moscow
* July_26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice_Statement in the House_of_Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous Precedent
* July_28 - USA announces that U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba
* July_29 - Nigerian army rebels and execute the head of state general Irons, Richard_Steven_Horvitz is born.
* July_30 - England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the World Cup at Wembley
===August===
* August_1 - Sniper Charles_Whitman kills 13 from the University_of_Texas_at_Austin Main Building.
* August_1 - Military_coup in Nigeria - general Yakubu_Gowon takes over
* August_2 - Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft
* August_5 - Martin_Luther_King leads a civil rights march in Chicago
* August_6 - Rene_Barrientos takes office as the President_of_Bolivia
* August_6 - Bridge over the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal, is opened
* August_7 - Race riots occur in Lansing,Michigan.
* August_10 - East German court sentences Günter_Laudahn to life imprisonment for espionage for USA
* August_10 - Lunar_Orbiter_1, the first US spacecraft to orbit another world, is launched
* August_12 - In the Massacre_of_Braybrook_Street, Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead three plain clothes policemen in London - they are later sentenced to life imprisonment
* August_13 - China begins Cultural_Revolution
* August_13 - An Earthquake in Turkey - 2394 dead, 10000 injured
* August_15 - Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake_Genesaret for three hours
* August_15 - ''New_York_Herald_Tribune'' stops publication
* August_16 - Vietnam_War: The House_Un-American_Activities_Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet_Cong with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
* August_17 - Saudi_Arabia and United_Arab_Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen
* August_18 - Vietnam_War: D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal_Australian_Regiment meets and defeats a Viet_Cong force estimated to be four times larger, at the Battle_of_Long_Tan in Phuoc_Tuy Province, Republic_of_Vietnam
* August_19 - Earthquake in eastern Turkey destroys whole cities
* August_21 - Seven men sentenced to death in Egypt for anti-Nasser agitation
* August_22 - Formation of the United_Farm_Workers_Organizing_Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
* August_26 - Riots in French_Somaliland
* August_30 - France offers independence to French Somaliland
===September===
* September_1 - United_Nations_Secretary-General U_Thant declares that he is not going to seek re-election because UN efforts in Vietnam have failed.
* September_6 - In Cape_Town, the South_African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik_Verwoerd is stabbed to death by Dimitri_Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting
* September_7 - The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
* September_8 - "The_Man_Trap", the first episode of the science fiction television series Star_Trek airs.
* September_9 - NATO decides to move SHAPE headquarters to Belgium.
* September_13 - Balthazar_Johannes_Vorster becomes new South African prime minister
* September_13 - TASS reports about clashes between members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guard
* September_16 - In South Vietnam, Thich_Tri_Quang begins a 100-day hunger strike
* September_16 - Metropolitan_Opera house opened in New_York_City
* September_18 - Valerie Percy, the 21 year old daughter of Senator Charles Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.
* September_19 - Scotland_Yard arrests Ronald_Edwards suspected of being involved of the great train robbery
* September_30 - October_1 (midnight) - Baldur_von_Schirach and Albert_Speer released from Spandau_Prison
* September_30 - Botswana achieves independence.
===October===
* October_3 - Tunisia severs its diplomatic relations to United_Arab_Republic
* October_4 - Israel applies for the outer membership of EEC
* October_4 - Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name Lesotho
* October_5 - UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This even is now celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
* October_7 - Soviet_Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October
* October_11 - France and Soviet_Union sign a treaty about cooperation in nuclear research
* October_14 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its Metro system (see Montreal_Metro)
* October_15 - US President Lyndon_B._Johnson signs a bill creating the United_States_Department_of_Transportation.
* October_17 - Lesotho and Botswana accepted to join United_Nations
* October_21 – Aberfan_disaster in South_Wales, United_Kingdom
* October_22 - British spy George_Blake escapes from HM_Prison_Wormwood_Scrubs prison; he is next seen in Moscow
* October_22 - Spain demands that United_Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar - Britain says no the next day
* October_24 - Negotiations about the Vietnam_War begin in Manila, Philippines
* October_25 - Military court in Jakarta sentences ex-foreign minister Subandrio to death
* October_25 - Spain closes its Gibraltar border against non-Pedestrian traffic
* October_26 - NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels
* October_27 - United_Nations takes Namibia from South_Africa
* October_28 - US artist Lynne_Seemayer paints the ''Pink Lady'', a 60-feet tall picture of a naked woman, above a tunnel on Malibu_Canyon_Road. Authorities have it painted over in November_3 (see http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/pinklady.asp)
* October_29 - Guinean delegation en route to OAU meeting in Ethiopia is made hostages of Ghana government in Accra
===November===
* November_2 - The Cuban_Adjustment_Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United_States
* November_4 - The Arno_river floods Florence, damaging many art treasures
* November_5 - 38 African states demand that United_Kingdom use force against Rhodesian government
* November_6 - Lunar_Orbiter_2 is launched.
* November_8 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward_Brooke becomes the first African_American elected to the United_States_Senate.
* November_11 - A mine kills three Israeli paratroopers on the West_Bank border.
* November_11 - Spain declares general amnesty about crimes committed during the Spanish_Civil_War (effectively only for Falangists side)
* November_12 - Birthdate of Stuart King, popular American TV actor beginning in the 1990's.
* November_15 - Gemini_program: Gemini_12, carrying astronauts James_A._Lovell and Buzz_Aldrin, splashes down safely in the Atlantic_Ocean 600 km east of the Bahamas.
* November_15 - Harry_Maurice_Roberts, who had killed three policemen in August, is caught near London
* November_16 - US doctor Samuel Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial of murder of his pregnant wife in 1954
* November_17 - UN General Assembly decides to found United_Nations_Industrial_Development_Organization
* November_17 - Spectacular meteor shower of Leonids passes over Arizona at the rate of 2300 a minute for 20 minutes
* November_21 - Army crushes an attempted coup in Togo
* November_28 - Truman_Capote's Black and White Ball - dubbed The Party of the Century - is held in New York City.
* November_30 - Barbados achieves independence.
===December===
* December_1 - Kurt_Georg_Kiesinger is elected Chancellor of West Germany
* December_1 - British Prime Minister Harold_Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian_Smith negotiate on ''HMS Tiger'' in Mediterranean
* December_2 - U_Thant agrees to serve a second term as UN Secretary general
* December_3 - Anti-Portuguese demonstrations in Macau. Curfew declared the next day
* December_7 - Syria offers weapons to rebels in Jordan
* December_7 - Barbados is accepted into United_Nations
* December_16 - UN Security council approves Oil_embargo against Rhodesia
* December_17 - South_Africa does not join the Trade_embargo against Rhodesia
* December_20 - Harold_Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to Rhodesian government and announces that he agrees to the Independence only after the founding of black majority government
* December_22 - Rhodesian Prime minister Ian_Smith declares that he considers that Rhodesia is already a republic
* December_26 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana_Karenga, the chair of Black_Studies at California_State_University,_Long_Beach
* December_31 - Walter_Ulbricht talks about negotiations about German_unification
* December_31 - Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from Dulwich_Art_Gallery in London
* December_31 - Congolese government takes over the Union_Minière_du_Haut_Katanga.
===Unknown dates===
* Cultural_Revolution declared in Mainland_China.
* In Burundi, King Mwambutsa_IV is deposed by his son Ntare_V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel_Micombero.
* Bobby_Seale and Huey_P._Newton found Black_Panther_Party.
* Haile_Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rastafarian leaders
* Konstantin_Chernenko, later leader of Soviet_Union, becomes candidate member of the Central_Committee.
* Surrealist_Movement_in_the_United_States founded by Franklin and Penelope_Rosemont.
* Lise_Meitner and Otto_Hahn are awarded the Fermi_Prize.
* Congress_of_the_United_States creates National_Council_for_Marine_Resources_and_Engineering_Development.
* Martin_Richards designs the BCPL_programming_language.
* The DKW automobile goes out of production.
* World Buddhist Sangha Council convened by Theravadins in Sri_Lanka with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
* Long-term_potentiation (LTP), the putative cellular mechanism of Learning and Memory, is first observed by Terje_Lømo in Oslo, Norway.
* Actress Saira_Banu marries actor Dilip_Kumar.
==Births==
===January-April===
* January_1 - Michael_Imperioli, American actor
* January_12 - Rob_Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
* January_13 - Patrick_Dempsey, American actor
* January_17 - Shabba_Ranks, Jamaican singer
* January_19 - Floris_Jan_Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
* January_20 - Tracii_Guns, American guitarist
* January_29 - Romário, Brazilian footballer
* February_1 - Michelle_Akers, American soccer player
* February_6 - Rick_Astley, British singer
* February_9 - Ellen_van_Langen, Dutch athlete
* February_11 - Stephen Gregory, American actor
* February_11 - Anthony_Parker, American football player
* February_20 - Cindy_Crawford, American model
* February_22 - Brian_Greig, Australian statesman
* February_24 - Billy_Zane, American actor
* February_25 - Samson_Kitur, Kenyan athlete
* March_3 - Tone-Loc, American musician
* March_4 - Kevin_Johnson, American basketball player
* March_5 - Tim_Crutchfield,Controversial Politician
* March_6 - Yahya_Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (d. 1996)
* March_10 - Edie_Brickell, American singer
* March_25 - Tom_Glavine, baseball player
* March_31 - Roger_Black, British athlete
* April_2 - Teddy_Sheringham, English footballer
* April_14 - Greg_Maddux, baseball player
* April_18 - Trine_Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
* April_28 - John_Daly, American golfer
* April_29 - Phil_Tufnell, English cricketer
===May-August===
* May_10 - Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
* May_12 - Stephen_Baldwin, American actor
* May_13 - Darius_Rucker, American singer (Hootie & The Blowfish)
* May_16 - Janet_Jackson, American singer
* May_16 - Thurman_Thomas, American football player
* May_24 - Eric_Cantona, French footballer
* May_26 - Helena_Bonham_Carter, English actress
* May_26 - Zola_Budd, South African athlete
* June_4 - Cecilia_Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
* June_4 - Tiffany_Million, American actress
* June_8 - Julianna_Margulies, American actress
* June_18 - Kurt_Browning, Canadian figure skater
* June_21 - Rudi_Bakhtiar, American journalist
* June_22 - Michael Park, British rally co-driver (d. 2005)
* June_25 - Dikembe_Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
* June_27 - J.J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
* June_28 - John_Cusack, American actor
* June_30 - Mike_Tyson, American boxer
* July_3 - Moises_Alou, baseball player
* July_7 - Gundula_Krause, German violinist
* July_13 - Gerald_Levert, American singer
* July_14 - Matthew Fox, American actor
* July_15 - Irène Jacob, French-born actress
* August_7 - Jimmy_Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
* August_11 - Juan_Maria_Solare, Argentine composer
* August_14 - Halle_Berry, American actress
* August_17 - William_E._Dudley, American poet
* August_19 - Lee_Ann_Womack, American musician
* August_23 - Rik_Smits, Dutch basketball player
* August_26 - Jacques_Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
===September-December===
* September_2 - Salma_Hayek, Mexican-born actress
* September_4 - Yanka_Dyagileva, Russian singer
* September_9 - Georg_Hackl, German luger
* September_9 - Adam_Sandler, American actor and comedian
* September_21 - Kiefer_Sutherland, English-born actor
* September_24 - Michael_J._Varhola, American author and publisher.
* October_1 - George_Weah, Liberian politician and football player
* October_3 - Rabbi Binyamin_Ze'ev_Kahane, Israeli settler leader (d. 2000)
* October_8 - Aaron_Callaghan, Irish football club executive
* October_9 - David_Cameron, British Politician
* October_24 - Roman_Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
* October_27 - Matt_Drudge, American Internet journalist
* October_28 - Steve_Atwater, American football player
* November_1 - Gary_Howell, American actor
* November_6 - Peter_DeLuise, American actor
* November_12 - David_Schwimmer, American actor
* November_14 - Curt_Schilling, baseball player
* November_17 - Jeff_Buckley, American singer (d. 1997)
* November_17 - Sophie_Marceau, French actress
* November_20 - Kevin_Gilbert, American singer, composer, and instrumentalist
* December_1 - Larry_Walker, Canadian Major_League_Baseball player
* December_7 - C._Thomas_Howell, American actor
* December_7 - Linn_Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
* December_14 - Bill_Ranford, Canadian hockey player
==Deaths==
===January-March===
* January_1 - Vincent_Auriol, President_of_France (b. 1884)
* January_11 - Alberto_Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1910)
* January_11 - Hannes_Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
* January_14 - Barry_Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
* January_14 - Bill_Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
* January_15 - Sergei_Korolev, Russian space scientist (b. 1906)
* January_18 - Kathleen_Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
* February_1 - Buster_Keaton, American actor and film director (b. 1895)
* February_1 - Hedda_Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
* February_10 - Billy_Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
* February_10 - Lal_Bahadur_Shastri, Prime_Minister_of_India (b. 1904)
* February_20 - Chester_Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
* March_1 - Fritz_Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
* March_3 - Maxfield_Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
* March_5 - Anna_Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
* March_8 - William_Waldorf_Astor,_3rd_Viscount_Astor, British politican (b. 1907)
* March_10 - Frits_Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
===April-September===
* April_2 - C.S._Forester, English author (b. 1899)
* April_3 - Battista_Pininfarina, Italian car designer (b. 1893)
* April_10 - Evelyn_Waugh, English author (b. 1903)
* April_11 - Maximiliano_Hernández_Martínez, military dictator of El Salvador (assassinated) (b. 1882)
* April_13 - Georges_Duhamel, French author (b. 1884)
* April_13 - Abdul_Salam_Arif, President_of_Iraq (b. 1921)
* April_23 - Georges_Ohsawa, Japanese diet founder (b. 1893)
* May_22 - Tom_Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
* May_23 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
* June_1 - Papa_Jack_Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)
* June_7 - Jean_Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
* June_8 - Anton_Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
* June_12 - Hermann_Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891)
* June_19 - Ed_Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
* June_30 - Giuseppe_Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
* July_2 - Jan_Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
* July_5 - George_de_Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* July_6 - Sad_Sam_Jones, baseball player (b. 1892)
* July_24 - Montgomery_Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
* August_3 - Lenny_Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
* August_6 - Cordwainer_Smith, American author (b. 1913)
* September_5 - Dezső_Lauber, Hungarian sportsman and architect (b. 1879)
* September_6 - Margaret_Sanger, American birth control advocate (b. 1879)
* September_6 - Hendrik_Verwoerd, Dutch-born Prime_Minister_of_South_Africa (b. 1901)
* September_11 - C._E._Woolman, American airline founder (b. 1889)
* September_17 - Fritz_Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
* September_28 - Andre_Breton, French writer (b. 1896)
===October-December===
* October_16 - George_O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
* October_18 - Elizabeth_Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878)
* November_2 - Peter_Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
* November_2 - Mississippi_John_Hurt, American singer and guitarist (b. 1893)
* November_23 - Sean_T._O'Kelly, second President_of_Ireland (b. 1882)
* December_15 - Walt_Disney, American animated film producer (b. 1901)
===Month/day unknown===
* Hiram_Wesley_Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1881)
==Nobel Prizes==
* Physics - Alfred_Kastler
* Chemistry - Robert_S._Mulliken
* Medicine - Peyton_Rous, Charles_Brenton_Huggins
* Literature - Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon, Nelly_Sachs
* Peace - not awarded
== Fields Medalists==
* Michael_Francis_Atiyah, Paul Joseph Cohen, Alexander_Grothendieck, Stephen_Smale
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