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'''1971''' '''(MCMLXXI)''' is a Common_year_starting_on_Friday (click for link to calendar).
==Events==
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===January===
* January_1 - British Divorce_Reform_Act comes into force
* January_2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox_disaster.
* January_2 - A ban on Television Cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United_States.
* January_3 - BBC Open_University begins in the United_Kingdom
* January_7 - Howard_Hughes breaks his silence to announce that his supposed biography is a forgery.
* January_8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey_Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo; they keep him captive until September
* January_9 – Uruguayan president Jorge_Pacheco_Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings and receives them the next day
* January_14 – 70 Brazilian political prisoners released in Santiago. Giovanni_Enrico_Bucher is released January_16
* January_15 - Aswan_Dam officially opened
* January_18 – Strikes in Poland demand resignation of interior minister Kazimierz_Switala. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by Franciszek_Szlachcic
* January_19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize Oil prices. February_14 they sign a treaty with six Persian_Gulf countries
* January_19 - ''No,_No_Nanette'' premieres (46th_Street_Theatre, New_York_City)
* January_24 – Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November 1970. 72 are sentenced to Hard_labor for life. 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day
* January_25 - Charles_Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of the 1969 Murder of Sharon_Tate and others at Sharon's house
* January_25 - Idi_Amin leads a coup deposing Milton_Obote and becomes Uganda's president
* January_25 - Himachal_Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state
* January_31 - Apollo_program: US spaceflight Apollo_14, commanded by Alan_Shepard, lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission
===February===
* February_2 - Idi_Amin ousts Milton_Obote and assumes power in Uganda
* February_4 - In Britain, Rolls_Royce goes bankrupt - state takes over
* February_5 - Apollo_14 lands on the Moon.
* February_7 - Tuscany, Italy, wrecked in an earthquake
* February_7 - Men of Switzerland vote for giving voting rights to women in state elections - but not in all canton-specific ones.
* February_7 – Wladyslaw_Gomulka is expelled from central council of the Polish communist party
* February_8 - A new Stock_market_index called the Nasdaq debuts
* February_9 - The 6.4 on the Richter_Scale Sylmar_earthquake hits the San_Fernando_Valley area of California.
* February_9 - Satchel_Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball_Hall_of_Fame
* February_9 - Apollo_program: Apollo_14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing
* February_11 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed_Treaty outlawing Nuclear_weapons.
* February_11-12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman
* February_13 - Vietnam_War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South_Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
* February_15 - "Decimalisation_Day" - United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to Decimal_currency. See also Decimalisation.
* February_15 – Angry Belgian farmers crash the EEC meeting in Brussels with three live cows with them
* February_16 – In Italy, local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria – residents of Reggio_di_Calabria riot for five days because of the decision
* February_20 – 50 Tornadoes rage in Mississippi – 74 dead
* February_20 - US Emergency_Broadcast_System sends an erroneous warning - many Radio_stations just ignore it
* February_21 - The Convention_on_Psychotropic_Substances is signed at Vienna.
* February_26 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United_Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth_Day.
* February_27 - Doctors in the first Dutch Abortion_clinic (Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform Abortus_provocatus
===March===
* March_1 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White_House - Weather_Underground claims responsibility.
* March_1 - Pakistani President Yahya_Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East_Pakistan.
* March_1 - Canadian John_Robarts ends his term of office as 17th Premier_of_Ontario
* March_5 – Pakistani army occupies the East_Pakistan
* March_7 – Strike of British postal workers ends after 47 days
* March_10 - Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
* March_12 - Hafez_al-Assad becomes president of Syria.
* March_16 – Government of Trygve_Bratteli in Norway
* March_18 - A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake_Yanahuani killing 200
* March_23 – Military coup in Argentina – general Alejandro_Lanusse takes power
* March_25 – Pakistani army starts massive killing in East_Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh, after an open, non-democratic denial by Pakistani president Yahiya Khan, a military ruler, of election results that gave Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament.
* March_26 - The Independence Day of Bangladesh.
* March_29 - Filming begins on ''The Godfather''. Shooting starts on Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather''. The movie, released in 1972, won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
* March_29 - William_Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in My_Lai_massacre and sentenced to life in prison. He is later pardoned.
* March_29 - A Los_Angeles,_California jury recommends the Death_penalty for Charles_Manson and three female followers.
=== April ===
* April_1 - United_Kingdom lifts all restrictions on Gold ownership
* April_5 – In Ceylon, group calling himself People’s_Liberation_Front begins a rebellion against Bandaranaike government
* April_5 – Chile and East_Germany form Diplomatic_relations
* April_5 - Mount Etna erupts
* April_7 – Greece releases 261 Political_prisoners, 50 of which are sent to internal exile
* April_8 – Right-wing coup attempt exposed in Laos
* April_9 - Charles_Manson is sentenced to death but the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
* April_12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to north of Jordan
* April_17 – Bangladesh makes official Declaration_of_independence but Pakistani troops continue the fighting
* April_17 - Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a Confederation.
* April_19 – Government of Bangladesh flees to India
* April_19 – Sierra_Leone becomes a Republic
* April_19 – Unemployment in UK is 3.4%
* April_19 - Soviet Union launches Saljut_I.
* April_19 - Followers of Charles_Manson, the Manson_Family, are sentenced to gas chamber.
* April_20 - Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial Desegregation.
* April_20 – Cambodian Prime Minister Lon_Nol resigns
* April_21 – Siaka_Stevens is elected the first president of Sierra_Leone
* April_21 – François_Duvalier, president of Haiti, dies—his son Jean-Claude_Duvalier follows him as President-for-life
* April_24 – Soyuz_10 docks with Salyut_1
* April_24 – 500,000 people in Washington_DC and 125,000 in San_Francisco march against the Vietnam_War
* April_24 - Tsunami 85 m high rises over Ryukyu_Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton block of Coral 2.5 km inland
* April_25 – Todor_Zhivkov re-elected as the leader of the Bulgarian communist party
* April_25 – Franz_Jonas re-elected as the new chancellor of Austria
* April_26 – Government of Turkey declares the State_of_siege in 11 provinces, Ankara included, because of violent Demonstrations
* April_29 – Bolivia nationalizes American-owned zinc mine of Matilde
* April_29 - The third anniversary of the Broadway musical ''Hair'' was celebrated with a concert at a Central Park bandshell.
=== May ===
* May_1 - Amtrak begins operation of intercity rail passenger service in the United_States
* May_1 – Ceylonese government promises Amnesty for those guerillas who surrender before April_5
* May_2 – in Ceylon left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings
* May_3 – Harris public opinion poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the war in Vietnam
* May_3 – East German leader Walter_Ulbricht resigns as a party leader but retains the positions of the head of state
* May_3 - Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington,_D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
* May_3 - ''All_Things_Considered'', National_Public_Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
* May_5 – US_dollar floods the European Currency_markets and threatens especially the Deutsche_Mark – Central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading
* May_6 – Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the People's_Liberation_Front
* May_9 – Launch of Mariner_8 fails
* May_12 – Earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur
* May_15 – Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Efraim_Elrom, is kidnapped. He is found killed in Istanbul May_25
* May_16 – Coup attempt exposed and foiled in Egypt
* May_19 - Mars_probe_program: Mars_2 is launched by the Soviet_Union
* May_26 – Austria and People's_Republic_of_China form diplomatic relations
* May_26 - Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr Brown (Peter_Marcini) (Later Arrested)
* May_27 – Six armed passengers hijack Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna
* May_27 - Christie's auctions diamond later known as Deepdene - it is later found to be artificially colored
* May_28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO
* May_30 - Mariner_program: Mariner_9 is launched toward Mars
* May_31 - The birth of a new country, Bangladesh, is declared by the government in exile from territory formerly part of Pakistan.
===June===
* June_1 - Vietnam_War: Vietnam_Veterans_for_a_Just_Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast_Asia, speak against war protests
* June_6 - Soyuz_program: Soyuz_11 launches.
* June_6 - A midair collision between a Hughes_Airwest Douglas_DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell_Douglas_F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte,_California claims 50 lives.
* June_10 – USA ends Trade_embargo of China.
* June_13 - Vietnam_War: The ''New_York_Times'' begins to publish the Pentagon_Papers. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/48.htm.
* June_13 - Gijs_van_Lennep wins the 24 hours of Le Mans together with Helmet Marko.
* June_14 - Norway begins oil production in North_Sea.
* June_17 - Representatives of Japan and the United_States sign the Okinawa_Reversion_Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.http://www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/rev71.html
* June_20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli_Fedosejev has been granted asylum.
* June_21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
* June_25 – Madagascar accuses USA of being connected to the plot to oust the current government – USA recalls its ambassador.
* June_28 - Assassin Jerome_A._Johnson shoots Joe_Colombo to the head in a middle of a Italian-American rally. Colombo goes into coma.
* June_30 - After a successful mission aboard Salyut_1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz_11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
===July===
* July_3 - Doors musician Jim_Morrison in found dead in his Paris apartment.
* July_5 - Right_to_vote: The voting age in the United_States is reduced from 21 to 18 (provision of the 26th Amendment formally certified by President Richard_Nixon on this day).
* July_9 - United_Kingdom increases its troops in Northern_Ireland to 11,000.
* July_10-11 – Coup attempt in Morocco - 1400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when king's troops storm the palace. Ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement.
* July_13 – Ólafur_Jóhannesson's government in Iceland.
* July_13 – Jordanian army troops launch offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
* July_14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties to Morocco.
* July_14 – Yugoslavian government allows foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
* July_16 - Francisco_Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.
* July_16 - The four billionth baby was born. (see World_Population).
* July_17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the schism about South_Tyrol.
* July_18 – Trucial_States formed in the Persian_Gulf.
* July_19-23 – Military coup in Sudan ousts Jaafar_Muhammad_al-Nemieri and major Hashem_al-Atta takes over. Fighting continues until on July_22 pro-Nimeiri troops win. Al-Atta and 3 officers are executed July_23. Nimeiri launches an anti-communist campaign.
* July_26 - Apollo_program: Launch of Apollo_15. On July_31 the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a Lunar_rover a day after landing on the surface.
* July_28 - Abdel_Madgoub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
* July_29 - The United_Kingdom opts out of the Space_Race with the cancellation of its Black_Arrow launch vehicle.
* July_30 – In Japan, an All_Nippon_Airways Boeing_727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet – 162 dead.
===August===
* August_9 - India signs a twenty year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet_Union.
* August_9 - British security forces in Northern_Ireland detain hundreds of guerilla suspects and put them into Long Kesh - the beginning of an internment without trial policy. 20 die in riots that follow.
* August_12 – 3000 people from Belfast and Londonderry flee to Ireland because of the violence
* August_12 – Syria severs diplomatic relations to Jordan because of border clashes
* August_14 – British troops stationed on Ireland border to stop arms smuggling
* August_14 - Emirate of Bahrain declares independence
* August_15 – Number of British troops in Northern Ireland rises to 12,500
* August_15 - President Richard_Nixon announces that the United_States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton_Woods_system
* August_18 - Vietnam_War: Australia and New_Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam
* August_18 – British troops in firefight in Londonderry
* August_19-22 – Right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president Juan_Jose_Torres but eventually Hugo_Banzer takes over
* August_25 – Border clashes between Tanzania and Uganda
* August_25 – Large Flood in Bangladesh and eastern Bengal – thousands flee the area
* August_26 - Civilian government in Greece.
* August_30 - The Alberta_Progressive_Conservatives under Peter_Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry_E._Strom in a General_election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.
===September===
* September_3 - Qatar regains independence from the United_Kingdom
* September_3 - Manlio_Brosio resigns as secterary general of NATO
* September_4 - A Boeing_727 carrying Alaska_Airlines_Flight_1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau,_Alaska killing all 111 people on board
* September_8 - In Washington,_DC, the John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts is inaugurated with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard_Bernstein's ''Mass''
* September_9 - 13 - Attica_Prison_riots - Revolt at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, State_police and National Guard storm the facility - 42 dead, 10 of them hostages
* September_21 - Pakistan declares State_of_emergency
* September_24 - Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials and 15 are not allowed to return
* September_27 - October_11 - Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
* September_28 - Cardinal Mindszenty, who has resided in US embassy in Budapest from 1956 is allowed to move out of Hungary.
* September_29 - Cyclone and Tsunami in the Bay_of_Bengal in Orissa State in India kills 10,000.
===October===
* October_1 - Walt_Disney_World opens.
* October_20 - Dannii_Minogue born.
* October_21 - President_Nixon nominated Lewis_Franklin_Powell,_Jr. and William_H._Rehnquist to the U.S._Supreme_Court.
* October_21 - Gas explosion in Clarkston,_Glasgow kills 20 people.
* October_25 - The United_Nations_General_Assembly admits the People's_Republic_of_China and expels the Republic_of_China (on Taiwan).
* October_27 - Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo is renamed Zaire.
* October_28 - British_House_of_Commons votes in favour of joining the EEC by 356-244.
* October_28 - The United_Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to launch a satellite into orbit, the Prospero_X-3.
* October_29 - Vietnam_War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (lowest since January 1966)
* October_30 - Rev. Ian_Paisley's Democratic_Unionist_Party founded in Northern_Ireland.
* October_31 - A bomb explodes at the top of the Post_Office_Tower in London.
===November===
* November_3 - The ''UNIX Programmer's Manual'' is published
* November_6 - US nuclear bomb test in Aleuts.
* November_10 - In Cambodia, Khmer_Rouge forces attack the city Phnom_Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine Airplanes.
* November_12 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - US President Richard_M._Nixon sets February_1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
* November_13 - Mariner_program: Mariner_9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully
* November_15 - Intel releases world's first Microprocessor, the 4004.
* November_23 - The People's_Republic_of_China is given the Republic_of_China's seat on the United_Nations_Security_Council (see China_and_the_United_Nations)
* November_24 - During a severe Thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D.B._Cooper parachutes from the Northwest_Orient_Airlines plane he hijacked with US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again)
* November_24 - Brussels court sentences would-be-Pretender Alexis_Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece
===December===
* December_1 - Cambodian_Civil_War: Khmer_Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong_Thmar and nearby Ba_Ray, 10 kilometers northeast of Phnom_Penh
* December_2 - Six Sheikdoms in Persian_Gulf founds United_Arab_Emirates.
* December_3 - The Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971 begins as Pakistan attacks eight India airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
* December_3- 4 night - Indian navy destroyer ''INS Rajput'' sinks Pakistani Submarine ''PNS Ghazi'' (former ''USS Diablo'')
* December_8 - US President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
* December_14 - Facing defeat in the war, Pakistan_Army kills hundreds of Bangladeshi Intellectuals.
* December_16 - '''Victory Day of Bangladesh''' (Pakistan Army surrenders to the Mitro_Bahini, ending Bangladesh_Liberation_War and Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971 simultaneously).
* December_18 - US_dollar devalued for the second time in US history.
* December_18 - World's largest Hydroelectric_plant in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, begins operations.
* December_29 - The United_Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.
===unknown dates===
*''Don't Make A Wave Committee'' changes its name to Greenpeace.
*Ray_Tomlinson sends the first E-mail.
*Libertarian party established in USA.
*Free_State_of_Christiania is founded.
*Intelsat IV
*Seychelles_International_Airport in Victoria,_Seychelles (Mahe) is completed.
*Knapp_Commission
*Johnny_Cash, the American Country_and_western singer, writes a song titled ''The_Man_in_Black''.
*US 48 continental states crude oil production peaks at approximately 4.5 million barrels/day.
*Center_for_Science_in_the_Public_Interest established.
*National_Institute_on_Alcohol_Abuse_and_Alcoholism established.
==Births==
===January-April===
*January_2 - Lisa_Harrison, American basketball player
*January_7 - Chavo_Guerrero_Jr., American professional wrestler
*January_8 - Jason_Giambi, baseball player
*January_9 - Scott_Thornton, Canadian hockey player
*January_11 - Mary_J._Blige, American singer
*January_17 - Leonardo_Ciampa, American composer
*January_17 - Kid_Rock, American singer
*January_18 - Jon_Davis, American singer (Korn)
*January_19 - Shawn_Wayans, American actor, writer, and producer
*January_19 - John_Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy_Playground)
*January_21 - Alan_McManus, Scottish snooker player
*January_25 - Luca_Badoer, Italian race car driver
*January_27 - Fann_Wong, Chinese actress, model, and singer (Shanghai_Knights)
*February_1 - Jill_Kelly, American actress
*February_3 - Sarah_Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
*February_5 - Sara_Evans, American singer
*February_10 - Lisa_Marie_Varon, American professional wrestler
*February_17 - Denise_Richards, American actress
*February_25 - Sean_Astin, American actor
*February_26 - Erykah_Badu, American singer
*February_28 - Tristan_Louis, Internet entrepreneur
*March_5 - John_Frusciante, American musician (Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers)
*March_10 - Ugonna_Wachuku, Nigerian writer
*March_11 - Johnny_Knoxville, American television personality
*March_23 - Karen_McDougal, American model
*March_26 - Behzad_Ghorbani, Iranian scientist
*March_27 - David_Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
*March_31 - Pavel_Bure, Russian hockey player
*March_31 - Ewan_McGregor, Scottish actor
*April_1 - Method_Man, American rapper
*April_2 - Todd_Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
*April_12 - Shannon_Doherty, American actress
*April_16 - Selena_Quintanilla, American singer (d. 1995)
*April_20 - Carla_Geurts, Dutch swimmer
===May-August===
*May_8 - Candice_Night, American singer
*May_20 - Tony_Stewart, American race car driver
*May_25 - Sonya_Smith, American actress
*May_26 - Matt_Stone, American television producer
*May_27 - Paul_Bettany, British actor
*June_2 - Anthony_Montgomery, American actor
*June_5 - Mark_Wahlberg, American actor and singer
*June_8 - Troy_Vincent, American football player
*June_10 - Joel_Hailey, American singer (Jodeci)
*June_16 - Derek_R._Audette, Canadian musician, artist, and poet
*June_16 - Tupac_Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor (d. 1996)
*June_22 - Kurt_Warner, American football player
*June_27 - Dipendra_of_Nepal, King_of_Nepal (d. 2001)
*June_28 - Norika_Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television-personality
*July_1 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, American singer
*July_9 - Marc_Andreessen, American software developer
*July_12 - Kristi_Yamaguchi, American figure skater
*July_17 - Cory_Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
*July_23 - Dalvin_DeGrate, American singer and producer (Jodeci)
*July_22 - Kristine_Lilly, American soccer player
*August_4 - Jeff_Gordon, American race car driver
*August_6 - Merrin_Dungey, American actress
*August_10 - Roy_Keane, Irish footballer
*August_10 - Mario_César_Kindelán_Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
*August_12 - Pete_Sampras, American tennis player
*August_17 - Jorge_Posada, Puerto Rican Major_League_Baseball player
*August_18 - Richard_D_James, Irish musician
*August_26 - Thalía, Mexican actress
*August_28 - Janet_Evans, American swimmer
===September-December===
*September_1 - Hakan_Sükür, Turkish footballer
*September_2 - Tommy_Maddox, American football player
*September_8 - Brooke_Burke, American model
*September_13 - Stella_McCartney, British fashion designer
*September_18 - Lance_Armstrong, American cyclist
*September_11 - Richard_Ashcroft, British singer
*September_20 - Henrik_Larsson, Swedish footballer
*September_25 - John Lynch, American football player
*October_4 - Brian_Transeau, American disc jockey
*October_8 - Samuel_Vincent, Canadian voice actor
*October_13 - Sacha_Baron_Cohen, British comedian
*October_14 - Jorge_Costa, Portuguese footballer
*October_20 - Dannii_Minogue, Australian singer
*October_24 - Caprice_Bourret, American model and actress
*October_25 - Pedro Martínez, Dominican Major_League_Baseball player
*October_25 - Midori, Japanese violinist
*October_29 - Winona_Ryder, American actress
*November_12 - Tom_Shear, American musician and producer
*November_16 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
* November_20 - Dion_Nash, New_Zealand Cricket Captains
*November_24 - Keith_Primeau, Canadian hockey player
*November_25 - Christina_Applegate, American actress
*November_25 - Magnus_Arvedson, Swedish hockey player
*December_6 - Richard_Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
*December_17 - Antoine_Rigaudeau, French basketball player
*December_19 - Tyson_Beckford, American model
*December_19 - Tiffany_Towers, Canadian actress
*November_30 - Iván "Pudge" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican Major_League_Baseball player
*December_24 - Ricky_Martin, Puerto Rican singer
*December_25 - Dido, English singer
*December_26 - Jonathan_M._Parisen, American filmmaker
*December_28 - Frank_Sepe, American bodybuilder and model
*December_31 - Brent_Barry, American basketball player
===Unknown date===
*Siniša_Vuco, Croatian musician
==Deaths==
===January-April===
* January_5 - Douglas_Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (b. 1899)
* January_6 - Sonny_Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
* January_9 - Elmer_Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
* January_10 - Coco_Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
* January_19 - Harry_Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
* January_20 - Gilbert_M._'Broncho_Billy'_Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
*January_27 - Jacobo Arbenz, President_of_Guatemala (b. 1913)
* January_28 - Donald_Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
* February_25 - Theodor_Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
* February_26 - Fernandel, French comedian (b. 1903)
* March_6 - Thurston_Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
* March_8 - Harold_Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1893)
* March_11 - Philo_T._Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
* March_16 - Thomas_Dewey, Governor of New York and Presidential candidate (b. 1902)
* April_3 - Joseph_Valachi, gangster (b. 1904)
* April_6 - Igor_Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
* April_12 - Igor_Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
* April_19 - Earl_Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895)
* April_21 - Papa Doc Duvalier, President_of_Haiti (b. 1907)
===May-September===
* May_1 - Violet_Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
* May_11 - Sean_Lemass, President_of_Ireland (b. 1899)
* May_12 - Heinie_Manush, baseball player (b. 1901)
* May_15 - Sir Tyrone_Guthrie, English film director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
* May_19 - Ogden_Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
* May_28 - Audie_Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (b. 1924)
* May_30 - Marcel_Dupré, French composer (b. 1886)
* June_1 - Reinhold_Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
* June_10 - Michael_Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
*June_15 - Wendell_Meredith_Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
* June_18 - Paul_Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
*June_25 - John_Boyd_Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (b. 1880)
* June_30 - Crew of Soyuz 11:
**Georgi_Dobrovolski (b. 1928)
**Viktor_Patsayev (b. 1933)
**Vladislav_Volkov (b. 1935)
* July_1 - William_Lawrence_Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
* July_3 - Jim_Morrison, American singer, songwriter, and poet (b. 1943)
* July_4 - August_Derleth, American author and anthologist (b. 1909)
* July_6 - Louis_Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901)
* July_7 - Claude_Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
*July 7 - Ub_Iwerks, American animator (b. 1901)
* July_19 - John_Jacob_Astor,_1st_Baron_Astor_of_Hever, British businessman (b. 1886)
* July_25 - Leroy_Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
* July_30 - Kenneth_Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
* August_25 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
* August_27 - Bennett_Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
* September_11 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet leader (b. 1894)
* September_12 - Lin_Biao, Chinese defense minister (plane crash) (b. 1907)
*September_20 - Giorgos_Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
*September_21 - Bernardo_Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
===October-December===
*October_24 - Carl_Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
*October_29 - Arne_Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
*November_15 - Edie_Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
*December_9 - Ralph_Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (b. 1904)
==Nobel Prizes==
* Physics - Dennis_Gabor
* Chemistry - Gerhard_Herzberg
* Medicine - Earl_W._Sutherland,_Jr
* Literature - Pablo_Neruda
* Peace - Willy_Brandt
* Economics - Simon_Kuznets
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