1969

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**1969 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1969 MCMLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2722
Armenian calendar	1418 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԸ
Chinese calendar	4665 – 4666 戊申 – 己酉
Ethiopian calendar	1961 – 1962
Hebrew calendar	5729 – 5730
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2024 – 2025
- Shaka Samvat	1891 – 1892
- Kali Yuga	5070 – 5071
Iranian calendar	1347 – 1348
Islamic calendar	1389 – 1390

1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar).

For other uses, see Number 1969.

For the movie, see 1969 (movie).

For the Velvet Underground live album, see 1969: The Velvet Underground Live.

For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1)

Events

January

January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World.
January 5 - The Derry Riots leave over 100 people injured.
January 5 - The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus.
January 10 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post (a US Magazine) is published.
January 10 - The Soviet Union launches [Venera 6]] toward Venus.
January 12 - Super Bowl III: the New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts.
January 12 - Led Zeppelin releases their first album, Led Zeppelin.
January 14 - An explosion aboard a freighter near Hawaii kills 25.
January 15 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
January 16 - Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Januray 16 - Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; 3 days later he dies.
January 20 - Richard Nixon succeeds Lyndon Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
January 24 - Martial law is declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.
January 27 - Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
January 27 - Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.
January 27 - The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000 KVA, is completed and placed in operation.
January 30 - The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

February

February 4 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress, and takes command the next day.
February 5 - A huge oil slick off the coast of Santa Barbara, California closes the city's harbor.
February 7 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
February 8 - The last issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
February 13 - FLQ terrorists bomb the Stock Exchange in Montreal, Quebec.
February 24 - The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched.
February 24 - The U.S. Supreme Court (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District) rules that the First Amendment applies to public schools.

March

March 2 - In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
March 2 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
March 3 - In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
March 3 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart) to test the lunar module.
March 10 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. (he later retracts his guilty plea).
March 13 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
March 17 - The Longhope lifeboat in Scotland is lost; the entire crew of 8 die.
March 17 - Golda Meir becomes the prime minister of Israel.
March 18 - Operation Breakfast, the secret bombing campaign of Cambodia, begins.
March 19 - British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of Anguilla.
March 19 - A 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, UK, collapses because of icing.
March 25 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar.
March 28 - General and 34th U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C..

April

April 1 - The Hawker-Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.
April 4 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
April 9 - The Harvard University Administration Building is seized by close to 300 students, mostly members of the Students for a Democratic Society. Before the takeover ends, 45 will be injured and 184 arrested.
April 13 - Queensland: The Brisbane Tramways end service after 84 years of operation.
April 14 - At the Academy Awards ceremony for films released in 1968, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the 2 sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win 3 Best Actress Oscars. The film version of Oliver! wins Best Picture.
April 14 - The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down the aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
April 20 - British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
April 22 - Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.
April 28 - Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.

May

May 10 - Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
May 10 - The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War.
May 13 - May 13th Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
May 14 - Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
May 16 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
May 17 - Venera program: Soviet probe Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus' atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
May 17 - Tom McClean completes the first solo transatlantic crossing in a rowboat.
May 18 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young) is launched, on the first full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.
May 19-May 20 - French Foreign Legion paratroopers land onto Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in a middle of a civil war.
May 20 - National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California.
May 22 - Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the Moon's surface.
May 26 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
May 26-June 2: John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.
May 29 - Guided tours begin at the Kremlin and other government sites in Moscow.
May 30 - Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.

June

June 1 - In Montreal, Canada, Give Peace a Chance is recorded in a famous bed-in for peace by John Lennon. The song is the first single recorded solo by a Beatle, and released under the name Plastic Ono Band, it is still a strong anthem for peace.
June 2 - In Ottawa, Canada, the National Arts Centre opens its doors to the public for the first time.
June 2 - The Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne collides with the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea; 74 U.S. sailors are killed.
June 8 - After CBS cancels the program, the last Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour airs.
June 8 - U.S. President Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.
June 15 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS.
June 18-June 22 - The National Convention of the Students for a Democratic Society, held in Chicago, collapses, and the Weatherman faction seizes control of the SDS National Office. Thereafter, any activity run from the National Office or bearing the name of SDS is Weatherman-controlled.
June 20 - Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
June 21 - Soviet musicologist Pavel Apostolov dies during the general rehearsal of Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony.
June 23 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by retiring chief Earl Warren.
June 24 - The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic ties.
June 28 - The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.

July

The Apollo Moon landings

July 1 - Charles, Prince of Wales, is invested with his title at Caernarfon.
July 5 - Tom Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Development, is assassinated.
July 7 - French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
July 8 - Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
July 10 - The trimaran Teignmouth Electron of Donald Crowhurst is found drifting and unoccupied; Crowhurst might have committed suicide.
July 14 - The film Easy Rider premieres.
July 14 - Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadorean workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.
July 16 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.
July 18 - Ted Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign aide to his brother who was in the car with him, dies in the incident.
July 19 - Gloria Diaz wins the Miss Universe pageant, with the Philippines receiving its first title.
July 20 - Project Apollo: First man on the moon. The human race, represented by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the Moon.
July 24 - The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to preclude microscopic life.
July 25 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war.
July 30 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
July 31 - The halfpenny ceases to be legal tender in the UK.

August

August 4 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since both sides cannot agree to any terms.
August 5 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
August 8 - A fire breaks out in the Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.
August 9 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring at Tate and husband Roman Polanski's home in Los Angeles, California. Steven Parent, leaving from a visit to the Polanskis' caretaker, is also killed. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims, except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family entered the property.
August 10 - The Manson Family kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, wealthy businesspeople who live in another section of Los Angeles.
August 12 - Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes a speech to the United Nations, in which he asks them to deploy a peace-keeping mission in Northern Ireland.
August 13 - Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
August 14 - British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
August 15 - The Woodstock Festival begins in upstate New York, lasting 3 days and featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
August 17 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).
August 21 - An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, set the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
August 31 - Former Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano is killed in a plane crash.

September

September 1 - A coup in Libya ousts King Idris, and brings Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
September 2 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
September 5 - My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder, for the deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
September 7 - Monty Python's Flying Circus airs its first episode on the BBC.
September 9 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana USA.
September 22 - 25 An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem.
September 24 - The "Chicago Eight" trial begins in Chicago, Illinois.
September 26 - The Beatles release what will be their final album (Abbey Road) recorded together.
September 26 - The pilot episode of The Brady Bunch, starring Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, airs on United States TV.
September 28 - The Social Democrats and the Free Democrats receive a majority of votes in the German parliamentary elections, and decide to form a common government.

October

October 1 - In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.
October 1 - The Beijing Subway begins operation.
October 9 - Days of Rage: In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in, as demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen continue, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.
October 15 - Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
October 16 - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series, beating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
October 17 - Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCD at Bell Laboratories. Today, this technology is widely used in digital cameras.
October 21 - Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.
October 21 - Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup.
October 31 - Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

November

November - ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, is created.
November 3 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War effort, and to support his policies. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces the President's critics as 'an effete corps of impudent snobs' and 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.
November 9 - A group of Amerindians, led by Richard Oakes, seizes the Alcatraz island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform.
November 12 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
November 13 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death".
November 14 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second manned mission to the Moon.
November 15 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
November 15 - Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000 - 500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war.
November 15 - Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK.
November 17 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
November 19 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
November 19 - Soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
November 20 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
November 20 - Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for $24 (he leaves the island January 1970).
November 21 - U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
November 21 - The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global [[Internet])].
November 21 - The Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
November 24 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
November 25 - John Lennon returns his OBE to protest the British government's support of the U.S. war in Vietnam.

December

December 1 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II (on January 4, 1970, the New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random").
December 2 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
December 4 - Black Panther members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
December 12 - The Piazza Fontana bombing in Italy (Strage di Piazza Fontana) takes place. A U.S. Navy officer and C.I.A. agent called David Carrett is later investigated for possible involvement.

Undated events

Summer saw the invention of Unix
In the autumn, the first four nodes of the ARPAnet went up

Ongoing events

Vietnam War (1964 - 1975)
War of Attrition, between Egypt and Israel, which lasted until August 1970. This conflict was characterized by escalating artillery duels, air raids and commando missions

Birth Dates

January

January 2 - Dean Francis Alfar, Filipino author
January 2 - Christy Turlington, American fashion model
January 2 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
January 3 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
January 5 - Marilyn Manson, American singer
January 8 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)
January 13 - Stephen Hendry, British snooker player
January 14 - Jason Bateman, American actor
January 14 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Nirvana; later, Foo Fighters)
January 15 - Meret Becker, German actress and musician
January 16 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
January 16 - Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin, Scandinavian vocalist
January 17 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
January 18 - David "Batista" Bautista, American professional wrestler.
January 20 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American writer, hacker
January 27 - Cornelius, musician, singer and producer (Flipper's Guitar)

February

February 1 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
February 3 - Retief Goosen, South African golfer
February 5 - Bobby Brown, American singer
February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
February 12 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean footballer
February 13 - Ahlam, Arabic Diva
February 13 - Ronnie Johncox, former driver in the Indy Racing League
February 17 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
February 23 - Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
February 23 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist

March

March 1 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
March 1 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
March 11 - Soraya, Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2006)
March 11 - Terrence Howard, American actor
March 19 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
March 31 - Samantha Brown, American television host

April

April 3 - Lance Storm, Canadian Professional Wrestler
April 6 - Bret Boone, baseball player
April 10 - Billy Jayne, American actor
April 11 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
April 17 - Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian actor
April 19 - Susan Polgar, Hungarian chess player
April 25 - Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
April 25 - Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist
April 25 - Darren Woodson, American football player
April 25 - Renée Zellweger, American actress

May

May 2 - Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer
May 3 - Daryl F. Mallett, American author and actor
May 6 - Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
May 7 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish-born musician
May 9 - Amber, Dutch musician
May 10 - Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch soccer player
May 13 - Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host
May 14 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
May 15 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
May 16 - David Boreanaz, American actor
May 16 - Tracey Gold, American actress
May 16 - Steve Lewis, American athlete
May 18 - Martika, American singer
May 21 - Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)

June

June 4 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
June 4 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer
June 11 - Steven Drozd, American drummer (The Flaming Lips)
June 14 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player
June 14 - MC Ren, American rapper (N.W.A)
June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
June 15 - Ice Cube, American rapper and actor
June 17 - Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
June 18 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian guitarist and keyboardist (Turbonegro)
June 24 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
June 25 - Matt Gallant, American television host
June 25 - Zim Zum, American guitarist
June 29 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor

July

July 5 - John LeClair, American hockey player
July 10 - Gale Harold, American actor
July 14 - Buh-Buh Ray Dudley, American Professional Wrestler
July 18 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
July 20 - Josh Holloway, American actor
July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
July 26 - Tanni Grey-Thompson, British Paralympian
July 27 - Triple H (aka Hunter Hearst Helmsley), American professional wrestler

August

August 2 - Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
August 6 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
August 9 - Troy Percival, baseball player
August 13 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
August 18 - Edward Norton, American actor
August 18 - Christian Slater, American actor
August 19 - Matthew Perry, American actor
August 19 - Nate Dogg, American rapper
August 28 - Jack Black, American actor
August 29 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player

September

September 2 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
September 2 - Dave Naz, American Photographer
September 5 - Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician
September 9 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
September 13 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
September 17 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
September 23 - Mahir Çağrı, Internet celebrity
September 24 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
September 25 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
September 25 - Hal Sparks, American actor and comedian
September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
September 25 - Yves Amyot, Quebec actor
September 26 - Paul Warhurst, English football player

October

October 1 - Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
October 2 - Mitch English, American actor and television host
October 3 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)
October 8 - Julia Ann, American porn actress
October 10 - Brett Favre, American football player
October 13 - Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
October 14 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
October 17 - Ernie Els, South African golfer
October 19 - Trey Parker, American television producer
October 20 - Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
October 20 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player
October 21 - Angela Vincent, Australian actress
October 30 - Clay Enos, American photographer

November

November 4 - Sean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
November 4 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
November 7 - Michelle Clunie, American actress
November 7 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
November 7 - Bryant H. McGill, American poet
November 10 - Jens Lehmann, German football player
November 11 - Carson Kressley, American fashion expert
November 12 - Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
November 12 - Johnny Gosch, Child kidnap victim
November 13 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
November 17 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
November 17 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
November 18 - Sam Cassell, basketball player
November 20 - AQi Fzono, Japanese composer
November 21 - Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player
November 28 - Lexington Steele, African-American actor and film director
November 29 - Chris Baker, American race car driver
November 29 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
November 29 - Mariano Rivera, Panamanian Major League Baseball player

December

December 4 - Jay-Z, American rapper
December 15 - Rick Law, American illustrator and producer
December 17 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter.
December 18 - Irvin Duguid, Scottish keyboard player (Stiltskin)
December 19 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
December 19 - Richard Hammond, British TV presenter
December 21 - Julie Delpy, French actress
December 23 - Martha Byrne, American actress and singer
December 28 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
December 30 - Jay Kay, English singer (Jamiroquai)

Deaths

January

January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (b. 1908)
January 8 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
January 19 - Jan Palach, Czech student protester (suicide) (b. 1948)
January 25 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1893)
January 29 - Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1893)
January 30 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
January 31 - Meher Baba, Indian Spiritual master (b. 1894)

February

February 4 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
February 9 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
February 20 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
February 23 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
February 26 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)

March

March 4 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
March 11 - John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)
March 21 - Pinky Higgins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
March 25 - Billy Cotton, British Entertainer & Bandleader (b. 1899)
March 26 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
March 26 - B. Traven, German writer
March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)

April

April 4 - Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of the Martial Art Style Aikido (b. 1883)
April 5 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
April 7 - Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan president and writer
April 15 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)

May

May 2 - Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
May 4 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
May 14 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
May 19 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1904)
May 27 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)

June

June 21 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
June 22 - Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)

July

July 3 - Brian Jones, British musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
July 5 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
July 18 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American campaign aide to U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1940)
July 24 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
July 28 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)

August

August 9 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
August 9 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
August 9 - Abigail Folger, American socialite, Folgers Coffee heiress, and social worker (murdered) (b. 1943)
August 17 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
August 27 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
August 27 - Erika Mann, German writer (b. 1905)
August 31 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)

September

September 2 - Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)

October

October 4 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
October 12 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
October 21 - Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922)
October 21 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
October 30 - Pops Foster, American musician

November

November 12 - William F. Friedman, American cryptanalyst (b. 1891)
November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan
November 18 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888)

December

December 4 - Fred Hampton, Black Panther (shot by police) (b. 1948)
December 4 - Mark Clark, Black Panther (shot by police) (b. 1896)
December 5 - Princess Alice of Battenberg, wife of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1885)
December 12 - Magic Sam, American musician (b. 1937)
December 31 - George Lewis, American musician (b. 1900)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Murray Gell-Mann
Chemistry - Derek Harold Richard Barton, Odd Hassel
Medicine - Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria
Literature - Samuel Beckett
Peace - International Labour Organization
Economics - Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen

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Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated events

Ongoing events

Birth Dates

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel Prizes