1985

Clockwise from top-left: Royal Air Force C-130 airdropping food during the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; Reductions of up to 70 percent in the ozone column observed in the austral (southern hemispheric) spring over Antarctica and first reported in 1985; Lahars covering the town of Armero during the Armero tragedy; the Hospital Juárez de México which collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake; Air India Flight 182 seen less than two weeks before the bombing; the Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores; a memorial plaque dedicated to the victims of the Heysel Stadium disaster; the Live Aid concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the famine in Ethiopia during the time Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled the country.

This article is about the year 1985. For other uses, see 1985 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

1985 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1985 MCMLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2738
Armenian calendar	1434 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6735
Baháʼí calendar	141–142
Balinese saka calendar	1906–1907
Bengali calendar	1392
Berber calendar	2935
British Regnal year	33 Eliz. 2 – 34 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2529
Burmese calendar	1347
Byzantine calendar	7493–7494
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4681 or 4621     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4682 or 4622
Coptic calendar	1701–1702
Discordian calendar	3151
Ethiopian calendar	1977–1978
Hebrew calendar	5745–5746
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2041–2042
- Shaka Samvat	1906–1907
- Kali Yuga	5085–5086
Holocene calendar	11985
Igbo calendar	985–986
Iranian calendar	1363–1364
Islamic calendar	1405–1406
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 60 (昭和６０年)
Javanese calendar	1917–1918
Juche calendar	74
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4318
Minguo calendar	ROC 74 民國74年
Nanakshahi calendar	517
Thai solar calendar	2528
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 2111 or 1730 or 958     — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 2112 or 1731 or 959
Unix time	473385600 – 504921599

1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1985th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 985th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1980s decade.

The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.

Events

January

Main article: January 1985

• January 1
  • The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
  • Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights.
• January 7 – 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 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
• January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
• January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran.
• January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February

Main article: February 1985

• 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 by drug traffickers; his body is later discovered on March 5.
• February 14 – Lebanon hostage crisis: 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 the hospital.
  • Iberia Airlines Flight 610 crashes killing all 148 on board.
  • 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.
• February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
• February 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry in Northern Ireland. With nine officers dead, it is the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March

Main article: March 1985

• 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 M_w Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and approximately a million people homeless.
• March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people and injures 200 more.
• 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 – Lebanon hostage crisis: US journalist Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he remains a prisoner until December 4, 1991.
• March 17 – Expo '85, an international exhibition, opens in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, running 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 kilometres (25,000 mi), 26-month Man in Motion tour which raises US$26 million for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
• March 25
  • The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.
  • The Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache is officially dissolved.
• March 31 – The inaugural WrestleMania is held in Madison Square Garden, New York, and is main-“evented by Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs. Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper in a tag-team match.

April

Main article: April 1985

• 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, a cause 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.
• 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.
• 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

Main article: May 1985

• 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 being in 1945 and the next in 1965) is held on Red Square in Moscow in the Soviet Union. It features T-34-85 tanks, veterans of World War II 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.
  • Bradford City stadium fire: A fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during an Association football match, killing 56 people.
• May 15 – Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentine administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish Argentina's claim to the islands.
• May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce the discovery of the ozone hole.
• May 25 – Approximately 10,000 people are killed when Bangladesh is affected by the storm surge from Tropical Storm One (1B).
• May 26 – Young driver Danny Sullivan beats veteran Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500.
• May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus (0–1) at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
• May 31 – Forty-four tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, including a rare powerful F5. In total, the event killed 90 people.

June

Main article: June 1985

• 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 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 20 – 1985 Nepal bombings: A series of bomb blasts occurs in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.
• June 22 – British and Irish police foil a "mainland bombing campaign" sponsored by the Provisional Irish Republican Army which targets luxury vacation resorts.
• 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 27 – The iconic U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

July

Live Aid at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia

• July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.
• 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.
• July 19
  • New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe is selected as the first person to go into space under the Teacher in Space Project, and designated to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • The Val di Stava dam collapses in Italy, killing 268 people, destroying 63 buildings, and demolishing eight bridges.
• 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 27 – The 63 Building officially opens as the tallest skyscraper outside North America in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea.

August

• 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 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its takeoff roll at Manchester Airport in the UK and 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
• August 25 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes in the United States killing all 8 on board including thirteen-year-old American celebrity schoolgirl Samantha Smith.

September

• September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic 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 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31 on board.
• September 13 – Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
• September 19 – An 8.0 M_w earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing between 5,000 and 45,000 people and injuring 30,000 more.
• September 20 – The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.
• September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.

The Pont Neuf Wrapped (1985)

• September 22 – Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, for two weeks (22 Sep - 5 Oct 1985). The Pont Neuf Wrapped attracted three million visitors.

• September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by the Camorra.

October

• October 1 – Operation Wooden Leg: The Israeli air force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters near Tunis.
• October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
• 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 16 – The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of Åland, leading to the drowning of four people.
• October 25 – Emirates Airlines is established in Dubai and makes its first flight, to Karachi.

November

• November 6
  • Palace of Justice siege: Members of the 19th of April Movement (M-19) Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice of Colombia in Bogotá and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.
  • The Argentine tourist village of Villa Epecuén is permanently flooded through the collapse of a dam and dyke.
• 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.
• 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 international release of 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 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 (Spanish: 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 in the US.
• 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, after overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula.
• December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.
• 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 brutally murdered in Rwanda.

Date unknown

• 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 US.
• DNA is first used in a criminal case.
• The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa (We Are the World) and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.
• The Union for Aromanian Language and Culture, an Aromanian cultural organization, is founded in Freiburg im Breisgau by the Aromanian professor Vasile Barba.
• Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.

World population

World population
	1985	1980		1990
World	4,830,979,000	4,434,682,000	396,297,000	5,263,593,000	432,614,000
Africa	541,814,000	469,618,000	72,196,000	622,443,000	80,629,000
Asia	2,887,552,000	2,632,335,000	255,217,000	3,167,807,000	280,255,000
Europe	706,009,000	692,431,000	13,578,000	721,582,000	15,573,000
South America	401,469,000	361,401,000	40,068,000	441,525,000	40,056,000
North America	269,456,000	256,068,000	13,388,000	283,549,000	14,093,000
Oceania	24,678,000	22,828,000	1,850,000	26,687,000	2,009,000

Births

Further information: Category: 1985 births

January

Sir Lewis Hamilton

Sidharth Malhotra

Simone Simons

Damien Chazelle

Doutzen Kroes

Michael Trevino

• January 1
  • Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
  • Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
  • Donia Samir Ghanem, Egyptian actress and singer
• January 2
  • Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
  • Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
  • Carla Juri, Swiss actress
  • Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player
• January 3 – Asa Akira, American adult actress
• January 7 – Lewis Hamilton, British 7-Time Formula One world champion
• January 8 – Oh Ha-na, South Korean fencer
• January 9 – Juanfran, Spanish footballer
• January 11 – Aja Naomi King, American actress
• January 12 – Xiao Qin, Chinese gymnast
• January 14 – Delfine Persoon, Belgian boxer
• January 16
  • Şahika Ercümen, Turkish dietitian and world record holder free-diver
  • Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
  • Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine football player and coach
• January 17
  • Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior)
  • Simone Simons, Dutch metal singer (Epica)
• January 18
  • Minissha Lamba, Indian actress
  • Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
• January 19
  • Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter
  • Benny Feilhaber, Brazilian-born footballer
  • Horia Tecău, Romanian tennis player
  • Duško Tošić, Serbian footballer
• January 20 – Ehsan Haddadi, Iranian discus thrower
• January 21 – Aura Dione, Danish pop musician
• January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
• January 25
  • Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
  • Christina Ochoa, Spanish actress science communicator, producer and author
• January 27 – Eric Radford, Canadian pair skater
• January 28
  • J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer
  • Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
• January 29
  • Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
  • Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
  • Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
• January 30
  • Gisela Dulko, Argentine tennis player
  • Ximena Duque, Colombian actress and model
  • Kevin Kiley, American politician
• January 31 – Kalomira, Greek-American singer and model

February

Cristiano Ronaldo

Deborah Ann Woll

David Gallagher

Haylie Duff

Julia Volkova

• February 5 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
• February 6
  • Joji Kato, Japanese speed skater
  • Sofia Nizharadze, Georgian singer
  • Crystal Reed, American actress
• February 7
  • Donald Moatshe, South African musician
  • Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
• February 9
  • David Gallagher, American actor
  • Marcin Możdżonek, Polish volleyball paleyrr
• February 10 – Lydia Valentín, Spanish weightlifter
• February 11 – Casey Dellacqua, Australian tennis player
• February 14
  • Havana Brown, Australian Australian DJ and singer
  • Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
• February 15
  • Luis Carlos Díaz, Venezuelan journalist
  • Natalie Morales, American actress
• February 17 – Anne Curtis, Filipino-Australian actress, model and television host
• February 19
  • Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
  • Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
• February 21 – Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
• February 22 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
• February 24 – William Kvist, Danish footballer
• February 25
  • Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby league player
  • Joakim Noah, American basketball player
• February 26
  • Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer
  • Sanya Richards-Ross, Jamaican born-American track and field athlete
• February 28
  • Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer
  • Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
  • Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player

March

Emile Hirsch

Kellan Lutz

Sonequa Martin-Green

Keira Knightley

Jessica Szohr

• March 2 – Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner
• March 9 – Brent Burns, Canadian Ice Hockey player
• March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
• March 11
  • Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • Hakuhō Shō, Mongolian wrestler, 69th Yokozuna
• March 12 – Stromae, Belgian musician
• March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
• March 15
  • Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
  • Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor
• March 18 – Bianca King, Filipina actress and model
• March 21 – Sonequa Martin-Green, American actress
• March 22 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
• March 23 – Bethanie Mattek-Sands, American tennis player
• March 24 – Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
• March 26
  • Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer
  • Stéphane Séjourné, French lawyer and politician
  • Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer and dancer
  • Keira Knightley, English actress
• March 27 – Ram Charan, Indian film actor
• March 28 – Stan Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
• March 31 – Jessica Szohr, American actress

April

Jari-Matti Latvala

Elena Temnikova

Gal Gadot

• April 2 – Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
• April 3
  • Leona Lewis, British pop musician
  • Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish racing driver
• April 4
  • Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player
  • Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
• April 6 – Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
• April 7 – Saad Lamjarred, Moroccan singer
• April 8 – Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian marathon runner
• April 9 – Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
• April 10 – Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
• April 12
  • Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
  • Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician
  • Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actress
• April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model
• April 16 – 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
  • Valon Behrami, Kosovan born-Swiss footballer
  • Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player
• April 22
  • Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
  • Kseniya Simonova, Ukrainian performance artist
• April 25 – Andrea Coda, Italian footballer
• April 26
  • Nam Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress
  • John Isner, American tennis player
• April 27 – Horacio Zeballos, Argentine tennis player
• April 30
  • Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model
  • Michael Mørkøv, Danish track cyclist

May

Lily Allen

Kyle Busch

Mark Cavendish

Roman Reigns

Carey Mulligan

• May 2
  • Lily Allen, British pop musician
  • Kyle Busch, American race car driver
  • Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (d. 2011)
  • Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
  • Shpat Kasapi, Albanian-Macedonian singer and songwriter
• May 3
  • Anielle Franco, Brazilian politician
  • Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentine footballer
• May 4 – Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer
• May 5 – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player
• May 6 – Chris Paul, American basketball player
• May 7 – J Balvin, Colombian reggaeton singer, in Medellín
• May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast
• May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
• May 13
  • Javier Balboa, Spanish born-Equatorial Guinean footballer
  • Jaroslav Halák, Slovak Ice Hockey player
• May 14
  • Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist
  • Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
  • Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
• May 15
  • Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver
  • Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
• May 16 – Andrew Keenan-Bolger, American actor, writer and director
• May 17
  • Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer and musician, six-time winner of Dancing with the Stars
  • Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
• May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
• May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist
• May 21
  • Mutya Buena, British urban singer (Sugababes)
  • Mark Cavendish, Manx-born road racing cyclist
  • Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d.2012)
  • Lucie Hradecká, Czech tennis player
  • Kano, British rapper, songwriter and actor
  • Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
• May 22
  • Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
  • Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model
• May 25
  • Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress
  • Lauren Frost, American actress and singer
  • Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler
  • Alexis Texas, American adult actress
• May 27
  • Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
  • Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
• May 28
  • Colbie Caillat, American musician
  • Carey Mulligan, British actress
• May 29
  • Hernanes, Brazilian footballer
  • Yu Jing, Chinese speed skater
• May 31 – Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress

June

Bar Refaeli

Dave Franco

Lana Del Rey

Arjun Kapoor

Michael Phelps

Cody Rhodes

• June 1 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete
• June 4
  • Dominique Gisin, Swiss alpine skier
  • Anna-Lena Grönefeld, American tennis player
  • Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
  • Lukas Podolski, German footballer
  • Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress
• June 5 – Rubén de la Red, Spanish footballer
• June 7 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
• June 8 – Sofya Velikaya, Russian fencer
• June 9 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model
• June 10 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourgish road cyclist
• June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer
• June 12 – Dave Franco, American actor, voice actor, and filmmaker
• June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer
• June 17
  • Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
  • Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
• June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor
• June 20 – Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
• June 21 – Lana Del Rey, American pop musician
• June 24 – Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player
• June 25
  • Annaleigh Ashford, American actress, singer and dancer
  • Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
• June 26
  • Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
  • Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
• June 27
  • James Hook, Welsh rugby union player
  • Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
  • Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion
• June 28 – Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan footballer
• June 30
  • Michael Phelps, American swimmer
  • Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler

July

Léa Seydoux

Ashley Tisdale

Vlatko Ilievski

Mario Gómez

Guillermo Ochoa

Rosa Salazar

Chace Crawford

James Lafferty

• July 1
  • Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player
  • Léa Seydoux, French actress
• July 2
  • Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis
  • Pak Nam-chol, North Korean footballer
  • Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer and producer
  • Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor (d. 2018)
• July 5 – François Arnaud, French-Canadian actor
• July 6
  • Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
  • Melisa Sözen, Turkish actress
• July 7
  • Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player
  • Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire
  • Seo Woo, Korean actress
• July 9
  • Cris Cyborg, Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
  • Ashley Young, English footballer
• July 10
  • Mario Gómez, German footballer
  • Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
• July 11 – Lilian Marijnissen, Dutch politician
• July 12
  • Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
  • Natasha Poly, Russian model
  • Sami Zayn, Canadian professional wrestler
• 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
  • Tomer Kapon, Israeli actor
  • Agniya Kuznetsova, Russian actress
• July 16
  • Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress
  • Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
  • Rosa Salazar, American actress
• July 17
  • Tom Fletcher, British musician
  • Caitlin Van Zandt, American actress
• July 18
  • 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
  • Filip Polášek, Slovak tennis player
• July 22
  • Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
  • Ryan Dolan, Irish singer
  • Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
  • Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
• July 25
  • James Lafferty, American actor
  • Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
  • Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver
• July 27 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
• July 30 – Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer
• July 31
  • Allie X, Canadian singer, songwriter and visual artist
  • Eva Yaneva, Bulgarian volleyball player

August

Anna Kendrick

Filipe Luís

Laura Haddock

Éva Risztov

Mohammed bin Salman

• August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr., Canadian professional wrestler
• August 3
  • Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league and rugby union player and boxer
  • Georgina Haig, Australian actress
• August 4
  • Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter
  • Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorian footballer
• August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
• August 6 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• August 8
  • Toby Flood, English rugby union player
  • Anita Włodarczyk, Polish hammer thrower
• August 9
  • Anna Kendrick, American actress
  • Filipe Luís, Brazilian footballer
• August 11
  • Asher Roth, American rapper
  • Jacqueline Fernandez, Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress
• August 12
  • Osmany Juantorena, Cuban born-Italian volleyball player
  • África Zavala, Mexican actress
• August 13 – Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (d.2011)
• August 14 – Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
• August 15
  • Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, and songwriter
  • Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (d. 2019)
• August 16
  • Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
  • Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer
• August 17 – Evgeny Konobry, Russian professional ice hockey player
• August 21 – Laura Haddock, English actress
• August 24 – Hamid Sourian, Iranian wrestler
• August 25 – Rada Manojlović, Serbian singer
• August 27 – Kayla Ewell, American actress
• August 30
  • Tianna Bartoletta, American long jumper
  • Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
  • Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer
  • Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
• August 31
  • Marina Alabau, Spanish windsurfer
  • Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

September

Lior Eliyahu

Luka Modrić

Alexander Ovechkin

Tatiana Maslany

Hasan Minhaj

Calvin Johnson

T-Pain

• September 4
  • Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
  • Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer
• September 7
  • Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre actress
  • Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
  • Rafinha, Brazilian football player
• September 8
  • Vanessa Baden, American actress, writer, director, and producer
  • Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
• September 9
  • Lior Eliyahu, Israeli basketball player
  • Amy Manson, British actress
  • Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
  • Liliyana Natsir, Indonesian badminton player
  • J. R. Smith, American basketball player
• September 12 – Headhunterz, Dutch DJ and music producer
• September 14
  • Vanessa Fernandes, Portuguese triathlete
  • Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
• September 15 – Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model
• September 16
  • Madeline Zima, American actress
  • Max Minghella, English actor
• September 17
  • Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
  • Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
• September 18 – Stoyka Krasteva, Bulgarian boxer
• September 19 – Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby union player
• September 20 – Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice season 5
• September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
• September 23 – Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
• September 24 – Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
• September 26 – 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
  • Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer
  • Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
• September 30
  • Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
  • T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor

October

Bruno Mars

Michelle Trachtenberg

Wayne Rooney

Ciara

Troian Bellisario

• October 5 – Nicola Roberts, British singer
• October 6 – Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
• October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player
• October 8 – Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer
• October 9 – Sam Oji, English footballer (d. 2021)
• October 10
  • Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter
  • Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor
• October 11
  • Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist (d. 2018)
  • Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter
  • Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• October 12 – Michelle Carter, American shot putter
• October 14 – Sherlyn, Mexican actress
• October 16
  • Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
  • Belén Succi, Argentine field hockey player
• October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
• October 22 – Hadise, Belgian born-Turkish singer
• October 23
  • Chris Neal, English footballer
  • Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
• October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
• October 25 – Ciara, African-American singer
• October 26 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player
• October 27
  • Leon Draisaitl, German Ice Hockey player
  • Briana Lane, American actress and musician
• October 28 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
• October 29
  • Janet Montgomery, English actress
  • Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer and actress
• October 31 – Kerron Clement, American hurdler and sprinter

November

Sanna Marin

Allyson Felix

Carly Rae Jepsen

Kaley Cuoco

Chrissy Teigen

• November 2 – Diana Penty, Indian model and actress
• November 4 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
• November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
• November 10 – Wu Minxia, Chinese diver
• November 11
  • Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
  • Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
• November 13
  • Rahul Kohli, English actor
  • Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
  • Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
• November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
• November 15 – Lily Aldridge, American model
• November 16 – Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, 46th Prime Minister of Finland
• November 18 – Allyson Felix, American sprinter
• November 20
  • Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
  • Dan Byrd, American actor
• November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
• November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player
• November 23
  • Katie Crown, Canadian voice actress and writer
  • Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
• November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier
• November 26 – Matt Carpenter, American baseball player
• November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
• November 28 – Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer
• November 30
  • Gia Crovatin, American actress and producer
  • Kaley Cuoco, American actress and producer
  • Chrissy Teigen, American model

December

Amaury Leveaux

Amanda Seyfried

Frankie Muniz

Dulce María

Raven-Symoné

• December 1
  • Nathalie Moellhausen, Italian fencer
  • Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician
  • Alicja Rosolska, Polish tennis player
• December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
• December 3
  • László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
  • Amanda Seyfried, American actress, model and singer-songwriter
• December 4 – Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
• December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and race car 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, singer, songwriter, executive producer, and director
• December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer
• December 15 – Laia Sanz, Spanish motorcycle driver
• December 16 – Amanda Setton, American actress
• December 19
  • Gary Cahill, English footballer
  • Tadanari Lee, Japanese footballer
• December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter
• December 23 – Harry Judd, English drummer
• December 24 – Christina Schwanitz, German shot putter
• December 26
  • Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
  • Beth Behrs, American actress
• December 27
  • Jérôme d'Ambrosio, Belgian racing driver
  • Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress
  • Telma Monteiro, Portuguese judoka
  • Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
• December 31 – Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarusian swimmer

Deaths

January

Mikhail Gromov

• 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 11 – Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
• 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 22 – Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator (b. 1899)
• January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)

February

Clarence Nash

Efrem Zimbalist

• 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 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)
  • J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)

March

Sir Michael Redgrave

Marc Chagall

Gerhard Stock

• 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 actor (b. 1914)
• March 10
  • Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party 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 French painter (b. 1887)
• March 29
  • The Singing Nun (Jeannine Deckers), 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)
  • Richard McKeon, American philosopher (b. 1900)

April

Enver Hoxha

Tancredo Neves

• 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 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 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908)

May

Tahar Ben Ammar

Margaret Hamilton

Penn Nouth

• 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
  • Karl Marx, German composer and music teacher (b. 1897)
  • 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 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
• May 14 – Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
• May 15 – Rama Devi, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889)
• May 16 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
• May 18 – Penn Nouth, Cambodian politician, 7-time Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1906)
• May 19 – Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1928)
• May 22
  • Charles Murphy, American architect. (b. 1890)
  • Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer (b. 1909)

June

Percy Fender

Tage Erlander

Haruo Remeliik

• 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)
• 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 – Helmuth Plessner, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1892)
• June 15
  • Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)
  • Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1927)
• June 17
  • George Jackson, English footballer (b. 1893)
  • John Boulting, English filmmaker (b. 1913)
  • Kirill Moskalenko, Soviet military commander (b. 1902)
• 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

Jan de Quay

Simon Kuznets

Heinrich Böll

• July 1 – Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and priest (b. 1910)
• July 3 – Erik Ågren, Swedish boxer (b. 1916)
• 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

Forbes Burnham

Samantha Smith

Macfarlane Burnet

• 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 9 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927)
• August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
• August 11 – Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director (b. 1904)
• August 12
  • Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
  • Manfred Winkelhock, German racing 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 20 – Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuropsychologist (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)
  • Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan writer (b. 1908)
• August 29
  • Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)
  • Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)
  • Paul Kligman, Canadian actor (b. 1923)
• 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

Rodney Robert Porter

Paul Flory

Italo Calvino

• September 1
  • Stefan Bellof, German racing driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957).
  • Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and founder of the Welsh National Party (Plaid Cymru) (born 1893)
• September 4
  • Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891)
  • George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
• September 6 – 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 13 – Augusto Rademaker, Brazilian admiral and former military junta member (b. 1905)
• 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

Rock Hudson

Yul Brynner

Orson Welles

• October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
• October 2
  • Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
  • George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• October 5 – Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906)
• October 6 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
• October 9 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and statesman, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• October 10
  • Yul Brynner, Russian actor (b. 1920)
  • Orson Welles, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• October 12 – Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)
• October 13 – Francesca Bertini, Italian actress (b. 1892)
• October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)
• October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917)
• October 21 – 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 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)

November

Lon Nol

Juan Arvizu

• November 1
  • Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
  • Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)
• 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 6 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1937)
• 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)
  • Arthur Rothstein, American photographer (b. 1915)
• November 13
  • William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
  • George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
• November 14 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (b. 1888)
• November 16 – 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)
• November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

December

Anne Baxter

Harold Whitlock

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam

Ricky Nelson

• December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist (b. 1922)
• December 7
  • Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)
  • Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
• December 12
  • Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)
  • Phil Karlson, American film director (b. 1908)
• December 14 – 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 – Paul Castellano, American Mafia boss (b. 1915)
• December 20 – Coral Buttsworth, Australian tennis champion (b. 1900)
• December 22 – D. Boon, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
• December 23
  • Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist, 1st president of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (b. 1899)
  • Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914)
• December 24 – 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 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