Events of 1982

January

• January 1 – ITV companies Central Independent Television, Television South and Television South West start broadcasting, replacing ATV, Southern Television and Westward Television respectively.

• January 6 – William Bonin is convicted of being the Freeway Killer.

• January 8 – AT&T agrees to divest itself into 22 subdivisions.

• January 10 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895 (the record is equalled again at Altnaharra in 1995).

• January 11 – Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar Rally. He is rescued January 14.

• January 11–17 – A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.

• January 13 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78. On the same day, a Washington Metro train derails to the north, killing 3 (the system's first fatal accident).

• January 17 – Cold Sunday sweeps over the northern United States.

• January 26 – Mauno Koivisto is elected President of Finland.

• January 26 – Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record.

• January 27 – The Garret FitzGerald government of the Republic of Ireland is defeated 82–81 on its budget; Fitzgerald announces his resignation.

• January 28 – United States Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by the Italian anti-terrorism Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza (NOCS) force after being held captive for 42 days by the Red Brigades.

February

• February 1 – Senegal and Gambia form a loose Senegambia Confederation.

• February 2 – The Hama massacre begins in Syria.

• February 3 – Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.

• February 5 – London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.

• February 9 – Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on approach to Tokyo International Airport, killing 24 among the 174 people on board.

• February 15 – The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.

• February 18 – The Republic of Ireland general election gives a boost to Fianna Fáil.

• February 19 – The DeLorean Car Factory in Belfast is put into receivership.

• February 24 – Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 77th goal of the National Hockey League season, breaking the previous record of 76. He scores 92 goals that season, which remains the record.

• February 24 – In South Africa, 22 National Party MPs led by Andries Treurnicht vote for no confidence in P. W. Botha.

• February 25 – The European Court of Human Rights rules that teachers who cane, belt or tase children against the wishes of their parents are in breach of the Human Rights Convention.

• February 27 – Atlanta murders of 1979-1981: Wayne Williams is convicted of the murdering two children and is sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

March

• March 3 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the Barbican Centre in London.

• March 9 – Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.

• March 10 – The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support for terrorist groups.

• March 10 – Syzygy: All eight planets align on the same side of the Sun (see also Jupiter effect).

• March 16 – In Newport, Rhode Island, Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife.

• March 18 – An Argentine scrap metal dealer raises the Argentine flag in South Georgia.

• March 18 – Mary Whitehouse's private prosecution of The Romans in Britain collapses.

• March 19 – The Falklands War approaches: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.

• March 25 – Roy Jenkins wins the Glasgow Hillhead by-election for the Social Democratic Party.

• March 26 – A ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.

• March 29 – Royal Assent given to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution on April 17.

• March 29 – The 54th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Chariots of Fire wins Best Picture and three other Academy Awards.

April

• April 2 – The Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

• April 4 – Falklands War: The British Falkland Islands government surrenders, placing the islands in Argentine control.

• April 5 – Falklands War: The Royal Navy task force sails to recapture the Falklands.

• April 6 – A blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1–2 feet of snow on the northeastern United States, closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.

• April 12 – Falklands War: A 200-mile 'total exclusion zone' around the Falklands proclaimed by the United Kingdom comes into effect.

• April 17 – By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, gaining full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.

• April 23 – Dennis Wardlow, mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent "Conch Republic" for a day.

• April 24 – German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 for Germany, with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.

• April 25 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.

May

The ARA General Belgrano sinks following attack by Royal Navy submarine HMS Conqueror.

• May 1 – Falklands War: A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Stanley Airport.

• May 1 – A crowd of over 100,000 attends the first day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. The fair is kicked off with an address by President Ronald Reagan. Over 11 million people attend the fair during its 6-month run.

• May 2 – Falklands War: The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.

• May 2 – The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.

• May 4 – Falklands War: HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile, and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The ship sinks on May 10.

• May 5 – A Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science department at
  Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.

• May 8 – French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.

• May 12 – Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at Fatima .

• May 12 – Braniff International Airways is declared bankrupt and ceases all flights.

• May 21 – Falklands War: Royal Marines and paratroopers from the British Task Force land at San Carlos Bay on the Falkland Islands and raise the Union Flag.

• May 22 – Falklands War: HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.

• May 23 – Falklands War: HMS Antelope of the Royal Navy explodes; two are killed.

• May 24 – Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.

• May 24 – KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

• May 25 – Falklands War: The merchant navy ship Atlantic Conveyor is sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile, killing 12 and depriving British forces of the helicopters intended to be used in the later stages of the conflict.

• May 26 – Aston Villa wins the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 after a 69-minute goal by Peter Withe in Rotterdam.

• May 26 – Kielder Water, an artificial lake in Northumberland, is opened.

• May 27 – Tottenham Hotspur F.C. wins the FA Cup, beating QPR 1–0 in a replay.

• May 27 – Conservative candidate Tim Smith holds the seat of Beaconsfield in a by-election. The Labour Party candidate is future Prime Minister Tony Blair.

• May 28 – British troops reach Darwin, Falkland Islands.

• May 29 – Falklands War – Battle of Goose Green: British paratroopers defeat a larger force of Argentine troops in the first land battle of the war.

• May 30 – Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the 1st nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

• May 30 – Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

• May 30 – Hussain Muhammad Ershad Seizes power in Bangladesh.

• May 30 – Cal Ripken, Jr. starts the first game of what eventually becomes his record-breaking consecutive games played streak of 2,632.

• May 31 – Falklands War: The Battle of Stanley is fought.

June

• June 6 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

• June 6 – The United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon.

• June 8 – President Ronald Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

• June 8 – Falklands War: British landing ship logistic RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed, killing 48.

• June 8 – VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into forest Fortaleza, killing 137.

• June 12 – A rally against nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt attend. An international convocation at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine features prominent peace activists from around the world and afterward participants march on Fifth Avenue to Central Park for the rally.

• June 13 – In Alberta, Canada, 15 members of the Black Leopards Karate Club demolish a house with bare hands and feet, with the owner's consent.

• June 13 – The 1982 FIFA World Cup begins in Spain.

• June 13 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

• June 14 – The Falklands War ends: A formal surrender is agreed this day.

• June 18 – Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.

• June 19 – The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

• June 21 – Prince William is born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London.

• June 24 – British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary 4-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung.

• June 25 – The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City to research and advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino community issues. In 2006, it changes it name to the National Institute for Latino Policy.

• June 30 – The Equal Rights Amendment falls short of the 38 states needed to pass; Phyllis Schlafly and other leaders of the Christian right take credit for its defeat.

July

• July 2 – Larry Walters, a.k.a. Lawn Chair Larry, flies 16,000 feet above Long Beach, California in a lawn chair with weather balloons attached.

• July 2 – Roy Jenkins is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Party.

• July 3 – ASLEF train drivers in the United Kingdom go on strike over hours of work; they return to work on July 18.

• July 4 – Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

• July 6 – A lunar eclipse (umbral duration 236 min and total duration 106 min, the longest of the 20th century) occurs.

• July 9 – Pan Am Flight 759 (Boeing 727) crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.

• July 9 – Intruder Michael Fagan visits Queen Elizabeth II in her bedroom for a chat.

• July 11 – Italy beats West Germany 3–1 to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.

• July 12 – Checker Motors Corporation ceases production of automobiles.

• July 15 – Geoffrey Prime, a GCHQ civil servant, is remanded in custody on charges under the Official Secrets Act 1911.

• July 16 – In New York City, The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

• July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail (the Queen's bodyguard) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.

• July 20 – The Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.

• July 21 – HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.

• July 23 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985–1986.

• July 23 – A coroner's jury returns a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.

• July 23 – Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan destroy bridges and kill 299.

• July 31 – In Beaune, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident (France's worst).

August

• August 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.

• August 7 – Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns.

• August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.

• August 13 – In Hong Kong, health warnings on cigarette packets are made statutory.

• August 17 – The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.

• August 20 – Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, U.S. Marines August 25.

September

• September 3 – Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a Mafia ambush.

• September 5 – Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch is kidnapped.

• September 14 – Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.

• September 18 – The Lebanese Christian Militia (the Phalange) kill thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps with the overlooking of Israeli troops in West Beirut. The massacre is in retaliation for the assassination of pro-Israel president-elect, Bachir Gemayel, as well as several Palestinian massacres against Lebanese Christians.

• September 19 – The first emoticons are posted by Scott Fahlman.

• September 21 – The first International Day of Peace (United Nations) ever

• September 23 – Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.

• September 25 – In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

• September 26 – Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to during a jump; he almost blacks out due to lack of oxygen. He releases his main parachute to fall to lower altitude and lands by his reserve parachute.

• September 29 – October 1 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders occur when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.

October

• October 1 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

• October 1 – In Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney World opens the second largest theme park, EPCOT Center, to the public for the first time.

• October 1 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

• October 8 – Poland bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981.

• October 11 – The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised.

• October 12 – The Double Stuff Oreo is first sold.

• October 13 – The Ford Sierra is launched in Europe, replacing the Ford Cortina

• October 15 – The Garn – St Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulates the U.S. savings and loan industry.

• October 19 – John De Lorean is arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents (he is later found not guilty due to entrapment).

• October 20 – Luzhniki disaster: During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, at least 63 and probably many more people are crushed to death.

• October 20 – World Series: The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 6–3 in game 7.

• October 27 – In Canada, Dominion Day is officially renamed Canada Day.

• October 28 – The Socialist Party wins the election in Spain; Felipe González is elected Prime Minister.

November

• November 1 – The Welsh language station, S4C, launches in Wales.

• November 2 – Channel 4, the fourth terrestrial television channel, is launched in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the first program broadcast being the game show Countdown, which is still in production.

• November 2 – United States general elections, 1982.

• November 3 – A gasoline or petrol tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 2,000 people.

• November 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain is the biggest ever up to this point.

• November 6 – Camerun president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya.

• November 7 – The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.

• November 12 – In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.

• November 13 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

• November 14 – The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.

• November 20 – University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes 5 laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.

• November 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime minister of Japan.

• November 28 – Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.

• November 30 – Michael Jackson releases "Thriller", the biggest selling album of all time.

December

• December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.

• December 2 – At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lives for 112 days with the device).

• December 3 – A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri. It is found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

• December 4 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.

• December 7 – The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.

• December 8 – The December murders occur in Suriname.

• December 12 – Women's peace protest at Greenham Common: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.

• December 13 – An earthquake (Richter Scale 6.0 magnitude) in Dhamar, northern Yemen, kills at least 1,507.

• December 23 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency recommends the evacuation of Times Beach, Missouri due to dangerous levels of dioxin contamination.

• December 26 – Time Magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.

Undated

• A brief but severe recession begins in the United States.

• Seattle is officially dubbed the Emerald City after a contest is held to choose a new city slogan.

• George Stigler is awarded The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

• The car brand Toyota Camry is introduced.

• Dorling Kindersley, formerly a book packager, begins publishing.

• The Commodore 64 PC is released (over 20 million will be sold by 1994).

• A global surplus of crude oil causes gasoline prices to collapse.

• In a Gallup Poll, 51% of Americans do not accept homosexuality as normal.

• The first China Central Television New Years Gala program starts. This program is watched by 1.1 billion Chinese every year.

• Number of students graduating university in Cameroon – 10,000.

Ongoing

• Cold War.

Fictional

Film

• In the movie Napoleon Dynamite, the character Uncle Rico wishes he could go back to 1982.

• The events in the film The Thing takes place during this year.

• The PC game Interstate 82 is set during this year.

• The video game sequel The Thing also takes place during this year.

Literature

• U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men

Music

• "Down in space, its always 1982." – "Slip Away" David Bowie

Births

January–March

• January 1 – Kevin Dudley, American football player

• January 1 – David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player

• January 4 – Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress

• January 4 – Richard Logan, English footballer

• January 5 – Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier

• January 5 – Vadims Vasilevskis, Latvian javelin thrower

• January 6 – Eddie Redmayne, English Actor

• January 6 – Morgan Lander, Canadian musician (Kittie)

• January 6 – Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player

• January 6 – Tiffany Pollard, Reality Star

• January 7 – Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player

• January 7 – Camilo Villegas, Colombian golfer

• January 11 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor

• January 12 – Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player

• January 13 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player

• January 13 – Ruth Wilson, English actress

• January 14 – Caleb Followill, American singer (Kings of Leon)

• January 14 – Víctor Valdés, Spanish football player

• January 15 – Benjamin Agosto, American skater

• January 17 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player

• January 17 – Alex Varkatzas, Greek-American lead vocalist (Atreyu)

• January 18 – Quinn Allman, American guitarist (The Used)

• January 18 – Joanna Newsom, American musician

• January 19 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress

• January 19 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress

• January 21 – Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler

• January 22 – Liane Bahler, German professional cyclist (d. 2007)

• January 22 – Jason Peters, American football player

• January 24 – Jeanette Sliwinski, American model and murderer

• January 25 – The-Dream , singer

• January 25 – Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer

• January 28 – Ainett Stephens Venezuelan television personality/model in Italy

• January 29 – Adam Lambert, singer

• January 29 – Heidi Mueller, American actress

• January 31 – Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer

• February 1 – Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby union player

• February 1 – Iness Chepkesis Chenonge, Kenyan athlete

• February 2 – Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player

• February 3 – Vera Brezhneva, Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer and television presenter

• February 3 – Jessica Harp, American Singer and guitarist (The Wreckers)

• February 4 – Mandisa Stevenson, American basketball player

• February 4 – Kimberly Wyatt, singer (The Pussycat Dolls)

• February 4 – Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist

• February 5 – Kevin Everett, American football player

• February 8 – Zersenay Tadese, Eritrean long distance track/road running athlete

• February 9 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer

• February 10 – Mon Redee Sut Txi, Malaysian athlete

• February 10 – Justin Gatlin, American athlete

• February 11 – Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player

• February 11 – Natalie Dormer,English actress

• February 12 – Steven Nyman,American alpine ski racer

• February 13 – Lanisha Cole, American model

• February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Czechosovakian (now Slovakia) hockey player (Minnesota Wild)

• February 17 – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper

• February 17 – Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer

• February 18 – Juelz Santana, American rapper

• February 18 – Jessie Ward, American actress

• February 19 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer

• February 21 – Kelly Bell, English glamour model

• February 22 – Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress

• February 22 – Kelly Johnson, American baseball player

• February 25 – Chris Baird, Northern Irish footballer

• February 25 – Maria Kanellis, Professional Wrestler/Model

• February 25 – Bert McCracken, lead singer of American rock band The Used

• February 28 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d. 2004)

• March 2 – Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish hockey goaltender

• March 2 – Ben Roethlisberger, American football player

• March 2 – Mike Nugent, American football player

• March 2 – Kevin Kuranyi, German soccer player

• March 3 – Jessica Biel, American actress

• March 4 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player

• March 5 – Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player

• March 6 – Stephen Jordan, English footballer

• March 7 – Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent

• March 8 – Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast

• March 8 – Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist

• March 9 – Paul Ballard, English television presenter

• March 10 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player

• March 10 – Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

• March 10 – Zoe Lister, British actress

• March 11 – Thora Birch, American actress

• March 15 – Bobby Boswell, American soccer player

• March 19 – Matt Littler, British actor

• March 19 – Triana Iglesias, Norwegian model/Playboy Cyber Girl

• March 20 – Nick Wheeler, American musician (The All-American Rejects)

• March 21 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player

• March 21 – Jocie Kok, Chinese-Singaporean female singer

• March 22 – Pete Bennett, English rock singer (Daddy Fantastic) and television personality (Big Brother 2006)

• March 23 – Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish football goalkeeper

• March 24 – Kenichirou Ohashi, Japanese voice actor

• March 25 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver

• March 25 – Sean Faris, American actor

• March 30 – Jason Dohring, American actor

• March 30 – Philippe Mexes, French footballer

• March 30 – Javier Garcia Portillo, Spanish footballer

April–June

• April 1 – Sam Huntington, American actor

• April 1 – Taran Killam, American actor

• April 1 – Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower

• April 2 – David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player

• April 3 – Jared Allen, American football player

• April 3 – Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol

• April 5 – Matt Pickens, American soccer player

• April 6 – Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef

• April 7 – Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler

• April 8 – Judy Star, American actress

• April 10 – Chyler Leigh, American actress

• April 13 – Nellie McKay, American singer

• April 15 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor/comedian

• April 18 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer

• April 20 – Keiichiro Nagashima, Japanese speed skater

• April 22 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer

• April 24 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer

• April 24 – Shayna Nackoney, Canadian synchronized swimmer

• April 25 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer

• April 26 – Nadja Benaissa, German pop singer

• April 28 – Nikki Grahame, British Reailty TV star

• April 28 – Donna Feldman, American model and actress

• April 30 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress

• April 30 – Lloyd Banks, African American/ Puertorican Rapper

• May 1 – Darijo Srna, Croatian soccer player

• May 4 – Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer

• May 4 – Vera Schmidt, Hungarian singer-songwriter

• May 6 – Jason Witten, American football player

• May 7 – Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer

• May 9 – Rachel Boston, American beauty queen and actress

• May 10 – Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer

• May 10 – Jeremy Gable, American playwright

• May 13 – Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol

• May 13 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player

• May 14 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer

• May 14 – Anjelah Johnson, American comedian / former NFL Cheerleader

• May 15 – Jessica Sutta, singer from The Pussycat Dolls

• May 15 – Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete

• May 16 – Jaime Hammer, American glamour model

• May 17 – Dylan Macallister, Australian soccer player

• May 17 – Tony Parker, French basketball player

• May 19 – Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer

• May 19 – Rebecca Hall, British actress

• May 20 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer

• May 20 – Candace Bailey, American actress/former Junior Olympic gymnast

• May 22 – Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater and actor

• May 22 – Erin McNaught, 2006 Miss Australia

• May 25 – Alexandr Ivanov, Russian javelin thrower

• May 26 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model

• May 29 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model

• May 29 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress

• June 1 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player

• June 2 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress and singer

• June 3 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete

• June 4 – Jin Au-Yeung, Chinese-American rapper

• June 7 – Amy Nuttall, British actress and opera singer

• June 8 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

• June 10 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater

• June 10 – Princess Madeleine of Sweden

• June 10 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress

• June 11 – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player

• June 11 – Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier

• June 12 – Jason David, American Football Player

• June 13 – Kenenisa Bekele, Etiopian long-distance runner

• June 16 – Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress

• June 21 – HRH Prince William of Wales

• June 22 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model

• June 23 – Joona Puhakka, Finnish diver

• June 24 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player

• June 24 – Kevin Kleinberg, American actor

• June 25 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player

• June 27 – Takeru Shibaki, Japanese actor

• June 30 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress

July–September

• July 1 – Hilarie Burton, American actress and VJ

• July 3 – Scarlett Strallen, English actress

• July 5 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer

• July 7 – Jan Lastuvka, Czech footballer

• July 8 – Sophia Bush, American actress

• July 8 – Tarah Paige, American actress

• July 8 – Hakim Warrick, American basketball player

• July 9 – Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese racecar driver

• July 10 – Alex Arrowsmith, American musician

• July 10 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer

• July 12 – Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer (soccer player)

• July 13 – Simon Clist, English footballer

• July 14 – Dmitry Chaplin, Russian So You Think You Can Dance finalist

• July 15 – Haley Scarnato, American singer and American Idol finalist

• July 18 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen

• July 18 – Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host

• July 19 – Jared Padalecki, American actor

• July 23 – Claudette Ortiz, American soul singer

• July 24 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress

• July 25 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)

• July 29 – Allison Mack, American actress

• July 30 – James Anderson, English cricketer

• July 30 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress

• August 2 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer (soccer player)

• August 5 – Lolo Jones, American track and field athlete

• August 6 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater

• August 7 – Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer

• August 7 – Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer

• August 9 – Tyson Gay, American athlete

• August 10 – Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress

• August 10 – Shaun Murphy, English snooker player

• August 12 – Eunan O'Neill, Journalist Jon Olsson, Swedish Fresstyle Skier

• August 13 – Shani Davis, American speed skater

• August 14 – Larissa Franca, Brazilian beach volleyball player

• August 16 – Joleon Lescott, English footballer

• August 17 – Jon Olsson, Swedish Fresstyle Skier

• August 19 – Erika Christensen, American actress

• August 19 – Willy Denzey, French singer

• August 23 – Natalie Coughlin, American Olympic swimmer

• August 24 – Kim Källström, Swedish footballer

• August 28 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer

• August 28 – Karo Parisyan, Armenian MMA fighter

• August 30 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player

• August 31 – José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer

• September 1 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater

• September 2 – Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress

• September 3 – Andrew McMahon, American musician

• September 3 – Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model

• September 5 – Cyndi Wang, Taiwanese singer and actress

• September 7 – Andre Dirrell Olympic bronze medalist & Professional boxer

• September 7 – Race Wong, Hong Kong singer/actress, Member of 2R

• September 9 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress

• September 11 – Shriya Saran, Indian actress

• September 12 – Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol

• September 13 – Nenê, Brazilian basketball player

• September 13 – Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player

• September 18 – Lukas Reimann (Swiss politician)

• September 19 – Nicole Voss, American model

• September 21 – Rowan Vine, English footballer

• September 21 – Rudy Youngblood, American actor

• September 22 – Carley Stenson, British actress

• September 22 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer

• September 23 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian Porn Actress

• September 26 – Betty Sun, Chinese actress

• September 27 – Lil Wayne, American rapper

• September 27 – Darrent Williams, Denver Broncos cornerback (d. 2007)

• September 28 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player

• September 29 – Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director

• September 29 – Rob Smith – Irish musician and songwriter

• September 30 – Lacey Chabert, American actress

• September 30 – Michelle Marsh, British model

October–December

• October 1 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish pop singer

• October 3 – Erik von Detten, American actor

• October 6 – MC Lars, American rapper

• October 7 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer

• October 7 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer

• October 7 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player

• October 9 – Travis Rice, Professional Snowboarder

• October 10 – Jason Oost, Dutch footballer

• October 11 – Salim Stoudamire, American basketball player

• October 11 – Kristy Wu, American actress

• October 11 – Valentina Zelyaeva, Russian model

• October 13 – Ian James Thorpe, Australian swimmer

• October 13 – Jo Yoon-hee, South Korean actress & model

• October 15 – Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Qatarian athlete

• October 15 – Jessica Rey, American actress

• October 17 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer

• October 18 or 19 – Shauntay Henderson, American criminal

• October 21 – Matt Dallas, American actor

• October 22 – Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player

• October 22 – Heath Miller, American football player

• October 25 – Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer

• October 27 – Patrick Fugit, American actor

• October 27 – Dennis Moran, American computer hacker

• October 27 – Keri Hilson, American singer

• October 28 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player

• October 29 – Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer

• November 2 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer

• November 8 – Ethan Ruan,a Taiwanese actor

• November 10 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress

• November 11 – Brittny Gastineau, American model and socialite

• November 11 – Jeremy Williams (actor), British actor

• November 12 – Anne Hathaway, American actress

• November 12 – Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer

• November 13 – Michael Copon, American actor model and singer

• November 13 – Kumi Koda, Japanese singer

• November 14 – Sailosi Tagicakibau, Samoan rugby player

• November 15 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player

• November 22 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer and actress

• November 23 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter

• November 26 – Karl Henry, Professional football player

• November 27 – Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian soccer player

• November 29 – Ashley Force, American race car driver

• November 30 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress

• November 30 – Clémence Poésy, French actress

• December 3 – Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer

• December 3 – Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer

• December 4 – Nick Vujicic, director for Life Without Limbs

• December 6 – Ryan Carnes, American actor

• December 6 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist

• December 8 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (d. 2009)

• December 13 – Anthony Callea, Australian singer

• December 14 – Anthony Way, British singer and actor

• December 16 – Garnon Davies, British actor

• December 19 – Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower

• December 20 – David Cook, American singer

• December 20 – David Wright, American baseball player

• December 24 – Robert Carmine, American singer

• December 24 – Masaki Aiba, Japanese singer

• December 26 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian alpine skier

• December 27 – Terji Skibenæs, Faroese guitarist (Týr)

• December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

• December 31 – Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player

Deaths

January–March

• January 1 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)

• January 5 – Hans Conreid, American actor (b. 1917)

• January 5 – Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)

• January 8 – Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)

• January 10 – Paul Lynde, American actor (b. 1926)

• January 13 – Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)

• January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican Architect (b. 1905)

• January 19 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)

• January 26 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician and Politburo member (b. 1902)

• January 30 – Stanley Holloway, English actor (b. 1890)

• January 30 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)

• February 4 – Sue Carol, American actress (b. 1906)

• February 4 – Alex Harvey, Scottish Musician (b. 1935)

• February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide)

• February 11 – Eleanor Powell, American dancer (b. 1912)

• February 11 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)

• February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)

• February 17 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)

• February 17 – Lee Strasberg, American actor (b. 1901)

• February 24 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)

• March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)

• March 5 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)

• March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (b. 1905)

• March 8 – Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902)

• March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (plane crash) (b. 1956)

• March 25 – Goodman Ace, American humorist (b. 1899)

• March 27 – Harriet Adams, American novelist (b. 1892)

• March 28 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

• March 31 – Dave Clement, Queens Park Rangers footballer – suicide

April–June

• April 3 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)

• April 5 – Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)

• April 12 – Lenny Baker, American actor (b. 1945)

• April 15 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)

• April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892)

• April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)

• April 25 – Celia Johnson, British actress (b. 1908)

• April 27 – Tom Tully, American actor (b. 1908)

• May 1 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)

• May 2 – Helmut Dantine, Austrian actor (b. 1917)

• May 2 – Hugh Marlowe, American actor (b. 1911)

• May 8 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1950)

• May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)

• May 14 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)

• May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1946)

• May 28 – Lt Col 'H'. Jones, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)

• May 29 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)

• June 2 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, President of Pakistan (b. 1904)

• June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)

• June 8 – Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906)

• June 10 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1945)

• June 12 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)

• June 12 – Sgt Ian McKay, VC, British Soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)

• June 13 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver (b. 1958)

• June 14 – Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1892)

• June 17 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)

• June 18 – John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)

• June 18 – Curt Jurgens, German actor (b. 1915)

• June 25 – Edward Hamm, American Olympic athlete (b. 1906)

• June 29 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)

July–September

• July 1 – Jacobo Palm, Curaçao born composer (b. 1887)

• July 4 – Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS (b. 1945)

• July 6 – Alma Reville, English screenwriter (b. 1899)

• July 8 – Isa Miranda, Italian actress (b. 1905)

• July 8 – Albert White, American Olympic diver (b. 1895)

• July 12 – Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)

• July 16 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)

• July 19 – John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)

• July 21 – Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)

• July 23 – Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)

• July 28 – Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)

• July 29 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b. 1889)

• August 2 – Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (b. 1888)

• August 11 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)

• August 12 – Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)

• August 13 – Charles Walters, American film director (b. 1911)

• August 14 – Patrick Magee, Irish actor (b. 1922)

• August 15 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

• August 18 – Beverly Bayne, American actress (b. 1894)

• August 18 – Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character/narrator of Maus (a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust) (b. 1906)

• August 20 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)

• August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (b. 1899)

• August 23 – Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian film director (b. 1897)

• August 23 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

• August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)

• September 2 – Tom Baker, American actor (b. 1940)

• September 2 – Jay Novello, American actor (b. 1904)

• September 5 – Douglas Bader, Inspirational leader of the Battle of Britain (b. 1910)

• September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)

• September 14 – Bashir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon

• September 14 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)

• September 16 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (b. 1896)

• September 23 – Jimmy Wakely, American Country-Western singer and actor (b. 1914)

• September 28 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)

October–December

• October 3 – Vivien Merchant, British actress (b. 1929)

• October 4 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)

• October 8 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist,

• October 8 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine-born actor (b. 1915)

• October 9 – Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1895)

• October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)

• October 18 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)

• October 18 – Dwain Esper, director (b. 1892)

• October 18 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)

• October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (b. 1905)

• November 1 – James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)

• November 1 – King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)

• November 4 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)

• November 5 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (b. 1907)

• November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)

• November 12 – Dorothy Round Little, English tennis champion (b. 1908)

• November 15 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (b. 1895)

• November 17 – Ruth Donnelly, American actress (b. 1896)

• November 21 – Lee Patrick, American actress (b. 1901)

• November 22 – Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (b. 1909)

• November 23 – Grady Nutt, American humorist (b. 1934)

• November 29 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)

• December 2 – Marty Feldman, British comedian and writer (b. 1934)

• December 7 – Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (b. 1908)

• December 8 – Marty Robbins, American singer (b. 1925)

• December 10 – Freeman Fisher Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)

• December 16 – Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry (b. 1928)

• December 20 – Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (b. 1887)

• December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor (b. 1920)

• December 24 – Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)

• December 27 – John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)

Fields Medalists

• Alain Connes, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson

• Chemistry – Aaron Klug

• Medicine – Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane

• Literature – Gabriel García Márquez

• Peace – Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles

• Economics – George Stigler

Templeton Prize

• Billy Graham

See also

• 20th century