Events of 1983

January

• January 1 – The New Jersey Transit Police Department is created in the state of New Jersey.

• January 2 – The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway, New York City.

• January 3 – Kilauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2009.

• January 19 – Apple Inc. releases the Apple Lisa personal computer.

• January 19 – High ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

• January 22 – Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.

• January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro.

• January 26 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers.

• January 26 – Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.

• January 31 – Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

February

• February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of bigamy involving 105 women.

• February 3 – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for elections on March 5. Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as leader of the Australian Labor Party.

• February 6 – Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.

• February 13 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy kills 64.

• February 16 – The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever.

• February 18 – Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.

• February 23 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

• February 23 – Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA

• February 24 – A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

• February 24 – Bermondsey by-election, 1983 (U.K.): Simon Hughes's defeat of Peter Tatchell is criticised for alleged homophobia.

• February 28 The final episode of M*A*S*H is aired and the record of most watched episode is broken

March

• March 1 – The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain.

• March 5 – Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia.

• March 8 – IBM releases the IBM PC XT.

• March 9 – Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.

• March 11 – Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.

• March 16 – The Transmitter Ismaning (last wooden radio tower in Germany) is demolished.

• March 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars".

• March 23 – Michael Jackson performs the dance move that will forever be known as the "moonwalk" at Motown 25.

• March 25 – The film The Outsiders was released.

April

• April 15-The Tokyo Disneyland opens.

• April 18 – The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.

• April 22 – Reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia

• April 25 – Manchester, Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

May

• May 6 – Stern Magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).

• May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

• May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

• May 26 – A powerful earthquake and tsunami in northern Honshū, Japan kills 104 and injures 163.

• May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia.

June

• June 9 – United Kingdom general election, 1983: Conservative Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins in a landslide victory over Michael Foot (42% of the popular vote), the most decisive election victory since 1945.

• June 13 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.

• June 16 – Cork Graham caught off the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd. Convicted and imprisoned for illegal entry.

• June 18 – STS-7: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

• June 25 – India wins the Prudential Cricket World Cup.

• June 30 – Total loss of coolant at Embalse nuclear power plant, Argentina. It was classified as a Accident With Local Consequences – level 4 at the International Nuclear Event Scale

July

• July 1 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.

• July 1 – The High Court of Australia blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.

• July 1 – Technical failure causes release of Iodine-131 from Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany

• July 7 – Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union (see April 25).

• July 15 – The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan.

• July 15 – The Orly airport attack in Paris leaves 8 dead and 55 injured.

• July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.

• July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.

• July 21 – The lowest temperature on earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).

• July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter.

• July 23 – Gimli Glider: Out of fuel, Air Canada Flight 143 glides in to land in Gimli, Manitoba.

• July 23 – The Black July communal riot occurs in Sri Lanka. These anti-Sri Lankan Tamil riots leave between 400 and 3,000 Tamils dead and millions of dollars worth of their property destroyed. This pogrom is the beginning of a deadly Sri Lankan civil war.

• July 23 – Heavy massive rain and mudslides at western Shimane prefecture, Japan, kill 117.

• July 28 – New South Wales premier Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.

August

• August 1 – America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.

• August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta.

• August 16 – The Bill first airs as Woodentop.

• August 18 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.

• August 18 – Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock (Uluru), NT (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).

• August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.

• August 24 – The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.

• August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao(Spain) and surrounding areas, killing 45 people and causing millions in damages.

• August 30 – STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger carries Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, into space.

September

• September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

• September 4 – Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor – 82.9 km in 48 hours.

• September 5 – Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.

• September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

• September 17 – Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first African-American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

• September 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.

• September 23 – Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb exploded in the baggage compartment, killing 117.

• September 23 – Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.

• September 24 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers launch their first, self-titled album The Red Hot Chili Peppers (album).

• September 25 – Maze Prison escape: 38 Irish republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of HMP Maze, in the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.

• September 25–26 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.

• September 26 – Australia wins America's Cup.

• September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October

• October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.

• October 4 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

• October 7 – A plan to abolish the Greater London Council is announced.

• October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others.

• October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.

• October 16 – World Series: The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 5–0 in Game 5, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 3rd World Championship.

• October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.

• October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

• October 22 – In Bonn, West Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.

• October 23 – Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.

• October 24 – Arthur Hutchinson kills 3 members of the Laitner family and rapes their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore.

• October 25 – United States troops invade Grenada at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.

• October 25 – Microsoft Word is first released.

• October 30 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.

November

• November 2 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

• November 2 – Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.

• November 3 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

• November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.

• November 10 – The anticancer drug etoposide is approved by the FDA, leading to a curative treatment regime in the field of combination chemotherapy of testicular carcinoma.

• November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature.

• November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common Airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.

• November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.

• November 15 – The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.

• November 16 – A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.

• November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

• November 19 – An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.

• November 24 – Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988).

• November 26 – Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.

• November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.

• November 29 – Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37, stating that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Afghanistan.

December

• December 2 – Michael Jackson's world famous music video for "Thriller" is broadcast for the first time. It becomes the most often repeated and famous music video of all time, increasing his own popularity and record sales of the album "Thriller".

• December 4 – Lt. Bobby Goodman of the United States Navy is shot down over Lebanon and captured by the Syrians.

• December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.

• December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90.

• December 9 – The Australian Dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.

• December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín first term as President of Argentina

• December 11 – Grêmio (Brazil) becomes the new soccer world champion, after beating Hamburger SV (Germany) by 2–1.

• December 13 – The Denver Nuggets and the visiting Detroit Pistons combine for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186–184.

• December 17 – A discotheque fire in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.

• December 17 – A Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.

• December 27 – A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York kills 5 firefighters and 2 civilians.

• December 27 – Pope John Paul II visits his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison to forgive him.

• December 29 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity since being shot down over the country during a reconnaissance mission.

• December 31 – Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom.

• December 31 – Two bombs explode in France; 1 on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

• December 31 – The famous Apple Macintosh advertisement is released.

Undated

• Zlatko Ugljen receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.

• The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is launched in the U.S.

• Flashdance and Return of the Jedi are box-office hits.

• Gerard Debreu wins the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

• Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.

• Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.

• McDonald's introduces the McNugget.

• Kary Mullis discovers polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.

• The De Lorean Motor Company ceases production.

• The meteorological El Nino phenomenon brought severe weather worldwide.

• Chrysler starts production on the first minivans: the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager.

Ongoing

• Chadian Civil War (1965–1993)

• Cold War (1945–1991)

• Namibian War of Independence (1966–1988)

• Second Malayan Emergency (1967–1989)

• South African Border War (1965–1989)

• The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998)

• Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)

Births

January

• January 1 – Ali Bastian, Actor The Bill

• January 1 – Emi Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol

• January 1 – Jasmine Dustin, American actress and model

• January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress

• January 4 – Spencer Chamberlain, American musician

• January 7 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer

• January 7 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor (Cousin Skeeter)

• January 8 – Chris Masters, American wrestler

• January 8 – Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter

• January 9 – Gala Évora, Spanish actress

• January 10- Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier

• January 11- Adrian Sutil, German Formula One driver

• January 12 – Shawn Desman, Canadian singer

• January 13 – William Hung, American musician

• January 13 – Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

• January 13 – Imran Khan, Indian actor

• January 14 – Takako Uehara, Japanese singer (Speed)

• January 16 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer

• January 17 – Andrea Lowell, American model

• January 17 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player

• January 18 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress

• January 19 – Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter

• January 19 – Holly Piirainen, American murder victim (d. 1993)

• January 20 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player

• January 20 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and DJ (Morning Musume.)

• January 21 – Moritz Volz, German footballer

• January 22 – Shaun Cody, American football player

• January 24 – Scott Speed, American Formula One driver

• January 25 – Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer

• January 25 – Andrée Watters, Canadian singer

• January 31 – James Sutton, British actor

February

• February 2 – Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon.

• February 3 – Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress

• February 3 – Damiel Dossevi, French pole vaulter

• February 6 – Sreesanth, Indian cricketer

• February 7 – Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model

• February 8 – Jim Verraros, American singer

• February 8 – Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer

• February 11 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer

• February 15 – Philipp Degen and David Degen, Swiss footballers

• February 15 – Alan Didak, Australian rules footballer

• February 15 – Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player

• February 16 – Agyness Deyn, English supermodel

• February 18 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player

• February 19 – Kotoōshū Katsunori (Kaloyan Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler

• February 19 – Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress

• February 19 – Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player

• February 20 – Justin Verlander, American baseball player

• February 22 – Penny Flame, American pornographic actress

• February 23 – Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player

• February 23 – Mido, Egyptian footballer

• February 23 – Emily Blunt, English actress

• February 25 – Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player

• February 26 – Andrew Baggaley, English table tennis player

• February 27 – Devin Harris, American basketball player

March

• March 3 – Kim Smith, American model/actress (multiple covers of Maxim Magazine)

• March 3 – Katie White, English singer (The Ting Tings)

• March 4 – Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater

• March 4 – Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer

• March 8 – Marcus Spears, American Football Player

• March 9 – Mayte Perroni, Mexican singer and actress

• March 9 – Clint Dempsey, American footballer

• March 10 – Carrie Underwood, American singer

• March 10 – Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)

• March 14 – Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

• March 14 – Taylor Hanson, American musician, (Hanson)

• March 15 – Florencia Bertotti, Argentine actress and singer

• March 15 – Kerényi Miklós Máté, Hungarian actor and singer(operetta and musical)

• March 17 – Christian and Joseph Cousins, American twin actors

• March 20 – Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer

• March 21 – Bruno Langley, British actor

• March 27 – Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d. 2005)

• March 30 – Zach Gowen, American wrestler

• March 30 – Hebe Tian, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E

April

• April 1 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer

• April 1 – Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)

• April 2 – Yung Joc, American rapper

• April 4 – Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player

• April 10 – Ryan Merriman, American actor

• April 10 – Jamie Chung, American actress

• April 12 – Jelena Dokić, Australian Tennis Player

• April 12 – Jonti Richter Australian soccer player

• April 13 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player

• April 15 – Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player

• April 16 – Marié Digby, American singer

• April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, Brazilian footballer

• April 17 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

• April 19 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player

• April 19 – Zach Duke, American baseball player

• April 19 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player

• April 19 – Alberto Callaspo, American baseball player

• April 20 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model

• April 21 – Tarvaris Jackson, American football player

• April 21 – Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer

• April 22 – Matt Jones, American football player

• April 23 – Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player

• April 24 – Taio Cruz, British R&B singer

• April 26 – Jake Wall, Australian model

• April 29 – Jay Cutler, American football player

• April 29 – David Lee, American basketball player

• April 29 – Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol

May

• May 2 – Dani Sordo, Spanish rally driver

• May 3 – Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer

• May 4 – Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian supermodel

• May 8 – Matt Willis, British musician (Busted) and presenter

• May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor

• May 11 – Matt Leinart, American football player

• May 11 – Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer

• May 12 – Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer

• May 13 – Yaya Toure, Ivory Coast footballer

• May 13 – Aza Bataeva, Chechen singer

• May 13 – Natalie Cassidy, British actress

• May 13 – Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player

• May 14 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress

• May 14 – Anahi, Mexican singer and actress

• May 16 – Daniel Kerr, Australian rules footballer

• May 16 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer

• May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player

• May 18 – Vince Young, American football player

• May 19 – Eve Angel, Hungarian model

• May 19 – Jessica Fox, British actress

• May 22 – John Hopkins, American MotoGP racer

• May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes member)

• May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model

• May 27 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player

• May 28 – Toby Hemingway, British/ American actor

• May 30 – Jennifer Ellison, British actress

• May 31 – David Hernandez, American singer

June

• June 2 – Brooke White, American singer

• June 6 – Margarida Vila-Nova, Portuguese actress

• June 6 – Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player

• June 6 – Gemma Bissix, British actress

• June 6 – Gianna Michaels, American pornstar

• June 8 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player

• June 8 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu

• June 10 – Josh Ramsay, Canadian singer/lead singer of Marianas Trench

• June 10 – Marion Barber III, American Football Player

• June 11 – Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist

• June 11 – José Reyes, Dominican baseball player

• June 12 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player

• June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player

• June 15 – Julia Fischer, German violinist

• June 15 – Derek Anderson, American football player

• June 17 – Connie Fisher, British actress

• June 17 – Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer

• June 17 – Lee Ryan, British singer

• June 18 – Billy Slater, Australian Rugby League player

• June 18 – Cameron Smith, Australian Rugby League player

• June 19 – Mark Selby, British snooker player

• June 20 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress

• June 24 – Alexander Beyer, German actor

• June 24 – John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino Actor

• June 27 – Evan Taubenfeld, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter

• June 30 – Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)

• June 30 – Marlin Jackson, American Football Player

July

• July 1 – Leeteuk, Korean singer (Super Junior)

• July 1 – Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician (M2M)

• July 2 – Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)

• July 3 – Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player

• July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian fashion model

• July 4 – Ben Jorgensen, American singer, guitarist, member of Armor For Sleep

• July 5 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player

• July 5 – Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player

• July 6 – Gregory Smith, Canadian-born American actor

• July 10 – Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior)

• July 11 – Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish singer (A*Teens)

• July 11 – Kellie Shirley, British actress.

• July 12 – Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model

• July 13 – Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete

• July 16 – Zhang Xiangxiang, Chinese weightlifter

• July 18 – Aaron Gillespie, drummer (Underoath)

• July 21 – Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer

• July 21 – Kellen Winslow II, American football player

• July 22 – Juliana Felisberta, Brazilian beach volleyball player

• July 22 – Deanna Stellato, American figure skater

• July 23 – Bec Cartwright, Australian actress

• July 23 – Kelvin Hayden, American Football Player

• July 23 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer

• July 24 – Paul Coverdale, English cricketer

• July 24 – Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer

• July 24 – Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress

• July 28 – Przemysław Czerwiński, Polish pole Vaulter

• July 29 – Metallica, Releases their debut album, Kill 'Em All

• July 30 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer

August

• August 1 – Bobby Carpenter, American Football Player

• August 2 – Huston Street, American baseball player

• August 5 – Sam Stacey, British model

• August 6 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer

• August 7 – Tina O'Brien, British actress

• August 7 – Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor

• August 8 – Guy Burnet, British actor

• August 10 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian professional ice hockey player

• August 12 – Martina Warren, British model

• August 13 – Ales Hemsky, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player

• August 14 – Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress

• August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player

• August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player

• August 18 – Danny!, American record producer/recording artist

• August 18 – Mika, Lebanese-British singer

• August 18 – Cameron White, Australian cricketer

• August 19 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress

• August 20 – Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer

• August 21 – Chantelle Houghton, British reality TV star

• August 23 – James Collins, British footballer

• August 23 – Nicol David, Malaysian squash player

• August 24 – Christopher Parker, British actor

• August 27 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor

• August 28 – Alfonso Herrera, Mexican singer and actor

• August 28 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

• August 28 – Luke McAlister, New Zealand Rugby Union player

• August 30 – Jonne Aaron, Finnish musician

• August 30 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor

September

• September 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player

• September 3 – Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player

• September 5 – Chris Young, American Baseball Player

• September 8 – Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer

• September 11 – Jacoby Ellsbury, American Baseball Player

• September 12 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer

• September 13 – Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer

• September 14 – Amy Winehouse, British singer

• September 16 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer

• September 17 – Jennifer Peña, American singer

• September 21 – Maggie Grace, American actress

• September 21 – Joseph Mazzello, American actor

• September 22 – Eriko Imai, Japanese singer (Speed)

• September 23 – Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower

• September 24 – Randy Foye, American basketball player

• September 24 – Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer

• September 26 – Samantha Hammel, American producer, actress and singer

• September 26 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer

• September 30 – Reiko Shiota, Japanese badminton player

• September 30 – T-Pain , American rapper & singer-songwriter

October

• October 2 – Gerran Walker, American football player

• October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi University, University named after Father of Indian Nation

• October 3 – Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor

• October 4 – Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol

• October 5 – Jesse Eisenberg, American actor

• October 5 – Nicky Hilton, American model and socialite

• October 8 – Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper

• October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ

• October 14 – Vanessa Lane, American porn star

• October 14 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player

• October 14 – Zesh Rehman, English-Pakistani footballer

• October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress

• October 16 – Jennifer Hurt, Playboy model

• October 17 – Michelle Ang, Australian actress

• October 17 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer

• October 19 – Vladimir Gabulov, Russian footballer

• October 24 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress

• October 24 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver

• October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family

• October 26 – Houston, American R&B singer

• October 26 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer

• October 29 – Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish singer (A*Teens)

• October 29 – Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor/musician

• October 30 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer

November

• November 1 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol

• November 3 – Julie Berman, American actress

• November 4 – Tyler Everett, American football player

• November 7 – Forrest Kline, American singer and songwriter (Hellogoodbye)

• November 8 – Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer

• November 8 – Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper

• November 9 – Meseret Defar, Ethiopian long-distance runner

• November 10 – Miranda Lambert, American country music artist

• November 11 – Philipp Lahm, German footballer

• November 11 – Sora Aoi, Japanese model

• November 11 – Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese seiyuu

• November 14 – Lil Boosie, American rapper

• November 16 – Fallon Bowman, South African–born guitarist (Kittie)

• November 16 – K, South Korean singer

• November 17 – Ryan Bradley, American figure skater

• November 17 – Ryan Braun, American baseball player

• November 17 – Harry Lloyd, British actor

• November 17 – Rocsi, American television personality

• November 18 – Mila J, American singer/rapper

• November 18 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer

• November 18 – Walton sextuplets,world's first all-female surviving sextuplets

• November 19 – DeAngelo Hall, American football player

• November 24 – Dean Ashton, British footballer

• November 24 – José López, Venezuelan baseball player

• November 25 – Atsushi Itō, Japanese actor

• November 30 – Nicholas Kole, American figure skater

December

• December 2 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

• December 3 – Troy Bergeron, American football player

• December 4 – Roman Zaretski, Israeli figure skater

• December 4 – Jimmy Bartel Australian rules footballer

• December 5 – Tiffany Weimer, American footballer

• December 9 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer

• December 10 – Patrick Flueger, American actor

• December 10 – Xavier Samuel, Australian Actor

• December 12 – Katrina Elam, American singer

• December 13 – Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer

• December 13 – Alan Hoyle, British basketball player

• December 15 – René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler

• December 15 – Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player

• December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model

• December 17 – Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player

• December 17 – Kosuke Saito, Japanese DJ

• December 20 – Jonah Hill, American actor

• December 20 – Lucy Pinder, British model

• December 22 – Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, crowned Miss Universe in 2004

• December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player

• December 25 – Kwai Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress

• December 27 – Cole Hamels, American baseball player

• December 28 – Aiko Nakamura, Japanese tennis player

• December 29 – Jessica Andrews, American country music singer

• December 31 – Sayaka Ichii, Japanese singer (Morning Musume.)

Deaths

January

• January 2 – Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)

• January 10 – Roy DeMeo, American Mafia hitman (b. 1942)

• January 11 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)

• January 11 – Tikhon Kiselyov (also Kiselev), Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de-facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b. 1917)

• January 12 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b. 1903)

• January 15 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)

• January 17 – Doodles Weaver, American comedian and uncle of Sigourney Weaver (b. 1911)

• January 23 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)

• January 24 – George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)

• January 24 – Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine athlete (b. 1911)

• January 26 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American college football coach (b. 1913)

• January 27 – Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)

• January 27 – Michael "Pat" Bilon, American dwarf actor (b. 1947)

• January 27 – Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)

• January 28 – Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)

• January 28 – Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940)

February

• February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (b. 1950)

• February 8 – Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)

• February 12 – Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)

• February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)

• February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)

• February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)

• February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)

• February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)

• February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)

• February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)

March

• March 1 – Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)

• March 3 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)

• March 3 – Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)

• March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)

• March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)

• March 8 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)

• March 9 – Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)

• March 9 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

• March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)

• March 15 – Rebecca West, English-born writer (b. 1892)

• March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)

• March 16 – Freda Dudley Ward, former royal mistress (b. 1894)

• March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

• March 18 – Umberto II of Italy, the last King of Italy (b. 1904)

• March 18 – Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)

• March 26 – Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b. 1907)

• March 27 – Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b. 1898)

• March 27 – James Hayter, British actor (b. 1907)

• March 30 – Lisette Model, Austrian-born American photographer (b. 1901)

April

• April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)

• April 4 – Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1901)

• April 4 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)

• April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1905)

• April 12 – Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)

• April 15 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)

• April 15 – Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)

• April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)

• April 21 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)

• April 22 – Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b. 1903)

• April 23 – Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)

• April 23 – Selena Royle, American actress (b. 1904)

• April 23 – Alberto Zorrilla, Argentine Olympic swimmer (b. 1906)

• April 30 – George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (b. 1904)

• April 30 – Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)

• April 30 – McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield, American musician (b. 1915)

May

• May 1 – George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)

• May 1 – Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born cinematographer (b. 1889)

• May 2 – Norm Van Brocklin, former National Football League quarterback (b. 1926)

• May 5 – John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)

• May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)

• May 14 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)

• May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)

• May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)

• May 19 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)

• May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)

• May 22 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

• May 22 – Idris I, Libyan King reigning from 1951 to 1969 (b. 1889)

• May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)

• May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)

June

• June 1 – Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)

• June 2 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)

• June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)

• June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)

• June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress (b. 1902)

• June 15 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)

• June 17 – Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)

• June 18 – Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)

• June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician and 21st President of Cuba (b. 1919)

• June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)

• June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

• June 30 – Mary Livingstone, American comedienne (b. 1905)

July

• July 1 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)

• July 4 – Dr John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)

• July 4 – Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)

• July 4 – Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Dominican business man and the President of the Dominican Republic, from 1978 to 1982 (b. 1911)

• July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)

• July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)

• July 7 – Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (b. 1952)

• July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)

• July 10 – Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)

• July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)

• July 12 – Chris Wood, British rock musician (b. 1944)

• July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)

• July 16 – Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)

• July 17 – Roosevelt "Honeydripper" Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)

• July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)

• July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)

• July 26 – Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)

• July 29 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born filmmaker (b. 1900)

• July 29 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)

• July 29 – David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)

• July 30 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)

• July 30 – Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)

August

• August 1 – Peter Arne, British actor (b. 1920)

• August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1938)

• August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)

• August 5 – Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)

• August 6 – Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)

• August 16 – Earl Averill, baseball player (b. 1902)

• August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)

• August 18 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)

• August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)

• August 28 – Jan Clayton, American actress (b. 1917)

• August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)

September

• September 1 – Larry McDonald, American politician (plane crash – KAL 007 victim) (b. 1935)

• September 10 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

• September 10 – Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)

• September 10 – Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)

• September 10 – B.J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)

• September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)

• September 20 – Angel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)

• September 25 – King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)

• September 26 – Tino Rossi, Corsican singer (b. 1907)

• September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)

October

• October 6 – Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)

• October 8 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)

• October 10 – Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)

• October 15 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)

• October 18 – Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)

• October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary (b. 1944)

• October 23 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)

• October 23 – Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)

• October 28 – Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)

• October 28 – Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)

• October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player, coach and co-founder of the National Football League (b. 1895)

November

• November – Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)

• November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)

• November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)

• November 8 – Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)

• November 8 – Betty Nuthall, English tennnis champion (b. 1911)

• November 13 – Junior Samples, American comedian (b. 1926)

• November 14 – Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)

• November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)

• November 19 – Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)

• November 20 – Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)

• November 20 – Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903)

• November 25 – Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)

• November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)

• November 30 – Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

• December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)

• December 5 – Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)

• December 6 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)

• December 8 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)

• December 9 – David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)

• December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)

• December 13 – Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)

• December 13 – Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)

• December 21 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)

• December 21 – Rod Cameron, American actor (b. 1910)

• December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)

• December 25 – Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)

• December 26 – Violet Carson, British actor (b. 1898)

• December 28 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)

• December 28 – Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)

• December 28 – Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler

• Chemistry – Henry Taube

• Medicine – Barbara McClintock

• Literature – William Golding

• Peace – Lech Wałęsa

• Economics – Gerard Debreu

Templeton Prize

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn