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From top to bottom, left to right:Martin Luther King Jr. isassassinated inMemphis, Tennessee, sparking national unrest;Robert F. Kennedy isassassinated inLos Angeles after winning the California Democratic primary; the1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City occur under the shadow of theTlatelolco massacre; protests erupt at the1968 Democratic National Convention inChicago; thePrague Spring sees reformistAlexander Dubček crushed by aWarsaw Pact invasion; theMay protests mobilize millions of students and workers;Apollo 8 orbits theMoon and captures the iconicEarthrise photo; theTet Offensive shifts U.S. public opinion on theVietnam War; and theMy Lai massacre results in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, highlighting the war’s moral failures.

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1968 in variouscalendars
Gregorian calendar	1968 MCMLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2721
Armenian calendar	1417 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	6718
Baháʼí calendar	124–125
Balinese saka calendar	1889–1890
Bengali calendar	1374–1375
Berber calendar	2918
British Regnal year	16 Eliz. 2 – 17 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2512
Burmese calendar	1330
Byzantine calendar	7476–7477
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4665 or 4458 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4666 or 4459
Coptic calendar	1684–1685
Discordian calendar	3134
Ethiopian calendar	1960–1961
Hebrew calendar	5728–5729
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	2024–2025
-Shaka Samvat	1889–1890
-Kali Yuga	5068–5069
Holocene calendar	11968
Igbo calendar	968–969
Iranian calendar	1346–1347
Islamic calendar	1387–1388
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 43 (昭和４３年)
Javanese calendar	1899–1900
Juche calendar	57
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4301
Minguo calendar	ROC 57 民國57年
Nanakshahi calendar	500
Thai solar calendar	2511
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 2094 or 1713 or 941 — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 2095 or 1714 or 942

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1968 (MCMLXVIII) was aleap year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar, the 1968th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the2nd millennium, the 68th year of the20th century, and the 9th year of the1960s decade.

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January–February

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January 23: North Korea seizesUSS Pueblo (AGER-2)

January – TheI'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously.
January 5 –Prague Spring:Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia.^[1]
January 10 –John Gorton is sworn in as 19thPrime Minister of Australia, taking over fromJohn McEwen after beingelected leader of theLiberal Party the previous day, following thedisappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the onlySenator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to theHouse of Representatives through the1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat.
January 15 – The1968 Belice earthquake inSicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000.^[2]^[3]
January 21
- Vietnam War:Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending onApril 8.
- 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S.B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4nuclear bombs.^[4]
January 23 –North Korea seizes theUSS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
January 25 –Israeli submarineINS Dakar sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 69.^[5]
January 28 –French submarineMinerve sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 52.
January 30 –Vietnam War: TheTet Offensive begins asViet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks acrossSouth Vietnam.
January 31
- Viet Cong soldiers attack theEmbassy of the United States, Saigon.
- Nauru presidentHammer DeRoburt declares independence fromAustralia, Britain and New Zealand.^[6]
February 1
- Vietnam War:Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém – AViet Cong officer issummarily executed byNguyễn Ngọc Loan, aSouth Vietnamese National Police Chief. The event is photographed byEddie Adams. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the1969 Pulitzer Prize, and sways U.S. public opinion against the war.
- ThePennsylvania Railroad and theNew York Central Railroad merge to formPenn Central, the largest ever corporatemerger up to this date.
February 6–18 – The1968 Winter Olympics are held inGrenoble, France.
February 8 –Civil rights movement in the United States:Orangeburg Massacre – A civil rights demonstration on a college campus to protestracial segregation inSouth Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; three African American students are killed, the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American campus.
February 12 –Vietnam War:Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
February 19 – The television seriesMister Rogers' Neighborhood premieres onNational Educational Television in the United States and becomes one of the longest running children's shows ever.
February 24 –Vietnam War: TheTet Offensive is halted;South Vietnam recapturesHuế.
February 25 –Vietnam War:Hà My massacre.

March–April

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April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis

March 1
- Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 further reduces right of entry for citizens from theBritish Commonwealth to the United Kingdom.
- First performance of anAndrew Lloyd Webber–Tim Rice musical,Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in its original form as a "popcantata", by pupils of a private school in London.^[7]^[8]^[9]
March 2 –Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years ofcoal mining in theBlack Country of England.^[10]
March 3 –Air France Flight 212, aBoeing 707, crashes inGuadeloupe while approaching an airport. As a result, 63 people die.
March 6 – Un-recognizedRhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions sinceUDI, prompting international condemnation.
March 7 –Vietnam War: TheFirst Battle of Saigon ends.
March 8
- The first student protests spark the1968 Polish political crisis.
- TheSoviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90nautical miles (104 miles or 167 km) southwest ofHawaii.^[11]^[12]
March 10–11 –Vietnam War:Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during the (at this time) secret war later known as theLaotian Civil War.
March 11 – U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support theASCII character encoding.^[13]
March 12
- Mauritius achieves independence from British rule.
- U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson barely edges out antiwar candidateEugene McCarthy in theNew Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, overVietnam.
March 13 – The firstRotaract club is chartered inNorth Charlotte, North Carolina.
March 14
- Late this evening, the U.K. government at the request of the U.S. agrees that theLondon Gold Pool will be closed from tomorrow.^[14]George Brown, the BritishForeign Secretary, apparently drunk, is absent from meetings to discuss the crisis^[15] and is forced to resign from the government on March 15.^[16]
- Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. ArmyDugway Proving Ground nearSkull Valley, Utah.
March 16
- Vietnam War –My Lai massacre: American troops kill between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians and rape women and children. The story, initially covered up as a military victory, will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.
- U.S. SenatorRobert F. Kennedy enters the race for theDemocratic Party presidential nomination.
March 18 –Gold standard: TheUnited States Congress repeals the requirement for agold reserve to back U.S. currency.
March 19–23 –Afrocentrism,Black Power,Vietnam War: Students atHoward University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-daysit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over itsROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.
March 22 –Daniel Cohn-Bendit ("Danny the Red") and 7 other students occupy the administrative offices of the newNanterre campus of the University of Paris as part of protests over a rigid educational system, setting in motion a chain of 'May 68' events that lead France to the brink of revolution.
March 24 –Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route fromCork to London nearTuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew.
March 28 –Brazilian high school studentEdson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against themilitary dictatorship.
March 31 – In a televised address, U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election.
April 2 – Bombs explode at midnight in two department stores inFrankfurt-am-Main;Andreas Baader andGudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced forarson.
April 4
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.:Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at theLorraine Motel inMemphis, Tennessee byJames Earl Ray.King-assassination riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.
- Apollo program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (Apollo 6) is launched, as the second and last uncrewed test-flight of theSaturn V launch vehicle.
- AEK Athens wins theFIBA European Cup Winners Cup Final inbasketball againstSlavia Prague, in front of a record attendance of 80,000 spectators. It is the first major European trophy won at club level of any sport in Greece.
April 6
- 13th Eurovision Song Contest is held in theRoyal Albert Hall, London. The winning song,Spain's "La, la, la" (music and lyrics by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) is sung in Spanish byMassiel after Spanish authorities refuse to allowJoan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan. TheUnited Kingdom finishes in second place, one point behind, with the song "Congratulations" sung byCliff Richard, which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe.
- A shootout betweenBlack Panthers and police inOakland, California, results in several arrests and deaths, including 17-year-old PantherBobby Hutton.
- Richmond, Indiana explosion: A double explosion in downtownRichmond caused by amethane leak kills 41 and injures 150.
April 7 – British racing driverJim Clark is killed in aFormula 2 race atHockenheim.
April 10 – The ferryTEV Wahine strikes areef at the mouth ofWellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, in Cyclone Giselle, which has created the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand.
April 11
- Josef Bachmann tries to assassinateRudi Dutschke, leader of the left-wing movement (APO) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later.
- German left-wing students blockade theSpringer Press headquarters in Berlin and many are arrested (one of themUlrike Meinhof).
April 18 –London Bridge is sold to U.S. entrepreneurRobert P. McCulloch for reconstruction atLake Havasu City, Arizona.^[17]
April 20
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.^[18]
- Conservative British politicianEnoch Powell makes a controversial"Rivers of Blood" speech in Birmingham deploring the effects of immigration; he is dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet the following day.^[19]
- South African Airways Flight 228 aBoeing 707 crashed shortly after take-off killing 123 people on board
April 23
- PresidentMobutu releases capturedmercenaries in theCongo.
- Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain.
- TheUnited Methodist Church is created by the union inDallas, Texas, of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches.
April 23–30 –Vietnam War:Columbia University protests of 1968 – Student protesters atColumbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
April 26 – Thenuclear weapon "Boxcar" istested at theNevada Test Site in the biggest detonation ofOperation Crosstie.

May–June

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May 2–June 23: Protests in France grow and demonstrators barricade the streets

May 1 –CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, is formally created as an agreement betweenAntigua and Barbuda,Barbados,Guyana, andTrinidad and Tobago.^[20]
May 2
- TheIsrael Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.
- May 68: Authorities close the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris and the focus of protest moves to theSorbonne.
May 3 –Braniff Flight 352 crashes nearDawson, Texas, United States, killing all 85 people on board.
May 6 –May 68: Student protestors begin battling with police on the streets of Paris.
May 13
- May 68: Major left trade union federations in France call a 1-daygeneral strike and join student protesters in a million-strong march through the streets of Paris.^[21]
- Manchester City wins the1967–68 Football League First Division by 2 clear points, over English club rivals Manchester United.
May 16 –Ronan Point, a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5.
May 17 – TheCatonsville Nine enter theSelective Service offices inCatonsville, Maryland, take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them withnapalm as a protest against theVietnam War.
May 18
- Mattel'sHot Wheels toy cars are introduced in the United States.
- West Bromwich Albion win the English Football Association Cup, defeating Everton 1–0 after extra time. The winning goal is scored byJeff Astle.
May 19
- 1968 Italian general election.
- Nigerian forces capturePort Harcourt and form a ring around theBiafrans. This contributes to a humanitarian disaster as the surrounded population already suffers from hunger and starvation.
May 22 – The U.S. nuclear-poweredsubmarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of theAzores.
May 27 –May 68:Grenelle agreements concluded in France, giving a large increase in minimum wages, but are rejected by trade unions.^[22]
May 29
- May 68:President de Gaulle of France leaves Paris without telling his prime minister,Georges Pompidou, where he is going – which is in fact to the headquarters of theFrench Forces in Germany atBaden-Baden to assure himself of military support.^[23]
- Manchester United F.C. wins theEuropean Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so.
May 30
- May 68: With hundreds of thousands marching on the streets of Paris, President de Gaulle calls an election, which has the effect of calming the situation.^[23]
- Bobby Unser wins theIndianapolis 500 automobile race.
June 2 –Student demonstrations in Yugoslavia start inBelgrade.
June 3 –Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shootsAndy Warhol at his New York City studio,The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation.
June 4 – TheStandard & Poor's 500 index in the United States closes above 100 for the first time, at 100.38.
June 5 –Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: SenatorRobert F. Kennedy, a leading1968 Democratic presidential candidate, is shot at theAmbassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Palestinian-bornSirhan Sirhan is arrested.
June 7 –Ford sewing machinists strike forequal pay starts at theFord Dagenham plant in London.
June 10 –Italy beatsYugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win the1968 European Championship in Association football. The original final onJune 8 ended 1–1.
June 12 – The horror filmRosemary's Baby premieres in the U.S.
June 17 – TheMalayan Communist Party launches asecond insurgency and the state of emergency is again imposed inMalaysia.
June 20 –Austin Currie, Member of theParliament of Northern Ireland, along with others, squats in a house inCaledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
June 21 – Astudent demonstration in front of theJornal do Brasil ("JB") building in Rio de Janeiro ends with 28 dead and over a thousand arrested.
June 23 –Puerta 12 tragedy: A football stampede inBuenos Aires leaves 74 dead and 150 injured.
June 23–30 –1968 French legislative election: The GaullistUnion pour la défense de la République becomes the first party in French political history to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly.^[24]George Pompidou leads the party through the campaign but resigns as prime minister afterwards. The public unrest ofMay 68 subsides.
June 26
- TheBonin Islands are returned to Japan after 23 years of occupation by the United States Navy.
- The "March of the One Hundred Thousand" takes place inRio de Janeiro as crowds demonstrate against theBrazilian military government.

July–August

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August 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia

July 1 – TheNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.
July 4 – English yachtsmanAlec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails intoPortsmouth, after his 354-day solo round-the-world trip.
July 17 –Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council inIraq after acoup d'état.
July 18 – The semiconductor companyIntel is founded in what becomes known as theSilicon Valley of California.
July 20 – The first InternationalSpecial Olympics Summer Games are held atSoldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
July 23–28 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in theGlenville Shootout ofCleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
July 25 –Pope Paul VI publishes theencyclicalHumanae vitae, reaffirming the Catholic Church's opposition to artificialbirth control.
July 25-Tysons Corner Center^[25] one of the largest malls in the U.S. opens to the public and theWashington DC area.
July 26 – Vietnam War:South Vietnamese opposition leaderTrương Đình Dzu is sentenced to 5 yearshard labor for advocating the formation of acoalition government as a way to move toward an end to thewar.
July 29 –Arenal Volcano erupts inCosta Rica for the first time in centuries.
August 1 – TheMunicipal University of São Caetano do Sul is established inSão Caetano do Sul,São Paulo.
August 2 – The magnitude (M_w) 7.6Casiguran earthquake affects theAurora province in the Philippines with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 207 and injuring 261.
August 5–8 – TheRepublican National Convention inMiami Beach, Florida nominatesRichard Nixon for U.S. president andSpiro Agnew for vice president.
August 11 – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection ofBritish Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey fromLiverpool toCarlisle and return – the journey is known as theFifteen Guinea Special.
August 18 – Two charter buses are forced into theHida River on National Highway Route 41 in Japan in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed.
August 20–21 –Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: The 'Prague Spring' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000Warsaw Pact troops and 6,500tanks with 800 aircraft invadeCzechoslovakia, the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II.
August 24 –Canopus (nuclear test): France explodes its firsthydrogen bomb in a test atFangataufa atoll inFrench Polynesia.
August 22–30 –1968 Democratic National Convention protests: Police clash withanti-Vietnam War protesters inChicago outside the1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominatesHubert Humphrey for U.S. president andEdmund Muskie for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of theYouth International Party.
August 29 –Crown Prince Harald of Norway marriesSonja Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for 9 years.

September–October

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October 12–27: 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City

September 6 –Swaziland (later known as Eswatini) becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
September 7 – The crash ofAir France Flight 1611 kills 95 people, including French Army GeneralRené Cogny, as theCaravelle jetliner plunges into theMediterranean Sea following a fire while making its approach toNice following its departure from the island ofCorsica.
September 11
- TheInternational Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is founded.^[26]
- John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi'sVespro della Beata Vergine with theMonteverdi Choir at theBBC Proms in London.^[27]
September 13 –Albania officially withdraws from the Warsaw Pact upon the Soviet Union-ledWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, having already ceased to participate actively in Pact activity since 1962.
September 17 – TheD'Oliveira affair: TheMarylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence ofBasil D'Oliveira, aCape Coloured, in the England side.
September 21 – The SovietZond 5 uncrewed lunar flyby mission returns to Earth, with its first-of-a-kind biological payload intact.
September 23 –Vietnam War: TheTet Offensive comes to an end inSouth Vietnam.
September 27 –Marcelo Caetano becomesprime minister of Portugal.
September 29 – Areferendum in Greece gives more power to the military junta.
October 2 –Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas inTlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the1968 Summer Olympics. 300-400 are estimated to have been killed.
October 3 – InPeru,Juan Velasco Alvarado takes power in a revolution.
October 8 –Vietnam War:Operation Sealords – United States andSouth Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in theMekong Delta.
October 10 – TheDetroit Tigers win the1968 World Series in baseball in seven games.
October 11
- Apollo program:NASA launchesApollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission (Wally Schirra,Donn Eisele,Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first livetelevision broadcast fromorbit and simulatinglunar module rendezvous and docking, using theS-IVB rocket stage as a test target.
- InPanama, a militarycoup d'état, led by Col. Boris Martinez and Col.Omar Torrijos, overthrows the democratically elected (but highly controversial) government of PresidentArnulfo Arias. Within a year, Torrijos ousts Martinez and takes charge as de factoHead of Government in Panama.
October 12–27 – The1968 Summer Olympics are held in Mexico City, Mexico.
October 12 –Equatorial Guinea receives its independence from Spain.
October 14 –Vietnam War: TheUnited States Department of Defense announces that theUnited States Army andUnited States Marines will send about 24,000 troops back toVietnam for involuntary second tours.
October 16
- 1968 Olympics Black Power salute: In Mexico City, African-American athletesTommie Smith andJohn Carlos raise their fists in aBlack Power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres (with the support of Australian silver medallistPeter Norman).
- Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by theRodney Riots, provoked by the banning of Guyanese-born academic and activistWalter Rodney from the country.
October 18 – U.S. athleteBob Beamon breaks the long jump world record by 55 cm / 213⁄4 ins at theOlympics inMexico City. His record stands for 23 years, and remains the second longest jump in history.
October 25 – Rock bandLed Zeppelin make their first live performance, atSurrey University in England^[28]
October 31 –Vietnam War: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks (which began on May 13), U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment ofNorth Vietnam" effectiveNovember 1.

November–December

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November 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President

November 5
- 1968 United States presidential election:Republican candidateRichard Nixon defeats theDemocratic candidate, Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey, andAmerican Independent Party candidateGeorge Wallace.
- Luis A. Ferré of the newly formedNew Progressive Party is electedGovernor of Puerto Rico by beating incumbent governorRoberto Sánchez Vilella of thePeople's Party,Luis Negrón López of thePopular Democratic Party and Antonio J. Gonzalez of thePuerto Rican Independence Party; he also becomes the first "statehooder" governor of the Island.
November 7 – Start of the1968 movement in Pakistan, which leads to the resignation of GeneralAyub Khan, and ultimately the split of the country and formation ofBangladesh.
November 8 – TheVienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals is signed and ratified.
November 11 – A secondrepublic is declared in theMaldives.
November 15 –Vietnam War:Operation Commando Hunt is initiated to interdict men and supplies on theHo Chi Minh trail, throughLaos intoSouth Vietnam. By the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations.^[29]^[30]
November 17
- British European Airways introduces theBAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
- The "Heidi Game":NBC cuts off the final 1:05 of anOakland Raiders–New York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduledHeidi. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.
November 19 – InMali, PresidentModibo Keïta's regime is overthrown in a bloodlessmilitary coup led byMoussa Traoré.^[31]
November 20 – TheFarmington Mine disaster in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.
November 22
- The Beatles ("The White Album") andThe Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society are released.^[32]
- Japan Air Lines Flight 2, flying fromTokyo toSan Francisco International Airport ditches inSan Francisco Bay due to pilot error; all 107 on board survive without injury.
November 24 – 4 menhijack Pan Am Flight 281 fromJFK International Airport, New York toHavana,Cuba.
December 9 –Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneeringhypertext system,NLS, inSan Francisco, together with thecomputer mouse, at what becomes retrospectively known as "The Mother of All Demos".
December 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the never-solved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
December 11 – The filmOliver! based on the hit London andBroadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in the UK. It goes on to win theAcademy Award forBest Picture.
December 13 – Prompted by growing unrest and a perceived proliferation of "pro-communist" violent actions,Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva enacts the so-calledAI-5, the fifth of a series of non-constitutional emergency decrees allegedly to help "stabilize" the country after the turmoils of the early 1960s.
December 20 – The first knownZodiac Killer murder takes place in Lake Herman Road,Vallejo,California.
December 22 –Mao Zedong advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in thecountryside. It marks the start of the"Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement.
December 24 –Apollo program: The crewed U.S. spacecraftApollo 8 enters orbit around theMoon. AstronautsFrank Borman,Jim Lovell andWilliam Anders become the first humans to see thefar side of theMoon and planetEarth as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographsEarthrise. The crew also give areading from the Book of Genesis.
December 28 –1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon: Israeli forces fly intoLebanese airspace, launching an attack on the airport inBeirut and destroying more than a dozen aircraft.

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TheKhmer Rouge is officially formed inCambodia as an offshoot movement of theVietnam People's Army fromNorth Vietnam to bring communism to the nation. A few years later, they will become bitter enemies.
Drainage of theFlevopolder in the Netherlands is completed, creating by some definitions the largestartificial island in the world.^[33]^[34]
An oil field is confirmed in Northern Alaska: thePrudhoe Bay Oil Field.

Births

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Births
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January

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January 1 –Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
January 2
- Oleg Deripaska, Russian businessman
- Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
- Anky van Grunsven, Dutch equesterian
January 5
- DJ BoBo, Swiss singer-songwriter and dancer
- Andrzej Gołota, Polish boxer^[35]
- Carrie Ann Inaba, American choreographer, game show host and singer
January 6 –John Singleton, African-American film director and writer (d.2019)^[36]
January 9 –Silver King, Mexican luchador (d.2019)
January 11 –Benjamin List, German organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 12
- Rachael Harris, American actress and comedian^[37]
January 13 –Pat Onstad, Canadian soccer player
January 14 –LL Cool J, African-American rapper and actor
January 16 –Atticus Ross, English musician, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer
January 17 –Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
January 18 –David Ayer, American filmmaker
January 24
- Michael Kiske, German musician
- Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
January 26 –Novala Takemoto, Japanese author and fashion designer
January 27 –Mike Patton, American singer
January 28 –Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer
January 29 –Edward Burns, American actor
January 30 – KingFelipe VI of Spain

February

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February 1
- Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter, daughter ofElvis Presley (d.2023)
- Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player
February 3 –Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player
February 5
- Marcus Grönholm, Finnish rally driver
- Qasim Melho, Syrian television actor
February 7
- Peter Bondra, Slovakianice hockey player
- Porntip Nakhirunkanok, Miss Universe 1988
February 8
- Gary Coleman, African-American actor (d.2010)
- April Stewart, American voice actress
February 10
- Laurie Foell, New Zealand/Australian actress
- Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
February 11
- Lavinia Agache, Romanian artistic gymnast
- Mo Willems, American children's book author
February 12 –Josh Brolin, American actor
February 13
- Kelly Hu, American actress and voice artist, previously fashion model and beauty queen
- Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer,Eurovision Song Contest 1993 winner
February 14 –Jules Asner, American model and television personality
February 15 –Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress^[38]
February 18
- Molly Ringwald, American actress^[39]
- Dennis Satin, German film director
February 21 –Pellom McDaniels, American football player (d.2020)
February 22
- Bradley Nowell, American musician (d.1996)
- Jeri Ryan, American actress
February 23 –Jagath Wickramaratne, Sri Lankan politician and 23rd Speaker of the Parliament
February 24
- Andy Berman, American actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist and comedian
- Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d.2005)
February 29 –Sam Sneed, American producer and rapper

March

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March 1
- Kat Cressida, American voice actress
- Kunjarani Devi, Indian weightlifter
- Muho Noelke, German Zen master
March 2 –Daniel Craig, British actor
March 3 –Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
March 4
- Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- Patsy Kensit, British actress
- Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (2019–present)^[40]
March 5
- Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian Prime Minister
- Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, 10thPrime Minister of Eswatini (d.2020)
March 6 –Moira Kelly, American actress
March 7 –Jeff Kent, American baseball player
March 9
- Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer^[41]
- Rexy Mainaky, Indonesian badminton player
March 11 –Lisa Loeb, American singer
March 12
- Aaron Eckhart, American actor
- Tammy Duckworth, US Senator
March 13
- Gillian Keegan, British politician
- Masami Okui, Japanese singer
March 14
- Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress^[42]
- James Frain, British actor
March 15
- Mark McGrath, American singer
- Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
- Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer
March 16
- David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Trevor Wilson, American basketball player
March 20
- Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean long-distance runner
- Ultra Naté, American singer-songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter
March 22 –Euronymous, Norwegian musician (d.1993)
March 23
- Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter and musician^[43]
- Mike Atherton, English cricketer^[44]
- Fernando Hierro, Spanish football player and coach^[45]
March 26
- Kenny Chesney, Americancountry music singer^[46]
- James Iha, American rock musician
March 27 –Ben Koldyke, American actor
March 28 –Iris Chang, American author (d.2004)^[47]
March 29 –Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer^[48]
March 30 –Celine Dion, Canadian singer^[49]
March 31 –César Sampaio, Brazilian football player and coach^[50]

April

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April 1
- Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
- Andreas Schnaas, German director
- Alexander Stubb, 43rd Prime Minister of Finland
April 5
- Paula Cole, American singer
- Stephen Bardo, American basketball player
- Stewart Lee, English stand-up comedian
April 7 –Jože Možina, Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalist
April 8
- Patricia Arquette, American actress
- Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper
April 9 –Tom Brands, AmericanOlympic wrestler
April 11 –CB Milton, Dutch electronic music vocalist
April 12
- Ott, English musician and record producer
- Neil Brady, Canadian ice hockey player
April 13 –Necrobutcher, Norwegian musician
April 14 –Anthony Michael Hall, American actor and singer
April 15 –Stacey Williams, American model
April 16
- Greg Baker, American actor and musician
- Martin Dahlin, Swedish football player
- Vickie Guerrero, American professional wrestler
April 17
- Julie Fagerholt, Danish fashion designer
- Adam McKay, American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian and actor
April 18 –David Hewlett, English-born Canadian actor, writer and director
April 19 –Ashley Judd, American actress
April 20
- J. D. Roth, American television host
- Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier
April 22 –Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player (d.2017)
April 23 –Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d.2001)
April 24
- Stacy Haiduk, American actress
- Jorge Medina, Bolivian civil rights activist and politician (d.2022)^[51]
- Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
April 28 –Howard Donald, British singer (Take That)
April 29
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President ofCroatia (2015–2020)^[52]
- Michael Herbig, German film director, actor and author
- Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler

May

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May 1 –Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
May 2
- Jeff Agoos, American soccer player
- Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
May 3
- Nina Paley, American cartoonist
- Li Yong, Chinese host (d.2018)
- Amy Ryan, American actress
May 4
- Julian Barratt, English comedian, actor, musician and music producer
- Momoko Kikuchi, Japanese actress and singer
- Eric Xun Li, Chinese venture capitalist
May 5 –John Soko, Zambian footballer (d.1993)
May 7
- Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish-born musician
- Traci Lords, American actress
May 8 –
- Mickaël Madar, French footballer^[53]
- Éric Martineau, French politician^[54]
May 9
- Carla Overbeck, American soccer player
- Marie-José Pérec, French athlete
- Nataša Pirc Musar, Slovenian politician, attorney, author, journalist and 5thPresident of Slovenia
May 10 –Al Murray, English comedian
May 12 –Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
May 13
- Sonja Zietlow, German television presenter
- Scott Morrison, 30th Prime Minister of Australia
May 14 –Greg Davies, English actor, comedian and presenter
May 16 –Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
May 17 –Constance Menard, French professional dressage rider
May 18 –Vanessa Leggett, American freelance journalist, author, lecturer andFirst Amendment advocate
May 19 –Kyle Eastwood, American jazz bass musician
May 20
- Timothy Olyphant, American actor
- Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player
May 22
- Michael Kelly, American actor
- Graham Linehan, Irish television writer and director
May 23 –John Ortiz, American actor
May 24 –Charles De'Ath, English actor
May 26 –King Frederik X of Denmark
May 27
- Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
- Frank Thomas, American baseball player
May 28 –Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
May 30 –Zacarias Moussaoui, French-Moroccan 9/11 conspirator

June

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June 1 –Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
June 2
- Beetlejuice, American entertainer, member of theWack Pack (The Howard Stern Show)
- Jon Culshaw, English impressionist
June 4 –Scott Wolf, American actor
June 5 –Sandra Annenberg, Brazilian newscaster, previously actress
- Mel Giedroyc, English comedian and presenter
June 9 –Aleksandr Konovalov, Russian lawyer and politician
June 10
- Bill Burr, American comedian
- Nobutoshi Canna, Japanese voice actor
June 14 –Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
June 16 –Mariana Mazzucato, Italian born-American economist^[55]
June 20 –Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish banker and politician, 17thPrime Minister of Poland
June 22 –Lohan Ratwatte, Sri Lankan politician,MP (2010–2024) (d.2025)
June 24 –Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster
June 25 –Albert Fulivai, Tongan rugby league player
June 26
- Paolo Maldini, Italian football player
- Jovenel Moïse, 42ndPresident of Haiti (d.2021)^[56]
- Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer
June 27 –Isabel Saint Malo, Panamian politician
June 28
- Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer
- Adam Woodyatt, English actor
June 29 –Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player^[57]
June 30 –Phil Anselmo, American heavy metal vocalist

July

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July 5
- Ken Akamatsu, Japanesemanga artist
- Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
- Darin LaHood, American attorney and politician^[58]
July 6 –Rashid Sidek, Malaysian badminton player and coach
July 7
- Jorja Fox, American actress
- Allen Payne, American actor
- Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
July 8
- Billy Crudup, American actor
- Akio Suyama, Japanesevoice actor
- Josephine Teo, Singaporean politician
- Michael Weatherly, American actor
July 9 –Eduardo Santamarina, Mexican actor
July 10 –Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
July 11 –Conrad Vernon, American voice actor and director
July 13
- Robert Gant, American actor
- Omi Minami, Japanese voice actress
July 14 –Samantha Gori, Italian basketball player
July 15
- Leticia Calderón, Mexican actress
- Eddie Griffin, American actor and comedian
- Rosalinda Celentano, Italian actress
July 16
- Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
- Barry Sanders, American football player
- Olga de Souza, Brazilian-Italian singer, model and dancer
July 17
- Darren Day, British actor and TV presenter
- Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian
July 18 –Grant Bowler, New Zealand-born Australian actor
July 19 –Robert Flynn, American vocalist and guitarist (Machine Head)
July 20 –Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player
July 23
- Gary Payton, American basketball player
- Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress
July 24
- Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
- Laura Leighton, American actress
- Troy Kotsur, American actor
July 25 –John Grant, American singer-songwriter
July 27
- Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
- Julian McMahon, Australian actor (d.2025)
July 30
- Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
- Terry Crews, American actor, television host and artist, previously American football player

August

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August 1 –Pavo Urban, Croatian photographer (d.1991)
August 3 –Rod Beck, American baseball player (d.2007)
August 4
- Lee Mack, English actor and stand-up comedian
- Olga Neuwirth, Austrian composer
August 5 –Patricia Tarabini, Argentine tennis player
- Marine Le Pen, French politician
- Colin McRae, Scottishrally car driver (d.2007)
August 6
August 7 –Lynn Strait, American musician (d.1998)
August 8 –Kimberly Brooks, American actress and voice artist
August 9
- Gillian Anderson, American actress
- Eric Bana, Australian actor
- James Roy, Australian author
August 11 –Vladimir Kosterin, Ukrainian businessman and foundation president^[59]
August 12
- Pablo Rey, Spanish painter
- Paul Tucker, English songwriter and record producer
- Kōji Yusa, Japanese voice actor
August 14
- Catherine Bell, American actress
- Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
- Jennifer Flavin, businesswoman, previously model
- Jason Leonard, English rugby union player
August 15 –Debra Messing, American actress
August 16 –Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician
August 17
- Ed McCaffrey, American football player
- Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist
- Helen McCrory, English actress (d.2021)
August 20
- Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (d.2014)
- Yuri Shiratori Japanese actress and singer
- Bai Yansong, Chinese host
August 21
- Dina Carroll, British singer
- Stretch, American rapper and record producer (d.1995)
August 24
- Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
- Hiroshi Kitadani, Japanese singer
- Tim Salmon, American baseball player
- Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (d.1992)
August 25 –Rachael Ray, American television chef and host
August 27 –Luis Tascón, Venezuelan politician (d.2010)
August 28
- Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
- Tom Warburton, American animator
August 31
- Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player
- Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player

September

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September 1
- Mohamed Atta, 9/11 ringleader of the hijackers and pilot ofAmerican Airlines Flight 11 (d.2001)
- Atsuko Yuya, Japanese voice actress
September 2 –Francisco Acevedo, American serial killer^[60]
September 3 –Raymond Coulthard, English actor
September 4
- John DiMaggio, American voice actor and comedian
- Mike Piazza, American baseball player
September 5 –Thomas Levet, French golfer
September 7 –Marcel Desailly, French footballer
September 9 –Julia Sawalha, English actress
September 10
- Big Daddy Kane, American hip-hop artist
- Guy Ritchie, British film director
September 11
- Kay Hanley, American musician
- Tetsuo Kurata, Japanese actor model
September 13 –Laura Cutina, Romanian artistic gymnast
September 15 –Danny Nucci, American actor
September 16 –Marc Anthony, American actor and singer
September 17
- Anastacia, American singer-songwriter
- Tito Vilanova, Spanish football manager (d.2014)
September 18 –Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
September 20 –Van Jones, African-American author
September 21
- Lisa Angell, French singer
- Kevin Buzzard, British mathematician
- Ricki Lake, American actress, producer and television presenter
September 22 –Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, 62nd Prime Minister of Romania
September 23 –Michelle Thomas, American actress (d.1998)
September 25
- Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (d.2013)
- John A. List, American economist
- Will Smith, African-American actor and rapper
September 26
- James Caviezel, American actor
- Michelle Meldrum, American guitarist (d.2008)
- Tricia O'Kelley, American actress
- Ben Shenkman, American television, film and stage actor
September 27
- Mari Kiviniemi, 62ndPrime Minister of Finland
- Paul Rudish, American voice actor and animator
September 28
- Mika Häkkinen, Finnish doubleFormula 1 world champion
- Naomi Watts, British actress and film producer
September 29
- Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator and television personality
- Luke Goss, English singer and actor
- Alex Skolnick, American jazz/heavy metal guitarist
- Samir Soni, Indian film and TV actor
September 30 –Bennet Omalu, Nigerian pathologist

October

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October 1
- Kevin Griffin, American singer-songwriter, frontman ofBetter Than Ezra^[61]
- Mark Durden-Smith, British television presenter
- Jay Underwood, American actor
October 2
- Lucy Cohu, English actress
- Victoria Derbyshire, English broadcast presenter
- Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (d.2017)
October 3 –Nadia Calviño, Spanish politician
October 7
- Luminița Anghel, Romanian dance/pop recording artist, songwriter, television personality and politician
- Thom Yorke, British singer-songwriter
October 8
- Daniela Castelo, Argentine journalist (d.2011)
- Emily Procter, American actress
October 9
- Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d.2011)
- Pete Docter, American animator, director
October 10
- Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountainbiker
- Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish rock singer-songwriter
October 11
- Tiffany Grant, American voice actress
- Jane Krakowski, American actress
- Brett Salisbury, American football quarterback
October 12
- Paul Harragon, Australian rugby league player
- Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer and producer
October 13
- Preet Bharara, Indian-American politician
- Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer
October 14
- Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
October 15
- Didier Deschamps, French footballer
- Jyrki 69, Finnish singer
- Nashwa Mustafa, Egyptian actress
October 16 –Michael Stich, German tennis player
October 20 –Damien Timmer, British joint-managing director, television producer, television executive producer
October 22 –Shaggy, Jamaican singer
October 24 –Mark Walton, American story artist, actor
October 27 –Alain Auderset, Swedish writer
October 28 –Juan Orlando Hernández, 55thPresident of Honduras
October 29
- Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater^[62]
- Tsunku, Japanese singer, music producer and song composer
- John Farley, American actor and comedian
October 30
- Moira Quirk, English actress and voice actress
- Jack Plotnick, American film and television actor, writer and producer

November

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November 1 –Silvio Fauner, Italian cross-country skier
November 4
- Lee Germon, New Zealand cricketer
- Daniel Landa, Czech composer, singer and actor
- Miles Long, Americanpornographic actor anddirector
November 5
- Mr. Catra, Brazilian musician (d.2018)
- Sam Rockwell, American actor
- Seth Gilliam, African-American actor
- Penny Wong, Australian politician, Foreign Minister^[63]
November 6 –Kelly Rutherford, American actress
November 7 –Ignacio Padilla, Mexican writer (d.2016)
November 8
- Parker Posey, American actress
- Zara Whites, Dutch actress
November 9 –Nazzareno Carusi, Italian classical pianist
November 10 –Tracy Morgan, African-American actor and comedian
November 12
- Kathleen Hanna, American musician and activist
- Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress
- Sammy Sosa, DominicanMajor League Baseball player
November 13 –Pat Hentgen, American baseball player
November 15
- Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
- Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d.2004)
November 16 –Tammy Lauren, American actress
November 18
- Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- Luizianne Lins, Brazilian politician
- Owen Wilson, American actor and comedian
November 20
- Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean Chinese television actor
- Jules Trobaugh, American artist and photographer
November 21
- Qiao Hong, Chinese table tennis player
- Sean Schemmel, American voice actor
November 24
- Phil Starbuck, Englishfootballer
- Awie, Malaysian rock singer
- yukihiro, Japanese musician
November 25
- Tunde Baiyewu, British singer
- Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
November 27 –Michael Vartan, French actor
November 29
- Hayabusa, Japanese professional wrestler (d.2016)
- Jonathan Knight, American singer
November 30 –Rica Matsumoto, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer

December

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December 2
- Lucy Liu, American actress, voice actress, director, singer, dancer, model and artist
- Rena Sofer, American actress
December 3
- Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor
- Montell Jordan, American singer
December 5
- Margaret Cho, American actress and comedian
- Wendi Deng Murdoch, Chinese-American entrepreneur and businesswoman
December 7
- Mark Geyer, Australianrugby league player
- David Kabré, Burkinabe military leader and politician
December 9 –Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler,1996 Olympic gold medalist
December 11
- Emmanuelle Charpentier, French biochemist, recipient ofNobel Prize in Chemistry
- Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt, German speed skater
- Eula Valdez, Filipino actress
December 18
- Casper Van Dien, American actor
- Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
December 19 –Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
December 20 –Nadia Farès, Moroccan born-French actress
December 21 –Khrystyne Haje, American actress
December 22 –Dina Meyer, American actress
December 23 –Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, American photographer
December 24 –Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model (d.2008)
December 25 –Helena Christensen, Danish model
December 28 –Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor
December 30 –Fabrice Guy, French Olympic skier

Unknown date

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Eleonora Requena, Venezuelan poet.^[64]
Martin Ssempa, Ugandan pastor and internet meme.
Isadora Zubillaga, Venezuelan diplomat and activist.^[65]

Deaths

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Deaths
January ·February ·March ·April ·May ·June ·July ·August ·September ·October ·November ·December

January

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January 4
- Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and manager (b.1904)
- Joseph Pholien, Belgian politician, 37thPrime Minister of Belgium (b.1884)
January 6 –Karl Kobelt, 2-time President of the Swiss Confederation (b.1891)
January 7
- Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b.1930)
- Mario Roatta, Italian general (b.1887)
January 9 –Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Japanese athlete (b.1940)
January 10
- Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Turkish politician (b.1882)
- Eben Dönges, actingPrime Minister of South Africa and electedPresident of South Africa (b.1898)
January 15 –Leopold Infeld, Polish physicist (b.1898)
January 16 –Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, religious broadcaster and founder ofBob Jones University (b.1883)^[66]
January 18 –John Ridgely, American actor (b.1909)
January 21 –Georg Dertinger, German politician (b.1902)
January 22
- Aleksandr Arbuzov, Russian chemist (b.1877)
- Duke Kahanamoku, American Olympic swimmer (b.1890)
January 29 –Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese-French painter and printmaker (b.1886)

February

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February 4
- Eddie Baker, American actor (b.1897)
- Neal Cassady, American author and poet (b.1926)
February 7 –Nick Adams, American actor (b.1931)
February 10 –Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist (b.1889)
February 11 –Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b.1888)
February 13
- Mae Marsh, American actress (b.1894)
- Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (b.1880)
February 15 –Little Walter, American blues musician and singer-songwriter (b.1930)
February 17 – SirDonald Wolfit, English actor (b.1902)
February 19 –Georg Hackenschmidt, German strongman and professional wrestler (b.1877)
February 20 –Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b.1902)^[67]
February 21 –Howard Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of theNobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b.1898)
February 22 –Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b.1904)
February 25 –Camille Huysmans, Belgian politician, 34thPrime Minister of Belgium (b.1871)
February 27
- Frankie Lymon, American singer (b.1942)
- Hertha Sponer, German physicist and chemist (b.1895)
February 29 –Hugo Benioff, American seismologist (b.1899)

March

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March 6 –Joseph W. Martin Jr., American politician (b.1884)
March 8 –Jerzy Braun, Polish athlete (b.1911)
March 14 –Erwin Panofsky, German-Jewish art historian (b.1892)
March 15 –Khuang Aphaiwong, 4thPrime Minister of Thailand, country leader duringWorld War II (b.1902)
March 16 –Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b.1895)^[68]
March 20 –Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (b.1889)^[69]
March 23 –Edwin O'Connor, American journalist, novelist and radio commentator (b.1918)^[70]
March 24 –Alice Guy-Blaché, French filmmaker (b.1873)^[71]
March 27 –Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (b.1934)^[72]
March 30 –Bobby Driscoll, American child actor (b.1937)

April

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April 1 –Lev Landau, Russian physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1908)
April 4
- Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (b.1929)
- Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian newspaper magnate (b.1892)
April 7 –Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver and doubleFormula One World Champion (b.1936)
April 12 –Heinrich Nordhoff, German automotive engineer (b.1899)^[73]
April 15 –Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher (b.1895)
April 16
- Fay Bainter, American actress (b.1893)
- Albert Betz, German physicist (b.1885)
- Edna Ferber, American writer (b.1885)^[74]
April 20 –Soraya Tarzi, Afghan queen (b.1899)^[75]
April 24
- Tommy Noonan, American actor (b.1921)
- Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b.1876)
April 26 –John Heartfield, German visual artist (b.1891)
April 28 –Raoul Abatchou, Central African politician and mining operator (b.1926)^[76]

May

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May 5 –Albert Dekker, American actor (b.1905)
May 7 –Lurleen Wallace, American politician (b.1926)
May 9
- Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (b.1878)
- Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and novelist (b.1892)
- Marion Lorne, American actress (b.1883)
May 10 –Scotty Beckett, American child actor (b.1929)
May 11 –Robert Burks, American cinematographer (b.1909)
May 14 –Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b.1882)
May 23 –Franco Riccardi, Italian fencer, Olympic champion (b.1905)^[77]
May 25 –Georg von Küchler, German field marshal and war criminal (b.1881)
May 26 –Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b.1937)
May 28
- Kees van Dongen, Dutch-French painter (b.1877)
- Fyodor Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (b.1908)

June

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June 1 –Helen Keller, American activist and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (b.1880)^[78]
June 2 –R. Norris Williams, American tennis player (b.1891)
June 4
- Dorothy Gish, American actress (b.1898)
- Sir Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.1882)^[79]
June 6
- Randolph Churchill, British politician, son ofWinston Churchill (b.1911)
- Robert F. Kennedy, American lawyer, politician (United States Senator,U.S. Attorney General) and a leading1968 Democratic presidential candidate (b.1925)
June 7 –Dan Duryea, American actor (b.1907)
June 8 –Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (b.1933)
June 14
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish composer (b.1916)
- Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1901)
- Ernest Stoneman, American country music artist (b.1893)^[80]
June 15
- Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b.1880)^[81]
- Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b.1923)
June 17 –José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b.1901)
June 18 –Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general and war criminal (b.1885)
June 25 –Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b.1924)

July

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July 1
- Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b.1903)
- Virginia Weidler, American actress (b.1927)
July 2
- Zaki al-Arsuzi, Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist and historian (b.1899)
- Francis Brennan, American cardinal (b.1894)
July 7 –Jo Schlesser, French racing driver (b.1928)
July 9
- Viktor Blinov, Russian ice hockey player (b.1945)
- Alexander Cadogan, British diplomat (b.1884)
July 12 –José Bordas Valdez, 43rdPresident of the Dominican Republic (b.1874)
July 14 –Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian-Soviet writer (b.1892)
July 15 –Cai Chusheng, Chinese film director (b.1906)
July 18 –Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1892)
July 20 –Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (b.1908)
July 21 –Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (b.1879)
July 22 –Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b.1908)
July 23
- Luigi Cevenini, Italian footballer and coach (b.1895)
- Sir Henry Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist (b.1875)
July 27 –Lilian Harvey, Anglo-German actress and singer (b.1906)
July 28
- Otto Hahn, German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1879)
- Ángel Herrera Oria, Spanish journalist, politician, cardinal and servant of God (b.1886)

August

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August 3 –Konstantin Rokossovsky, Soviet officer,Marshal of the Soviet Union (b.1896)
August 5 –Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b.1928)
August 10 –Ratna Asmara, Indonesian actress and director (b.1913)
August 19 –George Gamow, Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b.1904)
August 25 –Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b.1910)
August 26 –Kay Francis, American actress (b.1905)
August 27
- Robert Z. Leonard, American film director (b.1889)
- Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b.1906)
August 29 –Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b.1881)^[82]
August 30 –William Talman, American actor (b.1915)
August 31 –Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (b.1908)

September

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September 3 –Juan José Castro, Argentine composer and conductor (b.1895)
September 7 –Lucio Fontana, Italian painter and sculptor (b.1899)
September 13 –Frank Barson, English footballer (b.1891)
September 17 –Armand Blanchonnet, French Olympic cyclist (b.1903)
September 18
- Franchot Tone, American actor (b.1905)
- Francis McDonald, American actor (b.1891)
September 19
- Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (b.1906)
- Red Foley, American singer (b.1910)
September 23 –Padre Pio, ItalianRoman Catholic priest and saint (b.1887)
September 24 –Virginia Valli, American actress (b.1898)
September 28 –Sir Norman Brookes, Australian tennis champion (b.1877)

October

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October 1 –Romano Guardini, Italian-German Catholic priest and theologian (b.1885)
October 2 –Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b.1887)
October 4
- Francis Biddle, American politician (b.1886)
- Hitoshi Imamura, Japanese general (b.1886)
October 13
- Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, literary critic and translator (b.1886)
- Bea Benaderet, American actress (b.1906)
October 15
- Franz Beyer, German general (b.1892)
- Herbert Copeland, American biologist (b.1902)
October 18 –Lee Tracy, American actor (b.1898)
October 20 –Bud Flanagan, British entertainer and comedian (b.1896)^[83]
October 26 –Sergei Bernstein, Russian and Soviet mathematician (b.1880)
October 27 –Lise Meitner, German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (b.1878)
October 28 –Hans Cramer, German general (b.1896)
October 30
- Rose Wilder Lane, American author (b.1886)^[84]
- Ramon Novarro, Mexican-born American actor (b.1899)
- Conrad Richter, American writer (b.1890)

November

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November 1 –Georgios Papandreou, 3-time Prime Minister of Greece (b.1888)
November 6 –Charles Munch, French conductor (b.1891)
November 7 –Alexander Gelfond, Soviet mathematician (b.1906)
November 8 –Wendell Corey, American actor (b.1914)
November 9
- Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b.1931)
- Gerald Mohr, American actor (b.1914)
November 11 –Jeanne Demessieux, French composer (b.1921)
November 14 –Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Spanish philologist and historian (b.1869)
November 15 –Charles Bacon, American athlete (b.1885)
November 16
- Augustin Bea, German cardinal (b.1881)
- Carl Bertilsson, Swedish gymnast (b.1889)
November 17
- Abdul Wahed Bokainagari, Bengali politician (b.1876)^[85]
- Mervyn Peake, English writer, artist, poet and illustrator (b.1911)^[86]
November 18 –Walter Wanger, American film producer (b.1894)
November 20 –Helen Gardner, American actress (b.1884)
November 24 –István Dobi, prime minister of Hungary (b.1898)^[87]
November 25 –Upton Sinclair, American writer (b.1878)^[88]
November 26 –Arnold Zweig, German writer, pacifist and socialist (b.1887)
November 28 –Enid Blyton, English writer (b.1897)
November 30 –Charles Henry Bartlett, British cyclist (b.1885)

December

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December 1
- Hugo Haas, Czech actor, director and writer (b.1901)
- Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, composer, lyricist and guitarist (b.1921)
December 4 –Archie Mayo, American actor and director (b.1891)
December 5 –Fred Clark, American actor (b.1914)
December 9 –Enoch L. Johnson, American political boss and racketeer (b.1883)
December 10
- Karl Barth, German Protestant theologian (b.1886)
- Thomas Merton, American author (b.1915)
December 12
- Tim Ahearne, Irish athlete (b.1885)
- Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b.1902)
December 14 –Dorothy Payne Whitney, American-born philanthropist, social activist (b.1887)^[89]
December 18 –Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician (b.1883)
December 19 –Norman Thomas, American socialist (b.1884)
December 20
- Max Brod, Czech-born Israeli composer, writer and biographer (b.1884)
- John Steinbeck, American writer,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1902)^[90]
December 21 –Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football player and manager (b.1886)^[91]
December 30
- Augustus Agar, British naval officer,Victoria Cross recipient (b.1890)
- Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1stSecretary General of the United Nations (b.1896)^[92]
- Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-born American animator (b.1904)^[93]
- Kirill Meretskov, Soviet military officer,Marshal of the Soviet Union (b.1897)
December 31 –George Lewis, American musician (b.1900)

Date unknown

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Sami Solh, 5-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b.1887)

Nobel Prizes

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External links

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"1968".Timeline. US:Digital Public Library of America. Archived fromthe original on June 5, 2014.

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