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Events from the year1977 in the United States.

• President:

Gerald Ford (R-Michigan) (until January 20)

Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia) (starting January 20)

• Vice President:

Nelson Rockefeller (R-New York) (until January 20)

Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) (starting January 20)

• Chief Justice:Warren E. Burger (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma) (until January 3)

Tip O'Neill (D-Massachusetts) (starting January 4)

• Senate Majority Leader:

Mike Mansfield (D-Montana) (until January 3)

Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) (starting January 3)

• Congress:94th (until January 3),95th (starting January 3)

• January
  • The world's first personal computer, theCommodore PET, is demonstrated at the winterConsumer Electronics Show in Chicago.^[1]
  • The Coalition of Free Men is founded inBaltimore, Maryland, in order to create a unified voice in addressing issues concerning men and boys. The organisation would later become theNational Coalition for Men, America's oldest men's rights organization.^[2]
• January 3 –Apple Computer is incorporated.
• January 9
  • Super Bowl XI: TheOakland Raiders defeat theMinnesota Vikings 32–14 at theRose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
  • Rock bandToto is founded byDavid Paich andJeff Porcaro inVan Nuys,Los Angeles.
• January 13 –Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045, a charter flight fromGrant County, Washington toTokyo, Japan, with a stopover inAnchorage, Alaska, stalls and crashes immediately after takeoff in Anchorage, killing all 5 people on board. The causes of the accident were later revealed to be drag on the aircraft by ice and an inebriated captain^[3]
• January 17 – In the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States,Gary Gilmore is executed byfiring squad inUtah.^[4]
• January 19
  • Snow falls inMiami, Florida (despite its ordinarilytropical climate) for the only time in its history. Snowfall has occurred further south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state ofHawaii.
  • PresidentGerald Ford pardonsIva Toguri D'Aquino (aka “Tokyo Rose”).
• January 20 –Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39thpresident of the United States, andWalter F. Mondale is sworn in as the 42ndvice president.
• January 21 – PresidentJimmy Carter pardonsVietnam War draft evaders.
• January 23 –Roots begins its phenomenally successful run onABC.
• January 28 – TheGreat Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hitsBuffalo, New York.^[5]
• January 1–31
  • The contiguous US average monthly minimum temperature of 12.54 °F or −10.81 °C^[6] is the coldest for any month since nationwide records were first compiled in 1895.^[a]
  • In contrast to the contiguous US, Alaska had to that point^[b] its warmest January on record with a mean of 17.4 °F or −8.1 °C being 16.2 °F or 9.0 °C warmer than the 1925 to 1974 average of 1.2 °F or −17.1 °C and 1.8 °F or 1.0 °C warmer than Alaska's previous record warmest January 1937.^[7]

• February 4
  • Fleetwood Mac'sGrammy Award-winning albumRumours is released.
  • ElevenCTA commuters are killed when anelevated train derails from theLoop in central Chicago.
• February 12 – Actress Christa Helm is fatally stabbed on a sidewalk in West Hollywood. The perpetrator is never identified.
• February 18 – TheSpace ShuttleEnterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of aBoeing 747, atEdwards Air Force Base inCalifornia.

• March 9 – Approximately a dozen armedHanafi MovementMuslimstake over three buildings in Washington, D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
• March 11 –Walt Disney Productions' 22nd feature film,The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, is released. It is the studio's most critically well-received film in years and the last in the Disney canon in which the lateWalt Disney was involved with in any capacity.
• March 18 –United States lifts its ban on travel by U.S. citizens toCambodia,Cuba,North Korea, andVietnam.
• March 15 – TenorLuciano Pavarotti and thePBSopera seriesLive from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production ofPuccini'sLa Boheme. Also debuting is theABCsitcomThree's Company.
• March 26 – The fundamentalist organizationFocus on the Family is founded by Dr.James Dobson.
• March 28 – The49th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted byRichard Pryor,Ellen Burstyn,Jane Fonda andWarren Beatty, is held atDorothy Chandler Pavilion inLos Angeles.John G. Avildsen'sRocky receives ten nominations, winningBest Picture andBest Director for Avildsen.Rocky is tied withSidney Lumet'sNetwork for the most nominations, while the latter film andAlan J. Pakula'sAll the President's Men both won four awards each. The latePeter Finch becomes the first posthumous actor Oscar winner, winning forBest Actor.

• April 4
  • Grundy, Virginia, experiences a major flood that causes around $15 million in damages to 228 residential and commercial structures.
  • Southern Airways Flight 242 during a flight leg en route toAtlanta, Georgia fromHuntsville, Alabama, is forced to make an emergency landing on a highway after complete failure of the aircraft's two engines following the aircraft flying through a hailstorm.^[8] 63 of the 85 people on board and 9 people on the ground are killed in the accident.^[9]
• April 5 – Beginning of demonstrations in 10 cities across the U.S., the longest being the3.5 week sit-in the San Francisco Federal Building to persuade President Jimmy Carter to implement the first Federal civil rights law for people with disabilities, Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, without reinstituting the "separate but equal" doctrine.
• April 7
  • TheToronto Blue Jays play their first game ofbaseball against theChicago White Sox.
  • TheSeattle Mariners play their first-ever game ofbaseball against theCalifornia Angels.
• April 21 – Residents ofDover, Massachusetts, report sightings of the so-called "Dover Demon".

• May 4 – TheUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops rule that divorced Catholics, including those who remarried outside the Church, are no longer automaticallyexcommunicated and can still attendMass but if they remarry without obtaining a Churchannulment, cannot receiveHoly Communion andconfession.^[10]
• May 8 –Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape,Three Weeks in May begins in Los Angeles and continues until May 24.^[11]
• May 14 – TheMontreal Canadiens sweep theBoston Bruins in four games to win their second straightStanley Cup.
• May 16 – A 20-passengerS-61L helicopter topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of thePan Am Building inMidtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is fatally struck by a fallen blade.
• May 17 –Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre first opens in San Jose, California.
• May 25 – The movieStar Wars, directed byGeorge Lucas is released as the first film in theStar Wars Saga and the first in the Original Trilogy. It is premiered in 32 movie theaters across the United States^[12] before reaching other cinemas nationwide. Critics who had previewed the film gave it good reviews, withTime magazine dubbing it "the year's best movie".^[13]Star Wars would go on to break the record for highest-grossing film (surpassingJaws,The Godfather andThe Sound of Music)^[14]
• May 26 –George Willig climbs the South Tower of theWorld Trade Center.
• May 27 –Space Mountain opens atDisneyland and will become one of the park's most popular attractions.
• May 28 – TheBeverly Hills Supper Club inSouthgate, Kentucky is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
• May 29 –Indianapolis 500:A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver (to date) to win a record four times.

• June 4–5 –Humboldt Park riot in Chicago.
• June 5 – ThePortland Trail Blazers defeat thePhiladelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the NBA finals 4–2.Bill Walton is named series MVP.
• June 7 – After campaigning byAnita Bryant and her anti-gay "Save Our Children" crusade,Miami-Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county'sgay rights ordinance.
• June 10
  • Apple II computers go on sale.^[15]
  • AssassinJames Earl Ray escapes fromBrushy Mountain State Penitentiary inPetros, Tennessee. He is recaptured on June 13.
• June 16 –Oracle Corporation is incorporated inRedwood Shores,California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) byLarry Ellison,Bob Miner andEd Oates.
• June 20 – TheSupreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spendMedicaid funds on elective abortions.
• June 22 –Walt Disney Productions' 23rd feature film,The Rescuers, is released to box office success and positive critical reception.
• June 25 – AmericanRoy Sullivan is struck bylightning for the 7th time.
• June 26
  • Some 200,000 protesters march through the streets ofSan Francisco, protestingAnita Bryant's anti-gay remarks and the murder ofRobert Hillsborough.
  • Elvis Presley performs his final concert, in the Market Square Arena at Indianapolis, Indiana. Two previous performances were filmed in Omaha, Nebraska (June 19th), and Rapid City, South Dakota (June 21st), for the TV Special "Elvis In Concert." This special was not televised until October 3 of that year on CBS.
• June 30 – WomenMarines disbanded; women are integrated into regularMarine Corps.

• July 13 – TheNew York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and disorder.
• July 19–20 –Flooding inJohnstown, Pennsylvania, caused by massive rainfall, kills over 75 people and causes billions of dollars in damage.
• July 24 –Led Zeppelin plays their last U.S. concert in Oakland, California at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and promoterBill Graham's staff, resulting in criminal assault charges for several of Led Zeppelin's entourage including drummerJohn Bonham.
• July 28 – The first oil through theTrans-Alaska Pipeline System reachesValdez, Alaska.

• August 3 –United States Senate hearings onMKULTRA are held.
• August 4 – PresidentJimmy Carter signs legislation creating theUnited States Department of Energy.
• August 9 –Hulk Hogan debuts as The Super Destroyer forChampionship Wrestling from Florida when he is defeated byDon Serrano atJohn Carroll Catholic High School's gym inFort Pierce, Florida
• August 10 –David Berkowitz is captured inYonkers,New York, after over a year of murders inNew York City as theSon of Sam.
• August 12 – TheNASASpace Shuttle, namedEnterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).
• August 15 –The Big Ear, aradio telescope operated byOhio State University as part of theSETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the"WOW!" signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• August 16 –Elvis Presley, the king ofrock and roll, dies in his home inGraceland at age 42. 75,000 fans lined the streets ofMemphis for his funeral, which occurred on August 18, but wasn't televised until August 20.^[16]
• August 20 –Voyager program: The United States launches theVoyager 2 spacecraft.
• August 25 – Radio Shack’s new TRS-80 Micro Computer System uses a computer keyboard to plug into an included 64 column video monitor, programmed by cassette tapes played on a home cassette player, shown at the Boston Computer Show on August 25, 1977. From left, visitors Robert Lundgren of Des Plaines, Illinois, Malcolm MacLeod of Montreal, and Radio Shack salesman Steven Carlozzi of Brockton, Massachusetts

• September – Evangelical pastorOral Roberts publishes plans to build the 'City of God Hospital' inTulsa, Oklahoma. The towers are completed in 1981 for $120m ($299m, in 2012)^[17]
• September 4 – TheGolden Dragon Massacre takes place inSan Francisco, California.
• September 5 –Voyager program:Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• September 7 – Treaties betweenPanama and the United States on the status of thePanama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• September 13 –Soap debuts onABC and launches the career ofBilly Crystal.
• September 18 –Courageous, skippered byTed Turner, sweepsAustralia in the 24thAmerica's Cup yachting race.
• September 19 – Nicaraguan drug cartels rise to power in New Jersey. Pablo Escobar as facilitating drug lord.
  • Under pressure from theCarter administration,PresidentAnastasio Somoza Debayle lifts thestate of siege inNicaragua.
  • Closure of steelworks inYoungstown, Ohio, is announced.
• September 21 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and theSoviet Union.
• September 23 – Jazz-rock groupSteely Dan releases their sixth studio albumAja; it becomes their highest charting album at No. 3 and goes on to win aGrammy Award.
• September 29
  • Singer-songwriterBilly Joel releases his fifth studio albumThe Stranger; it becomes the first of several hit albums, spawning five hit singles, going 10× platinum in the US, and later ranking at No. 70 on the list ofRolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
  • The modernFood Stamp Program begins when theFood Stamp Act of 1977 is enacted.
• September 30 – A series of partialgovernment shutdowns occur, finally ending in December.

• October 1
  • Energy Research and Development Administration part ofDepartment of Energy.
  • Pelé plays his final professional football game as a member of theNew York Cosmos.
• October 6 –Irish American mobsterDanny Greene is murdered with acar bomb by theCleveland crime family inLyndhurst, Ohio.
• October 12 – The passage of theCommunity Reinvestment Act.
• October 14 –Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. This event resulted in her political fallout from anti-gay activism.
• October 18 – Newly acquired and flamboyantly charismatic sluggerReggie Jackson hits three home runs to lead theNew York Yankees to their firstWorld Series championship victory since1962 over theLos Angeles Dodgers in the1977 World Series in six games.
• October 20 – Three members (lead singerRonnie Van Zant, guitaristSteve Gaines and his older sisterCassie Gaines, band's backup singer) of the Southern rock bandLynyrd Skynyrd die in acharter plane crash outsideGillsburg, Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio albumStreet Survivors.
• October 21 – Rock singerMeat Loaf (real name Marvin Lee Aday) releases the albumBat Out of Hell.^[18]
• October 24 – A newPeanuts special,It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, airs onCBS. It shows and names "Heather", theLittle Red-Haired Girl, thereupon ending the 'mystery'.

• November 6 – TheKelly Barnes Dam, located aboveToccoa Falls Bible College nearToccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
• November 8 –San Francisco elects City SupervisorHarvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.
• November 13 – The comic stripLi'l Abner ends its 43-year run in newspapers.
• November 22 –British Airways inaugurates regularLondon toNew York City supersonicConcorde service.
• November 27 – TheRankin/Bass animated filmThe Hobbit premieres onNBC in the United States.
• November 28 –Jazz saxophonistArchie Shepp records "On Green Dolphin Street", the first digitally recorded album to be released commercially in the USA.

• December 1 –Pinwheel debuts on Channel C-3 (nowNickelodeon).
• December 11 – After losing 26 games, theTampa Bay Buccaneers of the USNational Football League record their very first win; against theNew Orleans Saints.
• December 12 – TheLockheed's top-secretstealth aircraft project, designatedHave Blue, precursor to the U.S.F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.
• December 13 – Crash ofAir Indiana Flight 216: A DC-3 charter plane carrying theUniversity of Evansville basketball team crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff fromEvansville Dress Regional Airport. Twenty-nine people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.
• December 16 –Mikhail Baryshnikov's 1976 production ofTchaikovsky's balletThe Nutcracker comes to CBS a year after premiering onstage at theKennedy Center. This adaptation will become the most popular television production of the work.
• December 19–21 – TheGreat Bakersfield Dust Storm hits the SouthernSan Joaquin Valley, inCalifornia; resulting in three deaths and $40 million in damages.

• Polish-American mathematicianAntoni Zygmund authors his major workMeasure and Integral.
• Feature films released in 1977 include:Star Wars,Annie Hall,Saturday Night Fever,Close Encounters of the Third Kind,The Goodbye Girl,A Bridge Too Far,Exorcist II: The Heretic,The Turning Point,New York, New York,Smokey and the Bandit
• John Travolta's role inSaturday Night Fever inspired young Americans to wear Flare jeans, an updated version ofBell-bottoms.
• Atari 2600, released in October, popularized the use of microprocessor based hardware and cartridges containing game code.
• The coldest winter for fifty-nine years in the Ohio Valley region^[3] and a record dry year throughout the West,^[19] especially the Pacific Northwest,^[20] creates heating fuel and water shortages plus extended freezing of the Great Lakes^[21] and freezing of the Mississippi River as far asCairo,Illinois.

• Cold War (1947–1991)
• Détente (c. 1969–1979)
• 1970s energy crisis (1973–1980)

• January 1 –Abdihakem Abdirahman, Olympic long-distance runner
• January 3 –A. J. Burnett, baseball player
• January 4
  • Solon Bixler, musician and guitarist
  • Graham Elliot, chef, restaurateur and television personality
  • Ozell Wells, Dominican-American basketball player, coach, and scout
• January 7
  • Dustin Diamond, actor (d. 2021)
  • John Gidding, architect and television host
• January 8 –Amber Benson, actress
• January 9 –Scoonie Penn, basketball player
• January 10 –Clark Haggans, football player (d. 2023)
• January 11
  • Devin Ratray, actor
  • Nadia Turner, singer
• January 12
  • DeJuan Alfonzo, football player
  • DJ Paul, DJ, record producer, and rapper forThree 6 Mafia
• January 17 –Kevin Thorn, wrestler
• January 18
  • Lazo Alavanja, soccer player
  • Allison Alderson, actress, host, and beauty queen
  • EpicLLOYD, youtuber and rapper
• January 19
  • Rob Delaney, comedian
  • Taliesin Jaffe, actor
• January 20 –Sid Wilson, turntablist forSlipknot
• January 21
  • Reggie Austin, football player
  • Jerry Trainor, actor, comedian and musician
• January 24
  • Johann Urb, Estonian-born actor
  • Chad Hurley, webmaster and businessman, co-founder ofYouTube
• January 26
  • Vince Carter, basketball player
  • Justin Gimelstob, tennis player and coach
• January 28
  • Daunte Culpepper, football player
  • Antonio Delgado, politician, 79thLieutenant Governor of New York
  • Joey Fatone, singer and member of'N Sync
  • Lyle Overbay, professional baseball player
• January 29
  • Dion Basco, actor
  • Justin Hartley, actor
  • Sam Jaeger, actor
  • Lateefah Simon, politician
• January 30
  • Dan Hinote, ice hockey player and coach
  • Dwight Johnson, football player
• January 31
  • Wheeler Antabanez, writer
  • Molly Line, news correspondent
  • Bobby Moynihan, actor and comedian
  • Kerry Washington, actress

• February 1
  • Lari Ketner, basketball player (d.2014)
  • Robert Traylor, basketball player (d.2011)
• February 3 –Maitland Ward, actress
• February 4
  • Shedrack Anderson III, actor
  • Gavin DeGraw, musician and singer-songwriter
  • Daniel Lurie, politician and philanthropist
• February 5
  • Adam Everett, baseball player
  • Conrad Kennedy III, wrestler
  • Ahmad Merritt, football player
• February 6
  • Brendan Boyle, politician
  • Josh Stewart, actor
• February 7 –Hillary Wolf, child actress and judoka
• February 8
  • Dave Farrell, bassist forLinkin Park
  • Barry Hall, footballer
• February 10 –Kris Jordan, politician (d. 2023)
• February 11 –Mike Shinoda, singer, rapper, and emcee forLinkin Park
• February 12 –Melissa Beck, television personality and comedian
• February 13 –Randy Moss, football player
• February 15 –Brooks Wackerman, drummer forAvenged Sevenfold andBad Religion (2001-2005)
• February 16 –Paul Brittain, actor and comedian
• February 17 –Bennie Anderson, football player
• February 18
  • Ike Barinholtz, actor and comedian
  • Kristoffer Polaha, actor and author
  • Sean Watkins, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter
• February 19 –Andrew Ross Sorkin, journalist, author, columnist, and producer
• February 20
  • Gail Kim, Canadian-born wrestler
  • Stephon Marbury, basketball player
• February 21
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, author
  • Steve Francis, basketball player
  • Kevin Rose, internet entrepreneur
• February 24
  • Julie E. Adams, politician
  • Bronson Arroyo, baseball player and singer
  • Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxer
• February 26
  • Jeremy Aldrich, soccer player
  • Greg Rikaart, actor
• February 28
  • Aaron Aguilera, wrestler and actor
  • Jason Aldean, country singer
  • Lance Archer, wrestler
  • Steven Fulop, politician, mayor ofJersey City, New Jersey

• March 1 –Adam Huss, actor, producer, and writer
• March 2
  • Steve Armas, soccer player
  • Heather McComb, actress
• March 4 –Jeremiah Green, rock musician drummer forModest Mouse (d.2022)
• March 5
  • Daniel Alarcón, Peruvian-born novelist, journalist, and radio producer
  • Jennifer Anson, American-born Palaun judoka
  • Bryan Berard, ice hockey player
  • Mike MacDougal, baseball player
  • Wally Szczerbiak, Spanish-born basketball player and sportscaster^[22]
• March 6 –Bubba Sparxxx, rapper
• March 8 –James Van Der Beek, actor
• March 9
  • Lydia Mackay, voice actress
  • Shannon Miller, gymnast
• March 10
  • Robin Thicke, American-born Canadian singer
  • Bree Turner, actress
• March 11
  • Miguel Almaguer, journalist
  • Becky Hammon, basketball player
• March 15
  • Brandon DiCamillo, television personality, actor, stunt performer, filmmaker, and musician
  • Joe Hahn, musician, DJ, director and visual artist forLinkin Park
  • Brian Tee, Japanese-born actor
• March 16 –Richard Swift, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and short-film maker
• March 17 –Tamar Braxton, singer
• March 18 –Devin Lima, singer and member ofLFO (d. 2018)
• March 19
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach, actor
  • Jorma Taccone, actor, comedian, writer, director, producer, and musician
• March 22
  • Joey Porter, football player and coach
  • David Portnoy, media personality
  • Tom Poti, ice hockey player
  • Lon Symensma, chef
• March 23 –Sammy Morris, football player
• March 24
  • Ubusuku Abukusumo, soccer player
  • Jessica Chastain, actress and producer
• March 26 –Bianca Kajlich, actress
• March 27 – Roger Velasco, actor
• March 28 –Annie Wersching, actress (d.2023)
• March 29 –Sascha Radetsky, ballet dancer

• April 1
  • Harold Arceneaux, basketball player
  • Paul Kalanithi, neurosurgeon and writer (d.2015)
• April 3
  • Aiden Leslie, singer/songwriter
  • Chael Sonnen, mixed martial artist
• April 4 –Adam Dutkiewicz, musician and guitarist forKillswitch Engage andTimes of Grace
• April 5 –Lee Eisenberg, screenwriter and producer
• April 6 –Teddy Sears, actor
• April 9 –Gerard Way, singer and frontman forMy Chemical Romance
• April 10
  • Bethany Hart, hammer thrower
  • Stephanie Sheh, voice actress
• April 11 –Ron Nirenberg, politician, mayor ofSan Antonio, Texas (2017-present)
• April 12 –Sarah Jane Morris, actress
• April 14
  • Hameen Ali, football player
  • Nate Fox, basketball player (d.2014)
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
  • Chandra Levy, intern (d.2001)
  • Rob McElhenney, actor
  • David Valadao, politician
• April 15 –Matt Holt, heavy metal singer (d.2017)
• April 16
  • Jordan Allen-Dutton, writer, producer, and director
  • Hayes MacArthur, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• April 18 –Bryce Johnson, actor
• April 21 –Bodhraj Acharya, Nepalese-born scientist
• April 22 –Owen Ashworth, musician
• April 23
  • Kal Penn, actor
  • John Cena, wrestler
  • Eric Edelstein, actor
  • Jaime King, actress and model
  • John Oliver, comedian
• April 25 –Ricardo Aleman, author and comedian
• April 26
  • Jason Earles, actor
  • Leonard Earl Howze, actor
  • Tom Welling, actor
• April 27
  • Courtney Alexander, basketball player
  • Kunimi Andrea, singer and actress
  • Samantha Nugent, politician
• April 29
  • Matt Bachand, guitarist forShadows Fall
  • Titus O'Neill, wrestler
  • David Sullivan, actor
• April 30 –Alexandra Holden, actress

• May 3
  • Ben Olsen, footballer
  • Eric Church, country music singer
  • Jeffrey Garcia, stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor
• May 5 –Tudor Dixon, businesswoman, political commentator, and political candidate
• May 6 –Brian Aldridge, politician
• May 9 –Maggie Dixon, basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
• May 11 –Sal Alosi, strength and conditioning coach
• May 12 –Rebecca Herbst, actress
• May 13
  • Tom Cotton, politician
  • Pusha T, rapper, songwriter, and record executive
  • Brian Thomas Smith, actor and comedian
• May 14 –Roy Halladay, baseball player (d. 2017)
• May 16 –Lynn Collins, actress
• May 17
  • Joaquin Arambula, politician
  • Welles Crowther, investment banker (d. 2001)
• May 18 –Ken Amato, football player
• May 19
  • Larry Abney, basketball player
  • Brandon Inge, baseball player
• May 20
  • Matt Czuchry, actor
  • Chad Muska, skateboarder
  • Tiger Tyson, gay pornographic film actor, model, and gay porn film director
• May 21 –Alicia Albe, gymnast
• May 23 –Heather Wahlquist, actress
• May 26 –Mark Hunter, singer and frontman forChimaira
• May 27
  • Henry Aquino, politician
  • David Toland, politician, 52ndLieutenant Governor of Kansas
• May 28 –Elisabeth Hasselbeck, talk show host
• May 29
  • Rory Albanese, comedian, comedy writer and television producer
  • Kevin Arbouet, director, writer, and producer
• May 31
  • Guma Aguiar, Brazilian-born businessman and industrialist (missing since 2012)
  • Eric Christian Olsen, actor

• June 1
  • Sarah Wayne Callies, actress
  • Danielle Harris, actress and director
  • James Storm, wrestler
• June 2
  • Zachary Quinto, actor
  • AJ Styles, wrestler
• June 3
  • Travis Hafner, baseball player
  • Az-Zahir Hakim, football player
• June 5
  • Kristin Gore, author and screenwriter
  • Christian Martucci, singer/songwriter and guitarist forBlack President,The Strychnine Babies,Stone Sour, andThe Chelsea Smiles
• June 6 –Matt Heinz, doctor and politician
• June 7 –Joe Horgan, baseball player
• June 8 –Kanye West, recording artist
• June 10 –Benjamin Millepied, French-born actor and ballet dancer
• June 11
  • Darnell Alford, football player
  • Ryan Dunn, television personality (d.2011)
• June 12 –Kenny Wayne Shepherd, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• June 13 –Erin Toughill, boxer and mixed martial artist
• June 14
  • Rashard Anderson, football player (d. 2022)
  • De'Adre Aziza, actress and singer
  • Chris McAlister, football player
• June 16
  • Rich Attonito, mixed martial artist
  • Kerry Wood, baseball player
• June 19 –Peter Warrick, football player
• June 20
  • Ronnie Gene Blevins, actor
  • Stephanie White, basketball player
• June 23 –Jason Mraz, singer/songwriter
• June 25
  • Jon Akin, soccer player
  • Tim Anderson, musician, songwriter, and producer
• June 27 –Dan Andriano, bassist forAlkaline Trio andThe Damned Things
• June 28 –Blair Butler, comedian
• June 29
  • Jeff Baena, screenwriter and director (d. 2025)
  • Bradley Stryker, actor
• June 30
  • Lyndon Amick, stock car racing driver
  • Colton Dunn, actor, writer, and producer

• July 1
  • Pamela Rogers Turner, teacher and child rapist
  • Liv Tyler, actress
  • Lovely Warren, politician, mayor ofRochester, New York (2014-2021)
• July 4 –Stephen Rannazzisi, actor and comedian
• July 5 –Steven Sharp Nelson, cellist
• July 6 -Justin Lyon, producer forYo Gabba Gabba!
• July 7
  • Tori Alamaze, singer
  • Jessica Chobot, host and writer
  • Dan Whitesides, drummer forThe Used
• July 8 –Milo Ventimiglia, actor
• July 9 –Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, journalist
• July 10 –Cary Joji Fukunaga, director, writer, and cinematographer
• July 11 –Edward Moss, impersonator
• July 12
  • Steve Howey, actor
  • Brock Lesnar, wrestler and mixed martial artist
• July 13
  • Michael Alan, artist
  • Ashley Scott, actress
  • Kari Wahlgren, voice actress
• July 15
  • Lana Parrilla, actress
  • Ray Toro, musician
• July 16 –Brian Cook, bassist
• July 17 –Brandon Ash, stock car racing driver
• July 19 –Danny Roberts, television personality and recruiter
• July 21 –Heather Armbrust, bodybuilder
• July 26 –Markwayne Mullin, politician
• July 27
  • Martha Madison, actress
  • Jason Zimbler, actor
• July 28
  • Travis Alexander, murder victim (d. 2008)
  • Dexter Jackson, football player and sportscaster
  • Chris Samuels, football player and coach
• July 29 –Balamurali Ambati, Indian-born ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher
• July 30 –Jaime Pressly, actress
• July 31 –Tim Couch, football player

• August 2
  • Julián Alonso, Spanish-born tennis player
  • Edward Furlong, actor
  • Marc Rizzo, guitarist forSoulfly andIll Niño
  • Jill Underly, politician
• August 3
  • Karen Alloy, comedian
  • Tom Brady, football player and entrepreneur
• August 4
  • Dada 5000, Bahamian-born mixed martial artist and internet personality
  • Kazarian, wrestler
• August 6 –Ashlie Atkinson, actress
• August 7 –Jamey Jasta, singer and frontman forHatebreed andKingdom of Sorrow
• August 8
  • Michael Chernus, actor
  • Lindsay Sloane, actress
• August 11 –Pablo Lucio Vasquez, murderer executed by lethal injection (d.2016)
• August 12 –Plaxico Burress, football player
• August 13 –Karine Jean-Pierre, French-born White House Press Secretary
• August 14
  • Kyle Abraham, choreographer and dancer
  • Al Shearer, actor
  • Silent Servant, DJ and music producer (d.2024)
• August 19
  • T. J. Holmes, journalist and television personality
  • Will Hurd, politician and CIA officer
• August 23
  • Chris M. Allport, filmmaker, actor, singer, and symphonic composer
  • Nicole Bobek, figure skater
  • Jared Fogle, weight loss advocate, former spokesman ofSubway, convicted child sex offender
• August 24 –John Green, author, vlogger, and editor
• August 26 –Morris Peterson, basketball player
• August 27 –Ma$e, rapper
• August 28
  • G. T. Bynum, politician, mayor ofTulsa, Oklahoma (2016-2024)
  • Ginger D. Anders, lawyer and politician
• August 29
  • John Hensley, actor
  • Aida Rodriguez, comedian
• August 30
  • Jon Adkins, baseball player
  • Shaun Alexander, football player
  • Elden Henson, actor
  • Félix Sánchez, Olympic track-and-field athlete
• August 31
  • Jeff Hardy, wrestler
  • Del Marquis, guitarist forScissor Sisters

• September 1
  • Jerry Azumah, football player
  • Adrienne Wilkinson, actress
• September 2
  • Playa Fly, rapper
  • Sam Rivers, bassist forLimp Bizkit (d. 2025)
• September 3
  • DJ Envy, radio host
  • Jason Andersen, football player
• September 4
  • Ian Grushka, bassist forNew Found Glory
  • Kia Stevens, wrestler and actress
  • Timothy "Yogi" Watts, drummer forDemon Hunter
• September 5 –Sin Cara, wrestler and luchador
• September 6 –N.O.R.E., rapper and podcaster
• September 7
  • Chinedu Achebe, football player
  • Molly Holly, wrestler
• September 9 –Soulja Slim, rapper (d. 2003)
• September 10 –Anita Allen, Army medic and Olympic pentathlete
• September 11
  • Jackie Buscarino, voice actress, writer and producer
  • Josette Bynum, wrestler
  • Ludacris, rapper and actor
• September 12 –2 Chainz, rapper
• September 13
  • Brandt Andersen, activist, director, writer, and producer
  • Fiona Apple, singer
• September 15
  • Kenny Blank, actor and musician
  • Marisa Ramirez, actress
  • Jason Terry, basketball player
• September 16 –Musiq Soulchild, singer/songwriter
• September 17 –Andrea Anderson, Olympic sprinter
• September 18 –Sara Haines, television host
• September 19 –Erica Ash, actress, comedian, singer, and model
• September 21
  • Feda Almaliti, autistic activist (d. 2020)
  • Hank Fraley, football player
• September 23
  • Brent Abernathy, baseball player
  • Adam Gray, politician
  • Warren Kole, actor
• September 24
  • Elizabeth Bogush, actress
  • Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, football player
• September 25
  • Clea DuVall, actress
  • Robbie Jones, actor
  • Joel David Moore, actor
• September 26 –Sirena Irwin, actress
• September 27 –Michael C. Maronna, actor
• September 29
  • Heath Bell, baseball player
  • Debelah Morgan, singer/songwriter

• October 6
  • Melinda Doolittle, 3rd place finalist onAmerican Idol (season 6)
  • Francis Suarez, politician, mayor ofMiami, Florida (2017-present)
• October 10 –Tom Ashworth, football player
• October 11
  • Matt Bomer, actor
  • Rhett McLaughlin, youtuber
• October 12 –Bode Miller, Olympic skier
• October 13
  • Paul Pierce, basketball player
  • Quincy Carter, American football player
  • Kiele Sanchez, actress
• October 14
  • Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphonist and composer
  • Kelly Schumacher, American-born Canadian basketball and volleyball player
• October 15 –Jeff Sutphen, actor and producer
• October 16
  • John Mayer, singer/songwriter and record producer
  • Stephen Richards, singer and frontman forTaproot
• October 17
  • Alimi Ballard, actor
  • Bryan Bertino, filmmaker
• October 18
  • Chris McKenna, actor
  • Peter Sohn, animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director
• October 27 –Mat Lucas, voice actor
• October 20
  • Steve Anthony, wrestler
  • Jennifer Hall, actress
  • Sam Witwer, actor and musician
• October 21 –Nick Begich III, politician
• October 22 –Jocelyn Benson, politician
• October 23 –Matt Allen, football player
• October 25 –The Alchemist, record producer, DJ, rapper, and songwriter
• October 26 –Jon Heder, actor and voice actor
• October 29 –Jon Abrahams, actor

• November 2 –Randy Harrison, actor
• November 3
  • Philip Amelio, actor and teacher (d.2005)
  • Greg Plitt, fitness model, actor, and former Army Ranger (d.2015)
• November 4 –Larry Bigbie, baseball player
• November 5 –Sherry Argov, French-born author
• November 8
  • Bucky Covington, singer
  • Jill Dobson, journalist and beauty pageant titleholder
  • Nick Punto, baseball player
• November 10
  • Josh Barnett, mixed martial artist
  • Brittany Murphy, actress (d.2009)
  • Lea Moreno Young, actress
• November 11 –Scoot McNairy, actor
• November 14 –Brian Dietzen, actor
• November 15
  • Jon Hurwitz, screenwriter, director, and producer
  • Sean Murray, actor
  • Robaire Smith, football player
  • Logan Whitehurst, singer/songwriter and drummer forThe Velvet Teen (d.2006)
• November 16 –Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress
• November 19
  • Reid Scott, actor
  • Markuann Smith, actor, producer, and director
  • Kerri Strug, Olympic gymnast
• November 20 –Josh Turner, country music singer
• November 21 –Jonas Jennings, football player
• November 22
  • David Clinger, road racing cyclist
  • Tim Keller, politician, mayor ofAlbuquerque, New Mexico (2019-present)
• November 23 –Lateef Crowder dos Santos, Brazilian-born actor, martial artist, and stuntman
• November 24 –Colin Hanks, actor
• November 25 –Jill Flint, actress
• November 27
  • Adam Archuleta, football player
  • Cheryl Bogart, music industry veteran and spinal cord injury awareness advocate
  • Veronica Portillo, television personality
  • Alex Wagner, journalist
• November 28 –DeMya Walker, basketball player
• November 29
  • Jason Alfaro, baseball player
  • Andy Beshear, politician, 63rdGovernor of Kentucky
• November 30
  • Steve Aoki, DJ, record producer, music programmer, and record executive
  • Nelsan Ellis, actor and playwright (d.2017)

• December 1 –Brad Delson, lead guitarist forLinkin Park
• December 2
  • Sadie Alexandru, actress and model
  • Robert Garcia, politician
  • Lamin Swann, politician (d. 2023)
• December 3 –Troy Evans, football player
• December 4 –Nancy Mace, politician
• December 6
  • Edward Barbanell, actor and comedian
  • Lindsey Alley, actress and singer
• December 7
  • Chris Chalk, actor
  • Fernando Vargas, boxer
• December 8 –Ryan Newman, stock car racing driver
• December 10
  • Acid Betty, drag queen
  • Spencer Allen, baseball player and coach
• December 11 –Margaret Hoover, political commentator, strategist, author, and media personality
• December 12
  • Troy Andrew, football player
  • Orlando Hudson, baseball player
• December 13 –Nikki Fried, politician
• December 18
  • Maria Brink, singer and lead vocalist forIn This Moment
  • Vanessa Trump, model
• December 21
  • Michel Abboud, Lebanese-born artist and architect
  • A. J. Bowen, actor and producer
  • Mark Dice, author and conspiracy theorist
  • Kevin Miller, voice actor
  • Gregory Siff, visual artist, designer, writer and actor
• December 22
  • Dai Andrews, performance artist
  • Michael Watson, politician
• December 23 –Alge Crumpler, American football player
• December 24 –Michael Raymond-James, actor
• December 27 –Erin Aldrich, Olympic high jumper and volleyball player
• December 28
  • John Jairo Bedoya Jr., wrestler (d. 2020)
  • Michael Spears, actor
• December 29
  • Laveranues Coles, American football player
  • Katherine Moennig, actress
• December 30
  • Jimmy Alapag, basketball player
  • Laila Ali, boxer
  • Aesha Ash, ballerina
  • Kenyon Martin, basketball player
• December 31 –Donald Trump Jr., businessman and TV personality, son ofDonald Trump

• Faisal Alam, gay rights activist
• Rumaan Alam, writer
• Cecilia Alemani, Italian-born curator
• Kate Ali, artist
• Hannah Allam, journalist and reporter
• Francis Allen-Palenske, businessman and politician
• Charles Allen, politician
• Paul Coy Allen, filmmaker, producer, and director
• Ilkay Altintas, Turkish-born data and computer scientist
• Bill Anderson, politician
• Holly Andres, photographer
• George Arison, Georgian-born businessman
• Brad Ascalon, industrial designer
• Joe Asselin, blues musician
• Amanda Auchter, writer, professor, and editor
• Walead Beshty, British-born artist and writer
• Nona Faustine, photographer and visual artist (d. 2025)
• Scott Neustadter, screenwriter and producer
• Kris Roe, singer/songwriter, guitarist, and frontman forThe Ataris
• Erica Tazel, actress

• January 2 –Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (b.1921)
• January 5 –Onslow Stevens, American actor (b.1902)
• January 6 –William Gropper, American artist (b.1897)
• January 10 –Ruth Graves Wakefield, chef (b.1903)
• January 14 –Peter Finch, English-born actor (b.1916)
• January 17 –Gary Gilmore, criminal (b.1940)
• January 23 –Toots Shor, American restaurateur and proprietor (b.1903)
• January 28 –Burt Mustin, American actor (b.1884)
• January 29 –Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian (b.1954)

• February 3 –Pauline Starke, American actress (b.1901)
• February 4 –Brett Halliday, mystery writer (b.1904)
• February 12 –Henry Jordan, American football player and member of thePro Football Hall of Fame (b.1935)
• February 17 –Quincy Howe, American journalist (b.1900)
• February 18 –Andy Devine, actor (b.1905)
• February 20 –Ralph Hungerford, American naval officer, 33rdGovernor of American Samoa (b.1896)
• February 21 –John Hubley, American animator (b.1914)
• February 24 –Milt Kamen, comedian and actor (b.1921)
• February 27 –Allison Hayes, American actress (b.1930)
• February 28 –Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (b.1905)

• March 3 –Percy Marmont, American actor (b.1883)
• March 8 –Henry Hull, American actor (b.1890)
• March 10 –E. Power Biggs, English-American organist (b.1906)
• March 11 –Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b.1893)
• March 14 –Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b.1917)
• March 15 –Antonino Rocca, Italian and Argentinian professional wrestler (b.1921)
• March 19 –William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b.1888)
• March 27 –Diana Heyland, American actress (b.1936)
• March 29 –Charles Nicoletti, American gangster (b.1916)

• April 12 –Philip K. Wrigley, business and sports executive (b.1894)
• April 20 –Wilmer Allison, tennis player (b.1904)
• April 21 –Gummo Marx, vaudeville performer (b.1893)
• April 23 –Charles D. Herron, United States Army general (b.1877)
• April 27 –Stanley Adams, actor and screenwriter (b.1915)

• May 9 –James Jones, author (b.1921)
• May 10 –Joan Crawford, actress (b.1904)
• May 30 –Paul Desmond, jazz saxophonist and composer (b.1924)
• May 31 –William Castle, film director, producer, and screenwriter (b.1914)

• June 2
  • Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b.1931)
  • Forrest Lewis, actor (b.1899)
• June 13 –Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (b.1899)^[23]
• June 14 –Alan Reed, actor (b.1907)
• June 16 –Wernher von Braun, German, later American, aerospace engineer and space architect (b.1912 in Germany)

• July 9 –Alice Paul, suffragist (b.1885)
• July 29 –David Lochary, actor (b.1944)

• August 1 –Francis Gary Powers, AmericanU-2 spy plane pilot (b.1929)
• August 3 –Alfred Lunt, American actor (b.1892)
• August 5 –Waldo L. Schmitt, American biologist (b.1887)
• August 9 –George Kenney, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b.1889)
• August 10 –Vince Barnett, American actor (b.1902)
• August 14 –Ron Haydock, American actor (b.1940)
• August 16 –Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b.1935)
• August 17 –Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director (b.1904)
• August 19 –Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b.1890)
• August 22 –Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b.1918)
• August 29 –Jean Hagen, American actress (b.1923)^[24]

• September 1 –Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b.1896)
• September 2 –Stephen Dunne, American actor (b.1911)
• September 8 –Zero Mostel, American actor (b.1915)
• September 13 –Leopold Stokowski, British-born American conductor (b.1882)
• September 16 –Maria Callas, Greek soprano (b.1923)
• September 24
  • Sherm Lollar, American baseball player and coach (b.1924)
  • Frederick Merk, American historian (b.1887)
• September 26 –Ernie Lombardi American baseball player and member of theMLB Hall of Fame (b.1908)
• September 29 –Robert McKimson, American animator and director (b.1910)
• September 30 –Mary Ford, guitarist and vocalist (b.1924)

• October 2 –Joseph William Woodrough, American federal judge (b.1873)
• October 3 –Tay Garnett, American film director (b.1894)
• October 5 –Jan Garber, Americanjazz bandleader (b.1894)
• October 6 –Danny Greene,Irish Americanmobster (b. 1933)
• October 8 –Joe Greenstein, Polish-born American strongman (b.1893)
• October 11 –MacKinlay Kantor, American writer, Pulitzer Prize winner (b. 1904)
• October 12 –Dorothy Davenport, American actress (b.1895)
• October 14 –Bing Crosby, American pop singer and actor (b.1903)
• October 16 –Milt Raskin, Americanswing jazz pianist (b.1916).
• October 20 – Three members of American rock group,Lynyrd Skynyrd, killed in plane crash:
  • Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b.1948)
  • Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b.1948)
  • Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist (b.1949)
• October 27 –James M. Cain, American writer (b.1892)

• November 3 –Florence Vidor, silent film actress (b.1895)
• November 5 –Guy Lombardo, bandleader (b.1902 in Canada)
• November 8 –Bucky Harris, baseball player and manager (b.1896)
• November 9 –Gertrude Astor, film character actress (b.1887)
• November 16 –José Acosta, baseball starting pitcher (b.1891)
• November 21 –Richard Carlson, actor and screen director (b.1912)

• December 4 –Leila Hyams, actress (b.1905)
• December 5 –Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American jazz multi-instrumentalist (b.1935)
• December 7 –Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b.1906)
• December 10 –Ethel Roosevelt Derby, youngest daughter ofTheodore Roosevelt (b.1891)^[25]
• December 15 –Wilfred Kitching, 7th General of the Salvation Army (b.1893)
• December 19 –Nellie Tayloe Ross, 13thGovernor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of theUnited States Mint from 1933 to 1953; firstfemale state governor in the U.S. (b.1876)
• December 25 –Charlie Chaplin, British-born actor (b.1889)
• December 26 –Howard Hawks, film director, producer, and screenwriter (b.1896)

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