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*1 JANUARY 1984*
*‘brunei’ wins its independence*
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*5 AUGUST 1984*
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*31 DECEMBER 1984*
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1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations,
the 984th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 84th year of the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1980s decade
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Events[edit]
January[edit]
January 1 – Brunei becomes a completely independent state.[1]
January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).[2]
January 10
The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.[3]
The Victoria Agreement is signed–institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission.
January 25 —
US President Ronald Reagan announces in his State of the Union Address that the United States will begin development of a permanently crewed space station and invite international space agencies to the project — a concept initially known as Space Station Freedom, later evolved into the ‘International Space Station’
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February
February 1 – Medicare comes into effect in Australia.
February 3
Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth.
STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission.
February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
February 8 – 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
February 22 – President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet’s sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.[5]
February 23 – TED (conference) founded.
February 26 – The United States Marine Corps pulls out of Beirut, Lebanon.
February 29 – Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, announces his retirement.
March[edit]
March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.
March 6 – A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (see UK miners’ strike (1984–85)).
March 14 – Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force.
March 16 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization and later dies in captivity.
March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan’s history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.
March 25
Pope John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Fátima, Portugal.
The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) is founded under Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela.
April[edit]
April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
April 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
April 9 – The 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Terms of Endearment wins Best Picture and four other Academy Awards.
April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).
April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, bringing most of the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir under Indian control and triggering the Siachen conflict with Pakistan.
April 15 – The first World Youth Day gathering is held in Rome, Italy.
April 16 – More than one million people, led by Tancredo Neves, occupy the streets of São Paulo to demand direct presidential elections during the Brazilian military government of João Figueiredo. It is the largest protest during the Diretas Já civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in 1989.
April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed from inside the Libyan Embassy in London while policing a demonstration, leading to a police siege of the embassy.[6]
April 19 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.[7]
April 23 – United States researchers announce their discovery of the AIDS virus.
April 24 – An X-class solar flare erupts on the Sun.[8]
April 26 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor becomes Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, in succession to Sultan Ahmad Shah, whose term ended the previous day.[9]
May[edit]
May 2
The International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassa dam.
May 5
The Herreys’ song Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg.[10] It subsequently became a top ten hit in five European countries.
The Itaipu Dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after nine years of construction, begins generating power; it was the largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time.[11]
May 8
The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Forces veteran Denis Lortie shoots and kills three government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building in Quebec City. The National Assembly’s sergeant-at-arms, René Jalbert, talks Lortie into surrendering.[12]
The Chicago White Sox defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 7–6 in the longest game in Major League Baseball history: 25 innings totaling eight hours, six minutes.
May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 12 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World’s Fair, opens.
May 13 – Severomorsk Disaster: an explosion at the Soviets’ Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets’ Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
May 14 – The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 19 – The Edmonton Oilers win The Stanley Cup, beating the defending champion New York Islanders by 4 games to 1.
May 23 – A methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, England, kills 16 people.
May 27 – An overnight flash flood rages through neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nearly 15 inches (38 cm) of rain falls in some areas over a four-hour period; 14 people are killed.
May 30 – Liverpool beat Roma 5-2 after penalties in the final of the 1984 European Cup football tournament.[13]
May 31 – Six inmates, including James and Linwood Briley, escape from a death row facility at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, the only occasion this has ever happened in the United States.
June[edit]
June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 6 – Tetris is officially released in the Soviet Union on the Electronika 60.
June 8 – A F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 16 – The Canadian entertainment company, Cirque du Soleil, is founded.
June 22
The official name of the Turkish city of Urfa is changed to Şanlıurfa.[14]
Virgin Atlantic makes its inaugural flight.
June 27 – France beats Spain 2–0 to win Euro 84.
June 28 – Richard Ramírez (the “Night Stalker”) murders his first confirmed victim.
June 30 – John Turner becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.
June 30 – Elton John plays the famous Night and Day Concert at Wembley Stadium.
July[edit]
July 1
Liechtenstein becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.
Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to S.S.C. Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M).[15]
July 13 – Terry Wallis, a 19-year-old living in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, falls into a deep coma after a severe automobile accident; he will eventually awaken 19 years later on June 13, 2003.
July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.
July 18
Beverly Burns becomes the first female Boeing 747 captain in the world.
In San Ysidro, San Diego, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald’s restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed himself.
July 19 – 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake. The largest instrumentally recorded inland earthquake ever to take place in the British Isles is felt in Ireland and each of the four British nations.
July 25 – Salyut 7: cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
July 28 – August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.
August[edit]
August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.
August 4
The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters.
August 11
Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, and Mary Decker of the U.S. collide in the Olympic 3,000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.[16]
August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
August 21 – Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
August 30 – STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
September[edit]
September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.[17]
September 4
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
September 5
STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 7 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
September 14 – P. W. Botha is inaugurated as the first executive State President of South Africa.
September 14 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
September 16 – Edgar Reitz’s film series Heimat begins release in Germany.
September 17 – Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
September 18 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.
September 20 – Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people.
September 26 – The United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
October[edit]
October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.
October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
October 9 – Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends is first aired.
October 11 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing. The terror attack kills five people and injures 31.
October 14 – The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in game five of the 1984 World Series to win the franchise’s 4th championship.
October 19 – Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
October 20 – Monterey Bay Aquarium is opened to the public after seven years of development and construction.
October 23 – The world learns from moving BBC News television reports presented by Michael Buerk of the famine in Ethiopia, where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine, and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.[18]
October 25 – The European Economic Community makes £1.8 million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.[19]
October 31 – Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi. Anti-Sikh riots break out, leaving 10,000 to 20,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi and surrounding areas with majority populations of Hindus. Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
November[edit]
November 1–4 – Anti Sikh Mass murder took place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
November 4 – The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.
November 6
1984 United States presidential election: Republican President Ronald Reagan defeats Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon’s 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota (by a mere 3,761 vote margin) and the District of Columbia.
Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Reagan/Bush (49), Blue denotes those won by Mondale/Ferraro (1+D.C.).
November 9–11 – The first Hackers Conference is held.
November 11 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as The 1984 World’s Fair, and also the New Orleans World’s Fair, and, to the locals, simply as “The Fair” or “Expo 84”, closes.
November 12 – Western Sahara conflict: Morocco leaves the Organization of African Unity in protest at the admission of Western Sahara as a member.[20]
November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
November 19 – A series of explosions at the Pemex Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
November 21 – Start of Operation Moses, the evacuation of refugee Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel via Brussels.[21]
November 25
Band Aid (assembled by Bob Geldof) records the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? in London to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia. It is released on December 3.[22]
1984 Uruguayan presidential election: Julio María Sanguinetti is democratically elected President of Uruguay after 12 years of military dictatorship.
November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
November 30 – Kent and Dollar Farm massacres: the Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese people from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.
December[edit]
December – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
December 1 – Controlled Impact Demonstration: NASA and the FAA crash a remote controlled Boeing 720.
December 2 – 1984 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke’s Labor Government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by Andrew Peacock.
December 3
Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.
British Telecom is privatised.
December 4
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.
December 19 – The People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
December 20 – Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on 23 July 2019, located about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Jonelle’s home.[23][24] The cause of death “was a gunshot wound to the head.”[25]
December 22
Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in the Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.
In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
December 28 – A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.
Date unknown[edit]
1983–85 famine in Ethiopia intensifies with renewed drought by mid-year, killing a million people by the end of this year.
Crack cocaine, a smokeable form of the drug, is first introduced into Los Angeles and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the crack epidemic.
The Chrysler Corporation introduces the first vehicles to be officially labeled as “minivans”. They are branded as the Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Caravan, and Plymouth Voyager.
Births[edit]
January[edit]
January 1 – Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer[26]
January 5
Shariff Abdul Samat, Singaporean footballer (d. 2020)
Diego Gómez, Argentine-French footballer
January 6
Priit Loog, Estonian actor ***
Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian
January 7 – Max Riemelt, German actor and director
January 10 – Kalki Koechlin, French-Indian film actress[citation needed]
January 11 – Mark Forster, German singer-songwriter
January 13
Eleni Ioannou, Greek martial artist (d. 2004)
Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright
January 15
Megan Quann, American swimmer[27]
Victor Rasuk, American actor
Ben Shapiro, American political commentator and writer
January 17
Cassie Hager, American basketball player
Calvin Harris, British dance musician
January 18
Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-born American Virginia Tech massacre gunman (d. 2007)
Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
Alaixys Romao, Togolese footballer
January 19
Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzanian long-distance runner
Aliona Savchenko, Ukrainian-born German pair skater
Thomas Vanek, Austrian hockey player
Lil Scrappy, American rapper
January 21
Luke Grimes, American actor
Karim Haggui, Tunisian footballer
Karen Schwarz, Peruvian actress and TV host
January 22 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
January 23 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer[28]
January 24
Emerse Faé, Ivorian footballer[29]
Yotam Halperin, Israeli basketball player
Witold Kiełtyka, Polish musician (d. 2007)
January 25
Stefan Kießling, German football player
Robinho, Brazilian footballer
January 26 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer[30]
January 28 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
January 29
Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer[31]
Safee Sali, Malaysian footballer
February[edit]
February 1
Darren Fletcher, Scottish football player[32]
Abbi Jacobson, American comedian, writer and actress
Lee Thompson Young, American actor (d. 2013)
February 3
Elizabeth Holmes, American fraudster who founded Theranos
Kim Joon, South Korean rapper, actor, and model
February 4 – Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer[33]
February 5 – Carlos Tevez, Argentinian football player
February 8 – Cecil Strong, American actress and comedian[34]
February 9 – Han Geng, Chinese singer in Korea (Super Junior)
February 10 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
February 11
Mai Demizu, Japanese announcer
Aubrey O’Day, American singer and actress
February 12 – Brad Keselowski, American stock car driver
February 15
Doda, Polish singer and model
Matt and Ross Duffer, American screenwriters and directors
February 16 – Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian Olympic swimmer[35]
February 17 – AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
February 18 – Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
February 19 – Marissa Meyer, American novelist
February 20 – Trevor Noah, South African comedian, actor, and television personality
February 22 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby union player
February 24 – Wilson Bethel, American actor
February 25
Xing Huina, Chinese athlete[36]
Filip Šebo, Slovak footballer
February 26
Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
Beren Saat, Turkish actress
February 28 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model
February 29
Mark Foster, American singer and composer, frontman of Foster the People
Alicia Hollowell, American softball pitcher
Cullen Jones, American Olympic swimmer[37]
Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player
March[edit]
March 1
Claudio Bieler, Argentinian football player
Brandon Stanton, American photographer and blogger
March 6 – Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer[38]
March 7
Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player[39]
Mathieu Flamini, French football player
Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, actor and rapper
March 8
Matthew Wong, Canadian artist (d. 2019)
Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
March 9 – Julia Mancuso, U.S. Olympic skier[40]
March 10 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
March 12
Jaimie Alexander, American actress[41]
Shreya Ghoshal, Indian playback singer
March 13 – Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
March 16
Michael Ennis, Australian rugby league player
Hosea Gear, New Zealand Rugby Union player
March 18 – Michael Schmid, Swiss Olympic freestyle skier
March 19 – Bianca Balti, Italian model
March 20
Justine Ezarik, Internet celebrity and actress
Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
Fernando Torres, Spanish football player
March 21 – Sopho Gelovani, Georgian singer
March 22 – Didit Hediprasetyo, Indonesian fashion designer and socialite
March 24
Chris Bosh, American basketball player[42]
Park Bom, South Korean singer
March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American Idol finalist
March 26 – Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian singer
March 30
Helena Mattsson, Swedish actress
Justin Moore, American country music singer
Anna Nalick, American singer
Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player[43]
April[edit]
April 1 – Murali Vijay, Indian cricketer
April 3 – Allana Slater, Australian gymnast
April 4 – Haitham Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2019)
April 5
Marshall Allman, American actor
Aram Mp3, Armenian singer-songwriter, comedian and showman
Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress and model
Phil Wickham, American musician
April 8
Austin Ejide, Nigerian footballer[44]
Ezra Koenig, American musician
April 9
Linda Chung, Canadian TVB actress and singer
Adam Loewen, Canadian pitcher
April 10 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter, and actress
April 11
Kelli Garner, American actress
Nikola Karabatić, French handball player
April 12 – Luisel Ramos, Uruguayan model (d. 2006)
April 13 – Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor and writer
April 14
Kyle Coetzer, Scottish cricketer
Adán Sánchez, American singer (d. 2004)
April 15 – Zizan Razak, Malaysian comedian
April 16
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
Claire Foy, English actress
April 17 – Rosanna Davison, Irish model, Miss World 2003
April 18 – America Ferrera, American actress, producer, and director
April 19
Lee Da-hae, South Korean actress
Dmitry Trunenkov, Russian Olympic bobsledder
April 20
Andre Charles, Grenadian footballer
John Jairo Castillo, Colombian football player
Tyson Griffin, American MMA fighter
April 22 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer
April 23 – Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess player
April 24 – Tyson Ritter, American singer-songwriter
April 25 – Melonie Diaz, American actress
April 26 – Emily Wickersham, American actress
April 27
Fabien Gilot, French Olympic swimmer[45]
Patrick Stump, American musician and singer-songwriter (Fall Out Boy)
April 29
Taylor Cole, American actress and model
Kirby Cote, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
Paulius Jankūnas, Lithuanian basketball player
Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator
Vassilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player
May[edit]
May 1
Kerry Bishé, American actress
Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
May 3
Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
Morgan Kibby, American actress and singer-songwriter
May 4
Little Boots, British pop singer
Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater
May 5 – Chris Birchall, Trinidadian footballer
May 7
Kevin Owens, Canadian professional wrestler
Alex Smith, American football player[46]
May 8
Francesco Servino, Italian journalist and activist
Martin Compston, Scottish actor and former professional footballer
May 10 – Pe’er Tasi, Israeli singer
May 11 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
May 12 – Sajjad Anoushiravani, Iranian weightlifter
May 13 – Hannah New, English actress and model
May 14
Gary Ablett Jr., Australian rules footballer
Olly Murs, English singer
Mark Zuckerberg, American founder and CEO of Facebook
May 17
Jayson Blair, American actor
Alejandro Edda, Mexican-American actor
Andreas Kofler, Austrian ski jumper
Passenger, English singer and songwriter
Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
May 18 – Yuri Kolovorotny, former Russian professional football player
May 20
Dilara Kazimova, Azerbaijani singer and actress
Naturi Naughton, American singer and actress[47]
May 21
Jackson Pearce, American novelist
Gary Woodland, American golfer
May 23 – Adam Wylie, American actor
May 24 – Monica Bergamelli, Italian artistic gymnast
May 25
Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
Emma Marrone, Italian pop/rock singer
Kostas Martakis, Greek singer, model and occasional actor
Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer
Marion Raven, Norwegian singer and songwriter
Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World 2005
May 29
Carmelo Anthony, African-American basketball player
Nia Jax, Australian-born American professional wrestler
Aleksei Tishchenko, Russian Olympic boxer
May 31
Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer[48]
Yael Grobglas, Israeli actress
June[edit]
June 1
Olivier Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolian judoka
June 4
Jillian Murray, American actress
Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer
June 5 – Iris van Herpen, Dutch fashion designer
June 8
Andrea Casiraghi, Prince of Monaco
Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer[49]
June 9 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer[50]
June 13
Bérengère Schuh, French archer
Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
June 15 – Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
June 16
Emiri Miyasaka, Japanese model
Rick Nash, Canadian hockey player
June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer
June 19 – Paul Dano, American actor and producer
June 21
Kim Ho-jun, South Korean football player
Zabit Samedov, Azerbaijani kickboxer
Erick Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
June 22 – Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
June 23 – Duffy, Welsh singer
June 24
Javier Ambrossi, Spanish actor, stage director and film director
JJ Redick, American basketball player
June 25
Lauren Bush, American model and producer
Killian Donnelly, Irish musical theatre performer
June 26
Raymond Felton, American basketball player
Assan Jatta, Gambian football striker
Aubrey Plaza, American actress[51]
Deron Williams, American basketball player
Eddie Wineland, American mixed martial artist
June 27
Son Ho-jun, South Korean singer and actor
Khloé Kardashian, American television personality
June 28 – Eric Friedman, American musician and songwriter
June 30
Fantasia Barrino, American singer
Nikos Oikonomopoulos, Greek singer
Yu Koshikawa, Japanese volleyball player
July[edit]
July – James Holzhauer, American game show champion
July 1
Jason Reeves, American singer-songwriter and musician
Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
Heo Jae-won, South Korean football player
July 2
Johnny Weir, American figure skater, fashion designer, and television commentator
Vinny Magalhães, Brazilian mixed martial artist
July 3 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
July 4
Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer and actor
Lee Je-hoon, South Korean actor
July 5
Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress, and singer
Yeon Woo-jin, South Korean actor
Danay García, Cuban actress and model
July 6 – Lauren Harris, British rock musician
July 7
Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukrainian politician
AG Coco, Malaysian musician
Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
July 9 – LA Tenorio, Filipino professional basketball player
July 10
Laurent Recouderc, French tennis player
Mark González, South African-Chilean footballer
Óscar Escandón, Colombian boxer
María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian actress, dancer, model, teacher, and beauty queen
July 11
Tiffiny Hall, Australian author, journalist and television personality
Tanith Belbin White, Canadian-American figure skater
Joe Pavelski, American hockey player
Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
July 12
Gareth Gates, English singer
Amanda Hocking, American fantasy novelist
Natalie Martinez, American actress and model
Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer[52]
Sami Zayn, Syrian Canadian professional wrestler
July 13 – Pio Marmaï, French actor
July 15
Vincent Wan, Hong Kong actor
Rustam Totrov, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
Lars Øvrebø, Norwegian football player
July 16 – Sašo Bertoncelj, Slovenian male artistic gymnast
July 17 – Mohamed Bouchaïb, Libya-Algerian actor
July 18
Sam Sexton, British professional boxer
Liv Boeree, English poker player and TV presenter
Josh Harding, Canadian hockey player
July 19
Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian videographer
Andrea Libman, Canadian actress
Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer[53]
Zhu Zhu, Chinese actress and singer
July 20 – Huang Yi-hua, Taiwanese table tennis player
July 21
Sarah Greene, Irish actress and singer
Iris Strubegger, Austrian model
July 23 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
July 26 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
July 27 – Taylor Schilling, American actress
July 28
Ali Krieger, American soccer player
Zach Parise, American hockey player[54]
John David Washington, American actor and former American football player
July 30
Anna Bessonova, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
Gina Rodriguez, American actress and producer[55]
August[edit]
August 1
Danny Tidwell, American dancer (d. 2020)
Bastian Schweinsteiger, German football player
August 2 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer[56]
August 3 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer[57]
August 5 – Helene Fischer, German singer and entertainer
August 10 – Ryan Eggold, American film and television actor
August 11 – Melky Cabrera, American baseball player
August 12 – Sherone Simpson, Jamaican athlete[58]
August 13 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
August 14
Clay Buchholz, American Major League Baseball pitcher
Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
August 17 – Liam Heath, British sprint canoeist
August 20
Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
Tsokye Karchung, Bhutanese beauty queen, Miss Bhutan 2008
August 21 – Alizée Jacotey, French singer
August 23
Glen Johnson, English footballer
Ashley Williams, Welsh footballer
August 24
Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player [59]
Yesung, South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, radio personality and MC
August 25 – Kenan Sofuoğlu, Turkish professional motorcycle racer
August 28 – Sarah Roemer, American model and actress
August 31 – Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
September[edit]
September 1 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist (Fall Out Boy)
September 2 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
September 3
André Cardoso, Portuguese cyclist
Garrett Hedlund, American actor
September 4
Camila Bordonaba, Argentine actress, singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, and former model
Kyle Mooney, American comedian[60]
September 6
Igor Maksymenko, Ukrainian kickboxer
Orsi Kocsis, Hungarian model
Abby Martin, American journalist
September 7
Kate Miner, American actress and musician
Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
September 8 – Daniele Hypolito, Brazilian artistic gymnast
September 10 – Luke Treadaway, English actor and singer
September 14 – André de Vanny, Australian actor
September 15 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British Prince
September 16
Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer
Ali Fedotowsky, American television personality
September 18
Nina Arianda, American actress
Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
September 19
Young Greatness, American rapper (d. 2018)
Lydia Hearst, American actress and fashion model
Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
September 20
Brian Joubert, French figure skater
Soundarya Rajinikanth, Indian graphic designer, producer, and director
Holly Weber, American actress and model
September 21 – Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American Olympic swimmer[61]
Wale, American rapper
September 22
Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (d. 2019)
Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
September 23
Kate French, American television and film actress and model
Matt Kemp, American baseball player
Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress and singer
September 25
Annabelle Wallis, English actress
CariDee English, American fashion model and TV personality
Zach Woods, American actor and comedian
September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian rock musician
September 28
Helen Oyeyemi, British novelist
Melody Thornton, American singer
Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
September 29 – Per Mertesacker, German football player
September 30 – Keisha Buchanan, British singer
October[edit]
October 1
Beck Bennett, American actor and comedian
Josh Brener, American actor
Matt Cain, American baseball player
Mónica Spear, Venezuelan actress, Miss Venezuela 2004 (d. 2014)
October 2 – Marion Bartoli, French professional tennis player
October 3
Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
Yoon Eun-hye, Korean singer, model, actress and entertainer
Laura Weissbecker, French actress
Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress
October 4
Lena Katina, Russian singer
Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
October 5
Glenn McMillan, Australian actor
Brooke Valentine, American urban musician
October 6
Joanna Pacitti, American singer
Magdalena Frackowiak, Polish model
October 7
Ikuta Toma, Japanese drama actor
Andy Bean, American actor
October 10
Pavel Durov, Russian entrepreneur
Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
Steve Turner, Australian rugby league player
October 11 – Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
October 12 – Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai, Kenyan long-distance runner
October 13
Kathrin Fricke, German web- and video-artist, known as Coldmirror
Anton Kushnir, Belarusian Olympic freestyle skier
October 16
Ben Smith, Australian rugby league player
Shayne Ward, British singer
October 17
Chris Lowell, American actor
Randall Munroe, American programmer and webcomic artist
October 18
Hollie Dunaway, American female boxer
Robert Harting, German discus thrower[62]
Esperanza Spalding, American singer
Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier[63]
October 20 – Mitch Lucker, American heavy metal singer (d. 2012)
October 23
Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
Meghan McCain, American author
October 24
Ben Giroux, American actor and director
Erin Lucas, American actress
October 25 – Katy Perry, American singer and television judge
October 26
Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
October 27
Kelly Osbourne, English singer and television personality
Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
October 28 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer[64]
October 29 – Eric Staal, Canadian hockey player
November[edit]
November 1
Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer
Natalia Tena, English actress and singer
November 2
Julia Stegner, German model
Tamara Hope, Canadian actress and singer
November 3
Ryo Nishikido, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
Mina Fukui, Japanese actress, tarento and gravure model
November 4
Dustin Brown, American hockey player
Ayila Yussuf, Nigerian footballer[65]
November 5
Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner
Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
November 6 – Sebastian Schachten, German footballer
November 7
Mihkel Aksalu, Estonian footballer[66]
Jonathan Bornstein, American-Israeli soccer player
Amelia Vega, Miss Universe 2003
November 8
Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2012)
Steven Webb, English actor
November 9
Delta Goodrem, Australian actress and singer
Ku Hye-sun, South Korean actress and singer
French Montana, Moroccan-Americans rapper
November 10
Britt Irvin, Canadian actress and singer
Ludovic Obraniak, Polish footballer
November 11 – Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer
November 12
Omarion, American singer-songwriter and actor
Dara, South Korean singer and model
Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player
November 14 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2007 winner
November 15 – Hevrin Khalaf, Kurdish-Syrian politician and civil engineer (d. 2019)
November 16 – Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
November 17
Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
Lauren Maltby, American actress and psychologist
November 18 – Thelma Assis, Brazilian doctor, presenter and dancer
November 20 – Jeremy Jordan, American actor and singer
November 21 – Jena Malone, American actress, musician, and photographer
November 22 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress and singer
November 23
Jarah Mariano, American model
Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer, songwriter, and producer
November 24 – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German alpine skier
November 25
Ian Lacey, Australian rugby league player
Gaspard Ulliel, French actor (d. 2022)
November 26 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
November 27 – Sanna Nielsen, Swedish pop singer
November 28
Alan Ritchson, American actor, model, and singer
Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
Marc-André Fleury, Canadian hockey player
Trey Songz, African-American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress and singer
November 30 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
December[edit]
December 1 – Ajuma Ameh-Otache, Nigerian footballer (d. 2018)
December 3 – Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek football player
December 4 – Lindsay Felton, American actress
December 5 – Lauren London, American actress and model
December 6 – Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, Swedish princess
December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One racing driver
December 8
Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter
December 10 – Tom Hern, New Zealand actor
December 11
Xosha Roquemore, American actress
Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress, singer and model
December 12 – Daniel Agger, Danish football (soccer) player
December 13 – Santi Cazorla, Spanish football player[67]
December 14
Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
Jackson Rathbone, American actor and singer
December 15
Kirsty Lee Allan, Australian actress and fashion model
Martin Škrtel, Slovak footballer
Yu Fengtong, Chinese speed skater
December 16 – Theo James, English actor and singer
December 17
Asuka Fukuda, Japanese singer
Tennessee Thomas, British-born American drummer and actor
Shannon Woodward, American actress
December 18 – Tiffany Mulheron, Scottish actress
December 20 – Bob Morley, Australian actor[68]
December 22
Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
Greg Finley, American actor
December 23 – Alison Sudol, American singer, songwriter, and actress (aka A Fine Frenzy)
December 25
Francisco Vargas, Mexican professional boxer
Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
December 26 – Jenny Shakeshaft, American actress and model
December 27 – Rocío Guirao Díaz, Argentinian model
December 28
Martin Kaymer, German golfer
Raditya Dika, Indonesian writer, comedian, and filmmaker
December 30 – LeBron James, American basketball player
Date unknown[edit]
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, Nepali Sherpa mountaineer
Deaths[edit]
Content
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
January[edit]
January 1
Billy Hill, British gangster (b. 1911)
Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster (b. 1928)
January 5 – Giuseppe Fava, Italian writer (b. 1925)
January 6 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (b. 1898)
January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
January 9 – Sir Deighton Lisle Ward, 4th Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1909)
January 11 – Jack La Rue, American actor (b. 1902)
January 13 – Ray Moore, American comic writer (b. 1905)
January 14
Brooks Atkinson, American theater critic (b. 1894)
Saad Haddad, Lebanese military officer and militia leader (b. 1936)
Ray Kroc, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
January 17
Kostas Giannidis, Greek composer (b. 1903)
George Rigaud, Argentinian actor (b. 1905)
January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
January 21
Archduke Gottfried of Austria (b. 1902)
Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
January 22 – Sir Count Michael Gonzi, Maltese Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1885)
January 29 – Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter (b. 1890)
January 30 – Luke Kelly, lead singer of Irish band The Dubliners (b. 1940)
January 31 – George Harmon Coxe, American writer (b. 1901)
February[edit]
February 4 – Alan Buchanan, British Anglican bishop (b. 1905)
February 5 – El Santo, Mexican professional wrestler and actor (b. 1917)
February 6 – Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet (b. 1893)
February 8
Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
Philippe Ariès, French medievalist and historian (b. 1914)
February 9 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
February 10
David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
Claudia Zobel, Filipina actress (b. 1965)
February 11 – John Comer, English actor (b. 1924)
February 12
Anna Anderson, Pretender to the Russian throne (b. 1896)
Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
Tom Keating, English art restorer (b. 1917)
February 13 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (b. 1941)
February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
February 20 – Giuseppe Colombo, Italian scientist (b. 1920)
February 21 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
February 22
Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, Pakistani religious leader of Allo Mahar Shrif. (b. 1911)
David Vetter, American plastic bubble patient (b. 1971)
Jessamyn West, American writer. (b. 1902)
February 24 – Tyrone Mitchell, American murderer (b. 1955)
March[edit]
March 1 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
March 5
Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1913)
William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
March 6 – Henry Wilcoxon, British actor (b. 1905)
March 10 – June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
March 14 – Aurelio Peccei, Italian industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of the Club of Rome (b. 1908)
March 15 – Ken Carpenter, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
Konstantin Badygin, Soviet Naval officer and explorer (b. 1910)
March 12 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
March 16 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
March 18
Charley Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist (b. 1907)
March 20 – Stan Coveleski, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1889)
March 21 – August Frank, Nazi German official, SS leader and convict at the Nuremberg trials (b. 1898)
March 23
Shauna Grant, American porn actress (b. 1963)
Peter Kolosimo, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1922)
March 24 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
March 26 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (b. 1922)
March 27 – Jack Donohue, American film screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
March 28
Ben Washam, American animator (b. 1915)
Benjamin Mays, American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (b. 1894)
March 30 – Karl Rahner, German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904)
March 31 – Jack Howarth, English actor (b. 1896)
April[edit]
April 1
Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (b. 1900)
April 5
Arthur “Bomber” Harris, British air marshall (b. 1892)
Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894)
April 7 – Frank Church, American politician, U.S senator from 1957 to 1981 (b. 1924)[69]
April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
April 9 – Willem Sandberg, Dutch typographer (b. 1897)
April 12 – Edward Sokoine, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1938)
April 15
Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
William Empson, English poet and critic (b. 1906)
April 16 – Byron Haskin, American film and television director (b. 1899)
April 17 – Mark W. Clark, American general (b. 1896)
April 19 – Machito, Cuban jazz musician (b. 1908)
April 20 – Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador (b. 1925)
April 21 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895)
April 22 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
April 23 – Roland Penrose, English artist, historian and poet (b. 1900)
April 26
Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
May McAvoy, American actress (b. 1899)
April 30 – Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
May[edit]
May 2
Jack Barry, American television host and producer (b. 1918)
Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
May 4 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
May 6 – Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
May 8 – Lila Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
May 12 – Charlie Stubbs, English footballer (b. 1920)
May 15 – Lionel Robbins, British economist (b. 1898)
May 16
Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
May 19 – Sir John Betjeman, English diplomat and poet (b. 1906)
May 20 – Ólafur Jóhannesson, 15th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1913)
May 21
Andrea Leeds, American actress (b. 1914)
Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
May 22
Rambai Barni, Queen consort of King Prajadhipok of Thailand (b. 1904)
Karl-August Fagerholm, 20th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901)
John Marley, American actor (b. 1907)
May 24 – Vincent J. McMahon, professional wrestling promoter WWF (b. 1914)
May 26 – Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
May 27 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
May 28
Eric Morecambe, British comedian (b. 1926)
D’Urville Martin, American actor and director (b. 1939)
June[edit]
June 5 – Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1926)
June 6 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Sikh theologian, Most powerful Sikh leader of the 20th century (b. 1947)
June 11 – Enrico Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (b. 1922)
June 15
Ned Glass, American actor (b. 1906)
Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
June 19 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
June 20 – Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
June 22 – Joseph Losey, American film director (b. 1909)
June 24 – William Keighley, American film director (b. 1889)
June 25 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
June 26 – Carl Foreman, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
June 28
Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff (b. 1917)
Claude Chevalley, French mathematician (b. 1909)
June 30
Henri Fabre, pioneer French aviator & inventor (b. 1882)
Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
July[edit]
July 1 – Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method (b. 1904)
July 3 – Raoul Salan, French general (b. 1899)
July 7 – Dame Flora Robson, English actress (b. 1902)
July 8
Brassaï, Hungarian-born photographer (b. 1899)
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1893)
July 17 – Karl Wolff, German Nazi SS Officer (b. 1900)
July 19 – Faina Ranevskaya, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1896)
July 25 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
July 26
George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
July 27 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
July 28 – Bess Flowers, American actress (b. 1898) July 30 – Maurice Tremlett, English cricketer (b 1924)
August[edit]
August 2 – Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (b. 1896)
August 4 – Mary Miles Minter, American actress (b. 1902)
August 5 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
August 8 – Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1922)
August 11 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
August 13
Clyde Cook, Australian actor (b. 1891)
Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929)
August 14 – J. B. Priestley, British novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
August 25
Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
Viktor Chukarin, Russian Olympic gymnast (b. 1921)
August 28 – Mohammed Naguib, 30th Prime Minister of Egypt and 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
August 29 – Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese politician, founder of the Kataeb Party (b. 1905)
September[edit]
September 1 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (b. 1898)
September 5
Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
Jane Roberts, American writer (b. 1929)
September 6 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
September 7 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1906)
September 8 – Frank Lowson, English Test Cricketer 1951–1955 (b.1925)
September 9 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish film director (b. 1937)
September 10 – Ismael Merlo, Spanish actor (b. 1918)
September 12 – Yvon Petra, French tennis player (b. 1916)
September 14
Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (b. 1935)
Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (b. 1906)
September 16 – Vincenzo Cotroni, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1911)
September 17 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
September 20 – Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948)
September 24 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
September 27 – Toke Townley, English actor (b. 1912)
October[edit]
October 1
Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911)
Blagoje Marjanović, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1907)
October 4 – Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1901)
October 5 – Leonard Rossiter, British actor (b. 1926)
October 6 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (b. 1902)
October 9 – Heinz von Cleve, German stage and film actor (b. 1897)
October 12 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician murdered by the IRA in the Brighton hotel bombing (b. 1925)
October 13 – George Kelly, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1895)
October 14 – Sir Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
October 16 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (b. 1932)
October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
October 19
Henri Michaux, Belgian writer and painter (b. 1899)
Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1947) (Murdered)
October 20
Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
Paul Dirac, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
October 21
Adolf Fischer, German actor (b. 1900)
François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
October 23
David Gorcey, American actor (b. 1921)
Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor (b. 1899)
October 25 – Pascale Ogier, French actress (b. 1958)
October 30 – June Duprez, English actress (b. 1918)
October 31
Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1900)
Indira Gandhi, Indian politician and political figure, 3rd Prime Minister of India (assassinated) (b. 1917)
November[edit]
November 11 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement (b. 1899)
November 16
Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918)
November 20
Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1910)
Carlo Campanini, Italian actor (b. 1906)
November 23 – Paul Dahlke, German actor (b. 1904)
December[edit]
December 4 – Jack Mercer, American voice artist (b. 1910)
December 6 – Lucie Odier, Swiss nurse and humanitarian activist (b. 1886)
December 7 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (b. 1919)
December 8 – Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
December 9 – Ivor Moreton, British singer and pianist (b. 1908)
December 11
Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (b. 1911)
George Waggner, American film director (b. 1894)
December 13 – Clemente de la Cerda, Venezuelan director (b. 1935)
December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
December 16
Karl Deichgräber, German classical philologist (b. 1903)
J. Roderick MacArthur, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
December 20
Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946)
Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (b. 1933)
Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer and Minister of Defense (b. 1908)
December 24
Ian Hendry, English actor (b. 1931)
Peter Lawford, English-American actor and socialite (b. 1923)
December 26 – Sheila Andrews, American country music singer (b. 1953)
December 28 – Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer (b. 1900)
Nobel Prizes[edit]
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Physics – Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
Chemistry – Robert Bruce Merrifield
Medicine – Niels Kaj Jerne, Georges J. F. Köhler, César Milstein
Literature – Jaroslav Seifert
Peace – Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Richard Stone
1984 in fiction[edit]
The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, published in 1949, is set in this year.
The video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories takes place in 1984.
The Transformers franchise starts in 1984 with the Transformers toy line.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain takes place in this year.
The Terminator takes place on May 12 of this year.
The Saturday school detention of The Breakfast Club takes place on March 24, 1984.
Season 2 of the Netflix original television series Stranger Things takes place in 1984.
Horror film Summer of 84 takes place in 1984.
Interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch takes place in 1984.
Wonder Woman 1984 takes place in 1984.
One of the storylines in season 1 of Why Women Kill is set in 1984.
American Horror Story: 1984 takes place in 1984.
The first part of Episode 1 of Not for Broadcast is set in 1984.
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2110 or 1729 or 957
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2111 or 1730 or 958
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