Look up template in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Template may mean:

• a stencil, pattern or overlay used in graphic arts (drawing, painting, etc.) and sewing to replicate letters, shapes or designs
• a pre-developed page layout in electronic or paper media used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern, or style
• Form letter, a predefined letter which retains its primary intent when individually customised with variable data or text.

Computer science and information technology[link]

• Template (file format), a standardized non-executable file type used by computer software as a pre-formatted example on which to base other files, especially documents
• Template (C++), a tool for generic programming especially in the C++ language
• Template metaprogramming, a programming technique used by a compiler to generate temporary source code
• Template method, an object-oriented design pattern
• Template processor, a system that combines a template with data to produce an output.
• Template (word processing), a standard document containing layout and styles used to configure word processing software
• Style sheet (web development) or master page on which you can globally edit and format graphic elements and text common to each page of a document
• Web template or web template system, a master page used to produce web pages
• A main document from which mail merge documents are created

Manufacturing[link]

• Mechanical template, used to cut and shape a product, such as:
  • a die (manufacturing)
  • a mold

Molecular genetics[link]

• a strand of DNA which sets the genetic sequence of new strands
• a strand of RNA which translates genes into proteins

Miscellaneous[link]

• Template (racing), a device used in car racing to ensure that the body of the race vehicle adheres to specifications

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1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). It is the 1981st year of the Common Era, or A.D.; the 981st year of the 2nd millennium; the 81st year of the 20th century; and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.

Events[link]

January[link]

• January – The subterranean Sarawak Chamber is discovered in Borneo.
• January 1
  • Greece enters the European Community, which later becomes the European Union.
  • Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
• January 6 – The Brazilian double decker boat Novo Amapo capsizes in the Amazon River, Belem de Cajari, Macapa, Brazil; 230 are killed.
• January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.
• January 16 – Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband.
• January 17 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law.
• January 19 – United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days within minutes of Ronald Reagan succeeding Jimmy Carter as the President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis.
• January 21 – The first DeLorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
• January 23 – An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude in Sichuan, China kills 150.
• January 25
  • Chiang Ching ("Madame Mao") is sentenced to death in the People's Republic of China.
  • Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 27–10 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• January 27 – The Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas 2 catches fire and capsizes in the Java Sea, killing 580.

February[link]

• February 4 – Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway.
• February 8 – 20 fans of Olympiacos and 1 fan of AEK Athens die, while 54 are injured, after a stampede at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, possibly because gate 7 does not open immediately after the end of the game.
• February 9 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Pinkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.
• February 14
  • Stardust fire: A fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland in the early hours kills 48 and injures 214.
  • Australia withdraws recognition of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.
• February 23 – Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is about to be named president of the government. The coup d'état fails thanks to King Juan Carlos.
• February 24 – A powerful, magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Athens, killing 16 people, injuring thousands and destroying several buildings, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki, Kiato and Xylokastro.

March[link]

• March 1 – Bobby Sands, a Provisional Irish Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison (he dies May 5, the first of 10 men).
• March 11 – Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President of Chile for another 8-year term.
• March 17 – In Italy the Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge is discovered.
• March 19 – Three workers are killed and 5 injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
• March 29 – The first London Marathon starts with 7,500 runners.
• March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.

April[link]

• April 1 – Daylight saving time is introduced in the Soviet Union.
• April 4 – The UK pop group Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song, "Making Your Mind Up".
• April 11 – 1981 Brixton riot: Rioters in South London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.
• April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.

April 12: First Space Shuttle launch: Columbia, April 12, 1981.

• April 18
  • A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).
  • The rock band Yes splits up (regrouping in 1983).
• April 26 – French presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand
• April 26 – Monarcas Morelia ascended to the Mexican Primera division.

May[link]

• May – Daniel K. Ludwig abandons the Jari project in the Amazon Basin.
• May 1 – The new Chilean pension system, based on private pension funds, begins.
• May 5 – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and elected member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, dies aged 27 while on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• May 6 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
• May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience.
• May 15 – Donna Payant is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith, the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.
• May 21 – In France, Socialist François Mitterrand becomes President.
• May 22 – Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of being the Yorkshire Ripper. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder.
• May 25 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• May 26 – The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due.
• May 30 – Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong.

June[link]

• June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS).
• June 6 – Bihar train disaster: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi in Bihar, India; about 800 die.
• June 7 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
• June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, Marcus Sarjeant fires 6 blank shots at Elizabeth II.
• June 18 – The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is founded.
• June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.
• June 24 – Six young people in Yugoslavia first saw what they believed to be an apparition of The Virgin Mary.

July[link]

• July 2 – The Wonderland Gang is brutally murdered in a massacre involving Eddie Nash.
• July 3 – The Toxteth riots in Liverpool, UK start after a mob saves a youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the Chapeltown riots in Leeds start after increased racial tension.
• July 7 – President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• July 8 – Irish Republican Joe McDonnell dies at the Long Kesh Internment Camp after a 61-day hunger strike.
• July 10 – Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• July 16-July 21 – England become the first team this century to win a test match after following on when they beat Australia by 18 runs at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds, England.
• July 17
  • Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.
  • Israeli aircraft bomb Beirut, destroying multi-story apartment blocks containing the offices of PLO associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.^[1]
  • In Bolivia, General Luis Gracia Meza leads a bloody coup d'état against the elected government of Lidia Gayler.
• July 19 – The 1981 Springbok Tour commences in New Zealand, amid controversy over the support of apartheid.
• July 21 – Tohui The Panda is born in Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, the first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China.
• July 29 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

August[link]

• August 1 – MTV (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States.
• August 9 – Major League Baseball resumes from the strike with the All-Star Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.
• August 12
  • The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.
  • Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Salomon Islands and Tuvalu recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
• August 19
  • Gulf of Sidra incident (1981): Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.
• August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after being convicted of murdering John Lennon in Manhattan 8 months earlier.
• August 28 – South African troops invade Angola.
• August 31 – A bomb explodes at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, West Germany, injuring 20 people.

September[link]

• September 4 – An explosion at a mine in Záluží, Czechoslovakia, kills 65 people.
• September 10 – Picasso's painting "Guernica" is moved from New York to Madrid.
• September 15 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC.
• September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.
• September 18 – France abolishes capital punishment.
• September 19 – Simon & Garfunkel perform The Concert in Central Park, a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.
• September 20 – The Brazilian river boat Sobral Santos capsizes in the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300.
• September 21 – Belize becomes independent.
• September 25
  • Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • The Rolling Stones begin their Tattoo You tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
• September 26
  • The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first flight.
  • The Sydney Tower opens to the public.
• September 27 – TGV high speed rail service between Paris and Lyon, France begins.

October[link]

• October 5 – Raoul Wallenberg becomes posthumously honorary citizen of the United States
• October 6 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who belong to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel.
• October 10 – The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the jōyō kanji.
• October 14 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt 1 week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
• October 16 – Gas explosions at a coal mine at Hokutan, Yūbari, Hokkaidō, Japan kill 93.
• October 21 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 22 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.
• October 27 – Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground outside the Karlskrona, Sweden military base.

November[link]

November 1: Antigua and Barbuda.

• November 1 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
• November 9 – Edict No. 81-234 abolishes slavery in Mauritania.
• November 12 – The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to holy orders.
• November 16 – Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
• November 18 – COMDEX Fall, IBM introduces the IBM PC. Scientific Solutions announces the first PC add-in cards.
• November 23 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• November 25–November 26 – A group of mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport in the Seychelles in a coup attempt. Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered Air India passenger jet; 6 are later arrested.
• November 30 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, December 17).

December[link]

• December 1 – A Yugoslavian McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica, killing 178.
• December 4 – South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).
• December 8
  • The No. 21 Mine explosion in Whitwell, Tennessee kills 13.
  • Arthur Scargill becomes President-elect of the National Union of Mineworkers.
• December 10 – During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO.
• December 11
  • Boxing: Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proved to be Ali's last-ever fight.
  • El Mozote massacre: In El Salvador, army units kill 900 civilians.
• December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
• December 15 – A car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 61 people; Syrian intelligence is blamed.
• December 17 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades.
• December 20 – The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurs off the coast of South-West Cornwall.
• December 21 – Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA).
• December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
• December 31 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

Date unknown[link]

• Heavy snow causes many houses and buildings to collapse in northwestern Japan; 152 are killed (from January to March).
• The Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr's relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury is observed in a reenactment.
• The State Council of the People's Republic of China lists the 4 cities (Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Guilin) as those where the protection of historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery, should be treated as a priority project.
• Cuba suffers a major outbreak of Dengue fever, with 344,203 cases.^[2]
• Luxor AB Presents the ABC 800 computer.
• Donkey Kong becomes the first ever Super Mario game.

Births[link]

January[link]

Elijah Wood

Justin Timberlake

• January 1
  • Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
  • Mladen Petrić, Croatian football player
  • Eden Riegel, American actress
• January 2 – Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
• January 3 – Eli Manning, American football player
• January 4 – Silvy De Bie, Belgian singer
• January 5 – Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman), Canadian DJ/Producer
• January 6
  • Mike Jones, American rapper
  • Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
• January 7 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• January 8
  • Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
  • Genevieve Cortese, American actress
  • Jeff Francis, Canadian pitcher
• January 9
  • Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
  • Caroline Lufkin, American singer
• January 11
  • Jamelia, British singer
  • Tom Meighan, British singer and songwriter, lead vocalist for alternative rock band Kasabian
• January 12 – Quentin Griffin, American football
• January 15
  • El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
  • Howie Day, American singer and songwriter
  • Pitbull (rapper), American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
• January 17
  • Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
  • Ray J, American rapper and singer
• January 19
  • Lucho Gonzalez, Argentine footballer
  • Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
  • Thaila Zucchi, English singer (allSTARS*) and actress
• January 20
  • Jason Richardson, American basketball player
  • Owen Hargreaves, Canadian-born English footballer
  • Brendan Fevola, Australian rules footballer
• January 21
  • Dany Heatley, German-born hockey player
  • Gillian Chung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
• January 22
  • Chantelle Anderson, American basketball player
  • Willa Ford, American singer, television hostess, and actress
  • Beverley Mitchell, American actress
  • Ben Moody, American guitarist (formerly of Evanescence)
• January 25
  • Alicia Keys, American singer
  • Tose Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007)
• January 27
  • Greg Owens, Australian soccer player
  • Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
• January 28 – Elijah Wood, American actor and music producer
• January 29 – Jonny Lang, American musician
• January 30 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
• January 31 – Justin Timberlake, American musician ('N Sync)

February[link]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Paris Hilton

Josh Groban

• February 2 – Emily Rose, American actress
• February 3 – Alisa Reyes, American actress
• February 4 – Matchstik, American rapper, singer and song writer
• February 5
  • Nora Zehetner, American actress
  • Lee Eon, South Korean actor and model (d. 2008)
• February 8 – Ralf Little, English Actor
• February 9
  • Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, American drummer (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)
  • Tom Hiddleston, British actor
• February 10
  • Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
  • Holly Willoughby, British television presenter
• February 11
  • Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)
  • Edoardo Molinari, Italian golfer
• February 12
  • Lisa Hannigan, Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
  • Loren Kreiss, American artist
  • Selena Li, Hong Kong actress
• February 14 – Erin Torpey, American actress
• February 15
  • Jenna Morasca, American television personality
  • Olivia, American singer
• February 17
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
  • Paris Hilton, American model, heiress, and socialite
• February 18
  • Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
  • Ivan Sproule, British footballer
• February 19 – Vitas, Russian singer
• February 20
  • Chris Thile, American mandolinist
  • Majandra Delfino, American actress
• February 22 – Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
• February 23
  • Paleo, American singer-songwriter
  • Nakahara Mai, Japanese voice actress
• February 24 – Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
• February 25 – Ji-Sung Park, South Korean footballer
• February 26 – Maria Sansone, American journalist and Internet personality
• February 27 – Josh Groban, American singer

March[link]

Julia Stiles

• March 1
  • Ana Hickmann, Brazilian model
  • Adam LaVorgna, American actor
  • Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
• March 2
  • Bryce Howard, American actress
  • Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
• March 3
  • Lil' Flip, American rapper
  • Shada Hassoun, Iraqi singer
• March 4 – Carol Banawa, Filipina singer
• March 6 – Ellen Muth, American actress
• March 9 – Antonio Bryant, American football player
• March 10
  • Kristen Maloney, American gymnast
  • Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
• March 11
  • David Anders, American actor
  • Lee Evans, American football player
  • LeToya Luckett, American singer
• March 12
  • Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
  • Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• March 13 – April Matson, American actress and singer
• March 15 – Young Buck, American rapper
• March 16
  • Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
  • Johannes Aigner, Austrian footballer
• March 17 – Kyle Korver, American basketball player
• March 18 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss road bicycle racer
• March 19 – Kolo Touré, Ivorian football player
• March 22
  • MIMS, American rapper
  • Tiffany Dupont, American actress
• March 26 – Jay Sean, British-Indian singer
• March 27
  • Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
  • Terry McFlynn, British footballer
• March 28
  • Lindsay Frimodt, American model
  • Julia Stiles, American actress
  • Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh actor
• March 29 – Megan Hilty, American actress, singer, and broadway star
• March 31 – Gerard McCarthy, British actor

April[link]

Hayden Christensen

Jessica Alba

• April 1
  • Asli Bayram, Turkish German model and actress
  • Aimee Chan, Chinese-Canadian actress
  • Hannah Spearritt, British singer (S Club 7) and actress
• April 2
  • Bethany Joy Lenz, American actress and singer
  • Raghav, Canadian singer
• April 3 – Arfius Arf, British artist
• April 5 – Michael A. Monsoor, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006)
• April 6 – Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer
• April 7 – Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
• April 8
  • Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
  • Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
• April 9
  • Milan Bartovič, Slovak hockey player
  • Eric Harris, American murderer (d. 1999)
  • Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer
• April 10
  • Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder
  • Laura Bell Bundy, American actress, singer, and broadway star.
  • Liz McClarnon, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
  • Michael Pitt, American actor
• April 11 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
• April 15 – Seth Wulsin, American artist
• April 17 – Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer
• April 18
  • Jang Nara, Korean actress and singer
  • Audrey Tang, Taiwanese software programmer
• April 19
  • Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
  • Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
  • Troy Polamalu, American football player
• April 21
  • Mike Christie, English musician
  • Luis Manzano, Filipino actor, TV host, VJ and model
  • Stephanie Larimore, American model
• April 22 – Ken Dorsey, American football player
• April 25
  • John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
  • Anja Pärson, Swedish alpine skier
  • Felipe Massa, Brazilian race car driver
• April 26 – Matthieu Delpierre, French football player
• April 27 – Sandy Mölling, German pop singer
• April 28 – Jessica Alba, American actress
• April 29 – George McCartney, British footballer

May[link]

Zara Phillips

Georges St-Pierre

• May 1
  • Alexander Hleb, Belarusian football player
  • Wes Welker, American football player
• May 3
  • Farrah Franklin, American singer
  • Natalie Tong, Hong Kong actress
  • U;Nee, South Korean singer and actress (d. 2007)
• May 4 – Jacques Rudolph, South African cricketer
• May 5
  • Craig David, English singer
  • Danielle Fishel, American actress
  • Danijel Nikolic, Serbian actor
• May 8 – Andrés Romero, Argentine golfer
• May 11
  • Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
  • Daisuke Matsui, Japanese football player
  • Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist and reporter in Hungary
• May 12 – Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer
• May 13
  • Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
  • Sunny Leone, Canadian pornstar
  • Jimmy Wang Yang, Korean professional wrestler
• May 15
  • Patrice Evra, Senegalese-born French footballer
  • Zara Phillips, British elite equestrienne and daughter of Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips
  • Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
  • Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
• May 18 – Adam Green, American singer-songwriter
• May 19
  • Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
  • Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
  • Georges St-Pierre, Canadian mixed martial arts fighter
• May 20
  • Sean Conlon, English musician (5ive)
  • Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
  • Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
• May 21
  • Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
  • Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
• May 22
  • Daniel Bryan, American professional wrestler
  • Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
• May 26 – Isaac Slade, American singer/pianist of The Fray
• May 27 – Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina
• May 28
  • Laura Bailey, American voice actress
  • Aaron Schock, American politician
• May 29
  • Andrei Arshavin, Russian football player
  • Brian Simnjanovski, American Football Player
• May 30 – Remy Ma, American rapper
• May 31 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player

June[link]

Natalie Portman

Chris Evans

• June 1
  • Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
  • Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
• June 3 – Mike Adam, Canadian curler
• June 5 – Jade Goody, British reality show star (d. 2009)
• June 6 – Johnny Pacar, American actor
• June 7
  • Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
  • Larisa Oleynik, American actress
• June 8
  • Alex Band, American musician
  • Sara Watkins, American violinist
  • Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actress
• June 9
  • Celina Jaitley, Indian actress
  • Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
  • Anoushka Shankar, British musician and daughter of Ravi Shankar
  • Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer, and model
• June 10
  • Hoku Ho, Hawaiian singer and musician
  • Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
  • Arwind Santos, Filipino professional basketball player
  • Jonathan Bennett, American actor and model
• June 12 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian model
• June 13 – Chris Evans, American actor
• June 14 – Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
• June 15 – Haley Scarnato, American singer
• June 16
  • Ben Kweller, American musician
  • Joe Saunders, American baseball player
• June 17 – Amrita Rao, Indian actress
• June 18
  • Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
  • Ella Chen, Taiwanese singer
• June 20 – Alisan Porter, American actress and singer
• June 21 – Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist
• June 22 – Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist
• June 23 – Antony Costa, English singer (Blue)
• June 25
  • Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
  • Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer
  • Sheridan Smith, English Actress
• June 28 – Mara Santangelo, Italian tennis player
• June 29 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player

July[link]

Summer Glau

• July 1 – Amanda Diva, American actress and rapper
• July 2
  • Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American activist
  • Paul Anthony Finn, Irish singer and songwriter (The Flaws)
• July 3 – Brandon Jay McLaren, Canadian actor
• July 5
  • Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model
  • Ryan Hansen, American actor
• July 6 – Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
• July 7 – Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
• July 8
  • Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
  • Ashley Blue, American pornographic actress
• July 12 – Rebecca Hunter, English singer (allSTARS*) and actress
• July 13
  • Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
  • Fran Kranz, American actor
• July 14 – Lee Mead, British actor
• July 19
  • Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
  • Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
  • Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
• July 20
  • Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
  • Dayang Nurfaizah, Malaysian singer
• July 21 – Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
• July 23
  • Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
  • Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
• July 24 – Summer Glau, American actress (Firefly)
• July 25 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
• July 26 – Maicon Douglas Sisenando, Brazilian footballer
• July 27
  • Li Xiaopeng, Chinese gymnast
  • Dan Jones, British Historian
• July 29 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish Two Time Formula 1 World Champion
• July 31
  • M. Shadows, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
  • Eric Lively, American actor
  • Vernon Carey, American football player

August[link]

Rachel Bilson

• August 4 – Marques Houston, American singer and actor
• August 5
  • Carl Crawford, Major League Baseball outfielder
  • Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)
  • Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer and actress
  • Travie McCoy, American alternative hip-hop artist
• August 6 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver
• August 8
  • Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
  • Harel Skaat, Israeli singer
  • Meagan Good, American actress
  • Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
  • Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist
  • Bradley McIntosh, English singer (S Club 7)
• August 9 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
• August 10
  • Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress
  • Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
• August 11 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer & song writer
• August 12
  • Djibril Cissé, French footballer
  • Steve Talley, American actor
• August 14 – Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian professional wrestler
• August 15 – Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress
• August 16 – Taylor Rain, American actress
• August 20 – Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
• August 21 – Ross Thomas, American actor
• August 23 – Carmen Luvana, Puerto Rican adult actress
• August 24
  • Jiro Wang, Actor and Singer Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
  • Chad Michael Murray, American actor
• August 25
  • Rachel Bilson, American actress
  • Shiva Keshavan, Indian Luge Pilot
• August 28 – Charlie Frye, National Football League quarterback
• August 29 – Lanny Barbie, American pornstar

September[link]

Beyoncé Knowles

Jennifer Hudson

• September 1
  • Clinton Portis, American football player
  • Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian voice actor
• September 2 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
• September 3 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
• September 4
  • Jero, American-born Japanese enka singer
  • Beyoncé Knowles, American actress and R&B singer (Destiny's Child)
  • Lacey Mosley, American lead vocalist (Flyleaf)
• September 6 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
• September 8 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor
• September 9
  • Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
  • Nancy Wu, Hong Kong actress
• September 10 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
• September 11 – Dylan Klebold, American mass murderer (d. 1999)
• September 12
  • Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
  • Hosea Chanchez, American actor of The Game
• September 13 – Angelina Love, Canadian professional wrestler
• September 14
  • Ashley Roberts, singer The Pussycat Dolls
  • Miyavi, Japanese musician
• September 16
  • Alexis Bledel, American actress
  • Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
• September 21 – Nicole Richie, American actress, singer and socialite
• September 22
  • Ashley Drane, American actress
  • Alexei Ramirez, Cuban baseball player
• September 23
  • Misti Traya, American actress
  • Natalie Horler, German singer Cascada
  • Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
• September 25
  • Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
  • Van Hansis, American actor
  • Shane Tutmarc, American singer-songwriter and front man of the band, Dolour
• September 26
  • Christina Milian, American R&B singer and actress
  • Serena Williams, American tennis player
• September 29 – Suzanne Shaw, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress
• September 30
  • Cecelia Ahern, Irish author and daughter of Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach
  • Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast

October[link]

Raffi Torres

• October 3
  • Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
  • Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
  • Seth Gabel, American actor
• October 5 – Enrico Fabris, Italian speed skater
• October 8
  • Ryuji Sainei,Japanese actor
  • Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Ruby, Egyptian singer
• October 9
  • Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
  • Ryoichi Maeda, Japanese footballer
• October 11 – Beau Brady, Australian actor
• October 12 – Brian J. Smith, American actor
• October 13
  • Ryan Ashford, English footballer
  • Kele Okereke, English singer (Bloc Party)
• October 15
  • Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
  • Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver
• October 19 – Christian Bautista, Filipino singer, actor, host, and model
• October 20
  • Willis McGahee, American football player
  • Stefan Nystrand, Swedish swimmer
• October 21 – Nemanja Vidić, Serbian fotball player
• October 22 – Michael Fishman, American actor
• October 23 – Olivier Occean, Canadian footballer
• October 24
  • Tila Tequila, Vietnamese American model and singer
  • Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
• October 25
  • Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
  • Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
  • Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle road racer
• October 26 – Guy Sebastian, original Australian Idol 2003 singer
• October 28
  • Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
  • Dwayne Cameron, New Zealand actor
• October 29
  • Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer
  • Amanda Beard, American swimmer
• October 30
  • Ivanka Trump, American model
  • Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor
• October 31
  • Selina Ren, member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
  • Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
  • Frank Iero, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)

November[link]

Natasha Bedingfield

• November 1 – LaTavia Roberson, American singer (Destiny's Child)
• November 2
  • Tatiana Totmianina, Russian figure skater
  • Katharine Isabelle, Candanian actress
• November 3
  • Blair Chenoweth, American beauty queen
  • Jackie Gayda, American professional wrestler
• November 4
  • Vince Wilfork, American football player
  • Paul Tucker Canadian comic-book artist
• November 6 – Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
• November 7 – George Pilkington, English footballer
• November 8
  • Joe Cole, English footballer
  • Azura Skye, American actress
• November 10
  • Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player
  • Jason Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
  • Alison Waite, American model
• November 11
  • Natalie Glebova, Canadian beauty queen
  • Jyothika, Indian actress
  • Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  • Ross Phillips, British musician (Hard-Fi)
• November 13
  • Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player
  • Shawn Yue, Hong Kong actor and singer
• November 14 – Russell Tovey, British actor
• November 15 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
• November 17 – Sarah Harding, British singer (Girls Aloud)
• November 18 – Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
• November 20 – Kimberley Walsh, British singer (Girls Aloud)
• November 21
  • Bryant McFadden, American football player
  • Ainārs Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower
• November 22
  • Ben Adams, British singer (A1)
  • Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
• November 25
  • Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
  • Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush
  • Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush
• November 26
  • Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
  • Aurora Snow, American actress
• November 27 – Gary Lucy, British actor
• November 29 – Tom Hurndall, British photographer (d. 2004)

December[link]

Britney Spears

• December 1 – Kathryn Drysdale, English Actress
• December 2 – Britney Spears, American singer and entertainer
• December 3
  • David Villa, Spanish footballer
  • Brian Bonsall, American actor
  • Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
• December 4 – Lila McCann, American singer
• December 9 – Dia Mirza, Bollywood actress
• December 11
  • Zacky Vengeance, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
  • Javier Saviola, Argentine soccer player
  • Kevin Phillips (actor), American film actor
  • Jeff McComsey, American artist
• December 12 – Spencer Johnson, NFL player
• December 13 – Amy Lee, American pianist/singer/songwriter (Evanescence)
• December 14 – Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
• December 15
  • Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)
  • Donal Coonan, UK presenter for Channel 4's webshow thisisaknife
  • Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian Soccer player
• December 16 – Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer
• December 18 – Joshua Dallas, American actor
• December 19 – Monica Leigh, American model
• December 21 – Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
• December 24 – Dima Bilan, Russian pop-singer
• December 27
  • Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress
  • Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
• December 28
  • Elizabeth Jordan Carr, first American test-tube baby
  • Sienna Miller, American-born actress
  • Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
• December 29
  • Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
  • Angela Via, American singer
• December 30
  • Kyle Eckel, National Football League player
  • Haley Paige, American porn actress (d. 2007)

Deaths[link]

January–March[link]

• January 1 – Mauri Rose, American race car champion (b. 1906)
• January 5
  • Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
  • Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist (b. 1901)
• January 6 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (b. 1896)
• January 8 – Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• January 10
  • Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
  • Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
• January 11 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
• January 13 – Robert Kellard, American actor (b. 1915)
• January 16 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• January 19 – Francesca Woodman, American photographer (b. 1958)
• January 21 – Allyn Joslyn, American actor (b. 1901)
• January 23 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
• January 25 – Adele Astaire, American actress (b. 1896)
• January 31 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
• February 1
  • Wanda Hendrix, American actress (b. 1928)
  • Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
  • Ernst Pepping, German composer (b. 1901)
• February 9
  • Bill Haley, American musician (b. 1925)
  • Jack Z. Anderson, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1904)
• February 15 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
• February 17 – David Garnett, British writer (b. 1892)
• February 18 – John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (b. 1895)
• February 20 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor and playboy (b. 1904)
• February 22 – Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908)
• February 25 – Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1888)
• February 26
  • Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
  • Roger Tonge, British actor (b. 1946)
• February 27 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
• March 5 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
• March 6 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
• March 7
  • Bosley Crowther, American film critic (b. 1905)
  • Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
  • Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
• March 8 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)
• March 9 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
• March 15 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
• March 20– Gerry Bertier, American college football player (b. 1953)
• March 22 – John S. McCain, Jr., American admiral (b. 1911)
• March 23 – Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (b. 1941)
• March 30
  • Sherman Edwards, American songwriter (b. 1919)
  • DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (b. 1889)
• March 31 – Frank Tieri, American gangster (b. 1904)

April–June[link]

• April 3 – Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur (b. 1899)
• April 5 – Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1896)
• April 7 – Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)
• April 8 – Omar N. Bradley, 5 Star General US Army (b. 1893)
• April 12 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
• April 18 – James H. Schmitz, German-born writer (b. 1911)
• April 26
  • Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
  • Madge Evans, American actress (b. 1909)
• April 27 – John Aspinwall Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)
• May 5 – Bobby Sands, Irish republican (hunger strike) (b. 1954)
• May 8 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• May 9
  • Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909)
  • Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
  • Margaret Lindsay, American actress (b. 1910)
• May 11
  • Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
• May 17 – Hugo Friedhofer, German-American film composer (b. 1901)
• May 18
  • Eleonore Baur, German Nazi and only woman to participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (b. 1885)
  • Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
  • William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
• May 23 – George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)
• May 24 – Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Ecuadorian President (since 1979) (b. 1940)
• May 25 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (b. 1897)
• May 28 – Mary Lou Williams, American jazz pianist (b. 1910)
• May 30 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• June 1 – Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
• June 2 – Rino Gaetano, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
• June 9 – Allen Ludden, American television game show host (b. 1917)
• June 10
  • Jenny Maxwell, American actress (b. 1941)
  • Phelps Phelps, 38th Governor of American Samoa and United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (d. 1897)
• June 13 – George Walsh, American actor (b. 1889)
• June 17
  • Sir Richard O'Connor, English general (b. 1889)
  • Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (b. 1889)
• June 18 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (b. 1912)
• June 19
  • Anya Phillips, American co-founder of New York City's Mudd Club (b. 1955)
  • Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (b. 1899)
• June 22 – Lola Lane, American actress and singer (b. 1906)
• June 23 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
• June 28
  • Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (b. 1928)
  • Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)

July–September[link]

• July 3 – Ross Martin, American actor (b. 1920)
• July 8 – Joe McDonnell, Irish political prisoner (b. 1951)
• July 10 – Ken Rex McElroy, American murder victim (b. 1934)
• July 16 – Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
• July 27
  • Adam Walsh, American murder victim, inspired Code Adam (b. 1974)
  • William Wyler, American movie director (b. 1902)
• July 29 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
• July 31 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian leader (b. 1929)
• August 1 – Paddy Chayefsky, American screenwriter (b. 1923)
• August 2 – Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete (b. 1919)
• August 4 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• August 14 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
• August 15 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
• August 18 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
• August 19 – Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
• August 27 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• August 29 – Lowell Thomas, American writer (b. 1892)
• August 30 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
• September 1
  • Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Albert Speer, German Nazi architect and war minister (b. 1905)
• September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician (b. 1897)
• September 3 – Alec Waugh, British novelist (b. 1898)
• September 6 – Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and artist (b. 1932)
• September 8 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• September 9 – Sir Robert (Bob) Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
• September 11 – Frank McHugh, American actor (b. 1898)
• September 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• September 15
  • Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
  • Harold Bennett, British actor (b. 1899)
• September 21 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1913)
• September 22 – Harry Warren, American songwriter (b. 1893)
• September 23 – Dan George, First Nations actor (b. 1899)
• September 24 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
• September 27 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
• September 28
  • Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister (b. 1923)
  • Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (b. 1908)
• September 29 – Bill Shankly, British football manager (b. 1914)

October–December[link]

• October 2
  • Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
  • Hazel Scott, American jazz singer and pianist (b. 1920)
• October 5 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• October 6 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
• October 13 – Nils Asther, Danish-born actor (b. 1897)
• October 16
  • Stanley Clements, American actor (b. 1926)
  • Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
• October 20 – Mary Coyle Chase, American playwright (b. 1906)
• October 23 – Reg Butler, English sculptor (b. 1913)
• October 24
  • Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (b. 1928)
  • Edith Head, American costume designer (b. 1897)
• October 29 – Georges Brassens, French singer and songwriter (b. 1921)
• November 3 – Jean Eustache, French film director (b. 1938)
• November 7 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (b. 1885)
• November 10 – Abel Gance, French film director (b. 1889)
• November 14 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941)
• November 15
  • Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar(b. 1938)
• November 16 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
• November 21 – Harry von Zell, American actor (b. 1906)
• November 22 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)
• November 25 – Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
• November 27 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
• November 29 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
• December 3 – Walter Knott, American farmer and theme park creator (b. 1889)
• December 7 – William Edmunds, Italian stage and screen character actor (b. 1886)
• December 15
  • Catherine T. MacArthur, American philanthropist (b. 1909)
  • Karl Struss, American cinematographer (b. 1886)
• December 23 – Reginald Miles Ansett, Australian businessman and aviator (b. 1909)
• December 27 – Hoagy Carmichael, American jazz composer (b. 1899)
• December 28 – Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
• December 30 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)

Date unknown[link]

• Charles L. Melson, American admiral (b. 1904)

Nobel Prizes[link]

• Physics – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn
• Chemistry – Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
• Medicine – Roger Wolcott Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten Wiesel
• Literature – Elias Canetti
• Peace – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Economics – James Tobin

Templeton Prize[link]

• Dame Cicely Saunders

References[link]

• Protocol of Accession

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 2000

2000 (MM) was a leap year that started on a Saturday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2000th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation, and the last year of the 20th century and the 2nd millennium.

2000 was designated as:

• International Year for the Culture of Peace^[1]
• World Mathematical Year^[2]

The year 2000 was the first year of the 2000s decade. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, due to a tendencial way to group the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian calendar this distinction falls to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with year AD 1. Since the calendar has no year zero, its first millennium spans from years 1 to 1000, inclusively, and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (See more at Millennium.)

The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns: fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded their existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification. As a result of massive effort, much of it mis-directed, relatively few problems occurred.

Events[link]

January[link]

• January 1 – New Zealand broadcasting on Chatham Island is watched worldwide to start millennium celebrations and the Year 2000 problem begins.
• January 3–January 10 – Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
• January 5–January 8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean Ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
• January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
• January 11
  • The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria (see Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC discontinues)
  • The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.^[3]
• January 14
  • A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.^[4]
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
• January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
• January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.
• January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• January 31
  • Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
  • Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde, Greater Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

February[link]

• February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
• February 6 – Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland.
• February 7 – Stipe Mesic is elected president of Croatia.
• February 8 – Bob Collins' plane collides with that of a student pilot over Zion, Illinois.
• February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.
• February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
• February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.

March[link]

• March 1 – The Constitution of Finland rewritten.
• March 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan, and in North America several months later. It becomes the best-selling game console of all time.
• March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.
• March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.^[5]
• March 12 – Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
• March 21
  • Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court rules the FDA lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton Administration's main anti-smoking initiative
• March 26 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
• March 26 – The Seattle Kingdome is demolished by implosion.
• March 27 – The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.

April[link]

• April 3 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• April 17 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
• April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.

May[link]

• May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.^[6][7]
• May 3
  • In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• May 4
  • After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
  • An earthquake hits Banggai, Indonesia, leaving 54 dead.
• May 5
  • A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the New Moon.^[8]
• May 11
  • The billionth living person in India is born.^[9][10]
  • Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga'a Final Agreement
• May 12 – The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London.
• May 13
  • A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, the Netherlands, kills 23.
  • Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
• May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth President of Turkey.
• May 17 – A bomb in Glorietta Mall in Makati City, Philippines injures 13.
• May 20 – Taiwanese (ROC) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan.
• May 25 – Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years.

June[link]

• June 4 – An earthquake hits Bengkulu, Indonesia, leaving 94 dead.
• June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
• June 13 – South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visits North Korea to participate in the first North-South presidential summit.
• June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.
• June 21 – Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament.
• June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished.
• June 28 – Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle.
• June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.

July[link]

• July 2
  • France defeats Italy 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships, becoming the first team to consecutively win the World Cup and European Championships.
  • Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule.
• July 10
  • In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
  • Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.
• July 13–July 25 – Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.
• July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
• July 18 – Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party.
• July 21–July 23 – G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit; issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
• July 22 – News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law, new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.
• July 25 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.
• July 30 – Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote.
• July 31-August 3 – The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President.