1987

This article is about the year. For the number, see 1987 (number). For other uses, see 1987 (disambiguation).

From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990

1987 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1987 MCMLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2740
Armenian calendar	1436 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6737
Baháʼí calendar	143–144
Balinese saka calendar	1908–1909
Bengali calendar	1394
Berber calendar	2937
British Regnal year	35 Eliz. 2 – 36 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2531
Burmese calendar	1349
Byzantine calendar	7495–7496
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4683 or 4623     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4684 or 4624
Coptic calendar	1703–1704
Discordian calendar	3153
Ethiopian calendar	1979–1980
Hebrew calendar	5747–5748
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2043–2044
- Shaka Samvat	1908–1909
- Kali Yuga	5087–5088
Holocene calendar	11987
Igbo calendar	987–988
Iranian calendar	1365–1366
Islamic calendar	1407–1408
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 62 (昭和６２年)
Javanese calendar	1919–1920
Juche calendar	76
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4320
Minguo calendar	ROC 76 民國76年
Nanakshahi calendar	519
Thai solar calendar	2530
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 2113 or 1732 or 960     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 2114 or 1733 or 961
Unix time	536457600 – 567993599

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.

Events

January

• January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade.
• January 4 – 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
• January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives.
• January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas, who successfully demand the latter's release.
• January 20 – Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lebanon, is kidnapped in Beirut (released November 1991).
• January 24 – 1987 Forsyth County protests: About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.

February

• February 6 – The Soviet oil tanker Antonio Gramsci suffers a minor shipwreck in Finnish waters en route to the Neste oil refinery in Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons.
• February 11
  • British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
  • The new Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect. This new constitution adds Spanish and Arabic as optional languages of the Philippines.
• February 20 – A second Unabomber bomb explodes at a Salt Lake City computer store in the United States, injuring the owner.
• February 23 – SN 1987A, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604, is observed.
• February 25 – Beginning of the Phosphorite War protest movement in the Estonian SSR.
• February 26 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his National Security Council staff.

March

• March 1 – The first Starbucks outside of the US is opened in Vancouver, Canada.
• March 2 – New Zealand's most destructive earthquake in 19 years hits near the city of Edgecumbe, killing 1 person and leaving 25 injured.
• March 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses the American people on the Iran–Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal.

MS Herald of Free Enterprise before its capsizing on March 6.

• March 6 – Zeebrugge disaster: Roll-on/roll-off cross-channel ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes off Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium; 193 people die.
• March 7 – 1987 Lieyu massacre: The Republic of China Army execute 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees on Donggang beach, Lieyu, Kinmen off Mainland China.
• March 18 – Woodstock of physics: A marathon session of the American Physical Society's meeting features 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.
• March 20 – AZT is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
• March 24 – Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France, Jacques Chirac, sign an agreement to construct the 4,800 acres (19 km²) Euro Disney Resort (now called Disneyland Paris) and to develop the Val d'Europe area of the new town Marne-la-Vallée in Paris, France.
• March 29
  • The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces WrestleMania III from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game has an attendance of 108,713 at AT&T Stadium.
  • A hybrid solar eclipse was the second hybrid solar eclipse in less than one year, the first being on October 3, 1986. It was annular visible in southern Argentina, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan (part of the path of annularity crossed today's South Sudan), Ethiopia, Djibouti and northern Somalia and total visible in Atlantic Ocean, lasting just 7.57 seconds.
• March 30 – The 59th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles, with Platoon winning Best Picture.
• March 31 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, conducts a 45-minute interview on Soviet television.

April

• April 13 – The governments of the Portuguese Republic and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau will be returned to China in 1999.
• April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
• April 21 – In Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Central Bus Station Bombing kills 113 civilians.
• April 27 – The United States Department of Justice declares incumbent Austrian president Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien".
• April 30 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Provincial Premiers agree on principle to the Meech Lake Accord which would bring Quebec into the constitution.

May

• May 8 – Loughgall ambush: A 24-man unit of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) ambushed eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as they mounted an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks. All IRA members were killed as well as one civilian.
• May 9 – A Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-62 airliner, operated by LOT Polish Airlines, crashes into a forest just outside Warsaw, killing all 183 people on board.
• May 11 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• May 14 – Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka executes a bloodless coup in Fiji.
• May 17 – USS Stark is hit by two Iraqi-owned Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles killing 37 sailors.
• May 22
  • The Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
  • The first ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park, Auckland.
• May 27
  • At the Prater Stadium of Vienna, Porto of Portugal defeats Bayern München of West Germany 2–1 and wins its first European Cup.
  • In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the Golden Gate Bridge and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration.
• May 28 – Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).

June

• June 3 – The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.
• June 8 – The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act is passed, the first of its kind in the world.
• June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election.
• June 12 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• June 17 – With the death of the last known individual, the dusky seaside sparrow, a subspecies native to the US state of Florida, becomes extinct.
• June 19
  • Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.
  • Edwards v. Aguillard: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution is taught is unconstitutional.
  • Hipercor bombing: the Basque terrorist group ETA perpetrate a car-bomb attack at an Hipercor market in Barcelona, killing 21 and hurting 45.
• June 27 – A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio, Philippines, killing 50.
• June 28
  • Iraqi warplanes drop mustard-gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas. This is the first time a civilian town was targeted by chemical weapons.
  • An accidental explosion at the Hohenfels Training Area in West Germany kills 3 U.S. troops.
• June 29 – South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the June Democracy Movement.
• June 30 – Canada introduces a one-dollar coin, nicknamed the "Loonie".

July

• July 1 – The Single European Act is passed by the European Community.
• July 3 – Greater Manchester Police recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from Saddleworth Moor, after her killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley help them in their search, almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was last seen alive.
• July 4 – A court in Lyon sentences former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
• July 11
  • 1987 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke's Labor Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Liberal Party led by John Howard and the National Party led by Ian Sinclair.
  • World population is estimated to have reached five billion people, according to the United Nations.
• July 15 – Martial law in Taiwan ends after 38 years.
• July 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time, at 2,510.04.
• July 22 – Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali is shot in London; he dies August 28.
• July 25 – The East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway in the North West of England, is opened between Bury and Ramsbottom.
• July 27 – The song Never Gonna Give You Up a single was created and released by Rick Astley.
• July 31
  • Four hundred pilgrims are killed in clashes between demonstrating Iranian pilgrims and Saudi Arabian security forces in Mecca.
  • Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
  • An F4-rated tornado devastates eastern Edmonton, Alberta; hardest hit are an industrial park and a trailer park. 27 people are killed and hundreds injured, with hundreds more left homeless and jobless.

August

• August 4
  • The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes its report, Our Common Future.
  • The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present alternative views on controversial issues.
• August 7
  • The Colombian frigate Caldas enters Venezuelan waters near the Los Monjes Archipelago, sparking the Caldas frigate crisis between both nations.
  • American Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait, crossing from Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
• August 9 – Hoddle Street massacre in Australia: Julian Knight, 19, goes on a shooting rampage in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill, Victoria, killing 7 people and injuring 19 before surrendering to police.
• August 14 – All the children held at Kai Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
• August 16
  • Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (a McDonnell Douglas MD-82) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one (4-year old Cecelia Cichan) of the 156 people on board.
  • The followers of the Harmonic Convergence claim it was observed around the world.
• August 17 – Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished.
• August 19
  • Hungerford massacre: Sixteen people die in an apparently motiveless mass shooting in the United Kingdom, carried out by Michael Ryan.
  • ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity.
  • The Order of the Garter is opened to women.
• August 23 – The Hirvepark meeting is organized as the first unsanctioned political meeting in Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, in commemoration of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

September

Performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Index during Black Monday

• September 2 – In Moscow, USSR, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
• September 3 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
• September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
• September 13 – Goiânia accident: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.
• September 15 – Pope John Paul II arrives in Los Angeles for a two-day papal visit, his first one ever to the city, where he makes an arrival day speech to local leaders of the U.S. entertainment industry.
• September 17 – Pope John Paul II arrives in San Francisco for his first visit to the city, in which he embraces several AIDS sufferers, including an infected child, and proclaims abstinence from illicit sex and drugs are the two main ways to avoid infection.

October

• October 3 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement is reached but still requires ratification. This agreement would be a precursor to NAFTA.
• October 6 – Fiji becomes a republic.
• October 7 – Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India.
• October 15 – In Burkina Faso, a military coup is orchestrated by Blaise Compaoré against incumbent President Thomas Sankara.

October 16: aftermath of the Great Storm of 1987.

• October 15–16 – Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane-force winds hit much of southern England, killing 23 people.
• October 19
  • Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.
  • US warships destroy two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
  • Two commuter trains collide head-on on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia; 102 are killed.
• October 22
  • The pilot of a British Aerospace BAE Harrier GR5 registered ZD325 accidentally ejects from his aircraft. The jet continues to fly until it runs out of fuel and crashes into the Irish Sea.
• October 23
  • British champion jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for three years after being convicted of tax evasion.
  • On a vote of 58–42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
• October 26 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes down 156.83 points.

November

November 18: King's Cross St Pancras tube station catches fire.

• November 1 – The InterCity 125 breaks the world speed record for a diesel-powered train, reaching 238 km/h (147.88 mph).
• November 7
  • Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumes the Presidency of Tunisia.
  • Lynne Cox swims between the Diomede Islands from the American Little Diomede Island to the Soviet Big Diomede Island.
  • Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.
• November 8 – Enniskillen bombing: Twelve people are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.
• November 12 – The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, near Tiananmen Square.
• November 15 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu.
• November 16 – The Parlatino Treaty of Institutionalization is signed.
• November 17 – A tsunami hits the Gulf of Alaska.
• November 18
  • The King's Cross fire on the London Underground kills 31 people and injures a further 100.
  • Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Senate and House panels release reports charging President Ronald Reagan with 'ultimate responsibility' for the affair.
• November 22 – Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion – unknown perpetrators hijack the signal of WGN-TV for about 20 seconds, and WTTW for about 90 seconds, and displays a strange video of a man in a Max Headroom mask.
• November 25 – Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with 265 kilometres per hour (165 mph) winds and a devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 812 deaths.
• November 28 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, due to a fire in the cargo hold; the 159 passengers and crew perish.
• November 29 – Korean Air Flight 858 is blown up over the Andaman Sea, killing 115 crew and passengers. North Korean agents are responsible for the bombing.

December

• December – Fluoxetine, marketed as Prozac, is approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration.
• December 1
  • NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.
  • Queensland: Following a week of turmoil from his National Party of Australia colleagues, Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland. He is replaced by Mike Ahern, the only premier never to contest an election as premier.
• December 7 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, United States, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots.
• December 8
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
  • Queen Street massacre: In Melbourne, Australia, 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 people and injures another 5 in a Post Office building before committing suicide by jumping from the eleventh floor.
  • The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It later expires in 2019.
  • Alianza Lima air disaster: A Peruvian Navy Fokker F27 crashes near Ventanilla, Peru, killing 43.
• December 9 – General Rahimuddin Khan retires from the Pakistan Army, along with the cabinet of the country's military dictatorship.
• December 15 – Production I.G is founded by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Takayuki Goto.
• December 17 – Gustáv Husák resigns as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
• December 20 – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
• December 21 – Turgut Özal of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (46th government).
• December 22 – In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
• December 23 - Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe's bassist overdoses on heroin and is reportedly declared clinically dead for two minutes before a paramedic revived him with two syringes full of adrenaline.
• December 30 – Pope John Paul II issues the encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis (On Social Concern).

Births

January

Loïc Rémy

Davide Astori

César Cielo

Jamie Vardy

Evan Peters

Luis Suárez

• January 1 – Meryl Davis, American figure skater
• January 2 – Shelley Hennig, American actress and model
• January 5
  • Kristin Cavallari, American actress, fashion designer, and author
  • Jason Mitchell, American actor
• January 6 – Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer
• January 7
  • Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
  • Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
  • Sirusho, Armenian singer
• January 8 – Freddie Stroma, English actor and model
• January 9
  • Lucas Leiva, Brazilian football player
  • Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer
  • Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
• January 10 – César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
• January 11
  • Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoeist
  • Jamie Vardy, English footballer
• January 12 – Naya Rivera, American actress and singer (d. 2020)
• January 13 – Jack Johnson, American ice hockey player
• January 14 – Dennis Aogo, German footballer
• January 15
  • Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
  • Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian long-distance runner
  • Kelly Kelly, American professional wrestler
  • Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• January 17 – Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer
• January 18
  • Johan Djourou, Ivorian born-Swiss footballer
  • Zane Holtz, Canadian actor and model
• January 19 – Arkadiy Vasilyev, Russian decathlete
• January 20
  • Robert Farah, Colombian tennis player
  • Evan Peters, American actor
  • Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2011)
  • Serguey Torres, Cuban canoeist
• January 21 – Pablo Caballero González, Uruguayan footballer
• January 23 – Andrea, Bulgarian singer
• January 24
  • Ruth Bradley, Irish television and film actress
  • Wayne Hennessey, Welsh football player
  • Luis Suárez, Uruguayan football player
• January 25
  • Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
  • Giselle Salandy, Trinidadian professional boxer (d.2009)
• January 26
  • Sebastian Giovinco, Italian football player
  • Gojko Kačar, Serbian footballer
• January 27 – Hannah Teter, American snowboarder
• January 29 – José Abreu, Cuban baseball player
• January 30
  • Becky Lynch, Irish professional wrestler
  • Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
• January 31 – Marcus Mumford, English-American singer, songwriter, and musician (Mumford & Sons)

February

Heather Morris

Gerard Piqué

Darren Criss

Michael B. Jordan

• February 1
  • Heather Morris, American actress and dancer
  • Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
  • Ronda Rousey, American martial arts expert, actress and professional wrestler
• February 2
  • Faydee, Australian singer
  • Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
• February 4 – Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
• February 5
  • Darren Criss, American singer and actor
  • Henry Golding, Malaysian-English actor, model, and television host
  • Özge Gürel, Turkish actress
• February 7
  • Joel Freeland, British basketball player
  • Kerli, Estonian singer
• February 8 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
• February 9
  • Michael B. Jordan, American actor and producer
  • Rose Leslie, Scottish actress
  • Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
• February 10
  • Choi Siwon, South Korean recording artist
  • Poli Genova, Bulgarian singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter
  • Yuja Wang, Chinese pianist
• February 11
  • Ebba Busch, Swedish politician
  • José Callejón, Spanish footballer
  • Ellen van Dijk, Dutch road and track cycling world champion
• February 13 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
• February 12 – Gary LeRoi Gray, American actor
• February 14
  • Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer
  • José Miguel Cubero, Costa Rican footballer
• February 16
  • Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (d. 2008)
  • Mauricio Henao, Colombian actor
  • Jon Ossoff, American politician, senior senator from Georgia
• February 17
  • Raffi Ahmad, Indonesian actor and comedian
  • Ísis Valverde, Brazilian actress
• February 18 – Carla Hernández, Mexican actress
• February 20
  • Miles Teller, American actor
  • Taylor Boggs, American Football Player
• February 21
  • Ashley Greene, American actress
  • Tuppence Middleton, English actress
• February 22
  • Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress
  • Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer
• February 24 – Tina Desai, Indian actress and model
• February 25 – Andrew Poje, Canadian figure skater
• February 26 – Johan Sjöstrand, Swedish handball player
• February 27 – Valeriy Andriytsev, Ukrainian wrestler

March

Kesha

Emeli Sandé

Marco Andretti

Aislinn Derbez

Kangana Ranaut

• March 1 – Kesha, American singer
• March 2 – Solomon Okoronkwo, Nigerian footballer
• March 3 – Elnur Hüseynov, Azerbaijani singer
• March 5 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian professional tennis player
• March 6 – Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
• March 9 – Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
• March 10
  • Liu Shishi, Chinese actress
  • Tuukka Rask, Finnish Ice Hockey player
  • Emeli Sandé, Scottish recording artist and songwriter
• March 11
  • Estefanía Villarreal, Mexican actress
  • Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper
• March 12
  • Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
  • Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
• March 13
  • Marco Andretti, American IRL driver
  • Mauro Zárate, Argentine footballer
• March 14 – Aravane Rezaï, Iranian-French tennis player
• March 16 – Alexandr Smyshlyaev, Russian freestyle skier
• March 17
  • Federico Fazio, Argentine footballer
  • Rob Kardashian, American television personality, model, and talent manager
  • Bryan Dechart, American actor and Twitch streamer
• March 18
  • Rebecca Soni, American swimmer
  • Gabriel Mercado, Argentine footballer
• March 19 – AJ Lee, American professional wrestler
• March 20 – João Alves de Assis Silva (Jô), Brazilian soccer player
• March 21 – Yuri Ryazanov, Russian artistic gymnast (d. 2009)
• March 22 – Alexander Shatilov, Israeli artistic gymnast
• March 23 – Alan Toovey, Australian rules footballer
• March 24
  • Juan Diego Covarrubias, Mexican actor
  • Ramires, Brazilian footballer
• March 25
  • Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
  • Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
• March 26
  • Larisa Korobeynikova, Russian fencer
  • YUI, Japanese singer-songwriter
• March 27
  • Polina Gagarina, Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model
  • Buster Posey, American Baseball Player
  • Benjamin Savšek, Slovenian canoeist
• March 29 – Dénes Varga, Hungarian water polo player
• March 31 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster

April

Sarah Gadon

Jesse McCartney

Shay Mitchell

Joss Stone

Maria Sharapova

William Moseley

Arjit Singh

• April 1
  • Mackenzie Davis, Canadian actress
  • Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
• April 3 – Eddie Ockenden, Australian field hockey player
• April 4
  • Océane Zhu, Chinese actress
  • Sami Khedira, German footballer
  • Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
• April 7 – Martín Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer
• April 8 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
• April 9
  • Pengiran Anak Sarah, wife of the Crown Prince of Brunei, Al-Muhtadee Billah
  • Paddy Barnes, Irish boxer
  • Blaise Matuidi, French footballer
  • Jesse McCartney, American singer, songwriter and actor
  • Sara Petersen, Danish hurdler
• April 10
  • Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
  • Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress and model
• April 11
  • Joss Stone, English singer and actress
  • Lights Poxleitner, Canadian musician
• April 12
  • Luiz Adriano, Brazilian footballer
  • Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model and actress
  • Brendon Urie, American musician
• April 15
  • Yasmani Copello, Cuban born-Turkish hurdler
  • Samira Wiley, American actress and model
• April 16
  • Phoebe Fox, English actress
  • Aaron Lennon, English footballer
• April 17
  • Medhi Benatia, French born-Moroccan footballer
  • Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Canadian actress
• April 18
  • Matt Anderson, American volleyball player
  • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English supermodel
• April 19
  • Joe Hart, English footballer
  • Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
  • Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
• April 21 − Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian folk rock and traditional pop singer
• April 22
  • David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
  • Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer
• April 24
  • Varun Dhawan, Indian actor
  • Serdar Tasci, German footballer
  • Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
• April 25 − Arjit Singh, Indian playback singer
• April 26 − Jarmila Wolfe, Slovak born-Australian tennis player
• April 27
  • Anne Suzuki, Japanese actress
  • Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
  • William Moseley, English actor
• April 28
  • Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian film actress and model
  • Daequan Cook, American basketball player
  • Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer
• April 29 – Sara Errani, Italian tennis player
• April 30 – Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer

May

Candice King

Andy Murray

Luisana Lopilato

Arturo Vidal

Novak Djokovic

Bella Heathcote

Shaun Fleming

• May 1
  • Leonardo Bonucci, Italian footballer
  • Matt Di Angelo, British Actor
  • Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
• May 2 – Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
• May 3 – Damla Sönmez, Turkish actress
• May 4
  • Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish football player
  • Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish triple MotoGP world champion
  • Zbigniew Bartman, Polish volleyball player
  • Li Yifeng, Chinese male actor
• May 6
  • Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer
  • Moon Geun-young, Korean actress
• May 7 – Asami Konno, Japanese singer
• May 11
  • Albulena Haxhiu, Kosovo Albanian politician
  • Enikő Mihalik, Hungarian model
  • Kamaru Usman, Nigerian born-American mixed martial artist
• May 12
  • Lee Wai-sze, Hong Kong cyclist
  • Liu Hong, Chinese racewalker
• May 13
  • Antonio Adán, Spanish footballer
  • Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
  • Candice King, American actress and singer
  • Marianne Vos, Dutch multiple cyclist
• May 15
  • Thaísa Menezes, Brazilian volleyball player
  • Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
• May 17 – Ott Lepland, Estonian singer
• May 18 – Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and singer
• May 20 – Julian Wright, American basketball player
• May 22
  • Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
  • Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
• May 23 – Bray Wyatt, American professional wrestler
• May 24 – Fabio Fognini, Italian tennis player
• May 25 – Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper
• May 26
  • Tooji, Norwegian-Iranian singer, model and television host
  • Brandi Cyrus, American actress, singer and DJ
• May 27
  • Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
  • Bella Heathcote, Australian actress
  • Martina Sáblíková, Czech speed skater
• May 29
  • Noah Reid, Canadian actor and musician
  • Daniela Ryf, Swiss triathlete
• May 31 – Shaun Fleming, American musician and actor

June

Cássio

Kendrick Lamar

Lionel Messi

Ed Westwick

• June 1 – Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter
• June 2
  • Tobias Arlt, German Olympic luger
  • Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
• June 3
  • Lalaine, American actress, singer-songwriter, and bassist
  • Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
• June 6 – Cássio, Brazilian footballer
• June 10 – He Chong, Chinese diver
• June 11
  • Robertlandy Simón, Cuban volleyball player
  • Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
• June 12
  • Abbey Lee, Australian model
  • Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
• June 16 – Tobias Wendl, German Olympic luger
• June 17
  • Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer
  • Kendrick Lamar, American rapper
• June 18
  • Ezgi Asaroğlu, Turkish actress
  • Niels Schneider, French-Canadian actor
  • Zsuzsanna Tomori, Hungarian handball player
• June 20
  • A-fu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
  • Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer
  • Daiana Menezes, Brazilian actress, model, and television host
• June 21
  • Khatia Buniatishvili, Georgian concert pianist
  • Kim Ryeo-wook, South Korean singer
  • Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
• June 22
  • Joe Dempsie, English actor
  • Eda Erdem, Turkish volleyball player
  • Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian born-Australian soccer player
  • Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer and model
• June 23
  • Guillaume Bonnafond, French road bicycle racer
  • Nando de Colo, French basketball player
  • Aaron Groom, Fijian rugby league footballer
• June 24
  • Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
  • Pierre Vaultier, French snowboarder
• June 25 – Sandrine Gruda, French basketball player
• June 26
  • Samir Nasri, French footballer
  • Wallace de Souza, Brazilian volleyball player
• June 28 – Ayaka Kikuchi, Japanese speed skater

July

Sebastian Vettel

Veronica Wagner

Rebecca Sugar

Mara Wilson

• July 1 – Ahn Jae-hyun, South Korean model and actor
• July 2
  • Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer
  • Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
• July 3
  • Maximilian Mauff, German actor
  • Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver, 4-time champions in Formula One
• July 4
  • Ater Majok, Sudanese basketball player
  • Prajwal Devaraj, Indian film actor
• July 5
  • David Halaifonua, Tongan rugby union player
  • Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor
  • Chen Xiao, Chinese actor and model
• July 6
  • Kate Nash, British singer-songwriter
  • Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
• July 9
  • Rebecca Sugar, American animator and creator of Steven Universe
  • Élodie Fontan, French actress
• July 11 – Maximilian Müller, German field hockey player
• July 13 – Eva Rivas, Armenian-Russian singer
• July 14
  • Sara Canning, Canadian actress
  • Dan Reynolds, American singer and musician
• July 16 – AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
• July 18 – Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player
• July 19
  • Yan Gomes, Brazilian baseball player
  • Ho Ho Lun, Hong Kong wrestler
• July 20 – Owen Cheung, Hong Kong actor
• July 22 – Andrey Golubev, Russian born-Kazikhstani tennis player
• July 23 – Julian Nagelsmann, German football coach
• July 24 – Mara Wilson, American actress and writer
• July 25 – Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer
• July 27 – Marek Hamšík, Slovak footballer
• July 28
  • Sumire, Japanese fashion model (d. 2009)
  • Pedro, Spanish footballer
• July 31
  • Brittany Byrnes, Australian actress
  • Michael Bradley, American soccer player

August

Sidney Crosby

Liu Yifei

Blake Lively

• August 1
  • Iago Aspas, Spanish footballer
  • Marta Walczykiewicz, Polish sprint canoeist
• August 4 – Phil Younghusband, British-Filipino footballer
• August 6 – Tosaint Ricketts, Canadian soccer player
• August 7 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
• August 8 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
• August 11 – Greysia Polii, Indonesian badminton player
• August 14
  • Johnny Gargano, American wrestler
  • Sinem Kobal, Turkish actress
• August 16
  • Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer
  • Okieriete Onaodowan, Nigerian actor
  • Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• August 18 – Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Polish mixed martial artist and kickboxer
• August 19 – Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver
• August 20
  • Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
  • Tulus, Indonesian singer
• August 21 – Anton Shipulin, Russian biathlete
• August 22 – Mohammad Mousavi, Iranian fencer
• August 24 – Anže Kopitar, Slovene ice hockey player
• August 25
  • Liu Yifei, Chinese actress
  • Blake Lively, American actress
  • Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
  • Rona Nishliu, Albanian singer, radio presenter, and humanitarian
  • Ksenia Sukhinova, Russian model, television host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2008.
• August 29 – Marko Podraščanin, Serbian volleyball player
• August 30 – Roy Krishna, Fijian footballer

September

Evan Rachel Wood

Wiz Khalifa

Elizabeth Henstridge

Hilary Duff

• September 1 – Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete
• September 2
  • Scott Moir, Canadian figure skater
  • Spencer Smith, American musician
• September 3
  • Flora Duffy, Bermudian triathlete
  • James Neal, Canadian ice hockey player
• September 4 – Maryna Linchuk, Belarusian model
• September 6 – Anna Pavlova, Russian artistic gymnast
• September 7
  • Mohammad Ahsan, Indonesian badminton player
  • Denis Istomin, Russian born-Uzbek tennis player
  • Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer
  • Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
• September 8
  • Wiz Khalifa, American rapper
  • Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
• September 9
  • Afrojack, Dutch DJ and music producer
  • Ahmed Elmohamady, Egyptian footballer
  • Andrea Petkovic, Bosnian born-German tennis player
  • Alex Song, Cameroonian footballer
  • Milan Stanković, Serbian pop-folk singer
• September 10 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
• September 11
  • Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress
  • Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
  • Susianna Kentikian, German-Armenian boxer
  • Ilija Spasojević, Indonesian footballer
• September 12 – Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstani tennis player
• September 13 – G.NA, Canadian singer
• September 15 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer
• September 19 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
• September 21 – Ryan Guzman, American actor
• September 22
  • Tom Felton, English actor and musician
  • Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
• September 25
  • Ione Belarra, Spanish politician
  • Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
• September 26 – Jang Keun Suk, South Korean actor, singer and model
• September 27 – Luke Campbell, British boxer
• September 28 – Hilary Duff, American actress, businesswoman, singer, songwriter, producer, and writer
• September 29 – Anaïs Demoustier, French actress
• September 30
  • Ramy Ashour, Egyptian squash player
  • Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano
  • Elanne Kong, Hong Kong actress and singer

October

Matthew Daddario

Zuleyka Rivera

Zac Efron

• October 1
  • Matthew Daddario, American actor
  • Ketleyn Quadros, Brazilian judoka
• October 2 – Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
• October 3 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican beauty queen (Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006, Miss Universe 2006)
• October 4 – Marina Weisband, German politician
• October 5 – Foluke Gunderson, American volleyball player
• October 8 – Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer
• October 10 – Carla Esparza, American mixed martial artist
• October 11 – Ariella Käslin, Swiss artistic gymnast
• October 15
  • Jesse Levine, American-Canadian tennis player
  • Mizuho Sakaguchi, Japanese woman footballer
• October 16
  • Seungho, South Korean pop singer (MBLAQ)
  • Michael Venus, New Zealand tennis player
  • Zhao Liying, Chinese actress
• October 18
  • Zac Efron, American actor and singer
  • Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
• October 23
  • Carmella, American professional wrestler
  • Miyuu Sawai, Japanese actress
• October 24 – Charlie White, American figure skater
• October 25 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
• October 26 – Tommy Johansson, Swedish musician (Sabaton)
• October 27
  • Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
  • Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (year of birth disputed)
• October 28
  • Frank Ocean, American singer and rapper
  • Na Yeon Choi, South Korean female professional golfer
• October 29
  • Tove Lo, Swedish singer
  • Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer

November

Kevin Jonas

Karen Gillan

• November 1 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
• November 3
  • Colin Kaepernick, American football player
  • Gemma Ward, Australian model
• November 4 – T.O.P, Korean rapper
• November 5
  • Erin Brady, American television host, model and beauty pageant
  • Kevin Jonas, American actor and singer-songwriter
• November 6
  • Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
  • G.O, South Korean singer (MBLAQ)
• November 9
  • Nouchka Fontijn, Dutch boxer
  • Jennifer Holland, American actress and model
• November 10 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
• November 11
  • Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)
  • Giles Matthey, Australian actor
• November 12
  • Jason Day, Australian golfer
  • Kengo Kora, Japanese actor
  • Juan José Ballesta, Spanish actor
• November 13 – Dana Vollmer, Australian swimmer
• November 14
  • Sofia Assefa, Ethiopian middle distance runner
  • Brian Gleeson, Irish actor
  • Nour El-Refai, Lebanese born-Swedish actress and comedian
• November 15 – Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player
• November 22 – Mauro Nespoli, Italian archer
• November 23
  • Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish Ice Hockey player
  • Kasia Struss, Polish model
• November 24
  • Maysoon al-Eryani, Yemeni poet and translator
  • Jeremain Lens, Dutch footballer
  • Elena Satine, Georgian-American film actress and singer
• November 26 – Kat DeLuna, American singer
• November 28 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress

December

Karim Benzema

• December 1 – Sarah Snook, Australian actress
• December 2 – Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (d. 2019)
• December 3
  • Michael Angarano, American actor
  • Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast
• December 9
  • Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese born-American chess grandmaster
  • Keri-anne Payne, South African born-British swimmer
• December 10 – Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentine footballer
• December 12 – Lao Lishi, Chinese diver
• December 14 – Ana Polvorosa, Spanish actress
• December 15 – Mikey Garcia, American boxer
• December 18
  • Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
  • Ayaka, Japanese singer
  • Deiveson Figueiredo, Brazilian martial mixed artist
  • Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor
  • Piotr Nowakowski, Polish volleyball player
• December 19
  • Shuko Aoyama, Japanese tennis player
  • Karim Benzema, French footballer
  • Ronan Farrow, American activist
• December 20 – Emmanuel Ekpo, Nigerian footballer
• December 22 – Eder, Portuguese footballer
• December 23 – Taťána Kuchařová, Czech dancer, model and beauty queen
• December 25 – LJ Reyes, Filipino actress
• December 26 – Mikhail Kukushkin, Russian born-Kazakh tennis player
• December 27 – Lily Cole, British model
• December 28 – Thomas Dekker, American actor, musician, singer, director and producer
• December 29 – Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
• December 30 – Jeanette Ottesen, Dutch swimmer
• December 31
  • Seydou Doumbia, Ivorian football player
  • Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast
  • Maiara & Maraisa, Brazilian Sertanejo music duo

Deaths

January

Ray Bolger

• January 2 – Jean de Gribaldy, French road cyclist and directeur sportif (b. 1922)
• January 5 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian supercentenarian (b. 1875)
• January 9 – Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
• January 10
  • Håkan Malmrot, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1900)
  • Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
• January 14 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (b. 1897)
• January 15 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
• January 22 – R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
• January 25 – Asim Ferhatović, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1933)
• January 27 – Norman McLaren, Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
• January 28 – Galo Plaza, Ecuadorian statesman, 29th President of Ecuador (b. 1906)
• January 31 – Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1905)

February

Liberace

Andy Warhol

James Coco

• February 1
  • Gustav Knuth, German film actor (b. 1901)
  • Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• February 2
  • Alistair MacLean, British novelist (b. 1922)
  • Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian football goalkeeper (b. 1927)
• February 3 – Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (b. 1905)
• February 4 – Liberace, American pianist, singer and actor (b. 1919)
• February 5 – Otto Wöhler, German general, serving during World War I and World War II (b. 1894)
• February 7 – Claudio Villa, Italian singer (b. 1926)
• February 10 – Robert O'Brien, American racing driver (b. 1908)
• February 11 – Mark Ashton, Irish gay rights activist (b. 1960)
• February 12
  • Dennis Poore, British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver (b. 1916)
  • Raymond Vouel, Luxembourg politician (b. 1923)
• February 14 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
• February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer (b. 1928)
• February 23
  • Esmond Knight, English actor (b. 1906)
  • José Afonso, Portuguese singer-songwriter, teacher and activist (b. 1929)
• February 25
  • James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
  • Elisabeth Coit, American architect (b. 1897)
• February 27
  • Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
  • Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)

March

Randolph Scott

Danny Kaye

• March 1 – Freddie Green, American swing jazz guitarist (b. 1911)
• March 2 – Randolph Scott, American actor (b. 1898)
• March 3 – Danny Kaye, American singer, actor, and comedian (b. 1911)
• March 7 – Waldo Salt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
• March 11 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
• March 12 - Woody Hayes, American college football coach, coached for Ohio State University
• March 15 – W. Sterling Cole, American politician, first Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1904)
• March 19 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• March 21
  • Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Dean Paul Martin, American pop singer and film and television actor (b. 1951)
• March 26
  • Georg Muche, German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher (b. 1895)
  • Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
• March 27 – Stane Kavčič, 6th Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1919)
• March 28
  • Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
  • Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920)
  • Alphonse Alley, Beninese military officer, former Head of State of Dahomey (b. 1930)

April

Leabua Jonathan

Erskine Caldwell

• April 1 – Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (b. 1901)
• April 2
  • Wang Renmei, Chinese actress and singer (b. 1914)
  • Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (b. 1917)
• April 4 – C. L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
• April 5 – Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. 1914)
• April 11
  • Erskine Caldwell, American writer (b. 1903)
  • Kent Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (b. 1919)
• April 12 – Mike Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
• April 15 – Masatoshi Nakayama, Japanese karate master (b. 1913)
• April 17
  • Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (b. 1950)
  • Cornelius Van Til, Dutch Christian philosopher, reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist (b. 1895)
  • Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• April 19
  • Milt Kahl, Animator for the Disney Studio (b. 1909)
  • Antony Tudor, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1908)
  • Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (b. 1901)

May

Dalida

Rita Hayworth

Gunnar Myrdal

• May 2 - Karl Davis, African-American fashion designer (b. 1962)
• May 3 – Dalida, French rock musician (b. 1933)
• May 4
  • Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
  • Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
• May 6 – William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913)
• May 7 – Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
• May 8
  • Sir James Plimsoll, Australian public servant (b. 1917)
  • Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (b. 1910)
• May 9 – Thodoros Kefalopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1894)
• May 13
  • Ismael Rivera, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer (b. 1931)
  • Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (b. 1899)
• May 14 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)
• May 17 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• May 19 – James Tiptree, Jr., American author (b. 1915)
• May 21 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (b. 1930)
• May 24 – Hermione Gingold, English actress (b. 1897)
• May 27
  • Colin McCahon, New Zealand artist (b. 1919)
  • John Howard Northrop, American biochemist (b. 1891)
• May 29
  • Charan Singh, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
  • Jozef Langenus, Belgian middle-distance runner (b. 1898)
• May 31 – John Abraham, Indian film director (b. 1937)

June

Fred Astaire

Jackie Gleason

• June 1
  • Errol Barrow, Caribbean statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1920)
  • Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman, 21st Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
  • Domenico Piemontesi, Italian road bicycle racer (b. 1903)
• June 2 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
• June 3 – Will Sampson, American actor (b. 1933)
• June 6 – Richard Münch, German actor (b. 1916)
• June 9
  • Madge Kennedy, American actress (b. 1891)
  • Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian-born philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States (b. 1910)
• June 10 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
• June 13
  • Vera Caspary, American screenwriter, novelist, playwright (b. 1899)
  • Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• June 20 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1896)
• June 22 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1899)
• June 24 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and comedian (b. 1916)
• June 26
  • Arthur F. Burns, American economist (b. 1904)
  • Henk Badings, Dutch composer (b. 1907)
• June 30 – Federico Mompou, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1893)

July

Richard Egan

• July 2 – Michael Bennett, American theater director and choreographer (b. 1943)
• July 3 – Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
• July 4 – Abdul Halim, Indonesian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1911)
• July 8 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
• July 10 – John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
• July 11 – Tom Waddell, American sportsman and competitor (b. 1937)
• July 17
  • Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
  • Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
• July 20 – Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
• July 28 - James Burnham, American philosopher and political theorist (b. 1905)

August

Rudolf Hess

Lee Marvin

• August 1 – Pola Negri, Polish born actress (b. 1897)
• August 2 – Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
• August 5 – Anatoli Papanov, Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor (b. 1922)
• August 6
  • Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (b. 1888)
  • Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896)
• August 7
  • Camille Chamoun, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
  • Nobusuke Kishi, Japanese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1896)
• August 10 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• August 16 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor (b. 1941)
• August 17
  • Rudolf Hess, German Nazi official (b. 1894)
  • Clarence Brown, American film director (b. 1890)
  • Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1902)
• August 23 – Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
• August 24 – Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
• August 26 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• August 28 – John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1906)
• August 29 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)

September

Peter Tosh

Lorne Greene

Jaco Pastorius

Mary Astor

• September 1 – Gerhard Fieseler, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1896)
• September 2 – Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, President of Argentina (1982) (b. 1926)
• September 3 – Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
• September 4 – Richard Marquand, Welsh film director (b. 1937)
• September 9
  • Bill Fraser, Scottish actor (b. 1908)
  • Gerrit Jan Heijn, Dutch businessman (b. 1931)
• September 11
  • Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1944)
  • Lorne Greene, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer (b. 1915)
• September 12
  • John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1899)
  • J. Lawton Collins, American general (b. 1896)
• September 13 – Mervyn LeRoy, American film producer and director (b. 1900)
• September 17 – Vladimir Basov, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• September 18 – Américo Tomás, 13th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
• September 19 – Einar Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
• September 21 – Jaco Pastorius, American jazz bassist (b. 1951)
• September 22
  • Hákun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
  • Dan Rowan, American comedian (b. 1922)
  • Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress (b. 1929)
• September 23
  • Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director (b. 1927)
  • Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (b. 1953)
• September 25
  • Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor (b. 1905)
• September 29 – Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
• September 30 – Alfred Bester, American author (b. 1913)

October

William P. Murphy

Walter Houser Brattain

Woody Herman

• October 2
  • Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
  • Sir Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
• October 3
  • Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (b. 1910)
  • Catherine Bramwell-Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1883)
  • Hans Gál, composer, teacher and author (b. 1890)
• October 8
  • Spencer Gordon Bennet, American film producer (b. 1893)
  • Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1899)
• October 9 – William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
• October 11 – Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (b. 1941)
• October 12
  • Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887)
  • Fahri Korutürk, Turkish diplomat, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
• October 13
  • Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
  • Kishore Kumar, Indian actor and playback singer (b. 1929)
• October 15 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe politician, 5th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso and 2nd President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
• October 19
  • Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (b. 1945)
  • Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
• October 22 – Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919)
• October 27 – Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (b. 1911)
• October 28 – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
• October 29 – Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b. 1913)
• October 30 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, author (b. 1904)

November

Seyni Kountché

• November 1 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
• November 5 – Georges Franju, French filmmaker (b. 1912)
• November 6
  • Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
  • Jean Rivier, French composer of classical music (b. 1896)
• November 7 – Arne Borg, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1901)
• November 10 – Seyni Kountché, Nigerien military officer and statesman, 2nd President of Niger (b. 1931)
• November 12 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1937)
• November 18 – Jacques Anquetil, French road racing cyclist (b. 1934)
• November 23 – Antonio Sastre, Argentine footballer (b. 1911)
• November 26 – Duncan Sandys, British politician (b. 1908)

December

James Baldwin

Joop den Uyl

• December 1 – James Baldwin, African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet (b. 1924)
• December 2
  • Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (b. 1930)
  • Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (b. 1930)
  • Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
  • Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
• December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897)
• December 8
  • Marcos Calderón, Peruvian football coach (b. 1928)
  • José González Ganoza, Peruvian footballer (b. 1954)
• December 10 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born violinist (b. 1901)
• December 17 – Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (b. 1900)
• December 21 – Ralph Nelson, American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor (b. 1916)
• December 22 – Alice Terry, American actress (b. 1899)
• December 23 - Nikki Sixx, American bassist, died for two minutes, fortunately he's still alive (b. 1958)
• December 24
  • Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1973–1977) (b. 1919)
  • M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor and Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (1977–1987) (b. 1917)
• December 27 – Priscilla Dean, American actress (b. 1896)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – J. Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller
• Chemistry – Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
• Medicine – Susumu Tonegawa
• Literature – Joseph Brodsky
• Peace – Óscar Arias Sánchez
• Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Solow