1971

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{{Year article header|1971}} The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).

The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/14/global-population-10-billion-worry|title=A global population of 10 billion is nothing to worry about|author=Danny Dorling|work=The Guardian|date=June 14, 2013}}

Events

=January=

January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland.
January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September.
January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day.
January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS.
January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago, Chile; Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16.
January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt.
January 18
Strikes in Poland demand the resignation of Interior Minister Kazimierz Świtała. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by Franciszek Szlachcic.
Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship in wrestling ending a seven and two thirds years reign, the longest in the Championships history.
A South Korean marine kills 6 people in a mass shooting in Kimpo, South Korea.
January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices; February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Khalij el-Arab countries.
January 24 – The Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November 1970; 72 are sentenced to hard labor for life; 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day.
January 25
In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president.
In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
Intelsat IV (F2) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26.
January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.

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= February =

February 4
In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.
The Nasdaq stock exchange is founded in New York City.
February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
February 6 – The 4.6 Mb Tuscania earthquake shakes the Italian province of Viterbo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 24 deaths, 150 injuries and extreme damage.
February 7
Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones.
Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.
February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts in the United States.
February 9
The 6.5–6.7 {{M|w}} Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.
February 10 – A total lunar eclipse is visible from Pacific, Americas, Europe and Africa, and is the 50th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 123.
February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
February 11–12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman.
February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
February 15 – Decimal Day: The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation).{{cite web |last1=Wamsley |first1=Laurel |title=U.K. And Ireland Celebrate 50 Years Since 'Decimal Day' |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/15/968146708/u-k-and-ireland-celebrate-50-years-since-decimal-day?t=1634728736856 |website=NPR |access-date=20 October 2021 |language=en |date=15 February 2021}}
February 16 – In Italy, a local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria; residents of Reggio di Calabria riot for 5 days because of the decision.
February 20 – The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning across the nation's radio and television stations, meant to be a standard weekly test conducted by NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Some stations cease broadcasting until the message is rescinded, as required by federal rules, while most ignore it."One Man's Mistake Triggers U.S. Alert; Many Stations Go Off Air", Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1971, p1
February 21
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Between February 21 and 22, an outbreak of nineteen tornadoes rages across the Mississippi Delta in Mississippi and Louisiana, killing 123 people.
February 23 – Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri is killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.{{cite book|last1=Fulghum|first1=David|last2=Maitland|first2=Terrence|title=The Vietnam Experience South Vietnam on Trial: Mid-1970–1972|publisher=Boston Publishing Company|year=1984|isbn=0939526107|page=61}}
February 25 – A partial solar eclipse is visible from Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 18th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 149.
February 26 – Secretary General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the March equinox (March 21) as Earth Day.
February 27 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortions.
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.

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= March =

March 1
A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
Pakistani president Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as the 17th Premier of Ontario.
March 2 – Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman launched the non-cooperation movement in East Pakistan.
March 4 – The southern part of Quebec, and especially Montreal, receives 16½" (42 cm) of snow in what becomes known as the Century's Snowstorm (la tempête du siècle).
March 5
The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.
In Belfast, a Led Zeppelin show includes the first public performance of "Stairway to Heaven," a song from the band's fourth album.
March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital in Burghölzli, Switzerland kills 28 people.
March 7
Die Sendung mit der Maus airs its first episode on Das Erste.
The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of East Pakistan (modern day-Bangladesh), delivers a public speech at the Racecourse Field in Dhaka calling for masses to be prepared to fight for national independence.
March 8
The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into the Media, Pennsylvania offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and removes all of its files.
"Fight of the Century": Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a 15-round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden.
March 10 – William McMahon replaces John Gorton as the Liberal/Country Coalition Prime Minister of Australia after Gorton resigns following a vote of confidence that was tied 33-all.
March 11 – THX 1138, George Lucas' first full-length film, premieres in theaters.
March 12 – Hafez al-Assad becomes president of Syria.
March 12–13 – The Allman Brothers Band plays their legendary concert at the Fillmore East.
March 16 – Trygve Bratteli forms a government in Norway.
March 18 – A landslide in Chungar, Peru crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200.
March 23 – General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military coup.
March 25 –
The Pakistani army starts Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) at midnight after President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, a military ruler, voids election results that gave the Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament; start of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. That ended the non-cooperation movement.
The North East Mall opens in Hurst, Texas
March 26
East Pakistan's independence is declared by Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and transmitted using East Pakistan Rifles radio.{{Cite web |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Declaration_of_Independence|title=Declaration of Independence |website=Banglapedia |access-date=2016-03-29}}
Nihat Erim (a former CHP member) forms the new government of Turkey (33rd government, composed mostly of technocrats).
March 27 – East Pakistan's independence is repeatedly declared by army major (later president of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.
March 29
U.S. Army lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders during the My Lai Massacre and is sentenced to life in prison (he is later pardoned).
A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and female followers Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.
March 30 – Starbucks coffee shop is founded in the U.S. state of Washington.{{cite web |title=The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 36 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/14/the-first-starbucks-coffee-shop-seattle-a-history-of-cities-in-50-buildings-day-36 |website=The Guardian |access-date=19 February 2021 |language=en |date=14 May 2015}}

= April =

April 1 – The United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership.
April 5
In Ceylon, a group calling themselves the People's Liberation Front begins a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government.{{cite book|title=The Journal of Asian studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJxRAQAAIAAJ|year=1977|page=515}}
Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.{{cite book|author1=John Guest|author2=Raymond Richard Skelhorn|title=Mount Etna and the 1971 Eruption|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQhOAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Royal Society|page=177}}
April 8 – A right-wing coup attempt is exposed in Laos.
April 12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to the north of Jordan.
April 17
The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.{{cite book|title=International Relations of Bangladesh and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: 1971-1973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uOxtAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Parama|isbn = 9789848245316}}
Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation."Accord on Union Reached By Egypt, Libya and Syria", by Raymond H. Anderson, The New York Times, April 18, 1971, p1
April 19
The government of Bangladesh flees to India.
Sierra Leone becomes a republic.{{cite book|title=Background Notes, Sierra Leone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwZJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5|year=1992|publisher=U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication|pages=5}}
The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1."Soviet Sends Another Space Vehicle Into Orbit", The New York Times, April 19, 1971, p4
Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the United States; in 1972, the sentence for all California death-row inmates will be commuted to life imprisonment.{{cite book|author=R. Barri Flowers|title=Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers, and Victims of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IXZsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT134|year=2001|publisher=R. Barri Flowers|pages=134}}
April 20
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
Cambodian prime minister Lon Nol resigns but remains effectively in power until the next elections."Lon Nol Resigns, Blaming Health", The New York Times, April 20, 1971, p1
National Public Radio (NPR) airs its first broadcast.{{Cite news|title=History:NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/about-npr/192827079/overview-and-history|access-date=2021-07-22|newspaper=NPR|date=June 20, 2013|language=en}}
April 21 – Siaka Stevens is sworn in as the first president of Sierra Leone.{{cite book|author=Alusine Jalloh|title=African Entrepreneurship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nIVIi54f51sC&pg=PA252|year=1999|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-89680-207-0|pages=252}}
April 24
Soyuz 10 fails to dock with Salyut 1.
An estimated 200,000 people in Washington, D.C., and a further 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War."200,000 Rally in Capital to End War", by James M. Naughton, The New York Times, April 25, 1971, p1
April 25
Todor Zhivkov is reelected as the leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party."Zhivkov Renamed as Head of Communists in Bulgaria", The New York Times, April 26, 1971, p2
Franz Jonas is reelected as president of Austria."President Jonas of Austria Is Re-Elected", The New York Times, April 26, 1971, p3
April 26 – The government of Turkey declares a state of siege in 11 provinces, including Ankara, in response to violent demonstrations."Turkey Imposes Martial Law in 11 Areas", The New York Times, April 27, 1971, p
April 30 – The Milwaukee Bucks sweep the Baltimore Bullets in four games to win their first NBA championship.

= May =

May 1
Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States.
The Ceylonese government promises amnesty for guerillas who surrender before May 5.
May 2 – In Ceylon, left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings.
May 3
Arsenal F.C. wins the English League First Division championship at the home of their bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. (Arsenal will go on to win the league and cup 'double' six days later by defeating Liverpool in the FA Cup final).
The Harris Poll finds that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Socialist Unity Party leader but retains the position of head of state.
1971 May Day Protests: Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
May 5
The U.S. dollar floods the European currency markets and especially threatens the Deutsche Mark; the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading.
FedEx, the logistics and delivery service, founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.{{cite web |last1=Ziobro |first1=Paul |title=Fred Smith Created FedEx. Now He Has to Reinvent It. |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/fred-smith-created-fedex-now-he-has-to-reinvent-it-11571324050 |website=Wall Street Journal |access-date=19 February 2021 |date=17 October 2019}}
May 6 – The government of Ceylon begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front.
May 9
Arsenal FC beats Liverpool F.C. 2–1 to win the English FA Cup, thus completing the league and cup 'double'.
Mariner 8 fails to launch.
May 12 – An earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur.
May 15 – Israeli ambassador to Turkey Efraim Elrom is kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul May 25.
May 16 – A coup attempt is exposed and foiled in Egypt.
May 18
The U.S. Congress formally votes to end funding for the American Supersonic Transport program.
The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup against the Chicago Black Hawks. The Canadiens became only the second team in NHL history to win the Cup in Game 7 on the road, and did so after the home team had won each of the previous six games in the series. This also marked Jean Béliveau's last NHL game.
May 19 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
May 22 – An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingöl, Turkey; more than 1,000 are killed and 10,000 are made homeless.
May 23 – Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes at Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia, killing 78 people, mostly British tourists.
May 26
Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer/extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested.
May 27
Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna.
Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene; it is later found to be artificially colored.
May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO.
May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile in territory formerly part of Pakistan.

= June =

June – Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting special education.
June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
June 6
Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 (Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev) is launched.
A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
June 10
The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.
Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed.
Amtrak had its first fatal accident when 11 people were killed and 163 injured in the derailment of the City of New Orleans train near Tonti, Illinois.{{Cite news|date=1971-06-11|title=Illinois Train Accident Kills 10|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/11/archives/illinois-train-accident-kills-10-locked-diesel-wheels-indicated.html|access-date=2021-10-23|issn=0362-4331}}
June 11 – Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament.
June 13
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.{{cite web |url = https://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/48.htm |title = Introduction to the Court Opinion on the New York Times Co. v. United States Case. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051204121721/https://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/48.htm |archive-date=4 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}
Racing drivers Gijs van Lennep of the Netherlands and Helmut Marko of Austria win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Martini Racing Porsche 917K.
June 14 – Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.
June 17
Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa.{{cite web|url=http://www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/rev71.html|title=Okinawa Reversion Agreement 1971|date=June 17, 1971|website=the ryukyu-okinawa history and culture website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004181232/http://www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/rev71.html|archive-date=October 4, 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=October 4, 2010}}
President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
June 18 – Southwest Airlines, a low-cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoly Fedoseyev has been granted asylum.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/21/archives/soviet-aide-gets-asylum-in-britain-expert-is-described-as-key.html | title=Soviet Aide Gets Asylum in Britain | work=The New York Times | date=June 21, 1971 }}
June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of conspiring to oust the government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador.
June 27 – Concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East, which first opened on 2nd Avenue in New York City on March 8, 1968.
June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo, boss of his eponymous crime family, in the head during an Italian-American rally, putting him in a coma.
June 30
New York Times Co. v. United States: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint.
After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first human-occupied space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft die after their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.

= July =

File:World Trade Center Skyline at Night (29143322320).jpg, Lower Manhattan, 1971]]

July – Nordic Council secretariat inaugurated.
July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, dies of a heart failure at the age of 27 in the bathtub of his apartment on the 3rd floor of the Rue Beautreillis 17 in Paris, France.
July 4
Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.{{cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830193319/http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 30, 2006|publisher=Project Gutenberg|title=The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg|first=Michael|last=Hart |access-date=2011-10-05 |date=August 1992}}.
The first plane lands at Seychelles International Airport in Victoria, Seychelles (Mahe).{{cite book|author=Donald Taylor|title=Launching Out Into the Deep: The Anglican Church in the History of the Seychelles to 2000 AD|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWUmAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Board of Church Commissioners, Diocese of Seychelles|isbn=978-99931-66-01-6|page=620}}
July 5 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
July 6 – Hastings Banda is proclaimed President for Life of Malawi.
July 9 – The United Kingdom increases the number of its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
July 10–11 – Coup attempt in Morocco: 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement).
July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address to the Women of America.
July 11 – The nationalization of all large copper mines in Chile is completed.{{Cite news |title=La Nacionalización del Cobre |url=https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/archivohales/colecciones/v/participacion-politica-y-membresias/la-nacionalizacion-del-cobre. |access-date=2025-05-29 |work=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile: Archivo Alejandro Hales Jamarne |language=es}}
July 13
Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland.
Jordanian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
The Yugoslavian government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
Reggie Jackson's long home run, which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, helps the American League defeat the National League 6–4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.
July 14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco.
July 15 – American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China.
July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute (Südtirolfrage) regarding South Tyrol.
July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf.
July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at {{convert|1,362|ft|m}}, making it the second-tallest building in the world.
July 19–23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan. Fighting continues until July 22, when pro-Nimeiri troops regain power. Al-Atta and three officers are executed.
July 22
A BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya, where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed.{{cite news|title=A government hijacking|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%201336.html|access-date=2011-11-13|newspaper=Flight International|date=1971-07-29|page=150|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311052001/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%201336.html|archive-date=2012-03-11|url-status=live}}
A partial solar eclipse is visible from Asia and North America, and is the 70th and final solar eclipse of Solar Saros 116.
July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971.
July 25–30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records two Debussy works in Munich for Deutsche Grammophon, his fifth recording.
July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin) is launched.
July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, a day after landing on the Moon.

= August =

August – Camden, New Jersey erupts in race riots, with looting and arson, following the beating death of a Puerto Rican motorist by city police. Also in 1971, Philadelphia International Records is established, with Camden native Leon Huff as co-founder.
August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend The Concert for Bangladesh.
August 2 – U.S. department store chain J. C. Penney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used ever since.
August 5
The South Pacific Forum (SPF) is established.
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 enters service with American Airlines.
August 6 – A total lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed, visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and is the 38th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 128.
August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
August 9
India signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow.
August 10 – Mr. Tickle, the first book in the Mr. Men series is first published, in the U.K.{{cite news |title=Mr Men and Little Miss books celebrate 40th birthday |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/14476561 |website=CBBC Newsround |access-date=19 February 2021}}
August 11 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
August 12 – Syria severs diplomatic relations with Jordan because of border clashes.
August 14
The controversial Stanford prison experiment, led by Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, began in Palo Alto, California{{cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970108prisonexp.html|title=The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105151451/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970108prisonexp.html |archive-date=2021-11-05}}
British troops are stationed on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to stop arms smuggling.
Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain ({{as of|2018}} officially the Kingdom of Bahrain).
August 15
Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth.
The number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12,500.
President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
August 15–September 5 – The 1971 Women's World Cup in Association football (an event not recognized by FIFA) is staged in Mexico: Denmark will be the winners.{{Cite web|url=https://www.francebleu.fr/sports/football/coupe-du-monde-feminine-2019-a-l-heure-du-premier-mondial-des-bleues-en-1971-1559656752|title=Coupe du monde féminine 2019: à l'heure du premier Mondial des Bleues en 1971|date=2019-06-04|website=ici, par France Bleu et France 3}}
August 16 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi, becomes the first black president to visit South Africa.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/21/archives/black-traveler-in-south-africa-hastings-kamuzu-banda.html | title=Black Traveler in South Africa Hastings Kamuzu Banda | newspaper=The New York Times | date=August 21, 1971 }}
August 18
Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
British troops are engaged in a firefight with the IRA in Derry, Northern Ireland.
August 19–22 – A right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president Juan José Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.
August 20
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat) (effective February 12, 1973).
The USS Manatee spills {{convert|1,000|USgal|L}} of fuel oil on President Nixon's Western White House beach in San Clemente, California.
A partial solar eclipse is visible from Southern Ocean, and is the 4th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 154.
August 21 – A bomb made of two hand grenades by alleged communist rebels{{efn|Though initially to be accused as communists by President Ferdinand Marcos, some theorized that the bombings were staged by pro-Marcos affiliates, but to this day the perpetrators remain unknown.}} explodes in the Liberal Party campaign party in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila the Philippines, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates.
August 25
Border clashes occur between Tanzania and Uganda.
Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.
August 26 – A civilian government takes power in Greece.
August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.

= September =

September 1– Operation Sourisak Montry VIII opens when forces of the Royal Thai Army recapture several positions in the territory of Laos on the south bank of the Mekong in response to an encroaching Chinese presence to the north.
September 2 – The United Arab Republic is renamed to the Arab Republic of Egypt
September 3
Qatar gains independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary General.
September 4
A Boeing 727 (Alaska Airlines Flight 1866) crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
The Free State of Christiania is founded.
September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
September 9 – English musician John Lennon releases his second studio album Imagine. Worldwide sales of the title track will exceed 5 million.
September 9–13 – Attica Prison riot: A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.
September 17 – Hugo L. Black retires as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States after serving for 34 years, at this time a record for longevity; Black dies eight days later.
September 19 – Trams in Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) cease to run.
September 21 – Pakistan declares a state of emergency.
September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.
September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
September 28 – Cardinal József Mindszenty, who has taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest since 1956, is allowed to leave Hungary.
September 29 – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in the Indian state of Orissa, kills 10,000.

= October =

October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
October 4–7 – Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.
October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles 4–3 in Game 4 of the World Series at home in the first ever Major League Baseball postseason game played at night. The Pirates defeat the Orioles 2–1 in the decisive Game 7 at Baltimore four days later.
October 14 – Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
October 14 – The largest state banquet in history is held at the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran, marking the symbolic Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire.
October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the 1971 World Series.
October 18 – In New York City, the Knapp Commission begins public hearings on police corruption.
October 21
U.S. President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Clarkston explosion in Scotland, caused by a gas leak, kills 22 people.
October 24 – Texas Stadium opens in Irving, Texas. In the inaugural game, the host Dallas Cowboys defeat the New England Patriots 44–21.
October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (or Taiwan).
October 27 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
October 28
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 356–244 in favour of joining the European Economic Community.
The United Kingdom becomes the sixth nation successfully to launch a satellite into orbit using its own launch vehicle, the Prospero (X-3) experimental communications satellite, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Woomera, South Australia.
The Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Egypt, burns down.
October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).
October 30
Rev. Ian Paisley founds the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.
Meddle, the critically acclaimed album by progressive rock band Pink Floyd, is released.
October 31 – A bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.

= November =

Erin Pizzey establishes the world's first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick, London.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPPapvrJsTcC&pg=PA262|title=Family Violence|first1=Mildred Daley|last1=Pagelow|first2=Lloyd W.|last2=Pagelow|date=September 18, 1984|publisher=ABC-CLIO|via=Google Books|isbn=9780275916237}}
November 3 – The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
November 6 – Operation Grommet: The U.S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin. At around 5 megatons, it is the largest ever U.S. underground detonation.
November 8 – Led Zeppelin release their fourth studio album Led Zeppelin IV, which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies in the United States.
November 9 – A Royal Air Force C-130 crashes into the Ligurian Sea near Leghorn, Italy, killing all 51 people on board.
November 10 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging 9 airplanes.
November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
November 13 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully.
November 14 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.
November 15
Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
International Organization and System of Space Communications (Intersputnik) is founded (effective July 12, 1972).
November 18 – Oman gains independence from the United Kingdom.
November 20 – A bridge still under construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48 people are killed and several injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is a part of the Linha Vermelha elevate.
November 22 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
November 23 – The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations).
November 24
During a severe storm over Washington State, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (later misreported as D. B. Cooper) parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of February 2025, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history).
A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
November 28 – The 59th Grey Cup Game sees the Calgary Stampeders beat the Toronto Argonauts 14–11.
November 30 – Iranian forces occupy the Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa (joint occupation by agreement with Sharjah) and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs (taken by force from Ras Al Khaimah).{{Cite book|title=From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates: a society in transition|last=Heard-Bey|first=Frauke|date=2005|publisher=Motivate|isbn=1860631673|location=London|pages=366|oclc=64689681}}

= December =

December 1 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, 10 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh.
December 2
Six of the seven Trucial States combine in an act of union to found the United Arab Emirates.
The Soviet Mars 3 lander reaches the surface of Mars, transmits for a few seconds and then goes silent. It is the first spacecraft to reach the planet.
December 3 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins with Operation Chengiz Khan as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks on nine Indian airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
December 3–4 – The Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former {{USS|Diablo}}) sinks mysteriously near the Indian coast while laying mines.
December 4
The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert (the event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water"). The casino is rebuilt in 1975.
The McGurk's Bar bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Belfast kills 15.
December 7 – Battle of Sylhet rages between the Pakistani military and the Indian Army.[http://www.defenceindia.com/defenceind/battle_sylhet.html Battle Of Sylhet. Defence India] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070810211600/http://www.defenceindia.com/defenceind/battle_sylhet.html|date=August 10, 2007}}
December 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
December 10 – The John Sinclair Freedom Rally in support of the imprisoned activist features a performance by John Lennon at Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
December 11 – Nihat Erim forms the new government of Turkey (34th government; Nihat Erim has served two times as prime minister).
December 16 – Victory Day of Bangladesh: The Pakistan Army in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) surrenders to the joint forces of India and the Bengali nationalist separatists, ending the Bangladesh Liberation War.{{Cite web |title=Victory Day {{!}} Armed Forces Division(AFD) |url=https://afd.gov.bd/media/important-occations/victory-day |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=afd.gov.bd}}
December 18
The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history.
The world's largest hydroelectric plant in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union, begins operations.
December 19
Clube Atlético Mineiro wins the Brazil Football Championship.
Intelsat IV (F3) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.
The controversial dystopian crime film A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick is released in New York City.
December 20 – Two groups of French doctors involved in humanitarian aid merge to form Médecins Sans Frontières.
December 24
Giovanni Leone is elected President of the Italian Republic.
Juliane Koepcke survives a fall of 10,000 feet following disintegration of LANSA Flight 508.
December 25
In the longest American football game in National Football League history, the Miami Dolphins beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27–24 after 82 minutes, 40 seconds of playing time. Garo Yepremian kicked the winning 37-yard field goal after 7:40 of the second overtime period.
Daeyeonggak Hotel fire: A fire at a 22-story hotel in Seoul, South Korea, kills 158 people.
December 26
Former teacher Patrick Critton hijacks Air Canada Flight 932, diverting the flight from Canada to Cuba. He would remain a fugitive for almost 30 years.{{cite web |title=Aircraft Hijackings and Other Criminal Acts against Civil Aviation Statistical and Narrative Reports |url=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/91941NCJRS.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/91941NCJRS.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |website=Office of Justice Programs |date=May 1983}}
The first reported sighting of the Nullarbor Nymph in Australia was made. The story traveled around the world until it was proven to be a hoax in 1972.
December 29 – The United Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.
December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona, Sydney.

= Date unknown =

Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers,{{cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1971-first-ever-email-392973|title=1971: First Ever Email|date=21 August 2015|author=Rachel Swatman|website=Guinness Book of Records|access-date=29 September 2020}} in late 1971.{{cite web | url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/5/2/2991486/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-interview-i-see-email-being-used | title=Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email: 'I see email being used, by and large, exactly the way I envisioned' | date=May 2, 2012 }}
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia bans the cultural organization Matica hrvatska (founded in 1842), soon after December 20.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is established in the United States.
Bulanti motorcar built in Australia.
Crude oil production peaks in the continental United States at approximately {{convert|4.5|Moilbbl/d|m3/d}}.

Births

= January =

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January 1 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler, Olympic silver medalist{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Sammie Henson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/95172 |website=www.olympedia.org |access-date=19 February 2021}}
January 2
Taye Diggs, American actor{{cite web|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/02/UPI-Almanac-for-Wednesday-Jan-2-2019/6081546203973//|title= UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019|work=United Press International|date=January 2, 2019|access-date=September 2, 2019|archive-date=September 2, 2019 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20190902220401/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/02/UPI-Almanac-for-Wednesday-Jan-2-2019/6081546203973/|url-status=live|quote= actor Taye Diggs in 1971 (age 49)}}
Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress, singer and songwriter{{cite news |title=This day in history - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/02/this-day-history/JZrUiLeas3bllyVmRevXkL/story.html |access-date=20 September 2018 |work=Boston Globe |date=2 January 2018 |quote=Jan. 2, the second day of 2018... Birthdays... Actress Renee Elise Goldsberry is 47.}}
January 7
DJ Ötzi, Austrian entertainer and singer
Jeremy Renner, American actor, singer and producer{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=77}}
January 11 – Mary J. Blige, American singer{{cite book|author=Steve Hochman|title=Popular Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBwKAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-987-7|page=107}}
January 12
Arman Alizad, Iranian-born Finnish tailor and television presenter{{cite news |last1=Hoimela |first1=Leeni |title=Tätä Arman Alizad ei uskaltaisi tehdä: "Jos olen ollut vaarassa, aistin sen tyttärestäni" |url=https://www.menaiset.fi/artikkeli/ajankohtaista/ihmiset/tata_arman_alizad_ei_uskaltaisi_tehda_jos_olen_ollut_vaarassa_aistin |access-date=7 December 2019 |publisher=Me Naiset |date=21 November 2015}}
Peter Madsen, Danish entrepreneur, engineer, and convicted murderer{{cite web|url=http://youthentrepreneurship.eu/speakers/peter-madsen/|title=Peter Madsen|website=European Youth Entrepreneurship|access-date=21 September 2020}}
January 14 – Lasse Kjus, Norwegian alpine skier{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/lasse-kjus|title=Lasse Kjus|website=olympic.org|access-date=13 October 2020}}
January 15 – Regina King, American actress{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=85}}
January 16 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player{{cite web |title=Sergi Bruguera |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/B350/overview |website=atptour.com}}
January 17
Lil Jon, American rapper
Kid Rock, American rock singer
January 18
Pep Guardiola, Spanish football player and manager of Manchester City F.C.{{cite book|title=FC Barcelona-Barca: Futbol Club Barcelona. Barca o Blaugrana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBwONvAToksC&pg=PA127|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331044841/https://books.google.com/books?id=FBwONvAToksC&pg=PA127|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 31, 2022|publisher=epubli|pages=127}}
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (d. 2019){{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/16/binyavanga-wainaina-gay-rights-kenya-africa|title=Binyavanga Wainaina: coming out in Kenya|last=Adams|first=Tim|date=16 February 2014|work=The Observer|access-date=23 May 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}
January 19 – Shawn Wayans, American actor{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dL3UwZjGbC0C|date=16 October 2009|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-170191-4|page=93}}
January 20 – Gary Barlow, British singer-songwriter{{cite web |title=Gary Barlow |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb2db65c0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529053927/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb2db65c0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 29, 2017 |website=BFI |access-date=19 February 2021 |language=en}}
January 23 – Julie Foudy, American soccer player and commentator
January 27
Sudantha Dias, Sri Lankan former cricketer{{cite web |title=Sudantha Dias Profile |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/sudantha-dias-48642 |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=24 December 2023 |language=en}}
Fann Wong, Singporean actress and singer
January 31 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan actress and model

=February=

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February 1
Michael C. Hall, American actor
Adriana Lessa, Brazilian actress
Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
Hynden Walch, American voice actress
February 3 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)Mark Ravenhill [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sarah-kane-1072624.html Obituary: Sarah Kane], The Independent, 23 February 1999
February 4
Fatmir Limaj, Albanian politician{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ClA-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA9|year=2004|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=4}}
Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
February 5 – Sara Evans, American country music singer
February 8 – Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/andrus-veerpalu| title=Andrus Veerpalu|website=IOC|access-date=16 February 2021}}
February 10
Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (d. 2015)
Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
February 11
Damian Lewis, English actor and producer{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=125}}
Susi Susanti, Indonesian badminton player
February 13 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
February 14
Kris Aquino, Filipina actress{{cite web|url=https://rappler.com/entertainment/kris-aquino-birthday-surprise-josh-bimby|title=Kris Aquino gets a birthday surprise from her sons|date=February 14, 2018|website=rappler|access-date=21 September 2020}}
Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
Viscera, American professional wrestler (d. 2014)
Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer and actress
February 15
Alex Borstein, American actress, voice artist, producer and screenwriter
Renee O'Connor, American actress
February 16
Jack Rose, American guitarist (d. 2009)
Amanda Holden, British actress
February 17 – Denise Richards, American actress
February 18 – Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress and restaurateur (d. 2017)
February 19
Gil Shaham, Israeli/American violinist{{cite book|author=Encyclopedia Britannica|title=Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbmPiWGOi98C|year=2003|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-59339-073-0|page=107}}
Jeff Kinney, American author
February 20
Calpernia Addams, American actress
Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby football player (d. 2017)
February 22
Lisa Fernandez, American softball player{{cite web |title=Lisa Fernandez |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/1372 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=Olympedia}}
Lea Salonga, Filipino singer and actress
February 23 – Angela Alsobrooks, US Senator
February 24
Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
Gillian Flynn, American author, comic book writer, and screenwriter
February 25
Sean Astin, American actor, voice actor, director, and producer{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA146|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=146}}
Nova Peris, Australian athlete and politician{{cite book|author=Joanne Crawford|title=Australian Aboriginal Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIlVy6TjAPgC&pg=PA23|year=2003|publisher=R.I.C. Publications|isbn=978-1-86311-809-5|pages=24}}
Daniel Powter, Canadian rock musician
February 26
Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter and record producer
Max Martin, Swedish music producer and songwriter
February 27
David Rikl, Czech tennis player{{cite web |title=David Rikl |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/R203/overview |website=atptour.com}}
Rozonda Thomas, African-American singer

=March=

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March 1
Allen Johnson, American Olympic athlete{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Allen Johnson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78609 |website=www.olympedia.org |access-date=19 February 2021}}
Ma Dong-seok, Korean American actor{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.kr/2016/11/18/story_n_13069352.html|title=마동석-예정화, 3개월째 교제중이다|date=18 November 2016|website=허프포스트코리아|language=ko|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=September 11, 2020|archive-date=September 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914045701/https://www.huffingtonpost.kr/2016/11/18/story_n_13069352.html/|url-status=dead}}
March 2
Method Man, American rapper, record producer, and actor{{Cite web|url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2016/03/happy-birthday-method-man/|title=Happy Birthday, Method Man! - XXL|website=XXL|first=Sidney|last=Madden|date=April 1, 2016|access-date=September 21, 2018}}
Karel Rada, Czech footballer
March 4 – Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
March 5 – Yuri Lowenthal, American actor, producer and screenwriter
March 6 – Val Venis, Canadian professional wrestler
March 7
Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and managerBob Wechsler (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=Tal+Banin+march+7+1971&pg=PA67 Day by Day in Jewish Sports History]
Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
March 9 – Diego Torres, Argentine singer
March 10 – Jon Hamm, American actor, director and producer{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=March 15, 2013|issue=1250|page=23}}
March 11 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor, comedian, and stunt performer{{cite book|title=Film Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhAIAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=W.H. Allen|isbn=978-1-903111-87-1}}
March 16 – Alan Tudyk, American actor{{cite book|author=John Willis|title=Theatre World 1999-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB5lAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=978-1-55783-477-5|page=240}}
March 22 – Karen McDougal, American model and actress
Iben Hjejle, Danish actress
Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, writer, and comedian{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=185}}
March 24 – Victoria Prentis, British politician
March 26 – Rennae Stubbs, Australian tennis player{{cite web |title=Rennae Stubbs |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/190117/name |website=wtatennis.com}}
March 27
David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver{{cite book|title=Formula 1 Yearbook 1998-99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKxfA8fuZVEC|year=1998|publisher=Dempsey Parr|isbn=978-1-84084-388-0|page=24}}
Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eFrAAAAQBAJ|date=4 October 2013|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-183091-1|page=192}}
March 29 – Villem Lüüs, Estonian draughts player and World Draughts Federation master (d. 2020)
March 30 – Mark Consuelos, American actor
March 31
Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player{{Cite web|title = Pavel Bure, NHL.com - Players|url = http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8455738|website = nhl.com|access-date = December 6, 2015|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151121102922/http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8455738|archive-date = November 21, 2015}}
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

=April=

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April 1
Jessica Collins, American actress{{cite book|author1=Nancy E. Rout|author2=Ellen Buckley|title=The Soap Opera Book: Who's Who in Daytime Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzQlimPTTEMC|year=1992|publisher=Todd Publications|isbn=978-0-915344-23-9|page=60}}
Daniel Vacek, Czech tennis player{{cite web |title=Daniel Vacek |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/V141/overview |website=atptour.com}}
April 2
Francisco Arce, Paraguayan footballer
Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player{{cite web|url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/W136/overview|title=Todd Woodbridge Overview|website=ATP|access-date=9 October 2020}}
April 3
Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian/American journalist (d. 2022){{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/shireen-abu-akleh-al-jazeera-journalist-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-in-cold-blood-hlpwgmv73|title=Shireen Abu Akleh: reporter shot dead by sniper as Israel raids refugee camp|first=Anchal|last=Vohra|date=June 5, 2023 |via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}
April 5 – Haifa El Aissami, Venezuelan lawyer{{Cite news |title=Aissami Madah Haifa - Edo. Miranda - Venezuela |website=dateas.com |language=es |url=https://www.dateas.com/es/persona_venezuela/aissami-madah-haifa-10301300 |access-date=17 August 2018}}
Picabo Street, American skier{{cite book|title=Skiing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZDLn5rvnioC&pg=PA134|date=November 1995|pages=134}}
April 7 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008){{cite book|author=Paul Chutkow|title=Depardieu: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukkcAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Knopf|isbn=978-0-679-40943-4|page=191}}
April 8 – Kim Byung-ji, South Korean goalkeeper
April 9 – Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian 1997 Formula 1 world champion, 1995 Indy 500 and series champion.{{cite book|author=Christopher Hilton|title=Jacques Villeneuve: In His Own Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_27Ho16PLLYC|year=1996|publisher=Patrick Stephens|isbn=978-1-85260-557-5|page=13}}
April 10 – Nana Smith, American born-Japanese tennis player{{cite web |title=Nana Smith Rogers |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/130137/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}
April 11
Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
Scott Dianda, American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019
April 12
Shannen Doherty, American actress (d. 2024){{Cite web |last1=McClendon |first1=Pat Saperstein,Lamarco |last2=Saperstein |first2=Pat |last3=McClendon |first3=Lamarco |date=2024-07-14 |title=Shannen Doherty, 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Charmed' Star, Dies at 53 |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/shannen-doherty-beverly-hills-90210-star-dies-53-1236071496/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}
Eyal Golan, Israeli singer
April 14 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (d. 2012)
April 16
Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
Selena, American singer (d. 1995)
Natasha Zvereva, Belarusian tennis player{{cite web |title=Natasha Zvereva |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/260013/name |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}
April 17 – José Francisco Cevallos, Ecuadorian footballer
April 18 – David Tennant, Scottish actor{{cite book|author=Nigel Goodall|title=A Life in Time and Space - The Biography of David Tennant |date=June 10, 2014 |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited | isbn=978-1459681439}}
April 20 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
April 23 – D.B. Weiss, American television producer and writer, and novelist
April 24 – Alejandro Fernández, Mexican singer{{cite magazine|author=Burr, Ramiro|title=Heir Apparent|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xg4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44|date=7 July 2007|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=44}}
April 28
Markus Beyer, German Olympic boxer (d. 2018)
Bridget Moynahan, American actress
April 29
Leonid Kudayev, former Russian professional football player
Darby Stanchfield, American actress
April 30 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

=May=

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May 1 – Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor{{cite news|title=Ajith celebrating his 41st birthday|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/Ajith-celebrating-his-41st-birthday/etarticleshow/12947966.cms|access-date=27 August 2012|date=1 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518165318/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-01/news-interviews/31526182_1_billa-thala-ajith-chakri-toleti|archive-date=18 May 2013|newspaper=The Times of India|url-status=live}}
May 6 – Yolanda Díaz, Spanish politician and lawyer
May 7 – Serhii Gordiienko, Ukrainian boxing trainer
May 10 – Kim Jong-nam, eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (d. 2017)
May 14 – Sofia Coppola, American filmmaker
May 17 – Queen Máxima of the Netherlands{{cite news |title=Orange Is Everywhere As Netherlands Welcomes A New King |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/30/180013890/orange-is-everywhere-as-dutch-welcome-new-king?t=1625576104688 |newspaper=NPR |date = April 30, 2013|access-date=6 July 2021 |language=en|last1 = Memmott|first1 = Mark}}
May 18 – Brad Friedel, American soccer player{{cite web |title=Brad Friedel |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=13615 |website=soccerbase.com}}
May 20 – Tony Stewart, American stock car racing driver and team owner
May 21 – Aditya Chopra, Indian film director, producer and distributor
May 23 – George Osborne, British politician
May 25 – Kristina Orbakaitė, Lithuanian-Russian singer and actress
May 26 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator, writer, producer, and composer{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/05/26/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-May-26-2020/8311589816609/|title= UPI Almanac for Tuesday, May 26, 2020|work= United Press International | date= May 26, 2020|access-date=June 10, 2020 | archive-date= June 11, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200611014223/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/05/26/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-May-26-2020/8311589816609/|url-status=live}}
May 27
Paul Bettany, British actor{{cite book|title=Film Review: Special|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5RZAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Visual Imagination Limited|pages=41–43}}
Lisa Lopes, African-American rapper (TLC) (d. 2002)
May 28
Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Ice dancer
Marco Rubio, American politician{{cite web |title=RUBIO, Marco |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000595 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}
May 30
Idina Menzel, American singer, songwriter and actress
John Ross Bowie, American actor and comedian

=June=

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June 1 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
June 3 – Luigi Di Biagio, Italian footballer
June 4
Joseph Kabila, 4th President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Noah Wyle, American actor
June 5
Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
Mark Wahlberg, American actor, producer, businessman, model and rapper
June 8 – Jeff Douglas, Canadian actor
June 10
Bobby Jindal, American politician
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41788406|title=Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría - Madrid's enforcer for Catalonia|date=27 October 2017|website=BBC World News|access-date=22 September 2020}}
June 12 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler, Olympian
June 16 – Tupac Shakur, African-American rapper and actor (d. 1996){{cite book|author1=Paul Finkelman|title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vy4OAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516779-5|page=301}}
June 17 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
June 18 – Jen Kiggans, American politician and nurse{{cite web |title=KIGGANS, Jennifer |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000399 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}
June 20 – Josh Lucas, American actor
June 21 – Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish, Alyson Avenue)
June 22 – Kurt Warner, American football player{{cite book|author=A. R. Schaefer|title=Kurt Warner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MfLMuO_lWPkC&pg=PA11|date=July 2002|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-0-7368-1295-5|pages=11}}
June 24
Thomas Helveg, Danish footballer
Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor
June 25
Angela Kinsey, American actress
Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer and manager
June 26 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
June 27
King Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001){{cite book|author=Yuba Raj Singh Karki|title=Nepal Almanac: A Book of Facts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBFuAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Y.R.S. Karki|page=28}}
Serginho, Brazilian footballer{{cite web |title=Serginho |url=https://www.eurosport.com/football/serginho_prs179201/person.shtml |website=eurosport.com}}
June 28
Fabien Barthez, French racing driver and football player
Kenny Cunningham, Irish football player
Elon Musk, South African-born, American entrepreneur and investor{{cite web |title=Elon Musk {{!}} Biography, SpaceX, Tesla, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 April 2022 |language=en}}
Aileen Quinn, American actress
June 29 – Nawal El Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
June 30 – Monica Potter, American actress

=July=

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July 1
Julianne Nicholson, American actress
Amira Casar, French actress
Missy Elliott, African-American rapper and singer-songwriter
July 3
Julian Assange, Australian activist{{cite book|author=Chase's Calendar of Events|title=Chases Calendar of Events, 2012 Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MPIyHo-BWPkC|date=15 September 2011|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-176672-2|page=344}}
Benedict Wong, English actor
July 7 – Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, writer and director
July 8
Marc Andreessen, American software developer
Marcel Blaguet Ledjou, Ivorian Chairman of the Africa Scout Committee
Scott Grimes, American actor
John Juanda, Indonesian-American professional poker player
July 11
Brett Hauer, American ice hockey player
Park Hyuk-kwon, South Korean actor
July 12 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
July 13 – MF Doom, British rapper (d. 2020){{Cite web|date=2021-06-22|title=Untangling MF DOOM's Lifelong Struggle With the U.S. Immigration System|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/article/untangling-mf-dooms-lifelong-struggle-with-the-us-immigration-system/|access-date=2022-02-21|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US}}
July 14
Howard Webb, English football referee{{cite web|url=http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/RefereeProfilesDetail/0%2C%2C10794~628215%2C00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417072957/http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/RefereeProfilesDetail/0%2C%2C10794~628215%2C00.html |archive-date=17 April 2008|title=Birthdate and biographical detail|publisher= Football League |access-date=18 March 2007}}
July 16 – Corey Feldman, American actor
July 17
Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist{{Cite web|date=2013-07-17|title=Literary Birthday - 17 July - Cory Doctorow|url=https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-17-july-cory-doctorow/|access-date=2020-10-22|website=Writers Write|language=en-GB|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024062750/https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-17-july-cory-doctorow/|url-status=live}}
Benjamin Herrmann, German film producer and distributor
July 18
Penny Hardaway, American basketball player{{basketballstats|bbr=h/hardaan01}}
Sukhwinder Singh, Indian playback singer
July 19 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician
July 20 – Sandra Oh, Korean actress
July 21 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer-songwriter
July 22 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
July 23
Ahmed Ezz, Egyptian actor
Alison Krauss, American country singer{{cite book|author=Country Music Magazine|title=The Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi_aAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Times Books|page=203|isbn=9780812922479}}
July 26 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
July 28 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi Islamic extremist leader (d. 2019)
July 30 – Mzukisi Sikali, South African triple world champion boxer (d. 2005){{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/africa-travel/south-africa/cape-town/mzukisi-sikali-fvgr65lhzz8|title=Mzukisi Sikali|date=15 October 2005|website=The Times|access-date=22 September 2020}}

=August=

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August 1 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (d. 2008){{cite web|url=https://topnews.in/mexican-presidents-righthand-man-dies-37-crash-284009|title=Mexican president's right-hand man dies at 37 in crash|date=5 November 2008|website=TopNews|access-date=22 September 2020}}
August 4
Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
Yo-Yo, African-American rapper
August 5 – Valdis Dombrovskis, Latvian Prime Minister and European Commissioner{{cite book|author=IBP USA|title=Latvia Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRNjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=3 March 2012|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-4387-7481-7|pages=68}}
August 9 – James Kim, American television personality and technology analyst (d. 2006)
August 10
Fábio Assunção, Brazilian actor
Roy Keane, Irish footballer and manager
Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
Justin Theroux, American actor
August 12
Yvette Nicole Brown, African-American actress and comedian
Michael Ian Black, American actor and comedian
Pete Sampras, American tennis player{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aFyDLBIjJ8C&pg=PA1972|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94858-5|pages=1972}}
August 13
Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
Heike Makatsch, German actress
August 14 – Peter Franzén, Finnish actor{{cite web |title=Peter Franzén - Discogs |website=Discogs |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1967069-Peter-Franz%C3%A9n |access-date=14 August 2021 |language=en}}
August 17 – Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
August 18 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born British electronic musician
August 19 – Mary Joe Fernández, American tennis player{{cite web |title=Mary Joe Fernandez |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/60016/name |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}
August 20
Helen Grace, English actress
Ke Huy Quan, Vietnamese actor
David Walliams, British actor, author and comedian
August 21 – Robert Harvey, Australian rules footballer
August 22
Richard Armitage, English actor
Benoît Violier, French born-Swiss chef (d. 2016)
August 23 – Gretchen Whitmer, American politician and 49th Governor of Michigan{{cite web |title=Gretchen Whitmer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gretchen-Whitmer |website=britannica.com |date=May 22, 2023 |publisher=Britannica}}
August 25 – Ayumi Miyazaki, Japanese singer
August 26 – Thalía, Mexican actress and singer
August 27 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
August 28 – Janet Evans, American swimmer{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/janet-evans|title=Janet Evans - Olympic swimmer|website=olympic.org|access-date=8 September 2020}}
August 29 – Carla Gugino, American actress
August 31
Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
Kinga Preis, Polish actress
Chris Tucker, African-American actor and comedian
Alicia Villarreal, Mexican singer and songwriter

=September=

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September 1
Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
Dave Wittenberg, South African-born American voice actor
September 2
Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier
César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
September 4
Mark Knowles, Bahamian tennis player{{cite news |title=Mark Knowles |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/K171/overview |newspaper=Atp Tour |publisher=Association of Tennis Professionals}}
Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress
September 5 – Kevin McAleenan, American government official, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
September 6 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer (The Cranberries) (d. 2018)
September 7
Shane Mosley, African-American professional boxer
Briana Scurry, American soccer player
September 8
David Arquette, American actor, professional wrestler, film director, producer, screenwriter and fashion designer
Martin Freeman, English actor{{cite web |title=Martin Freeman |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbc3ea006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530033210/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbc3ea006 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 30, 2017 |website=BFI |access-date=8 January 2022 |language=en}}
September 9
Sofía Cid, Chilean politician{{Cite web |title=Honorable Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados |url=https://www.camara.cl/diputados/detalle/biografia.aspx?prmId=1022 |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=www.camara.cl |language=es-CL}}
Henry Thomas, American actor
September 11 – Alessandra Rosaldo, Mexican actress, singer and dancer
September 13
Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player{{cite web |title=Goran Ivanisevic |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/I034/overview |website=atptour.com}}
Stella McCartney, British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney
September 14 – André Matos, Brazilian singer (d. 2019)
September 15 – Josh Charles, American actor
September 16 – Amy Poehler, American actress
September 17
Edílson, Brazilian footballer
Adriana Sklenarikova, Slovak fashion model and actress
Jens Voigt, German cyclist
September 18
Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
Anna Netrebko, Russian operatic soprano
Jada Pinkett Smith, African-American actress, singer, and songwriter
September 19 – Sanaa Lathan, African-American actress{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&q=Sanaa+Lathan++%22september+19%22&pg=PA197|title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television|author= McCann, Bob |access-date=May 5, 2017 |year=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786458042}}
September 20
Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager
Judith Uitermark, Dutch judge and politician
September 21
Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor, television director, dancer and TV presenter
Luke Wilson, American actor
September 23 – Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
September 27 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican artist
September 29
Onyeka Ibe, Nigerian-born American painter{{Cite web|url=http://harbourgallery.com/2017/onyeka-ibe/|title=Onyeka Ibe (1971 –) – Harbour Gallery}}
Sibel Tüzün, Turkish pop/rock/jazz singer
September 30
Jenna Elfman, American actress
Fabiola Zavarce, Venezuelan activist{{Cite web |last=Poderopedia |title=Fabiola Zavarce |url=https://poderopediave.org/persona/fabiola-zavarce/ |access-date=2021-08-08 |website=Poderopedia Venezuela |language=es}}

=October=

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October 1 – Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress and singer{{cite web |title=Gigi Lai Chi |url=https://www.hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=5965&display_set=eng |publisher=Hong Kong Movie Database}}
October 2
Tiffany Darwish, American singer
Jim Root, American guitarist (Slipknot, ex-Stone Sour)
October 3 – Kevin Richardson, American pop singer
October 4 – Ridwan Kamil, Indonesian architect, politician and current governor of West Java
October 6 – Emily Mortimer, English actress and screenwriter
October 7
Yelena Shevchenko, Soviet gymnast
Melinda Schneider, Australian singer and songwriter
October 8 – Mayrín Villanueva, Mexican actress and model
October 10 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist{{cite book|author=Elizabeth A. Schick|title=Current Biography Yearbook: 1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dVs4gz50FEC|date=October 1997|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0938-4|page=264}}
October 11 – Aman Verma, Indian television anchor and actor
October 12 – Đàm Vĩnh Hưng, Vietnamese singer
October 13
Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian and actor
Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
October 14 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
October 15 – Niko Kovač, German-Croatian football player and coach{{cite web |title=General Information about the player Niko Kovač |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/1730/Niko_Kovac.html |website=national-football-teams.com}}
October 17 – Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (d. 2011)
October 18
Yoo Sang-chul, South Korean footballer and manager (d. 2021)
Stavros V. Kyriakides, Cypriot businessman and Cultural Manager
October 20
Snoop Dogg, African-American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, media personality, entrepreneur, and actor
Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
October 21 – Ted Budd, American politician{{cite web |title=BUDD, Theodore Paul |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001305 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}
October 22
Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player{{cite web |title=Amanda Coetzer |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/30037/name |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}
Jennifer Lee, American screenwriter, director, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios
October 23 – Bohuslav Sobotka, 11th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
October 24
Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
Gustavo Jorge, Argentina rugby union player
Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Jamaican track and field athletes
October 25
Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer{{cite web|url=http://www.scmp.com/article/983308/sitting-pretty |title=Sitting pretty |newspaper=South China Morning Post |date=30 October 2011|access-date=2016-07-24}}
Midori Gotō, Japanese violinist{{cite book|author=Irene Earls|title=Young Musicians in World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0X1xlWw29ygC&pg=PA93|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31442-1|pages=93}}
Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
Craig Robinson, African-American actor, comedian and singer
October 26 – Anthony Rapp, American actor and singer
October 29
Chiara Badano, Italian Roman Catholic religious teenager and blessed (d. 1990)
Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
Ma Huateng, Chinese business magnate, founder of TenCent
Winona Ryder, American actress{{cite book|author=Valerie Menard|title=Winona Ryder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgIvzkR8sk4C|date=October 2000|publisher=M. Lane|isbn=978-1-58415-039-8}}

=November=

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November 3 – Unai Emery, Spanish football coach
November 4 – Tabu, Indian actress
Marco Büchel – Swiss-born Liechtenstein retired alpine ski racer
November 5 – Jonny Greenwood, English musician and composer
November 6 – Laura Flessel-Colovic, French fencer and politician{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/laura-flessel-colovic|title=Laura Flessel-Colovic|website=IOC|access-date=17 December 2020}}
November 7 – Rituparna Sengupta, Indian actress
Martin Björk, Swedish television presenter
November 8 – Tech N9ne, American rapper
November 9 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish-born American actress
November 10
Big Pun, American/Latin rapper (d. 2000)
Fahri Hamzah, Indonesian politician{{cite news|title=Fahri Hamzah|url=https://profil.merdeka.com/indonesia/f/fahri-hamzah/|language=id|access-date=31 August 2017|agency=Merdeka}}
Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and movie director
Mario Abdo Benítez, President of Paraguay
November 12
Yasuo Aiuchi, Japanese snowboarder
Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil rights activist
November 13 – Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman, Finnish joik singer
Tommi Ahvala, Finnish motorcyclist
November 14 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
November 15 – Delsa Solórzano, Venezuelan lawyer and politician{{cite web| url = http://www.secretariagrulacuip.org/web/attachments/article/134/D.Solorzano%20Venezuela.pdf#page=4| title = Secretaría del Grupo Geopolítico de América Latina y del Caribe ante la Unión Interparlamentaria: Currículo de Delsa Solórzano}}
November 16
Justine Clarke, Australian actress
Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/alexander-popov|title=Alexander Popov|website=IOC|access-date=February 19, 2021}}
November 18 – Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer
November 20
Dion Nash, New Zealand cricket captain{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/dion-nash-15-facts-about-the-former-new-zealand-skipper-510220|title=15 facts about the former New Zealand skipper|date=November 19, 2017|author=Chinmay Jawalekar|website=Cricket Country|access-date=23 September 2020}}
Joel McHale, Italian-born American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host
November 22 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and activist
November 23 – Chris Hardwick, American actor, comedian, and television host
November 25 – Christina Applegate, American actress
November 27 – Albert Demchenko, Russian luger
Beat Bösch – Swiss Paralympic athlete
November 28 – Fenriz, Norwegian musician
November 30
Jessalyn Gilsig, Canadian actress
Kristi Noem, American politician{{Bioguide|title=NOEM, Kristi|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/N000184}}
Markus Hauser, Swiss musician

=December=

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December 2 – Francesco Toldo, Italian footballer{{cite web |title=Francesco Toldo |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/francesco-toldo/ |website=worldfootball.net}}
December 3 – Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
December 5
Katherine Haringhton, Venezuelan lawyer{{cite web|date=9 March 2015|title=Issuance of a new Venezuela-related Executive Order; Venezuela-related Designations|url=https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20150309.aspx|access-date=2 April 2019|publisher=U.S. Department of the Treasury}}
Kali Rocha, American actress
December 6
Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player{{cite web|url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/K214/overview|title=Richard Krajicek|website=ATP|access-date=8 September 2020}}
Ryan White, American AIDS activist (d. 1990)
Craig Brewer, American film director
December 7
Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
Larisa Alexandrovna, Ukrainian-American feminist
December 11 – Erkan Petekkaya, Turkish actor{{cite web |title=Turkish Actor Erkan Petekkaya — A Striking Biography |url=https://www.doyouknowturkey.com/turkish-actor-erkan-petekkaya-a-striking-biography/ |website=doyouknowturkey.com|date=March 26, 2020 }}
December 12
Sammy Korir, Kenyan long-distance runner
Alireza Mansourian, Iranian footballer
December 13 – Sakis Arnaoutoglou, Greek politician
December 15 – Necati Şaşmaz, Turkish actor{{cite web |title=Necati Şaşmaz a.k.a Polat Alemdar & Murad Alamdar |url=https://www.doyouknowturkey.com/necati-sasmaz-a-k-a-polat-alemdar-murad-alamdar/ |website=doyouknowturkey.com|date=February 4, 2010 }}
December 16
Scott Booth, Scottish footballer
Paul van Dyk, German dance music DJ, musician and record producer{{cite book|last1=Krech|first1=Eva-Maria|last2=Stock|first2=Eberhard|last3=Hirschfeld|first3=Ursula|last4=Anders|first4=Lutz Christian|title=Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch|language=de|year=2009|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-11-018202-6|pages=731 and 810}}
December 17
Alan Khan, South African radio and TV presenter
Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
Artur Petrosyan, Armenian footballer
December 18
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player{{cite web|url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/190008/arantxa-sanchez-vicario|title=Arantxa Sánchez Vicario|website=WTA|access-date=23 September 2020}}
Li Yanxiu, Taiwanese politician
December 19
Amy Locane, American actress
Figen Yüksekdağ, Turkish politician
December 21 – Natalie Grant, American singer and songwriter
December 22 – Khalid Khannouchi, Moroccan long-distance runner
December 23 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
December 24
Giorgos Alkaios, Greek recording artist
Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
December 25
Dido, English singer
Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada{{cite book|author=Arthur Johnson|title=Margaret Trudeau|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9zNLAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=PaperJacks|isbn=978-0-7701-0059-9|page=210}}
December 26 – Jared Leto, American actor and musician (Thirty Seconds to Mars)
December 27 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor (d. 2002)
December 31 – Brent Barry, American basketball player{{cite web|url=https://stats.nba.com/player/699/|title=Brent Barry|website=NBA|access-date=23 September 2020}}

=Date unknown=

Marcela Walerstein, Venezuelan actress.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-30 |title=Marcela Walerstein |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/peliculas-series/personas/marcela-walerstein-1074447 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=La Vanguardia}}

Deaths

=January=

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January 3 – Carlo Braga, Filipino Roman Catholic priest, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1889)[https://www.sdb.org/en/Salesian_Holiness/Servants_of_God/Carlo_Braga Carlo Braga]
January 4 – Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium and clairaudient (b. 1896)[https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/05/archives/rev-arthur-a-ford-dead-at-75-medium-who-aided-bishop-pike.html Rev. Arthur A. Ford Dead at 75; Medium Who Aided Bishop Pike]
January 5 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (b. 1899)
January 10 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883){{cite web |title=Coco Chanel {{!}} Biography, Fashion, Designs, Perfume, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Coco-Chanel |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 February 2021 |language=en}}
January 11 – Hussein Al Oweini, 18th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1900){{cite book|title=MEED.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gthHAAAAYAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Economic East Economic Digest, Limited|page=75}}
January 12 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, British admiral (b. 1885)
January 14 – Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900)
January 15 – John Dall, American actor (b. 1920)
January 17 – Lothar Rendulic, Austrian-born German general (b. 1887)
January 20 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
January 24 – Bill W., co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)"Bill W. of Alcoholics Anonymous Dies", by John W. Stevens, The New York Times, January 26, 1971, p1
January 25 – Hermann Hoth, German general (b. 1885){{cite book |last=Hürter |first=Johannes |author-link=Johannes Hürter |title=Hitlers Heerführer - Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion 1941/42 |trans-title=Hitler's Army Leaders - The German Commanders-in-Chief in the War against the Soviet Union 1941/42 |language=de |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dzoBQAAQBAJ |location=Munich, Germany |publisher=Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-486-58341-0|page=634}}
January 27 – Jacobo Árbenz, 19th President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
January 28 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)

= February =

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February 1 – Raoul Hausmann, Austrian artist (b. 1886){{cite book|author=Patricia Rochard|title=100 Years of Art in Germany: 1885-1985 : Ingelheim Am Rhein, 28 April-30 June 1985|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQHqAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=The City|page=34}}
February 3 – Jay C. Flippen, American actor (b. 1899){{cite book|author=Allan R. Ellenberger|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA215|date=1 May 2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5019-0|pages=215}}
February 4 – Brock Chisholm, Canadian physician, 1st Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1896){{cite news| title = Dr. Brock Chisholm, Former W.H.O. Head, Dies| work = The New York Times| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/05/archives/dr-brock-chisholm-former-who-head-diesi-outspoken-psychiatrist-was.html| date = 5 February 1971| access-date = 19 November 2017}}
February 5 – Mátyás Rákosi, 43rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1892){{cite book|title=Radio Free Europe Research: East Europe. Situation report. Hungary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UcqAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Radio Free Europe|page=15}}
February 6 – Shigeru Fukudome, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
February 12 – James Cash Penney, American businessman, founder of J. C. Penney (b. 1875){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-C-Penney|title=J.C. Penney | American businessman | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=February 8, 2024 }}
February 17 – Adolf A. Berle, American lawyer, educator, author and diplomat (b. 1895)
February 18 – Jaime de Barros Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1894)
February 19 – Ibrahim Mohammad Jahfar, Bruneian politician (b. 1902)
February 25 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
February 26 – Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fernandel Fernandel French actor]

= March =

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March 3 – António Silva, Portuguese actor (b. 1886)
March 7 – Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith), English poet and novelist (b. 1902){{cite book|author=Sanford Sternlicht|title=Stevie Smith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owsOAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6990-6|pages=11–16}}
March 8 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1893)
March 9
Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (b. 1893)
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
March 11
Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
C. D. Broad, English philosopher (b. 1887)
March 12 – David Burns, American actor (b. 1902)
March 16
Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York; American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
March 22 – Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)
March 23 – Basil Dearden, English film director (b. 1911)
March 24 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (b. 1902)

=April=

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April 3 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904){{cite news|title=Mobster|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/30511933/?terms=%22Joseph%2BValachi%22|access-date=October 8, 2016|work=Independent Press-Telegram|location=Long Beach, California|date=April 4, 1971|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217185509/https://www.newspapers.com/image/30511933/?terms=%22Joseph%2BValachi%22|archive-date=February 17, 2017|url-status=live}}
April 6 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882){{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0617.html | work=The New York Times | title=Igor Stravinsky, the Composer, Dead at 88}}
April 12 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895){{cite book|first1=Jagdish |last1=Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra|first2=Helmut |last2=Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg|title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA240|date=28 December 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95178-2|pages=240}}
April 15 – Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian writer and critic (b. 1886){{cite book|title=Books Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzkMAAAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=University of Oklahoma|page=636}}
April 19 – Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895)
April 20 – Cecil Parker, English actor (b. 1897){{cite book|title=The Shavian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEpbAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Shaw Society|page=160}}
April 21
François Duvalier, 32nd President of Haiti (b. 1907)"Duvalier, 64, Dies in Haiti; Son, 19 Is New President", by Homer Bigart, The New York Times, April 23, 1971, p1
Edmund Lowe, American actor (b. 1890)
April 25 – T. V. Soong, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1891)"Soong Choked to Death on Food, Coroner Says", Los Angeles Times, April 27, 1971, p28
April 30 – Albin Stenroos, Finnish athlete (b. 1889)

=May=

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May 1 – Glenda Farrell, American actress (b. 1904)
May 5 – Violet Jessop, Argentine-born British RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1887)[https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/violet-constance-jessop.html Violet Constance Jessop]
May 8 – Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, English-born Rhodesian politician and physician, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1883)
May 11 – Seán Lemass, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1899)
May 12 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (b. 1903)
May 19
Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902){{cite book|author=Ron Padgett|title=World Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins-William Shakespeare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HoHAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80609-9|page=245}}
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete, Olympic champion (1920) (b. 1895)[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/earl-tommy-thomson Earl “Tommy” Thomson]
May 27 – Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (b. 1909)
May 28
Kim Iryeop, Korean writer, journalist, feminist activist, Buddhist nun (b. 1896)
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (b. 1925)
Jean Vilar, French stage actor (b. 1912)
May 30 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (b. 1886)

=June=

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June 1 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
June 4 – György Lukács, Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic (b. 1885){{cite book|author1=Judith Marcus|author2=Zoltan Tarr|title=Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJDEagebvS0C&pg=RA1-PA207|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-2451-4|pages=1}}
June 10 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (b. 1896)
June 15 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
June 18
Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
Libby Holman, American singer and actress (b. 1904)
Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
June 19 – Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer (b. 1880)
June 25 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
June 29
Crew of Soyuz 11:
Georgy Dobrovolsky (b. 1928)
Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
June 30
Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/slessor-kenneth-adolf-11712 Kenneth Adolf Slessor (1901–1971)]

=July=

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July 1
Sir Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine, Trinidadian cricketer (b. 1901)
July 3 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
July 4
Sir Maurice Bowra, British critic and academic (b. 1898){{cite book|author1=Stephen Spender|author2=Irving Kristol|title=Encounter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ikdAQAAMAAJ|date=July 1972|publisher=Encounter Limited|page=11}}
August Derleth, American author and anthologist (b. 1909){{cite book|author=Michael Ashley|title=The History of the Science-fiction Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Awj6AF-BZTcC&pg=PA300|year=2000|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-779-2|pages=300}}
Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
July 6 – Louis Armstrong, African-American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901)
July 7 – Ub Iwerks, American animator (b. 1901)
July 13 – Michel Saint-Denis, French actor, theatre director, drama theorist and radio broadcaster (b. 1897)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michel-Saint-Denis Michel Saint-Denis French director]
July 17 – Cliff Edwards, American actor (b. 1895)
July 19 – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, American-born British businessman (b. 1886)
July 21 – Michael Somogyi, Hungarian-American biochemist (b. 1883)[https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/article-abstract/17/11/1138/5675907?redirectedFrom=PDF Michael Somogyi, Ph.D. 1883-1971 ]
July 23
Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1908)
William Tubman, 19th president of Liberia (b. 1895)
July 24 – Alan Rawsthorne, British Composer (b. 1905)
July 26 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)

=August=

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August 5 – Royal Rife, American inventor (b. 1888)
August 11 – Sir John Cleland, Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (b. 1878)
August 13
W. O. Bentley, English engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1888)[https://www.rolls-royceandbentley.co.uk/w-o-bentley-the-founder-of-bentley.html W. O. Bentley – The Founder of Bentley]
King Curtis, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
August 15 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born American actor (b. 1894)
August 17 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
August 21 – George Jackson, American author (b. 1941)
August 24 – Carl Blegen, American archaeologist (b. 1887)
August 25 – Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
August 27
Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer (b. 1904)
Bennett Cerf, American publisher (b. 1898)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bennett-Cerf Bennett Cerf American publisher and editor]
August 28 – Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, British judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II (b. 1880)

=September=

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September 7 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
September 8 – Emmett Toppino, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
September 10 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
September 11
Bella Darvi, Polish actress (b. 1928)
Percy Helton, American actor (b. 1894)[https://hometownstohollywood.com/2022/05/01/percy-helton/ Percy Helton]
Joe Jordan, American ragtime composer (b. 1882){{Cite web|url=http://ragpiano.com/comps/jjordan.shtml|title=Joseph Zachariah Taylor Jordan|website=RagPiano.com}}
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (b. 1894)
September 13 – Lin Biao, Chinese defense minister (b. 1907)
September 14 – Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Bangladeshi novelist (b. 1898)
September 19 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (b. 1891)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-F-Albright W.F. Albright American biblical archaeologist]
September 20 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
September 21 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
September 23
James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1886)

=October=

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October 3 – Leah Baird, American actress (b. 1883)
October 10 – Sir Cyril Burt, British educational psychologist (b. 1883)
October 11 – Chester Conklin, American actor (b. 1886)
October 12
Dean Acheson, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
Gene Vincent, American singer (b. 1935)
October 15 – Robert Accard (b. 1897)
October 17 – Sergey Kavtaradze, Soviet politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
October 19 – Betty Bronson, American actress (b. 1906)
October 21
Raymond Hatton, American actor (b. 1887)
Naoya Shiga, Japanese writer (b. 1883)
October 24 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
October 29
Duane Allman, American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band (b. 1946)
Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

=November=

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November 1 – Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer of novels, poems and essays (b. 1876){{cite book|author1=Katharina M. Wilson|author2=M. Wilson|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA459|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=459}}
November 2 – Martha Vickers, American actress (b. 1925)
November 4
Ann Pennington, American actress and dancer (b. 1893)[http://www.dvrbs.com/people/camdenpeople-annpennington.htm Ann Pennington]
Guillermo León Valencia, 21st President of Colombia (b. 1909)
November 9 – Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (b. 1883)
November 10 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist (b. 1909){{cite book|author=Lawrence L. Lee|title=Walter Van Tilburg Clark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HohAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Boise State College|isbn=978-0-88430-007-6|pages=13–16}}
November 11 – A. P. Herbert, English humorist, novelist and politician (b. 1890){{cite book|author1=Stanley Weintraub|title=Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCdaAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-0937-1|page=231}}
November 14 – Hanna Neumann, German mathematician (b. 1914)
November 16 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
November 17 – Dame Gladys Cooper, British actress (b. 1888)
November 22 – József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1924)
November 23 – Ryūnosuke Kusaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1893)
November 25 – Hank Mann, American comedic actor (b. 1887)
November 26 – James Alberione, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1884)
November 28
Wasfi Tal, three-time prime minister of Jordan (b. 1919)
Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, 1st Premier of Barbados (b. 1898)
November 29 – Edith Tolkien, English wife of, and inspiration for, J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1889)[https://www.councilofelrond.com/tolkienbiography/edith-tolkien/ Edith Tolkien]
November 30 – Ilie Crețulescu, Romanian general (b. 1889)[https://generals.dk/general/Creţulescu/I._Ilie/Romania.html Creţulescu, I. Ilie]

=December=

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December 2 – Sir Derwent Hall Caine, English actor (b. 1891)
December 5 – John Langdon-Davies, British writer (b. 1897)[https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/langdon-davies_john Langdon-Davies, John]
December 6 – Mathilde Kschessinska, Russian ballerina (b. 1872)
December 9 – Ralph Bunche, African-American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
December 10 – Gotthard Heinrici, German general (b. 1886)
December 12
Alan Morton, Scottish footballer (b. 1893)
David Sarnoff, American radio and television pioneer (b. 1891)
December 15 – Paul Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
December 16 - Arun Khetarpal, Indian Military Officer
December 18
Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
December 20 – Roy O. Disney, American studio executive (b. 1893)
December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b. 1913)
December 24 – Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (b. 1924)
December 26 – Robert Lowery, American actor (b. 1913)
December 28 – Max Steiner, Austrian-born film composer (b. 1888){{cite book|author=Eleonore Lappin|title=Jews and Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spkbAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Mandelbaum|isbn=978-3-85476-127-3|page=24}}
December 29 – John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1899)[https://www.oyez.org/justices/john_m_harlan2?_escaped_fragment John M. Harlan II]
December 30
Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (b. 1914)
Dorothy Comingore, American actress (b. 1913)
December 31
Pete Duel, American actor (b. 1940)
Marin Sais, American film actress (b. 1890)[https://www.marinij.com/2022/02/07/marin-history-actress-marin-sais-rise-to-fame/ Marin history: Actress Marin Sais’ rise to fame]

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Olivér Pittner, Hungarian painter (b. 1911){{cite web |title=Pittner Olivér festőművész kiállítása az Erdélyi Művészeti Központban |url=https://www.sepsiszentgyorgy.info/rendezvenyek/5233-pittner-oliver-festomuvesz-kiallitasa-az-erdelyi-muveszeti-koezpontban.html |website=sepsiszentgyorgy.info |date=May 22, 2023 |access-date=2 September 2023 |language=Hungarian}}

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