1973
1973 (
MCMLXXIII) was a
common year starting on Monday.
January
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Pro-life activists in 2004 against the Roe v. Wade decision in Washington, DC stage a silent demonstration before the Supreme Court. |
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January 1 -
United Kingdom,
Ireland, and
Denmark enter the
European Economic Community, which later became the
European Union.
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January 3 -
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the
New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by
George Steinbrenner.
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January 14 -
Elvis Presley does a
concert in
Hawaii for over a billion people live worldwide.
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January 15 -
Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations,
President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in
North Vietnam.
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January 17 -
Ferdinand Marcos becomes
President for Life of the
Philippines.
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January 20 - U.S. President
Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.
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January 21 - The
Communist League is founded in
Denmark.
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January 22 - The
U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of
Roe v. Wade, overturns state bans on abortion.
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January 22 -
George Foreman breaks
Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world
boxing champion status.
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January 22 -
Alia Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from
Jeddah crashes in
Kano,
Nigeria - 176 dead. [
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January 23 - The eruption of
Eldfell on the
Icelandic island of
Heimaey begins.
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January 23 -
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in
Vietnam.
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January 25 -
Derren Nesbitt convicted of assaulting
Anne Aubrey.
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January 27 - U.S. involvement in
Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts. See
Paris Peace Accords.
February
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February 11 -
Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from
Vietnam takes place.
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February 12 -
Ohio becomes the first
U.S. state to post distance in on signs. (See:
Metric system in the United States)
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February 21 - Over the
Sinai Desert,
Israeli
fighter aircraft shoot down a
Libyan Arab Airlines jet killing 100.
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February 22 -
Sino-American relations: Following President
Richard Nixon's
visit to
mainland China, the
United States and the
People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
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February 27 - The
American Indian Movement occupies
Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
March
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March 1 - The
New York Joffrey Ballet's
Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by
The Beach Boys.
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March 7 -
Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
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March 8 -
IRA bombs explode in
Whitehall and the
Old Bailey.
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March 17 - Queen
Elizabeth II opens the modern
London Bridge.
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March 23 -
Watergate scandal: - In a letter to
Judge John Sirica,
Watergate burglar
James W. McCord Jr. admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case. He names
Attorney General John Mitchell as 'overall boss' of the operation.
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March 24 -
Pink Floyd released "
The Dark Side of the Moon".
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March 29 - The last
United States soldiers leave
Vietnam.
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March 31 -
Paramount's Carowinds opens for the first time.
April
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April 2 - Launch of
LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
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April 4 -
World Trade Center officially opens in New York with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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April 6 - Launch of
Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
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April 10 - Israeli commando raid on Beirut, in which three leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement were assassinated. The army's inaction brought the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam, a Sunni Muslim leader from Beirut.
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April 17 -
German counter-terrorist force
GSG 9 formed officially
May
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May 3 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
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May 5 -
Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of
Mount Everest.
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May 5 -
Sunderland AFC defeated
Leeds United AFC in the
FA Cup final
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May 8 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the
American Indian Movement who were occupying the
Pine Ridge Reservation at
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
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May 10 -
Polisario Front formed.
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May 14 -
Skylab, the
United States' first
space station, is launched.
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May 17 -
Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the
United States Senate.
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May 22 - The
Ethernet has been invented by
Robert Metcalfe.
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May 27 - By the virtue of non-retroactiveness of the
copyright laws of the USSR, all works published before this date are
public domain. This applies worldwide.
June
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June 1 -
Greek military junta abolishes the
monarchy and proclaims a
republic.
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June 3 -
Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show - 15 dead.
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June 4 -
patent for the
ATM granted to
Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
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June 9 -
Secretariat wins the
Belmont Stakes becoming the first
Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
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June 10 - Grandson of
J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in
Rome.
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June 20 -
Ezeiza massacre in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Snipers shoot on the left-wing peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
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June 22 -
William Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") retires from the
FBI.
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June 23 - A fire at a house in
Hull,
England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist
Peter Dinsdale.
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June 25 -
Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth
President of Ireland.
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June 26 - On
Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
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June 30 - Very long total
solar eclipse. During the entire 2nd millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.
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June 30 -
MSG Network first televises
WWWF event. this would last nearly 23 years, and has returned in
2006July
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July 1 - United States
Drug Enforcement Administration founded.
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July 2 -
Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating
Special Education federally.
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July 2 - US television program
Match Game begins its
1970s run
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July 5 -
Isle of Man begins to issue its own
postage stamps.
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July 5 - Catastrophic
BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in
Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as
propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
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July 10 - The
Bahamas gain full independence within the
Commonwealth of Nations.
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July 12 - A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the
National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The disaster comes to be known as the
1973 National Archives Fire.
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July 16 -
Watergate Scandal: Former
White House aide
Alexander Butterfield informs the
United States Senate committee investigating the scandal that President
Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
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July 20 -
France resumes nuclear bomb tests in
Mururoa Atoll over protestations of
Australia and
New Zealand.
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July 25 -
Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
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July 28 -
Watkins Glen Summer Jam, a massive rock festival featuring
The Grateful Dead,
The Allman Brothers Band and
The Band attracts over 600,000 music fans.
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July 29 -
Formula One racing driver
Roger Williamson dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the
Dutch Grand Prix.
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July 30 - An 11-year legal action for the victims of
Thalidomide ends.
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July 31 - Militant protesters of
Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the
Northern Ireland Assembly*
July 31 - A Delta Air Lines DC9-31 aircraft landed short of Boston's
Logan Airport runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) the right of the runway centerline and about 3000 feet (914 m)short. All six crew members and 83 passengers were killed, one of the passengers died several months later after the accident.
August
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August 2 - Flash fire kills 51 at the
Summerland amusement centre at
Douglas, Isle of Man.
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August 5 -
Black September members open fire at
Athens airport - 3 dead, 55 injured.
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August 8 -
1973 Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung*
August 13 - "
Houston Mass Murders" occur. 27 boys are killed by 3 men.
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August 13 - The film of
Jesus Christ Superstar is released.
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August 15 - The U.S. bombing of
Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast
Asia.
September
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September 8 -
Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first
Star Trek spin-off, premieres on the
NBC television network.
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September 11 -
Chile's democratically-elected
government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President
Salvador Allende dies, and General
Augusto Pinochet heads a
military junta that will govern Chile for the next 16 years.
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September 15 - Sweden's king
Gustav VI Adolf dies. His grandson,
Carl XVI Gustav becomes king.
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September 18 - The two German Republics, the
BRD and the
DDR, are
admitted to the United Nations.
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September 20 - Billed as
The Battle of the Sexes,
Billie Jean King defeats
Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
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September 20 - American folk singer
Jim Croce dies in a plane crash.
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September 22 -
Henry Kissinger,
United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as
Secretary of State.
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September 28 -
ITT was bombed in
New York City as a protest of their involvement with the Coup in
Chile.
October
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October 6 -
Yom Kippur War - Fourth and largest
Arab-
Israeli conflict begins as
Egyptian and
Syrian forces attack
Israel as
Jews mark
Yom Kippur.
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October 10 -
Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president of the
United States and then, in federal court in
Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of
income taxes on $29,500 he received in
1967 while he was governor of
Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
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October 17 - Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which gave support to Israel, triggerring the
1973 energy crisis.
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October 20 - The
Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President
Richard Nixon orders Attorney General
Elliot Richardson to dismiss
Watergate Special Prosecutor
Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General
William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General
Robert Bork, third in line at the
Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event heightens calls for Nixon's impeachment.
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October 20 -
Sydney Opera House is opened by
Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.
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October 26 -
Yom Kippur War ends.
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October 27 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4
kg chondrite type
meteorite struck earth in
Fremont County, Colorado.
November
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November 1:
Watergate scandal, acting Attorney General
Robert Bork appointed
Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
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November 3 -
Mariner program:
NASA launches the
Mariner 10 toward
Mercury (on
March 29, 1974 it became the first
space probe to reach that planet).
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November 7 - The
U.S. Congress overrides President
Richard M. Nixon's veto of the
War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage
war without congressional approval.
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November 11 -
Egypt and
Israel sign a
United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
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November 14 - In the
United Kingdom,
Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain
Mark Phillips, in
Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).
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November 16 -
Skylab program:
NASA launches
Skylab 4 with a crew of three
astronauts from
Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
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November 16 - US President
Richard Nixon signs the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the
Alaska Pipeline.
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November 17 -
Watergate scandal: In
Orlando, Florida, US President
Richard Nixon tells 400
Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
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November 17 - Student uprising against the military
regime in
Athens,
Greece.
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November 21 -
President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18-and-a-half-minute gap in one of the
White House tape recordings related to
Watergate.
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November 25 -
Greek Dictator
George Papadopoulos is ousted in military
coup led by Lieutenant General
Phaidon Gizikis.
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November 27 - The
United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm
Gerald Ford as
Vice President of the United States.
December
* December -
Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with
Sweden.
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December 1 -
Papua New Guinea gains self government from
Australia.
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December 3 -
Pioneer program:
Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of
Jupiter.
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December 6 - The
United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm
Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. He is sworn in the same day.
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December 15 -
Gay rights: The
American Psychiatric Association removes
homosexuality from its
DSM-II.
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December 23 - The
OPEC doubles the price of
crude oil.
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December 28 - The
Endangered Species Act is passed.
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December 30 - Terrorist
Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman
Joseph Sieff.
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December 31 - In the
UK, as a result of high coal and oil prices, the
Three-Day Week officially comes into force.
Unknown dates
* The
National House Building Council was formed in the
United Kingdom.
* The
COSC The Swiss Official
Chronometer testing Institute was founded in
Switzerland by 5
Watch Cantons &
FH, Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry.
* Title
Queen of Australia created
Fictional events
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December 6 - Susie Salmon murdered, in
Alice Sebold's
The Lovely Bones.
* The central character in the
BBC series
Life on Mars travelled through time to 1973 from
2006.
January
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January 1 -
Danny Lloyd, American actor
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January 8 -
Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
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January 11 -
Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
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January 13 -
Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player
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January 14 -
Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
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January 15 -
Tomás Galásek, Czech football player
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January 16 -
Josie Davis, American actress
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January 17 -
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican football player
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January 18 -
Crispian Mills, British musician (
The Jeevas and
Kula Shaker)
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January 19 -
Karen Lancaume, French actress (d.
2005)
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January 29 -
Jason Schmidt, baseball player
February
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February 1 -
Nick Mitchell, American wrestler.
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February 4 -
Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer
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February 8 -
Sonia Deol, Presenter
Network East,
BBC Asian Network & programme narrator
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February 9 -
Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
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February 11 -
Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician (
Burzum)
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February 14 -
Steve McNair, American football player
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February 15 -
Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
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February 16 -
Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
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February 20 -
Kimberley Davies, Australian actress
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February 22 -
Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player
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February 22 -
Gustavo Assis-Brasil, Brazilian guitarist
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February 24 -
Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
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February 26 -
Marshall Faulk, American football player
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February 26 -
Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
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February 28 -
Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player
March-April
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March 1 -
Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (
Nickelback)
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March 9 -
Aaron Boone, baseball player
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March 13 -
Edgar Davids, Dutch football player
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March 17 -
Caroline Corr, Irish musician (
The Corrs)
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March 19 -
Magnus Hedman, Ex. Swedish Footballplayer
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March 22 -
Eriko Kurosaki, Japanese nailist
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March 23 -
Jason Kidd, American basketball player
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March 24 -
Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
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March 29 -
Marc Overmars, Dutch football player
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March 30 -
Adam Goldstein, American DJ
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March 30 -
Paul Wall, American Rapper, promoter, DJ and Jeweler
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April 1 -
Stephen Fleming,
New Zealand cricket captains*
April 2 -
Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
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April 3 -
Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
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April 4 -
David Blaine, American magician
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April 5 -
Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (
The Neptunes)
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April 6 -
Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and singer
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April 10 -
Roberto Carlos, Brazilian football player
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April 11 -
Jennifer Esposito, American actress
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April 16 -
Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
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April 24 -
Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
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April 25 -
Fredrik Larzon, Swedish musician (
Millencolin)
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April 28 -
Elisabeth Röhm, American actress
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April 30 -
Jeff Timmons, American singer
May
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May 1 -
Oliver Neuville, German football player
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May 3 -
Michael Reiziger, Dutch football player
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May 7 -
Paolo Savoldelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
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May 10 -
Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
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May 12 -
Forbes March, American actor
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May 14 -
Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer (
All Saints)
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May 16 -
Tori Spelling, American actress
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May 24 -
Dermot O'Leary, British TV Star
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May 30 -
Leigh Francis, British comedian
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May 31 -
Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player
June
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June 1 -
Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
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June 1 -
Heidi Klum, German model
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June 1 -
Derek Lowe, baseball player
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June 8 -
Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
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June 9 -
Tedy Bruschi, American football player
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June 9 -
Iain Lee, British comedian and radio and television presenter
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June 10 -
Faith Evans, American singer
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June 12 -
Darryl White, Australian footballer
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June 13 -
Sam Adams, American football player
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June 15 -
Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
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June 19 -
Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
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June 21 -
Juliette Lewis, American actress
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June 22 -
Carson Daly, American talk show host
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June 24 -
Alexander Beyer, German actor
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June 24 -
Claude Chabrol, French movie director
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June 26 -
Gretchen Wilson, American singer
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June 28 -
Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
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June 30 -
Chan Ho Park, Korean
Major League Baseball player
July
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July 9 -
Kelly Holcomb, American football player
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July 11 -
Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
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July 15 -
John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (
System of a Down)
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July 16 -
Stefano Garzelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
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July 17 -
Eric Moulds, American football player
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July 20 -
Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player
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July 20 -
Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway*
July 23 -
Nomar Garciaparra, baseball star
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July 23 -
Fran Healy, British singer (
Travis)
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July 23 -
Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
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July 23 -
David Mitchell, British comedian
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July 25 -
Dani Filth, Israeli- born musician (
Cradle of Filth)
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July 26 -
Kate Beckinsale, English actress
August-September
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August 1 -
Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
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August 6 -
Asia Carrera, American actress
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August 8 -
Scott Stapp, American singer (
Creed)
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August 12 -
Richard Reid, English terrorist
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August 14 -
Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
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August 16 -
Damian Jackson, baseball player
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August 19 -
Mette-Marit Tjessem-Høiby, Crown Princess of Norway
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August 20 -
Todd Helton, baseball player
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August 22 -
Howie Dorough, American singer, member of
Backstreet Boys*
August 24 -
Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
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September 4 -
Jason David Frank, American actor
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September 5 -
Rose McGowan, American actress
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September 7 -
Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
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September 12 -
Darren Campbell, British athlete
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September 13 -
Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
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September 14 -
Nas, American rapper
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September 17 -
Anastacia, American female singer
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September 18 -
Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
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September 18 -
Ami Onuki, Famous Japanese singer, part of Puffy Amiyumi
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September 19 -
José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist
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September 22 -
Craig McRae, Australian footballer
October
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October 2 -
Proof, American rapper (d.
2006)
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October 2 -
MK Gandhi, Father of India
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October 3 -
Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
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October 5 -
Annabelle Chvostek, Canadian singer/songwriter
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October 10 -
Mario López, American actor
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October 11 -
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chinese/Japanese actor
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October 13 -
Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
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October 21 -
Beverely Turner, British TV and radio presenter
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October 22 -
Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
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October 24 -
Levi Leipheimer, American professional cyclist
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October 26 -
Seth MacFarlane, American voice actor
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October 29 -
Robert Pires, French football player
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October 30 -
Silvia Corzo, Colombian newsreader
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October 30 -
Adam Copeland, Canadian professional wrestler, 2 Time WWE Champ
November
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November 1 -
Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
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November 5 -
Johnny Damon, baseball player
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November 7 -
Ryan J. Downey, Musician/ TV Reporter
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November 9 -
Nick Lachey, American singer
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November 12 -
Martin M. Weiss, American author
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November 14 -
Lawyer Milloy, American football player
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November 14 -
Dana Snyder, American voice actor
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November 26 -
Peter Facinelli, American actor
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November 28 -
Jade Puget, American guitarist (
AFI)
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November 28 -
Rob Conway, American Profesional Wrestler
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November 29 -
Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
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November 29 -
Raphael Smith, South African screenwriter and songwriter
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November 30 -
Christian Cage, Canadian professional wrestler, Former NWA Champ
December
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December 2 -
Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
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December 2 -
Jan Ullrich, German professional road bicycle racer
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December 3 -
Holly Marie Combs, American actress
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December 4 -
Steven Menzies, Australian
rugby league player
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December 7 -
Terrell Owens, American football star
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December 14 -
Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (d.
2001)
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December 15 -
Surya Bonaly, French figure skater
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December 16 -
Scott Storch, American hip-hop producer
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December 17 -
Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
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December 29 -
Theo Epstein, baseball general manager
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December 30 -
Jason Behr, American actor
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December 30 -
Ato Boldon, West Indian athlete
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December 31 -
Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Russian dancer
January-March
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January 19 -
Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b.
1903)
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January 22 -
Lyndon Johnson,
President of the United States (b.
1908)
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January 23 -
Kid Ory, American musician (b.
1886)
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January 24 -
J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b.
1897)
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January 26 -
Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b.
1893)
*
January 31 -
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1895)
*
February 11 -
Hans D Jensen, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1907)
*
February 15 -
Wally Cox, American actor (b.
1924)
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February 19 -
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b.
1892)
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February 23 -
Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1895)
*
March 6 -
Pearl S. Buck, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1892)
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March 8 -
Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (
Grateful Dead) (b.
1945)
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March 14 -
Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b.
1907)
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March 14 -
Chic Young, American cartoonist (b.
1901)
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March 26 -
Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b.
1899)
April-July
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April 8 -
Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b.
1881)
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April 16 -
Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b.
1929)
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April 19 -
Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b.
1881)
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April 21 -
Arthur Fadden, thirteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1894)
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April 26 -
Irene Ryan, American actress (b.
1902)
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May 2 -
Alan Carney, American actor and comedian (b.
1909)
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May 11 -
Lex Barker, American actor (b.
1919)
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May 14 -
Jean Gebser, German author, linguist, and poet (b.
1905)
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May 18 -
Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b.
1880)
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June 18 -
Roger Delgado, English actor (b.
1918)
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July 2 -
Swede Savage, American race car driver (b.
1946)
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July 6 -
Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (b.
1885)
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July 7 -
Veronica Lake, American actress (b.
1922)
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July 8 -
Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b.
1877)
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July 20 -
Bruce Lee, American martial artist and actor (b.
1940)
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July 29 -
Roger Williamson, British race car driver (b.
1948)
August-October
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August 1 -
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b.
1882)
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August 6 -
Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator (b.
1901)
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August 11 -
Karl Ziegler, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1898)
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August 12 -
Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1881)
*
August 16 -
Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1888)
*
August 17 -
Conrad Aiken, American writer (b.
1889)
*
August 17 -
Jean Barraqué, French composer (b.
1928)
*
August 17 -
Paul Williams, American singer (The
Temptations) (b.
1939)
*
August 31 -
John Ford, American film director (b.
1895)
*
September 2 -
J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b.
1892)
*
September 11 -
Salvador Allende,
President of Chile (b.
1908)
*
September 19 -
Gram Parsons, American musician (b.
1946)
*
September 20 -
Jim Croce, American songwriter (b.
1943)
*
September 23 -
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1904)
*
September 29 -
W. H. Auden, English poet (b.
1907)
*
October 2 -
Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b.
1897)
*
October 10 -
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist (b.
1881)
*
October 17 -
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b.
1926)
*
October 22 -
Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b.
1876)
November-December
*
November 11 -
David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b.
1915)
*
November 11 -
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1895)
*
November 27 -
Frank Christian, American musician (b.
1887)
*
December 1 -
David Ben-Gurion,
Prime Minister of Israel (b.
1886)
*
December 3 -
Emile Christian, American musician (b.
1895)
*
December 20 -
Bobby Darin, American singer (b.
1936)
*
December 20 -
Luis Carrero Blanco, first minister of
Spain (assassinated) (b.
1907)
*
December 25 -
Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b.
1880)
*
December 26 -
Harold B. Lee, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1899)
Unknown date
*
Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (b.
1875)
*
Physics -
Leo Esaki,
Ivar Giaever,
Brian David Josephson*
Chemistry -
Ernst Otto Fischer,
Geoffrey Wilkinson*
Medicine -
Karl von Frisch,
Konrad Lorenz,
Nikolaas Tinbergen*
Literature -
Patrick White*
Peace -
Henry A. Kissinger,
Le Duc Tho *
Economics -
Wassily Leontief*
Mother Teresa*
1973 Coin Pictures
