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Events
January
- January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- January 17 – 49 marines from the Template:USS and Template:USS are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- January 18
- Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
- Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- January 20 - Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States after defeating Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
- January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh elections to the Lok Sabha, and releases all political prisoners.
- January 24 – The Massacre of Atocha occurs, during the Spanish transition to democracy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
February
- February 2 – The Congress Party of India, led by Indira Gandhi, splits with Jagjivan Ram and other senior leaders, forming Congress for Democracy. This party later merges with the Janata Party.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- February 3 – In northern Japan a blizzard piles snow on rooftops, causing many to collapse killing at least 31 people.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- February 4 – Eleven CTA commuters are killed when an elevated train derails from the Loop in central Chicago, United States.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.
- February 18
- American Space Shuttle program: First test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise mated to the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignites wreaths to the late Mao Zedong, killing 694 people, mostly children. It remains the deadliest fire in China.<ref name="1995a">Template:Cite journal</ref>
- February 23 – Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, becomes Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- February 28 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the New Zealand Parliament in person, after Parliament is summoned for a special short session to allow her to deliver the Speech from the Throne.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
March
- March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills over 1,500 people.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 8 – The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II in her capacity as Queen of Australia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 9 – Hanafi Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking 149 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- March 19 – Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance.<ref>M.R. Masani, "India's Second Revolution," Asian Affairs (1977) 5#1 pp 19–38.</ref>
- March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which was implemented on June 25, 1975.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.
April
- April 2 – Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in the UK.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 4 – Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes on a highway in New Hope, Georgia, United States, killing 72 people.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 7 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.
- April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939.
- April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
- April 17 – Belgian prime minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections.
- April 18 – An annular solar eclipse was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 138.
- April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone kills 13 people and injures about 100 others.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.
- April 30 – The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
May
- May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
- May 12 – Portugal and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
- May 14 – An IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia, kills all six on board.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 17 – The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel.
- May 23
- Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin via gene splicing.
- Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. The children are released on May 26.<ref>"All 106 Dutch Children Freed by Terrorists", Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1977, p. I-1</ref> On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed.
- May 27
- The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, United States, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.
- May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.
June
- June 5 – A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles.
- June 15 – Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years of Francoist Spain.
- June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence).
- June 25 – The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators.
- June 27
- Djibouti receives its independence from France.
- Constitution for the Federation of Earth is adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- June 30 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded.
July
- July 1
- The East African Community is dissolved.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- The Championships, Wimbledon (tennis) – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon.
- July 5 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- July 9 – The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas,<ref name="mercurio">Template:Cite web</ref> a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.<ref name=Yanko2015>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- July 10 – A temperature of Template:Convert, a record for continental Europe, is recorded in Greece.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- July 13
- Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethio-Somali War.
- New York City is affected by a complete electricity blackout lasting through the following day that results in citywide looting and other criminal activity, including arson.
- July 21–24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins.
- July 21 – Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey (41st government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front (Template:Langx)).
- July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power nine months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.
- July 27 – The Soviet Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918. Yeltsin later refers to this as a barbarian act.Template:Citation needed
- July 30 – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar assassinate Jürgen Ponto,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.
August
- August 4 – U.S. president Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- August 9 – The military-controlled government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a president and Congress.
- August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
- August 15
- The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
- Nazi war criminal Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- August 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec passes the Charter of the French Language (Law 101, La charte de la langue française) making French the official language of the Canadian province of Quebec.
September
- September 4 – The Golden Dragon massacre, involving rival Chinatown gangs, takes place in San Francisco, United States. Five are killed.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- September 5
- Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.
- September 7 – Torrijos-Carter treaties: Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
- September 8 – Interpol issues a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs.
- September 10 – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is the last person executed by guillotine in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.
- September 15 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic, as an Italian company in Turin, Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT) begins operation of two telephone exchanges.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- September 18 – Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island.
- September 19
- Under pressure from the Carter Administration, President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.
- North Korean agents abduct Yutaka Kume from Noto Peninsula starting the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.
- September 20 – The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.
- September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.
October
- October 1 – Energy Research and Development Administration combines with the Federal Energy Administration to form United States Department of Energy.
- October 7
- The Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution. The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.
- Pelé plays his final professional football game, as a member of the New York Cosmos.
- October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members.
- October 17–18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die.
- October 18 – German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on October 27.
- October 19 – German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France.
- October 20 – Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.
- October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
- October 23 – The president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returns to Barcelona from exile and the autonomous government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, is restored.
- October 26
- The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.
- Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise, over California.
- October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the UK Album Charts at number one the week after its release.
- October 28 – Hong Kong police attack the ICAC headquarters.
November
- November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.
- November 2 – The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.
- November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, United States, fails, killing 39 people.
- November 8
- Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
- San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.
- November 9 – Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided.
- November 19
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.
- November 22
- British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.<ref>"TCP/IP", LivingInternet, 2008, webpage: LivingI-tcpip Template:Webarchive.</ref> See Packet Radio Van
- November 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December
- December – The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP) is implemented.
- December 4
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself emperor.
- Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.
- December 6 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
- December 10 – 1977 Australian federal election: Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/National Country Coalition government is re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Consequently, Whitlam resigns as ALP leader after holding the job for nearly 11 years; he is replaced by former treasurer Bill Hayden.
- December 13 – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the University of Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff from Evansville Regional Airport; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.
- December 18 – SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730, an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport (Madeira), hits the sea during a landing attempt. Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore.
- December 19 – The Template:M 5.9 Bob–Tangol earthquake rocks Iran, killing at least 584 people and injuring 1,000.<ref name=ngdc>Template:Citation</ref>
- December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
- December 22 – A grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana, United States, killing 36 people.
Births
January
- January 1 – Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- January 3 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- January 4 – Irán Castillo, Mexican actress and singer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- January 11
- Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Devin Ratray, American actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- January 13 – Orlando Bloom, British actor<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- January 14 – Narain Karthikeyan, Indian Formula One driver<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- January 15 – Giorgia Meloni, Italian politician
- January 17 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor and writer
- January 21 – Jerry Trainor, American actor, comedian and musician
- January 22 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer<ref>Template:FIFA player</ref>
- January 25 – Hatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer
- January 26 – Vince Carter, American basketball player
- January 28 – Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver
- January 31
- Bobby Moynihan, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
- Kerry Washington, African-American actress<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
February
- February 2 – Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and musician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- February 5 – Ben Ainslie, British sailor
- February 7 – Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman
- February 11 – Mike Shinoda, American musician, singer and rapper<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- February 18
- Ike Barinholtz, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
- László Nemes, Hungarian film director and screenwriter
- Elke Slagt-Tichelman, Dutch politician
- February 19 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
- February 20
- Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
- Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler and actress
- February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer, American author
- February 23 – Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
- February 24 – Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxing champion
- February 25 – Hakan Yakin, Turkish football player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- February 26
- Olsi Baze, columnist, writer and human rights activist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- February 28
- Jason Aldean, American country music singer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Rafael Amaya, Mexican model, singer, and actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
March
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- March 1 – Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
- March 2 – Chris Martin, British rock musician<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>
- March 3 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer
- March 4 – Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete and politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 6
- Paquillo Fernández, Spanish race walker
- Santino Marella, Canadian professional wrestler
- March 7
- Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
- March 9
- Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
- Shannon Miller, American gymnast
- March 10 – Robin Thicke, American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 11 – Becky Hammon, American basketball player
- March 14
- Matthew Booth, South African footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)<ref>Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref>
- Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer
- March 15 – Brian Tee, Japanese American actor
- March 16 – Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer
- March 18
- Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
- Willy Sagnol, French football player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 19 – Robert Lindstedt, Swedish tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 24 – Jessica Chastain, American actress<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- March 25 – Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
- March 28 – Annie Wersching, American actress (d. 2023)
April
- April 1 – Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 2
- Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor
- Nicki Pedersen, Danish speedway rider<ref>Oakes, P.(2006). Speedway Star Almanac. Template:ISBN</ref>
- April 5
- Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Daniel Majstorović, Swedish soccer player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 9 – Gerard Way, American musician and comic book writer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 10 – Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 12
- Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier
- Gemma Mengual, Spanish synchronised swimmer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- April 14
- Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
- Rob McElhenney, American actor
- April 16 – Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
- April 17 – Frederik Magle, Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist
- April 21 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
- April 22
- Mark van Bommel, Dutch football player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Steven Price, British film composer
- April 23
- Arash, Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer and producer
- John Cena, American professional wrestler, actor and rapper
- John Oliver, British-American comedian and host
- Kal Penn, American actor, producer, and former civil servant
- Matt Huuki, American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2011 and 2012
- April 24
- Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Rebecca Mader, English actress
- April 25 – Manolo Cardona, Colombian actor
- April 26
- Jason Earles, American actor, comedian, and martial artist
- Tom Welling, American actor, director, producer, and model
- April 30 – Alexandra Holden, American actress
May
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- May 4 – Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
- May 5
- Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress
- Virginie Efira, Belgian actress and television anchor
- Jessica Schwarz, German film and television actress
- May 9 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 10 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
- May 11
- Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
- Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
- May 12 – Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
- May 13
- Samantha Morton, English actress
- Tarik Sektioui, Moroccan footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 14 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 16
- Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
- Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
- May 23
- Richard Ayoade, British actor and presenter
- Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
- Yevgeny Rodionov, Russian soldier (d. 1996)
- May 24
- Jeet Gannguli, Indian singer, music director and score composer
- Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thai tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 25 – Alberto Del Rio, Mexican professional wrestler<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- May 26 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
- May 27
- Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
- Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player
- May 29 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian football player
- May 30 – Katharina Slanina, German politician
- May 31
- Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer<ref>Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref>
- Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
June
- June 1
- Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
- Jónsi, Icelandic singer
- June 2 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
- June 7
- Chen Luyun, Chinese basketball player (d. 2015)
- Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- June 8 – Kanye West, American rapper and record producer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- June 9 – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
- June 11
- Kim Hee-sun, South Korean actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
- June 12 – Ana Tijoux, French-Chilean musician
- June 17 – Bartosz Brożek, Polish philosopher and jurist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- June 18 – Kaja Kallas, 19th prime minister of Estonia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- June 19 – Veronika Vařeková, Czech model
- June 21 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
- June 23 – Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter
- June 25
- Layla El, English dancer, model, and retired professional wrestler
- Naoya Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
- June 26
- William Kipsang, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Tite Kubo, Japanese manga artist who created BLEACH<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- June 27
- Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
- Raúl, Spanish footballer
- June 29
- Will Kemp, English actor and dancer
- Zuleikha Robinson, British actress
- June 30 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
July
- July 1 – Liv Tyler, American actress
- July 2 – Carl Froch, British boxer
- July 5 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- July 6
- Audrey Fleurot, French actress
- Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- July 8
- Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
- Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
- July 10 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
- July 11 – Finau Maka, Tongan rugby union footballer
- July 12
- Steve Howey, American actor
- Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist
- July 13 – Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- July 14 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- July 15 – Lana Parrilla, American actress
- July 18 – Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess Grandmaster
- July 21
- Paul Casey, English golfer
- Allison Wagner, American swimmer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- July 24
- Danny Dyer, English actor<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
- July 26 – Rebecca St. James, Australian-born Christian musician
- July 27 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
- July 28 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
- July 30 – Jaime Pressly, American actress<ref name=tvg>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
August
- August 2 – Edward Furlong, American actor
- August 3 – Tom Brady, American football player and entrepreneur
- August 8 – Marílson Gomes dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 9 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 12
- Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Iva Majoli, Croatian tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 13 – Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
- August 15
- Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player
- Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast<ref>Template:FIG</ref>
- August 16 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
- August 17
- Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano
- Thierry Henry, French footballer
- William Gallas, French footballer
- August 18 – Lukáš Bauer, Czech cross-country skier
- August 20
- Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
- Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
- Henning Stensrud, Norwegian ski jumper
- August 24
- Denílson, Brazilian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
- John Green, American author, vlogger, and editor
- Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009)
- August 27 – Deco, Brazilian born-Portuguese footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 30
- Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
- Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican athlete
- August 31
- Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
- Ian Harte, Irish footballer
September
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- September 1
- David Albelda, Spanish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Kathleen de Leon Jones, Filipino-Australian actress, dancer, singer and television performer (Hi-5)
- September 2
- Frédéric Kanouté, Malian soccer player
- Sam Rivers, American musician (d. 2025)
- Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
- September 4 – Lucie Silvas, English singer
- September 5 – Sin Cara, Mexican-American professional wrestler
- September 6 – Katalin Novák, Hungarian politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- September 9 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
- September 11 – Ludacris, American rapper and actor
- September 12
- 2 Chainz, American rapper<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter
- September 13 – Fiona Apple, American singer
- September 15
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Tom Hardy, English actor
- Jason Terry, American basketball player
- September 18 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman
- September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
- September 21 – Marc de Hond, Dutch television presenter and wheelchair basketball player (d. 2020)
- September 23 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer, actress, and murder victim (d. 2008)
- September 25 – Joel David Moore, American actor
- September 27 – Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
- September 28 – Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
- September 30
- Roy Carroll, Irish footballer
- Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
October
- October 2 – Didier Défago, Swiss Olympic alpine skier
- October 3 – Antonio Di Natale, Italian football player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- October 4
- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Bowie Jane, Australian DJ, singer, producer, lawyer and contestant on Big Brother Season 25<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- October 6 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player and executive<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- October 8 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain bicycle racer
- October 10 – Brandon Vera, Filipino-American retired mixed martial artist and former ONE Heavyweight World Champion
- October 11
- Matt Bomer, American film, stage, and television actor
- Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader
- October 12 – Bode Miller, American skier<ref>Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref>
- October 13
- Paul Pierce, American basketball player<ref>Template:Basketballstats</ref>
- Kiele Sanchez, American actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- October 14
- Kelly Schumacher, American basketball and volleyball player
- Oleg Velyky, Ukrainian and German handball player World champion 2007 (d. 2010)
- October 15 – David Trezeguet, French footballer
- October 16 – John Mayer, American musician and record producer
- October 17
- Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager
- October 18
- Jyothika, Indian actress
- Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
- Peter Sohn, American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director
- Paul Stalteri, Canadian soccer player<ref>Template:FIFA player</ref>
- October 19 – Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- October 25 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer
- October 26
- Jon Heder, American actor and voice artist
- Louis Crayton, Swiss/Liberian footballer
- October 27 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- October 28 – Jonas Rasmussen, Danish badminton player
- October 29 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
November
- November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (d. 2009)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- November 11
- Maniche, Portuguese footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Scoot McNairy, American actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- November 13 – Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
- November 15 – Sean Murray, American actor
- November 16
- Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
- November 17 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
- November 18 – Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league player
- November 19
- Mette Frederiksen, Danish politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Kerri Strug, American gymnast
- November 20 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer
- November 21 – Tobias Sammet, German singer and songwriter
- November 24 – Colin Hanks, American actor
- November 28 – Fabio Grosso, Italian football player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- November 30 – Nelsan Ellis, African-American film and television actor and playwright (d. 2017)
December
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- December 1 – Brad Delson, American musician (Linkin Park)
- December 2 – Nancy Mace, American politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- December 6 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
- December 7 – Luke Donald, English golfer
- December 8
- Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television host
- Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union player
- Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor and producer
- December 10 – Andrea Henkel, German professional biathlete<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- December 11 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player
- December 12 – Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
- December 14 – Thoriqul Haq, Indonesian politician
- December 16
- Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player
- René Redzepi, Danish chef
- December 17 – Oxana Fedorova, Russian model
- December 20 – Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer
- December 21
- Gregor Horvatič, Slovenian politician
- Emmanuel Macron, 25th president of France
- December 23 – Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician
- December 24 – Domingo Vega, also known as Américo, Chilean singer
- December 25 – Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
- December 30
- Laila Ali, American boxer
- Kenyon Martin, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite basketball-reference</ref>
- December 31
- Psy, South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and record producer
- Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of former U.S. president Donald Trump<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Deaths
January
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- January 2 – Erroll Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
- January 4 – Ibrahim Biçakçiu, Albanian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Albania leader of World War II (b. 1905)
- January 5 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- January 14
- Anthony Eden, British politician, 62nd prime minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
- Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
- Anaïs Nin, French-born American diarist and writer (b. 1903)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- January 17 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
- January 18
- Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslavian politician, 27th prime minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1917)
- Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (b. 1896)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1894)
- January 20 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)
- January 23 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine world Flyweight boxing champion (b. 1926)
- January 26 – Dietrich von Hildebrand, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1889)
- January 28
- Burt Mustin, American actor (b. 1884)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Talib Haji Hamzah, Malaysian armed robber executed in Singapore (b. 1953)
- January 29
- Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
- Johnny Franz, English record producer (b. 1922)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
February
- February 3 – Pauline Starke, American actress (b. 1901)
- February 4 – Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
- February 5 – Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist (b. 1894)
- February 9 – Alia Toukan, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1948)
- February 11
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and statesman, 5th president of India (b. 1905)<ref>Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed president of India</ref>
- Louis Beel, prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- February 16 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
- February 18
- Newsboy Brown, American boxer (b. 1905)<ref>Newsboy Brown</ref>
- Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
- February 27
- John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (b. 1906)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Allison Hayes, American actress (b. 1930)
- February 28 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)<ref>Renowned comedian Eddie “Rochester” Anderson</ref>
March
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- March 1 – Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and politician, 1st secretary general of the Organisation of African Unity (b. 1925)
- March 3
- Brian Faulkner, last prime minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1921)
- Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor (b. 1883)
- March 4
- Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official, last führer of Nazi Germany (b. 1887)
- March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula One racing driver (b. 1949)
- March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890)
- March 10
- E. Power Biggs, English-American organist (b. 1906)
- Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1894)
- March 14 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
- March 15 – Antonino Rocca, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1921)
- March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, 3rd president of Congo (b. 1938)
- March 19 – William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b. 1888)
- March 20 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
- March 22 – Ernest Gugenheim, French rabbi (b. 1916)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- March 27 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
- March 29 – Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist (b. 1898)
- March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
April
- April 2 – John Whitaker, British gymnast (b. 1886)
- April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, 11th president of Cuba (b. 1903)
- April 7 – Karl Ritter, German film producer and director (b. 1888)
- April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- April 17 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
- April 20
- Wilmer Allison, American tennis champion (b. 1904)
- Bryan Foy, American film producer and director (b. 1896)
- April 21 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
- April 27
- Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
- Charles Alston, American artist and sculptor (b. 1907)
- April 28
- Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1899)
- Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (b. 1897)
May
- May 5 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician, 28th Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1897)
- May 7 – Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish Carlist pretender (b. 1889)
- May 9 – James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
- May 10 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. c. 1904)
- May 13 – Otto Deßloch, German World War II Luftwaffe general (b. 1889)
- May 15 – Herbert Wilcox, British film director and producer (b. 1892)
- May 16 – Modibo Keïta, 1st president of Mali (b. 1915)
- May 25 – Willoughby Norrie, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1893)
- May 26 – Shewalul Mengistu, Ethiopian poet and political activist (b. 1944)
- May 30 – Paul Desmond, American jazz saxophonist and composer (b. 1924)
- May 31 – William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
June
- June 2 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
- June 3
- Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
- Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
- June 13
- Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (b. 1899)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Matthew Garber, English child actor (b. 1956)
- June 14 – Alan Reed, American actor (b. 1907)
- June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1912)
- June 22 – Marston Morse, American mathematician (b. 1892)
- June 25 – Olave Baden-Powell, first Chief Guide for Britain (b. 1889)
- June 26 – Sergei Lemeshev, Russian operatic lyric tenor (b. 1902)
- June 30 – Paul Hartmann, American actor (b. 1889)
July
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- July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American writer (b. 1899)
- July 9 – Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (b. 1885)
- July 20 – Carter DeHaven, American actor (b. 1886)
- July 25 – David Toro, 35th president of Bolivia (b. 1898)
- July 26 – Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
- July 30 – Jean de Laborde, French admiral (b. 1878)Template:Importance inline
- July 31 – Giuseppe Castellano, Italian general (b. 1893)Template:Importance inline
August
- August 1 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
- August 2 – Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1888)
- August 3
- Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
- Makarios III, Greek-Cypriot archbishop, 1st president of Cyprus (b. 1913)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 4
- Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
- Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher (b. 1885)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- August 6 – Sir Alexander Bustamente, Jamaican politician, 1st prime minister of Jamaica (b. 1884)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- August 8 – Son Ngoc Thanh, 2nd prime minister of Cambodia (b. 1908)
- August 9 – Beryl May Dent, English mathematical physicist (b. 1900)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist (b. 1895)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- August 14 – Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (b. 1902)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August 16 – Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1935)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- August 17 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
- August 19 – Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- August 23
- Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
- Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890)
- August 29 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
September
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- September 1 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
- September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German statistician and economist (b. 1885)
- September 6 – John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885)
- September 8 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
- September 12 – Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
- September 13 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)<ref>Allen Hughes, "Leopold Stokowski Is Dead of a Heart Attack at 95", The New York Times, 14 September 1977.</ref>
- September 16
- Marc Bolan, British singer and guitarist (b. 1947)<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
- Maria Callas, Greek soprano (b. 1923)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
- September 29 – Robert McKimson, American animator and director (b. 1910)
October
- October 3 – Tay Garnett, American film director (b. 1894)
- October 10 – Jean Duvieusart, Belgian politician, 36th prime minister of Belgium (b. 1900)
- October 11 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (b. 1904)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- October 12 – Dorothy Davenport, American actress (b. 1895)
- October 14 – Bing Crosby, American pop singer and actor (b. 1903)
- October 17 – Sir Michael Balcon, English film producer (b. 1896)
- October 20 – Three members of American rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, killed in plane crash:
- Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b. 1948)
- Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b. 1948)
- Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist (b. 1949)
- October 25 – Félix Gouin, French politician (b. 1884)
- October 27
- James M. Cain, American writer (b. 1892)
- Miguel Mihura, Spanish playwright (b. 1905)
November
- November 3 – Florence Vidor, American actress (b. 1895)
- November 4 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress (b. 1902)
- November 5
- René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
- Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader (b. 1902)
- November 9 – Gertrude Astor, American actress (b. 1887)
- November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- November 14
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader (b. 1896)
- Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (b. 1897)
- November 16 – Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (b. 1898), Monégasque princess
- November 18
- Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
- Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th chancellor of Austria (b. 1897)
- November 21 – Richard Carlson, American actor (b. 1912)
- November 30 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (b. 1884)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
December
- December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower (b. 1899)
- December 5 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
- December 9 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist (b. 1920)
- December 10 – Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (b. 1901)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- December 12 – Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
- December 16
- Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (b. 1879)
- Yngve Larsson, Swedish politician (b. 1881)
- December 19
- Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
- Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (b. 1876)
- Jacques Tourneur, French-American filmmaker (b. 1904)
- December 24 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, 58th president of Peru (b. 1910)
- December 25
- Sir Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and director (b. 1889)
- Oliver P. Smith, American general (b. 1893)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director (b. 1896)
- December 28 – Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (b. 1890)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics – Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
- Chemistry – Ilya Prigogine
- Physiology or Medicine – Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
- Literature – Vicente Aleixandre
- Peace – Amnesty International
- Economics – Bertil Ohlin, James Meade