1976
1976 (
MCMLXXVI) was a
leap year starting on Thursday.
January
*
January 12 -
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the
Palestinian Liberation Organization.
*
January 15 - Would-be
Gerald Ford presidential assassin
Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison.
*
January 16 - Trial against jailed members of the
Red Army Faction begins in
Stuttgart,
West Germany.
*
January 18 - The
Scottish Labour Party is formed.
*
January 19 -
Jimmy Carter wins the
Iowa Democratic Caucus.
*
January 21 - The first commercial
Concorde flight takes off.
*
January 25 - 12
PIRA bombs explode in
London's
East End.
*
January 27 - The trial of
SLA member
Patty Hearst begins. She is found guilty of robbery on
March 20.
February
*
February 4 - In
Guatemala and
Honduras an
earthquake kills more than 22,000.
*
February 4 -
1976 Winter Olympics open in
Innsbruck,
Austria*
February 11 -
Clifford Alexander Jr is confirmed as 1st
African-American Secretary of
US Army.
*
February 15 - The 1976
Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national
referendum.
*
February 20 - The
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
*
February 24 -
Cuba's current
constitution enacted.
*
February 27 -
Western Sahara declares independence.
*
February 28 -
Spain gives up territories in
Sahara but retains its
enclaves of
Melilla and
Ceuta.
March
*
March 1 -
Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence in
Northern Ireland*
March 4 - The
Maguire Seven were found guilty of the offence of possessing explosives and were subsequently jailed for 14 years.
*
March 4 - The
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in
Northern Ireland resulting in
direct rule of
Northern Ireland from
London via the
British parliament.
*
March 9-
March 11 - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, Letcher County, KY.
*
March 17 -
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried.
*
March 16 -
Harold Wilson resigns as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
*
March 20 -
Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a
San Francisco bank.
*
March 24 -
Argentina military forces depose president
Isabel Peron.
*
March 26 -
Toronto Blue Jays created.
*
March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the
Washington, DC subway system opens.
*
March 29 - Military
junta of general
Jorge Videla comes to power in
Argentina*
March 31 -
New Jersey Supreme Court rules that
coma patient
Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her
ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in
1985.
April
*
April 1 -
Apple Computer Company is formed by
Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak.
*
April 1 -
Conrail or Consolidated Rails Corporation is formed by the U.S. Government to take control of 13 Major Northeast Class 1 Railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail took control at Midnight on April 1 1976 as a Government Owned and Operated Railroad till 1986 when it was sold to the public.
*
April 4 - Prince
Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of
Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
*
April 5 -
James Callaghan becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
*
April 5 - Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's
Monument of the Martyrs in commemoration of the death of Premier
Zhou Enlai. Poems against the
Gang of Four are also displayed. This was followed by a police crackdown and became known as the
Tiananmen Incident.
*
April 13 - An explosion in an ammunition factory in
Lapua,
Finland kills 40.
*
April 16 - As a measure to curb
population growth, the minimum age for marriage in
India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
*
April 21 - The
Great Bookie Robbery in
Melbourne. Bandits steal A$1.4 Million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
*
April 23 -
Punk rock group
The Ramones release their first album.
*
April 25 -
Portugal's new
constitution enacted.
May
*
May 9 -
Ulrike Meinhof of
RAF is found hanging in an apparent suicide in her cell in
Stuttgart-Stannheim prison.
*
May 11 - President
Gerald Ford signs
Federal Election Campaign Act.
*
May 24 -
Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 revolutionizes world of
wine.
*
May 24 -
Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
*
May 30 -
Indianapolis 500-Mile Race:
Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).
June
*
June 1 -
UK and
Iceland end the
Cod War.
*
June 5 -
Teton Dam collapses in southeast
Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.
*
June 14 - The trial begins at
Oxford Crown Court of
Donald Neilson, the killer known as the
Black Panther.
*
June 16 -
Soweto riots in
South Africa mark the beginning of the end of
apartheid.
*
June 20 - Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from
Beirut and taken to safety in
Syria by the US military, following the murder of the US
ambassador.
*
June 20 -
General elections in
Italy.
*
June 20 -
Czechoslovakia beat
West Germany 5-3 on
penalties to win
Euro 76, after the game had ended 2-2 after extra time.
*
June 25 - Strikes start in Poland (
Ursus,
Radom,
Płock) after communists raised food prices; strikes end on
June 30.
*
June 26 -
CN Tower built in
Toronto - The tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
*
June 26 - Two unmarked cars drove onto
Jumping Bull property, and a fire fight began. Two
FBI agents and one Indian male were killed, starting one of the largest manhunts in the history of the FBI.
*
June 27 - Palestinian extremists hijack an
Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to
Entebbe,
Uganda, where
Israeli commandos storm it on
July 4*
Sismik incident starts when the Turkish survey ship Sismik entered Greek waters.
July
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July 2 -
North Vietnam and
South Vietnam unite to form the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam - a
Communist country.
*
July 3 - The
Supreme Court of the United States rules, in
Gregg v. Georgia, that the
death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
*
July 3 - The great
heat wave in the
United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from
drought conditions, reaches its peak.
*
July 4 -
United States Bicentennial - From coast to coast, Americans celebrate the 200th anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence.
*
July 4 -
Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by
Palestinian hijackers of an
Air France plane at
Uganda's
Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in raid.
*
July 7 - German left-wing terrorists
Monika Berberich,
Gabriella Rollnick,
Juliane Plambeck and
Inge Viett escape from
Lehrterstrasse maximum security prison in
West Berlin.
*
July 10 - Three British and one American
mercenaries were shot by firing squad in
Angola.
*
July 10 -
Explosion in Seveso,
Italy, kills a large number of people
*
July 15 -
Jimmy Carter is nominated for
U.S. President at the
Democratic National Convention in
New York City.
*
July 16-
July 20 -
Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the
Societe Generale Bank in
Nice,
France*
July 17 - The
1976 Summer Olympics begin in
Montreal,
Canada.
*
July 17 -
East Timor is declared the 27th province of
Indonesia*
July 19 -
Sagarmatha National Park in
Nepal is created.
*
July 20 -
Viking program: The
Viking 1 lander successfully lands on
Mars.
*
July 21 - A bomb kills
Christopher Ewart, British ambassador to the Irish Republic
*
July 27 -
United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with
Uganda*
July 28 -
Tangshan earthquake flattens
Tangshan,
China, killing 242,769 people, and 164,851 people are heavily injured
*
July 29 - In
New York City, the "
Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag killing one and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
*
July 30 - In
Santiago, capital of
Chile,
Cruzeiro from
Brazil wins
River Plate from
Argentina and are the
Copa Libertadores de América champions.
*
July 31 -
NASA releases the famous
Face on Mars photo, taken by
Viking 1August
*
August 1 - the Caribbean nation of
Trinidad and Tobago becomes a
republic, replacing
Queen Elizabeth II with an elected president as their
Head of State.
*
August 2 - A gunman murders
Andrea Wilborn and
Stan Farr, and injures
Priscilla Davis and
Gus Gavrel in an incident at Priscilla's Mansion at Mockingbird Lane in
Fort Worth,
Texas.
T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, was tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen went broke afterwards.
*
August 4 - First outbreak of
Legionnaire's disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
*
August 5 - Racing Champion
Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix.
*
August 5 - The Great Clock of Westminster (or
Big Ben) suffers internal damage and stops running for over nine months.
*
August 6 - Former UK Postmaster General
John Stonehouse is sentenced to seven years jail for fraud.
*
August 7 -
Viking program:
Viking 2 enters into orbit around
Mars.
*
August 14 - 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in
Northern Ireland.
*
August 14 - The
Senegalese
political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
*
August 18 - In
North Korea at Panmunjom, two
US soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the
Demilitarized Zone which had obscured their view.
*
August 19 -
U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger
Ronald Reagan to win the
Republican Party presidential nomination in
Kansas City.
*
August 24 - In
Uruguay, an army captures
Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Marcelo is later killed and his wife (and unborn child) disappeared.
September
*
September 3 -
Viking program: The
Viking 2 spacecraft lands at
Utopia Planitia on
Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface
*
September 6 -
Cold War:
Soviet air force pilot Lt.
Viktor Belenko lands a
MiG-25 jet fighter at
Hakodate on the island of
Hokkaido in
Japan and requests
political asylum from the
United States* Military Junta in power in
Argentina.
*
September 9 - Death of the Chairman of the
People's Republic of China Mao Zedong .
*
September 10 - A
British Airways Trident and a
Yugoslav DC-9 collide near
Zagreb,
Yugoslavia (now
Croatia) killing all 176 aboard.
*
September 10 -
Osamu Tezuka begins serialising
MW, a
manga inspired in
1974 Kakuei Tanaka government scandal.
*
September 17 -
Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out.
*
September 21 -
Seychelles joins the
United Nations.
*
September 21 -
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in
Washington, D.C. by agents of
Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet.
*
September 24 -
Patricia Hearst was sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a
1974 bank robbery. An executive clemency order from
U.S. President Jimmy Carter set her free after only 22 months.
October
* October -
The Damned release
New Rose - the first ever single released / marketed as "
punk rock".
*
October 6 -
Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by
anti-Castrist militants, after taking off from Bridgetown,
Barbados. [
1]
*
October 6 - Students gathering at
Thammasat University in
Bangkok,
Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator
Thanom are massacred by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
*
October 7 - During his second televised debate with
Jimmy Carter,
U.S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that " there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there was at the time).
*
October 10 - Taiwan Province Governor
Hsieh Tung-ming was injured by a bombing letter from a pro-independence activist.
*
October 12 - The
People's Republic of China announces that
Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late
Mao Tse-tung as chairman of
Communist Party of China.
*
October 19 -
Copyright Act of 1976 extends
copyright duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
*
October 20 - The
Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from
Destrehan, LA to
Luling, LA, killing 78 passengers and crew.
*
October 22 -
Cearbhall " Dálaigh, fifth
President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defence.
*
October 25 - Full pardon given to
Clarence Norris, last known survivor of the
Scottsboro Boys.
November
*
November 2 -
U.S. presidential election, 1976:
Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent
Gerald Rudolph Ford, to become the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the
Civil War.
*
November 15 - First
megamouth shark is discovered off
Oahu in
Hawaii.
*
November 26 -
Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of
New Mexico.
December
*
December 1 -
Angola joins the
United Nations.
*
December 1 -
The Sex Pistols achieve public notoriety as they unleash several four-letter words live on
Bill Grundy's TV show.
*
December 3 - Attempted assassination of
Bob Marley at
56 Hope Road. In the shooting, Marley received two gunshot wounds, but his manager
Don Taylor took a majority of the bullets. Both lived.
*
December 3 -
Patrick Hillery is elected unopposed as the sixth
President of Ireland.
*
December 15 -
Samoa joins the
United Nations.
*
December 20 -
Richard J. Daley,
Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies.
*
December 23 - New volcano,
Murara, began erupting in eastern
Zaire.
Unknown dates
*First
laser printer introduced by
IBM - the IBM 3800
*
Cray-1, the first commercially developed
supercomputer, invented by
Seymour Cray*
California's
sodomy law repealed.
*The term
memetics first proposed by
Richard Dawkins in his book
The Selfish Gene.*
Diffie-Hellman cryptography proposed
* Plans to move the
Nigerian capital from
Lagos to
Abuja are approved.
*
Ebola is first discovered in
Zaire*
Women For Sobriety established.
*
Industrial Records founded
*
Hillsdale Elementary in
West Chester, PA opened its doors for the first time to students.
January
*
January 2 -
Cletidus Hunt, American football player
*
January 2 -
Paz Vega, Spanish actress
*
January 4 -
Shiro Amano, Japanese
manga artist/writer
*
January 6 -
Danny Pintauro, American actor
*
January 7 -
Éric Gagné, Canadian
Major League Baseball player
*
January 7 -
Alfonso Soriano, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
*
January 8 -
Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (
Rilo Kiley)
*
January 19 -
Marsha Thomason, British actress
*
January 20 -
Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
*
January 21 -
Emma Bunton, English musician (
Spice Girls)
*
January 25 -
Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
*
January 28 -
Mark Madsen, American basketball player
*
January 30 -
Andy Milonakis, Internet and MTV star
*
January 31 -
Buddy Rice, American race car driver
February
*
February 2 -
James Hickman, British swimmer
*
February 4 -
Cam'ron,
Harlem,
New York rapper*
February 5 -
Abhishek Bachchan, Indian Actor
*
February 9 -
Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
*
February 10 -
Lance Berkman, baseball player
*
February 12 -
Silvia Saint, Czech actress
*
February 13 -
Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
*
February 15 -
Brandon Boyd, American musician (
Incubus)
*
February 16 -
Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura Vocalist of
Visual Kei band (
Dir En Grey)
*
February 20 -
Ed Graham, British drummer (
The Darkness)
*
February 25 -
Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, musician
*
February 29 -
Ja Rule, American rapper
March
*
March 5 -
Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
*
March 8 -
Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
*
March 19 -
Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
*
March 20 -
Chester Bennington, American musician (
Linkin Park)
*
March 22 -
Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
*
March 22 -
Reese Witherspoon, American actress
*
March 23 -
Keri Russell, American actress
*
March 24 -
Aaron Brooks, American football player
*
March 24 -
Peyton Manning, American football player
*
March 25 -
Juvenile, American rapper
*
March 26 -
Amy Smart, American actress
April
*
April 6 -
Candace Cameron, American actress
*
April 13 -
Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d.
2003)
*
April 15 -
Steve Williams (rower), British rower
*
April 18 -
Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
*
April 20 -
Joey Lawrence, American actor
*
April 22 -
Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
*
April 25 -
Tim Duncan, West Indian basketball player
*
April 25 -
Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player
May
*
May 3 -
Beto, Portuguese footballer
*
May 4 -
Jason Michaels, baseball player
*
May 14 -
Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
*
May 15 -
Tyler Walker, baseball player
* May 15 -
Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
* May 15 -
Ryan Leaf, former NFL quarterback
*
May 19 -
Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
*
May 20 -
Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
*
May 25 -
Miguel Tejada, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
*
May 31 -
Colin Farrell, Irish actor
June
*
June 8 -
Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
*
June 10 -
Freddy Garcia, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
*
June 13 -
Lindsay Archer, American
Fantasy Artist*
June 13 -
Jason 'J' Brown, English musician (
5ive)
*
June 23 -
Brandon Stokley, American football player
*
June 23 -
Patrick Vieira, French football player
July
*
July 1 -
Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
*
July 1 -
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
*
July 3 -
Andrea Barber, American actress
*
July 4 -
Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer
*
July 5 -
Bizarre, American rapper
*
July 5 -
Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
*
July 5 -
Marina Dias, Brazilian supermodel
*
July 5 -
Mike DeWolf, member of the band
Taproot*
July 8 -
Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman
*
July 9 -
Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
*
July 9 -
Fred Savage, American actor
*
July 11 -
Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player
*
July 13 -
Al Santos, American actor/model
*
July 17 -
Marcos Senna, Brazilian footballer
*
July 20 -
Alex Yoong, Malaysian race car driver
*
July 23 -
Judit Polgar, Hungarian chess player
*
July 24 -
Nate Bump, American baseball player
*
July 31 -
Annie Parisse, American actress
August
*
August 6 -
Melissa George, Australian actress
*
August 9 -
Jessica Capshaw, American actress
*
August 9 -
Rhona Mitra, English actress
*
August 9 -
Audrey Tautou, French actress
*
August 8 -
JC Chasez, American singer
*
August 11 -
Ben Gibbard, American musician
*
August 12 -
Antoine Walker, American basketball player
*
August 13 -
Roddy Woomble, Scottish musician
*
August 14 -
Alex Albrecht, American television personality
*
August 15 -
Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player
*
August 18 -
Alex Katunich, Original bassist for the band Incubus
*
August 19 -
Michael M. Wartella, American underground cartoonist
*
August 27 -
Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
*
August 27 -
Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
*
August 27 -
Sarah Chalke, American actress
September
*
September 1 -
Jada Fire, American pornographic actress
*
September 6 -
Naomie Harris, British actress
*
September 7 -
Stevie Case, American video game celebrity
*
September 8 -
Abi Titmuss, British TV presenter and model
*
September 8 -
Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
*
September 10 -
Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
*
September 12 -
Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
*
September 15 -
Hatake Kakashi, Fictional Character in Anime: "
Naruto"
*
September 16 -
Tina Barrett, English singer (
S Club 7)
*
September 19 -
Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
*
September 20 -
Yui Horie, Japanese
seiyu (voice actress)
*
September 22 -
Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
*
September 24 -
Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, Senior Vice-President of Creative Writing -
WWE*
September 25 -
Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
*
September 26 -
Michael Ballack, German footballer
*
September 29 -
Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
October
*
October 1 -
Blu Cantrell, American singer
*
October 1 -
Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic actress
*
October 4 -
Alicia Silverstone, American actress
*
October 6 -
Taylor Hicks, American singer
*
October 7 -
Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football player
*
October 7 -
Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
*
October 10 -
Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
*
October 15 -
Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress
*
October 18 -
Azlea Antistia, pornographic actress
*
October 19 -
Michael Young, baseball player
*
October 19 -
Joy Bryant, American actress
*
October 23 -
Cat Deeley, British TV presenter
*
October 23 -
Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
*
October 25 -
Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
*
October 29 -
Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
November
*
November 1 -
Matt Chapman, creator of
Homestar Runner*
November 6 -
Pat Tillman, American football player (d.
2004)
*
November 6 -
Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist (also daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister
Joe Clark)
*
November 7 -
Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
*
November 11 -
Mike Leon Grosch, German singer and finalist of
Deutschland sucht den Superstar 3
*
November 12 -
Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
*
November 19 -
Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
*
November 20 -
Dominique Dawes, U.S. Olympic gymnast
*
November 22 -
Ville Valo, a Finnish singer for the band
HIM*
November 24 -
Lu Chen, Chinese figure skater
*
November 27 -
Jaleel White, American actor
*
November 29 -
Anna Faris, American actress
December
*
December 1 -
Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d.
1998)
*
December 8 -
Dominic Monaghan, actor
*
December 12 -
Dan Hawkins, British guitarist (
The Darkness)
*
December 13 -
Tom Delonge, American musician (
Blink-182)
*
December 13 -
Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
*
December 15 -
Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
*
December 17 -
Takeo Spikes, American football player
*
December 18 -
Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
*
December 29 -
Katherine Moennig, American actress
*
December 29 -
Jason-Shane Scott, American actor
January
*
January 8 -
Zhou Enlai,
Premier of the People's Republic of China (b.
1898)
*
January 10 -
Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b.
1910)
*
January 12 -
Agatha Christie, English writer (b.
1890)
*
January 23 -
Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer, and activist (b.
1898)
*
January 30 -
Mance Lipscomb, American singer (b.
1895)
February
*
February 1 -
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
*
February 1 -
George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1878)
*
February 2 -
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b.
1903)
*
February 6 -
Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b.
1928)
*
February 9 -
Percy Faith, Canadian-born musician and composer (b.
1908)
*
February 11 -
Lee J Cobb, American actor (b.
1911)
*
February 11 -
Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (b.
1894)
*
February 11 -
Charlie Naughton, Scottish actor (b.
1886)
*
February 12 -
Sal Mineo, American actor (b.
1939)
*
February 13 -
Lily Pons, American soprano (b.
1898)
*
February 20 -
René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1887)
*
February 20 -
Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and faith healer (b.
1907)
*
February 22 -
Florence Ballard, American singer (
The Supremes) (b.
1943)
March
*
March 4 -
Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b.
1886)
*
March 6 -
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b.
1903)
*
March 7 -
Wright Patman, American politician (b.
1893)
*
March 14 -
Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b.
1895)
*
March 17 -
Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director (b.
1906)
*
March 19 -
Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (
Free) (b.
1950)
*
March 24 -
Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b.
1897)
April
*
April 1 -
Max Ernst, German artist (b.
1891)
*
April 4 -
Harry Nyquist, American
information theory pioneer (b.
1889)
*
April 5 -
Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric (b.
1905)
*
April 9 -
Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist, one of The
Nordstrom Sisters (b.
1903)
*
April 18 -
Henrik Dam, Dutch biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1895)
*
April 26 -
Sid James, South African actor (b.
1913)
May
*
May 1 -
T.R.M. Howard, Civil rights leader, surgeon (b.
1908)
*
May 9 -
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b.
1920)
*
May 9 -
Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (b.
1934)
*
May 11 -
Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b.
1898)
*
May 14 -
Keith Relf, British musician (
The Yardbirds) (b.
1943)
*
May 26 -
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b.
1889)
*
May 27 -
Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (b.
1897)
*
May 28 -
Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b.
1922)
*
May 31 -
Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1910)
June
*
June 10 -
Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b.
1873)
*
June 15 -
Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b.
1896)
*
June 25 -
Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b.
1909)
*
June 30 -
Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b.
1898)
July
*
July 1 -
Zhang Mintian,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b.
1900)
*
July 4 -
Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and writer (b.
1895)
*
July 13 -
Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b.
1915)
August
*
August 3 -
Valery Sablin, Soviet mutineer, executed
*
August 6 -
Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b.
1903)
*
August 22 -
Juscelino Kubitschek,
President of Brazil (b.
1902)
*
August 25 -
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900)
*
August 26 -
Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b.
1888)
*
August 27 -
Mukesh, Indian singer (b.
1923)
September
*
September 2 -
Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b.
1934)
*
September 9 -
Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (b.
1893)
*
September 26 -
Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887)
October
*
October 5 -
Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
October 15 -
Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (b.
1902)
*
October 11 -
Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b.
1897)
November
*
November 11 -
Alexander Calder, Sculptor (b.
1898)
*
November 12 -
Walter Piston, American composer (b.
1894)
December
*
December 2 -
Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b.
1917)
*
December 4 -
Benjamin Britten, English composer (b.
1913)
*
December 6 -
João Goulart,
President of Brazil (b.
1918)
*
December 20 -
Richard J. Daley,
Mayor of Chicago (b.
1902)
*
December 28 -
Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (b.
1903)
Unknown dates
*
Mariano Andreu,
Spanish painter (b.
1888)
*
Physics -
Burton Richter,
Samuel Chao Chung Ting*
Chemistry -
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr*
Physiology or Medicine -
Baruch S. Blumberg,
D Carleton Gajdusek*
Literature -
Saul Bellow*
Peace -
Betty Williams and
Mairead Corrigan*
Economics -
Milton Friedman*
Cardinal Suenens
