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Year 1981 (''' MCMLXXXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1981

January

January - The subterranean Sarawak Chamber is discovered in Borneo .

January 1 - Greece enters the '' European Community '', which later becomes the European Union .

January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing.

January 4 - Sheffield Police Arrest Peter Sutcliffe , a 34-year-old Lorry driver, on suspicion of being the Yorkshire Ripper who has killed 13 women and attacked seven others over the last six years.

January 5 - Margaret Thatcher carried out a Cabinet Reshuffle , sacking Norman St. John-Stevas .

January 7 - Snow in Palermo and Sicily .

January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore , Worcestershire , UK, begins an uncontrollable series of Sneeze s that end September 16 , 1983 - after 978 days.

January 16 - Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband.

Iran releases Hostages .]]

January 19 - United States and Iran ian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American Hostage s after 14 months of Captivity .

January 20 - Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter , becoming the 40th President Of The United States . Minutes later, Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days.

January 21 - The first De Lorean DMC-12 Automobile , a Stainless Steel Sports Car with Gull-wing Doors , rolls off the Production Line in Dunmurry , Northern Ireland .

January 22 - Fowzi Nejad , sole survivor of the Terrorist s from the Iranian Embassy Siege in London , pleads guilty to manslaughter of two hostages and gets jailed for life.

January 24 - The British Labour Party special Conference at Wembley decides that Leadership Election s should be by Electoral College .

January 25 - Four former Labour cabinet ministers ( Roy Jenkins , Shirley Williams , William Rodgers and David Owen ) announce the formation of the Council For Social Democracy .

January 25 - Chiang Ching ('Madame Mao ') is Sentence d to Death in China .

January 25 - The Oakland Raiders win Super Bowl XV , defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans , Louisiana .

February

: A powerful Earthquake hits Athens .]]

February 4 - Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes the Prime Minister Of Norway .

February 8 - nineteen fans of Olympiacos FC and two fans of AEK Athens died and 54 injured after a stampede at the Karaiskaki Stadium in Pireus , possibly because Gate 7 did not open immediately after the end of the game.

February 9 - Polish Prime Minister Józef Pinkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski .

February 10 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel - Casino kills 8 and injures 198.

February 13 - Rupert Murdoch buys '' The Times '' and '' The Sunday Times '' for £12 million.

, Dublin , Ireland in the early hours killed 48 and injured 214

February 14 - Australia withdraws recognition of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia .

February 23 - Antonio Tejero , with members of the Guardia Civil , enters the Spanish Congress Of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is about to be named president of the government. The Coup D'état fails thanks to King Juan Carlos .

February 24 - A powerful, magnitude 6.7 Earthquake hits Athens , killing 16 people, injuring thousands and destroying several buildings, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki , Kiato and Xylokastro .

March

March 1 - Bobby Sands , an Irish Republican Army member, begins a Hunger Strike for Political Status in Long Kesh Prison (he dies May 5 , the first of 10 men).

March 6 - After 19 years hosting the '' CBS Evening News '', Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

March 10 - Sir Geoffrey Howe announces the British budget, which raises taxes in the middle of a recession.

March 11 - Chile an President Augusto Pinochet is sworn in for another 8-year term.

March 17 - In Italy the Propagande Due Masonic Lodge is discovered.

March 19 - Three workers are killed and 5 injured during a test of the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' .

March 26 - The British Social Democratic Party was launched at the Connaught Rooms in London.

March 29 - The first London Marathon starts with 7,500 runners.

March 30 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is Shot In The Chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. . Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.

April

: First .]]

April 1 - Daylight Saving Time is introduced in the USSR .

April 2 - Tony Benn announces that he will challenge Denis Healey for the Deputy Leadership of the British Labour Party .

April 4 - Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song, '' Making Your Mind Up ''.

April 10 - IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands wins the Fermanagh And South Tyrone by-election.

throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.

'' Columbia '' ( John Young , Robert Crippen ) launches on the '' STS-1 '' mission, returning to Earth on April 14 .

April 15 - The Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock resigns from the cabinet, accusing Prime Minister Fraser of gross disloyalty.

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April 18 - The rock band Yes splits up (regrouping in 1983 ).

and François Mitterrand .

May

May - Daniel K. Ludwig abandons the Jari Project in the Amazon Basin .

May 6 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin 's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.

May 7 - The Greater London Council election results in a small Labour majority. On May 8 , Ken Livingstone becomes Leader of the Council.

May 10 - In the second round of the presidential elections in France , François Mitterrand beats Valéry Giscard D'Estaing .

May 10 - In Italy a popular referendum rejects the abrogation of the law allowing abortion.

May 13 - Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca , a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience (2 days after Christmas in 1983 , Pope John Paul goes to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin).

May 15 - Donna Payant is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith - the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.

May 21 - In France , Socialist François Mitterrand becomes President.

May 22 - Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of being the notorious Yorkshire Ripper who terrorised women across northern England for six years. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and seven of attempted murder. The trial judge recommends that Sutcliffe should spend at least 30 years in prison before parole can be even considered.

wins for a third time for both he as a driver and Roger Penske as a car owner, but the race sanctioning-body USAC temporarily strips him of victory over an accusation of illegally passing other cars under a caution period (see Racing Flags ). After the team's appeal, Unser's win is reinstated on October 8 .

May 25 - In Riyadh , the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .

May 26 - The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due .

May 30 - Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong .

June

: Osirak nuclear reactor.]]

June 5 - The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention report that 5 Homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of Pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened Immune System s (the first recognized cases of AIDS ).

, India ; about 800 die.

June 7 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor.

June 12 - Major League Baseball goes on Strike , forcing the cancellation of 38 percent of the schedule.

June 13 - At the Trooping The Colour ceremony in London , Marcus Sarjeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II Of The United Kingdom .

June 21 - Wayne Williams , a 23-year-old African American , is arrested and charged with the murders of 2 other African Americans . He will later be suspected of 28 others, in the Atlanta Child Murders .

June 22 - Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.

June 29 - Morris Edwin Robert, armed with a machine gun, holds hostages in the FBI section at the Atlanta, Georgia Federal Building. After 3 hours the hostages are rescued and Robert is shot (dead?).

July

July 2 - The Wonderland Gang was brutally murdered in a massacre that involved Eddie Nash .

July 8 - California Governor Jerry Brown , faced with a Mediterranean Fruit Fly infestation, chooses to delay the aerial spraying of Malathion , in favor of continuing ground-based eradication efforts.

July 10 - Mahathir Bin Mohamad became the 4th Prime Minister Of Malaysia .

collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.

July 17 - Israel i bombers destroy the PLO headquarters in Beirut .

July 19 - The 1981 Springbok Tour commences in New Zealand , amid controversy over the support of Apartheid .

July 27 - The '' Wheel Of Fortune '' TV show premiers in Australia on the Seven Network .

July 29 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince Of Wales .

August

August 1 - '' MTV '' (Music Television) is launched.

August 3 - The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) goes on strike.

August 5 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 Striking Air-traffic Controller s who ignored his order for them to return to work.

August 7 - ''The Washington Star '' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

August 9 - Major League Baseball resumes from Strike with the All-Star Game in Cleveland 's Municipal Stadium .

August 12 - The original Model 5150 IBM PC with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.

n leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi sends 2 Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept 2 U.S. fighters over the Gulf Of Sidra . The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.

August 19 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor .

August 24 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment after being convicted of murdering John Lennon in Manhattan eight months ago.

August 28 - South Africa n troops invade Angola .

August 31 - A bomb explodes at the U.S. Air Force Base In Ramstein , West Germany , injuring 20 people.

September

September 4 - An explosion at a mine in Zalizin , Czechoslovakia , kills 65 people.

September 10 - Picasso 's painting " Guernica " is moved from New York to Madrid .

September 14 - Margaret Thatcher appoints Cecil Parkinson as Chairman of the Conservative Party .

September 15 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable Steam Locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC .

September 16 - In Britain , the Liberal Party Assembly votes for an electoral pact with the new Social Democratic Party .

September 18 - France abolishes Capital Punishment .

September 19 - The second Wranslide occurs in New South Wales , with the Wran government re-elected for a third term with an increased majority, and reducing the Liberal Party Of Australia to just 14 members in the Legislative Assembly.

September 19 - Simon And Garfunkel perform The Concert In Central Park , a free concert in New York in front of approximately a half a million people.

September 20 - Belize becomes independent.

September 25 - Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court .

September 26 - First flight of the Boeing 767 airliner.

September 27 - TGV high speed rail service between Paris and Lyon , France begins.

September 27 - Denis Healey retained the post of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party , beating Tony Benn by 50.426% to 49.574%.

October

: Anwar Sadat is assassinated.]]

October 6 - Egypt ian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the Egypt ian Islamic Jihad organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel .

October 10 - The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the Jōyō Kanji .

October 10 - A Provisional IRA bomb at Chelsea Barracks in London kills a woman pensioner.

October 13 - James Tobin wins the Bank Of Sweden Prize In Economic Sciences In Memory Of Alfred Nobel .

October 14 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt 1 week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.

October 15 - The Heavy Metal band Metallica forms.

October 21 - Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister Of Greece .

October 22 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers And Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.

October 22 - Liberal candidate Bill Pitt wins the Croydon North West Byelection , the first election win by the Liberal- S.D.P. Alliance.

October 26 - An IRA bomb in a Wimpy Bar in Oxford Street , London , kills a bomb disposal expert.

October 27 - A Soviet Submarine runs aground oustide the Karlskrona , Sweden military base.

November

: Flag of Antigua & Barbuda .]]

November 1 - Antigua And Barbuda gain Independence from the United Kingdom .

November 9 - Edict No 81-234 abolishes Slavery in Mauritania .

'', piloted by Joe Engle and Richard Truly , lifts off for its second mission.

November 12 - The Church Of England General Synod voted to admit women to holy orders.

November 13 - The first Friday The 13th event is held by Motorcyclists in Port Dover , Ontario , Canada .

November 16 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.

November 18 - COMDEX Fall, IBM Introduced the IBM PC. Scientific Solutions announces the first PC add-in cards.

signs the Top Secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua .

November 25 - November 26 - A group of Mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport in the Seychelles in a Coup attempt. Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered Air India passenger jet; 6 are later arrested.

November 26 - Former cabinet minister Shirley Williams won the Crosby By-election , becoming the first elected S.D.P. MP.

, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range Nuclear Weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, December 17 ).

December

December 1 - A Yugoslavia n DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica , killing 178;

December 4 - South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).

December 5 - American general James Lee Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by Italian Red Brigades .

December 8 - The No. 21 Mine Explosion in Whitwell, Tennessee kills 13.

December 8 - Arthur Scargill became President-elect of the National Union Of Mineworkers .

December 9 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police officer Daniel Faulkner is shot and killed during a routine traffic stop of a vehicle driven by William Cook , Mumia Abu-Jamal 's younger brother.

, army units kill 900 civilians.

December 13 - Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland , to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity .

December 15 - A Car Bomb destroys the Iraq i Embassy in Beirut , Lebanon , killing 61 people. Syria n intelligence is blamed.

December 20 - The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster occurs off the coast of South-West Cornwall .

December 28 - The first American Test-tube Baby , Elizabeth Jordan Carr , is born in Norfolk, Virginia .

December 31 - Coup D'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann 's PNP Government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings .

Undated

Millennium reenactment of the translation of Saint Edward The Martyr 's relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury .

Public funding of election Campaigns introduced in New South Wales , Australia .

The State Council Of The People's Republic Of China listed the four cities ( Beijing , Hangzhou , Suzhou and Guilin ) as where the protection of historical and cultural heritage as well as natural scenery should be treated as a priority project.

Cuba suffers a major outbreak of Dengue Fever , with 344,203 cases. {Link without Title}

Luxor AB Presents the ABC 800 computer.

Ongoing

Cold War .

BIRTHS

January-February

January 1 - Ahmad Abduhu , World's Richest Person (Incoming Future)

January 1 - Zsolt Baumgartner , Hungarian race car driver

January 1 - Eden Riegel , American actress

January 3 - Eli Manning , American football player

January 6 - Mike Jones , American rapper

January 6 - Jérémie Renier , Belgian actor

January 7 - Alex Auld , Canadian ice hockey goaltender

January 8 - Genevieve Cortese , American actress

January 8 - Jeff Francis , Canadian pitcher

January 9 - Euzebiusz Smolarek , Polish footballer

January 11 - Jamelia , British singer

January 12 - Quentin Griffin , American football player

January 15 - El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese footballer

January 15 - Howie Day , American singer and songwriter

January 17 - Scott Mechlowicz , American actor

January 20 - Jason Richardson , American basketball player

January 20 - Owen Hargreaves , Canadian-born footballer

January 21 - Dany Heatley , German-born hockey player

January 21 - Gillian Chung , Hong Kong singer ( Twins )

January 22 - Chantelle Anderson , American basketball player

January 22 - Willa Ford , American singer, television hostess, and actress

January 22 - Beverley Mitchell , American actress

January 22 - Ben Moody , American guitarist (formerly of Evanescence )

January 24 - Brandon Henschel , American actor and dancer

January 28 - Elijah Wood , American actor and music producer

January 29 - Jonny Lang , American musician

January 31 - Justin Timberlake , American musician

February 3 - Alisa Reyes , American actress

February 10 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague , American drummer ( Avenged Sevenfold )

February 10 - Natasha St-Pier , Canadian singer

February 11 - Kelly Rowland , American singer ( Destiny's Child )

February 14 - Erin Torpey , American actress

February 15 - Jenna Morasca , American television personality

February 15 - Olivia , American R&B singer

February 16 - Lupe Fiasco , American hip-hop artist

February 17 - Paris Hilton , American model, heiress, and socialite

February 18 - Andrei Kirilenko , Russian basketball player

February 18 - Ivan Sproule , Irish footballer

February 19 - Vitas , Russian singer

February 20 - Chris Thile , American mandolinist

February 20 - Majandra Delfino , American actress

February 22 - Jeanette Biedermann , German singer and actress

February 24 - Lleyton Hewitt , Australian tennis player

February 27 - Josh Groban , American singer

March-April

March 1 - Ana Hickmann , Brazilian model

March 1 - Adam LaVorgna , American actor

March 1 - Brad Winchester , American ice hockey player

March 2 - Bryce Howard , American actress

March 3 - Lil' Flip , American rapper

March 4 - Carol Banawa , Filipina singer and celebrity

March 6 - Ellen Muth , American actress

March 9 - Antonio Bryant , American football player

March 10 - Kristen Maloney , American gymnast

March 11 - David Anders , American actor

March 11 - Lee Evans , American football player

March 11 - LeToya Luckett , American singer ( Destiny's Child )

March 15 - Young Buck , American rapper

March 16 - Andrew Bree , Irish swimmer

March 19 - Kolo Touré , Ivorian football player

March 22 - MIMS , American rapper

March 27 - Terry McFlynn , Irish footballer

March 28 - Lindsay Frimodt , American model

March 28 - Julia Stiles , American actress

March 31 - Gerard McCarthy , British actor

April 1 - Hannah Spearritt , British singer and actress

April 2 - Bethany Joy Lenz , American actress and singer

April 3 - Arfius Arf , British artist

April 8 - Taylor Kitsch , Canadian actor and model

April 9 - Milan Bartovič , Slovak hockey player

April 9 - Eric Harris , American murderer at Columbine High School (d. 1999 )

April 9 - Ireneusz Jeleń , Polish footballer

April 10 - Gretchen Bleiler , American snowboarder

April 10 - Liz McClarnon , British singer ( Atomic Kitten )

April 10 - Michael Pitt , American actor

April 11 - Alessandra Ambrosio , Brazilian model

April 15 - Seth Wulsin , artist

April 17 - Hanna Pakarinen , Finnish singer

April 18 - Jang Nara , Korean actress and singer

April 18 - Audrey Tang , Taiwanese software programmer

April 19 - Hayden Christensen , Canadian actor

April 19 - Catalina Sandino Moreno , Colombian actress

April 19 - Troy Polamalu , American football player

April 20 - Matus Valent , fitness model

April 21 - Mike Christie , English musician ( G4 )

April 21 - Stephanie Larimore , American model

April 22 - Ken Dorsey , American football player

April 26 - Matthieu Delpierre , French football player

April 28 - Jessica Alba , American actress

April 29 - George McCartney , Irish footballer

May-June

May 1 - Alexander Hleb , Belarusian football player

May 3 - Farrah Franklin , American singer (formerly of Destiny's Child )

May 3 - U;Nee ,K-pop singer and actress (d. 2007 )

May 4 - Jacques Rudolph , South African cricketer

May 5 - Craig David , British singer

May 5 - Danielle Fishel , American actress

May 11 - Lauren Jackson , Australian basketball player

May 12 - Kentaro Sato , Japanese composer

May 13 - Rebecka Liljeberg , Swedish actress

May 13 - Sunny Leone , Canadian entertainer

May 13 - Jimmy Wang Yang , Japanese professional wrestler

May 15 - Zara Phillips , British elite equestrienne

May 15 - Justin Morneau , Canadian baseball player

May 15 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler , American actress

May 17 - R.J. Helton , American singer

May 19 - Klaas-Erik Zwering , Dutch swimmer

May 19 - Nate Cole , American singer/songwriter (formerly of Plus One )

May 20 - Sean Conlon , English musician ( 5ive )

May 20 - Lindsay Taylor , American basketball player

May 20 - Iker Casillas , Spanish footballer

May 22 - Melissa Gregory , American figure skater

May 26 - Isaac Slade , Singer/pianist of The Fray

May 27 - Alina Cojocaru , Romanian ballerina

June 1 - Carlos Zambrano , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player

June 3 - Mike Adam , Canadian curler

June 5 - Jade Goody , British reality show star

June 6 - Johnny Pacar , American actor

June 7 - Anna Kournikova , Russian tennis player

June 7 - Larisa Oleynik , American actress

June 8 - Alex Band , American musician

June 8 - Sara Watkins , American violinist

June 8 - Ai Nonaka , Japanese voice actress

June 9 - Celina Jaitley , Indian actress

June 9 - Natalie Portman , Israeli-born actress

June 9 - Anoushka Shankar , British musician and daughter of Ravi Shankar

June 9 - Vic Zhou , Taiwanese actor, singer, and model

June 10 - Hoku Ho , Hawaiian singer and musician

June 10 - Burton O'Brien , Scottish footballer

June 12 - Adriana Lima , Brazilian model

June 13 - Christopher Robert Evans , American actor

June 14 - Lonneke Engel , Dutch model

June 16 - Ben Kweller , American musician

June 18 - Teresa Cormack , New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987 )

June 18 - Ella Chen , member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E

June 20 - Alisan Porter , American actress and singer

June 21 - Brandon Flowers , American singer and keyboardist ( The Killers )

June 22 - Chris Urbanowicz , British guitarist Editors

July-August

July 2 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz , American activist

July 2 - Paul Anthony Finn , Irish singer and songwriter ( The Flaws )

July 3 - Brandon Jay McLaren , Canadian actor

July 6 - Nnamdi Asomugha , American football player

July 7 - Synyster Gates , American guitarist ( Avenged Sevenfold )

July 8 - Anastasia Myskina , Russian tennis player

July 8 - Ashley Blue , American pornographic actress

July 19 - Didz Hammond , bassist/backing vocalist ( Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause )

July 20 - Dayang Nurfaizah , Malaysian singer

July 21 - Stefan Schumacher , German cyclist

July 21 - Blake Lewis , ''American Idol'' finalist

July 23 - Steve Jocz , Canadian drummer ( Sum 41 )

July 24 - Summer Glau , American actress ( Firefly )

July 25 - Jani Rita , Finnish ice hockey player

July 29 - Fernando Alonso , Spanish Two Time Formula 1 World Champion

July 31 - M. Shadows , American singer ( Avenged Sevenfold )

August 4 - Marques Houston , American singer and actor

August 5 - Carl Crawford , baseball player

August 5 - Rachel Scott , American murder victim (d. 1999 )

August 5 - Kō Shibasaki , Japanese singer and actress

August 8 - Roger Federer , Swiss tennis player

August 8 - Harel Skaat , Israeli singer

August 8 - Meagan Good , American actress

August 8 - Kaori Iida , Japanese singer and actress

August 10 - Natsumi Abe , Japanese singer and actress

August 11 - Sandi Thom , Scottish singer & song writer

August 12 - Djibril Cissé , French footballer

August 14 - Benjamin Williams , professional poker player

August 15 - Jason Reynolds , Father of Joshua Ryan Edwards

August 16 - Taylor Rain , American actress

August 24 - Chad Michael Murray , American actor

August 25 - Rachel Bilson , American actress

August 29 - Lanny Barbie , American actress

August 30 - Brian J. Robinson , Canadian musician ( A Wilhelm Scream )

September-October

September 1 - Clinton Portis , American football player

September 1 - Michael Adamthwaite , Canadian voice actor

September 2 - Bracha Van Doesburgh , Dutch actress

September 3 - Fearne Cotton , British television presenter

September 4 - Beyoncé Knowles , American actress and singer ( Destiny's Child )

September 4 - Lacey Mosley , American lead vocalist ( Flyleaf )

September 6 - Yumiko Cheng , Hong Kong singer

September 8 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas , American actor

September 9 - Julie Gonzalo , Argentinian actress

September 11 - Dylan Klebold , American murderer (d. 1999 )

September 12 - Jennifer Hudson , American singer and actress

September 14 - Ashley Roberts , singer The Pussycat Dolls

September 14 - Miyavi , Japanese-Korean singer and musician

September 16 - Alexis Bledel , American actress

September 16 - Fan Bingbing , Chinese actress

September 21 - Nicole Richie , American actress, singer and socialite

September 22 - Ashley Drane , American actress

September 23 - Misti Traya , American actress

September 23 - Natalie Horler , German singer Cascada

September 23 - Robert Doornbos , Dutch race car driver

September 25 - Rocco Baldelli , baseball player

September 26 - Serena Williams , American tennis player

September 30 - Cecelia Ahern , Irish author and daughter of current Taoiseach Bertie Ahern

September 30 - Dominique Moceanu , American gymnast

October 3 - Zlatan Ibrahimović , Swedish footballer

October 3 - Amanda Walsh , Canadian actress

October 5 - Enrico Fabris , Italian speed skater

October 8 - Raffi Torres , Canadian ice hockey player

October 9 - Peter Hill , British photographer

October 9 - Zachery Ty Bryan , American actor

October 11 - Beau Brady , Australian actor

October 13 - Vernon Carey , American football player

October 13 - Ryan Ashford , English footballer

October 14 - Akon , Senegalese singer

October 15 - Elena Dementieva , Russian tennis player

October 20 - Willis McGahee , American football player

October 22 - Michael Fishman , American actor

October 23 - Olivier Occean , Canadian footballer

October 24 - Mallika Sherawat , Indian actress

October 25 - Shaun Wright-Phillips , English footballer

October 26 - Guy Sebastian , original Australian Idol 2003 singer

October 28 - Milan Baroš , Czech footballer

October 28 - Dwayne Cameron , New Zealand actor

October 29 - Amanda Beard , American swimmer

October 30 - Ivanka Trump , American model

October 31 - Selina Ren , member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E

October 31 - Irina Denezhkina , Russian writer

October 31 - Frank Iero , American guitarist ( My Chemical Romance )

November-December

November 1 - LaTavia Roberson , American singer ( Destiny's Child )

November 2 - Tatiana Totmianina , Russian figure skater

November 3 - Blair Chenoweth , American beauty queen

November 3 - Jackie Gayda , American professional wrestler

November 4 - Vince Wilfork , American football player

November 6 - Cassie Bernall , American murder victim (d. 1999 )

November 8 - Joe Cole , English footballer

November 8 - Azura Skye , American actress

November 10 - Tony Blanco , Dominican baseball player

November 10 - Jason Dunham , American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004 )

November 10 - Alison Waite , American model

November 11 - Natalie Glebova , Canadian beauty queen

November 11 - Jyothika , Indian actress

November 11 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke Of Luxembourg

November 13 - Mark Cardona , Filipino basketball player

November 13 - Shawn Yue , Hong Kong actor and singer

November 15 - Lorena Ochoa , Mexican golfer

November 17 - Sarah Harding , British singer ( Girls Aloud , Amy Lee Lead composer for Evanescence

November 18 - Gian Magdangal , Filipino singer and actor

November 20 - Kimberley Walsh , British singer ( Girls Aloud )

November 21 - Bryant McFadden , American football player

November 22 - Ben Adams , British singer ( A1 )

November 22 - Seweryn Gancarczyk , Polish footballer

November 25 - Xabi Alonso , Spanish footballer

November 26 - Natasha Bedingfield , British singer

November 26 - Aurora Snow , American actress

November 29 - Tom Hurndall , British photographer (d. 2004 )

December 2 - Britney Spears , American singer

December 2 - David Villa , Spanish footballer

December 3 - Brian Bonsall , American actor

December 4 - Lila McCann , American singer

December 9 - Dia Mirza , Bollywood actress

December 9 - Jacob Stewart , St. Thomas based songwriter/guitarist

December 11 - Zacky Vengeance , American guitarist ( Avenged Sevenfold )

December 12 - Spencer Johnson , NFL player

December 13 - Amy Lee , American singer/songwriter ( Evanescence )

December 14 - Amber Chia , Malaysian model and actress

December 15 - Thomas Herrion , American football player (d. 2005 )

December 15 - Donal Coonan , UK presenter for Channel 4 's webshow Thisisaknife

December 16 - Anna Sedokova , Ukrainian singer

December 21 - Cristian Zaccardo , Italian footballer

December 24 - Dima Bilan , Russian pop-singer

December 27 - Emilie De Ravin , Australian actress

December 27 - Yuvraj Singh , Indian cricketer

December 28 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr , first American test-tube baby

December 28 - Sienna Miller , American-born actress

December 28 - Khalid Boulahrouz , Dutch footballer

December 29 - Shizuka Arakawa , Japanese figure skater

December 29 - Angela Via , American singer

December 30 - Haley Paige , American actress

DEATHS

January-March

January 5 - Harold C. Urey , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893 )

January 5 - Lanza Del Vasto , Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist (b. 1901 )

January 6 - A. J. Cronin , Scottish novelist (b. 1896 )

January 10 - Katherine Alexander , American actress (b. 1898 )

January 23 - Samuel Barber , American composer (b. 1910 )

January 31 - Cozy Cole , American jazz drummer (b. 1909 )

February 1 - Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer (b. 1908 )

February 9 - Bill Haley , American musician (b. 1925 )

February 15 - Karl Richter , German conductor (b. 1926 )

February 18 - John Knudsen Northrop , American airplane manufacturer (b. 1895 )

February 20 - Baron Nicolas De Gunzburg , French magazine editor and playboy (b. 1904 )

February 26 - Howard Hanson , American composer (b. 1896 )

February 27 - Jacob H. Gilbert , American politician (b. 1920 )

March 6 - George Geary , English cricketer (b. 1893 )

March 7 - Kiril Kondrashin , Russian conductor (b. 1914 )

March 9 - Max Delbrück , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1906 )

March 23 - Beatrice Tinsley , English astronomer (b. 1941 )

March 30 - DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher ('' Reader's Digest '') (b. 1889 )

March 31 - Frank Tieri , American gangster (b. 1904 )

April-June

April 3 - Juan Trippe , Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899 )

April 5 - Maurice Zbriger , Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1896 )

April 7 - Norman Taurog , American film director (b. 1899 )

April 12 - Joe Louis , American boxer (b. 1914 )

April 18 - James H. Schmitz , German-born writer (b. 1911 )

April 27 - John Aspinwall Roosevelt , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916 )

May 5 - Bobby Sands , Irish republican (hunger strike) (b. 1954 )

May 9 - Nelson Algren , American author (b. 1909 )

May 9 - Ralph Allen , English footballer (b. 1906 )

May 11 - Odd Hassel , Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897 )

May 11 - Bob Marley , Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945 )

May 18 - William Saroyan , American author (b. 1908 )

May 30 - Don Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955 )

June 1 - Carl Vinson , U.S. Congressman (b. 1883 )

June 2 - Rino Gaetano , Italian singer-songwriter

June 9 - Allen Ludden , American television game show host (b. 1917 )

June 10 - Jenny Maxwell , American actress (b. 1941 )

June 17 - Sir Richard O'Connor , English general (b. 1889 )

June 17 - Zerna Sharp , American writer and educator (''Dick and Jane'') (b. 1889 )

June 18 - Pamela Hansford Johnson , English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (b. 1912 )

June 19 - Lotte Reiniger , German-born silhouette animator (b. 1899 )

June 23 - Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907 )

June 28 - Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958 )

July-September

July 8 - Joe McDonnell , Irish political prisoner (after 61 days of Hunger Strike ) (b. 1951 )

July 16 - Harry Chapin , American singer and songwriter (b. 1942 )

July 27 - Adam Walsh , American murder victim, inspired Code Adam (b. 1974 )

July 27 - William Wyler , American movie director (b. 1902 )

July 29 - Robert Moses , American urban planner (b. 1888 )

August 14 - Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (b. 1894 )

August 30 - Vera-Ellen , American actress and dancer (b. 1921 )

September 1 - Albert Speer , Nazi official (b. 1905 )

September 2 - Enid Lyons , Australia politician (b. 1897 )

September 2 - Bill Shankly English soccer player (b. 1913 )

September 8 - Hideki Yukawa , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907 )

September 9 - Sir Robert (Bob) Askin , Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907 )

September 12 - Eugenio Montale , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896 )

September 15 - Rafael Méndez , Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906 )

September 28 - Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle Of Handsworth , British Conservative cabinet minister (b. 1923 )

September 29 - Bill Shankly , British football manager (b. 1914 )

October-December

October 2 - Harry Golden , American journalist (b. 1902 )

October 6 - Anwar Sadat , President Of Egypt , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918 )

October 16 - Stanley Clements , American actor (b. 1926 )

October 16 - Moshe Dayan , Israeli general (b. 1915 )

October 29 - Georges Brassens , French singer and songwriter (b. 1921 )

November 7 - Will Durant , American philosopher and writer (b. 1885 )

November 14 - Robert Bradford , Northern Irish footballer and politician (assassinated) (b. 1941 )

November 16 - William Holden , American actor (b. 1918 )

November 22 - Hans Adolf Krebs , German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1900 )

November 25 - Jack Albertson , American actor (b. 1907 )

November 29 - Natalie Wood , American actress (drowned) (b. 1938 )

December 3 - Walter Knott , American farmer and theme park creator (b. 1889 )

December 15 - Catherine T. MacArthur , American philanthropist (b. 1909 )

December 23 - Reginald Miles Ansett , Australian businessman and aviator (b. 1909 )

December 27 - Hoagy Carmichael , American jazz composer (b. 1899 )

December 28 - Allan Dwan , Canadian-born film director (b. 1885 )

NOBEL PRIZES

Physics - Nicolaas Bloembergen , Arthur Leonard Schawlow , Kai Siegbahn

Chemistry - Kenichi Fukui , Roald Hoffmann

Medicine - Roger Wolcott Sperry , David H. Hubel , Torsten Wiesel

Literature - Elias Canetti

Peace - United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees

TEMPLETON PRIZE

Dame Cicely Saunders

SEE ALSO

20th Century

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