Editing 1970

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*[[Mary Ann Vecchio]] kneeling over the dead body of [[Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim)|Jeffrey Miller]] after police open fire on a student protest in [[Kent State University]] in [[Kent, Ohio]]; May 4, 1970.

*Canadian Army soldier standing guard in Montreal after [[War Measures Act]] is envoked following an increase in Quebec separatist violence; October 18, 1970.

*Elvis visiting U.S. President Richard Nixon in the White House; December 21, 1970.

*New Nigerian Newspaper stating the capture of the city of [[Owerri]], declaring the end of the [[Nigerian Civil War]]; January 7, 1970. 

*Poster for the [[1970 FIFA World Cup]] held in [[Mexico]] that year.

*The [[Break-up of the Beatles]]; Daily Mirror Article claiming Paul McCartney has left the Beatles after Q&A package, one month before the release of their final album [[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]; April 10, 1970.

*[[Tu-144]] becomes the first passenger airplane to break [[Mach number|Mach 2]]; May 26, 1970.

*Bhola Cyclone impacts East Pakistan ([[Bangladesh]]) and becomes the deadliest tropical cyclone recorded killing 300,000-500,000; November 13, 1970.

*A monument to when German Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto on December 7, 1970.
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<!--[[File:1970 Events Collage.jpg|300x300px|thumb|Clockwise from top-left: a 7.1 magnitude [[1970 Tonghai earthquake|earthquake]] in [[Tonghai]], [[China]] kills over 10,000 people; the [[Apollo 13]] mission is aborted after an [[oxygen tank]] in the [[service module]] fails, resulting in the safe return of all passengers to [[Earth]]; the [[1970 FIFA World Cup]] is held in [[Mexico]] and won by [[Brazil]]; the [[1970 Ancash earthquake]] and subsequent [[1970 Huascarán debris avalanche|avalanche]] kills about 70,000 in [[Peru]] and became the deadliest earthquake there; Japan launches its first [[Ohsumi (satellite)|satellite]], Ohsumi, into outer space; [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|terrorist groups]] [[Dawson's Field hijackings|hijack five airliners]] in [[Jordan]], crashing all of them against each other; four student protesters protesting the [[Vietnam War]] are killed in [[Ohio]] by the police, resulting in outrage throughout the [[United States]]; a [[1970 Bhola cyclone|tropical cyclone kills 500,000 people]] in [[East Pakistan]] and [[India]], becoming the deadliest [[tropical cyclone]] on record.]]-->
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==Events==

===January===
{{Main|January 1970}}
* [[January 1]] – [[Unix time]] epoch reached at 00:00:00 [[UTC]].
* [[January 5]] – The 7.1 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1970 Tonghai earthquake|Tonghai earthquake]] shakes [[Tonghai County]], [[Yunnan]] province, China, with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 30,000 injured.
* [[January 15]] – After a 32-month fight for independence from [[Nigeria]], [[Biafra]]n forces under [[Philip Effiong]] formally surrender to General [[Yakubu Gowon]], ending the [[Nigerian Civil War]].

===February===
{{Main|February 1970}}
[[File:Ohsumi.jpg|thumb|150px| [[February 11]]: [[Ohsumi (satellite)]] launched]]
* [[February 1]] – The [[Benavídez rail disaster]] near [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236.
* [[February 10]] – An [[avalanche]] at [[Val-d'Isère]], France, kills 41 tourists.
* [[February 11]] – ''[[Ohsumi (satellite)|Ohsumi]]'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a [[Lambda-4]] rocket.
* [[February 22]] – [[Guyana]] becomes a Republic within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
* February – Multi-[[business]] [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] [[Virgin Group]] is founded as a discount mail-order record retailer by [[Richard Branson]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Virgin empire: from selling records to running trains and airline |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/aug/15/virgin-train-richard-branson |website=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=27 May 2021 |date=2012-08-15}}</ref>

===March===
{{Main|March 1970}}
* [[March 1]] – [[Rhodesia]]'s white minority government severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a [[republic]].
* [[March 4]] – All 57 men aboard the [[French submarine Eurydice (S644)|French submarine ''Eurydice'']] are killed when the vessel implodes while making a practice dive in the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Rawls |first=John |date=July 1970 |title=Sealift |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpczoesvrcwC |publisher=U.S. Military Sealift Command |page=3}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] – The [[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]] goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
* [[March 6]] – [[Süleyman Demirel]] of [[Justice Party (Turkey)|AP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (32nd government).
* [[March 12]] – [[Citroën]] introduces the [[Citroën SM]], the world's fastest front-wheel drive auto at this time, at the annual [[Geneva Auto Salon|Geneva Motor Show]] in [[Switzerland]].
* [[March 15]] – The [[Expo '70]] World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
* [[March 16]] – The complete [[New English Bible]] is published in the UK.
* [[March 18]] – General [[Lon Nol]] ousts Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]] and holds Queen [[Sisowath Kossamak]] under house arrest.
* [[March 19]] – [[Ostpolitik]]: The leaders of [[West Germany]] and [[East Germany]] meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in [[Erfurt]] for a summit with his counterpart, East German ''Ministerpräsident'' [[Willi Stoph]].
* [[March 20]] – The ''[[Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique]]'' (ACCT) is founded.
* [[March 21]] – "[[All Kinds of Everything]]", sung by [[Dana Rosemary Scallon|Dana]] (music and lyrics by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1970]] (staged in Amsterdam) for Ireland.
* [[March 31]]
** [[NASA]]'s ''[[Explorer 1]]'', the first American [[satellite]] and [[Explorer program]] spacecraft, reenters [[Earth's atmosphere]] after 12 years in orbit.
** [[Japan Airlines Flight 351]], carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to [[Fukuoka]], is hijacked by [[Japanese Red Army]] members. All passengers and crew are eventually freed.

===April===
{{Main|April 1970}}
* [[April 4]] – Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Eva Braun]], [[Joseph Goebbels]], [[Magda Goebbels]] and the [[Goebbels children]] are crushed and scattered in the [[Biederitz]] river at a [[KGB]] center in [[Magdeburg]], [[East Germany]].
* [[April 8]]
** A huge gas explosion at a [[Subway (rail)|subway]] construction site in [[Osaka]], Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.
** Israeli Air Force [[F-4 Phantom II]] fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as [[Bahr el-Baqar massacre]]. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
* [[April 10]] – In a press release written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of [[McCartney (album)|his first solo album]], [[Paul McCartney]] announces that he [[Break-up of the Beatles|has left]] [[The Beatles]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Schaffner |title=The Beatles Forever |location=New York |publisher=Cameron House |year=1977 |page=135}}</ref>
* [[April 11]]
** An [[avalanche]] at a [[tuberculosis]] [[sanatorium]] in the [[French Alps]] kills 74, mostly young boys.
** [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 13]] ([[Jim Lovell]], [[Fred Haise]], [[Jack Swigert]]) is launched from the United States toward the [[Moon]].
* [[April 13]] – An oxygen tank in the [[Apollo 13]] spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in four days.
* [[April 17]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 13]] [[Splashdown|splashes down]] safely in the Pacific.[[File:Apollo 13 crew postmission onboard USS Iwo Jima.jpg|thumb|[[April 17]]: [[Apollo 13]] crew after [[splashdown]]]]
* [[April 21]] – The [[Principality of Hutt River]] "secedes" from [[Australia]] (it remains unrecognised by Australia and other nations).
* [[April 24]] – China's first satellite (''[[Dong Fang Hong 1]]'') is launched into orbit using a [[Long March (rocket family)|Long March]]-1 Rocket (CZ-1).
* [[April 26]] – The [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO) is founded.

===May===
{{Main|May 1970}}
* [[May 4]] – [[Kent State shootings]]: Four students at [[Kent State University]] in [[Ohio]], are killed and nine wounded by [[Ohio National Guard]]smen at a protest against the [[Cambodian campaign|U.S. incursion]] into [[Cambodia]].
* [[May 6]]
** [[Arms Crisis]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]]: [[Charles Haughey]] and [[Neil Blaney]] are dismissed as members of the [[Irish Government]] for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] in [[Northern Ireland]].
** [[Feyenoord]] win the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] in association football after a 2–1 win over [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]].
*[[May 11]] – [[Lubbock tornado]]: A strong, multi-vortex F5 tornado impacts areas of [[Lubbock, Texas]], after dark, resulting in 26 fatalities and over 1,500 injuries.
* [[May 14]]
** [[Ulrike Meinhof]] helps [[Andreas Baader]] escape and create the [[Red Army Faction]] in [[West Germany]] which exists until [[1998]].
** [[Jackson State killings]]: In the second day of violent demonstrations at [[Jackson State University]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi]], state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.
* [[May 17]] – [[Thor Heyerdahl]] sets sail from [[Morocco]] on the [[papyrus]] boat ''[[Ra II]]'', to cross the South Atlantic.
* [[May 26]] – The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Tupolev Tu-144]] becomes the first commercial transport to exceed [[speed of sound|Mach]] 2.
* [[May 31]]
** The 7.9 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1970 Ancash earthquake|Ancash earthquake]] shakes [[Peru]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe'') and a [[landslide]] buries the town of [[Yungay, Peru]]. Between 66,794 and 70,000 are killed and 50,000 injured.
** The [[1970 FIFA World Cup]] in association football is inaugurated in [[Mexico]].

===June===
{{Main|June 1970}}
* [[June 1]] – ''[[Soyuz 9]]'', a two-man spacecraft, is launched from the [[Soviet Union]] for an orbital flight of nearly 18 days, an endurance record at this time.
* [[June 4]] – [[Tonga]] gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* [[June 8]] – A [[Coup d'état|coup]] in [[Argentina]] brings a new [[military dictatorship|junta]] of service chiefs; on [[June 18]], [[Roberto M. Levingston]] becomes President.
* [[June 12]] – [[National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf]] guerrillas attack military garrisons at [[Izki]] and [[Nizwa]] in [[Oman]].
* [[June 19]] – The [[Patent Cooperation Treaty]] is signed into [[international law]], providing a unified procedure for filing [[patent application]]s to protect inventions.
* [[June 21]]
**[[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeats [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 4–1 to win the [[1970 FIFA World Cup]] in Mexico. As 3-times winner, they keep the [[Jules Rimet Trophy]] permanently.
**[[Penn Central]], America's largest railroad, files for chapter 77 [[bankruptcy]]; the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy at the time.

===July===
{{Main|July 1970}}
* [[July 1]] – [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]] computer laboratory opens in [[Palo Alto, California]], United States.
* [[July 3]] 
** All 112 people on board [[Dan-Air Flight 1903]] are killed when the chartered British [[De Havilland Comet]] crashes into mountains north of [[Barcelona]] through navigational error.
**The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the [[Mururoa Atoll]]. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a [[hydrogen bomb]] small enough to be delivered by a missile.
* [[July 5]] – [[Air Canada Flight 621]] crashes near [[Toronto Pearson International Airport|Toronto International Airport]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] through pilot error; all 109 passengers and crew are killed.
* [[July 12]] – [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s papyrus boat ''Ra II'' arrives in [[Barbados]].
* [[July 21]] – The [[Aswan Dam|Aswan High Dam]] in [[Egypt]] is completed.
* [[July 23]] – [[1970 Omani coup d'état]]: [[Said bin Taimur]], [[List of rulers of Oman|Sultan of Muscat]] and [[Oman]], is deposed in a bloodless palace [[Coup d'état|coup]] by his son, [[Qaboos bin Said al Said|Qaboos]] with covert British support. Among the reforms he introduces is the abolition of chattel [[slavery in Oman]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Suzanne |last=Miers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZk9Y-HTQzcC&q=1926+Slavery+Convention |title=Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem |date=2003 |pages=346–47 |publisher=Rowman Altamira |isbn=978-0-7591-0340-5}}</ref> 
* [[July 30]] – [[Thalidomide scandal]]: Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 [[Thalidomide]] victims in the UK.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

===August===
{{Main|August 1970}}
* [[August 11]] – Creation of the [[International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts]] in [[Confolens]], [[France]].
* [[August 17]] – [[Venera program]]: ''[[Venera 7]]'' is launched from the Soviet Union toward [[Venus]]. It later becomes the first spacecraft to transmit data from the surface of another planet successfully.
* [[August 31]] – [[Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970]]: An annular solar eclipse is visible in Oceania, and is the 14th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 144]].

===September===
{{Main|September 1970}}
* [[September 1]] – An assassination attempt against King [[Hussein of Jordan]] precipitates the country's [[Black September]] crisis.
* [[September 3]]–[[September 6|6]] – [[Israel]]i forces [[Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon|fight]] [[State of Palestine|Palestinian]] guerillas in southern [[Lebanon]].
* [[September 4]]
** [[Chile]]an [[Socialist Party of Chile|Socialist]] [[Senate of Chile|Senator]] [[Salvador Allende]] wins 36.2% of the vote in his [[1970 Chilean presidential election|run for presidency]] defeating former [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] [[President of Chile|President]] [[Jorge Alessandri]] with 34.9% of the votes and [[Christian Democratic Party (Chile)|Christian Democrat]] [[Radomiro Tomic]] with 27.8% of the votes.
** Soviet Russian [[prima ballerina]] [[Natalia Makarova]] defects to the West while on tour with the [[Kirov Ballet]] in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/ballerina-natalia-makarova-being-spontaneous-its-what-saved-me/2012/11/29/68f72692-32da-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html |first=Sarah |last=Kaufman |title=Ballerina Natalia Makarova: 'Being Spontaneous its What Saved Me' |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2012-11-30}}</ref>
* [[September 5]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Jefferson Glenn]]: The [[101st Airborne Division|United States 101st Airborne Division]] and the [[South Vietnam]]ese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in [[Huế|Thua Thien]] Province (the operation ends in October 1971).
* [[September 6]] – [[Dawson's Field hijackings]]: The [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] hijacks four passenger aircraft from [[Pan Am]], [[TWA]] and [[Swissair]] on flights to [[New York City|New York]] from [[Brussels]], [[Frankfurt]] and [[Zurich]] and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.
* [[September 7]] – Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]].
* [[September 8]]–[[September 10|10]] – The [[Jordan]]ian government and Palestinian guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces.
* [[September 9]] – [[Guinea]] recognizes the [[German Democratic Republic]].
* [[September 10]] – [[Cambodia]]n government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after three months.
* [[September 15]] – King [[Hussein of Jordan]] forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
* [[September 17]] – [[Black September]]: King [[Hussein of Jordan]] orders the [[Jordanian Armed Forces]] to oust [[Palestinian fedayeen]] from Jordan.
* [[September 18]] – [[Death of Jimi Hendrix]]: American rock musician [[Jimi Hendrix]] dies of an overdose, age 27, in London, two days after last playing in public.<ref name=Jimi>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_3528000/3528692.stm |title=1970: Rock legend Hendrix dies after party |access-date=2008-02-02 |date=1970-09-18 |work=On This Day |publisher=BBC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202144824/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_3528000/3528692.stm |archive-date=2008-02-02 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Kostas Georgakis]], a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial [[Greek junta]] led by [[Georgios Papadopoulos]].
* [[September 20]]
** [[Syria]]n armored forces cross the [[Jordan]]ian border.
** ''[[Luna 16]]'' lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth [[September 24]].
* [[September 21]] – [[State of Palestine|Palestinian]] armed forces reinforce guerillas in [[Irbidi]], [[Jordan]].
* [[September 22]]
** The [[International Hydrographic Organization]] (IHO) is founded.
** [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Malaysia|prime minister of Malaysia]], and is succeeded by his [[Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia|deputy]] [[Tun Abdul Razak]].
* [[September 27]]
** [[Richard Nixon]] begins a tour of [[Europe]], visiting [[Italy]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Spain]], the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Republic of Ireland]].
** [[Pope Paul VI]] names Saint [[Teresa of Ávila]] (d. 1582) as the first female [[Doctor of the Church]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/17359/first-female-doctor-of-the-church-to-be-honored-this-week |title=First female Doctor of the Church to be honored this week |website=Catholic News Agency |date=11 October 2009}}</ref>
* [[September 28]] – Vice President [[Anwar Sadat]] is named temporary [[president of Egypt]] following the death of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].
* [[September 29]] – In [[Berlin]], [[Red Army Faction]] members rob three banks, with loot totaling over [[Deutsche Mark|DM]] 200,000.

===October===
{{Main|October 1970}}
* [[October 2]] – The [[Wichita State University]] football team's "Gold" plane [[Wichita State University football team plane crash|crashes]] in [[Colorado]], killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with [[Utah State University]].
* [[October 3]]
** In [[Lebanon]], the government of Prime Minister [[Rashid Karami]] resigns.
** The [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA) is formed in the United States and the Weather Bureau is renamed to [[National Weather Service]] as part of NOAA.
** [[Pope Paul VI]] names Saint [[Catherine of Siena]] (d. 1380) as the second female [[Doctor of the Church]].
* [[October 4]]
** [[Jochen Rindt]] becomes [[Formula One]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Driving Champion]], the first to earn the honor posthumously.
** In [[Bolivia]], Army Commander General [[Rogelio Miranda]] and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]], who dismisses him.
** American rock singer [[Janis Joplin]] is found dead of an overdose, age 27, in her hotel room in Hollywood.
* [[October 5]] – The [[Front de libération du Québec]] (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner [[James Cross]] in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members, beginning [[Quebec]]'s [[October Crisis]]. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
* [[October 6]] – Bolivian President [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]] resigns; General [[Rogelio Miranda]] takes over but resigns soon after.
* [[October 7]] – General [[Juan José Torres]] becomes the new [[President of Bolivia]].
* [[October 8]]
** The U.S. Foreign Office announces the renewal of arms sales to [[Pakistan]].
** [[Vietnam War]]: In Paris, a [[Communism|Communist]] delegation rejects U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]]'s peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
* [[October 9]] – The [[Khmer Republic]] is proclaimed in [[Cambodia]], escalating the [[Cambodian Civil War]] between the government and the [[Khmer Rouge]].
* [[October 10]]
** [[Fiji]] becomes independent.
** [[October Crisis]]: In [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]] Minister of Labour [[Pierre Laporte]] becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the [[FLQ]] terrorist group.
* [[October 11]] – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in [[Chad]].
* [[October 12]] – [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before [[Christmas]].
* [[October 13]] – [[Saeb Salam]] forms a government in [[Lebanon]].
* [[October 14]] – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in [[Lop Nor]].
* [[October 15]]
** A section of the new [[West Gate Bridge]] in [[Melbourne]] collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
** In [[Egypt]], a referendum supports [[Anwar Sadat]] 90.04%.
* [[October 16]] – [[October Crisis]]: The Canadian government declares a [[state of emergency]] and outlaws the [[Quebec Liberation Front]].
* [[October 17]]
** [[October Crisis]]: Quebec politician [[Pierre Laporte]] is found murdered by the FLQ in south Montreal.
** A [[cholera]] epidemic breaks out in [[Istanbul]].
** [[Anwar Sadat]] officially becomes President of Egypt.
* [[October 20]]
** The Soviet Union launches the ''[[Zond 8]]'' lunar probe.
** New Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names [[Mahmoud Fawzi]] as his prime minister.
* [[October 22]] – [[Chile]]an army commander [[René Schneider]] is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies [[October 25]].
* [[October 24]] – [[Salvador Allende]] is elected [[President of Chile|President]] of [[Chile]] by a run-off vote in the [[National Congress of Chile|National Congress]]
* [[October 25]] – The wreck of the Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (submarine)|Hunley]]'' is found off [[Charleston, South Carolina]], by 22-year-old pioneer [[underwater archaeologist]], [[Dr. E. Lee Spence]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070624/2hunley_2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133235/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070624/2hunley_2.htm |url-status=dead |title=Cover Story: Time Capsule From The Sea – ''U.S. News & World Report'', July 2–9, 2007 |archive-date=September 29, 2007}}</ref> ''Hunley'' is the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
* [[October 28]]
** In [[Jordan]], the government of [[Ahmad Toukan]] resigns; the next prime minister is [[Wasfi al-Tal]].
** A [[cholera]] outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes [[Hungary]] to close its border with [[Czechoslovakia]].
** [[Gary Gabelich]] drives the rocket-powered ''[[Blue Flame]]'' (part fuelled by LNG) to an official [[land speed record]] of {{convert|622.407|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}<ref name="FIA land speed records, Cat C">{{cite web |url=http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/7D4955E7190F1A25C12572FB00559369/$FILE/Records_List_Cat-C.pdf |title=FIA land speed records, Cat C |publisher=FIA |access-date=July 12, 2009}}</ref> on the dry lake bed of the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000&nbsp;km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
* [[October 30]] – In [[Vietnam]], the worst [[monsoon]] to hit the area in six years causes large [[flood]]s, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the [[Vietnam War]].

===November===
{{Main|November 1970}}
* [[November 1]] 
** The [[Club Cinq-Sept fire]] in [[Saint-Laurent-du-Pont]], France, kills 146.
** Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak and three Pakistanis are killed in an attack on a group of Polish diplomats at the [[Karachi]] airport.
* [[November 3]]
** [[Salvador Allende]] takes office as president of [[Chile]].
** The [[1970 Bhola cyclone]] makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4&nbsp;million in damage (1970 [[United States dollar|USD]], $576&nbsp;million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
* [[November 5]] – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in [[Vietnam]] reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die this week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded in the week, however).
* [[November 8]] – [[Egypt]], [[Libya]] and [[Sudan]] announce their intentions to form a federation.
* [[November 9]]
** The Soviet Union launches ''[[Luna 17]]'' for the moon.
** Vietnam War: The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of [[Massachusetts]] about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
* [[November 13]]
** [[1970 Bhola cyclone]]: A 120-mph (193&nbsp;km/h) [[tropical cyclone]] hits the densely populated [[Ganges Delta]] region of [[East Pakistan]] (modern-day [[Bangladesh]]), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the [[20th century]]'s worst cyclone disaster). It gives rise to the temporary island of [[New Moore / South Talpatti]].
** [[Hafez al-Assad]] comes to power in [[Syria]], following [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|a military coup]] within the [[Ba'ath Party]].
* [[November 14]]
** [[Southern Airways Flight 932]] crashes in [[Wayne County, West Virginia]]; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the [[Marshall University]] [[American football|football]] team, are killed.
** The Soviet Union enters the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]], after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years. [[Russian language|Russian]] becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.
* [[November 16]] – The [[Lockheed L-1011 TriStar]] flies for the first time.
* [[November 17]] – [[Luna programme]]: The [[Soviet Union]] lands ''[[Lunokhod 1]]'' on [[Mare Imbrium]] (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting ''[[Luna 17]]'' spacecraft.
* [[November 19]] – The six [[European Economic Community]] nation prime ministers meet in [[Munich]] to begin the new programme of [[European Political Cooperation]] (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.
* [[November 20]] – The [[Miss World 1970]] beauty pageant, hosted by [[Bob Hope]] at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a [[BBC]] outside broadcast vehicle by [[The Angry Brigade]], in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by [[South Africa]].
* [[November 21]]
** [[Syria]]n Prime Minister [[Hafez al-Assad]] forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
** In [[Ethiopia]], the [[Eritrean Liberation Front]] kills an Ethiopian general.
** [[Vietnam War]] – [[Operation Ivory Coast]]: A joint [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] and Army team raids the [[Sơn Tây (Hanoi)|Sơn Tây]] prison camp in an attempt to free American [[prisoners of war]] thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
** [[1970 Australian Senate election]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Gorton government|government]] led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[John Gorton]] and the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[Gough Whitlam]] each ends up with 26 seats, both suffering a swing against them. The [[Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)|Democratic Labor Party]] wins an additional seat and holds the balance of power in the [[Australian Senate|Senate]]. This is the last occasion on which a Senate election is held without an accompanying [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] election.
* [[November 22]] – [[Guinea]]n president [[Ahmed Sékou Touré]] accuses Portugal of an [[Operation Green Sea|attack]] when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital [[Conakry]]. The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
* [[November 25]]–[[November 29|29]] – A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
* [[November 25]] – In Tokyo, author and [[Tatenokai]] militia leader [[Yukio Mishima]] and his followers take over the headquarters of the [[Japan Self-Defense Forces]] in an attempted [[coup d'état]]. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]], he commits [[seppuku]] (public ritual suicide).
* [[November 27]] – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate [[Pope Paul VI]] during his visit in [[Manila]].
* [[November 28]] – The [[Montréal Alouettes]] defeat the [[Calgary Stampeders]], 23–10, to win the [[58th Grey Cup]] in Canadian football.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1970 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823210808/http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1970 |archive-date=August 23, 2010 |title=1970 – Montreal Alouettes 23, Calgary Stampeders 10}}</ref>

===December===
{{Main|December 1970}}
* [[December 1]]
** The [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Italian Chamber of Deputies]] accepts a new divorce law.
** [[Ethiopia]] recognizes the People's Republic of China.
** The [[Basques|Basque]] [[ETA (separatist group)]] kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in [[San Sebastián]].
** [[Luis Echeverría]] becomes [[president of Mexico]].
* [[December 2]] – The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] is established.
* [[December 3]] 
** October Crisis: In [[Montreal]], kidnapped British trade commissioner [[James Cross]] is released by the [[Front de libération du Québec]] terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to [[Cuba]].
** Burgos Trial: In [[Burgos]], Spain, the trial of 16 [[Basque people|Basque]] terrorism suspects begins.
* [[December 4]]
** The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzcoa, over strikes and demonstrations.
** The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
* [[December 5]]
** The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.
** [[Fluminense]] win the [[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Brazil Football Championship]].
* [[December 7]]
** Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in [[Rio de Janeiro]]; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.
** The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its [[apartheid]] policies.
** During his visit to the Polish capital, [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|German Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]] goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the [[Warsaw Ghetto]], which will become known as the [[Warschauer Kniefall]] ("Warsaw Genuflection").
* [[December 12]] – A [[landslide]] in western [[Colombia]] leaves 200 dead.
* [[December 15]]
** The USSR's ''[[Venera 7]]'' becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
** The South Korean ferry ''Namyong Ho'' capsizes off [[Korea Strait]]; 308 people are killed.
* [[December 16]] – The Ethiopian government declares a [[state of emergency]] in the region of Eritrea over the activities of the [[Eritrean Liberation Front]].
* [[December 20]] – An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for [[economic aid|economic]] and [[military aid]].
* [[December 21]] – The [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat]] makes its first flight.
* [[December 22]]
** The [[Libya]]n Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
** [[Franz Stangl]], the ex-commander of [[Treblinka extermination camp]], is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* [[December 23]]
** The [[Bolivia]]n government releases [[Régis Debray]].
** Law 70-001 is enacted in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], amending article 4 of the constitution and making the country a [[one-party state]].
* [[December 25]] – [[ETA (separatist group)|ETA]] releases Eugen Beihl in Spain.
* [[December 27]] – President of India [[V. V. Giri]] declares [[1971 Indian general election|new elections]].
* [[December 28]] – The suspected killers of [[Pierre Laporte]], Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
* [[December 29]] – U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] signs into law the [[Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States)|Occupational Safety and Health Act]].
* [[December 30]] – In [[Biscay (Congress of Deputies constituency)|Biscay]] in the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque country]] of Spain, 15,000 go on strike in protest at the Burgos trial death sentences. [[Francisco Franco]] commutes the sentences to 30 years in prison.
* [[December 31]] – [[Paul McCartney]] sues in Britain to dissolve [[The Beatles]]' legal partnership.

===Date unknown===
* The first [[Institutes of Technology in Ireland|Regional Technical Colleges]] open in Ireland.
* The [[Sweet Track]] is discovered in England. It is the world's oldest engineered roadway at the time of its discovery.
* [[Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland]], the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
* Women's movement starts in Oman with the establishment of the [[Omani Women's Association]].

===World population===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="7"|[[World population]]
|-
!
!1970
!colspan="2"|[[1965]]
!colspan="2"|[[1975]]
|-
!World
|align="right"|'''3,692,492,000'''
|align="right"|3,334,874,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 357,618,000
|align="right"|4,068,109,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 375,617,000
|-
!Africa
|align="right"|'''357,283,000'''
|align="right"|313,744,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 43,539,000
|align="right"|408,160,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 50,877,000
|-
!Asia
|align="right"|'''2,143,118,000'''
|align="right"|1,899,424,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 243,694,000
|align="right"|2,397,512,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 254,394,000
|-
!Europe
|align="right"|'''655,855,000'''
|align="right"|634,026,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 21,829,000
|align="right"|675,542,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 19,687,000
|-
!Latin America
|align="right"|'''284,856,000'''
|align="right"|250,452,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 34,404,000
|align="right"|321,906,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 37,050,000
|-
!North America
|align="right"|'''231,937,000'''
|align="right"|219,570,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 12,367,000
|align="right"|243,425,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 11,488,000
|-
!Oceania
|align="right"|'''19,443,000'''
|align="right"|17,657,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1,786,000
|align="right"|21,564,000
|align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,121,000
|}

==Births==
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[[File:Warwick Davis 20191205.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Warwick Davis]]]]
[[File:Shane McMahon in December 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shane McMahon]]]]
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[[File:Julie Bowen PaleyFest 2015 (17045838362).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julie Bowen]]]]
[[File:Aleksandar Vučić 2019 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aleksandar Vučić]]]]
[[File:2016 Redman (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Redman (rapper)|Redman]]]]
[[File:Rachel Weisz Montclair Film Festival 2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rachel Weisz]]]]
[[File:Queen Latifah 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Queen Latifah]]]]
[[File:Gianni Infantino 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gianni Infantino]]]]
[[File:Elizabeth Mitchell by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elizabeth Mitchell]]]]
[[File:Vince Vaughn in Los Angeles, California (2015) - 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vince Vaughn]]]]
[[File:Alenka_Bratušek-za_splet_(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alenka Bratušek]]]]
[[File:BarryPepperByPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Barry Pepper]]]]
[[File:EPP Summit, 20 October 2022, Brussels (52441830328) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andrej Plenković]]]]
[[File:Q-Tip at Commonwealth Washington, D.C., in 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Q-Tip (musician)|Q-Tip]]]]
[[File:Jason lee cropped lighting corrected.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]]]]
[[File:Melania Trump official portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Melania Trump]]]]
[[File:Andre Agassi (2011).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andre Agassi]]]]
[[File:Uma Thurman Cannes 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Uma Thurman]]]]
[[File:Will Arnett 2019.png|thumb|100px|[[Will Arnett]]]]
[[File:Ghostface Killah in 2010 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ghostface Killah]]]]
[[File:Tina Fey Muppets Most Wanted Premiere (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tina Fey]]]]
[[File:Naomi Campbell Cannes 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Naomi Campbell]]]]
[[File:"Hidden Figures" Screening at the White House (NHQ201612150008) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Octavia Spencer]]]]
[[File:14 06 2019 Abertura da Copa América Brasil 2019 (48064408836) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cafu]]]]
[[File:Will Forte April 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Will Forte]]]]
[[File:Paul Thomas Anderson 2007 crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul Thomas Anderson]]]]
[[File:Sean Hayes (portrait).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sean Hayes]]]]
[[File:Chris ODonnell Max Payne 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chris O'Donnell]]]]
[[File:Nick Offerman 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nick Offerman]]]]
[[File:audra mcdonald 2021 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Audra McDonald]]]]
[[File:BeckMSG190718-13 (47065153261) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Beck]]]]
[[File:Justin Cambers 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Justin Chambers]]]]
[[File:Nicola Sturgeon 2021.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nicola Sturgeon]]]]
[[File:Christopher Nolan Cannes 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Christopher Nolan]]]]
[[File:Alan Shearer 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alan Shearer]]]]
[[File:Anthony Anderson 2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anthony Anderson]]]]
[[File:Fred Durst 2021 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fred Durst]]]]
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[[File:River Phoenix.png|thumb|100px|[[River Phoenix]]]]
[[File:Claudia Schiffer Cannes.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Claudia Schiffer]]]]
[[File:Melissa McCarthy in 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Melissa McCarthy]]]]
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[[File:Taraji P. Henson.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Taraji P. Henson]]]]
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[[File:Matt Damon, Berlinale 2023 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Matt Damon]]]]
[[File:Sadiq Khan 2020.png|thumb|100px|[[Sadiq Khan]]]]
[[File:Javier Milei VIVA22 (2) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Javier Milei]]]]
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[[File:Ethan Hawke 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ethan Hawke]]]]
[[File:Chris Jericho, December 2017 01 (cropped2).png|thumb|100px|[[Chris Jericho]]]]
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[[File:Sarah Silverman DNC July 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sarah Silverman]]]]
[[File:EDOUARD PHILIPPE DEAUVILLE 2020.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Édouard Philippe]]]]
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[[File:Jennifer Connelly 2010 TIFF.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jennifer Connelly]]]] 
[[File:Academy Awards afterparty CUN DMX.jpg|thumb|100px|[[DMX]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Gabriel Jarret]], American actor
* [[January 2]]
** [[Oksana Omelianchik]], Soviet artistic gymnast
** [[Eric Whitacre]], American composer
* [[January 9]] – [[Lara Fabian]], Canadian/Belgian singer
* [[January 12]] – [[Zack de la Rocha]], American musician
* [[January 13]]
** [[Marco Pantani]], Italian cyclist (d. [[2004]])
** [[Shonda Rhimes]], American TV producer and writer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2021/01/13/UPI-Almanac-for-Wednesday-Jan-13-2021/4791610505329/ |title=UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 |work=[[United Press International]] |date=January 13, 2021 |access-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210227210816/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2021/01/13/UPI-Almanac-for-Wednesday-Jan-13-2021/4791610505329/ |url-status=live |quote=…TV producer Shonda Rhimes in 1970 (age 51)…}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[Shane McMahon]], American businessman and professional wrestler 
* [[January 17]] – [[Genndy Tartakovsky]], Russian-American animator
* [[January 20]] – [[Skeet Ulrich]], American actor
* [[January 21]] – [[Ken Leung]], American actor
* [[January 24]] – [[Matthew Lillard]], American actor, presenter, director and producer 
* [[January 29]]
** [[Heather Graham]], American actress
** [[Paul Ryan]], American politician<ref>{{CongLinks | congbio = r000570 }}</ref>
* [[January 31]] – [[Minnie Driver]], English actress

===February ===
* [[February 3]] – [[Warwick Davis]], English actor 
* [[February 4]] – [[Hunter Biden]], American attorney and son of U.S. president [[Joe Biden]]
* [[February 8]] – [[Alonzo Mourning]], American basketball player
* [[February 9]] – [[Glenn McGrath]], Australian test cricketer
* [[February 10]] – [[Ardy Wiranata]], Indonesian badminton player
* [[February 13]] – [[Park Hee-soon]], South Korean actor
* [[February 14]] – [[Simon Pegg]], British comedian, actor and screenwriter
* [[February 16]] – [[Armand Van Helden]], American DJ and music producer
* [[February 17]]
** [[Tommy Moe]], American Alpine skier
** [[Dominic Purcell]], English-Australian actor
* [[February 18]] – [[Susan Egan]], American actress, voice actress, singer and dancer
* [[February 26]] – [[Cathrine Lindahl]], Swedish curler
* [[February 28]]
** [[Daniel Handler]], American author
** [[Noureddine Morceli]], Algerian athlete

===March===
* [[March 2]] – [[Alexander Armstrong]], English comedian, actor and presenter
* [[March 3]] – [[Julie Bowen]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Julie Bowen: Film Actor/Film Actress, Television Actor (1970–) |url=https://www.biography.com/people/julie-bowen |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026025122/https://www.biography.com/people/julie-bowen |archive-date=October 26, 2018 |access-date=October 25, 2018 |website=[[Biography.com]] |publisher=[[A&E Networks]]}}</ref>
* [[March 5]]
** [[John Frusciante]], American rock musician<ref>{{cite web |title=Happy Birthday John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) |url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2021/03/05/happy-birthday-john-frusciante-red-hot-chili-peppers/ |website=Magnet Magazine |access-date=3 November 2021 |date=5 March 2021 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217185728/https://magnetmagazine.com/2021/03/05/happy-birthday-john-frusciante-red-hot-chili-peppers/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Aleksandar Vučić]], President of Serbia
* [[March 7]] 
** [[Petra Mede]], Swedish comedian, dancer, actress and television presenter
** [[Rachel Weisz]], British-American actress
* [[March 10]] 
** [[Antonio Edwards]], American football player
** [[Michel van der Aa]], Dutch composer
* [[March 13]] – [[Carme Chacón]], Spanish politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Paul Oscar]], Icelandic pop singer-songwriter and DJ 
* [[March 18]] – [[Queen Latifah]], American rapper and actress 
* [[March 21]] – [[Jaya (singer)|Jaya]], Filipino pop singer
* [[March 22]] – [[Leontien van Moorsel]], Dutch cyclist
* [[March 24]]
** [[Lara Flynn Boyle]], American actress
** [[Sharon Corr]], Irish musician
* [[March 27]]
** [[Maribel Díaz Cabello]], Peruvian educator, [[First Lady of Peru]]
** [[Elizabeth Mitchell]], American actress
** [[Leila Pahlavi]], Iranian princess (d. [[2001]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Vince Vaughn]], American actor, writer and producer
* [[March 31]] – [[Alenka Bratušek]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Slovenia]]

===April===
* [[April 4]] 
** [[Rebekka Bakken]], Norwegian singer
** [[Barry Pepper]], Canadian actor
* [[April 7]] – [[Rosey (wrestler)|Rosey]], Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. [[2017]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Andrej Plenković]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Croatia]]
* [[April 10]]
** [[José Paulo Lanyi]], Brazilian journalist, writer and filmmaker
** [[Q-Tip (musician)|Q-Tip]], American musician and actor
* [[April 11]] – [[Trevor Linden]], Canadian hockey player
* [[April 13]] – [[Ricky Schroder]], American actor
* [[April 14]] – [[Anna Kinberg Batra]], Swedish politician
* [[April 17]] – [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]], American rapper and actor
* [[April 18]]
** [[Heike Friedrich]], German swimmer
** [[Saad Hariri]], 2-Time [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]]
* [[April 19]] – [[Luis Miguel]], Mexican singer
* [[April 20]] – [[Shemar Moore]], American actor
* [[April 21]]
** [[Rob Riggle]], American actor and comedian
** [[Nicole Sullivan]], American actress, comedian and writer
* [[April 22]] – [[Regine Velasquez]], Filipino singer and actress
* [[April 23]]
** [[Sadao Abe]], Japanese actor
** [[Andrew Gee (rugby league)|Andrew Gee]], Australian rugby league footballer
* [[April 25]]
** [[Kate Allen (triathlete)|Kate Allen]], Australian born-Austrian triathlete
** [[Tomoko Kawakami]], Japanese voice actress (d. [[2011]])
** [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]], American skateboarder and actor
* [[April 26]]
** [[Melania Trump]], Slovenian model, [[First Lady of the United States]]
** [[Tionne Watkins]], American actress and singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/tionne-t-boz-watkins-21306077 |title=Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins Biography |publisher=Biography.com ([[FYI (US TV channel)|FYI]] / [[A&E Networks]]) |access-date=January 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621042921/https://www.biography.com/people/tionne-t-boz-watkins-21306077 |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[April 28]]
** [[Kurt Eversley]], Guyanese-born cricketer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/260/260258/Twenty20_Matches.html |title=Twenty20 Matches played by Kurt Eversley |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=8 March 2012}}</ref>
** [[Nicklas Lidström]], Swedish hockey player
** [[Diego Simeone]], Argentine footballer and manager
* [[April 29]]
** [[Andre Agassi]], American tennis player
** [[Uma Thurman]], American actress
* [[April 30]] – [[Halit Ergenç]], Turkish actor

===May===
* [[May 3]]
** [[Bobby Cannavale]], American actor
** [[Ariel Hernández (boxer)|Ariel Hernandez]], Cuban boxer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/ariel-hernandez-ascuy |title=Ariel HERNANDEZ ASCUY |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110094424/https://www.olympic.org/ariel-hernandez-ascuy |archive-date=2021-01-10}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] 
** [[Will Arnett]], Canadian actor
** [[Dawn Staley]], American basketball coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Dawn Staley |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/dawn-staley-1.html |website=sports-reference.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204004912/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/dawn-staley-1.html |archive-date=December 4, 2016}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] – [[Zorana Mihajlović]], Serbian politician
* [[May 6]] – [[Roland Kun]], Nauruan politician
* [[May 8]]
** [[Michael Bevan]], Australian cricketer
** [[Luis Enrique (footballer)|Luis Enrique]], Spanish footballer
** [[Naomi Klein]], Canadian author and activist<ref>{{cite web |title=Naomi Klein |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/naomi-klein |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en |date=25 March 2020}}</ref>
* [[May 9]]
** [[Hao Haidong]], Chinese footballer
** [[Ghostface Killah]], American rapper<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/search/workID/880887156 |title=ACE Repertory |website=ascap.com}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – [[Angelica Agurbash]], Belarusian singer and model
* [[May 12]] – [[Samantha Mathis]], American actress
* [[May 15]] – [[Ronald de Boer|Ronald]] and [[Frank de Boer]], Dutch footballers
* [[May 16]] – [[Gabriela Sabatini]], Argentine tennis player
* [[May 17]] – [[Giovanna Trillini]], Italian fencer<ref>{{cite web |title=Giovanna Trillini |url=http://databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TRILLGIO01 |website=databaseolympics.com |publisher=International Olympic Committee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928145913/http://databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TRILLGIO01 |archive-date=September 28, 2011}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] – [[Tina Fey]], American comedian and actress
* [[May 19]] – [[K. J. Choi]], South Korean golfer
* [[May 20]] 
**[[Juliana Pasha]], Albanian singer
**[[Louis Theroux]], Singaporean-English journalist and producer
* [[May 22]] – [[Naomi Campbell]], British model and actress
* [[May 25]]
** [[Jamie Kennedy]], American actor and comedian
** [[Octavia Spencer]], American actress
* [[May 26]] – [[Nobuhiro Watsuki]], Japanese cartoonist
* [[May 27]]
** [[Joseph Fiennes]], British actor
** [[Bianka Panova]], Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
* [[May 28]] – [[Glenn Quinn]], Irish actor (d. [[2002]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Erick Thohir]], Indonesian politician and businessman

===June===
* [[June 1]]                                                                                                                    
** [[Alison Hinds]], British-born Bajan soca artist
** [[Alexi Lalas]], American soccer player                                
** [[R. Madhavan]], Indian film actor
** [[Karen Mulder]], Dutch model and singer
* [[June 2]] – [[B-Real]], American rapper
* [[June 3]] – [[Peter Tägtgren]], Swedish musician
* [[June 4]] – [[Izabella Scorupco]], Polish model and actress
* [[June 5]] – [[Deborah Yates]], American dancer and actress
* [[June 7]]
** [[Cafu]], Brazilian footballer and politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Cafu |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/marcos-evangelista-de-moraes/103260/ |website=Soccerway}}</ref>
** [[Mike Modano]], American hockey player
* [[June 8]]
** [[Gabby Giffords]], American politician
** [[Kelli Williams]], American actress
* [[June 13]]
** [[Rivers Cuomo]], American musician, frontman of [[Weezer]]
** [[Mikael Ljungberg]], Swedish wrestler (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Leah Remini]], American actress
* [[June 16]]
** [[Younus AlGohar]], Pakistani spiritualist
** [[Phil Mickelson]], American golfer
* [[June 17]] – [[Will Forte]], American actor and comedian 
* [[June 19]] – [[Quincy Watts]], American athlete
* [[June 20]]
** [[Russell Garcia (field hockey)|Russell Garcia]], British field hockey player
** [[Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco|Moulay Rachid]], Prince of Morocco
** [[Michelle Reis]], Hong Kong actress and beauty queen
** [[Athol Williams]], South African poet and social philosopher
* [[June 21]] – [[Pete Rock]], American rapper and DJ
* [[June 22]] – [[Michel Elefteriades]], Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
* [[June 23]] – [[Marko Albrecht]], German disc jockey and electronic producer
* [[June 24]]
** [[Glenn Medeiros]], American singer-songwriter
** [[Daniel Sánchez Arévalo]], Spanish screenwriter and film director
* [[June 25]] – [[Pan Lingling]], Singaporean actress
* [[June 26]]
** [[Paul Thomas Anderson]], American screenwriter and director
** [[Sean Hayes]], American actor
** [[Paweł Nastula]], Polish judoka and mixed martial artist
** [[Chris O'Donnell]], American actor
** [[Nick Offerman]], American actor, writer and carpenter
* [[June 27]] – [[Ahmed Ahmed]], Egyptian-born American actor and comedian
* [[June 30]] 
** [[Leonardo Sbaraglia]], Argentine actor
** [[Erica Sjöström]], Swedish female singer and saxophonist

===July===
* [[July 2]] 
** [[Derrick Adkins]], American Olympic athlete<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/derrick-adkins-14231024 |title=Derrick ADKINS |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
** [[Yap Kim Hock]], Malaysian badminton player
** [[Steve Morrow]], Northern Irish footballer
** [[Kym Ng]], Singaporean television host and actress
* [[July 3]]
** [[Serhiy Honchar]], Ukrainian road racing cyclist
** [[Audra McDonald]], American actress and singer
* [[July 7]] 
** [[Wayne McCullough]], Northern Irish boxer
** [[Masai Ujiri]], Nigerian professional basketball executive
** [[Atli Örvarsson]], Icelandic film score composer
* [[July 8]] 
** [[Beck]], American singer-songwriter and record producer
** [[Atul Agnihotri]], Indian film actor, producer and director
** [[Micky Hoogendijk]], Dutch actress, presenter, model and professional photographer
** [[Todd Martin]], American tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Todd Martin |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/M442/overview |website=atptour.com}}</ref>
* [[July 10]]
** [[Jason Orange]], British singer
** [[John Simm]], British actor
* [[July 11]] – [[Justin Chambers]], American actor and fashion model
* [[July 12]]
** [[Lee Byung-hun]], South Korean actor, singer and model
** [[Aure Atika]], French actress, writer and director
** [[Susan Tyler Witten]], American politician<ref>{{Cite web |title=Legislator-Profile – Legislative Research Commission |url=https://legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/Pages/Legislator-Profile.aspx?DistrictNumber=31 |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=legislature.ky.gov}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] – [[Bruno Salomone]], French actor and comedian
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Jang Hyun-sung]], South Korean actor
** [[Gavin McInnes]], Canadian writer and political commentator (co-founder of [[Vice Media]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Nicola Sturgeon]], First Minister of [[Scotland]] (2014–present)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicola Sturgeon {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Scottish Independence {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicola-Sturgeon |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=16 February 2023|archive-date=2 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102191838/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicola-Sturgeon |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] – [[Tunku Abdul Majid]]
* [[July 22]] – [[Jonathan Zaccaï]], Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter
* [[July 23]] 
** [[Thea Dorn]], German writer
** [[Saulius Skvernelis]], [[Prime Minister of Lithuania]]

===August===
* [[August 1]]
** [[David James (footballer, born 1970)|David James]], English football goalkeeper
** [[Elon Lindenstrauss]], Israeli mathematician
* [[August 2]] – [[Kevin Smith]], American screenwriter, film director and actor
* [[August 3]] – [[Masahiro Sakurai]], Japanese video game director, designer and writer<ref>{{cite book |title=Nintendo Power, volumes 231–233 |publisher=Nintendo of America |year=2008 |page=80}}</ref>
* [[August 4]] – [[Hakeem Jeffries]], American politician<ref>{{cite web |title=JEFFRIES, Hakeem |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000294 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] – [[Konstantin Yeryomenko]], Russian futsal player (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 6]] – [[M. Night Shyamalan]], Indian-American film director and writer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2012/08/03/monitor-august-10-2012 |title=Monitor |newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=August 10, 2012 |issue=1219 |pages=27}}</ref> 
* [[August 10]]
** [[Brendon Julian]], New Zealand cricket player
** [[Steve Mautone]], Australian football player and coach
* [[August 11]] – [[Daniella Perez]], Brazilian actress and ballerina (d. [[1992]]) 
* [[August 13]] – [[Alan Shearer]], English footballer
* [[August 14]] – [[Leah Purcell]], Australian actress
* [[August 15]] – [[Anthony Anderson]], American actor<ref>{{cite news |title=Anthony Anderson {{!}} Biography and Filmography {{!}} 1970|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/anthony-anderson-57312615/|work=Hollywood.com|access-date=14 September 2017|date=8 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] 
** [[Saif Ali Khan]], Indian actor
** [[Manisha Koirala]], Indian actress
* [[August 17]] – [[Jim Courier]], American tennis player
* [[August 19]] – [[Fat Joe]], American rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer and record executive
* [[August 20]]
** [[Els Callens]], Belgian tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Els Callens |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/30003/name |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
** [[Fred Durst]], American rapper{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
* [[August 21]]
** [[Erik Dekker]], Dutch professional cyclist
** [[Cathy Weseluck]], Canadian actress and comedian
* [[August 22]]
** [[Giada De Laurentiis]], Italian-American celebrity chef
** [[Ricco Groß]], German biathlete
** [[Tímea Nagy]], Hungarian fencer
* [[August 23]]
** [[Jay Mohr]], American actor and comedian
** [[River Phoenix]], American actor (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Claudia Schiffer]], German model
* [[August 26]] 
** [[Olimpiada Ivanova]], Russian race walker<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/russia/olimpiada-ivanova-14297957 |title=Olimpiada IVANOVA |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
** [[Melissa McCarthy]], American actress, comedian and film producer
* [[August 27]]
** [[Peter Ebdon]], English snooker player
** [[Jim Thome]], American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
** [[Karl Unterkircher]], Italian mountaineer (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Alessandra Negrini]], Brazilian actress
* [[August 31]]
** [[Debbie Gibson]], American singer
** [[Queen Rania of Jordan]], Queen consort of Jordan

===September===
* [[September 1]] – [[Hwang Jung-min]], South Korean actor
* [[September 3]]
** [[Jeremy Glick]], passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93 (d. [[2001]])
** [[Gareth Southgate]], England national football team manager
* [[September 7]] 
** [[Gao Min (diver)|Gao Min]], Chinese diver
** [[Tom Everett Scott]], American actor<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5y0zAAAAIBAJ&pg=3612,2746359&dq=thomas-everett-scott+jenni&hl=en |title=Celebrity Talk ...Checking in with Thomas Everett Scott |date=November 10, 2002 |work=[[The Free Lance-Star]] |location=Fredericksburg, Virginia |access-date=September 6, 2012}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – [[Julie Halard-Decugis]], French tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Julie Halard-Decugis |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/80005/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – [[Taraji P. Henson]], American actress
* [[September 12]] – [[Amala Akkineni]], Indian actress, dancer and activist
* [[September 14]] 
** [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]], American jurist and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
** [[Mike Burns (soccer)|Mike Burns]], American soccer player
* [[September 17]] – [[Valeria Cappellotto]], Italian racing cyclist. (d. [[2015]])
*[[September 18]]
** [[Darren Gough]], English cricketer
** [[Aisha Tyler]], American actress 
* [[September 19]] – [[Takanori Nishikawa]], Japanese singer
* [[September 20]] – [[Gert Verheyen]], Belgian footballer
* [[September 21]] – [[Samantha Power]], Irish-American government official and writer
* [[September 22]] – [[Emmanuel Petit]], French footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Emmanuel Petit |url=https://www.fff.fr/equipe-nationale/joueur/8605-petit-emmanuel/fiche.html |website=fff.fr}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – [[Ani DiFranco]], American-Canadian musician
* [[September 26]]
** [[Marco Etcheverry]], Bolivian footballer
** [[Yukio Iketani]], Japanese gymnast
* [[September 27]] – [[Yoshiharu Habu]], Japanese professional shogi player
* [[September 28]] – [[Kimiko Date]], Japanese tennis player
* [[September 29]]
** [[Ninel Conde]], Mexican actress, singer and television host
** [[Emily Lloyd]], English actress
** [[Yoshihiro Tajiri]], Japanese professional wrestler
* [[September 30]] – [[Tony Hale]], American actor<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvinsider.com/people/tony-hale/ |title=Tony Hale – Actor |date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>

===October===
* [[October 1]] – [[Moses Kiptanui]], Kenyan athlete
* [[October 4]] – [[Zdravko Zdravkov]], Bulgarian footballer
* [[October 8]]
** [[Matt Damon]], American actor
** [[Sadiq Khan]], British politician; 3rd [[Mayor of London]] (2016–present)
** [[Tetsuya Nomura]], Japanese video game and film director
* [[October 9]] – [[Annika Sörenstam]], Swedish golfer 
* [[October 10]]
** Sir [[Matthew Pinsent]], British rower
** [[Jokelyn Tienstra]], Dutch handball player (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Kirk Cameron]], American actor and Christian activist<ref name="uOwfT">{{cite book |last=Laufenberg |first=Norbert B. |title=Entertainment Celebrities |publisher=[[Trafford Publishing]] |date=June 2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzTW9Nitee4C&q=kirk+cameron+October+12,+1970&pg=PA99 |page=99 |isbn=978-1-4120-5335-8}}</ref>
* [[October 14]] – [[Daniela Peštová]], Czech supermodel
* [[October 16]] – [[Mehmet Scholl]], German footballer
* [[October 17]] – [[Anil Kumble]], Indian cricketer
* [[October 20]] – [[Michelle Malkin]], American political commentator<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nahm |first=H.Y. |title=Michelle Malkin: The Radical Right's Asian Pitbull |work=[[Goldsea]] |url=https://www.goldsea.com/Personalities/Malkin/malkin.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119175909/http://www.goldsea.com/Personalities/Malkin/malkin.html |archive-date=November 19, 2015}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] – [[Louis Koo]], Hong Kong actor
* [[October 24]] – [[Stephen Kipkorir]], Kenyan middle-distance runner (d. [[2008]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Adam Goldberg]], American actor
* [[October 26]] – [[Chavo Guerrero Jr.]], Mexican-American professional wrestler
* [[October 27]]
** [[Adrian Erlandsson]], Swedish drummer
** [[Jonathan Stroud]], British writer of [[fantasy fiction]]
* [[October 29]] – [[Edwin van der Sar]], Dutch footballer
* [[October 30]] – [[Nia Long]], American actress<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Nia Long Biography |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nia-long-167832/bio/ |magazine=[[TV Guide|TVGuide.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918193540/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nia-long/bio/167832/ |archive-date=September 18, 2015}}</ref>
** [[Xie Jun]], Chinese chess grandmaster
* [[October 31]] – [[Linn Berggren]], Swedish singer

===November===
* [[November 1]]
** [[Toma Enache]], Romanian film director<ref>{{cite news |url=https://elitaromaniei.ro/regizorul-toma-enache-ne-povesteste-adevaruri-pe-care-nu-avem-voie-sa-le-uitam/ |title=Regizorul Toma Enache ne povestește adevăruri pe care nu avem voie să le uităm |first=Dani |last=Godja |publisher=Elita României |date=5 October 2019 |language=ro}}</ref>
** [[Merle Palmiste]], Estonian actress
* [[November 2]] – [[Ely Buendia]], Filipino rock lead singer and rhythm guitarist ([[Eraserheads]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Ethan Hawke]], American actor, writer and film director
* [[November 7]] – [[Marc Rosset]], Swiss tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Marc Rosset |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/R214/overview |website=atptour.com}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] – [[Chris Jericho]], American-Canadian professional wrestler
* [[November 10]] – [[Warren G]], American rapper
* [[November 12]] – [[Tonya Harding]], American figure skater
* [[November 15]] 
** [[Uschi Disl]], German biathlete<ref>{{cite web |title=Uschi Disl |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80953 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
** [[Patrick M'Boma]], Cameroonian footballer
* [[November 16]] – [[Martha Plimpton]], American actress
* [[November 17]] – [[Paul Allender]], English guitarist
* [[November 18]] 
** [[Megyn Kelly]], American journalist and television host<ref>{{cite web |title=Megyn Kelly |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Megyn-Kelly |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=May 10, 2023}}</ref>
** [[Peta Wilson]], Australian actress
* [[November 21]] – [[Karen Davila]], Filipina journalist, TV host and news personality
* [[November 23]] – [[Oded Fehr]], Israeli-American actor
* [[November 24]] – [[Julieta Venegas]], American born-Mexican singer, guitarist and producer<ref>{{cite web |title=Julieta Venegas |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/julieta-venegas-mn0000836376/biography |publisher=AllMusic}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Dave Hughes]], Australian comedian
* [[November 27]]
** [[Andreína Mujica]], Venezuelan journalist and photographer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Socorro |first=Milagros |date=2021-06-09 |title="Ahora soy yo quien contrademanda a Glenna Cabello Rondón, cónsul de Maduro en Francia" |url=https://lagranaldea.com/2021/06/09/ahora-soy-yo-quien-contrademanda-a-glenna-cabello-rondon-consul-de-maduro-en-francia/ |access-date=25 June 2023 |website=La Gran Aldea}}</ref>
** [[Jorge Luis González Tanquero]], Cuban dissident (d. [[2016]])
* [[November 28]] 
** [[Richard Osman]], English television presenter, producer and director
** [[Édouard Philippe]], French politician, 100th Prime Minister of France
* [[November 30]]
** [[Yayuk Basuki]], Indonesian tennis player
** [[Natalie Williams]], American basketball player

===December===
* [[December 1]] – [[Sarah Silverman]], American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, producer and writer
* [[December 3]] 
** [[Christian Karembeu]], French footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Christian Karembeu |url=https://www.fff.fr/equipe-nationale/joueur/8439-karembeu-christian/fiche.html |publisher=French Football Federation}}</ref>
** [[Jimmy Shergill]], Indian actor
* [[December 4]] – [[Kevin Sussman]], American actor and comedian
* [[December 5]]
** [[Tim Hetherington]], English-born photojournalist (d. [[2011]])
** [[Martin Selmayr]], German Eurocrat
* [[December 6]] – [[Michaela Schaffrath]], German actress
* [[December 9]] – [[Kara DioGuardi]], American songwriter, producer and singer
* [[December 11]] – [[Chris Henderson]], American soccer player<ref>{{cite web |title=Christopher Henderson |url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/chris-henderson/ |website=mlssoccer.com}}</ref>
* [[December 12]]
** [[Mädchen Amick]], American actress
** [[Jennifer Connelly]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Jennifer Connelly {{!}} Biography, Movies, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jennifer-Connelly |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=23 June 2022}}</ref>
** [[Regina Hall]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.health.com/celebrities/regina-hall-interview |title=Regina Hall on Turning 50: 'You Either Have Another Birthday...or You Don't' |publisher=Health.com |date=2021-08-10 |accessdate=2022-05-08 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331203851/https://www.health.com/celebrities/regina-hall-interview |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] – [[Andrew Lewis (boxer)|Andrew Lewis]], Guyanese professional boxer (d. [[2015]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Przemysław Truściński]], Polish artist
* [[December 17]] – [[Craig Doyle]], Irish television presenter
* [[December 18]]
** [[DMX]], American rapper and actor (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rapper-dmx-dead/2021/04/09/89509a0e-9618-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html |title=DMX, chart-topping rapper with gruff voice and hardscrabble life, dies at 50 |first=Harrison |last=Smith |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 9, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Rob Van Dam]], American professional wrestler
* [[December 20]] – [[Massimo Ellul]], Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
* [[December 22]] 
** [[Yuriko Backes]], Luxembourgish diplomat and politician<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 5, 2022 |title=Yuriko Backes |url=http://gouvernement.lu/en/gouvernement/yuriko-backes/CV.html |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=[[Government of Luxembourg]] |archive-date=July 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714223403/https://gouvernement.lu/en/gouvernement/yuriko-backes/CV.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Ted Cruz]], Canadian-American politician, [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Texas|Tx.]]) from 2013 and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] presidential candidate
** [[Gary Anderson (darts player)|Gary Anderson]], Scottish darts player
* [[December 23]] – [[Catriona Le May Doan]], Canadian speed skater
* [[December 25]] – [[Emmanuel Amuneke]], Nigerian footballer
* [[December 26]] – [[Krissada Sukosol Clapp]], Thai actor and singer
* [[December 28]]  
** [[Yolanda Andrade]], Mexican actress and television presenter
** [[Elaine Hendrix]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Elaine Hendrix |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/elaine-hendrix/bio/148766/ |website=tvguide.com |publisher=TV Guide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905100217/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/elaine-hendrix/bio/148766/ |archive-date=September 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Aled Jones]], Welsh singer and television presenter

==Deaths==

===January–February===
[[File:Max Born.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max Born]]]]
[[File:Bertrand Russell smoking in 1936.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bertrand Russell]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1978-033-02, Fritz Bayerlein.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Fritz Bayerlein]]]]
[[File:Cafe Filho.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joao Cafe Filho]]]]
* [[January 5]] – [[Max Born]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZtRAAAAIBAJ&pg=5297%2C1066126 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |location=(Pennsylvania, U.S.) |agency=Associated Press |title=Nobel prize winner dies |date=6 January 1970 |page=26}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Pavel Belyayev]], Soviet cosmonaut (b. [[1925]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/11/archives/pavel-belyayev-astronaut-dead-russian-headed-flight-that-led-to.html |title=Pavel Belyayev, Astronaut, Dead |date=1970-01-11 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-01-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[David O. McKay]], 9th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Eiji Tsuburaya]], Japanese film director and special effects designer (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Erich Heckel]], German painter (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Basil Liddell Hart|Sir Basil Liddell Hart]], British military historian (b. [[1895]])
** [[Thelma Morgan]], American socialite (b. [[1904]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Slim Harpo]], American singer (b. [[1924]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Blues Encyclopedia |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2004 |isbn=9781135958329 |page=410}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – [[Bertrand Russell]], British logician and philosopher, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA44 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-95178-2 |pages=44}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – [[Italo Gariboldi]], Italian general (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Abe Attell]], American boxer (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abe-Attell |title=Abe Attell &#124; American boxer &#124; Britannica |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=May 24, 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 14]]
** [[Arthur Edeson]], American cinematographer (b. [[1891]])
** [[Harry Stradling]], American cinematographer (b. [[1901]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding]], British [[RAF Fighter Command]]er during the [[Battle of Britain]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Francis Peyton Rous]], American pathologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])
** [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]], American film composer (b. [[1900]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Jules Munshin]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[February 20]] 
** [[Café Filho]], Brazilian politician, 18th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1899]])
** [[Sophie Treadwell]], American playwright and journalist (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://stageagent.com/writers/6017/sophie-treadwell Sophie Treadwell Playwright, Author]</ref>
* [[February 22]] – [[Dora Boothby]], English tennis champion (b. [[1881]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Conrad Nagel]], American actor (b. [[1897]])

===March===
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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0630-504, Heinrich Brüning.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Heinrich Brüning]]]]
<!--[[File:BASA-1735K-1-410-2-Патриарх Алексей Симанский.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow]]]]-->
* [[March 6]] – [[William Hopper]], American actor (b. [[1915]])<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |agency=Reuters |date=March 7, 1970 |title=William Hopper, Actor, Dies; Detective in 'Perry Mason,' 54 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/07/archives/william-hopper-actor-dies-detective-in-perry-mason-54.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 4, 2015}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Erle Stanley Gardner]], American crime writer (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Harold Bloom |title=Modern Mystery Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNodAQAAIAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |isbn=978-0-7910-2375-4 |page=76}}</ref>
* [[March 15]] – [[Arthur Adamov]], Russian-French playwright (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Meanjin Quarterly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNBZAAAAMAAJ |year=1970 |publisher=University of Melbourne |page=338}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] – [[Tammi Terrell]], American singer (b. [[1945]])
* [[March 18]] – [[William Beaudine]], American film director (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Marlen Haushofer]], Austrian author (b. [[1920]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Vera Brittain]], British writer (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Harold Oxbury |title=Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ |year=1985 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-211599-7 |page=48}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Heinrich Brüning]], German academic and politician, 21st [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Semyon Timoshenko]], Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History |publisher=Academic International Press |year=1976 |page=72}}</ref>

===April===
[[File:Ed Begley 1958.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ed Begley]]]]
[[File:1960 Inger Stevens.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Inger Stevens]]]]
* [[April 1]]
** [[Polina Zhemchuzhina]], Soviet politician (b. [[1897]])
** [[Ludolf von Alvensleben]], German Nazi functionary, SS and police leader (b. [[1901]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Byron Foulger]], American actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/byron_foulger Byron Foulger]</ref>
* [[April 5]] 
**[[Louisa Bolus]], South African botanist and taxonomist (b. [[1877]])
**[[Alfred Henry Sturtevant]], American geneticist (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Maurice Stokes]], American basketball player (b. [[1933]])
* [[April 8]] 
** [[Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma]], consort of [[Grand Duchess Charlotte]] (b. [[1893]])
** [[Julius Pokorny]], Austrian-born Czech linguist (b. [[1887]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Cathy O'Donnell]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Richard Neutra]], Austrian-born American architect (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow]] (b. [[1877]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Michał Kalecki]], Polish economist (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 26]]
** [[Francisco Cunha Leal]], Portuguese politician, 84th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1888]])
** [[Gypsy Rose Lee]], American actress (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Arthur Shields]], Irish actor (b. [[1896]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Ed Begley]], American actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Inger Stevens]], Swedish-American actress (b. [[1934]])

===May===
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* [[May 1]]
** [[Ralph Hartley]], American inventor (b. [[1888]])
** [[Yi Un]], Crown Prince of Korea (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Walter Reuther]], American labor union leader and president of the [[United Auto Workers]] (b. [[1907]]) <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0901.html |title=Reuther Dies in Jet Crash With Wife and 4 Others |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 11, 1970 |access-date=October 17, 2014}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] – [[Johnny Hodges]], American jazz musician (b. [[1907]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaYDAAAAMBAJ |title=Saxophonist Johnny Hodges Leaves $86,000 Estate To His Widow And Children. |date=December 28, 1972 |work=JET |access-date=March 28, 2018}}</ref>
* [[May 12]]
** [[Władysław Anders]], General of the Polish Army (b. [[1892]])
** [[Nelly Sachs]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Leo Baeck Institute |title=Catalog of the Archival Collections |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hqzCTJ6DODIC&pg=PA124 |year=1990 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-145597-1 |pages=124}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] – [[Sir William Dobell]], Australian artist (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Billie Burke]], American actress (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Heinz Hartmann]], Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. [[1894]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Mahmoud Zulfikar]], Egyptian film director (b. [[1914]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mahmoud Zulfikar {{!}} Director, Actor, Writer |url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0958575/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Phan Khắc Sửu]], South Vietnamese politician and [[Leaders of South Vietnam#Heads of state 2|Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Iuliu Hossu]], Romanian [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and servant of God (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 29]] 
** [[John Gunther]], American writer (b. [[1901]])
** [[Eva Hesse]], German-born American sculptor (b. [[1936]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Terry Sawchuk]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1929]])<ref>John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in ''The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures'' (Scribner's, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 335–336.</ref>

===June===
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* [[June 1]] – [[Pedro Eugenio Aramburu]], 31st [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Bruce McLaren]], founder of McLaren Racing (b. [[1937]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Hjalmar Schacht]], Nazi German economic minister (b. [[1877]])
* [[June 7]] 
** [[E. M. Forster]], English writer (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Norman Page |title=E-M-Forster |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QERdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |date=22 January 1988 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-19008-9 |pages=16}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
** [[Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez]], Spanish archaeologist and historian (b. [[1870]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Abraham Maslow]], American psychologist (b. [[1908]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia]], 19th [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Bartolomé Blanche]], Chilean military officer, provisional [[President of Chile]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Alexander Kerensky]], Russian revolutionary politician (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/12/archives/alexander-kerensky-dies-here-at-89-alexander-kerensky-who-led-first.html?mcubz=3 |title=Alexander Kerensky Dies Here at 89 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 12, 1970 |last1=Whitman |first1=Alden}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – [[Roman Ingarden]], Polish philosopher (b. [[1893]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Heino Eller]], Estonian composer and composition teacher (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Sukarno]], 1st [[President of Indonesia]] (b. [[1901]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Leopoldo Marechal]], Argentine writer (b. [[1900]])

===July===
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* [[July 6]] – [[Marjorie Rambeau]], American actress (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 7]] – Sylvester Wiere, Austro-Hungarian-born American [[slapstick]] comedian, member of the [[Wiere Brothers]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908)|Bjarni Benediktsson]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Iceland]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 13]] 
** [[Leslie Groves]], American general, director of the [[Manhattan Project]] (b. [[1896]])
** [[Sheng Shicai]], Chinese warlord (b. [[1895]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Luis Mariano]], Spanish tenor (b. [[1914]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Egon Eiermann]], German architect (b. [[1904]])
** [[Panagiotis Pipinelis]], [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Fritz Kortner]], Austrian-born director (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Amadeo Bordiga]], Italian Marxist (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 27]] – [[António de Oliveira Salazar]], Portuguese economist and politician, 100th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 29]] – [[John Barbirolli|Sir John Barbirolli]], English conductor (b. [[1899]])
* [[July 30]] – [[George Szell]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1897]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Wilfrid Kent Hughes|Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes]], Australian Olympian and politician (b. [[1895]])<ref>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kent-hughes-sir-wilfrid-selwyn-billy-10723 Sir Wilfrid Selwyn (Billy) Kent Hughes (1895–1970)]</ref>

===August===
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* [[August 1]]
** [[Frances Farmer]], American actress and television host (b. [[1913]])
** [[Giuseppe Pizzardo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1877]])
** [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]], German physician and physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] laureate (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Roswitha Schmid |author2=Hans Adolf Krebs |title=Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1981 |page=v}}</ref>
* [[August 7]] – [[Tomu Uchida]], Japanese film director (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/great-directors/uchida/ Uchida, Tomu]</ref>
* [[August 8]] – [[Jerry Dawson (footballer, born 1888)|Jerry Dawson]], English footballer (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Bernd Alois Zimmermann]], German composer (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Glenn Hartranft]], American athlete (b. [[1901]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Soledad Miranda]], Spanish actress (b. [[1943]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Zeki Velidi Togan]], Turkish historian (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Vladimir Propp]], Soviet folklorist (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Abdallah Khalil]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Sudan]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Daniel Kinsey]], American hurdler, Olympic champion ([[Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics|1924]]) (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78654 Dan Kinsey]</ref>
* [[August 30]] – [[Del Moore]], American actor, comedian and radio announcer (b. [[1916]])

===September===
[[File:Rindt at 1970 Dutch Grand Prix (2C).jpg|110px|thumb|[[Jochen Rindt]]]]
[[File:Jimi Hendrix 1967 uncropped.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Jimi Hendrix]]]]
[[File:Nasser in 1969.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[François Mauriac]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1885]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Marie-Pierre Kœnig]], French general and politician (b. [[1898]])
* [[September 3]] 
** [[Vince Lombardi]], American football player and coach (b. [[1913]])
** [[Alan Wilson (musician)|Alan Wilson]], American musician ([[Canned Heat]]) (b. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Rebecca |title=Blind Owl Blues: The Mysterious Life and Death of Blues Legend Alan Wilson |year=2013 |publisher=Blind Owl Blues |isbn=978-0-615-79298-9 |pages=229, 243}}</ref>
* [[September 5]]
** [[Jesse Pennington]], English footballer (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Dean Hayes |title=England: The Football Facts |publisher=Michael O'Mara |year=2006 |page=43}}</ref>
** [[Jochen Rindt]], Austrian racing driver, 1970 Formula One Driver's Champion (b. [[1942]])<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Austrian Information |title=Jochen Rindt |year=1969 |volume=23 |issue=6 |page=8}}</ref>
* [[September 7]] – [[Yitzhak Gruenbaum]], leader of the [[Zionism|Zionist]] movement in the [[interwar period]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Chester Morris]], American actor (b. [[1901]])<ref>[http://momentaryfascinations.com/eulogies/a.eulogy.for.chester.morris.html A EULOGY FOR CHESTER MORRIS]</ref>
* [[September 12]] – [[Jacob Viner]], Canadian economist (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacob-Viner Jacob Viner American economist]</ref>
* [[September 14]] – [[Rudolf Carnap]], German-born American philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Jimi Hendrix]], American rock musician (b. [[1942]])<ref name=Jimi/>
* [[September 22]] 
** [[Alice Hamilton]], the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University (b. [[1869]])
** [[Joe Hickey (politician)|Joe Hickey]], American politician, jurist, governor and senator from [[Wyoming]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Bourvil|André Bourvil]], French actor (b. [[1917]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Philippe Crocq |author2=Jean Mareska |title=Bourvil. De rire et de tendresse |publisher=Éditions Privat |year=2006 |page=12 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] – [[Erich Maria Remarque]], German author (''All Quiet on the Western Front'') (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Konzett |first=Matthias |title=Encyclopedia of German Literature |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers |location=Chicago |year=2000 |isbn=9781135941222 |page=814}}</ref>
* [[September 28]]
** [[John Dos Passos]], American novelist (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Jay Parini |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA397 |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-515653-9 |pages=397}}</ref>
** [[Mahmud al-Muntasir]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Libya]] (b. [[1903]])
** [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], 31st [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] and 2nd [[President of Egypt]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Edward Everett Horton]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Benedetto Aloisi Masella]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1875]])

===October===
[[File:Janis Joplin 1970.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Janis Joplin]]]]
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* [[October 1]] – [[Petar Konjović]], Yugoslav composer (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Janis Joplin]], American rock singer (b. [[1943]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Édouard Daladier]], 72nd [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Zahniser |first=Marvin |title=Then came disaster: France and the United States, 1918-1940 |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport, Conn |year=2002 |isbn=9780275977160 |page=212}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – [[Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky]], Russian illustrator (b. [[1891]])<ref>[https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Feodor-Stepanovich-Rojankovsky/334861 Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky]</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Prince Zeid bin Hussein]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Lázaro Cárdenas]], 44th [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://independenciademexico.com.mx/biografia-de-lazaro-cardenas/ |title=Biografía de Lázaro Cárdenas |language=es |access-date=May 31, 2019 |publisher=Independencia de Mexico.com}}</ref>
* [[October 21]]
** [[Li Linsi]], Chinese educator and diplomat (b. [[1896]])
** [[Ernest Haller]], American cinematographer (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Richard Hofstadter]], American historian (b. [[1916]])
* [[October 25]] – [[René Schneider]], [[commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army]] (b. [[1913]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Mayme Ousley]], American politician and the first female mayor in [[Missouri]] history (b. [[1887]])

===November===
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* [[November 2]] 
** [[Abram Besicovitch]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1891]])
** [[Fernand Gravey]], French actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Friedrich Kellner]], German diarist (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/hitler-germans-nazi-robert-scott-kellner-friedrich-diary-third-reich/ |title=Opposing the Nazis: the secret diary of a German against the Third Reich |website=HistoryExtra}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – [[Agustín Lara]], Mexican composer (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{citation |publisher=BBC |title=Agustín Lara Biography (BBC) |access-date=August 23, 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/8c8837b1-60cc-4bf4-b9bb-71ad2f757841}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] – [[Napoleon Hill]], American author in the area of the new thought (b. [[1883]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Charles de Gaulle]], French general and statesman, 98th [[Prime Minister of France]] and 18th [[President of France]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Bessie Braddock]], British politician (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37214 |last=Ingham |first=Robert |title=Braddock [née Bamber], Elizabeth Margaret |year=2005 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37214 |access-date=22 October 2015}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] – [[Konstantinos Tsaldaris]], Greek politician, 2-time [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[November 19]] 
** [[Andrei Yeremenko]], Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. [[1892]])
** [[Maria Yudina]], Soviet pianist (b. [[1899]])
* [[November 21]] 
** [[C. V. Raman]], Indian physicist (b. [[1888]])
** [[Percy Ernst Schramm]], German historian (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Yusof bin Ishak]], Singaporean politician, 1st [[President of Singapore]] (b. [[1910]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Tilly Devine]], English-born Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623031546/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-06-23 |title=Biography - Matilda Mary (Tilly) Devine - Australian Dictionary of Biography |date=2015-06-23 |access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref>
* [[November 25]]
** [[Louise Glaum]], American actress (b. [[1888]])
** [[Yukio Mishima]], Japanese novelist (b. [[1925]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Henry Scott Stokes |title=The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjYSgQSCIlsC&pg=PA249 |year=2000 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8154-1074-4 |pages=249}}</ref>

===December===
[[File:William Slim, 1950.jpg|110px|thumb|[[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim|William Slim]]]]
* [[December 7]] – [[Rube Goldberg]], American cartoonist (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Christopher Kelk Ingold|Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold]], British chemist (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Feroz Khan Noon|Sir Feroz Khan Noon]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Chen Qiyou]], chairman of the [[China Zhi Gong Party]] (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.zg.org.cn/zgdjj/ljld/dljld/201102/t20110226_8664.htm |language=zh |script-title=zh:陈其尤 |trans-title=Chen Qiyou |publisher=China Zhi Gong Party |accessdate=13 October 2024 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20241013223153/https://www.zg.org.cn/zgdjj/ljld/dljld/201102/t20110226_8664.htm |archivedate=13 October 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] – [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim]], British field marshal and 13th [[Governor-General of Australia]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Ernest Marsden|Sir Ernest Marsden]], English-New Zealand physicist (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Friedrich Pollock]], German social scientist and philosopher (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Charlie Ruggles]], American actor (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://walkoffame.com/charles-ruggles/ |title=Charles Ruggles |date=October 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886–1970)|Prince Adalbert of Bavaria]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 30]] 
** [[Sonny Liston]], American boxer (b. c.[[1930]])
** [[Lenore Ulric]], American actress (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lenore_ulric Lenore Ulric]</ref>
* [[December 31]] – [[Cyril Scott]], English composer, writer and poet (b. [[1879]])

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Hannes Alfvén]], [[Louis Néel]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Luis Federico Leloir]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – Sir [[Bernard Katz]], [[Ulf von Euler]], [[Julius Axelrod]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Norman Borlaug]]
* [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] – [[Paul Samuelson]]

==References==
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