1970

1970 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1970; MCMLXX
Ab urbe condita	2723
Armenian calendar	1419; ԹՎ ՌՆԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6720
Baháʼí calendar	126–127
Balinese saka calendar	1891–1892
Bengali calendar	1377
Berber calendar	2920
British Regnal year	18 Eliz. 2 – 19 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2514
Burmese calendar	1332
Byzantine calendar	7478–7479
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 4667 or 4460; — to —; 庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 4668 or 4461
Coptic calendar	1686–1687
Discordian calendar	3136
Ethiopian calendar	1962–1963
Hebrew calendar	5730–5731
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2026–2027
- Shaka Samvat	1891–1892
- Kali Yuga	5070–5071
Holocene calendar	11970
Igbo calendar	970–971
Iranian calendar	1348–1349
Islamic calendar	1389–1390
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 45; (昭和４５年)
Javanese calendar	1901–1902
Juche calendar	59
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4303
Minguo calendar	ROC 59; 民國59年
Nanakshahi calendar	502
Thai solar calendar	2513
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 2096 or 1715 or 943; — to —; 阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 2097 or 1716 or 944
Unix time	0 – 31535999

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century; 20th century ; 21st century;
Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s ; 1980s; 1990s;
Years:	1967; 1968; 1969; 1970 ; 1971; 1972; 1973;

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.

Events

January

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New Year's Day, January 1: Philippines First Quarter Storm begins

January 1
- Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
- First Quarter Storm begin in the Philippines.
January 5 – The 7.1 M_w Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000–14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured.
January 5 – The first episode of United States soap opera All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 11 – the Kansas City Chiefs shock the football world by beating heavily favorite Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl IV.
January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
January 14 – Diana Ross and The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Ross's replacement, Jean Terrell, is introduced onstage at the end of the last show.
January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.
January 20 – The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding (the barrier opens in 1981).
January 21
- Five lifeboatmen are killed when a Fraserburgh, Scotland vessel, The Duchess of Kent, capsizes.
- Pan American Airways offers the first commercially scheduled Boeing 747 service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
January 23 – Joseph Fielding Smith becomes the 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
January 26 – Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.
January 31 – I Want You Back became the Jackson 5's first Billboard No. 1 Hot 100 single.

February

February 1 – The Benavidez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 236.
February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France kills 41 tourists.
February 11 – Ohsumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket.
February 11: Ohsumi (satellite) launched
February 13 – Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album is released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
February 14 – The iconic live album The Who: Live at Leeds is recorded.
February 17
- MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.
- Author David Irving is ordered to pay £40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book The Destruction of Convoy PQ17.
February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.
February 19 – Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL, which stood at $0.80 in September 1969, peak at around $280 before the speculative bubble bursts.
February 21 – Construction begins on the Boğaziçi Bridge crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
February 26 – Chevrolet releases the second generation Camaro.

March

March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic.
March 5 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
March 6
- A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing three members of the organization.
- Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (32nd government).
March 7
- Citroën introduces the SM at the Geneva Auto Salon.
- A solar eclipse passes along the Atlantic coast region. Totality is visible across southern Mexico and across the southeast coast of the United States, Nantucket, and Nova Scotia.
March 12 – 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater.
March 15 – The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
March 16 – The complete New English Bible is published.
March 17 – The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the My Lai Massacre.
March 18
- General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and holds Queen Sisowath Kossamak under house arrest.
- United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
March 20 – The Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation (ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique) is founded.
March 21
- The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
- All Kinds of Everything, sung by Dana (music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 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 are eventually freed.

April

April 1
- American President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States from January 1, 1971.
- American Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin.
  April 1: New car – AMC Gremlin
- The 1970 United States Census begins. There are 203,392,031 United States residents on this day.
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 6 – BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the first edition of PM.
April 8
- A huge gas explosion at a 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 his first solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he has left The Beatles.^[1]
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 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 16
- Rev. Ian Paisley wins a by-election to gain a seat in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.
- The National Westminster Bank begins trading in the United Kingdom.
April 17 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific.
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 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.
April 24 – China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).
April 26 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded.
April 29 – The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large antiwar protests occur in the U.S.

May

May 1 – Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000. President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nationwide riots and leading to the Kent State shootings.
May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, USA are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, at a protest against the 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 IRA in Northern Ireland.
- Feyenoord wins the European Cup after a 2–1 win over Celtic.
May 8
- Hard Hat Riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.
- The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be.
- The New York Knicks win their first NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 113-99 in Game 7 of the world championship series at Madison Square Garden.
May 9 – In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.
May 10 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr scores a goal 40 seconds into overtime for a 4–3 victory which completes a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues.
May 11
- Henry Marrow is killed in an alleged hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
- Lubbock tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966; 26 are killed.
May 12 – The 1976 Winter Olympics are awarded to Denver, Colorado but it is later rejected in 1972.
May 14
- Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction which exists until 1998.
- 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 sail the Atlantic Ocean.
May 23 – A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait near Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales, contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the USSR.
May 26 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
May 27 – A British expedition climbs the south face of Annapurna I.
May 31
- The 7.9 M_w Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
- The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico.

June

June 1 – Soyuz 9, a two-man spacecraft, is launched in the Soviet Union.
June 2 – Norway announces it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.
June 4 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
June 7 – The Who become the first act to perform rock music (their rock opera, Tommy) at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
June 8 – A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.
June 11 – The United States gets its first female generals, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
June 12 – NDFLOAG guerrillas attack military garrisons at Izki and Nizwa in Oman.
June 13 – The Long and Winding Road becomes the Beatles' 20th and final single to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
June 15 – Operation Wedding: fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.
June 18 – United Kingdom general election, 1970: the Conservative Party wins and Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister, ousting the Labour government of Harold Wilson after nearly six years in power. The election result is something of a surprise, as most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.^[2]
June 19 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
June 21
- Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
- Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, the largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
June 23 – The film: Kelly's Heroes is released in the US.
June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964.
June 28 – U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.
June 30 – Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati opens.

July

July 1
- Colorado State College changes its name to University of Northern Colorado.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is subordinated to Public Health Service.
July 3 – The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the Mururoa Atoll. It is their fourth and largest nuclear test.
July 4
- A chartered Dan-Air De Havilland Comet crashes into the mountains north of Barcelona; at least 112 people are killed.
- Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
- Longtime radio music countdown show American Top 40 debuts on 5 U.S. stations with Casey Kasem as host.
July 5 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes at Toronto International Airport, Toronto, Ontario; all 109 passengers and crew are killed.
July 11 – The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the towns of Aragnouet (France) and Bielsa (Spain).
July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.
July 16 – Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens.
July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
July 23
- Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.
- Two CS gas canisters are thrown into the chamber of the British House of Commons.
July 30 – Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims.
July 31 – NBC anchor Chet Huntley retires from full-time broadcasting.

August

August 7 – Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
August 17
- The United States sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas.
- Venera program: Venera 7 is launched toward Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet.
August 24 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
August 26
- Women's Strike for Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
- The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 begins on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull.
August 29 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

September

September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.
September 3–6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.
September 5
- Vietnam War – Operation Jefferson Glenn: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).
- Formula One driver Jochen Rindt is killed in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix. He becomes World Driving Champion anyhow, first to earn the honor posthumously.
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 from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.
September 7
- An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
- Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
September 8–10 – The Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces.
September 9
- Guinea recognizes the German Democratic Republic.
- Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
September 10
- Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after three months.
- The Chevrolet Vega is introduced.
September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
September 13
- The covert incursion of Operation Tailwind is instigated by the American forces in southeast Laos.
- The first New York City Marathon begins.
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 – American musician Jimi Hendrix dies at age 27 from an overdose of sleeping pills.
September 19 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held, at a farm belonging to Michael Eavis.
September 19 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
September 20
- Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.
- Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples. It lands on Earth September 24.
September 21
- Palestinian armed forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.
- Monday Night Football debuts on ABC; the Cleveland Browns defeat the New York Jets 31–21 in front of more than 85,000 fans at Cleveland Stadium.
September 22
- The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded.
- Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.
September 23 – The first women's only tennis tournament begins in Houston, known as the Houston Women's Invitation.
September 24 – The Odd Couple premiered on ABC.
September 26 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km²).
September 27
- Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila as the first female Doctor of the Church.
September 28 – Gamal Abdel Nasser dies; Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt.
September 29
- The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
- In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over DM200,000.

October

October 2
- Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Corps, one of seven federal uniformed services of the United States, is renamed to NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps under the soon to be formed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
- The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane 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.
- Pink Floyd releases Atom Heart Mother. It becomes their first number one album.
October 3
- In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is formed.
- The Weather Bureau is renamed to National Weather Service, as part of NOAA.
- Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine of Siena as the second female Doctor of the Church.
October 4
- American singer Janis Joplin dies at age 27 from an overdose of drugs.
- Jochen Rindt becomes Formula One World Driving Champion, 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 fires him.
- National Educational Television ends operations, being succeeded by PBS.
October 5
- U.S. President Richard Nixon's European tour ends.
- The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it will not meet the demand, beginning Quebec's October Crisis.
- The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
October 6
- Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
- French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
October 8
- The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.
- Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
October 9 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia which begins the Civil War with the Khmer Rouge.
October 10
- Fiji becomes independent.
- October Crisis: In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada when 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
- Canada and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
- Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.
October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.
October 15
- In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
- A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
- The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
October 16 – October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.
October 17
- October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found murdered 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.
- Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
October 21 – A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including two generals, November 10.
October 22 – Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
October 23 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence,^[3] then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
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 to an official land speed record at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h)^[4] on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
October 30 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

November

November 1
- Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146.
- Polish vice president killed at Karachi airport, Pakistan
November 3
- Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.
- Salvador Allende becomes president of Chile.
November 4
- Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
- Social workers in Los Angeles take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.
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 that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
November 8
- Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.
- Tom Dempsey, who was born with a deformed right foot and right hand, sets a National Football League record by kicking a 63-yard field goal to lift the New Orleans Saints to a 19–17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.
- The British comedy television series, The Goodies debuts on BBC Two.
November 9
- The Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
- 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 10 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years for 'anti-Soviet' writings.
November 13
- Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup within the Ba'ath Party.
- 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph (193 km/h) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now 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.
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 football team, are killed.
- The Soviet Union enters the ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of the organization.
November 16 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flies for the first time.
November 17
- Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
- 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 18
- U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US $85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
- The United Nations Security Council demands that no government recognize Rhodesia.
November 19 – European Economic Community prime ministers meet in Munich.
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
- Syrian 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 Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs 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).
- Australian Senate election, 1970: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led by Prime Minister John Gorton and the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam each ended up with 26 seats; both suffering a swing against them. The Democratic Labor Party won an additional seat and held the balance of power in the Senate. To date, this was the last occasion where a Senate election was held without an accompanying House Of Representatives election.
November 22 – Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry.
November 23–24 – The Guinean army repels the landing attempts.
November 23
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special.
- The American Indian Movement seizes a replica of the Mayflower in Boston.
November 25–29 – 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, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
November 26
- East Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.
- Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
November 28 – The Montréal Alouettes defeated the Calgary Stampeders to become victors in the 58th Grey Cup 23–10.^[5]
November 30 – British Caledonian Airways Ltd. (BCal) is formed.

December

December 1
- The Italian House of Representatives accepts the new divorce law.
- Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.
- The Basque ETA 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 terrorism suspects begins.
December 4
- The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzco, 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 wins the 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, 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 13 – The government of Poland announces food price increases. Riots and looting lead to a bloody confrontation between the rioters and the government on December 15.
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 county of Eritrea over the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front.
December 17 – Polish 1970 protests: Soldiers fire on civilians returning to work in Gdynia. Martial law is imposed in the country until December 22.
December 20
- General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, Władysław Gomułka, resigns; Edward Gierek replaces him.
- An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.
December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight.
December 22
- The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
- Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
December 23
- The Polish government freezes food prices for two years.
- The Bolivian government releases Régis Debray.
- The North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
- 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 – The ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
December 27 – India's president declares new elections.
December 28
- Burgos Trial: Three Basques are sentenced to death, twelve others sentenced to imprisonment (terms from 12 to 62 years), and one is released.
- 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.
December 30 – In Viscaya in the 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's legal partnership.

Date unknown

The first Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.
Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress, disappears.
The Sweet Track is discovered in England. It was the world's oldest engineered roadway at the time of its discovery.
Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock.
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California.
The American Football League and NFL merge, creating the National Football Conference and American Football Conference. All AFL teams go to the AFC with a few NFL teams while the NFC is composed entirely of NFL teams.

World population

World population
	1970	1965		1975
World	3,692,492,000	3,334,874,000	357,618,000	4,068,109,000	375,617,000
Africa	357,283,000	313,744,000	43,539,000	408,160,000	50,877,000
Asia	2,143,118,000	1,899,424,000	243,694,000	2,397,512,000	254,394,000
Europe	655,855,000	634,026,000	21,829,000	675,542,000	19,687,000
Latin America	284,856,000	250,452,000	34,404,000	321,906,000	37,050,000
North America	231,937,000	219,570,000	12,367,000	243,425,000	11,488,000
Oceania	19,443,000	17,657,000	1,786,000	21,564,000	2,121,000

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Lara Fabian

January 1 – Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer and manager
January 2
- Royce Clayton, American baseball player
- Oksana Omelianchik, Soviet artistic gymnast
- Eric Whitacre, American composer
January 3 – Christian Duguay, American comic actor
January 4 – Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
January 6
- Julie Chen, American television news anchor and host
- Keenan McCardell, American football player
- Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player and model
January 7
- Todd Day, American basketball player
- Doug E. Doug, American comedian, actor and director
January 8
- Nick Miller, British weather forecaster
- Adam Reed, American voice actor and animator
January 9 – Lara Fabian, Canadian/Belgian singer
January 12 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician
January 13
- Keith Coogan, American actor
- Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
- Shonda Rhimes, American TV producer and writer
January 15 – Jamie Bishop (cricketer), Welsh cricketer (d. 2015)
January 17
- Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player
- Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian animator
January 18 – DJ Quik, American rapper and producer
January 19
- Tim Foster, British rower
- Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
January 20
- Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress
- Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and musician
- Skeet Ulrich, American actor
January 22 – Alex Ross, American comic artist
January 24 – Matthew Lillard, American actor
January 27 – Adam Brand, Australian singer
January 29
- Heather Graham, American actress
- Janice Kawaye, American voice actress
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
- Paul Ryan, American politician, long-time U.S. Representative since 1999 and Speaker of the House since 2015; 2012 Republican nominee for Vice President under Mitt Romney
January 31
- Minnie Driver, English actress
- Chen Lin, Chinese Mandopop singer (d. 2009)

February

February 1 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000)
February 2 – Andrew J. Olmsted, major in the U.S. Army. (d. 2008)
February 3
- Keith Carney, American hockey player
- Warwick Davis, English actor
February 8
- Stephanie Courtney, American actress and comedian
- John Filan, Australian footballer
- Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
February 9 – Glenn McGrath, Australian test cricketer
February 10
- Sarah Aldrich, American actress
- Ardy Wiranata, Indonesian badminton player
February 11 – Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish musician
February 12 – Judd Winick, American cartoonist and comic book writer
February 14
- Sean Hill, American hockey player
- Simon Pegg, British comedian, actor, and screenwriter
February 15 – Shepard Fairey, American temporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator, and founder of OBEY (clothing)
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
- Raine Maida, Canadian musician, frontman of Our Lady Peace
February 19 – Miisa, Finnish Eurodance artist (d. 2016)
February 21 – Dayna Devon, American news anchor
February 22
- Nicole Oliver, Canadian actress
- Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
February 24 – Jeff Garcia, American football player
February 26
- Linda Brava, Finnish violinist
- Cathrine Lindahl, Swedish curler
February 27 – Matthias Lechner, German art director
February 28
- Rupert Hamer, British journalist (d. 2010)
- Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete

March

March 1 – Jason V Brock, American author, filmmaker, artist, scholar and musician
March 2 – Alexander Armstrong, English comedian, actor and presenter
March 3 – Julie Bowen, American actress
March 5
- John Frusciante, American rock musician
- Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
- Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia
March 7
- Vladislav Adelkhanov, Russian classical violinist and writer
- Jeff Hordley, English actor
- Rachel Weisz, British-American actress
March 8 – Jason Elam, American football player
March 9 – Simon Monjack, British screenwriter, film director (d. 2010)
March 10
- Antonio Edwards, American football player
- Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
March 11 – Jane Slavin, British actress and author
March 12 – John Nemechek, American race car driver (d. 1997)
March 13 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
March 14 – Meredith Salenger, American actress
March 15 – Christine Anu, Notable Australian singer
March 16 – Paul Oscar (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey
March 18 – Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress
March 20
- Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
- Michele Jaffe, American novelist
- Andrew Kishino, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, and rapper
- Linda Larkin, American actress and voice actress
- Michael Rapaport, American actor
March 21
- Jaya, Filipino pop singer
- Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (d. 2000)
- Cenk Uygur, American media personality
March 22 – Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
March 24
- Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
- Sharon Corr, Irish musician
March 27
- Mariah Carey, American singer
- 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
- Samantha Brown, American television host

April

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Luis Miguel

April 4
- Sean Kelly, Canadian musician
- Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
April 7 – Rosey, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
April 8 – Andrej Plenković, 12th Prime Minister of Croatia
April 10
- Q-Tip, American musician and actor
- Kenny Lattimore, American R&B singer
April 11 – Trevor Linden, Canadian hockey player
April 12 – Nick Hexum, American musician
April 13
- Eduardo Capetillo, Mexican actor and singer
- Ricky Schroder, American actor
April 14 – Matt Allwright, English television presenter and journalist notable for Rogue Traders, which became part of Watchdog
April 15 – Flex Alexander, American actor
April 17 – 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
- Sven Benken, German footballer and Manager
- Shemar Moore, American actor
- Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
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, Australian rugby league footballer
- Hans Välimäki, Finnish cook
April 25
- Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (d. 2011)
- 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
April 28
- 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 1 – Dave Willis, American voice actor and producer
May 3
- Bobby Cannavale, American actor
- Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
May 4
- Will Arnett, Canadian actor
- Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer and rapist
May 5
- Kyan Douglas, American television personality
- Todd Newton, American television personality
May 6
- Roland Kun, Nauruan politician
- Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
May 8
- Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer
- Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer
- Naomi Klein, American cultural critic
May 9
- Doug Christie, American basketball player and TV personality
- Ghostface Killah, American rapper
May 10
- Angelica Agurbash, Belarusian singer and model
- Craig Mack, American Rapper (d. 2018)
May 12
- Eric Champion, American Christian musician
- Samantha Mathis, American actress
May 14 – Daniel Lewin, American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
May 15
- Ronald and Frank de Boer, Dutch footballers
- Rod Smith, American football player
May 16 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
May 17
- Jordan Knight, American singer
- Fadwa Soliman, Syrian actress and voice actress
May 18 – Tina Fey, American comedian and actress
May 19
- K.J. Choi, South Korean golfer
- Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
- Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
May 20 – Juliana Pasha, Albanian singer
May 22 – Naomi Campbell, British model and actress
May 23
- Matt Flynn, American musician
- Robert Peirce, American attorney
May 24 – Jeff Zgonina, American football player
May 25
- Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actress
- Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian
- Octavia Spencer, American actress
- Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress
May 26
- John Hamburg, American writer and director
- 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 – Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer

June

June 1
- Alison Hinds, British-Barbadian soca artist based in Barbados
- Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
- R. Madhavan, Indian film actor
- Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
June 2 – B-Real, American rapper
June 3
- Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
- Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician
June 4
- Donald Farley, Canadian cross-country skier (d. 2016)
- Izabella Scorupco, Polish model and actress
June 5
- John Marquez, British actor and cinematographer
- Deborah Yates, American dancer and actress
June 6
- Dulmatin, militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (d. 2010)
- Angad Paul, British businessman and film producer. (d. 2015)
June 7
- Ronaldo da Costa, Brazilian long-distance runner
- Mike Modano, American hockey player
June 8
- Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
- Kelli Williams, American actress
June 10 – Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer
June 11 – Cristina Pucelli, American actress
June 13
- Cheryl "Coko" Clemons, American singer
- Rivers Cuomo, American musician
- Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
June 15
- Claus Norreen, Danish musician
- Leah Remini, American actress
June 16
- Younus AlGohar, Pakistani spiritualist
- Phil Mickelson, American golfer
June 17
- Will Forte, American actor and comedian
- Michael Showalter, American actor, writer, and director
- Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer
June 18 – Katie Derham, British newsreader
June 19 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
June 20
- Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
- 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
- Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor
- Michael Trucco, American actor
June 23
- Zen Gesner, American actor
- Christian Meier, Peruvian actor and singer
June 24
- Glenn Medeiros, American singer and songwriter
- Andres Raag, Estonian actor and singer
June 25
- Lucy Benjamin, British actress
- Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist
June 25 – Pan Lingling, Singaporean actress
June 26
- Paul Thomas Anderson, American screenwriter and director
- Sean Hayes, American actor
- Patrick Norton, American writer and television host
- Chris O'Donnell, American actor
- Nick Offerman, American actor, writer and carpenter
- David Teeuwen, managing editor of USA Today where he helped pioneer digital news. (d. 2015)
June 27
- Ahmed Ahmed, Egyptian-born American actor and comedian
- Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
- Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
June 28
- Steve Burton, American actor
- Mike White, American writer, director, actor and producer
June 29 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder, actor, and musician
June 30
- Emmanuel Mouret, French actor, director and screenwriter
- Leonardo Sbaraglia, Argentine actor
- Erica Sjöström, Swedish female singer and saxophonist

July

July 1 – Henry Simmons, American actor
July 2
- Derrick Adkins, American Olympic athlete
- Yap Kim Hock, Malaysian badminton player
- Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
- Kym Ng, Singaporean television host and actress
- Spice 1, American rapper
July 3
- Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
- Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
July 5
- Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
- O.G. Style, American hip hop duo (d. 2008)
July 6 – Demonaz Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician
July 7
- Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
- Masai Ujiri, Nigerian professional basketball executive
- Akram Abdel-Majeed, Egyptian professional footballer
July 8
- Beck, American singer
- Atul Agnihotri, Indian film actor, producer, and director
- Micky Hoogendijk, Dutch actress, presenter, model and professional photographer
July 9 – Trent Green, American football quarterback
July 10
- Jason Orange, British singer
- John Simm, British actor
July 11
- Justin Chambers, American actor and fashion model
- Saj Karim, British politician
- Michael Saucedo, American Hispanic Irish actor
July 12
- Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor, singer and model
- Conrad Coates, English-Canadian actor and teacher
- Jaason Simmons, Australian actor
- Viétia Zangrandi, Brazilian actress
- Aure Atika, French actress, writer and director
July 13 – Bruno Salomone, French actor and comedian
July 17
- Jang Hyun-sung, South Korean actor
- William C. Kuebler, American lawyer (d. 2014)
July 20 – Tunku Abdul Majid
July 23
- Thea Dorn, German writer
- Saulius Skvernelis, Prime Minister of Lithuania
July 25 – Julien Fountain, English cricket coach
July 29 – Andi Peters, British TV presenter and producer
July 30
- Christopher Nolan, English screenwriter and director
- MC Trouble, African American rapper (d. 1991)

August

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Queen Rania of Jordan

August 1
- Quentin Coryatt, American football player
- David James, English football goalkeeper
- Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathmetician
- Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
August 2
- Elijah Alexander, American football linebacker (d. 2010)
- Kevin Smith, American screenwriter, film director, and actor
August 3 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game director, designer and writer
August 4 – Pete Abrams, American webcomic artist
August 5 – Konstantin Yeryomenko, Russian futsal (d. 2010)
August 6 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American film director and writer
August 9
- Chris Cuomo, American journalist
- Thomas Lennon, American actor, comedian, and writer
August 10
- Doug Flach, American tennis player
- Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player
- Brendon Julian, New Zealand cricket player
- Steve Mautone, Australian football player and coach
August 11 – Andy Bell, English musician (Ride, Hurricane #1, Oasis)
August 12 – Jim Schlossnagle, American baseball coach
August 13
- Will Clarke, American novelist
- Alan Shearer, English footballer
August 14 – Leah Purcell, Australian actress
August 15
- Maddie Corman, American actress
- Anthony Anderson, American actor
August 16
- Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
- Dean Del Mastro, Canadian politician
- Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
- Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
August 17
- Jim Courier, American tennis player
- Tammy Townsend, American actress and singer
August 18 – Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
August 19 – Fat Joe, American rapper
August 20
- Fred Durst, American rapper
- Ove Jørstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2008)
August 21
- Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist
- Cathy Weseluck, Canadian actress and voice actress
August 22
- Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American celebrity chef
- Ricco Groß, German biathlete
August 23
- Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
- River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
- Fabian Wilnis, Dutch footballer
August 25 – Claudia Schiffer, German model
August 26
- Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian race walker
- Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, and film producer
August 27
- Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
- Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
August 28
- Henny van Schoonhoven, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2009)
- Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, Indian director and poet. (d. 2015)
August 29 – Nyimpine Chissano, eldest son of former Mozambican (d. 2007)
August 30 – Guang Liang, Malaysian singer
August 31
- Debbie Gibson, American singer
- Epic Mazur, American singer and rapper
- Queen Rania of Jordan, Queen consort of Jordan
- Zack Ward, Canadian actor

September

September 1 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
September 3 – Jeremy Glick, passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
September 4
- Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress
- Ione Skye, British-born American actress
September 5 – Liam Lynch, American musician, comedian, and puppetteer
September 7
- Gao Min, Chinese diver
- Tom Everett Scott, American actor
September 8
- Benny Ibarra, Mexican singer
- Rosearik Rikki Simons, American voice actor
- Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
September 10
- Molly McKay, LGBT activist
- Ménélik, French rapper
September 11
- Taraji P. Henson, American actress
- Laura Wright, American actress
September 13 – Susumu Chiba, Japanese voice actor
September 14 – Mike Burns, American soccer player
September 17 – Valeria Cappellotto, Italian racing cyclist. (d. 2015)
September 18 – Darren Gough, English cricketer
September 19
- Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
- Yuka Imai, Japanese voice actress
- Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
September 20 – Gert Verheyen, Belgian footballer
September 21 – Samantha Power, Irish-American government official and writer
September 22
- Mike Matheny, American baseball player
- Mystikal, American rapper
- Chris Tallman, American actor and comedian
September 23 – Ani DiFranco, American musician
September 25 – Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
September 26
- Marco Etcheverry, Bolivian football player
- Frank Guinta, American politician
- Yukio Iketani, Japanese gymnast
September 27 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
September 28
- Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
- Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
September 29
- Joe Doucet, American designer, inventor and artist
- Emily Lloyd, English actress
- Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
- Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
September 30
- Tony Hale, American actor
- Mark Smith, English actor and bodybuilder

October

October 1 – Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan athlete
October 2 – Kelly Ripa, American actress and TV personality
October 4
- Richard Hancox, English footballer
- Zdravko Zdravkov, Bulgarian footballer
October 7 – Nicole Ari Parker, American actress and model
October 8
- Matt Damon, American actor
- Sadiq Khan, British politician; 3rd Mayor of London
- Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game and film director
October 9
- Jason Butler Harner, American actor
- Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
October 10
- Sir Matthew Pinsent, British rower
- Jokelyn Tienstra, Dutch handball player (d. 2015)
October 11
- Lee Bong-Ju, South Korean long-distance runner
- Andy Marriott, English footballer
October 12
- Kirk Cameron, American actor and Christian activist
- Charlie Ward, American football and basketball player
October 14 – Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
October 15 – Chris Mims, American football (d. 2008)
October 16 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
October 17
- Chris Kattan, Amercian actor and comedian
- Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
- Marciano Vink, Dutch footballer
October 18 – Jose Padilla, American gang member and convicted terrorist
October 20 – Michelle Malkin, American political commentator
October 21
- Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor
- Tony Mortimer, English singer
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
October 28 – Greg Eagles, American actor and voice actor
October 29
- Michael Daingerfield, Canadian actor and voice actor
- Toby Smith, British musician (d. 2017)
- Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
October 30
- Ben Bailey, American host
- Nia Long, American actress
- Xie Jun, Chinese chess grandmaster
October 31
- Linn Berggren, Swedish singer
- Nolan North, American actor

November

November 1 – Merle Palmiste, Estonian actress
November 2
- Ely Buendia, Filipino rock lead singer and rhythm guitarist (Eraserheads)
- Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman, American wrestling valet
November 3 – Dawn Marie Psaltis, American professional wrestler
November 4
- François Delapierre, French politician (d. 2014)
- Anthony Ruivivar, American actor
- Tony Sly, American singer (d. 2012)
November 5 – Heather Pick, American television news anchor (d. 2008)
November 6 – Ethan Hawke, American actor, writer, and film director
November 7
- Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician
- Morgan Spurlock, American filmmaker and activist
November 8 – Tom Anderson, American co-founder of Myspace
November 9
- Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler
- Imam Samudra, Bali bombings, an act of terrorism (d. 2008)
- Scarface, American rapper
November 10
- Orny Adams, American comedian
- Warren G, American rapper
November 12
- Tonya Harding, American figure skater
- Alina María Hernández, Cuban transgender (d. 2016)
November 15
- Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
- Jack Ingram, American country music singer
November 16
- Matt Healy, British actor
- Martha Plimpton, American actress
November 17
- Paul Allender, English guitarist
- Tania Zaetta, Australian actress and television presenter
November 18 – Peta Wilson, Australian actress
November 20 – Joe Zaso, American actor and producer
November 21 – Karen Davila, Filipina journalist, TV host and news personality
November 22
- Stel Pavlou, British novelist and screenwriter
- Joe Son, Korean-American actor, wrestler, and convicted felon
November 23
- Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
- Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
November 25 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
November 26 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
November 27
- Mr. Lobo, television personality
- Jorge Luis González Tanquero, Cuban dissident (d. 2016)
November 28 – Richard Osman, English television presenter, producer and director
November 29 – Larry Joe Campbell, American actor and comedian
November 30
- Walter Emanuel Jones, American actor
- Natalie Williams, American basketball player

December

December 1 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian
December 2 – Treach, American rapper
December 3
- Jimmy Shergill, Indian actor
- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, U.S. Representative (D-SD)
December 4
- Fat Pat, American rapper (d. 1998)
- Kevin Sussman, American actor
December 5
- Tim Hetherington, English-born photojournalist (d. 2011)
- Martin Selmayr, German Eurocrat
December 6 – Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician
December 9 – Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter
December 12
- Mädchen Amick, American actress
- Jennifer Connelly, American actress
- Regina Hall, American actress
December 13 – Bart Johnson, American actor
December 14 – Andrew Lewis, Guyanese professional boxer (d. 2014)
December 15 – Przemysław Truściński, Polish artist
December 17 – Craig Doyle, Irish television presenter
December 18
- DMX, American rapper and actor
- Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
- Victoria Pratt, Canadian-born actress and model
- Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
December 20
- Nicole de Boer, Canadian actress
- Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
December 22
- Ted Cruz, Canadian-American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Tx.) from 2013 and 2016 presidential candidate
- Gary Anderson, Scottish darts player
- Clay Dreslough, American game designer
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 – Francesca Le, American porn actress and director
December 29
- Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television presenter
- Kevin Weisman, American actor
December 31 – Bryon Russell, American basketball player

Deaths

January

January 1 – Alfred Lauck Parson, British chemist and physicist (b. 1889)
January 4
- Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
- David John Williams, Welsh-language writer and Welsh nationalist (b. 1885)
January 5 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
January 7 – Robert Barrat, American actor (b. 1889)
January 10 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
January 13 – Jimmy Hanley, English actor (b. 1918)
January 14 – Harry M. Woods, American songwriter (b. 1896)
January 18 – David O. McKay, 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
January 19 – Aldo De Benedetti, Italian screenwriter (b. 1892)
January 25
- Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
- Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (Godzilla, Ultraman) (b. 1901)
January 27 – Erich Heckel, German painter (b. 1883)
January 28 – Thomas J. Ryan, American admiral (b. 1901)
January 29
- Lawren Harris, Canadian painter. (b. 1885)
- Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (b. 1895)
- Thelma Morgan, American socialite (b. 1904)
January 30 – Fritz Bayerlein, German general (b. 1899)
January 31 – Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)

February

February 2
- Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)
- Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
February 3 – Italo Gariboldi, Italian general (b. 1879)
February 4 – Louise Bogan, American poet (b. 1897)
February 6 – Roscoe Karns, American actor (b. 1891)
February 10
- John Davidson, Scottish-Canadian botanist. (b. 1878)
- Tobias Geffen, Lithuanian-born, American Orthodox rabbi. (b.1870)
- Alfred Roberts, English lay preacher, politician, and father of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1892)
February 14
- Arthur Edeson, American cinematographer (b. 1891)
- Sasha Siemel, adventurer, hunter, guide, actor, writer, photographer, and lecturer. (b. 1890)
- Harry Stradling, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
- Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880)
February 15 – Hugh Dowding, British RAF Fighter Commander 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 laureate (b. 1888)
- Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
February 19 – Jules Munshin, American actor (b. 1915)
February 20
- João Café Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
- Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
February 21 – Johannes Semper, Estonian writer and translator (b. 1892)
February 22 – Edward Selzer, American film producer (b. 1893)
February 24 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
February 25 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian social reformer (b. 1878)
February 28 – Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond, English painter (b. 1875)

March

March 2 – Joseph Vialatoux, French Roman Catholic philosopher (b. 1880)
March 6 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
March 11
- Erle Stanley Gardner, American crime writer (b. 1889)
- Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
March 8 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (b. 1884)
March 9 – Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist (b. 1886)
March 13 – Alec Clunes, English actor (b. 1912)
March 14 – Ma Hongkui, prominent warlord in China during the Republic of China era (b. 1892)
March 16 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
March 18 – William Beaudine, American film director (b. 1892)
March 23 – Del Lord, Canadian film director (b. 1894)
March 28 – Fortune Gallo, Italian-born opera impresario (b. 1878)
March 29 – Vera Brittain, British writer (b. 1893)
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)
- George Wootten, Australian soldier, public servant, political activist and solicitor (b. 1893)