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Template:C20YearInTopicX 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Template:C20YearTOC

Events of 1966

January

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• January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
• January 2 – A strike of public transportation workers in New York City begins (it will end January 13).
• January 3 – The first Acid Test is conducted at the Fillmore, San Francisco.
• January 4 – A military coup occurs in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso).
• January 4 – The prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow.
• January 4 – A gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon, France kills 18 and injures 84.
• January 10 – Pakistani-Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Tashkent.
• January 10 – The French paper L'Express publishes a story of Georges Figon, who took part in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.
• January 11 – A conference on Rhodesia begins in Lagos, Nigeria.
• January 11 – The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB.
• January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• January 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member, by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• January 15 – A violent military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government.
• January 17 – The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, leaving a military government in power. This is the beginning of a long period of military rule.
• January 17 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and 1 into the sea, in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash.
• January 17 – Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of a lost H-bomb which results in the amputation of his leg.
• January 18 – French police announce that Georges Figon has committed suicide, prior to his arrest for the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.
• January 18 – About 8,000 U.S. soldiers land in South Vietnam; U.S. troops now total 190,000.
• January 19 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; she is sworn in January 24.
• January 20 – Demonstrations occur against high food prices in Hungary.
• January 21 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
• January 22 – The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup.
• January 22 – The Chadian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan, starting the Chadian Civil War.
• January 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes at Mont Blanc kills 117, including Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, chairman Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
• January 26 – Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires.
• January 26 – Beaumont children disappearance: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again.
• January 27 – The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
• January 29 – The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• January 31 – The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia.

February

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• February 1 – West Germany procures some 2,600 political prisoners from East Germany.
• February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
• February 4 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 are killed.
• February 6 – Fidel Castro blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among Cuban soldiers.
• February 10 – Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to 5 and 7 years, respectively, for 'anti-Soviet' writings.
• February 11 – The Belgian government resigns.
• February 14 – The Australian dollar is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.
• February 19 – The naval minister of the United Kingdom, Christopher Mayhew, resigns.
• February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.
• February 23 – A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government with a Ba'athist regime.
• February 24 – A military coup in Ghana raises sacked General Ankrah to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.
• February 26 – A curfew is declared in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• February 28 – U.S. astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis, Missouri.

March

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• March 1 – Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• March 1 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• March 2 – Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Guinea and is granted asylum.
• March 4 – The Beatles: In an interview published in The London Evening Standard, John Lennon comments, "We're more popular than Jesus now," eventually sparking a controversy in the United States.
• March 4 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 crashes while landing at Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing 64 of 72 persons on board.
• March 5 – A massive theft of nuclear materials is revealed in Brazil.
• March 5 – Merci Chérie by Udo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens, text by Udo Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria.
• March 7 – Charles De Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France.
• March 8 – Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the Indonesian Foreign Ministry.
• March 8 – Vietnam War: U.S announces it will substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
• March 8 – An Irish Republican Army bomb destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
• March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in East London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.
• March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
• March 11 – Indonesian President Sukarno gives all executive powers to General Suharto (see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar).
• March 11 – French President Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year.
• March 12 – Bobby Hull of the Chicago Blackhawks sets the NHL single season scoring record against the New York Rangers, with his 51st goal.
• March 16 – Gemini 8 (David Scott, Neil Armstrong) docks with an Agena target vehicle.
• March 17 – More anti-communist demonstrations occur in Indonesia.
• March 17 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
• March 19 – The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with 5 African-American starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.
• March 20 – The World Cup Trophy (the "Jules Rimet") is stolen at an exhibition; it is later found by a dog named "Pickles" and his owner David Corbett.
• March 22 – In Washington, D.C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.
• March 23 – Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome.
• March 26 – Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War.
• March 27 – In South Vietnam, 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
• March 28 – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
• March 29 – The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying.
• March 31 – The Labour Party under Harold Wilson wins the British General Election.
• March 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

April

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• April 2 – The Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations.
• April 4 – Luna 10 enters orbit around the Moon.
• April 7 – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the embargo against Rhodesia (authority is given April 10).
• April 8 – Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.
• April 9 – Norwich City F.C. captain Barry Butler is killed in a car accident.
• April 13 – United States president Lyndon Johnson signs the 1966 Uniform Time Act, dealing with daylight saving time.
• April 14 – The South Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
• April 15 – An anti-Nasser conspiracy is exposed in Egypt.
• April 18 – China declares that it will stop economic aid to Indonesia.
• April 18 – The 38th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
• April 19 – Mexican singer Javier Solis dies from complications following gall bladder surgery.
• April 21 – An artificial heart is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a Houston, Texas hospital.
• April 21 – The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.
• April 21 – Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rastafarian leaders.
• April 21 – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court, for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November 1963 and October 1965.
• April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).
• April 28 – In Rhodesia, security forces kill 7 ZANLA men in combat; Chimurenga, the ZANU rebellion, begins.
• April 29 – U.S. troops in Vietnam total 250,000.
• April 30 – Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000 due to the Channel Tunnel).
• April 30 – The Church of Satan is formed by Anton Szandor LaVey in San Francisco
• April 30 – Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.

May

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• May 1 – Floods occur on the Finnish coast.
• May 3 – Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM, with a combined potential 100,000 watts, from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters.
• May 4 – Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.
• May 5 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Detriot Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
• May 6 – The Moors Murderers trial ends with Ian Brady being found guilty on all 3 counts of murder and sentenced to 3 concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on 2 counts of murder and of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady, and receives 2 concurrent terms of life imprisonment and a 7-year fixed term for being an accessory.
• May 12 – African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
• May 12 – The Busch Memorial Stadium opens in St Louis, Missouri.
• May 12 – Radio Peking claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan (the U.S. denies the story the next day).
• May 14 – Turkey and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in Cyprus.
• May 15 – Indonesia asks Malaysia for peace negotiations.
• May 15 – The South Vietnamese army besieges Da Nang.
• May 15 – Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the White House, then rally at the Washington Monument.
• May 16 – The Communist Party of China issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• May 16 – A seamen's strike is called in Britain.
• May 16 – The legendary album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is released.
• May 16 – Bob Dylan's seminal album, Blonde on Blonde is released in the U.S.
• May 16 – In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.
• May 19 – Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of murdering and torturing Sylvia Likens and is sentenced to life in prison. (she is released on parole in December 1985).
• May 24 – Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.
• May 24 – The Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country until January 17, 1969.
• May 25 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 is launched.
• May 25 – In St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch, as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
• May 26 – Guyana achieves independence.
• May 28 – Fidel Castro delcares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
• May 28 – The Indonesian and Malaysian governments declare that the Indonesian Confrontation is over (a treaty is signed on August 11).
• May 31 – The Philippines reestablishes diplomatic relations with Malaysia.

June

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• June 1 – The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
• June 2 – Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president.
• June 2 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
• June 2 – Four former cabinet ministers are executed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for alleged involvement in a plot to kill Mobutu Sese Seko.
• June 3 – Joaquín Balaguer is elected president of the Dominican Republic.
• June 5 – Gemini 9: Gene Cernan completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).
• June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
• June 8 – An XB-70 Valkyrie prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
• June 8 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale, the first to exceed US $100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• June 13 – Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• June 14 – The Vatican abolishes the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of banned books).
• June 17 – An Air France personnel strike begins.
• June 18 – CIA chief William Raborn resigns; Richard Helms becomes his successor.
• June 20 – French President Charles De Gaulle starts his visit to the Soviet Union.
• June 21 – Opposition leader Arthur Calwell is shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman, Sydney, Australia.
• June 28 – In Argentina, a junta deposes president Arturo Umberto Illia in a coup, and appoints General Juan Carlos Ongania to lead.
• June 29 – A sailors' strike, organised by the National Union of Seamen, ends in the United Kingdom.
• June 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong.
• June 30 – France formally leaves NATO.
• June 30 – The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded in Washington, DC.

July

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• July 1 – Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
• July 3 – Rene Barrientos is elected president of Bolivia.
• July 4 – North Vietnam declares general mobilization.
• July 4 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act, which goes into effect the following year.
• July 6 – Malawi becomes a republic.
• July 7 – A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
• July 8 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Ntare V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero.
• July 11 – The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
• July 12 – Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
• July 12 – Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia.
• July 14 – Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.
• July 14 – Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in their Chicago dormitory. He is arrested on July 17.
• July 14 – Gwynfor Evans becomes member of Parliament for Carmarthen, the first Plaid Cymru MP in the UK.
• July 16 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the Vietnam War (the Soviet government refutes his ideas).
• July 18 – Gemini 10 (John Young, Michael Collins) is launched. After docking with an Agena target vehicle, the astronauts then set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763 km).
• July 18 – The Hough Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio, the city's first race riot.
• July 19 – A Chinese delegate in the Netherlands, Liu en-Tsiu, is declared persona non grata because of the death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office.
• July 22 – The Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans persona non grata, but tells him not to leave the country before a group of Chinese engineers has left the Netherlands.
• July 23 – Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe.
• July 24 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
• July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
• July 28 – The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
• July 29 – The Nigerian army rebels and executes head of state General Aguiyi-Ironsi.
• July 29 – Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York. He is not seen in public for over a year.
• July 30 – England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.

August

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• August 1 – Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 people and wounds 31 from atop the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower, after earlier killing his wife and mother.
• August 1 – A military coup occurs in Nigeria; General Yakubu Gowon takes over.
• August 2 – The Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft.
• August 5 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
• August 5 – Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas.
• August 5 – The Beatles release the legendary Revolver album in the United Kingdom.
• August 6 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board.
• August 6 – Rene Barrientos takes office as the president of Bolivia.
• August 6 – The Salazar Bridge (now the 25 de Abril Bridge) opens in Lisbon, Portugal.
• August 7 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
• August 10 – An East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying for the United States.
• August 10 – Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit another world, is launched.
• August 11 – The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
• August 12 – Massacre of Braybrook Street: Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plainclothes policemen in London; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
• August 13 – In the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize China's Communist Party.
• August 13 – An earthquake in Turkey kills 2,394 and injures 10,000.
• August 15 – Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Gennesaret (also known as the Sea of Galilee) for 3 hours.
• August 15 – It is announced that the New York Herald Tribune will not resume publication.
• August 15 – The Beatles launch 'The Beatles 1965 USA Tour at Shea Stadium.
• August 16 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee starts investigating Americans who have aided the Viet Cong, with the intent to make these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
• August 17 – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen.
• August 18 – Vietnam War – Battle of Long Tan: D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be 4 times larger, at the in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam.
• August 19 – An earthquake in eastern Turkey destroys whole cities.
• August 21 – Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt, for anti-Nasser agitation.
• August 22 – The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), is formed.
• August 24 – The Doors recorded self-titled debut LP.
• August 26 – Riots occur in French Somaliland.
• August 29 – The Beatles play their very last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
• August 30 – France offers independence to French Somaliland.

September

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• September 1 – United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
• September 1 – 98 British tourists die in an air crash in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
• September 6 – In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting.
• September 8 – Star Trek, the classic science fiction television series, debuts with its first episode, titled "The Man Trap."
• September 9 – NATO decides to move SHAPE headquarters to Belgium.
• September 12 – Gemini 11 (Richard Gordon, Pete Conrad) docks with an Agena target vehicle.
• September 12 – Balthazar Johannes Vorster becomes the new South African Prime Minister.
• September 13 – TASS reports on clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards.
• September 16 – In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.
• September 16 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
• September 18 – Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of Senator Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.
• September 19 – Scotland Yard arrests Ronald Edwards, suspected of involvement in the Great Train Robbery.
• September 30 – Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison.
• September 30 – Botswana achieves independence.

October

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• October – Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party.
• October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.
• October 4 – Israel applies for the outer membership of the EEC.
• October 4 – Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name Lesotho.
• October 5 – UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is now celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
• October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
• October 9 – The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series, 1–0, to sweep the series for their 1st World Championship.
• October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
• October 14 – The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).
• October 15 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
• October 15 – The U.S. Congress passes a bill for the creation of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
• October 15 – ABC-TV telecasts a highly-acclaimed 90-minute television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon, starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes. It wins many Emmy Awards and inaugurates a short-lived series of special television adaptations of famous Broadway musicals on ABC. Goulet stars in all but one of these specials.
• October 16 – Grace Slick performs live for the first time with Jefferson Airplane.
• October 17 – Lesotho and Botswana are admitted to the United Nations.
• October 21 – The Aberfan disaster occurs in South Wales, United Kingdom.
• October 22 – British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison; he is next seen in Moscow.
• October 22 – Spain demands that the United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar; Britain refuses the next day.
• October 24 – Negotiations about the Vietnam War begin in Manila, Philippines.
• October 25 – A military court in Jakarta sentences ex-foreign minister Subandrio to death.
• October 25 – Spain closes its Gibraltar border to non-pedestrian traffic.
• October 26 – NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels.
• October 27 – The United Nations takes Namibia from South Africa.
• October 29 – The Guinean delegation to the OAU meeting in Ethiopia, become hostages of the Ghanaian government in Accra.

November

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• Jack L. Warner sells Warner Bros. Pictures to Seven Arts Productions, which eventually becomes Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
• November 2 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• November 4 – The Arno river floods Florence, damaging many art treasures.
• November 5 – Thirty-eight African states demand that the United Kingdom use force against the Rhodesian government.
• November 6 – Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched.
• November 8 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
• November 8 – Actor Ronald Reagan, a Republican, is elected Governor of California.
• November 9 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery.
• November 11 – A mine kills 3 Israeli paratroopers on the West Bank border.
• November 11 – Spain declares general amnesty for crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War (effective only for the Falangists' side).
• November 15 – Gemini 12 (James A. Lovell, Buzz Aldrin), splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km east of the Bahamas.
• November 15 – Harry Maurice Roberts, who killed 3 policemen in August, is caught near London.
• November 15 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
• November 16 – U.S. doctor Sam Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1954.
• November 17 – The U.N. General Assembly decides to found the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
• November 17 – A spectacular Leonid meteor shower passes over Arizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.
• November 21 – In Togo, the army crushes an attempted coup.
• November 24 – The Beatles begin recording sessions for their landmark Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
• November 26 – In Vancouver, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders to win the 54th Grey Cup.
• November 27 – The Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72-41 in the highest scoring game in NFL history.
• November 28 – Truman Capote's Black and White Ball ('The Party of the Century') is held in New York City.
• November 30 – Barbados achieves independence.

December

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• December 1 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger is elected Chancellor of West Germany.
• December 1 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith negotiate on the HMS Tiger in the Mediterranean.
• December 2 – U Thant agrees to serve a second term as U.N. Secretary General.
• December 3 – Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in Macau; a curfew is declared the next day.
• December 7 – Syria offers weapons to rebels in Jordan.
• December 7 – Barbados is admitted to the United Nations.
• December 8 – The Typaldos Line's ferry Heraklion sinks in rough seas, in the Aegean Sea near Crete, leaving 217 dead.
• December 16 – The U.N. Security Council approves an oil embargo against Rhodesia.
• December 16 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are adopted by the General Assembly, as Resolution 2200 A (XXI).
• December 17 – South Africa does not join the trade embargo against Rhodesia.
• December 20 – Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to the Rhodesian government, and announces that he will agree to independence only after the founding of a Black majority government.
• December 22 – Prime Minister Ian Smith declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.
• December 23 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS, becoming an annual Christmas tradition.
• December 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, founder of Organization US (a black nationalist group) and later chair of Black Studies, at California State University, Long Beach from 1989-2002.
• December 31 – East German Premier Walter Ulbricht discusses negotiations about German reunification.
• December 31 – Thieves steal millions' worth of paintings from the Dulwich Art Gallery in London.
• December 31 – The Congolese government takes over the Union Minière du Haut Katanga.

Undated

• Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of the Soviet Union, becomes a candidate member of the Central Committee.
• Paramount Pictures Corporation becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf+Western Industries, Inc.
• The Surrealist Movement in the United States is founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont.
• Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn are awarded the Fermi Prize.
• The Congress of the United States creates the National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development.
• Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.
• The DKW automobile goes out of production.
• The World Buddhist Sangha Council is convened by Theravadins in Sri Lanka, with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
• Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putative cellular mechanism of learning and memory, is first observed by Terje Lømo in Oslo, Norway.

Ongoing

• First Sudanese Civil War (1955–72)
• Guatemalan Civil War (1960–96)
• Indochina Wars
• Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962–76)
• Laotian Civil War (1962–75)
• Marshall Plan
• North Yemen Civil War (1962–70)
• Portuguese Colonial War (1961–74)
• Shifta War (1963–67)

Births

January

• January 1 – Anna Burke, Australian politician and member for Chisholm in the House of Representatives
• January 1 – Crazy Legs, Puerto Rican breakdancer (Rock Steady Crew
• January 1 – Michael Imperioli, American actor
• January 3 – Martin Galway, Northern Irish composer
• January 4 – Deana Carter, American singer
• January 5 – Kate Schellenbach, American musician
• January 7 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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• January 7 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
• January 8 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
• January 12 – Rob Zombie, American rock musician, artist, and writer
• January 13 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
• January 14 – Marco Hietala, Finnish rock bassist (Nightwish)
• January 17 – Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
• January 19 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• January 19 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field-hockey player
• January 20 – Stacey Dash, American actress
• January 20 – Tracii Guns, American guitarist
• January 21 – Wendy James, British rock singer (Transvision Vamp)
• January 24 – Jimeoin, Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor
• January 29 – Romário, Brazilian footballer
• January 30 – Hans Tutschku, German composer

February

• February 1 – Michelle Akers, American footballer
• February 4 – Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
• February 5 – Jose Maria Olazabal, Spanish golfer
• February 6 – Rick Astley, British rock singer
• February 7 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer
• February 9 – Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
• February 10 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
• February 11 – Stephen Gregory, American actor
• February 18 – Richard A Collins, British scientist and author
• February 20 – Cindy Crawford, American model and actress
• February 22 – Rachel Dratch, American actress comedienne
• February 22 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bombmaker
• February 22 – Brian Greig, Australian politician
• February 23 – Michael Arata, American actor
• February 24 – Billy Zane, American actor
• February 25 – Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
• February 25 – Tea Leoni, American actress
• February 26 – Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer

March

• March 3 – Tone Lōc, American R&B musician
• March 4 – Daniela Amavia, American actress and international model
• March 4 – Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
• March 4 – Grand Puba, American rapper (Brand Nubian)
• March 4 – Patrick Hannan, English musician
• March 4 – Steve Bastoni, Australian actor
• March 4 – Dav Pilkey, American writer
• March 4 – Wash Westmoreland, British film director
• March 5 – Mark Z. Danielewski, American author
• March 5 – Michael Irvin, American football player
• March 6 – Maurice Ashley, American chess grandmaster
• March 6 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (d. 1996)
• March 7 – Jeff Feagles, American football kicker
• March 7 – Atsushi Sakurai, Japanese singer (Buck-Tick)
• March 9 – Tony Lockett, Australian rules football
• March 9 – Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
• March 10 – Edie Brickell, American singer
• March 10 – Mike Timlin, American baseball player
• March 16 – Rodney Peete, American football quarterback
• March 22 – Antonio Pinto, Portuguese long-distance runner
• March 25 – Tom Glavine, American baseball player
• March 25 – Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
• March 25 – Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer
• March 29 – Krassimir Balakov, Bulgarian footballer

April

• April 1 – Chris Evans, British radio disc-jockey
• April 2 – Teddy Sheringham, British footballer
• April 3 – Miina Tominaga, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• April 4 – Riduan Isamuddin, Bali bombing suspect
• April 8 – Robin Wright Penn, American actress
• April 8 – Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality and martial artist
• April 11 – Dustin Rhodes, American professional wrestler
• April 11 – Lisa Stansfield, British soul singer
• April 13 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
• April 14 – Greg Maddux, American baseball player
• April 14 – Lloyd Owen, British actor
• April 15 – Samantha Fox, British model and singer
• April 18 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
• April 19 – El Samurai, Japanese professional wrestler
• April 20 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
• April 21 – Bubba the Love Sponge, American radio personality
• April 22 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
• April 28 – John Daly, American golfer
• April 29 – Phil Tufnell, British cricketer

May

• May 1 – Anne Fletcher, American film director and choreographer
• May 3 – Firdous Bamji, American actor
• May 5 – Lyubov Yegorova, Russian cross-country skier
• May 6 – Andrea Chiesa, Swiss Formula One driver
• May 6 – Cindy Hsu, American Emmy-Award-winning anchor and reporter
• May 7 – Anderson Cummins, Canadian cricketer
• May 7 – Hill Harper, American film, television and stage actor
• May 7 – Jes Høgh, Danish footballer
• May 8 – Robert J. Behnen, American genealogist and a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives
• May 8 – Blag Dahlia, American musician, producer, and author
• May 8 – Kamil Kašťák, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
• May 8 – Marta Sánchez, Spanish female vocalist, entertainer
• May 8 – Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian goalkeeper
• May 10 – Mikael Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
• May 10 – Frank T. Caprio, General Treasurer of Rhode Island
• May 10 – Wade Domínguez, American actor, model, singer and dancer (d. 1998)
• May 10 – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
• May 10 – Anne Elvebakk, Norwegian biathlete
• May 10 – Genaro Hernandez, Mexican-American boxer
• May 11 – Christoph Schneider, German rock musician (Rammstein)
• May 12 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor
• May 12 – Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian popular singer
• May 13 – Nereus Acosta, Filipino politician, academician, and political scientist
• May 13 – Cheryl Dunye, Liberian-born film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress
• May 13 – Darius Rucker, American rock singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
• May 13 – Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter
• May 13 – Jeffrey Scott Holland, American artist and musician
• May 16 – Juan Manuel Funes, Guatemalan footballer and coach
• May 16 – Janet Jackson, American singer
• May 16 – Thurman Thomas, American football player
• May 19 – Neil Campbell, British musician
• May 19 – Sophia Crawford, actress, stuntwoman and martial artist
• May 20 – Mindy Cohn, American actress
• May 20 – Joey Gamache, American boxer
• May 21 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright
• May 22 – Siri Eftedal, Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist
• May 22 – Johnny Gill, American singer
• May 23 – Graeme Hick, English cricketer
• May 24 – Russell Kun, Nauruan politician
• May 24 – Dan Abrams, American journalist
• May 24 – Eric Cantona, French footballer
• May 24 – Francisco Javier Cruz, Mexican football player
• May 24 – Ella Guru, American painter and musician
• May 25 – Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh, Iranian goalkeeper
• May 25 – Jeff Cross (American football), American football player
• May 26 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
• May 26 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
• May 27 – Heston Blumenthal, British chef
• May 27 – Carol Campbell (actress), Afro-German actress, model and presenter
• May 27 – Juan M. Garcia, Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives
• May 28 – Theo Bleckmann, German vocalist and composer
• May 28 – Larry Davis (criminal), American criminal (d. 2008)
• May 29 – Robert Anderson, American child murderer (executed) (d. 2006)
• May 30 – Frank Goosen, German cabaret artist and novel author
• May 30 – Thomas Häßler, German football player
• May 30 – Stephen Malkmus, American rock singer (Pavement)

June

• June 1 – Greg Schiano, American football coach
• June 2 – Candace Gingrich, American LGBT rights activist
• June 4 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
• June 4 – Tiffany Million, American actress
• June 6 – Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo
• June 8 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
• June 8 – Doris Pearson, British R&B singer Five Star
• June 8 – Jens Kidman, Swedish musician
• June 14 – Matt Freeman, American musician
• June 15 – Daniel Pinchbeck, American author
• June 15 – Roberto Carnevale, Italian musician
• June 16 – Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower
• June 17 – Christy Canyon, American porn actress
• June 18 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
• June 19 – Samuel West, British actor
• June 21 – Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
• June 22 – Michael Park, British rally co-driver (d. 2005)
• June 22 – Schooly D, American rapper
• June 23 – Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
• June 25 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
• June 27 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
• June 28 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
• June 28 – John Cusack, American actor
• June 28 – Bobby Bare, Jr., American musician
• June 30 – Mike Tyson, American boxer
• June 30 – Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor

July

• July 1 – Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
• July 3 – Moisés Alou, American baseball player
• July 5 – Kathryn Erbe, American actress
• July 5 – Claudia Wells, American actress
• July 5 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
• July 6 – Brian Posehn, American actor and comedian
• July 7 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
• July 7 – Gundula Krause, German violinist
• July 8 – Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
• July 11 – Melanie Appleby, British singer (d. 1990)
• July 11 – Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
• July 13 – Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
• July 14 – Tanya Donelly, American musician
• July 14 – Matthew Fox, American actor
• July 15 – Irène Jacob, French-born actress
• July 15 – Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Greek poet
• July 22 – Tim Brown, American football player
• July 22 – Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
• July 28 – Miguel Angel Nadal, Spanish footballer
• July 28 – Troy Boyle, American comic book artist
• July 29 – Martina McBride, American country singer
• July 29 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American voice actor
• July 30 – Murilo Bustamante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• July 30 – Allan Langer, Australian rugby league footballer
• July 31 – Dean Cain, American actor

August

• August 2 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
• August 3 – Brent Butt, Canadian comedian and TV producer (Corner Gas)
• August 4 – Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
• August 7 – Jimmy Wales, American founder of Misplaced Pages
• August 10 – Charlie Dimmock, English TV celebrity gardener and horticulturalist
• August 11 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer
• August 12 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer
• August 14 – Halle Berry, American actress
• August 14 – Freddy Rincon, Colombian footballer
• August 15 – Scott Brosius, American baseball player
• August 17 – Rodney Mullen, famous flatland skateboarder
• August 18 – Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
• August 19 – Lilian Garcia, American singer and wrestling ring announcer
• August 19 – Lee Ann Womack, American musician
• August 20 – Dimebag Darrell, American rock guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) (d. 2004)
• August 22 – GZA/Genius, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
• August 23 – Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
• August 25 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
• August 25 – Robert Maschio, USA Actor
• August 26 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
• August 26 – Shirley Manson, Scottish rock musician (Garbage)
• August 28 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician

September

• September 1 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
• September 2 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress
• September 4 – Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer
• September 6 – Eduardo Maruri, Ecuadorian business man and politician
• September 7 – Vladimir Andreyev, Russian race walker
• September 7 – Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
• September 8 – Carola Häggkvist, Swedish pop singer
• September 9 – Georg Hackl, German luger
• September 9 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
• September 12 – Princess Akishino, Japanese princess
• September 12 – Ben Folds, American piano rock artist
• September 17 – Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
• September 22 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
• September 22 – Moustafa Amar, Egyptian pop star
• September 24 – Michael J. Varhola, American author and publisher

October

• October 1 – George Weah, Liberian politician and football player
• October 2 – Rodney Anoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
• October 3 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (d. 2000)
• October 5 – Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
• October 6 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer.
• October 7 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author
• October 8 – Aaron Callaghan, Irish football club executive
• October 9 – David Cameron, British politician
• October 10 – Tony Adams, English footballer
• October 10 – Elana Meyer, South African athlete
• October 11 – Stephen Williams (politician), British politician
• October 12 – Brian Kennedy, Irish musician and author
• October 14 – Savanna Samson, American porn star
• October 15 – Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and coach
• October 17 – Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer
• October 19 – Jon Favreau, American actor and director
• October 19 – Sinitta, American pop singer
• October 24 – Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
• October 26 – Jeanne Zelasko, American baseball host
• October 27 – Matt Drudge, American conservative Internet journalist
• October 28 – Steve Atwater, American football player
• October 31 – Koji Kanemoto, Japanese professional wrestler

November

• November 2 – David Schwimmer, American actor (Friends)
• November 2 – Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
• November 3 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
• November 6 – Peter DeLuise, American actor
• November 6 – Paul Gilbert, American musician
• November 6 – Christian Lorenz, German rock musician (Rammstein)
• November 7 – Lin Xiaochieh, Burmese leader
• November 8 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef
• November 14 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player
• November 15 – Rachel True, American actor
• November 17 – Jeff Buckley, American singer (d. 1997)
• November 17 – Sophie Marceau, French actress
• November 20 – Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer, and instrumentalist
• November 21 – Troy Aikman, American football player
• November 23 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
• November 28 – Narumi Yasuda, Japanese actress
• November 29 – John Bradshaw Layfield, American professional wrestler
• November 30 – Wil Mara, American author
• November 30 – David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter

December

• December 1 – Larry Walker, Canadian Major League Baseball player
• December 7 – C. Thomas Howell, American actor
• December 7 – Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
• December 8 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish pop singer
• December 9 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
• December 11 – Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor
• December 12 – Último Dragón, Japanese professional wrestler
• December 12 – Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
• December 13 – Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
• December 14 – Bill Ranford, Canadian hockey player
• December 15 – Katja von Garnier, German film director
• December 16 – Dennis Wise, English footballer
• December 17 – Milos Tichy, Czech astronomer
• December 19 – Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
• December 20 – Ed de Goeij, Dutch footballer
• December 20 – Chris Robinson, American rock singer (Black Crowes)
• December 21 – Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
• December 22 – Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
• December 24 – Diedrich Bader, American actor and comedian
• December 27 – Wendy Coakley-Thompson, American author
• December 27 – Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler
• December 27 – John Harrington, American photographer

Deaths

January–March

• January 1 – Vincent Auriol, President of France (b. 1884)
• January 11 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
• January 11 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
• January 14 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
• January 14 – Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
• January 15 – Sergei Korolev, Russian space scientist (b. 1907)
• January 15 – Samuel Ladoke Akintola, Nigerian premier of the Western region and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba (b. 1910)
• January 18 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
• February 1 – Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (b. 1895)
• February 1 – Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
• February 6 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
• February 10 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
• February 10 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
• February 15 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
• February 20 – Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• March 1 – Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
• March 3 – Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
• March 3 – Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• March 3 – William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy) (b. 1887)
• March 5 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
• March 8 – William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British politician (b. 1907)
• March 10 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

April–June

• April 1 – Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
• April 2 – C.S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
• April 3 – Battista Farina, Italian car designer (b. 1893)
• April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, English author (b. 1903)
• April 11 – Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Salvadorian military dictator (assassinated) (b. 1882)
• April 13 – Georges Duhamel, French author (b. 1884)
• April 13 – Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (b. 1921)
• April 23 – Georges Ohsawa, Japanese diet founder (b. 1893)
• May 22 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• May 23 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
• June 1 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)
• June 7 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
• June 8 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
• June 11 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
• June 12 – Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891)
• June 19 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
• June 30 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)

July–September

• July 2 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
• July 5 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• July 6 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
• July 14 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878
• July 24 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
• August 3 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
• August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, American author (b. 1913)
• September 5 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman and architect (b. 1879)
• September 6 – Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (b. 1879)
• September 6 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-born Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
• September 11 – C. E. Woolman, American Airlines founder (b. 1889)
• September 14 – Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
• September 17 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
• September 28 – Andre Breton, French writer (b. 1896)
• September – Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1881)

October–December

• October 7 – Smiley Lewis, African-American R&B musician (b. 1913)
• October 16 – George O'Hara, American actor (born 1899)
• October 18 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878)
• October 23 – Claire McDowell, silent screen actress (b. 1877)
• October 26 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
• November 2 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• November 2 – Mississippi John Hurt, African-American singer and guitarist (b. 1893)
• November 12 – Shakeb Jalali, Pakistani poet (b. 1934)
• November 19 – Arthur Haynes, English comedian (b. 1914)
• November 23 – Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• December 15 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Alfred Kastler
• Chemistry – Robert S. Mulliken
• Physiology or Medicine – Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins
• Literature – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
• Peace – not awarded

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, producer
• Best Director: Robert Wise, The Sound of Music
• Best Actor: Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou
• Best Actress: Julie Christie, Darling
• Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam, A Thousand Clowns
• Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters, A Patch of Blue
• Best Original Screenplay: Darling written by Frederic Raphael
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Doctor Zhivago, screenplay by Robert Bolt
• Best Original Song: The Sandpiper, Johnny Mandel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics); For the song "The Shadow of Your Smile"
• Best Original Score: Doctor Zhivago, by Maurice Jarre

Notes

1. Aircraft Accident Report. West Coast Airlines, Inc DC-9 N9101. Near Wemme, Oregon, Adopted: 11 December 1967

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