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== Events ==
=== January&ndash;February ===
{{Main|January 1968}}
{{Main|February 1968}}
[[File:USS Pueblo (AGER-2).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|January 23: North Korea seizes ''USS Pueblo'' (AGER-2)]]
[[File:Captain Franklin P. Eller during Tet Offensive Vietnam.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|January 30: Tet Offensive begins]]
* [[January 1968|January]] – The [[I'm Backing Britain|I'm Backing Britain campaign]] starts spontaneously.
* [[January 5]] – [[Prague Spring]]: [[Alexander Dubček]] is chosen as leader of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Navazelskis|first=Inabhfghh|title=Alexander Dubcek|publisher=Chelsea House Publications|year=1990|isbn=1-55546-831-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/alexanderdubcek0000nava}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[John Gorton]] is sworn in as 19th [[Prime Minister of Australia]], taking over from [[John McEwen]] after being [[1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election|elected leader]] of the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] the previous day, following the [[disappearance of Harold Holt]]. Gorton becomes the only [[Australian Senate|Senator]] to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] through the [[1968 Higgins by-election]] in Holt's vacant seat.
* [[January 15]] – The [[1968 Belice earthquake]] in [[Sicily]] kills 380 and injures around 1,000.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Italy: The Day the Earth Shook|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837724,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306025845/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837724,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 6, 2008|newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=January 26, 1968|access-date=August 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://emidius.mi.ingv.it/CPTI99/CPTI_finestre.html|title=CPTI – catalogo (per finestre temporali)|website=emidius.mi.ingv.it}}</ref>
* [[January 21]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: [[Battle of Khe Sanh]] – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on [[April 8]].
** [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash]]: A U.S. [[B-52 Stratofortress]] crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 [[nuclear bomb]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conversation |first=-Timothy J. Jorgensen for The Conversation Timothy J. Jorgensen for The |date=2018-01-21 |title=50 years ago, a U.S. military jet crashed in Greenland – with 4 nuclear bombs on board |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/50-years-ago-a-us-military-jet-crashed-in-greenland-with-4-nuclear-bombs-on-board |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=PBS News |language=en-us}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[North Korea]] seizes the {{USS|Pueblo|AGER-2|6}}, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
* [[January 25]] – [[Israel]]i submarine {{INS|Dakar}} sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 69.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gross |first=Judah Ari |date=2018-05-28 |title=50 years after enigmatic sinking, Israel releases footage of search for lost sub |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/50-years-after-enigmatic-sinking-israel-releases-footage-of-search-for-lost-sub/ |access-date=2025-09-04 |work=The Times of Israel |language=en-US |issn=0040-7909}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] – [[France|French]] submarine ''[[French submarine Minerve (S647)|Minerve]]'' sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 52.
* [[January 30]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Tet Offensive]] begins as [[Viet Cong]] forces launch a series of surprise attacks across [[South Vietnam]].
* [[January 31]]
** [[Viet Cong]] soldiers attack the [[Embassy of the United States, Saigon]].
** [[Nauru]] president [[Hammer DeRoburt]] declares independence from [[Australia]], Britain and New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nauru: How Pleasant Island became world's smallest republic |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in-history/nauru-gained-its-independence-50-years-ago-but-remains-dependent-on-australia/news-story/b45c07e47c4e695430aa447ab0b620b1}}</ref>
* [[February 1]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: [[Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém]] – A [[Viet Cong]] officer is [[Summary execution|summarily executed]] by [[Nguyễn Ngọc Loan]], a [[South Vietnam]]ese National Police Chief. The event is photographed by [[Eddie Adams (photographer)|Eddie Adams]]. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the [[1969 Pulitzer Prize]], and sways U.S. public opinion against the war.
** The [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] and the [[New York Central Railroad]] merge to form [[Penn Central]], the largest ever corporate [[Mergers and acquisitions|merger]] up to this date.
* [[February 6]]–[[February 18|18]] – The [[1968 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Grenoble]], France.
* [[February 8]] – [[Civil rights movement]] in the United States: [[Orangeburg Massacre]] – A civil rights demonstration on a college campus to protest ''[[de facto]]'' [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] in [[South Carolina]] is broken up by highway patrolmen; three African American students are killed, the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American campus.
* [[February 12]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre]].
* [[February 19]] – The television series ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' premieres on [[National Educational Television]] in the United States and becomes one of the longest running children's shows ever.
* [[February 24]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Tet Offensive]] is halted; [[South Vietnam]] recaptures [[Huế]].
* [[February 25]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Hà My massacre]].

=== March&ndash;April ===
{{Main|March 1968}}
{{Main|April 1968}}
[[File:Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|right|April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968]] further reduces right of entry for citizens from the [[British Commonwealth]] to the United Kingdom. 
** First performance of an [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]–[[Tim Rice]] musical, ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'' in its original form as a "pop [[cantata]]", by pupils of a private school in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vocal Selections: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat|publisher=Hal Leonard|year=1994|location=Milwaukee, WI|isbn=978-0-7935-3427-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reallyuseful.com/shows/joseph/history-inspiration|title=About The Show|publisher=The Really Useful Group|access-date=2008-12-29| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081225062752/http://www.reallyuseful.com/shows/joseph/history-inspiration| archive-date=2008-12-25|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat|url=http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/shows/joseph-and-dreamcoat/|work=AndrewLloydWebber.com|year=1991|access-date=2010-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023103837/http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/shows/joseph-and-dreamcoat/|archive-date=2010-10-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] – [[Baggeridge Colliery]] closes marking the end of over 300 years of [[coal mining]] in the [[Black Country]] of England.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackcountrysociety.co.uk/articles/baggeridge2.htm|title=The Closing Of Baggeridge Colliery|publisher=The Black Country Society|access-date=2018-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719020401/http://www.blackcountrysociety.co.uk/articles/baggeridge2.htm|archive-date=July 19, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] – [[Air France Flight 212 (1968)|Air France Flight 212]], a [[Boeing 707]], crashes in [[Guadeloupe]] while approaching an airport. As a result, 63 people die.
* [[March 6]] – Un-recognized [[Rhodesia]] executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since [[Unilateral Declaration of Independence|UDI]], prompting international condemnation.
* [[March 7]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[First Battle of Saigon]] ends.
* [[March 8]]
** The first student protests spark the [[1968 Polish political crisis]].
** The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[ballistic missile submarine]] [[Soviet submarine K-129 (1960)|''K-129'']] sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 [[nautical mile]]s (104 miles or 167&nbsp;km) southwest of [[Hawaii]].<ref>Paul E. Fontenoy, ''Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact'' (ABC-CLIO, 2007) p60</ref><ref name=Times171092>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=CIA tells Russia of Soviet sea disaster |date=October 17, 1992 |page=10 |issue=64466 |column=F-G }}</ref>
* [[March 10]]–[[March 11|11]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Battle of Lima Site 85]], the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during the (at this time) secret war later known as the [[Laotian Civil War]].
* [[March 11]] – U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the [[ASCII]] [[character encoding]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 March 1968| author= Lyndon B. Johnson | title=Memorandum Approving the Adoption by the Federal Government of a Standard Code for Information Interchange Online |editor1= Gerhard Peters|editor2= John T. Woolley| work=The American Presidency Project | url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/237376}}</ref>
* [[March 12]]
** [[Mauritius]] achieves independence from British rule.
** U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] barely edges out antiwar candidate [[Eugene McCarthy]] in the [[New Hampshire Democratic primary]], a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over [[Vietnam]].
* [[March 13]] – The first [[Rotaract]] club is chartered in [[North Charlotte]], North Carolina.
* [[March 14]]
** Late this evening, the U.K. government at the request of the U.S. agrees that the [[London Gold Pool]] will be closed from tomorrow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1968/mar/14/london-gold-market-closing|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|date=14 March 1968|title=House of Commons Sitting, ''London Gold Market Closing'', HC Deb vol 760 cc1855-62}}</ref> [[George Brown (British Labour politician)|George Brown]], the British [[Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)|Foreign Secretary]], apparently drunk, is absent from meetings to discuss the crisis<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Dickinson|title=Brown Riddle in Dollar Row|newspaper=The Evening News|location=London|date=1968-03-15|page=1}}</ref> and is forced to resign from the government on March 15.<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Paterson|title=Tired and Emotional: the life of Lord George-Brown|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1993|isbn=9780701139766}}</ref>
** [[Nerve gas]] leaks from the U.S. Army [[Dugway Proving Ground]] near [[Skull Valley (Utah)|Skull Valley, Utah]].
* [[March 16]]
** [[Vietnam War]] – [[My Lai massacre]]: American troops kill between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians and rape women and children. The story, initially covered up as a military victory, will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.
** U.S. Senator [[Robert F. Kennedy]] enters the race for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential nomination.
* [[March 18]] – [[Gold standard]]: The [[United States Congress]] repeals the requirement for a [[gold reserve]] to back U.S. currency.
* [[March 19]]–[[March 23|23]] – [[Afrocentrism]], [[Black Power]], [[Vietnam War]]: Students at [[Howard University]] in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day [[sit-in]], laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its [[ROTC]] program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.
* [[March 22]] – [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]] ("Danny the Red") and 7 other students occupy the administrative offices of the new [[Paris Nanterre University|Nanterre campus of the University of Paris]] as part of protests over a rigid educational system, setting in motion a chain of '[[May 68]]' events that lead France to the brink of revolution.
* [[March 24]] – [[Aer Lingus Flight 712]] crashes en route from [[Cork Airport|Cork]] to London near [[Tuskar Rock, Ireland|Tuskar Rock, Wexford]], killing 61 passengers and crew.
* [[March 28]] – [[Brazil]]ian high school student [[Edson Luís de Lima Souto]] is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the [[Brazilian military regime|military dictatorship]].
* [[March 31]] – In a televised address, U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election.
* [[April 2]] – Bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in [[Frankfurt-am-Main]]; [[Andreas Baader]] and [[Gudrun Ensslin]] are later arrested and sentenced for [[arson]].
* [[April 4]]
** [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]]: [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] is shot dead at the [[Lorraine Motel]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]] by [[James Earl Ray]]. [[King-assassination riots]] erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.
** [[Apollo program]]: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 ([[Apollo 6]]) is launched, as the second and last uncrewed test-flight of the [[Saturn V]] launch vehicle.
** [[AEK Athens B.C.|AEK Athens]] wins the [[1967–68 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup|FIBA European Cup Winners Cup]] Final in [[basketball]] against [[USK Praha|Slavia Prague]], in front of a record attendance of 80,000 spectators. It is the first major European trophy won at club level of any sport in Greece.
* [[April 6]]
** [[Eurovision Song Contest 1968|13th Eurovision Song Contest]] is held in the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London. The winning song, [[Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest|Spain]]'s "[[La La La (Massiel song)|La, la, la]]" (music and lyrics by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) is sung in Spanish by [[Massiel]] after Spanish authorities refuse to allow [[Joan Manuel Serrat]] to perform it in Catalan. The [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest|United Kingdom]] finishes in second place, one point behind, with the song "[[Congratulations (Cliff Richard song)|Congratulations]]" sung by [[Cliff Richard]], which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe.
** A shootout between [[Black Panthers]] and police in [[Oakland, California]], results in several arrests and deaths, including 17-year-old Panther [[Bobby Hutton]].
** [[Richmond, Indiana explosion]]: A double explosion in downtown [[Richmond, Indiana|Richmond]] caused by a [[methane leak]] kills 41 and injures 150.
* [[April 7]] – British racing driver [[Jim Clark]] is killed in a [[Formula 2]] race at [[Hockenheimring|Hockenheim]].
* [[April 10]] – The ferry {{ship|TEV|Wahine}} strikes a [[reef]] at the mouth of [[Wellington Harbour]], New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, in Cyclone Giselle, which has created the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand.
* [[April 11]]
** [[Josef Bachmann]] tries to assassinate [[Rudi Dutschke]], leader of the left-wing movement ([[Ausserparlamentarische Opposition|APO]]) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later.
** German left-wing students blockade the [[Axel Springer AG|Springer Press]] headquarters in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them [[Ulrike Meinhof]]).
* [[April 18]] – [[London Bridge]] is sold to U.S. entrepreneur [[Robert P. McCulloch]] for reconstruction at [[London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)|Lake Havasu City, Arizona]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=978-0-14-102715-9|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[April 20]]
** [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau]] becomes the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.<ref>"Pierre Elliott Trudeau." Prime Minister of Canada. August 26, 2013. Accessed April 8, 2015.</ref>
** Conservative British politician [[Enoch Powell]] makes a controversial [[Rivers of Blood speech|"Rivers of Blood" speech]] in Birmingham deploring the effects of immigration; he is dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet the following day.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20/newsid_2489000/2489357.stm|title=1968: Powell slates immigration policy|work=BBC News|access-date=2008-02-05|date=20 April 1968|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124645/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20/newsid_2489000/2489357.stm|archive-date=2008-03-07|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[South African Airways Flight 228]] a [[Boeing 707]] crashed shortly after take-off killing 123 people on board.
* [[April 23]]
** President [[Mobutu]] releases captured [[mercenary|mercenaries]] in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]].
** Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain.
** The [[United Methodist Church]] is created by the union in [[Dallas]], Texas, of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches.
* [[April 23]]–[[April 30|30]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Columbia University protests of 1968]] – Student protesters at [[Columbia University]] in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
* [[April 26]] – The [[nuclear weapon]] "Boxcar" is [[nuclear weapons testing|tested]] at the [[Nevada Test Site]] in the biggest detonation of [[Operation Crosstie]].

=== May&ndash;June ===
{{Main|May 1968}}
{{Main|June 1968}}
[[File:1968-05 Évènements de mai à Bordeaux - Rue Paul-Bert 2.jpg|upright=0.7|thumb|May 2–June 23: Protests in France grow and demonstrators barricade the streets]]
* [[May 1]] – [[CARIFTA]], the Caribbean Free Trade Association, is formally created as an agreement between [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Barbados]], [[Guyana]], and [[Trinidad and Tobago]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Vincent R.|last=McDonald|title=The Caribbean Economies|publisher=Ardent Media|year=1973|page=73}}</ref>
* [[May 2]]
** The [[Israel Broadcasting Authority]] commences television broadcasts.
** [[May 68]]: Authorities close the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris and the focus of protest moves to the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]].
* [[May 3]] – [[Braniff Flight 352]] crashes near [[Dawson, Texas]], United States, killing all 85 people on board.
* [[May 6]] – [[May 68]]: Student protestors begin battling with police on the streets of Paris.
* [[May 13]]
** [[May 68]]: Major left trade union federations in France call a 1-day [[general strike]] and join student protesters in a million-strong march through the streets of Paris.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-05-11|title=May 1968: The protests that changed the world|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-12/may-1968-protests-changed-the-world-explainer/9752206 |access-date=2025-03-27|work=ABC News|language=en-AU}}</ref>
** [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] wins the [[1967–68 Football League First Division]] by 2 clear points, over English club rivals Manchester United.
* [[May 16]] – [[Ronan Point]], a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5.
* [[May 17]] – The [[Catonsville Nine]] enter the [[Selective Service]] offices in [[Catonsville, Maryland]], take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with [[napalm]] as a protest against the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[May 18]]
** [[Mattel]]'s ''[[Hot Wheels]]'' toy cars are introduced in the United States.
** [[West Bromwich Albion]] win the English Football Association Cup, defeating Everton 1–0 after extra time. The winning goal is scored by [[Jeff Astle]].
* [[May 19]]
** [[1968 Italian general election]].
** Nigerian forces capture [[Port Harcourt]] and form a ring around the [[Nigerian Civil War|Biafrans]]. This contributes to a humanitarian disaster as the surrounded population already suffers from hunger and starvation.
* [[May 22]] – The U.S. nuclear-powered [[submarine]] [[USS Scorpion (SSN-589)|''Scorpion'']] sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the [[Azores]].
* [[May 27]] – [[May 68]]: [[Grenelle agreements]] concluded in France, giving a large increase in minimum wages, but are rejected by trade unions.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Michael|last=Seidman|title=Workers in a Repressive Society of Seductions|journal=French Historical Studies|volume=18|year=1993|page=264|publisher=Duke University Press|doi=10.2307/286966|issn=0016-1071|jstor=286966|oclc=5548695526}}</ref> 
* [[May 29]]
** [[May 68]]: [[President de Gaulle]] of France leaves Paris without telling his prime minister, [[Georges Pompidou]], where he is going – which is in fact to the headquarters of the [[French Forces in Germany]] at [[Baden-Baden]] to assure himself of military support.<ref name=Dogan>{{Cite journal|last=Dogan|first=Mattei|title=How Civil War Was Avoided in France|journal=International Political Science Review|year=1984|volume=5|issue=3|pages=245–277|jstor=1600894|doi=10.1177/019251218400500304|s2cid=144698270}}</ref>
** [[Manchester United F.C.]] wins the [[European Champion Clubs' Cup|European Cup Final]], becoming the first English team to do so.
* [[May 30]]
** [[May 68]]: With hundreds of thousands marching on the streets of Paris, President de Gaulle calls an election, which has the effect of calming the situation.<ref name=Dogan/>
** [[Bobby Unser]] wins the [[Indianapolis 500]] automobile race.
* [[June 2]] – [[1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia|Student demonstrations in Yugoslavia]] start in [[Belgrade]].
* [[June 3]] – [[Radical feminist]] [[Valerie Solanas]] shoots [[Andy Warhol]] at his New York City studio, [[The Factory]]; he survives after a 5-hour operation.
* [[June 4]] – The [[S&P 500|Standard & Poor's 500]] index in the United States closes above 100 for the first time, at 100.38.
* [[June 5]] – [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy]]: Senator [[Robert F. Kennedy]], a leading [[1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries|1968 Democratic presidential candidate]], is shot at the [[Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)|Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles]]. Palestinian-born [[Sirhan Sirhan]] is arrested.
* [[June 7]] – [[Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968|Ford sewing machinists strike]] for [[equal pay]] starts at the [[Ford Dagenham]] plant in London.
* [[June 10]] – [[Italy national football team|Italy]] beats [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] 2–0 in a replay to win the [[UEFA Euro 1968|1968 European Championship]] in Association football. The original final on [[June 8]] ended 1–1.
* [[June 12]] – The horror film ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'' premieres in the U.S.
* [[June 17]] – The [[Malayan Communist Party]] launches a [[Second Malayan Emergency|second insurgency]] and the state of emergency is again imposed in [[Malaysia]].
* [[June 20]] – [[Austin Currie]], Member of the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]], along with others, squats in a house in [[Caledon, County Tyrone|Caledon]] to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
* [[June 21]] – A [[student demonstration]] in front of the ''[[Jornal do Brasil]]'' ("JB") building in Rio de Janeiro ends with 28 dead and over a thousand arrested.
* [[June 23]] – [[The Tragedy of Gate 12|Puerta 12 tragedy]]: A football stampede in [[Buenos Aires]] leaves 74 dead and 150 injured.
* June 23–[[June 30|30]] – [[1968 French legislative election]]: The Gaullist ''[[Union of Democrats for the Republic|Union pour la défense de la République]]'' becomes the first party in French political history to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/FRANCE_1968_E.PDF|title=France|website=Inter-Parliamentary Union}}</ref> [[George Pompidou]] leads the party through the campaign but resigns as prime minister afterwards. The public unrest of [[May 68]] subsides.
* [[June 26]]
** The [[Bonin Islands]] are returned to Japan after 23 years of occupation by the United States Navy.
** The "[[March of the One Hundred Thousand]]" takes place in [[Rio de Janeiro]] as crowds demonstrate against the [[Brazilian military government]].

=== July&ndash;August ===
{{Main|July 1968}}
{{Main|August 1968}}
[[File:František Dostál Srpen 1968 3.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|August 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia]]
* [[July 1]] – The [[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]] opens for signature.
* [[July 4]] – English yachtsman [[Alec Rose]], 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into [[Portsmouth]], after his 354-day solo round-the-world trip.
* [[July 17]] – [[Saddam Hussein]] becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in [[Iraq]] after a ''[[coup d'état]]''.
* [[July 18]] – The semiconductor company [[Intel]] is founded in what becomes known as the [[Silicon Valley]] of California.
* [[July 20]] – The first International [[Special Olympics]] Summer Games are held at [[Soldier Field]] in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
* [[July 23]]–[[July 28|28]] – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the [[Glenville Shootout]] of [[Cleveland, Ohio]], in the United States.
* [[July 25]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] publishes the [[encyclical]] ''[[Humanae vitae]]'', reaffirming the Catholic Church's opposition to artificial [[birth control]]. 
* [[July 25]]- [[Tysons Corner Center]]<ref>{{Citation |title=Tysons Corner Center |date=2025-08-09 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tysons_Corner_Center&oldid=1305081724 |access-date=2025-09-03 |language=en}}</ref> one of the largest malls in the U.S. opens to the public and the [[Washington metropolitan area|Washington DC area]].
* [[July 26]] – Vietnam War: [[South Vietnam]]ese opposition leader [[Trương Đình Dzu]] is sentenced to 5 years [[hard labor]] for advocating the formation of a [[coalition government]] as a way to move toward an end to the [[war]].
* [[July 29]] – [[Arenal Volcano]] erupts in [[Costa Rica]] for the first time in centuries.
*[[August 1]] – The [[Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul|Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul]] is established in [[São Caetano do Sul]], [[São Paulo]].
*[[August 2]] – The magnitude ({{M|w|link=y}}) 7.6 [[1968 Casiguran earthquake|Casiguran earthquake]] affects the [[Aurora (province)|Aurora province]] in the Philippines with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), killing at least 207 and injuring 261.
* [[August 5]]–[[August 8|8]] – The [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]] nominates [[Richard Nixon]] for U.S. president and [[Spiro Agnew]] for vice president.
* [[August 11]] – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of [[British Rail]] [[steam locomotive]]s make the 120-mile journey from [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Liverpool]] to [[Carlisle railway station|Carlisle]] and return – the journey is known as the [[Fifteen Guinea Special]].
* [[August 18]] – Two charter buses are forced into the [[Hida River]] on National Highway Route 41 in Japan in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed.
* [[August 20]]–[[August 21|21]] – [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]]: The '[[Prague Spring]]' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000 [[Warsaw Pact]] troops and 6,500 [[tank]]s with 800 aircraft invade [[Czechoslovakia]], the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II.
* [[August 24]] – [[Canopus (nuclear test)]]: France explodes its first [[hydrogen bomb]] in a test at [[Fangataufa]] atoll in [[French Polynesia]].
* [[August 22]]–[[August 30|30]] – [[1968 Democratic National Convention protests]]: Police clash with [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|anti-Vietnam War protesters]] in [[Chicago]] outside the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]], which nominates [[Hubert Humphrey]] for U.S. president and [[Edmund Muskie]] for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the [[Youth International Party]].
* [[August 29]] – [[Harald V of Norway|Crown Prince Harald]] of Norway marries [[Sonja Haraldsen]], the commoner he has dated for 9 years.

=== September&ndash;October ===
{{Main|September 1968}}
{{Main|October 1968}}
[[File:1968 Mexico emblem.svg|upright=1.0|thumbnail|right|October 12–27: 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City]]
* [[September 6]] – [[Swaziland]] (later known as Eswatini) becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
* [[September 7]] – The crash of [[Air France Flight 1611]] kills 95 people, including French Army General [[René Cogny]], as the [[Sud Aviation Caravelle|Caravelle]] jetliner plunges into the [[Mediterranean]] Sea following a fire while making its approach to [[Nice]] following its departure from the island of [[Corsica]].
* [[September 11]]
** The [[International Association of Classification Societies]] (IACS) is founded.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bhattacharjee|first=Shilavadra|date=2019-07-03|title=What is International Association of Classification Societies (IACS)?|url=https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-law/what-are-international-classification-society-international-association-of-classification-societies-iacs/|access-date=2023-08-02|website=Marine Insight|language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducts Monteverdi's ''[[Vespro della Beata Vergine]]'' with the [[Monteverdi Choir]] at the [[BBC Proms]] in London.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/en2fxj "Prom 49"], [[BBC]], London. Archive from 11 September 1968.</ref>
* [[September 13]] – [[Albania]] officially withdraws from the Warsaw Pact upon the Soviet Union-led [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]], having already ceased to participate actively in Pact activity since 1962.
* [[September 17]] – The [[D'Oliveira affair]]: The [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of [[Basil D'Oliveira]], a [[Cape Coloured]], in the England side.
* [[September 21]] – The Soviet [[Zond 5]] uncrewed lunar flyby mission returns to Earth, with its first-of-a-kind biological payload intact.
* [[September 23]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Tet Offensive]] comes to an end in [[South Vietnam]].
* [[September 27]] – [[Marcelo Caetano]] becomes [[prime minister]] of Portugal.
* [[September 29]] – A [[referendum]] in Greece gives more power to the military junta.
* [[October 2]] – [[Tlatelolco massacre]]: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in [[Tlatelolco (Mexico City)|Tlatelolco]], Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the [[1968 Summer Olympics]]. 300-400 are estimated to have been killed.
* [[October 3]] – In [[Peru]], [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]] takes power in a revolution.
* [[October 8]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Sealords]] – United States and [[South Vietnam]]ese forces launch a new operation in the [[Mekong Delta]].
* [[October 10]] – The [[Detroit Tigers]] win the [[1968 World Series]] in baseball in seven games. 
* [[October 11]]
** [[Apollo program]]: [[NASA]] launches [[Apollo 7]], the first crewed Apollo mission ([[Wally Schirra]], [[Donn Eisele]], [[Walter Cunningham]]). Mission goals include the first live [[television]] broadcast from [[orbit]] and simulating [[lunar module]] rendezvous and docking, using the [[S-IVB]] rocket stage as a test target.
** In [[Panama]], a military ''coup d'état'', led by Col. Boris Martinez and Col. [[Omar Torrijos]], overthrows the democratically elected (but highly controversial) government of President [[Arnulfo Arias]]. Within a year, Torrijos ousts Martinez and takes charge as de facto [[Head of Government]] in Panama.
* [[October 12]]–[[October 27|27]] – The [[1968 Summer Olympics]] are held in Mexico City, Mexico.
* [[October 12]] – [[Equatorial Guinea]] receives its independence from Spain.
* [[October 14]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[United States Department of Defense]] announces that the [[United States Army]] and [[United States Marines]] will send about 24,000 troops back to [[Vietnam]] for involuntary second tours.
* [[October 16]]
** [[1968 Olympics Black Power salute]]: In Mexico City, African-American athletes [[Tommie Smith]] and [[John Carlos]] raise their fists in a [[Black Power]] salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres (with the support of Australian silver medallist [[Peter Norman]]).
** [[Kingston, Jamaica]] is rocked by the [[Rodney Riots]], provoked by the banning of Guyanese-born academic and activist [[Walter Rodney]] from the country.
* [[October 18]] – U.S. athlete [[Bob Beamon]] breaks the long jump world record by 55&nbsp;cm / 21{{frac|3|4}}&nbsp;ins at the [[1968 Summer Olympics|Olympics]] in [[Mexico City]]. His record stands for 23 years, and remains the second longest jump in history.
* [[October 25]] – Rock band [[Led Zeppelin]] make their first live performance, at [[Surrey University]] in England<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rockandrollgarage.com/back-time-led-zeppelin-members-talk-beatles/|title=Back In Time: Led Zeppelin members talk about The Beatles|first=Rafael|last=Polcaro|date=November 22, 2017}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] – [[Vietnam War]]: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks (which began on May 13), U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of [[North Vietnam]]" effective [[November 1]].
*October 31 &ndash; [[Great Drought of 1968]]: Amidst a collapse of hydropower President of Chile [[Eduardo Frei Montalva]] decrees the establishment of [[Daylight saving time by country|daylight saving time]].<ref>{{cite news|title=El hombre que cambió la hora|url=https://www.latercera.com/noticia/el-hombre-que-cambio-la-hora/ |accessdate=May 15, 2016|last=Bertin|first=Ximena |date=April 26, 2014 |work=[[La Tercera]]|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=1968-11-02 |title=Decreto 1474: Adelanta la hora oficial en 60 minutos |author=Ministerio del Interior |accessdate=November 10, 2017|url=https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1043256&idVersion=1968-11-02|publisher=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional|language=Spanish}}</ref>

=== November&ndash;December ===
{{Main|November 1968}}
{{Main|December 1968}}
[[File:NIXONcampaigns.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|November 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President]]
* [[November 5]]
** [[1968 United States presidential election]]: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate [[Richard Nixon]] defeats the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate, Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]], and [[American Independent Party]] candidate [[George Wallace]].
** [[Luis A. Ferré]] of the newly formed [[New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)|New Progressive Party]] is elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] by beating incumbent governor [[Roberto Sánchez Vilella]] of the [[People's Party (Puerto Rico)|People's Party]], [[Luis Negrón López]] of the [[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Popular Democratic Party]] and Antonio J. Gonzalez of the [[Puerto Rican Independence Party]]; he also becomes the first "statehooder" governor of the Island.
* [[November 7]] – Start of the [[1968 movement in Pakistan]], which leads to the resignation of General [[Ayub Khan]], and ultimately the split of the country and formation of [[Bangladesh]].
* [[November 8]] – The [[Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals]] is signed and ratified. 
* [[November 11]] – A second [[republic]] is declared in the [[Maldives]].
* [[November 15]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Commando Hunt]] is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the [[Ho Chi Minh trail]], through [[Laos]] into [[South Vietnam]]. By the end of the operation, 3&nbsp;million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations.<ref>"Commando Hunt, Operation", in ''Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam'', by Ronald B. Frankum Jr. (Scarecrow Press, 2011) p123-124</ref><ref>"Ho Chi Minh Trail", by William M. Leary, in ''The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History'' (ABC-CLIO, 2010) p506</ref>
* [[November 17]]
** [[British European Airways]] introduces the [[BAC One-Eleven]] into commercial service.
** The "[[Heidi Game|''Heidi'' Game]]": [[NBC]] cuts off the final 1:05 of an [[Oakland Raiders]]–[[New York Jets]] football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled ''[[Heidi (1968 film)|Heidi]]''. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.
* [[November 19]] – In [[Mali]], President [[Modibo Keïta]]'s regime is overthrown in a bloodless [[military coup]] led by [[Moussa Traoré]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Mali.pdf|title=Mali country profile|publisher=[[Library of Congress]] [[Federal Research Division]]|location=Washington, D.C. |page=3 |date=January 2005}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] – The [[Farmington Mine disaster]] in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.
* [[November 22]]
** ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' ("The White Album") and ''[[The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society]]'' are released.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Marr|last=Marr|title=A History of Modern Britain|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4050-0538-8|page=281}}</ref>
** [[Japan Air Lines Flight 2]], flying from [[Tokyo Haneda Airport|Tokyo]] to [[San Francisco International Airport]] ditches in [[San Francisco Bay]] due to pilot error; all 107 on board survive without injury.
* [[November 24]] – 4 men [[Aircraft hijacking|hijack]] [[Pan Am Flight 281]] from [[JFK International Airport]], New York to [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
* [[December 9]] – [[Douglas Engelbart]] publicly demonstrates his pioneering [[hypertext]] system, [[NLS (computer system)|NLS]], in [[San Francisco]], together with the [[computer mouse]], at what becomes retrospectively known as "[[The Mother of All Demos]]".
* [[December 10]] – Japan's biggest heist, the never-solved "[[300 million yen robbery]]", occurs in Tokyo.
* [[December 11]] – The film ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' based on the hit London and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in the UK. It goes on to win the [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[December 13]] – Prompted by growing unrest and a perceived proliferation of "pro-communist" violent actions, [[Brazil]]ian [[President of Brazil|president]] [[Artur da Costa e Silva]] enacts the so-called [[AI-5]], the fifth of a series of non-constitutional emergency decrees allegedly to help "stabilize" the country after the turmoils of the early 1960s.
* [[December 20]] – The first known [[Zodiac Killer]] murder takes place in Lake Herman Road, [[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]], [[California]].
* [[December 22]] – [[Mao Zedong]] advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the [[Rural area|countryside]]. It marks the start of the [[Down to the Countryside Movement|"Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement]].
* [[December 24]] – [[Apollo program]]: The crewed U.S. spacecraft [[Apollo 8]] enters orbit around the [[Moon]]. Astronauts [[Frank Borman]], [[Jim Lovell]] and [[William Anders]] become the first humans to see the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of the [[Moon]] and planet [[Earth]] as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs ''[[Earthrise]]''. The crew also give a [[Apollo 8 Genesis reading|reading from the Book of Genesis]].
* [[December 28]] – [[1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon]]: Israeli forces fly into [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] airspace, launching an attack on the airport in [[Beirut]] and destroying more than a dozen aircraft.<!--Some references say 13, others 14.-->

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* The [[Khmer Rouge]] is officially formed in [[Cambodia]] as an offshoot movement of the [[Vietnam People's Army]] from [[North Vietnam]] to bring communism to the nation. A few years later, they will become bitter enemies.
* Drainage of the [[Flevopolder]] in the Netherlands is completed, creating by some definitions the largest [[artificial island]] in the world.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EkglVH6GM0|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/5EkglVH6GM0|archive-date=2021-12-21|url-status=live|title=How a Nazi Blockade Triggered a Food Revolution|work=[[Bloomberg News]]|via=YouTube|date=2018-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tourism-review.com/travel-tourism-magazine-flevoland-worlds-largest-artificial-island--article2372|title=Dutch Flevoland - The Largest Man-Made Island|date=2014-04-28|website=www.tourism-review.com|access-date=2015-11-22}} [[René-Levasseur Island]] in the Canadian province of [[Quebec]] is considerably larger; however, this was a natural landform that became an island after the completion of the [[Daniel-Johnson dam]] in the late 1960s created [[Manicouagan Reservoir]].</ref>
* An oil field is confirmed in Northern Alaska: the [[Prudhoe Bay Oil Field]].

== Births ==
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[[File:Cuba Gooding Jr 2022 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Cuba Gooding Jr.]]]]
[[File:Silver King luchador en 2015.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Silver King (wrestler)|Silver King]]]]
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[[File:Rachael Harris by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Rachael Harris]]]]
[[File:Retton-m.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Mary Lou Retton]]]]
[[File:Daiga Mieriņa tiekas ar Spānijas karali - 53814974005 (cropped)-2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Felipe VI]]]]
[[File:GaryColemanE3May05.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Gary Coleman]]]]
[[File:Josh Brolin Berlin 2016.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Josh Brolin]]]]
[[File:Kelly Hu.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Kelly Hu]]]]
[[File:Gloria Trevi Latin Grammys 2021.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Gloria Trevi]]]]
[[File:Molly Ringwald in Greece (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Molly Ringwald]]]]
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[[File:Daniel Craig in 2021.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Daniel Craig]]]]
[[File:Bajnai Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Gordon Bajnai]]]]
[[File:Aaron Eckhart (29830286295) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Aaron Eckhart]]]]
[[File:Roskilde Festival Gorillaz-4 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Damon Albarn]]]]
[[File:Celine Dion Concert Singing Taking Chances 2008.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Celine Dion]]]]
[[File:PatriciaArquette.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Patricia Arquette]]]]
[[File:Anthony Michael Hall by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Anthony Michael Hall]]]]
[[File:Vickie Guerrero 2013.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Vickie Guerrero]]]]
[[File:Ashley Judd - 2014.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Ashley Judd]]]]
[[File:Traci Lords and Laura Byrnes Pinup Girl Clothing 02 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Traci Lords]]]]
[[File:Tony Hawk 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Tony Hawk]]]]
[[File:Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Scott Morrison]]]]
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[[File:John Ortiz 2019.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[John Ortiz]]]]
[[File:Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark in 2018.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Frederik X|King Frederik X of Denmark]]]]
[[File:Kylie Minogue 1 (4515615).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Kylie Minogue]]]]
[[File:Kelly Craft poses a photo with Haitian President Moise (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Jovenel Moïse]]]]
[[File:Chayannemn.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Chayanne]]]]
[[File:Ramush Haradinaj (-125880784).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Ramush Haradinaj]]]]
[[File:Billy Crudup 2015 1b.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Billy Crudup]]]]
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[[File:Kristin Chenoweth by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Kristin Chenoweth]]]]
[[File:Cliff Curtis (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Cliff Curtis]]]]
[[File:Robert Korzeniowski (2018).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Robert Korzeniowski]]]]
[[File:Terry Crews by Gage Skidmore 5.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Terry Crews]]]]
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[[File:Gillian Anderson Berlinale 2017.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Gillian Anderson]]]]
[[File:Eric Bana at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Eric Bana]]]]
[[File:Anna Gunn by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Anna Gunn]]]]
[[File:DarrenClarke.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Darren Clarke]]]]
[[File:Helen McCrory 2017 (Extract).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Helen McCrory]]]]
[[File:Rachael Ray, Red Dress Collection 2007.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rachael Ray]]]]
[[File:Billy Boyd.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Billy Boyd (actor)|Billy Boyd]]]]
[[File:John DiMaggio (52112905894) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[John DiMaggio]]]]
[[File:Big Daddy Kane at Hip Hop Kemp 2013 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Big Daddy Kane]]]]
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[[File:Marc Anthony 2009 White House.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Marc Anthony]]]]
[[File:Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece]]]]
[[File:Ricki Lake May 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Ricki Lake]]]]
[[File:Prince Friso.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau]]]]
[[File:TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 (48834434641) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Will Smith]]]]
[[File:Naomi Watts (36037832511) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Naomi Watts]]]]
[[File:Thom Yorke Austin Texas 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Thom Yorke]]]]
[[File:Logan Japan Premiere Red Carpet- Hugh Jackman (38445328406) (rotated).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Hugh Jackman]]]]
[[File:Didier Deschamps in 2018.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Didier Deschamps]]]]
[[File:Ziggy Marley Guilfest 2011.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Ziggy Marley]]]]
[[File:Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado no Brasil.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Juan Orlando Hernández]]]]
[[File:Sam Rockwell (51492) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Sam Rockwell]]]]
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[[File:Tracy Morgan 3 Shankbone 2009 NYC.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Tracy Morgan]]]]
[[File:Owen Wilson Cannes 2011.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Owen Wilson]]]]
[[File:Sean Schemmel by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Sean Schemmel]]]]
[[File:JillHennessyTIFFSept10.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Jill Hennessy]]]]
[[File:Lucy Liu Cannes 2008.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Lucy Liu]]]]
[[File:Brendan Fraser October 2022.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Brendan Fraser]]]]
[[File:Rachel Griffiths 2012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Rachel Griffiths]]]]
[[File:Kurt Angle 2005-08-21.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Kurt Angle]]]]
[[File:Casper Van Dien (8733547794).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Casper Van Dien]]]]
[[File:Dina Meyer by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Dina Meyer]]]]

=== January ===
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* [[January 1]] – [[Davor Šuker]], Croatian footballer
* [[January 2]]
** [[Oleg Deripaska]], Russian businessman 
** [[Cuba Gooding Jr.]], American actor
** [[Anky van Grunsven]], Dutch equesterian
* [[January 5]]
** [[DJ BoBo]], Swiss singer-songwriter and dancer
** [[Andrzej Gołota]], Polish boxer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sport.onet.pl/andrzej-golota|title=Andrzej Gołota|date=2012-11-15|website=Onet Sport|language=pl|access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref>
** [[Carrie Ann Inaba]], American choreographer, game show host and singer
* [[January 6]] – [[John Singleton]], African-American film director and writer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/30/john-singleton-obituary|title=John Singleton obituary|date=30 April 2019|website=The Guardian|author=Ryan Gilbey|access-date=14 August 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] – [[Silver King (wrestler)|Silver King]], Mexican luchador (d. [[2019]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Benjamin List]], German organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* [[January 12]] 
**[[Rachael Harris]], American actress and comedian<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/ | title= UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 |work= [[United Press International]] | date= January 12, 2020|access-date=June 27, 2020 | archive-date= January 13, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200113032052/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Pat Onstad]], Canadian soccer player
* [[January 14]] – [[LL Cool J]], African-American rapper and actor
* [[January 16]] – [[Atticus Ross]], English musician, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer
* [[January 17]] – [[Svetlana Masterkova]], Russian athlete
* [[January 18]] – [[David Ayer]], American filmmaker
* [[January 24]]
** [[Michael Kiske]], German musician
** [[Mary Lou Retton]], American gymnast
* [[January 26]] – [[Novala Takemoto]], Japanese author and fashion designer
* [[January 27]] – [[Mike Patton]], American singer
* [[January 28]] – [[Sarah McLachlan]], Canadian singer
* [[January 29]] – [[Edward Burns]], American actor
* [[January 30]] – King [[Felipe VI of Spain]]

=== February ===
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* [[February 1]]
** [[Lisa Marie Presley]], American singer-songwriter, daughter of [[Elvis Presley]] (d. [[2023]])
** [[Mark Recchi]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[February 3]] – [[Vlade Divac]], Serbian basketball player
* [[February 5]]
** [[Marcus Grönholm]], Finnish rally driver
** [[Qasim Melho]], Syrian television actor
* [[February 7]]
** [[Peter Bondra]], Slovakian [[ice hockey]] player
** [[Porntip Nakhirunkanok]], Miss Universe 1988
* [[February 8]]
** [[Gary Coleman]], African-American actor (d. [[2010]])
** [[April Stewart]], American voice actress
* [[February 10]]
** [[Laurie Foell]], New Zealand/Australian actress
** [[Atika Suri]], Indonesian television newscaster
* [[February 11]]
** [[Lavinia Agache]], Romanian artistic gymnast
** [[Mo Willems]], American children's book author
* [[February 12]] – [[Josh Brolin]], American actor
* [[February 13]]
** [[Kelly Hu]], American actress and voice artist, previously fashion model and beauty queen
** [[Niamh Kavanagh]], Irish singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] 1993 winner
* [[February 14]] – [[Jules Asner]], American model and television personality
* [[February 15]] – [[Gloria Trevi]], Mexican singer and actress<ref>{{Cite web|website=Biography.com |title=Gloria Trevi |url=https://www.biography.com/musician/gloria-trevi|date=Apr 17, 2019|access-date=August 24, 2019}}</ref>
* [[February 18]]
** [[Molly Ringwald]], American actress<ref>{{Cite web |title=Molly Ringwald Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/Molly-Ringwald |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=15 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Dennis Satin]], German film director
* [[February 21]] – [[Pellom McDaniels]], American football player (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Bradley Nowell]], American musician (d. [[1996]])
** [[Jeri Ryan]], American actress
* [[February 23]] – [[Jagath Wickramaratne]], Sri Lankan politician and 23rd Speaker of the Parliament
* [[February 24]]
** [[Andy Berman]], American actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist and comedian
** [[Mitch Hedberg]], American stand-up comedian (d. [[2005]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Sam Sneed]], American producer and rapper

=== March ===
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* [[March 1]]
** [[Kat Cressida]], American voice actress
** [[Kunjarani Devi]], Indian weightlifter
** [[Muho Noelke]], German Zen master
* [[March 2]] – [[Daniel Craig]], British actor
* [[March 3]] – [[Brian Leetch]], American ice hockey player
* [[March 4]]
** [[Giovanni Carrara]], Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
** [[Patsy Kensit]], British actress
**[[Kyriakos Mitsotakis]], Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (2019–present)<ref>{{cite web | title=Kyriakos Mitsotakis &#124; Biography, Policies,& Facts &#124; Britannica | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kyriakos-Mitsotakis }}</ref>
* [[March 5]]
** [[Gordon Bajnai]], Hungarian Prime Minister
** [[Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini]], 10th [[Prime Minister of Eswatini]]  (d. [[2020]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Moira Kelly]], American actress
* [[March 7]] – [[Jeff Kent]], American baseball player
* [[March 9]] 
** [[Youri Djorkaeff]], French footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Djorkaeff, Youri |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/11445/Youri_Djorkaeff.html |website=national-football-teams.com}}</ref>
** [[Rexy Mainaky]], Indonesian badminton player
* [[March 11]] – [[Lisa Loeb]], American singer
* [[March 12]]
** [[Aaron Eckhart]], American actor
** [[Tammy Duckworth]], US Senator
* [[March 13]] 
** [[Gillian Keegan]], British politician
** [[Masami Okui]], Japanese singer
* [[March 14]]
** [[Megan Follows]], Canadian-American actress<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hubbard |first1=Linda S. |last2=Steen |first2=Sara |last3=O'Donnell |first3=Owen |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=1989 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-8103-2070-3 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uxkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Megan+Follows%22+march+14 |access-date=17 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[James Frain]], British actor
* [[March 15]]
** [[Mark McGrath]], American singer
** [[Terje Riis-Johansen]], Norwegian politician
** [[Sabrina Salerno]], Italian singer
* [[March 16]]
** [[David MacMillan]], Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
** [[Trevor Wilson (basketball)|Trevor Wilson]], American basketball player
* [[March 20]]
** Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean long-distance runner
** [[Ultra Naté]], American singer-songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter
* [[March 22]] – [[Euronymous]], Norwegian musician (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 23]]
** [[Damon Albarn]], English singer-songwriter and musician<ref>{{Cite book|author=Omnibus Press|title=100 Years of British Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4v_fBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT241|date=10 November 2014|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-1-78323-565-0|pages=241}}</ref>
** [[Mike Atherton]], English cricketer<ref>{{Cite book|author=Gale Group|title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Field|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NT3SqxMcjsC|date=June 2004|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-6701-6|page=16}}</ref>
** [[Fernando Hierro]], Spanish football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Hierro |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j769.html |website=bdfutbol.com}}</ref>
* [[March 26]]
** [[Kenny Chesney]], American [[country music]] singer<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Maxine Block|author2=Anna Herthe Rothe|author3=Marjorie Dent Candee|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5osYAAAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=H.W. Wilson|page=73}}</ref>
** [[James Iha]], American rock musician
* [[March 27]] – [[Ben Koldyke]], American actor
* [[March 28]] – [[Iris Chang]], American author (d. [[2004]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X73iAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-7876-2673-0|page=71}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] – [[Lucy Lawless]], New Zealand actress and singer<ref>{{Cite book|author=Thomas McMahon|title=Creative and Performing Artists for Teens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryuw3jrPnGsC|year=2000|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-3976-1|page=627}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Celine Dion]], Canadian singer<ref>{{Cite book|title=The News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okEuAQAAIAAJ|date=March 2006|publisher=Independent Communications Network Limited|page=60}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] – [[César Sampaio]], Brazilian football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Sampaio, César |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/13649/Cesar_Sampaio.html |website=national-football-teams.com}}</ref>

=== April ===
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* [[April 1]]
** [[Julia Boutros]], Lebanese singer
** [[Andreas Schnaas]], German director
** [[Alexander Stubb]], 43rd Prime Minister of Finland 
* [[April 5]]
** [[Paula Cole]], American singer
** [[Stephen Bardo]], American basketball player
** [[Stewart Lee]], English stand-up comedian
*[[April 7]] – [[Jože Možina]], Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalist
* [[April 8]] 
** [[Patricia Arquette]], American actress
** [[Shawn Fonteno]], American actor and rapper 
* [[April 9]] – [[Tom Brands]], American [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] wrestler
* [[April 11]] – [[CB Milton]], Dutch electronic music vocalist
* [[April 12]] 
** [[Ott (record producer)|Ott]], English musician and record producer
** [[Neil Brady]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[April 13]] – [[Necrobutcher]], Norwegian musician
* [[April 14]] – [[Anthony Michael Hall]], American actor and singer
* [[April 15]] – [[Stacey Williams]], American model
* [[April 16]]
** [[Greg Baker]], American actor and musician
** [[Martin Dahlin]], Swedish football player
** [[Vickie Guerrero]], American professional wrestler
* [[April 17]]
** [[Julie Fagerholt]], Danish fashion designer
** [[Adam McKay]], American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian and actor
* [[April 18]] – [[David Hewlett]], English-born Canadian actor, writer and director
* [[April 19]] – [[Ashley Judd]], American actress
* [[April 20]]
** [[J. D. Roth]], American television host
** [[Yelena Välbe]], Russian cross-country skier
* [[April 22]] – [[Zarley Zalapski]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2017]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Timothy McVeigh]], American terrorist (d. [[2001]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Stacy Haiduk]], American actress
** [[Jorge Medina]], Bolivian civil rights activist and politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/world-in-brief-november-24-2022|title=World in brief: November 24, 2022|date=November 24, 2022|website=Morning Star}}</ref>
** [[Yuji Nagata]], Japanese professional wrestler
* [[April 28]] – [[Howard Donald]], British singer ([[Take That]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović]], President of [[Croatia]] (2015–2020)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kolinda Grabar Kitarović |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/enciklopedija/kolinda-grabar-kitarovic-18382 |website=vecernji.hr}}</ref>
** [[Michael Herbig]], German film director, actor and author
** [[Darren Matthews]], English professional wrestler

=== May ===
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* [[May 1]] – [[Oliver Bierhoff]], German footballer
* [[May 2]]
** [[Jeff Agoos]], American soccer player
** [[Hikaru Midorikawa]], Japanese voice actor
* [[May 3]]
** [[Nina Paley]], American cartoonist
** [[Li Yong (television host)|Li Yong]], Chinese host (d. [[2018]])
** [[Amy Ryan]], American actress 
* [[May 4]]
** [[Julian Barratt]], English comedian, actor, musician and music producer
** [[Momoko Kikuchi]], Japanese actress and singer
** [[Eric X. Li|Eric Xun Li]], Chinese venture capitalist
* [[May 5]] – [[John Soko]], Zambian footballer (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Eagle-Eye Cherry]], Swedish-born musician
** [[Traci Lords]], American actress
* [[May 8]]
** [[Mickaël Madar]], French footballer<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&dq=Micka%C3%ABl+Madar+may+8+1968&pg=PA129|isbn=978-1-60280-013-7|title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History|year=2008|publisher=KTAV Publishing House}}</ref>
** [[Éric Martineau]], French politician<ref>{{Cite web|author=Assemblée nationale|title=M. Éric Martineau - Sarthe (3e circonscription) |url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA795100 |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Assemblée nationale |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 9]]
** [[Carla Overbeck]], American soccer player
** [[Marie-José Pérec]], French athlete
** [[Nataša Pirc Musar]], Slovenian politician, attorney, author, journalist and 5th [[President of Slovenia]]
* [[May 10]] – [[Al Murray]], English comedian
* [[May 12]]  – [[Tony Hawk]], American skateboarder
* [[May 13]]
** [[Sonja Zietlow]], German television presenter
** [[Scott Morrison]], 30th Prime Minister of Australia
* [[May 14]] – [[Greg Davies]], English actor, comedian and presenter
* [[May 16]] – [[Chingmy Yau]], Hong Kong actress
* [[May 17]] – [[Constance Menard]], French professional dressage rider
* [[May 18]] – [[Vanessa Leggett]], American freelance journalist, author, lecturer and [[First Amendment]] advocate
* [[May 19]] – [[Kyle Eastwood]], American jazz bass musician
* [[May 20]]
** [[Timothy Olyphant]], American actor
** [[Waisale Serevi]], Fijian rugby player
* [[May 22]]
** [[Michael Kelly (American actor)|Michael Kelly]], American actor
** [[Graham Linehan]], Irish television writer and director
* [[May 23]] – [[John Ortiz]], American actor
* [[May 24]] – [[Charles De'Ath]], English actor
* [[May 26]] – [[Frederik X|King Frederik X of Denmark]]
* [[May 27]]
** [[Jeff Bagwell]], American baseball player
** [[Frank Thomas (AL baseball player)|Frank Thomas]], American baseball player
* [[May 28]] – [[Kylie Minogue]], Australian actress and singer
* [[May 30]] – [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], French-Moroccan 9/11 conspirator

=== June ===
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* [[June 1]] – [[Jason Donovan]], Australian actor and singer
* [[June 2]]
** [[Beetlejuice (entertainer)|Beetlejuice]], American entertainer, member of the [[Wack Pack]] (''[[The Howard Stern Show]]'')
** [[Jon Culshaw]], English impressionist
* [[June 4]] – [[Scott Wolf]], American actor
* [[June 5]] – [[Sandra Annenberg]], Brazilian newscaster, previously actress
** [[Mel Giedroyc]], English comedian and presenter
* [[June 9]] – [[Aleksandr Konovalov (judge)|Aleksandr Konovalov]], Russian lawyer and politician
* [[June 10]]
** [[Bill Burr]], American comedian
** [[Nobutoshi Canna]], Japanese voice actor
* [[June 14]] – [[Yasmine Bleeth]], American actress
* [[June 16]] – [[Mariana Mazzucato]], Italian born-American economist<ref>{{cite web |title=Mariana Mazzucato |url=https://myastro.com/myastropedia/mariana-mazzucato |website=myastro.com |publisher=my Astro}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] – [[Mateusz Morawiecki]], Polish banker and politician, 17th [[Prime Minister of Poland]]
* [[June 22]] – [[Lohan Ratwatte]], Sri Lankan politician, [[Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka)|MP]] (2010–2024) (d. [[2025]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Boris Gelfand]], Israeli chess grandmaster
* [[June 25]] – [[Albert Fulivai]], Tongan rugby league player
* [[June 26]]
** [[Paolo Maldini]], Italian football player
** [[Jovenel Moïse]], 42nd [[President of Haiti]] (d. [[2021]])<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Boursiquot|first=Sherley|date=7 February 2017|title=Who Is Jovenel Moïse? Meet Haiti's New President After 2016 Election|url=https://www.ibtimes.com/who-jovenel-moise-meet-haitis-new-president-after-2016-election-2488002|access-date=7 July 2021|website=International Business Times}}</ref>
** [[Iwan Roberts]], Welsh footballer
* [[June 27]] – [[Isabel Saint Malo]], Panamian politician
* [[June 28]]
** [[Chayanne]], Puerto Rican-American singer
** [[Adam Woodyatt]], English actor
* [[June 29]] – [[Theoren Fleury]], Canadian ice hockey player<ref>{{icehockeystats|legends=10485}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] – [[Phil Anselmo]], American heavy metal vocalist

=== July ===
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* [[July 5]]
** [[Ken Akamatsu]], Japanese [[Mangaka|manga artist]]
** [[Michael Stuhlbarg]], American actor
** [[Darin LaHood]], American attorney and politician<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000585 |title= Darin LaHood (id. L000585) |last= |first= |date= |website= [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |publisher= |access-date= 9 February 2022|quote=}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Rashid Sidek]], Malaysian badminton player and coach
* [[July 7]]
** [[Jorja Fox]], American actress
** [[Allen Payne]], American actor
** [[Jeff VanderMeer]], American writer
* [[July 8]]
** [[Billy Crudup]], American actor
** [[Akio Suyama]], Japanese [[Voice acting in Japan|voice actor]]
** [[Josephine Teo]], Singaporean politician
** [[Michael Weatherly]], American actor
* [[July 9]] – [[Eduardo Santamarina]], Mexican actor
* [[July 10]] – [[Hassiba Boulmerka]], Algerian athlete
* [[July 11]] – [[Conrad Vernon]], American voice actor and director
* [[July 13]]
** [[Robert Gant]], American actor
** [[Omi Minami]], Japanese voice actress
* [[July 14]] – [[Samantha Gori]], Italian basketball player
* [[July 15]]
** [[Leticia Calderón]], Mexican actress
** [[Eddie Griffin]], American actor and comedian
** [[Rosalinda Celentano]], Italian actress
* [[July 16]]
** [[Dhanraj Pillay]], Indian field hockey player
** [[Barry Sanders]], American football player
** [[Olga de Souza]], Brazilian-Italian singer, model and dancer
* [[July 17]]
** [[Darren Day]], British actor and TV presenter
** [[Beth Littleford]], American actress and comedian
* [[July 18]] – [[Grant Bowler]], New Zealand-born Australian actor
* [[July 19]] – [[Robert Flynn]], American vocalist and guitarist ([[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Jimmy Carson]], American ice hockey player
* [[July 23]]
** [[Gary Payton]], American basketball player
** [[Stephanie Seymour]], American model and actress
* [[July 24]]
** [[Kristin Chenoweth]], American actress and singer
** [[Laura Leighton]], American actress
** [[Troy Kotsur]], American actor
* [[July 25]] – [[John Grant (musician)|John Grant]], American singer-songwriter
* [[July 27]] 
** [[Cliff Curtis]], New Zealand actor
** [[Julian McMahon]], Australian actor (d. [[2025]])
* [[July 30]]
** [[Robert Korzeniowski]], Polish athlete
** [[Terry Crews]], American actor, television host and artist, previously American football player

=== August ===
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* [[August 1]] – [[Pavo Urban]], Croatian photographer (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Rod Beck]], American baseball player (d. [[2007]])
* [[August 4]]
** [[Lee Mack]], English actor and stand-up comedian
** [[Olga Neuwirth]], Austrian composer
* [[August 5]] – [[Patricia Tarabini]], Argentine tennis player
** [[Marine Le Pen]], French politician
** [[Colin McRae]], Scottish [[rally car]] driver (d. [[2007]])
* [[August 6]] 
* [[August 7]] – [[Lynn Strait]], American musician (d. [[1998]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Kimberly Brooks]], American actress and voice artist
* [[August 9]]
** [[Gillian Anderson]], American actress
** [[Eric Bana]], Australian actor
** [[James Roy (writer)|James Roy]], Australian author
* [[August 11]] – [[Vladimir Kosterin]], Ukrainian businessman and foundation president<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rr-f.ch/en/biography|title=Risk Reduction Foundation |date=June 18, 2025 }}</ref>
* [[August 12]]
** [[Pablo Rey]], Spanish painter
** [[Paul Tucker (musician)|Paul Tucker]], English songwriter and record producer
** [[Kōji Yusa]], Japanese voice actor
* [[August 14]]
** [[Catherine Bell (actress)|Catherine Bell]], American actress
** [[Darren Clarke]], Northern Irish golfer
** [[Jennifer Flavin]], businesswoman, previously model
** [[Jason Leonard]], English rugby union player
* [[August 15]] – [[Debra Messing]], American actress
* [[August 16]] – [[Arvind Kejriwal]], Indian politician
* [[August 17]]
** [[Ed McCaffrey]], American football player
** [[Bruno van Pottelsberghe]], Belgian economist
** [[Helen McCrory]], English actress (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 20]]
** [[Klas Ingesson]], Swedish footballer (d. [[2014]])
** [[Yuri Shiratori]] Japanese actress and singer
** [[Bai Yansong]], Chinese host
* [[August 21]] 
** [[Dina Carroll]], British singer
** [[Stretch (rapper)|Stretch]], American rapper and record producer (d. [[1995]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Shoichi Funaki]], Japanese professional wrestler
** [[Hiroshi Kitadani]], Japanese singer
** [[Tim Salmon]], American baseball player
** [[Daniel Pollock]], Australian actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Rachael Ray]], American television chef and host
* [[August 27]] – [[Luis Tascón]], Venezuelan politician (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Billy Boyd (actor)|Billy Boyd]], Scottish actor
** [[Tom Warburton]], American animator
* [[August 31]]
** [[Valdon Dowiyogo]], Nauruan politician and Australian football player
** [[Hideo Nomo]], Japanese baseball player

=== September ===
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* [[September 1]]
** [[Mohamed Atta]], 9/11 ringleader of the hijackers and pilot of [[American Airlines Flight 11]] (d. [[2001]])
** [[Atsuko Yuya]], Japanese voice actress
*[[September 2]] – [[Francisco Acevedo]], American serial killer<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dani-hendrix.medium.com/three-women-strangled-to-death-in-the-streets-of-new-york-by-francisco-acevedo-7075f0ae3716 | title=Three women strangled to death in the streets of New York by Francisco Acevedo | date=August 21, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[September 3]] – [[Ray Coulthard|Raymond Coulthard]], English actor
* [[September 4]]
** [[John DiMaggio]], American voice actor and comedian
** [[Mike Piazza]], American baseball player
* [[September 5]] – [[Thomas Levet]], French golfer
* [[September 7]] – [[Marcel Desailly]], French footballer
* [[September 9]] – [[Julia Sawalha]], English actress
* [[September 10]]
** [[Big Daddy Kane]], American hip-hop artist
** [[Guy Ritchie]], British film director
* [[September 11]]
** [[Kay Hanley]], American musician
** [[Tetsuo Kurata]], Japanese actor model
* [[September 13]] – [[Laura Cutina]], Romanian artistic gymnast
* [[September 15]] – [[Danny Nucci]], American actor
* [[September 16]] – [[Marc Anthony]], American actor and singer
* [[September 17]]
** [[Anastacia]], American singer-songwriter
** [[Tito Vilanova]], Spanish football manager (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Toni Kukoč]], Croatian basketball player
* [[September 20]] – [[Van Jones]], African-American author
* [[September 21]]
** [[Lisa Angell]], French singer
** [[Kevin Buzzard]], British mathematician
** [[Ricki Lake]], American actress, producer and television presenter
* [[September 22]] – [[Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu]], 62nd Prime Minister of Romania
* [[September 23]] –  [[Michelle Thomas]], American actress (d. [[1998]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau]], (d. [[2013]])
** [[John A. List]], American economist
** [[Will Smith]], African-American actor and rapper
* [[September 26]]
** [[James Caviezel]], American actor
** [[Michelle Meldrum]], American guitarist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Tricia O'Kelley]], American actress
** [[Ben Shenkman]], American television, film and stage actor
* [[September 27]]
** [[Mari Kiviniemi]], 62nd [[Prime Minister of Finland]]
** [[Paul Rudish]], American voice actor and animator
* [[September 28]]
** [[Mika Häkkinen]], Finnish double [[Formula 1]] world champion
** [[Naomi Watts]], British actress and film producer
* [[September 29]]
** [[Patrick Burns (paranormal investigator)|Patrick Burns]], American paranormal investigator and television personality
** [[Luke Goss]], English singer and actor
** [[Alex Skolnick]], American jazz/heavy metal guitarist
** [[Samir Soni]], Indian film and TV actor
* [[September 30]] – [[Bennet Omalu]], Nigerian pathologist

=== October ===
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* [[October 1]]
**[[Kevin Griffin]], American singer-songwriter, frontman of [[Better Than Ezra]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-10-01-0410020008-story.html | title=1. In a debating moodJessica Simpson's dad | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=October 2004 }}</ref>
** [[Mark Durden-Smith]], British television presenter
** [[Jay Underwood]], American actor
* [[October 2]]
** [[Lucy Cohu]], English actress
** [[Victoria Derbyshire]], English broadcast presenter
** [[Jana Novotná]], Czech tennis player (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Nadia Calviño]], Spanish politician
* [[October 7]]
** [[Luminița Anghel]], Romanian dance/pop recording artist, songwriter, television personality and politician
** [[Thom Yorke]], British singer-songwriter
* [[October 8]]
** [[Daniela Castelo]], Argentine journalist (d. [[2011]])
** [[Emily Procter]], American actress
* [[October 9]]
** [[Troy Davis]], American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. [[2011]])
** [[Pete Docter]], American animator, director
* [[October 10]]
** [[Bart Brentjens]], Dutch mountainbiker
** [[Feridun Düzağaç]], Turkish rock singer-songwriter
* [[October 11]]
** [[Tiffany Grant]], American voice actress
** [[Jane Krakowski]], American actress
** [[Brett Salisbury]], American football quarterback
* [[October 12]]
** [[Paul Harragon]], Australian rugby league player
** [[Hugh Jackman]], Australian actor, singer and producer
* [[October 13]]
** [[Preet Bharara]], Indian-American politician
** [[Tisha Campbell-Martin]], American actress and singer
* [[October 14]]
** [[Matthew Le Tissier]], English footballer
* [[October 15]]
** [[Didier Deschamps]], French footballer
** [[Jyrki 69]], Finnish singer
** [[Nashwa Mustafa]], Egyptian actress
* [[October 16]] – [[Michael Stich]], German tennis player
* [[October 20]] – [[Damien Timmer]], British joint-managing director, television producer, television executive producer
* [[October 22]] – [[Shaggy (musician)|Shaggy]], Jamaican singer
* [[October 24]] – [[Mark Walton (story artist)|Mark Walton]], American story artist, actor
* [[October 27]] – [[Alain Auderset]], Swedish writer
* [[October 28]] – [[Juan Orlando Hernández]], 55th [[President of Honduras]]
* [[October 29]] 
** [[Johann Olav Koss]], Norwegian speed skater<ref>{{cite web |title=Johann Olav Koss |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88548 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
** [[Tsunku]], Japanese singer, music producer and song composer
** [[John Farley (actor)|John Farley]], American actor and comedian
* [[October 30]]
** [[Moira Quirk]], English actress and voice actress
** [[Jack Plotnick]], American film and television actor, writer and producer

=== November ===
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* [[November 1]] – [[Silvio Fauner]], Italian cross-country skier
* [[November 4]]
** [[Lee Germon]], New Zealand cricketer
** [[Daniel Landa]], Czech composer, singer and actor
** [[Miles Long]], American [[pornographic actor]] and [[film director|director]]
* [[November 5]]
** [[Mr. Catra]], Brazilian musician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Sam Rockwell]], American actor
** [[Seth Gilliam]], African-American actor
**[[Penny Wong]], Australian politician, Foreign Minister <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=00AOU | title=Senator the Hon Penny Wong }}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – [[Kelly Rutherford]], American actress
* [[November 7]] – [[Ignacio Padilla]], Mexican writer (d. [[2016]])
* [[November 8]]
** [[Parker Posey]], American actress
** [[Zara Whites]], Dutch actress
* [[November 9]] – [[Nazzareno Carusi]], Italian classical pianist
* [[November 10]] – [[Tracy Morgan]], African-American actor and comedian
* [[November 12]]
**[[Kathleen Hanna]], American musician and activist
** [[Aya Hisakawa]], Japanese voice actress
** [[Sammy Sosa]], Dominican [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[November 13]] – [[Pat Hentgen]], American baseball player
* [[November 15]]
** [[Fausto Brizzi]], Italian screenwriter and film director
** [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]], American rapper (d. [[2004]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Tammy Lauren]], American actress
* [[November 18]]
** [[Barry Hunter (footballer)|Barry Hunter]], Northern Irish footballer and football manager
** [[Luizianne Lins]], Brazilian politician
** [[Owen Wilson]], American actor and comedian
* [[November 20]]
** [[Chew Chor Meng]], Singaporean Chinese television actor
** [[Jules Trobaugh]], American artist and photographer
* [[November 21]] 
**[[Qiao Hong]], Chinese table tennis player
**[[Sean Schemmel]], American voice actor 
* [[November 24]]
** [[Phil Starbuck]], English [[association football|footballer]]
** [[Awie]], Malaysian rock singer
** [[yukihiro (musician)|yukihiro]], Japanese musician
* [[November 25]]
** [[Tunde Baiyewu]], British singer
** [[Jill Hennessy]], Canadian actress
* [[November 27]] – [[Michael Vartan]], French actor
* [[November 29]]
** [[Hayabusa (wrestler)|Hayabusa]], Japanese professional wrestler (d. [[2016]])
** [[Jonathan Knight]], American singer
* [[November 30]] – [[Rica Matsumoto]], Japanese actress, voice actress and singer

=== December ===
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* [[December 2]]
** [[Lucy Liu]], American actress, voice actress, director, singer, dancer, model and artist
** [[Rena Sofer]], American actress
* [[December 3]]
** [[Brendan Fraser]], Canadian-American actor
** [[Montell Jordan]], American singer
* [[December 5]] 
** [[Margaret Cho]], American actress and comedian
** [[Wendi Deng Murdoch]], Chinese-American entrepreneur and businesswoman
* [[December 7]]
** [[Mark Geyer]], Australian [[rugby league]] player
** [[David Kabré]], Burkinabe military leader and politician
* [[December 9]] – [[Kurt Angle]], American amateur and professional wrestler, [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Olympic]] gold medalist
* [[December 11]]
** [[Emmanuelle Charpentier]], French biochemist, recipient of [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
** [[Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt]], German speed skater
** [[Eula Valdez]], Filipino actress
* [[December 18]] 
** [[Casper Van Dien]], American actor
** [[Rachel Griffiths]], Australian actress
* [[December 19]] – [[Ken Marino]], American actor and comedian
* [[December 20]] – [[Nadia Farès]], Moroccan born-French actress
* [[December 21]] – [[Khrystyne Haje]], American actress
* [[December 22]] – [[Dina Meyer]], American actress
* [[December 23]] – [[Manuel Rivera-Ortiz]], American photographer
* [[December 24]] – [[Choi Jin-sil]], South Korean actress and model (d. [[2008]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Helena Christensen]], Danish model
* [[December 28]] – [[Lior Ashkenazi]], Israeli actor
* [[December 30]] – [[Fabrice Guy]], French Olympic skier

=== Unknown date ===
* [[Eleonora Requena]], Venezuelan poet.<ref name="Letralia">{{Cite web|title=Eleonora Requena|url=https://letralia.com/firmas/requenaeleonora.htm|access-date=20 June 2021|website=Letralia}}</ref>
* [[Martin Ssempa]], Ugandan pastor and internet meme.
* [[Isadora Zubillaga]], Venezuelan diplomat and activist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-07-21 |title=El Gobierno concede la nacionalidad española a Isadora Zubillaga, asesora internacional de Leopoldo López |url=https://www.notimerica.com/politica/noticia-gobierno-concede-nacionalidad-espanola-isadora-zubillaga-asesora-internacional-leopoldo-lopez-20170721170752.html |access-date=2021-08-07 |website=Notimerica |publisher=[[Europa Press (news agency)|Europa Press]]}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
{{BD ToC|deaths}}

=== January ===
[[File:Karl Kobelt.gif|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Karl Kobelt]]]]
[[File:Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Leopold Infeld]]]]
* [[January 4]]
** [[Armando Castellazzi]], Italian footballer and manager (b. [[1904]])
** [[Joseph Pholien]], Belgian politician, 37th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Karl Kobelt]], 2-time President of the Swiss Confederation (b. [[1891]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[Gholamreza Takhti]], Iranian wrestler (b. [[1930]])
** [[Mario Roatta]], Italian general (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Kōkichi Tsuburaya]], Japanese athlete (b. [[1940]])
* [[January 10]]
** [[Ali Fuat Cebesoy]], Turkish politician (b. [[1882]])
** [[Eben Dönges]], acting [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] and elected [[President of South Africa]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Leopold Infeld]], Polish physicist (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Bob Jones Sr.]], American evangelist, religious broadcaster and founder of [[Bob Jones University]] (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bob Jones: He Bridged a Great Gap|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1968/february-2/bob-jones-he-bridged-great-gap.html|access-date=2022-10-28|website=Christianity Today|date= 2 February 1968}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[John Ridgely]], American actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Georg Dertinger]], German politician (b. [[1902]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Aleksandr Arbuzov]], Russian chemist (b. [[1877]])
** [[Duke Kahanamoku]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Tsuguharu Foujita]], Japanese-French painter and printmaker (b. [[1886]])

=== February ===
[[File:Mae Marsh 1916.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Mae Marsh]]]]
[[File:Howard Walter Florey 1945.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Howard Florey]]]]
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* [[February 4]]
** [[Eddie Baker]], American actor (b. [[1897]])
** [[Neal Cassady]], American author and poet (b. [[1926]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]], American actor (b. [[1931]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Pitirim Sorokin]], Russian-American sociologist (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Howard Lindsay]], American playwright (b. [[1888]])
* [[February 13]]
** [[Mae Marsh]], American actress (b. [[1894]])
** [[Ildebrando Pizzetti]], Italian composer (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Little Walter]], American blues musician and singer-songwriter (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 17]] – Sir [[Donald Wolfit]], English actor (b. [[1902]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Georg Hackenschmidt]], German strongman and professional wrestler (b. [[1877]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Anthony Asquith]], British film director and writer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Frank Manchel|title=Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GM8UAQAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3413-4|page=1841}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Howard Florey]], Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Peter Arno]], American cartoonist (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Camille Huysmans]], Belgian politician, 34th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[February 27]]
** [[Frankie Lymon]], American singer (b. [[1942]])
** [[Hertha Sponer]], German physicist and chemist (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Hugo Benioff]], American seismologist (b. [[1899]])

=== March ===
[[File:Yuri Gagarin (1961) - Restoration.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Yuri Gagarin]]]]
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* [[March 6]] – [[Joseph W. Martin Jr.]], American politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Jerzy Braun (rower)|Jerzy Braun]], Polish athlete (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Erwin Panofsky]], German-Jewish art historian (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Khuang Aphaiwong]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Thailand]], country leader during [[World War II]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], Italian composer (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Journal of Synagogue Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fF8JAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Cantors Assembly|page=9}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]], Danish film director (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=James Monaco|title=The Encyclopedia of Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqcYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PT25|year=1991|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=978-0-399-51604-7|pages=166}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Edwin O'Connor]], American journalist, novelist and radio commentator (b. [[1918]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Duffy, Charles F.|title=A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O'Connor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vV7MJDy29GcC&pg=PA353|year=2003|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1337-8|pages=353}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – [[Alice Guy-Blaché]], French filmmaker (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Louise Heck-Rabi|title=Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FBoAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1660-2|page=1}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[Yuri Gagarin]], Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (b. [[1934]])<ref>"First Spaceman is Killed — Gagarin Dies in Crash of Test Plane", ''Chicago Tribune'', March 28, 1968, p1.</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Bobby Driscoll]], American child actor (b. [[1937]])

=== April ===
[[File:Landau.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Lev Landau]]]]
[[File:Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]]]
[[File:Jim Clark 1965.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Jim Clark]]]]
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* [[April 1]] – [[Lev Landau]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1908]])
* [[April 4]]
** [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American civil rights leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1929]])
** [[Assis Chateaubriand]], Brazilian newspaper magnate (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Jim Clark]], Scottish racing driver and double [[Formula One]] [[World Champion]] (b. [[1936]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Heinrich Nordhoff]], German automotive engineer (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.pre67vw.com/history/nordhoff Heinz Nordhoff]</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[Boris Lyatoshinsky]], Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Fay Bainter]], American actress (b. [[1893]])
** [[Albert Betz]], German physicist (b. [[1885]])
** [[Edna Ferber]], American writer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=R. Baird Shuman|title=Great American Writers: Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBIvc_e_YwwC&pg=PA503|year=2002|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-7240-7|pages=503}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] – [[Soraya Tarzi]], Afghan queen (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.afghan-web.com/biographies/biography-of-soraya-tarzi/ Biography of Soraya Tarzi]</ref>
* [[April 24]]
** [[Tommy Noonan]], American actor (b. [[1921]])
** [[Walter Tewksbury]], American athlete (b. [[1876]])
* [[April 26]] – [[John Heartfield]], German visual artist (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Raoul Abatchou]], Central African politician and mining operator (b. [[1926]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kalck  |first1= Pierre|title=Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic (Historical Dictionaries of Africa) |date=2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham|page=1}}</ref>

=== May ===
* [[May 5]] – [[Albert Dekker]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Lurleen Wallace]], American politician (b. [[1926]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Finlay Currie]], Scottish actor (b. [[1878]])
** [[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright and novelist (b. [[1892]])
** [[Marion Lorne]], American actress (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Scotty Beckett]], American child actor (b. [[1929]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Robert Burks]], American cinematographer (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Husband E. Kimmel]], American admiral (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Franco Riccardi]], Italian fencer, Olympic champion (b. [[1905]])<ref>[https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/franco-riccardi Franco RICCARDI]</ref>
* [[May 25]] – [[Georg von Küchler]], German field marshal and war criminal (b. [[1881]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Little Willie John]], American R&B singer (b. [[1937]])
* [[May 28]]
** [[Kees van Dongen]], Dutch-French painter (b. [[1877]])
** [[Fyodor Okhlopkov]], Soviet sniper (b. [[1908]])

=== June ===
[[File:Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Helen Keller]]]]
[[File:Robert F Kennedy crop.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Robert F. Kennedy]]]]
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* [[June 1]] – [[Helen Keller]], American activist and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Nigel Starck|title=Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfvchwHafFsC&pg=PA188|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Melbourne Univ. Publishing|isbn=978-0-522-85256-1|page=188}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] – [[R. Norris Williams]], American tennis player (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 4]]
** [[Dorothy Gish]], American actress (b. [[1898]])
** [[Walter Nash|Sir Walter Nash]], 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| title=Sir Walter Nash &#124; prime minister of New Zealand |encyclopedia= Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Nash|access-date=2022-10-28|date=1998}}</ref>
* [[June 6]]
** [[Randolph Churchill]], British politician, son of [[Winston Churchill]] (b. [[1911]])
** [[Robert F. Kennedy]], American lawyer, politician ([[United States Senator]], [[U.S. Attorney General]]) and a leading [[1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries|1968 Democratic presidential candidate]] (b. [[1925]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Dan Duryea]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Ludovico Scarfiotti]], Italian racing driver (b. [[1933]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]], Swedish composer (b. [[1916]])
** [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])
** [[Ernest Stoneman]], American country music artist (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/hall-of-fame/ernest-v-pop-stoneman ERNEST V. "POP" STONEMAN]</ref>
* [[June 15]]
** [[Sam Crawford]], American baseball player (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sam Crawford Stats, Fantasy & News|url=https://www.mlb.com/player/sam-crawford-112806|access-date=2022-10-28|website=MLB.com|language=en}}</ref>
** [[Wes Montgomery]], American jazz guitarist (b. [[1923]])
* [[June 17]] – [[José Nasazzi]], Uruguayan footballer (b. [[1901]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Nikolaus von Falkenhorst]], German general and war criminal (b. [[1885]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Tony Hancock]], English comedian and actor (b. [[1924]])

=== July ===
[[File:Corneille Heymans nobel.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Corneille Heymans]]]]
[[File:Otto Hahn (Nobel).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Otto Hahn]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Fritz Bauer]], German judge and prosecutor (b. [[1903]])
** [[Virginia Weidler]], American actress (b. [[1927]])
* [[July 2]]
** [[Zaki al-Arsuzi]], Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist and historian (b. [[1899]])
** [[Francis Brennan (cardinal)|Francis Brennan]], American cardinal (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Jo Schlesser]], French racing driver (b. [[1928]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Alexander Cadogan]], British diplomat (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 12]] – [[José Bordas Valdez]], 43rd [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Ilias Tsirimokos]], [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1907]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1968/07/14/archives/tsirimokos-dies-greek-leader-60-socialist-was-premier-for-30-days.html Tsirimokos dies. Greek leader, 60; Socialist Was Premier for 30 Days in 1965 Turmoil]</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Konstantin Paustovsky]], Russian-Soviet writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Cai Chusheng]], Chinese film director (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Joseph Keilberth]], German conductor (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Ruth St. Denis]], American dancer (b. [[1879]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Giovannino Guareschi]], Italian journalist (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 23]]
** [[Luigi Cevenini]], Italian footballer and coach (b. [[1895]])
** [[Henry Hallett Dale|Sir Henry Dale]], English pharmacologist and physiologist (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Lilian Harvey]], Anglo-German actress and singer (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 28]]
** [[Otto Hahn]], German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]])
** [[Ángel Herrera Oria]], Spanish journalist, politician, cardinal and servant of God (b. [[1886]])

=== August ===
[[File:Konstanty Rokossowski, 1945.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Konstantin Rokossovsky]]]]
* [[August 3]] – [[Konstantin Rokossovsky]], Soviet officer, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Luther Perkins]], American guitarist (b. [[1928]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Ratna Asmara]], Indonesian actress and director (b. [[1913]])
* [[August 19]] – [[George Gamow]], Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Stan McCabe]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1910]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Kay Francis]], American actress (b. [[1905]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Robert Z. Leonard]], American film director (b. [[1889]])
** [[Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American soldier and planner (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|website=Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States | title=Commander-in-Chief Major General Ulysses S. Grant III|url=https://suvcw.org/mollus/pcinc/usgrantIII.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505224904/https://suvcw.org/mollus/pcinc/usgrantIII.htm|access-date=2022-10-28| archive-date=May 5, 2006}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] – [[William Talman (actor)|William Talman]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Dennis O'Keefe]], American actor (b. [[1908]])

=== September ===
[[File:Padre Pio.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|Saint [[Pio of Pietrelcina]]]]
* [[September 3]] – [[Juan José Castro]], Argentine composer and conductor (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Lucio Fontana]], Italian painter and sculptor (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Frank Barson]], English footballer (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Armand Blanchonnet]], French Olympic cyclist (b. [[1903]])
* [[September 18]]
** [[Franchot Tone]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
** [[Francis McDonald]], American actor (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 19]]
** [[Chester Carlson]], American physicist and inventor (b. [[1906]])
** [[Red Foley]], American singer (b. [[1910]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Padre Pio]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (b. [[1887]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Virginia Valli]], American actress (b. [[1898]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Norman Brookes|Sir Norman Brookes]], Australian tennis champion (b. [[1877]])

=== October ===
[[File:Gale Gordon Bea Benaderet Granby's Green Acres 1950 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Bea Benaderet]]]]
[[File:Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Lise Meitner]]]]
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* [[October 1]] – [[Romano Guardini]], Italian-German Catholic priest and theologian (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Marcel Duchamp]], French artist (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 4]]
** [[Francis Biddle]], American politician (b. [[1886]])
** [[Hitoshi Imamura]], Japanese general (b. [[1886]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[Manuel Bandeira]], Brazilian poet, literary critic and translator (b. [[1886]])
** [[Bea Benaderet]], American actress (b. [[1906]])
* [[October 15]]
** [[Franz Beyer (general)|Franz Beyer]], German general (b. [[1892]])
** [[Herbert Copeland (biologist)|Herbert Copeland]], American biologist (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Lee Tracy]], American actor (b. [[1898]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Bud Flanagan]], British entertainer and comedian (b. [[1896]])<ref>[https://www.londonshoes.blog/2019/05/21/the-legendary-bud-flanagan-from-cradle-to-grave-an-east-end-boy-done-good/ *The legendary “Bud Flanagan” – from ‘cradle-to-grave’ – (an east-end boy done good)]</ref>
* [[October 26]] – [[Sergei Bernstein]], Russian and Soviet mathematician (b. [[1880]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Lise Meitner]], German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Hans Cramer]], German general (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Rose Wilder Lane]], American author (b. [[1886]])<ref>[http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/rose.html Rose Wilder Lane]</ref>
** [[Ramon Novarro]], Mexican-born American actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[Conrad Richter]], American writer (b. [[1890]])

=== November ===
[[File:Charles Bacon 1909.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Charles Bacon]]]]
[[File:Upton Beall Sinclair Jr.jpg|thumb|upright=0.4|[[Upton Sinclair]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Georgios Papandreou]], 3-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Charles Munch]], French conductor (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Alexander Gelfond]], Soviet mathematician (b. [[1906]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Wendell Corey]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 9]]
** [[Jan Johansson (jazz musician)|Jan Johansson]], Swedish jazz pianist (b. [[1931]])
** [[Gerald Mohr]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Jeanne Demessieux]], French composer (b. [[1921]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Ramón Menéndez Pidal]], Spanish philologist and historian (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Charles Bacon]], American athlete (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Augustin Bea]], German cardinal (b. [[1881]])
** [[Carl Bertilsson]], Swedish gymnast (b. [[1889]])
* [[November 17]]
** [[Abdul Wahed Bokainagari]], Bengali politician (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.valuka.com/news/NewsDetail/2366|title=৪৪ তম মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী আবদুল ওয়াহেদ বোকাইনগরী|work=Valuka.com|language=bn-bd|access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref>
** [[Mervyn Peake]], English writer, artist, poet and illustrator (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Dementia With Lewy Bodies and the Neurobehavioral Decline of Mervyn Peake |first=Demetrios J. |last=Sahlas |journal=[[Archives of Neurology]] |year=2003 |volume=60 |issue=6 |doi=10.1001/archneur.60.6.889 |url=http://archneur.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=784261 |pages=889–892 |pmid=12810496|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[November 18]] – [[Walter Wanger]], American film producer (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Helen Gardner (actress)|Helen Gardner]], American actress (b. [[1884]])
* [[November 24]] – [[István Dobi]], prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/István+Dobi István Dobi]</ref>
* [[November 25]] – [[Upton Sinclair]], American writer (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA48|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=3}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Arnold Zweig]], German writer, pacifist and socialist (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Enid Blyton]], English writer (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Charles Henry Bartlett (cyclist)|Charles Henry Bartlett]], British cyclist (b. [[1885]])

=== December ===
[[File:Tallulah Bankhead 1941.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Tallulah Bankhead]]]]
[[File:John Steinbeck 1962.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John Steinbeck]]]]
[[File:Trygve Lie.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Trygve Lie]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Hugo Haas]], Czech actor, director and writer (b. [[1901]])
** [[Darío Moreno]], Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, composer, lyricist and guitarist (b. [[1921]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Archie Mayo]], American actor and director (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Fred Clark]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Enoch L. Johnson]], American political boss and racketeer (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[Karl Barth]], German Protestant theologian (b. [[1886]])
** [[Thomas Merton]], American author (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 12]]
** [[Tim Ahearne]], Irish athlete (b. [[1885]])
** [[Tallulah Bankhead]], American actress (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Dorothy Payne Whitney]], American-born philanthropist, social activist (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/whitney-dorothy-payne-1887-1968 Whitney, Dorothy Payne (1887–1968)]</ref>
* [[December 18]] – [[Giovanni Messe]], Italian field marshal and politician (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Norman Thomas]], American socialist (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[Max Brod]], Czech-born Israeli composer, writer and biographer (b. [[1884]])
** [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html |title=John Steinbeck Biography |publisher=National Steinbeck Centre |url-status=dead  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305004150/http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html |archive-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Vittorio Pozzo]], Italian football player and manager (b. [[1886]])<ref>[https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/vittorio-pozzo/ Vittorio Pozzo]</ref>
* [[December 30]]
** [[Augustus Agar]], British naval officer, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (b. [[1890]])
** [[Trygve Lie]], Norwegian politician, 1st [[United Nations Secretary General|Secretary General of the United Nations]] (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Estados Unidos. Presidente (1963–1969: Johnson)|title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_1ZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1232|year=1971|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=1232}}</ref>
** [[Bill Tytla]], Ukrainian-born American animator (b. [[1904]])<ref>[https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/bill-tytla/ Bill Tytla]</ref>
** [[Kirill Meretskov]], Soviet military officer, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 31]] – [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], American musician (b. [[1900]])

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* [[Sami Solh]], 5-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. [[1887]])

== Nobel Prizes ==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Luis Walter Alvarez]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Lars Onsager]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Robert W. Holley]], [[Har Gobind Khorana]], [[Marshall W. Nirenberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Yasunari Kawabata]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[René Cassin]]

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* Sherman, Daniel J. et al. eds. ''The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives'' (Indiana University Press; 2013) 382 pages; essays by scholars on the cultural and political impact of 1968 in France, Mexico, Northern Ireland, the United States, etc.
* Kurlansky, Mark. (2004). ''1968: The Year that Rocked the World''. London: Jonathan Cape. {{ISBN|978-0-224-06251-0}}
* NPR "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130922005453/http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=89372462&startNum=16 Echoes of 1968]" report series.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020521/http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=847884 1968 – The Year in Sound] An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
* ''Time'', 40th Anniversary Special (2008). "1968: The Year That Changed the World."
* ''Newsweek''. "[http://prnwire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-11-2007/0004702702&EDATE= 1968: The Year That Made Us Who We Are]." November 19, 2007.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017221955/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19880111,00.html 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation], time.com, January 11, 1988.
* [http://www.magnum1968.com/ Magnum Photos, Historic photos from 1968] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230033825/http://www.magnum1968.com/ |date=December 30, 2019 }}
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/1968/ BBC Radio 4 – 1968 Myth or Reality?] – six months of 'news on this day' programmes and documentaries
* [http://www.glyphingthehum.com/1968/1968.html Interactive 1968 Timeline] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627011911/http://www.glyphingthehum.com/1968/1968.html |date=June 27, 2015 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090929121438/http://people.mnhs.org/ugcs/home.cfm?sysid=6 Reflections on 1968] Read people's memories of the year 1968. [[Minnesota Historical Society]]

== External links ==
* {{Cite web |publisher=[[Digital Public Library of America]] |title=1968 |work=Timeline |url=http://dp.la/timeline#1968 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140605162810/http://dp.la/timeline%231968|archive-date=June 5, 2014 |url-status=dead|location=US }}

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