Chateau Pichon Langueville Pauillac Baron de Pichon 1981 Wine Label

A Look Back At The Year 1981

January
3 January – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria, dies at Kensington Palace aged 97.[1]
4 January – British Leyland workers vote to accept a peace formula in the Longbridge plant strike.
5 January
Peter Sutcliffe, a 34-year-old lorry driver from Bradford arrested on 2 January in Sheffield, is charged with being the notorious serial killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper", who is believed to have murdered thirteen women and attacked seven others across northern England since 1975.[2]
BBC Two’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy television adaptation begins airing; it subsequently receives a Royal Television Society award as "Most Original Programme" of the year.[3]
Cabinet re-shuffle: Norman St John-Stevas is replaced as Leader of the House of Commons by Francis Pym; Angus Maude and Reg Prentice also both leave the Cabinet.
7 January – A parcel bomb addressed to the Prime Minister is intercepted at the sorting office.
8 January
A terrorist bomb attack takes place on the RAF base at Uxbridge
The report of the Royal Commission on criminal procedure is published.
9 January – The funeral of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, takes place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, before her burial at Frogmore.
13 January – The prison officers’ overtime ban ends.
14 January – The British Nationality Bill is published.
15 January – Two soldiers are found guilty of murder in Northern Ireland.
16 January
Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP Bernadette McAliskey is shot at her home in County Tyrone.[4]
Inflation has fallen to 16.1%.[citation needed]
78% of British Steel Corporation workers vote in favour of the chairman’s "survival" plan.
18 January – Ten people are killed in the New Cross house fire. On 25 January, another victim dies in hospital.
21 January
Sir Norman Stronge and his son, both former Stormont MPs, are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Two divers trapped below the North Sea are brought to safety to the surface.
22 January – Australian newspaper owner Rupert Murdoch agrees to buy The Times provided an agreement can be reached with the unions.
24 January – A Labour Party conference at Wembley votes for election of the party leader by electoral college with 40% votes for unions, 30% Labour MPs and 30% constituencies.
25 January – The Limehouse Declaration: four right-wing Labour MPs, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen (the "Gang of Four"), announce plans to form a separate political party – the Social Democratic Party (SDP).[5] On 26 January, nine more Labour MPs declare their support for the new party.
26 January – Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Industry, announces further financial support for British Leyland.
27 January – Bill Rodgers resigns from the Shadow Cabinet following his defection to the newly formed SDP. He is replaced by Tony Benn.
28 January
Sir Hugh Fraser is removed as Chairman of the House of Fraser.
Fresh damage is caused in cells at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland.
29 January – The UK Government welcomes plans by the Japanese car firm Nissan to build Datsun cars in Britain.
30 January – David Owen tells his constituency party that he will not stand again as Labour candidate.
February[edit]
2 February – The report on the Brixton prison escape is released and the Governor is transferred to an administrative post.
4 February – Margaret Thatcher announces that the Government will sell half of its shares in British Aerospace.
5 February – Actor Lord Olivier, cancer researcher Sir Peter Medawar and humanitarian Leonard Cheshire are admitted into the Order of Merit as announced in the New Year Honours list.[6]
6 February
The Liverpool-registered coal ship Nellie M is bombed and sunk by an IRA unit driving a hijacked pilot boat in Lough Foyle.
The Government drops two controversial clauses of the Nationality Bill.
Ian Paisley parades 500 men on a remote mountainside in the middle of the night in a show of strength.
The Canadian Minister warns British MPs against delaying changes in the Canadian constitution.
9 February – Shirley Williams resigns from Labour’s national executive committee.
11 February – Closure of the Talbot car plant in Linwood, Scotland, is announced.
12 February
Purchase of The Times and The Sunday Times from The Thomson Corporation by Rupert Murdoch’s News International is confirmed. Murdoch also announces that an agreement with the unions has been reached about manning levels and new technology.[7]
Ian Paisley is suspended from the House of Commons for four days after calling the Northern Ireland Secretary a liar.
The National Union of Students calls off a 5-week strike.
13 February – The National Coal Board announces widespread pit closures.
15 February – The first Sunday games of the Football League take place.
16 February – Two are jailed in connection with the death of industrialist Thomas Niedermayer.
17 February – Princess Anne is elected Chancellor of London University.
18 February
The Government withdraws plans to close 23 mines after negotiations with the National Union of Mineworkers.[8]
Harold Evans is appointed editor of The Times
20 February
Four more MPs announce their intention to leave the Labour Party.
Peter Sutcliffe is charged with the murder of thirteen women in the north of England.
21 February – 30,000 people march in an unemployment protest in Glasgow.
24 February – The engagement of 32-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, and 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer is officially announced.[9]
25 February
Margaret Thatcher arrives in Washington, D.C. for a four-day visit to U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
The Observer is taken over by "Tiny" Rowland, head of Lonrho.
26 February
The English cricket team withdraws from the Second Test after the Guyanan government serves a deportation order on Robin Jackman.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan met in Washington – El Salvador dominated the first day of their talks.
27 February
Three British missionaries released from Iran land in Athens.
Sir Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister (1964–70, 1974–76) announces his retirement from Parliament at the next general election.
The Archbishop of Canterbury advises the church to see homosexuality as a handicap not a sin.
The Observer takeover is referred to the Monopolies Commission.
March[edit]
3 March – Homebase opens its first DIY and garden centre superstore, at Croydon, Surrey.[10]
5 March – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research, going on to sell over 1.5 million units worldwide.
9 March
John Lambe, a 37-year-old lorry driver, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of twelve women in the space of less than four years.[11]
Thousands of civil servants hold a one-day strike over pay.
17 March – The Conservative Government’s budget is met with uproar due to further public spending cuts.
21 March
Home Secretary William Whitelaw allows Wolverhampton council to place a fourteen-day ban on political marches in the West Midlands town, which has a growing problem of militant race riots and was faced with the threat of a National Front march in two days time.[12]
After seven years and the longest time playing the title role, Tom Baker leaves Doctor Who and is replaced by Peter Davison in the final episode of Logopolis.
Unemployment now stands at 2,400,000 or 10% of the workforce.[12]
Motorcycle racer Mike Hailwood, known as ‘Mike the Bike’ and fourteen times winner of the Isle of Man TT, is seriously injured in a car crash at Tanworth-in-Arden in Warwickshire; he dies of his injuries two days later.[13]
22 March – It is reported that a minority of Conservative MPs are planning to challenge the leadership of Margaret Thatcher in an attempt to reverse the party’s declining popularity and fight off the challenge from Labour and the SDP.[14]
23 March – The Government imposes a ban on animal transportation on the Isle of Wight and southern Hampshire after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in cattle.[15]
24 March – Barbados police rescue Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs after his kidnapping in Brazil.[16]
26 March – Social Democratic Party formed by the so-called "Gang of Four": Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, and David Owen, who have all defected from the Labour Party.[17]
28 March – Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist MP (formerly a Conservative until 1974) warns of "racial civil war" in Britain.[18]
29 March – The first London Marathon is held.[19]
30 March – Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire released.
April[edit]
2 April – The effects of the recession continue to claim jobs as Midland Red, the iconic Birmingham-based bus operator, closes down its headquarters in the city with the loss of some 170 jobs.[20]
4 April
Bucks Fizz representing the United Kingdom win the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up.
Susan Brown, a 23-year-old Biology student at Oxford University, becomes the first female cox in a winning Boat Race crew.[20]
Bob Champion, a 32-year-old cancer survivor, is the popular winner of the Grand National with his horse Aldaniti.[20]
5 April – The 1981 UK Census is conducted.
10 April – Bobby Sands, an IRA member on hunger strike in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland, is elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in a by election.[21]
11 April – More than 300 people (most of them police officers) are injured and extensive damage is caused to property in the Brixton riot.[22]
13 April
Home Secretary William Whitelaw announces a public inquiry, to be conducted by Lord Scarman, into the disturbances in Brixton.
Enoch Powell warns that Britain "has seen nothing yet" with regards to racial unrest.[citation needed]
Further rioting breaks out in Brixton.
20 April
23-year old Steve Davis wins the World Snooker Championship for the first time.[2]
More than 100 people are arrested and 15 police officers are injured in clashes with black youths in the Finsbury Park, Forest Green and Ealing areas of London.
21 April – The county administrative headquarters of Northumberland move from Newcastle upon Tyne to Morpeth.[23]
23 April – Unemployment passes the 2,500,000 mark for the first time in nearly 50 years.[citation needed]
29 April – Peter Sutcliffe admits to the manslaughter of 13 women on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but the judge rules that a jury should rule on Sutcliffe’s state of mind before deciding whether to accept his plea or find him guilty of murder.[citation needed]
May[edit]
May – Peugeot closes the Talbot car plant at Linwood, Scotland, which was opened by the Rootes Group 18 years ago as Scotland’s only car factory. The closure of the factory also results in the end of the last remaining Rootes-developed product, the Avenger, after 11 years, as well as the four-year-old Sunbeam supermini. There are no plans to replace the Avenger, but a French-built small car based on the Peugeot 104 will replace the Sunbeam in the next few months.[24]
5 May
Bobby Sands, a 27-year-old republican, dies in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison after a 66-day hunger strike.[2]
The trial of Peter Sutcliffe begins at the Old Bailey; he stands charged with 13 murders and seven attempted murders dating back to 1975.[25]
7 May – Ken Livingstone becomes leader of the GLC after Labour wins the GLC elections.[26]
9 May – The 100th FA Cup final ends with a 1–1 draw between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium.[27]
11 May – The first performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats takes place at the New London Theatre.[2]
12 May – Francis Hughes (aged 25) becomes the second IRA hunger striker to die in Northern Ireland.
13 May – An inquest returns an open verdict on the thirteen people who died as a result of their injuries in the New Cross fire.
14 May – Tottenham Hotspur win the FA Cup for the sixth time in their history with a 3–2 win over Manchester City in the final replay at Wembley.[27]
15 May
The inquiry into the Brixton riots opens.
the Queen’s second grandchild, a girl, is born to The Princess Anne and her husband Capt Mark Phillips.
19 May – Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of being the Yorkshire Ripper after admitting 13 charges of murder and a further seven of attempted murder. He will be sentenced later this week.
21 May – The IRA hunger strike death toll reaches four with the deaths of Raymond McCreesh and Patrick O’Hara.
22 May – Peter Sutcliffe is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should serve at least 30 years before parole can be considered.[20]
27 May – Liverpool F.C. win the European Cup for the third time by defeating Real Madrid of Spain 1–0 in the final at Parc des Princes, Paris, France. Alan Kennedy scores the only goal of the game.[28] Although they have yet to equal Spanish side Real Madrid’s record of six European Cups, they are the first British side to win the trophy three times.[29]
30 May – More than 100,000 people from across Britain march to Trafalgar Square in London for the TUC’s March For Jobs.[28]
June[edit]
3 June – Shergar wins the Epsom Derby.[2]
9 June – King Khaled of Saudi Arabia arrives in Britain on a state visit.
11 June – Britain’s first Urban Enterprise Zone is created in Lower Swansea Valley, Wales.[30]
13 June – Marcus Sarjeant fires six blank cartridges at the Queen as she enters Horse Guards Parade.[31]
13–14 June – More than 80 arrests are made during clashes between white power skinheads and black people in Coventry, where the National Front is planning a march later this month, on the same day as an anti-racist concert by The Specials.[28]
15 June – Lord Scarman opens an enquiry into the Brixton riots.[28]
16 June – Liberal Party and SDP form an electoral pact – the SDP-Liberal Alliance.[26]
20 June
Rioting breaks out in Peckham, South London.[citation needed]
HMS Ark Royal is launched.[32]
21 June – A fire at Goodge Street tube station kills one person and injures 16.[2]
23 June – Unemployment reaches 2,680,977 (one in nine of the workforce),[33] and Margaret Thatcher is warned that a further rise is likely.
July[edit]
2 July – Four members of an Asian Muslim family (three of them children) are killed by arson at their home in Walthamstow, London; the attack is believed to have been racially motivated.[34]
3 July – Hundreds of Asians and skinheads riot in Southall, London, following disturbances at the Hamborough Tavern public house, which is severely damaged by fire.[28]
5 July – Toxteth riots break out in Liverpool and first use is made of CS gas by British police.[35] Less serious riots occur in the Handsworth district of Birmingham as well as Wolverhampton city centre, parts of Coventry, Leicester and Derby, and also in the Buckinghamshire town High Wycombe.[36]
7 July – 43 people are charged with theft and violent disorder following a riot in Wood Green, North London.[28]
8 July
Joe McDonnell becomes the fifth IRA hunger striker to die.
Inner-city rioting continues when a riot in Moss Side, Manchester, sees more than 1,000 people besiege the local police station. However, the worst rioting in Toxteth has now ended.
British Leyland ends production of the Austin Maxi, one of its longest-running cars, after 12 years.[37]
9 July – Rioting breaks out in Woolwich, London.[citation needed]
10 July
Rioting breaks out in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Leicester, Ellesmere Port, Luton, Sheffield, Portsmouth, Preston, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Derby, Southampton, Nottingham, High Wycombe, Bedford, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Stockport, Blackburn, Huddersfield, Reading, Chester and Aldershot.[28]
Two days of rioting in Moss Side, Manchester, draw to a close, during which there has been extensive looting of shops. Princess Road, the main road through the area, will be closed for several days while adjacent buildings and gas mains damaged by rioting and arson are made safe.
11 July – A further wave of rioting breaks out in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
13 July
The IRA hunger strike death toll reaches six when Martin Hurson dies.
Margaret Thatcher announces that police will be able to use rubber bullets, water cannons and armoured vehicles against urban rioters. Labour leader Michael Foot blames the recent wave of rioting on the Conservative government’s economic policies,[citation needed] which have seen unemployment rise by more than 70% in the last two years.
15 July – Police clash with black youths in Brixton once again, this time after police raid properties in search of petrol bombs which are never found.
16 July – Labour narrowly hang on to the Warrington seat in a by-election, fighting off a strong challenge from Roy Jenkins for the Social Democratic Party.[38]
17 July – Official opening of the Humber Bridge by the Queen.[2]
20 July – Michael Heseltine tours Merseyside to examine the problems in the area, which has been particularly badly hit by the current recession.
25 July – Around 1,000 motorcyclists clash with police in Keswick, Cumbria.[28]
27 July
British Telecommunications Act separates British Telecom from the Royal Mail with effect from 1 October.[26]
The two-month-old daughter of The Princess Anne and her husband Capt Mark Phillips is christened Zara Anne Elizabeth.[39]
28 July – Margaret Thatcher blames IRA leaders for the recent IRA hunger striker deaths.
29 July – The wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul’s Cathedral. More than 30 million viewers watch the wedding on television – the second highest television audience of all time in Britain.[40]
August[edit]
Unknown date – Japanese carmaker Suzuki follows up the British success of its motorcycles by importing passenger cars to Britain for the first time, with first imported model being the Suzuki Alto, a small hatchback available with three or five doors and marketed as a competitor for the Mini and Citroen 2CV.[41]
1 August – Kevin Lynch becomes the seventh IRA hunger striker to die.
2 August – Within 24 hours of Kevin Lynch’s death, Kieran Doherty becomes the eighth IRA hunger striker to die.
8 August – The IRA hunger strike claims its ninth hunger striker so far (and its third in a week) with the death of Thomas McElwee.
9 August – Broadmoor Hospital falls under heavy criticism after the escape of a second prisoner in three weeks. The latest absconder is 32-year-old Alan Reeve, a convicted double murderer.
17 August – An inquiry opens in the Moss Side riots.
20 August
The tenth IRA hunger striker, Michael Devine, dies in prison.
Inflation has fallen to 10.9% – the lowest under this government.[citation needed]
Minimum Lending Rate ceases to be set by the Bank of England.
24 August – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing John Lennon.
25 August – Britain’s largest Enterprise Zone is launched on deindustrialised land on Tyneside.[42]
26 August – General Motors launches the MK2 Vauxhall Cavalier, available for the first time with front-wheel drive and a hatchback.[43]
27 August – Moira Stuart, 29, is appointed the BBC’s first black newsreader.
September[edit]
September – Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp set up.[44]
1 September – Filling stations start selling motor fuel by the litre.[20]
8 September
Sixteen Islington Labour councillors join the SDP following the defection of Labour MP Michael O’Halloran.
First episode of television sitcom Only Fools and Horses broadcast on BBC One.
10 September – Another Enterprise Zone is launched, the latest being in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.[45]
14 September – Cecil Parkinson is appointed chairman of the Conservative Party.
16 September – Postman Pat was first broadcast on BBC One
17 September – A team of divers begins removing gold ingots worth £40 million from the wreck of HMS Edinburgh, sunk off the coast of Norway in 1942.[2]
18 September – David Steel tells delegates at the Liberal Party conference to "go back to your constituencies and prepare for government", hopes of which are boosted by the fact that most opinion polls now show the SDP-Liberal Alliance in the lead.
21 September – Belize is granted independence
25 September – Ford announces that its best-selling Cortina nameplate will be discontinued next year, and its replacement will be called the Sierra.
29 September – Football mourns the legendary former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, who dies today at the age of 67 after suffering a heart attack.[46]
October[edit]
1 October – Bryan Robson, 24-year-old midfielder, becomes Britain’s most expensive footballer in a £1.5million move from West Bromwich Albion to Manchester United.
3 October – Hunger strikes at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland end after seven months. The final six hunger strikers have been without food for between 13 and 55 days.[47]
5 October – Depeche Mode release their début album Speak and Spell.[48]
7 October – British Leyland launches the Triumph Acclaim, a four-door medium-sized saloon built in collaboration with Japanese car and motorcycle giant Honda at the Cowley plant in Oxford. It is based on the Japanese Honda Ballade (not available in Britain), has front-wheel drive, is powered by a 1.3 litre 70 bhp petrol engine, and is between the Ford Escort and Ford Cortina in terms of size.[49]
10 October – Chelsea Barracks bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killing two people.[26]
12 October – British Leyland announces the closure of three factories – a move which will cost nearly 3,000 people their jobs.
12 October–22 December – Original run of Granada Television serial Brideshead Revisited.
13 October – Opinion polls show that Margaret Thatcher is still unpopular as Conservative leader due to her anti-inflationary economic measures, which have now come under fire from her predecessor Edward Heath.[50]
15 October – Norman Tebbit tells fellow Conservative MPs: "I grew up in the thirties with an unemployed father. He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking until he found it".[citation needed]
19 October – British Telecom announces that the telegram will be discontinued next year after 139 years in use.[20]
22 October – The case of Dudgeon v United Kingdom is decided by the European Court of Human Rights, which rules that the continued existence of laws in Northern Ireland criminalising consensual gay sex is in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights.
23 October – The Liberal-SDP Alliance tops a MORI poll on 40%, putting them ahead of Labour on 31% and the Conservatives on 27%.[51]
24 October – CND anti-nuclear march in London attracts over 250,000 people.[52]
26 October – Rock band Queen release their Greatest Hits compilation album; it becomes the all-time best-selling album in the United Kingdom.[53][54]
30 October – Nicholas Reed, chief of the Euthanasia charity Exit, is jailed for two-and-a-half years for aiding and abetting suicides.[55]
November[edit]
1 November – British Leyland’s 58,000-strong workforce begins a strike over pay.
2 November – The TV licence increases in price from £34 to £46 for a colour TV, and £12 to £15 for black and white.[citation needed]
13 November – The Queen opens the final phase of the Telford Shopping Centre, nearly a decade after development began on the first phase of what is now one of the largest indoor shopping centres in Europe in the Shropshire new town.[56]
16 November – Production of the Vauxhall Astra commences in Britain at the Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire. The Astra was launched two years ago but until now has been produced solely at the Opel plant in West Germany.
18 November – The England national football team beats Hungary 1–0 at Wembley Stadium to qualify for the World Cup in Spain next summer, with the only goal being scored by Ipswich Town striker Paul Mariner It is the first time they have qualified for the tournament since 1970.[57]
25 November – A report into the Brixton Riots, which scarred inner-city London earlier this year, points the finger of blame at the social and economic problems which have been plaguing Brixton and many other inner-city areas across England.
26 November – Shirley Williams wins the Crosby by-election for the SDP, overturning a Conservative majority of nearly 20,000 votes.
December[edit]
8 December
Severe snow storms hit the UK as temperatures plummet to the lowest in any December on record since 1874 and the heaviest snow falls since 1878. The snow storms continue in waves until 26/27 December.[58][59]
Arthur Scargill becomes leader of the National Union of Mineworkers.[2]
9 December – Michael Heseltine announces a £95 million aid package for the inner cities.
11 December – Seer Green rail crash: a train crash in Seer Green near Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire kills four people and seriously injures five others. A combination of the severe blizzards and human error is attributed to the crash.
12 December – The first case of AIDS in the UK is diagnosed.[60]
19 December – An opinion poll shows that Margaret Thatcher is now the most unpopular postwar British prime minister and that the SDP-Liberal Alliance has the support of up to 50% of the electorate.
20 December – Penlee lifeboat disaster: The crew of the MV Union Star and the life-boat Solomon Browne sent to rescue them are all killed in heavy seas off Cornwall; some of the bodies are never found.[61]
Undated[edit]
Inflation has fallen to 11.9%, the second lowest annual level since 1973, but has been largely achieved by the mass closure of heavy industry facilities that have contributed to the highest postwar levels of unemployment.[62]
In spite of the continuing rise in employment, the British economy improves from 4% contraction last year to 0.8% overall growth this year.
First Urban Development Corporations set up in London Docklands and Merseyside.
First purpose-built Hindu temple in the British Isles formally opens in Slough.[63]
The London department store Whiteleys closes, after 107 years in business.
Last manufacture of coal gas, at Millport, Isle of Cumbrae.[64]
Perrier Comedy Awards first presented to the best shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Suzuki, the Japanese manufacturer famous for producing motorcycles, imports passenger cars to the United Kingdom for the first time. The first model sold in Britain is the entry-level Alto,[65] with the SJ four-wheel drive set to go on sale in 1982.[66]
In spite of the continued rise in unemployment, the British economy improved with 1.8% overall growth for the year compared to 3% overall contraction in 1980.[6]
New car sales in the United Kingdom fall to just over 1.4 million. The Ford Cortina enjoys its 10th year as Britain’s best selling car since 1967, while the new front-wheel drive Ford Escort is close behind in second place. British Leyland’s new Metro is Britain’s fourth most popular new car with nearly 100,000 sales. The Datsun Cherry, eighth in the sales charts, is the most popular foreign car in Britain this year.
Publications[edit]
Alasdair Gray’s novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books.
Terry Pratchett’s novel Strata.
Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children.
D. M. Thomas’ novel The White Hotel.
Births[edit]
6 January – Andrew Britton, novelist (died 2008)
25 January – Alex Partridge, rower
29 January – Rachna Khatau, actress
13 January – Peter Crouch, footballer
9 February – Tom Hiddleston, actor
16 February – Alison Rowatt, Scottish field hockey midfielder
17 February – Andrew Stephenson, politician
27 March – Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1 April – Hannah Spearritt, singer (S Club 7)
10 April – Liz McClarnon, singer (Atomic Kitten)
13 May – Luciana Berger, Labour MP
15 May – Zara Phillips, equestrienne, daughter of Anne, Princess Royal
16 May
Joseph Morgan, actor
Jim Sturgess, actor
20 May – Sean Conlon, musician (5ive)
22 May – Sara Pascoe, writer and comedian
29 May – Rochelle Clark, English rugby union player
9 June – Helen Don-Duncan, English backstroke swimmer
11 June – Alistair McGregor, Scottish field hockey goalkeeper
25 June – Sheridan Smith, actress
28 June – Joanne Ellis, field hockey midfielder
7 September – Natalie McGarry, SNP Member of Parliament convicted of embezzlement[67]
11 September – Mark Rhodes, singer, runner up from Pop Idol (series 2) and TV host
15 September – Richard Alexander, English field hockey defender
16 September – David Mitchell, Scottish field hockey defender
23 September – Helen Richardson, field hockey defender
29 September – Suzanne Shaw, actress and singer (Hear’Say)
10 October – Stinson Hunter, filmmaker, journalist
25 October – Shaun Wright-Phillips, footballer
13 November – Tom Ferrier, racing driver
20 November – Andrea Riseborough, actress
26 November – Natasha Bedingfield, singer
27 November – Gary Lucy, actor and model
21 December – Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
Undated – Sunjeev Sahota, novelist
Deaths[edit]
3 January – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, member of the royal family (born 1883)
6 January – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (born 1896)
11 February – Franz Sondheimer, German-born British-Israeli chemist (born 1926)
6 March – George Geary, English cricketer (born 1893)
11 March – Sir Maurice Oldfield, intelligence chief (born 1915)
23 March
Sir Claude Auchinleck, field marshal (born 1884; died in Morocco)
Mike Hailwood, motorcycle racer (car crash) (born 1940)
31 March – Enid Bagnold, author and playwright (born 1889)
16 April – George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge, member of the royal family (born 1895)
5 May – Bobby Sands MP, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1954; died in 1981 Irish hunger strike)
9 May – Ralph Allen, footballer (born 1906)
28 May – John Bryan Ward-Perkins, archaeologist (born 1912)
17 June – General Sir Richard O’Connor, soldier (born 1889)
26 August – Peter Eckersley, television producer (born 1936)
7 September – Kathleen Guthrie, artist (born 1905)
8 September – Bill Shankly, Scottish-born football manager (born 1913)
11 September – Harold Bennett, actor (born 1898)
14 September – Mary Potter, painter (born 1900)
23 September – Sam Costa, crooner, radio actor and disc jockey (born 1910)
22 November – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German-born British physician and biochemist and Nobel laureate (born 1900)

Events
9 February – Phil Collins releases his first solo album (although he will not leave the band Genesis until 1995)
14 February – Billy Idol leaves Generation X to begin a solo career
4 April – Bucks Fizz win the Eurovision Song Contest with "Making Your Mind Up"
7 April – Former Who manager Kit Lambert dies after falling down a flight of stairs in his mother’s home in London.
17 April – Eric Clapton is released from St. Paul’s Hospital in Minnesota following a month-long treatment for bleeding ulcers.
18 April – Yes announce that they are breaking up. (They would however reunite frequently in years to come).
25 April – Paul McCartney’s band, Wings, breaks up officially
2 May – Working as a local wedding singer 12 months previously, Scottish vocalist Sheena Easton hits No.1 in the US with "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
11 May – The musical Cats begins its 8,949 performance run on London’s West End.
August – the success of Stars On 45 leads to a short-lived medley craze. The most successful imitator of the Stars On 45 format is, rather unexpectedly, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra whose "Hooked On Classics (Parts 1&2)" reaches number two in the charts.
14 September – Emma Kirkby and Gothic Voices record the album A Feather on the Breath of God in St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London.

1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.

January

January 1
Brunei becomes a completely independent state.
The Bell System in the United States is broken up.
January 3 – President of the United States Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman’s release from Syrian captivity.
January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
January 10
The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.[1]
The Victoria Agreement is signed–institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission.
January 18 – The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan, kills 83.
January 22 – The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins, 38-9, to win Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, Florida.
The game’s broadcaster, CBS, runs Apple Computer’s iconic 1984 advertisement for the Macintosh personal computer. Apple places the Macintosh on sale in the United States two days later.
February[edit]
February 1 – Medicare comes into effect in Australia.
February 3
Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth.
STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission.
February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
February 8–19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
February 22 – President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet’s sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.[2]
February 23 – TED (conference) founded.
February 26 – The United States Marine Corps pulls out of Beirut, Lebanon.
February 29 – Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, announces his retirement.
March[edit]
March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.
March 6 – A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (see UK miners’ strike (1984–85)).
March 14 – Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force.
March 16
The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization and later dies in captivity.
Gary Plauche fatally shoots his son Jody’s sexual abuser, Jeff Doucet, at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Louisiana.
March 22 – Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the school children; the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan’s history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.
March 25
Pope John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Fátima, Portugal.
The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) is founded under Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela.
April[edit]
April 1 – Death of Marvin Gaye: Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, a day before his 45th birthday.
April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
April 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
April 9 – The 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Terms of Endearment wins Best Picture and four other Academy Awards.
April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).
April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, bringing most of the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir under Indian control and triggering the Siachen conflict with Pakistan.
April 15
Welsh comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack and dies while live on TV.
The first World Youth Day gathering is held in Rome, Italy.
April 16 – More than one million people, led by Tancredo Neves, occupy the streets of São Paulo to demand direct presidential elections during the Brazilian military government of João Figueiredo. It is the largest protest during the Diretas Já civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in 1989.

Diretas Já demonstration held in São Paulo.
April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman, leading to a police siege of the Libyan Embassy in London.
April 19 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 23 – United States researchers announce their discovery of the AIDS virus.
April 24 – An X-class solar flare erupts on the Sun.[3]
April 25 – The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
April 26 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, becomes the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
May[edit]
May 2
The International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassa dam.
May 5
The Herreys’ song Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg.
The Itaipu Dam is inaugurated on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after nine years of construction, making it the largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time.
May 8
The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Denis Lortie kills three government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
The Chicago White Sox defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 in the longest game in Major League Baseball history: 25 innings totalling eight hours, six minutes.
May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 12 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World’s Fair, opens.
May 13 – Severomorsk Disaster: an explosion at the Soviets’ Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets’ Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
May 14 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 17 – Michael Silka kills nine people near Manley Hot Springs, Alaska.[clarification needed]
May 19 – The Edmonton Oilers win The Stanley Cup, beating the defending champion New York Islanders by 4 games to 1.
May 23 – A methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, England, kills 16 people.
May 27 – An overnight flash flood rages through neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nearly 15 inches (38 cm) of rain falls in some areas over a four-hour period; 14 people are killed.
May 31 – Six inmates, including James and Linwood Briley, escape from a death row facility at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, the only occasion this has ever happened in the United States.
June[edit]
June 1 – William M. Gibbons is released as receiver and trustee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, after all of its debts and creditors are paid off by order of a federal bankruptcy court.
June 3 – Ronald Reagan visits his ancestral home in Ballyporeen, the Republic of Ireland.
June 4 – Bruce Springsteen releases his 7th album Born in the U.S.A.
June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 6 – Tetris is officially released in the Soviet Union on the Electronika 60.
June 8
A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
Ghostbusters and Gremlins are released.
June 12 – In the NBA Finals, The Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers in 7 games to capture their 15th NBA Championship.
June 16 – The world-renowned, critically acclaimed Canadian entertainment company, Cirque du Soleil is founded.
June 18 – Colorado radio host Alan Berg is shot dead outside his home in Denver by members of The Order.
June 20 – The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
June 22
The official name of the Turkish city of Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
June 27 – France beats Spain 2–0 to win Euro 84.
June 28 – Richard Ramírez (the "Night Stalker") murders his first confirmed victim.
June 30 – John Turner becomes Canada’s 17th prime minister.
June 30 – Elton John plays the famous Night and Day Concert at Wembley Stadium.
July[edit]
July 1
Liechtenstein becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.
Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to S.S.C. Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M).[4]
July 13 – Terry Wallis, a 19-year-old living in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, falls into a deep coma after a severe automobile accident; he will eventually awaken 19 years later on June 13, 2003.
July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.
July 18
Beverly Burns becomes the first female Boeing 747 captain in the world.
In San Ysidro, San Diego, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald’s restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed himself.

Newspaper vending machine featuring news of the 1984 Summer Olympics, which opened on July 28.
July 19 – 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake. The largest instrumentally recorded inland earthquake ever to take place in the British Isles is felt in Ireland and each of the four British nations.
July 23 – Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in Penthouse magazine.
July 25 – Salyut 7: cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
July 27 – Metallica releases their second studio album Ride the Lightning.
July 28–August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.
August[edit]
August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.
August 4
The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters.
August 11
United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks, "My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, controversially granted British citizenship earlier in the year, and Mary Decker of the U.S. collide in the Olympic 3,000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.[5]
August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
August 21 – Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.

The launch of shuttle, Discovery, on STS-41-D, its first mission.
August 30 – STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
September[edit]
September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
September 4
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
September 5
STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 7 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
September 10 – Jeopardy! begins its syndicated version, with present-day host Alex Trebek.
September 14 – P. W. Botha is inaugurated as the first executive State President of South Africa.
September 14 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
September 16 – Edgar Reitz’s film series Heimat begins release in Germany.
September 17 – Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
September 18 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.
September 20 – Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people.
September 23 – Threads airs on BBC Two.
September 24 – The 1970s-1980s TV family sitcom Happy Days is cancelled from broadcast.
September 26 – The United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
September 27 – Alex Deforce, a Belgian multidisciplinary artist is born in Kortrijk.
October[edit]
October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.
October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
October 11 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.
October 19 – Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
October 20 – Monterey Bay Aquarium is opened to the public after seven years of development and construction.
October 23 – The world learns from moving BBC News television reports presented by Michael Buerk of the famine in Ethiopia, where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine, and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.[6]
October 25 – The European Economic Community makes £1.8 million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.[7]
October 26 –The Terminator is released.
October 31 – Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi. Anti-Sikh riots break out, leaving 10,000 to 20,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi and surrounding areas with majority populations of Hindus. Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
October 31 – Galileo forgiven by Vatican for work on the Earth orbit 368 years after being condemned.[8]
November[edit]
November 4 – The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.
November 6
1984 United States presidential election: Republican President Ronald Reagan defeats Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon’s 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
Former U.S. Secretary of State and eventual 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry gets elected as the Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and was in office until 2013, when he resigned to become the Secretary of State, succeeding Hillary Clinton.

Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Reagan/Bush (49), Blue denotes those won by Mondale/Ferraro (1+D.C.).
November 9 – Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
November 9-11 – The first Hackers Conference is held.
November 11 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as The 1984 World’s Fair, and also the New Orleans World’s Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", closes.
November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
November 19 – A series of explosions at the Pemex Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
November 25
An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
Band Aid (assembled by Bob Geldof) records the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? in London to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia. It is released on December 3.[9]
1984 Uruguayan presidential election: Julio María Sanguinetti is democratically elected President of Uruguay after 12 years of military dictatorship.
November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
November 30 – Kent and Dollar Farm massacres: the Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese people from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.
December[edit]

Controlled Impact Demonstration
December – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
December 1 – Controlled Impact Demonstration: NASA and the FAA crash a remote controlled Boeing 720.
December 2 – 1984 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke’s Labor Government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by Andrew Peacock.
December 3
Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.
British Telecom is privatised.
December 4
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.
December 8 – White supremacist and Order leader Robert Jay Mathews is killed in a gun battle and fire during an FBI siege on Whidbey Island.
December 10 – Cisco Systems is founded.
December 19 – The People’s Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
December 22
Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in the Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.
In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
December 28 – A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.
Date unknown[edit]
1983–85 famine in Ethiopia intensifies with renewed drought by mid-year, killing a million people by the end of this year.
Crack cocaine, a smokeable form of the drug, is first introduced into Los Angeles and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the crack epidemic.
The Chrysler Corporation introduces the first vehicles to be officially labeled as "minivans". They are branded as the Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Caravan, and Plymouth Voyager.
Births[edit]
Content
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
Further information: Category: 1984 births
January[edit]

Paolo Guerrero

Kristen Hager

Robin Sydney

Eric Trump

Jeff Francoeur

Calvin Harris

Robinho

Stefan Kießling

Ben Shapiro
January 1
Michael Witt, Australian rugby league player
Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
January 2 – Kristen Hager, Canadian film and television actress
January 3 – Shelby Starner, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2003)
January 4 – Robin Sydney, American actress
January 5
Diego Gómez, Argentine-French footballer
Clinton James Rocksted, Humanitarian
January 6
Eric Trump, American businessman and philanthropist
Priit Loog, Estonian actor
Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian
January 7 – Max Riemelt, German actor
January 8
Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
Steven Kanumba, Tanzanian actor and director (d. 2012)
Kim Jong-un, North Korean Supreme Leader
January 10 – Kalki Koechlin, French-Indian film actress
January 11 – Mark Forster, German singer-songwriter
January 12 – Scott Olsen, American baseball player
January 13
Eleni Ioannou, Greek martial artist (d. 2004)
Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright
January 15
Keiran Lee, British pornographic actor, director and producer
Megan Quann, American swimmer
Victor Rasuk, American actor
Ben Shapiro, American political commentator and writer
January 16 – Craig Beattie, Scottish footballer
January 17
Cassie Hager, American basketball player
Calvin Harris, British dance musician
January 18
Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-born American Virginia Tech massacre gunman (d. 2007)
Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
January 19
Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzanian long distance runner
Aliona Savchenko, Ukrainian-born German pair skater
Thomas Vanek, Austrian hockey player
Trever O’Brien, American actor
January 21
Karen Schwarz, Peruvian actress and TV host
Richard Gutierrez, Filipino actor
January 22 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
January 23 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
January 24
Yotam Halperin, Israeli basketball player
Witold Kiełtyka, Polish musician (d. 2007)
Ashley C. Williams, American actress
Justin Baldoni, American actor, director and filmmaker
January 25
Robinho, Brazilian footballer
Stefan Kießling, German football player
Kaiji Tang, American voice actor
January 26 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
January 27 – Davetta Sherwood, American actress and musician
January 28 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
January 29
Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer
Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
Safee Sali, Malaysian footballer
January 31 – Michael Aloni, Israeli actor
February[edit]

David Pakman

Aubrey O’Day

Peter Vanderkaay

Stephanie Leonidas

Oussama Mellouli

Trevor Noah

Karolína Kurková
February 1
Lee Thompson Young, American actor (d. 2013)
Darren Fletcher, Scottish football player
Abbi Jacobson, American comedian, writer and actress
February 2
David Pakman, American political pundit
February 3
Elizabeth Holmes, American fraudster who founded Theranos
Kim Joon, South Korean rapper, actor, and model
Matthew Moy, American actor
February 4 – Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
February 5
Nate Salley, American football player
Carlos Tevez, Argentinian football player
February 6 – Darren Bent, English footballer
February 8 – Cecily Strong, American actress
February 9
Han Geng, Chinese singer in Korea (Super Junior)
Logan Bartholomew, American actor
February 10
Kim Hyo-jin, Korean actress
February 11
Mai Demizu, Japanese announcer
Aubrey O’Day, American singer and actress
February 12
Brad Keselowski, American stock car driver
Jennie McAlpine, British actress and comedian
Peter Vanderkaay, American Olympic swimmer
February 13 – Brina Palencia, American voice actress
February 14 – Stephanie Leonidas, English actress
February 15
Doda, Polish singer and model
Matt and Ross Duffer, American screenwriters and directors
February 16
Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian Olympic swimmer
Fábio Lucindo, Brazilian actor, voice actor and presenter
February 17 – AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
February 18
Genelle Williams, Canadian actress
Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy, Belgian Countess, Currently Princess of Luxembourg being Wife of The Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, married since 2012.
February 19 – Marissa Meyer, American novelist
February 20
Ben Lovejoy, American hockey player
Trevor Noah, South African comedian, actor, and television personality
February 21
Karina, Japanese model and actress
Damien Molony, Irish television actor
February 22 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby union footballer
February 24 – Wilson Bethel, American actor
February 25
Filip Šebo, Slovak footballer
Xing Huina, Chinese athlete
February 26
Beren Saat, Turkish actress
Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
February 28 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model
February 29
Alicia Hollowell, American softball pitcher
Cullen Jones, American Olympic swimmer
Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player
Mark Foster, American singer and composer
March[edit]

Olivia Wilde

Shreya Ghoshal

Michael Schmid

Fernando Torres

Christy Carlson Romano

Katharine McPhee

Helena Mattsson
March 1
Claudio Bieler, Argentinian football player
Brandon Stanton, American photographer and blogger
March 2
Ian Sinclair, American voice actor
Trent Garrett, American actor and model
March 4
Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
Zak Whitbread, American soccer player
Whitney Port, American television personality, clothing designer, and author
March 6 – Chris Tomson, American musician (Vampire Weekend)
March 7
Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, actor and rapper
Mathieu Flamini, French football player
March 8
Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
Nora-Jane Noone, Irish actress
March 9 – Julia Mancuso, U.S. Olympic medalist
March 10 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
March 12
Jaimie Alexander, American actress
Shreya Ghoshal, Indian playback singer
March 13 – Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
March 16
Michael Ennis, Australian rugby league player
Hosea Gear, New Zealand Rugby Union player
March 17 – Ryan Rottman, American actor
March 18 – Michael Schmid, Swiss Olympic freestyle skier
March 19 – Bianca Balti, Italian model
March 20
Fernando Torres, Spanish football player
Nomura Yuka, Japanese actress
Christy Carlson Romano, American actress, comedian, voice actress and singer
Justine Ezarik, Internet celebrity and actress
March 21 – Sopho Gelovani, Georgian singer
March 22 – Didit Hediprasetyo, Indonesian fashion designer and socialite
March 24
Chris Bosh, American basketball player
Park Bom, South Korean singer
March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American Idol finalist
March 26
Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian singer
Sara Jean Underwood, American model
March 27 – Jon Paul Steuer, American actor and musician (d. 2018)
March 28
Bill Switzer, Canadian-American voice actor
Nikki Sanderson, English actress
March 30
Anna Nalick, American singer
Helena Mattsson, Swedish actress
Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
Justin Moore, American country music singer
March 31 – Sofía Reca, Argentine actress and television presenter
April[edit]

Chrissie Fit

Mandy Moore

Nikola Karabatić

Claire Foy

America Ferrera

Zizan Razak

Shayna Fox

Michelle Ryan
April 1 – Murali Vijay, Indian cricketer
April 2
Shawn Roberts, Canadian actor
Ashley Peldon, American actress
April 3
Allana Slater, Australian gymnast
Chrissie Fit, American actress and singer
April 4
Haitham Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2019)
Sean May, American basketball player
April 5
Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress and model
Marshall Allman, American actor
Aram Mp3, Armenian singer-songwriter, comedian and showman
Phil Wickham, American musician
April 8
Kirsten Storms, American actress and voice actress
Taran Noah Smith, American actor
Ezra Koenig, American musician
April 9
Adam Loewen, Canadian pitcher
Linda Chung, Canadian TVB actress and singer
April 10
Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
Natasha Melnick, American television and film actress
April 11
Colin Clark, American soccer player (d. 2019)
Kelli Garner, American actress
Nikola Karabatić, French handball player
April 12 – Luisel Ramos, Uruguayan model (d. 2006)
April 13
Kris Britt, Australian cricketer
Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor and writer
Nemanja Vuković, Montenegrin footballer
April 14
Kyle Coetzer, Scottish cricketer
Adán Sánchez, American singer (d. 2004)
April 15 – Zizan Razak, Malaysian comedian
April 16
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
Claire Foy, English actress
April 17 – Rosanna Davison, Irish model, Miss World 2003
April 18
Red Bryant, American football player
America Ferrera, American actress
April 19
Lee Da-hae, South Korean actress
Dmitry Trunenkov, Russian Olympic bobsledder
April 20
John Jairo Castillo, Colombian football player
Tyson Griffin, American MMA fighter
Nelson Évora, Portuguese athlete
April 21
Shayna Fox, American voice actress
Bhavna Limbachia, English actress
April 22
Michelle Ryan, English actress
Amelle Berrabah, British singer
April 23 – Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess player
April 24 – Tyson Ritter, American singer-songwriter
April 25 – Melonie Diaz, American actress
April 26
Ryan O’Donohue, American voice actor
Emily Wickersham, American actress
April 27 – Fabien Gilot, French Olympic swimmer
April 29
Taylor Cole, American actress and model
Kirby Cote, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
Firass Dirani, Australian actor
Paulius Jankūnas, Lithuanian basketball player
Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator
Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer
Vassilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player
May[edit]

Henry Zebrowski

Sarah Meier

Julia Whelan

Pe’er Tasi

Andrés Iniesta

Mark Zuckerberg

Andreas Kofler

Carmelo Anthony

Kaycee Stroh
May 1
Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
Henry Zebrowski, American actor and comedian
Kerry Bishé, American actress
May 3
Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
Morgan Kibby, American actress and singer-songwriter
May 4
Little Boots, British pop singer
Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater
May 7
Kevin Owens, Canadian professional wrestler
Alex Smith, American football player
May 8
Julia Whelan, American actress
Martin Compston, Scottish actor and former professional footballer
May 9
Prince Fielder, American baseball player
Chase Headley, American baseball player
Ezra Klein, American journalist, blogger and columnist
May 10 – Pe’er Tasi, Israeli singer
May 11 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
May 12 – Junie Browning, American MMA fighter
May 13 – Hannah New, English actress and model
May 14
Michael Rensing, German footballer
Mark Zuckerberg, American founder and CEO of Facebook
Gary Ablett Jr., Australian rules footballer
May 15 – Samantha Noble, Australian actress
May 17
Andreas Kofler, Austrian ski jumper
Passenger, English singer and songwriter
Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
Jayson Blair, American actor
May 20
Dilara Kazimova, Azerbaijani singer and actress
Naturi Naughton, American singer and actress
May 21
Jackson Pearce, American novelist
Gary Woodland, American golfer
May 23
Sam Milby, Filipino actor and rock musician
Adam Wylie, American actor
May 24
Monica Bergamelli, Italian artistic gymnast
Sarah Hagan, American actress
May 25
Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
Emma Marrone, Italian pop/rock singer
Kostas Martakis, Greek singer, model and occasional actor
Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer
Marion Raven, Norwegian singer and songwriter
Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World 2005
May 27 – Darin Brooks, American actor
May 29
Carmelo Anthony, African-American basketball player
Aleksei Tishchenko, Russian Olympic boxer
Nia Jax, Australian-born American professional wrestler
Kaycee Stroh, American actress, singer and dancer
Alysson Paradis, French actress
May 30
Steffan Lewis, Welsh politician (d. 2019)
DeWanda Wise, American actress
May 31
Jason Smith, Australian actor
Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
Yael Grobglas, Israeli actress
June[edit]

Torrey DeVitto

Caroline D’Amore

Rick Nash

John Gallagher Jr.

Ian Jones-Quartey

Paul Dano

Aubrey Plaza

Khloé Kardashian

Fantasia Barrino
June 1
Olivier Tielemans, Dutch race-car driver
Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolian judoka
June 2 – Stevie Ryan, American YouTube personality, actress and comedian (d. 2017)
June 4
Jillian Murray, American actress
Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer
June 5 – Iris van Herpen, Dutch fashion designer
June 8
Todd Boeckman, American football player
Andrea Casiraghi, Prince of Monaco
Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
Torrey DeVitto, American actress and former fashion model
June 9
Caroline D’Amore, American DJ, model and actress
Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
June 10 – Betsy Sodaro, American actress and voice actress
June 11 – Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
June 13
Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
Bérengère Schuh, French archer
June 14
Jay Lyon, Australian actor, musician and model
Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
June 15 – Tim Lincecum, American basebal

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