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2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
2008 was designated as:
International Year of Languages[1]
International Year of Planet Earth
International Year of Sanitation
International Year of the Potato
Events
January
January 1 – Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro.[2][3]
January 14 – At 19:04:39 UTC, the unmanned MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury.[4]
January 21 – Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.[5]
January 24 – A peace deal is signed in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ending the Kivu conflict.[6]
February[edit]
February 4 – Iran opens its first space center and launches a rocket into space.
February 13 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivers a formal apology to the Stolen Generations.[7]
February 17 – Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia, with a mixed response from the international community.[8][9]
March[edit]
March–April – Rising food and fuel prices trigger riots and unrest in the Third World.
March 2 – Venezuela and Ecuador move troops to the Colombian border, following a Colombian raid against FARC guerrillas inside Ecuadorian territory, in which senior commander Raúl Reyes is killed.[10][11]
March 9 – The first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, a cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station, launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.[12]
March 24 – Bhutan holds its first-ever general elections following the adoption of a new Constitution which changed the country from an absolute monarchy to a multiparty democracy.[13]
March 25 – African Union and Comoros forces invade the rebel-held island of Anjouan, returning the island to Comorian control.[14]
April[edit]
April 22 – Surgeons at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first successful operations using bionic eyes, implanting them into two blind patients.
May[edit]
May 2 – The Chaitén volcano in Chile enters a new eruptive phase for the first time since around 1640.
May 3 – Cyclone Nargis passes through Myanmar, killing more than 138,000 people.[15]
May 12 – An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people.[16]
May 23
The Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental organization between states in South America, is founded.[17]
The International Court of Justice awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.[18]
May 25 – NASA’s unmanned Phoenix spacecraft becomes the first to land on the northern polar region of Mars.[19]
May 28 – The Legislature Parliament of Nepal votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country’s 240-year-old monarchy, turning the country into a republic.[20]
May 30 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted in Dublin.[21]
June[edit]
June 7–29 – Austria and Switzerland jointly host the UEFA Euro 2008 football tournament, which is won by Spain.
June 11
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched.[22]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologizes, on behalf of the Canadian government, to the country’s First Nations for the Canadian Indian residential school system.[23]
June 14 – Expo 2008 opens in Zaragoza, Spain, lasting to September 14, with the topic "Water and sustainable development".[24]
July[edit]
July 2 – Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are rescued from FARC rebels by Colombian security forces.[25]
July 21 – Radovan Karadžić, the first president of the Republika Srpska, is arrested in Belgrade, Serbia, on allegations of war crimes, following a 12-year-long manhunt.[26]
August[edit]
August 1 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions die on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
August 6 – President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d’état.[27]
August 7 – Georgia invades the breakaway state of South Ossetia, sparking a war with Russia as the latter intervenes in support of the separatists in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.[28]
August 20 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashes at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 154 people on board.
August 8–24 – The 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing, China.[29]
September[edit]
September 5 – Quentin Bryce becomes the first woman Governor-General of Australia.
September 10 – The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.[30][31]
September 13 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Galveston, Texas.
September 20 – A suicide truck bomb explosion destroys the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 54 and injuring 266.[32][33][34]
September 28 – SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world’s first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit.[35][36]
September 29 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, hitherto the largest single-day point loss in its history.
October[edit]
October 3 – Global financial crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.[37]
October 7 – The Spotify music streaming service is launched in Sweden.
October 21 – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially inaugurated at Geneva.[38][39][40][41]
October 22 – The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on a lunar exploration mission.[42][43]
November[edit]
November 1 – Satoshi Nakamoto publishes "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".[44]
November 4 – Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first black President of the United States.[45][46][47]
November 19 – Claudia Castillo of Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ.[48]
November 26–29 – Members of Lashkar-e-Taiba carry out four days of coordinated bombing and shooting attacks across Mumbai, killing 164 people.[49]
December[edit]
December 5 – Human remains found in 1991 are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, using DNA analysis.[50]
December 10 – The Channel Island of Sark, a British Crown dependency, holds its first fully democratic elections under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism.[51]
December 18 – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Théoneste Bagosora and two other senior Rwandan army officers guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentences them to life imprisonment for their role in the Rwandan genocide.[52]
December 23 – A military coup d’état deposes the government of Guinea shortly after the death of longtime President Lansana Conté.[53]
December 27 – Israel invades the Gaza Strip in response to rockets being fired into Israeli territory by Hamas and due to weapons being smuggled into the area.[54][55][56]
December 31 – An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005.
Births[edit]
March 14 – Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress
April 16 – Princess Eléonore of Belgium
June 3 – Harshaali Malhotra, Indian actress
July 15 – Iain Armitage, American actor
August 18 – Gordey Kolesov, Russian-Chinese chess player
Deaths[edit]
Further information: Category:2008 deaths
Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
January[edit]
Main article: Deaths in January 2008
Heath Ledger
Suharto
January 2 – Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas, Princess of Thailand (b. 1923)
January 3 – Choi Yo-sam, Korean boxer (b. 1972)
January 10
Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1922)
January 11 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919)
January 15 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
January 16 – Nikola Kljusev, 1st Prime Minister of Macedonia (b. 1927)
January 17
Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion (b. 1943)
Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
January 19 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
January 22
Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
Claude Piron, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931)
January 25 – Aziz Sedky, 36th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
January 26 – George Habash, Palestinian politician (b. 1926)
January 27
Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910)
Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
January 28 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
January 29 – Margaret Truman, American singer and writer (b. 1924)
February[edit]
Main article: Deaths in February 2008
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Roy Scheider
Janez Drnovšek
February 2
Joshua Lederberg, American Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1925)
Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor (b. 1918)
February 5 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1918)
February 7 – Andrew Bertie, 78th Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1929)
February 9 – Baba Amte, Indian social activist (b. 1914)
February 10 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
February 11
Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American politician (b. 1928)
Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel (b. 1967)
February 12
Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962)
Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955)
February 13
Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director (b. 1915)
Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922)
February 19
Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941)
Yegor Letov, Russian singer (b. 1964)
February 23
Janez Drnovšek, 2-Time Prime Minister and 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917)
February 25 – Static Major, American musician (b. 1974)
February 27
William F. Buckley Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)
Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
March[edit]
Main article: Deaths in March 2008
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Arthur C. Clarke
Paul Scofield
March 1 – Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948)
March 2
Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (b. 1937)
Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
March 3
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921)
Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923)
March 4 – Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938)
March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923)
March 6 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
March 12 – Howard Metzenbaum, American politician (b. 1917)
March 14 – Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920)
March 16 – Ivan Dixon, American actor (b. 1931)
March 18 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
March 19
Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917)
Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter and film director (b. 1929)
Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
March 21 – Klaus Dinger, German musician (b. 1946)
March 22 – Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1927)
March 24
Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942)
Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
March 26 – Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
March 27 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921)
March 30 – Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942)
March 31 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
April[edit]
Main article: Deaths in April 2008
Charlton Heston
April 3 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
April 5 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
April 8 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
April 10 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919)
April 12 – Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
April 13 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
April 14 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
April 15 – Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer-director (b. 1945)
April 16 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
April 17 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
April 29 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and writer (b. 1906)
May[edit]
Main article: Deaths in May 2008
Eddy Arnold
Irena Sendler
Sydney Pollack
May 1 – Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (b. 1909)
May 2 – Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer (b. 1917)
May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish Prime Minister (b. 1926)
May 5 – Jerry Wallace, American country and pop singer (b. 1928)
May 8
Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (b. 1918)
François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982)
May 10
Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (b. 1990)
May 11 – Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
May 12
Robert Rauschenberg, American pop artist (b. 1925)
Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910)
May 13
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 4th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
Bernardin Gantin, Beninese cardinal (b. 1922)
John Phillip Law, American actor (b. 1937)
May 15 – Willis Lamb, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913)
May 17 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)
May 19 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928)
May 22 – Robert Asprin, American writer (b. 1946)
May 23 – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1918)
May 24 – Rob Knox, English actor (b. 1989)
May 26
Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (b. 1934)
Koloa Talake, 7th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1934)
May 28 – Sven Davidson, Swedish tennis player (b. 1928)
May 29
Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (b. 1987)
Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (b. 1927)
June[edit]
Main article: Deaths in June 2008
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Cyd Charisse
George Carlin
June 1
Tommy Lapid, Israeli television presenter, journalist, and politician (b. 1931)
Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
June 2
Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
June 4 – Agata Mróz-Olszewska, Polish volleyball player (b. 1982)
June 5 – Jameson Mbilini Dlamini, 7th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1932)
June 7
Mustafa Khalil, 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
Dino Risi, Italian director (b. 1916)
June 8 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian musician (b. 1936)
June 9
Karen Asrian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1980)
Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer (b. 1931)
June 10 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (b. 1928)
June 11
Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939)
Võ Văn Kiệt, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
June 13 – Tim Russert, American journalist (b. 1950)
June 15 – Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist (b. 1946)
June 17 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)
June 18 – Jean Delannoy, French film director (b. 1908)
June 22 – George Carlin, American author, actor, and comedian (b. 1937)
June 23 – Arthur Chung, 1st President of Guyana (b. 1918)
June 24 – Leonid Hurwicz, American Nobel economist and mathematician (b. 1917)
June 26 – Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress, television host, and director (b. 1925)
June 27 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
June 28 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
June 29 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
July[edit]
Main article: Deaths in July 2008
Jesse Helms
Evelyn Keyes
July 3 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (b. 1925)
July 4
Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
July 5 – René Harris, 4-Time President of Nauru (b. 1947)
July 11 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
July 12 – Tony Snow, American political commentator (b. 1955)
July 13 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
July 15 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972)
July 16 – Jo Stafford, American singer (b. 1917)
July 22 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
July 25
Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
Tracy Hall, American physical chemist (b. 1919)
Randy Pausch, American author and computer scientist (b. 1960)
July 27 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
July 29 – Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer (b. 1948)
August[edit]
Main article: Deaths in August 2008
Bernie Mac
Isaac Hayes
August 1
Pauline Baynes, English illustrator (b. 1922)
Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Nobel writer (b. 1918)
August 9
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941)
Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957)
August 10 – Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1942)
August 11 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (b. 1929)
August 13 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904)
August 15 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917)
August 16
Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (b. 1934)
Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913)
August 19
Levy Mwanawasa, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (b. 1961)
August 20 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party and Chinese premier (b. 1921)
August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American Nobel virologist (b. 1915)
August 28 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927)
September[edit]
Main article: Deaths in September 2008
Paul Newman
September 1
Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
Jerry Reed, American actor and country singer (b. 1937)
September 2 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer (b. 1916)
September 6
Antonio Innocenti, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
September 9
Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 3rd President of Laos (b. 1910)
Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher and revivalist (b. 1933)
September 12 – David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962)
September 15 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (b. 1943)
September 18 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (b. 1931)
September 19 – Earl Palmer, American R&B Drummer (b. 1924)
September 21 – Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 9th Prime Minister and 4th President of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
September 26 – Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. 1925)
October[edit]
Main article: Deaths in October 2008
Jörg Haider
Sœur Emmanuelle
October 1 – Boris Yefimov, Russian political cartoonist (b. 1900)
October 6 – Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet (b. 1931)
October 8 – George Emil Palade, Romanian Nobel cell biologist (b. 1912)
October 10 – Alexey Prokurorov, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1964)
October 11 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
October 13
Alexei Cherepanov, Russian Hockey Player (b. 1989)
Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971)
Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ecuadorian cardinal (b. 1925)
October 15 – Edie Adams, American actress, singer and businessman (b. 1927)
October 20 – Sœur Emmanuelle, Belgian-born French nun (b. 1908)
October 25 – Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer (b. 1942)
October 26 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
October 29 – William Wharton, American author (b. 1925)
October 31 – Studs Terkel, American author and liberal commentator (b. 1912)
November[edit]
Main article: Deaths in November 2008
Michael Crichton
November 1
Jacques Piccard, Swiss explorer and engineer (b. 1922)
Yma Sumac, Peruvian soprano (b. 1923)
November 4
Michael Crichton, American author and producer (b. 1942)
Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (b. 1971)
November 9 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (b. 1932)
November 10 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician (b. 1915)
November 12 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1946)
November 14 – Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete (b. 1962)
November 22 – Ibrahim Nasir, 2nd President of the Maldives (b. 1926)
November 27 – V. P. Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)
December[edit]
Main article: Deaths in December 2008
Alexy II
Horst Tappert
León Febres Cordero
Eartha Kitt
December 1
Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
December 2
Frank Crean, Australian politician (b. 1916)
Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)
December 4 – Forrest J Ackerman, American magazine editor, science fiction writer, and literary agent (b. 1916)
December 5
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1928)
Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
Beverly Garland, American actress (b. 1926)
December 8
Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppeteer and writer (b. 1925)
Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930)
December 9
Yury Glazkov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
Dražan Jerković, Croatian football player and manager (b. 1936)
December 11
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American Nobel physician (b. 1923)
Bettie Page, American pin-up model (b. 1923)
December 12
Avery Dulles, American cardinal (b. 1918)
Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916)
Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th President of Cyprus (b. 1934)
December 13 – Horst Tappert, German actor (b. 1923)
December 15 – León Febres Cordero, 35th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
December 18
Majel Barrett, American actress (b. 1932)
Mark Felt, American FBI agent (b. 1913)
December 19 – James Bevel, American minister and civil rights leader (b. 1936)
December 20
Joseph Conombo, 3rd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1917)
Olga Lepeshinskaya, Russian ballerina (b. 1916)
Robert Mulligan, American director (b. 1925)
December 22 – Lansana Conté, 2nd President of Guinea (b. 1934)
December 24
Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (b. 1927)
Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (b. 1930)
December 25 – Eartha Kitt, American singer, actress, activist and author (b. 1927)
December 29 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1938)
Nobel Prizes[edit]
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Chemistry – Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Y. Tsien
Economics – Paul Krugman
Literature – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Peace – Martti Ahtisaari
Physics – Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu
Physiology or Medicine – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Harald zur Hausen, and Luc Montagnier
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]
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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 baseball player
June 16
Rick Nash, Canadian hockey player
Emiri Miyasaka, Japanese model
June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer
June 18 – Ian Jones-Quartey, American animator and voice actor
June 19 – Paul Dano, American actor and producer
June 21
Erick Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Zabit Samedov, Azerbaijani kickboxer
Shiv Panditt, Indian actor and television host
Kim Ho-jun, South Korean football player
June 22 – Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
June 23
Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer
Duffy, Welsh singer
June 24
JJ Redick, American basketball player
Lucien Dodge, American voice actor
Javier Ambrossi, Spanish actor, stage director and film director
June 25
Lauren Bush, American model and producer
Killian Donnelly, Irish musical theatre performer
June 26
Wen Zhang, Chinese actor
Assan Jatta, Gambian football striker
Raymond Felton, American basketball player
Deron Williams, American basketball player
Aubrey Plaza, American actress
June 27
Son Ho-jun, South Korean singer and actor
Khloé Kardashian, American television personality
Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
June 28 – Eric Friedman, American musician and songwriter
June 29
Ambesager Yosief, Eritrean footballer
Éder Lima, Brazilian-Russian futsal player
June 30
Fantasia Barrino, American singer
Nikos Oikonomopoulos, Greek singer
Norismaidham Ismail, Malaysian footballer
Scott Dawson, American professional wrestler
July[edit]
Corey Sevier
Lauren Harris
Serinda Swan
Rachael Taylor
Natalie Martinez
Kaitlin Doubleday
Andrea Libman
Grace Byers
Taylor Schilling
Ali Krieger
Gina Rodriguez
July – James Holzhauer, American game show champion
July 1
Jason Reeves, American singer-songwriter and musician
Jared Keeso, Canadian actor
Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
Cyron Melville, Danish actor and musician
Heo Jae-won, South Korean football player
July 2
Vanessa Lee Chester, American television and film actress
Vinny Magalhães, Brazilian mixed martial artist
July 3
Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
Manny Lawson, American football player
July 4
Miguel Soares, Timorese football player
Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer and actor
Lee Je-hoon, South Korean actor
July 5
Carlos Ferro, Mexican actor and music video director
Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress and singer
Danay García, Cuban actress and model
Henrique Barbosa, Brazilian swimmer
July 6 – Lauren Harris, British rock musician
July 7
Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukrainian politician
AG Coco, Malaysian musician
Ross Malinger, American actor
Adam Paul Harvey, English actor
Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
July 8 – Alexis Dziena, American actress
July 9
LA Tenorio, Filipino professional basketball player
Hanna R. Hall, American actress
July 10
Aviva Baumann, American actress
Laurent Recouderc, French tennis player
Mark González, South African-Chilean footballer
Óscar Escandón, Colombian boxer
María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian actress, dancer, model, teacher and beauty queen
July 11
Tiffiny Hall, Australian author, journalist and television personality
Tanith Belbin White, Canadian-American figure skater
Joe Pavelski, American hockey player
Ekaterina Vilkova, Russian actress
Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
July 12
Gareth Gates, English singer
Amanda Hocking, American fantasy novelist
Florence Hoath, British actress
Natalie Martinez, American actress and model
Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
Sami Zayn, Syrian Canadian professional wrestler
Matt Cook, American actor
July 13
Pio Marmaï, French actor
Gareth Williams, New Zealand actor
July 14
Britta Soll, Estonian actress
Alex Ross Perry, American film director, screenwriter and actor
July 15
Vincent Wan, Hong Kong actor
Rustam Totrov, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
Lars Øvrebø, Norwegian football player
July 16
Miguel Pires, Portuguese swimmer
Sašo Bertoncelj, Slovenian male artistic gymnast
July 17
Mohamed Bouchaïb, Libya-Algerian actor
Asami Kimura, Japanese pop musician
Mohd Shaffik Abdul Rahman, Malaysian footballer
July 18
Sam Sexton, British professional boxer
Lee Barnard, English footballer
Liv Boeree, English poker player and TV presenter
Josh Harding, Canadian hockey player
July 19
Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian videographer
Alessandra De Rossi, Filipina actress
Kaitlin Doubleday, American actress
Andrea Libman, Canadian actress
Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
Zhu Zhu, Chinese actress and singer
July 20
James Mackay, Australian actor
Jacky Heung, Hong Kong actor
Huang Yi-hua, Taiwanese table tennis player
July 21
Sarah Greene, Irish actress and singer
Paul Davis, American basketball player
Iris Strubegger, Austrian model
July 23
Brandon Roy, American basketball player
Celeste Thorson, American actress and model
July 24 – Tyler Kyte, Canadian actor and singer
July 26
Grace Byers, American actress
Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
July 27
Antoine Bethea, American football player
Taylor Schilling, American actress
July 28
Ali Krieger, American soccer player
Zach Parise, American hockey player
July 29 – J. Madison Wright Morris, American actress (d. 2006)
July 30
Anna Bessonova, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
Gina Rodriguez, American actress
Gabrielle Christian, American actress
August[edit]
Jon Foster
Ryan Lochte
Kyle Schmid
Jen Lilley
Marian Rivera
Cameron Goodman
August 1 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German football player
August 2
Brandon Browner, American NFL player
Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
August 3
Jon Foster, American actor and musician
Carah Faye Charnow, American singer (Shiny Toy Guns)
Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
August 5 – Helene Fischer, German singer and entertainer
August 6 – Marco Airosa, Angolan footballer
August 7 – Hsu Wei-ning, Taiwanese actress and model
August 10
Ryan Eggold, American film and television actor
Mariel Rodriguez, Filipina actress and model
Ja’Tovia Gary, American artist and filmmaker
August 11 – Melky Cabrera, American baseball player
August 12
Marian Rivera, Filipino actress
Sherone Simpson, Jamaican athlete
August 13 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
August 14
Clay Buchholz, American Major League Baseball pitcher
Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
August 17 – Garrett Wolfe, American NFL player
August 19
Simon Bird, English actor and comedian
Micah Alberti, American model and actor
August 20
Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
Tsokye Karchung, Bhutanese beauty queen, Miss Bhutan 2008
August 21
Alizée Jacotey, French singer
Melissa Schuman, American singer and actress
August 22 – Lee Camp, English footballer
August 23 – Glen Johnson, English footballer
August 24
Cameron Goodman, American actress
Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
Yesung, South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, radio personality and MC
August 25 – Kenan Sofuoğlu, Turkish professional motorcycle racer
August 27 – Amanda Fuller, American actress
August 28
Him Law, Hong Kong actor
Michael Galeota, American actor (d. 2016)
Sarah Roemer, American model and actress
August 31
Ryan Kesler, American ice hockey player
Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
September[edit]
Garrett Hedlund
Kyle Mooney
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Sabrina Bryan
Dizzee Rascal
Kevin Zegers
Laura Vandervoort
Anneliese van der Pol
Avril Lavigne
September 1 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist (Fall Out Boy)
September 2 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
September 3 – Garrett Hedlund, American actor
September 4
Camila Bordonaba, Argentine actress, singer-songwriter, dancer, musician and former model
Kyle Mooney, American actor, comedian and writer
September 6
Maksymenko Igor Volodymorovych, Ukrainian kickboxer
Orsi Kocsis, Hungarian model
Abby Martin, American journalist
September 7
Kate Miner, American actress and musician
Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
September 8 – Daniele Hypolito, Brazilian artistic gymnast
September 10 – Luke Treadaway, English actor
September 12 – September, Swedish singer and songwriter
September 14
Adam Lamberg, American actor
André de Vanny, Australian actor
September 15 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British Prince
September 16
Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer
Ali Fedotowsky, American television personality
September 18
Nina Arianda, American actress
Jack Carpenter, American actor
Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
September 19
Young Greatness, American rapper (d. 2018)
Lydia Hearst, American actress and fashion model
Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
September 20
Brian Joubert, French figure skater
Soundarya Rajinikanth, Indian graphic designer, producer and director
Holly Weber, American actress and model
September 21
Dwayne Bowe
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