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Art and culture

• The The UFO (Underground Freak Out) club is founded
• Timothy Leary premiers the counterculture phrase Turn on, tune in, drop out
• Swinging London Time magazine cover, the UK underground is happening.

Visual arts

• Hon - en katedral exhibited
• Equivalent VIII by Carl Andre

Morality

• Human Sexual Response by Masters and Johnson
• "Is God Dead?", the April 8 cover story for the news magazine Time
• Fanny Hill is legalized in the USA, see Memoirs v. Massachusetts.
• Abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
• On the Poverty of Student Life, pamphlet by the University of Strasbourg and the Situationist International

Architecture and design

• Superarchitettura exhibition in Italy
  • Superstudio is founded
  • Archizoom is founded
• The New Brutalism by Reyner Banham
• Superboxes by Ettore Sottsass first shown in Milan

Fashion

• "Le Smoking", designed by YSL, photographed by Helmut Newton

Film

• Blowup by Antonioni
• Chelsea Girls by Warhol/Morrissey
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Leone
• Le Streghe by Various Directors
• The Wild Angels by Corman
• Persona by Ingmar Bergman
• King of Hearts by Philippe de Broca
• Cul-de-sac by Roman Polanski
• Morgan! by Karel Reisz
• Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut
• The Pornographers by Shohei Imamura
• What's Up, Tiger Lily? by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
• Seconds by John Frankenheimer
• Trans-Europ-Express by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Who Are You, Polly Magoo? by William Klein
• The Embryo Hunts in Secret by Koji Wakamatsu

Music

• Deram Records founded
• ESP-Disk founded
• Sly & the Family Stone formed

Albums

• Freak Out! by Frank Zappa
• The in Sound from Way Out! by Perrey & Kingsley

Singles

• Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Cher
• Psychotic Reaction by Count Five
• Baby Come Back by Eddy Grant
• Se telefonando by Mina
• These Boots Are Made for Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
• Girl I've Got a Date by Alton Ellis
• Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You by Jimmy Castor
• Fattie Fattie by The Heptones
• I'm Your Puppet by James & Bobby Purify
• Sunshine Superman by Donovan
• Take It Easy by Hopeton Lewis

Literature

• Les aventures de Jodelle, graphic novel by Guy Peellaert
• Valley of the Dolls, novel by Jacqueline Susann
• Ma mère, novella by Georges Bataille
• Gordon, novel by Edith Templeton
• Against Interpretation, essays (including Notes on "Camp") by Susan Sontag
• The Art of Memory by British historian Frances Yates

Births

Births

January

[[File:Patrick Dempsey.jpg|thumb|right|120px|Patrick Dempsey]]

• January 1 – Anna Burke, Australian politician
• January 4 – Deana Carter, American singer
• January 5
  • Kate Schellenbach, American musician
  • Yuri Amano, Japanese voice actress
• January 7
  • Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
    (d. 1999)
  • Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
• January 8 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
• January 13 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
• January 17
  • Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
  • George Morikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
  • António Zeferino, Cape Verdean athlete
• January 19
  • Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
  • Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field-hockey player
• January 20 – Stacey Dash, African-American actress
• January 22 – Jegath Gaspar Raj, Tamil Maiyam Founder
• January 24 – Jimeoin, Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor
• January 28 – Seiji Mizushima, Japanese anime director
• January 29 – Romário, Brazilian footballer
• January 30 – Neal Chase, American Exilarch religious educator
• January 30 – Hans Tutschku, German composer

February

[[File:Billy Zane2.jpg|thumb|120px|Billy Zane]]

• February 1 – Michelle Akers, American footballer
• February 4 – Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
• February 5 – José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer
• February 6 – Rick Astley, British rock singer
• February 7 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer
• February 8 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
• February 9 – Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
• February 10 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
• February 11 – Stephen Gregory, American actor
• February 16 – Martin Perscheid, German cartoonist
• February 17 – Luc Robitaille, Canadian hockey player
• February 18 – Richard A Collins, British scientist and author
• February 20 – Cindy Crawford, American model and actress
• February 22
  • Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
  • Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bombmaker
  • Brian Greig, Australian politician
• February 23 – Michael Arata, American actor
• February 24 – Billy Zane, American actor
• February 25
  • Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
  • Téa Leoni, American actress
• February 26 – Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
• February 27 – Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist (d. 1992)

March

• March 1 – Zack Snyder, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer
• March 2
  • Sheren Tang, Hong Kong actress
  • David Wickham, British concert pianist, Musical Director and conductor.
• March 3
  • Tone Lōc, African-American R&B musician
  • Nick Rhodes, British scientist
• March 4
  • Ant Banks, African-American rapper
  • Daniela Amavia, American actress and international model
  • Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
  • Steve Bastoni, Australian actor
  • Dav Pilkey, American writer
  • Wash Westmoreland, British film director
• March 5
  • Mark Z. Danielewski, American author
  • Michael Irvin, American football player
• March 6 – Maurice Ashley, American chess grandmaster
• March 7
  • Jeff Feagles, American football kicker
  • Atsushi Sakurai, Japanese singer (Buck-Tick)
• March 9 – Tony Lockett, Australian rules footballer
• March 10
  • Edie Brickell, American singer
  • Mike Timlin, American baseball player
• March 16 – Rodney Peete, African-American football quarterback
• March 19 – Nigel Clough, English footballer
• March 22 – Antonio Pinto, Portuguese long-distance runner
• March 25
  • Tom Glavine, American baseball player
  • Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
  • Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer
• March 26 – Michael Imperioli, American actor
• March 28 - Cheryl James, African-American rapper (Salt-n-Pepa)
• March 29 – Krasimir Balakov, Bulgarian footballer

April

[[File:Robin Wright 2009.jpg|thumb|120px|Robin Wright Penn]] [[File:Samantha Fox in Lombardy crop.jpg|thumb|120px|Samantha Fox]]

• April 1 – Chris Evans, British radio disc-jockey
• April 2 – Teddy Sheringham, British footballer
• April 3 – Miina Tominaga, Japanese voice actress
• April 4
  • Riduan Isamuddin, Bali bombing suspect
  • Mike Starr, American bassist, (Alice in Chains) (d. 2011)
• April 8
  • Robin Wright Penn, American actress
  • Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality and martial artist
• April 11 – Lisa Stansfield, British soul singer
• April 13 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
• April 14
  • David Justice, African-American baseball player
  • Greg Maddux, American baseball player
• April 15 – Samantha Fox, British model and singer
• April 18 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
• April 19 – El Samurai, Japanese professional wrestler
• April 20 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
• April 22
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
  • Dana Barron, American actress
• April 25
  • Man Arenas, Spanish comic creator
  • Tim Easton, American songwriter
• April 26 – Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize winning poet
• April 27
  • Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese author and illustrator
  • Siw Anita Andersen Norwegian actress
• April 28
  • John Daly, American golfer
  • Ali-Reza Pahlavi, titular prince of Iran (d. 2011)
• April 29 – Phil Tufnell, British cricketer

May

[[File:Helena Bonham Carter 2011 AA.jpg|thumb|120px|Helena Bonham Carter]]

• May 3 – Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
• May 5 – Lyubov Yegorova, Russian cross-country skier
• May 6
  • Andrea Chiesa, Swiss Formula One driver
  • Cindy Hsu, American Emmy-Award-winning journalist
• May 7
  • Anderson Cummins, Canadian cricketer
  • Jes Høgh, Danish footballer
• May 8
  • Robert J. Behnen, American genealogist and a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives
  • Rocko Schamoni, German entertainer, author, musician, club proprietor and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun
  • Kamil Kašťák, Czech ice hockey player
  • Marta Sánchez, Spanish female vocalist, entertainer
  • Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian goalkeeper
• May 10
  • Mikael Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
  • Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
  • Anne Elvebakk, Norwegian biathlete
  • Genaro Hernández, Mexican-American boxer
• May 12
  • Stephen Baldwin, American actor
  • Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian popular singer
• May 13
  • Nereus Acosta, Filipino politician, academician, and political scientist
  • Cheryl Dunye, Liberian-born film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress
  • Alison Goldfrapp, English musician, Goldfrapp.
  • Darius Rucker, African-American country singer
• May 14 – Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter
• May 16
  • Juan Manuel Funes, Guatemalan footballer and coach
  • Janet Jackson, African-American singer
  • Thurman Thomas, American football player
• May 17 – Hill Harper, American actor
• May 19 – Sophia Crawford, actress, stuntwoman and martial artist
• May 20
  • Joey Gamache, American boxer
  • Mindy Cohn, American actress and comedienne
• May 21
  • Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright
  • François Omam-Biyik, Cameroonian football player
• May 22
  • Siri Eftedal, Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist
  • Johnny Gill, American singer
• May 23 – Graeme Hick, English cricketer
• May 24
  • Russell Kun, Nauruan politician
  • Eric Cantona, French footballer
  • Francisco Javier Cruz, Mexican football player
• May 25
  • Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh, Iranian goalkeeper
  • Jeff Cross, American football player
• May 26
  • Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
  • Zola Budd, South African athlete
• May 27
  • Heston Blumenthal, British chef
  • Carol Campbell, Afro-German actress, model and presenter
  • Titi DJ, Indonesian pop singer
• May 28
  • Theo Bleckmann, German vocalist and composer
  • Larry Davis, American criminal (d. 2008)
• May 29 – Robert Anderson, American child murderer (executed) (d. 2006)
• May 30
  • Frank Goosen, German cabaret artist and novel author
  • Thomas Häßler, German football player

June

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• June 2 – Candace Gingrich, American LGBT rights activist
• June 3 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
• June 4 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
• June 6 – Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo
• June 8
  • Julianna Margulies, American actress
  • Jens Kidman, Swedish musician
• June 13 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• June 14 – Matt Freeman, American musician
• June 15 – Roberto Carnevale, Italian musician
• June 16
  • Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower
  • Phil Vischer, American voice actor, puppeteer,writer, animator, creator of VeggieTales.
• June 18 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
• June 19 – Samuel West, British actor
• June 21 – Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
• June 22
  • Michael Park, British rally co-driver (d. 2005)
  • Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
• June 23
  • Eric Thomas, Inventor of LISTSERV
  • Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
• June 25 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
• June 27 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
• June 28
  • Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
  • John Cusack, American actor
• June 30
  • Cheryl Bernard, Canadian Olympic curler
  • Mike Tyson, African-American boxer
  • Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor

July

[[File:Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto. Fotografía oficial.jpg|thumb|120px|Enrique Peña Nieto]]

• July 1 – Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
• July 3
  • Moisés Alou, American baseball player
  • Robin Burgener, Canadian programmer, inventor of 20Q
• July 5
  • Claudia Wells, American actress
  • Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
• July 6 – Brian Posehn, American actor and comedian
• July 7 – Gundula Krause, German violinist
• July 8
  • Mike Nawrocki, American voice actor, writer, animator, director, co-founder of Big Idea Entertainment
  • Ralf Altmeyer, German virologist
  • Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
• July 10 – Gina Bellman, British actress
• July 11 – Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
• July 14 – Matthew Fox, American actor
• July 15 – Irène Jacob, French-born actress
• July 20 – Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, Governor of the State of Mexico (2005–2011)
• July 21 – Sarah Waters, British novelist
• July 22 – Tim Brown, American football player
• July 28 – Miguel Ángel Nadal, Spanish footballer
• July 29 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American voice actor
• July 30
  • Murilo Bustamante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Allan Langer, Australian rugby league footballer
• July 31 – Dean Cain, American actor

August

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• August 2 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
• August 3 – Brent Butt, Canadian comedian and TV producer
• August 4 – Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
• August 7 – Jimmy Wales, American co-founder of Wikipedia<ref name='WMF PR 2004-04-25'>{{

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• August 10
  • Charlie Dimmock, English TV gardening expert
  • Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer
• August 11 – Juan María Solare, Argentine composer
• August 12 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer
• August 14
  • Halle Berry, African-American actress
  • Freddy Rincón, Colombian footballer
• August 15 – Scott Brosius, American baseball player
• August 17 – Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
• August 19 – Lee Ann Womack, American musician
• August 23 – Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
• August 25 – Robert Maschio, American actor
• August 26 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
• August 27
  • Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower
  • Juhan Parts, Estonian politician who was Prime Minister of Estonia
• August 28 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician

September

[[File:Salma Hayek 2, 2012.jpg|thumb|120px|Salma Hayek]] [[File:Adam Sandler 2011 (Cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|Adam Sandler]]

• September 1 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
• September 2 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress
• September 4 – Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer
• September 6 – Eduardo Maruri, Ecuadorian business man and politician
• September 7
  • Vladimir Andreyev, Russian race walker
  • Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
• September 8 – Carola Häggkvist, Swedish pop singer
• September 9
  • Georg Hackl, German luger
  • Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
• September 12 – Princess Akishino of Japan
• September 19 – Soledad O'Brien, American news anchor
• September 20 – Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter
• September 22
  • Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
  • Moustafa Amar, Egyptian pop star
• September 24 – Michael J. Varhola, American author and publisher
• September 25 – Jason Flemyng, English actor

October

[[File:David Cameron official.jpg|thumb|120px|David Cameron]] [[File:Roman Abramovich 2.jpg|thumb|120px|Roman Abramovich]] [[File:Z milanovic.jpg|thumb|120px|Zoran Milanović]]

• October 1 – George Weah, Liberian politician and football player
• October 2 – Rodney Anoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
• October 3 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (d. 2000)
• October 5 – Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
• October 6 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
• October 7 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author
• October 8 – Aaron Callaghan, Irish football club executive
• October 9 – David Cameron, British Prime Minister
• October 10
  • Tony Adams, English footballer
  • Elana Meyer, South African athlete
• October 11 – Stephen Williams, British politician
• October 12 – Brian Kennedy, Irish musician and author
• October 14 – Savanna Samson, American porn star
• October 15 – Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and coach
• October 16 – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress
• October 18 – Angela Visser, Miss Universe 1989
• October 19 – Jon Favreau, American actor and director
• October 22 – Valeria Golino, Italian-Greek film and television actress
• October 24 – Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
• October 25 – Wendel Clark, Canadian hockey player
• October 27 – Matt Drudge, American conservative Internet journalist
• October 28
  • Steve Atwater, American football player
  • Andy Richter, American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer
• October 30 – Zoran Milanović, Prime Minister of Croatia
• October 31
  • Koji Kanemoto, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Mike O'Malley, American actor and playwright
  • Adam Horovitz, American rapper (Beastie Boys)

November

• November 2
  • David Schwimmer, American actor
  • Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
• November 3 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
• November 6
  • Christian Lorenz, German rock musician (Rammstein)
  • Kae Araki, Japanese voice actress
• November 8 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef
• November 10 – Vanessa Angel, English model and actress
• November 13 – Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (d. 2009)
• November 14 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player
• November 15 – Rachel True, American actress
• November 17
  • Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
  • Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-born American model and television personality
  • Sophie Marceau, French actress
• November 19 – Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi
• November 21 – Troy Aikman, American sports commentator and former pro football player
• November 23 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
• November 25
  • Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter
  • Billy Burke, American actor
• November 28 – Narumi Yasuda, Japanese actress
• November 29 – John Bradshaw Layfield, American professional wrestler
• November 30
  • Wil Mara, American author
  • David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter

December

[[File:Sinéad O’Connor.jpg|thumb|120px|Sinéad O'Connor]] [[File:Kiefer Sutherland3.jpg|thumb|120px|Kiefer Sutherland]]

• December 1 – Larry Walker, Canadian Major League Baseball player
• December 4 – Fred Armisen, American actor, comedian and musician
• December 7
  • C. Thomas Howell, American actor
  • Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
• December 8 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish pop singer
• December 9
  • Tim Bull, Australian politician
  • Michael Foster, drummer for rock band FireHouse
  • Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
  • Montserrat Gil Torné, Andorran politician
  • Dave Harold, English professional snooker player
  • Toby Huss, American actor
  • Dana Murzyn, Canadian hockey player
  • Spencer Rochfort, Canadian-American actor
  • Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, former soccer player
  • Mateo Romero, Native American painter
  • Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician
  • Kadyrbek Sarbayev, foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan
  • Shane Scott, American director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, musician
  • Martin Taylor, footballer coach
  • Natee Thongsookkaew, Thailand footballer
• December 11
  • Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor
  • Gary Dourdan, American actor
• December 12
  • Último Dragón, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Greg Long, American Christian musician
  • Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
• December 13 – Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
• December 14 – Bill Ranford, Canadian hockey player
• December 15 – Katja von Garnier, German film director
• December 16 – Dennis Wise, English footballer
• December 17 – Miloš Tichý, Czech astronomer
• December 19
  • Tim Sköld, Swedish multi-instrumentalist musician
  • Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
• December 20 – Ed de Goeij, Dutch footballer
• December 21 – Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
• December 22 – Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
• December 25 – Stephen Twigg, British politician
• December 26 – Jay Yuenger, American musician and producer
• December 27
  • Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler
  • John Harrington, American photographer
• December 30 – Eric Kot, Hong Kong singer and actor

Date unknown

• Kivi Larmola, Finnish artist

Deaths

• André Breton (1896 - 1966)
• Siegfried Kracauer (1889 - 1966)
• Irving Klaw (1911 - 1966)