1972

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year beginning on a Saturday according to the Gregorian calendar. It was declared International Book Year by the United Nations.

In the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), it was the longest year in history, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event that has not been repeated since. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Earth Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908.)

Events

January

• 1 January: Kurt Waldheim assumes as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 5 January:
  • In the United States, President Richard Nixon modifies the American space program.
  • In a well 120 meters underground, in the U3A area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:10 (local time) United States detonates its Mescalero atomic bomb, less than 20 kt. It is the 753 of the 1132 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• January 10: Mujibur Rahman is appointed first head of Government of the new independent state of Bangladés.
• January 12: In the Dominican Republic, a cell of 4 leftist insurgents faces a siege of 2,500 members of the army and the national police. After 10 hours of combat, the members of the cell and 8 police officers are killed.
• 14 January: the current queen of Denmark, Margarita II, draws the sceptre to the death of his father, King Frederick IX; is the first woman in Denmark since the centuryXIV.
• January 20: In Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced the launch of the Pakistan nuclear programme.
• January 26: In Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), a bomb by the pro-Nazi terrorist group Ustachá destroys in flight a plane from the company JAT Airways. The Vesna Vulović steward survives the fall of 10,000 meters.
• January 29: In Venezuela, a family entertainment program transmitted by Venevisión is launched Saturday.
• January 30: In Northern Ireland the events of the Bloody Sunday leave a balance of 13 dead.

February

• 2 February: In Sapporo, Japan, the 1972 Sapporo Olympics are opened.
• February 4th: U.S. Mariner 9 provides photos from Mars.
• 5 February:
  • In Vitoria, Spain, 3500 workers on strike lead to the closure of the Michelin tire factory.
  • In Madrid, the Madrid newspaper announces the sale of its heritage.
  • In Colombia, Caracol Televisión broadcasts the first edition of Champions of the laughter best currently known as Saturdays Felices is the longest humorous program in Colombian television.
• 6 February:
  • In Zaragoza and Seville two buses fall to the river, leaving 17 dead and 60 wounded.
  • In Nicaragua, elections are held to elect a National Constituent Assembly that will draft a new constitution that will enter into force in 1974 and allow the re-election of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in that year.
• 7 February: In Spain, Cardinal Vicente Enrique and Tarancón is elected president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
• 11 February: In Tarragona (Spain) the Vandellós I nuclear power plant is operational.
• 13 February: at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, the Spanish skier Francisco Fernández Ochoa wins the special stage and the gold medal.
• 14 February: Mexico and China establish diplomatic relations.
• February 15: Ecuador's Army defeats President José María Velasco Ibarra, and General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara chairs the coup junta.
• 16 February:
  • Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain gets the score of 30,000 points scored.
  • Spanish José Legrá beats the British Armstrong and retains his title as a boxing European champion.
• February 18: In the United States, the California Supreme Court invalidates the death penalty and conmutes the sentences of all sentenced to death for life imprisonment.
• February 20: In El Salvador, Arturo Armando Molina becomes president.
• 21 February:
  • The Soviet ship Moon 20 Comes to the Moon.
  • Richard Nixon visits China, being the first official visit of a US president to that country.
• 22 February: in Hunosa, 26 miners are rescued alive, buried by an explosion that occurred the previous day.
• 26 February: the Soviet ship Moon 20 return to Earth.

March

• 1 March:
  • In Madrid the III International Festival of Theatre is inaugurated.
  • In Uruguay, Juan María Bordaberry assumes the presidency; from 27 June 1973 he will become dictator.
• 2 March: The Pioneer 10 Space Probe is launched.
• 3 March:
  • In Spain, Gregorio López-Bravo de Castro states that "Sahrawis will freely choose their destiny."
  • In Cabo Cañaveral, Florida, the Pioneer 10 Space Probe is released
• March 9: Luis Echeverría makes a state visit to Tokyo, Japan, being the second president of Mexico to visit Japan, after Adolfo López Mateos in October 1962.
• March 10: In the Bazán shipyards (now Navantia), in Ferrol, the police killed two workers (Amador Rey and Daniel Niebla) while participating in a demonstration for wage improvements.
• 19 March: 10 years of the Independence of Algeria.
• 25 March:
  • The item "Après Toi" by Vicky Leandros gives the victory to Luxembourg in the XVII Eurovision Edition held in Edinburgh.
  • In El Salvador, a coup attempt to overthrow President Fidel Sánchez Hernández failed.

April

• 2 April: in the church of Galdacano (Vizcaya), six members of the ETA terrorist gang are armed at Mass and read a manifesto.
• April 10: In Iran, a 6.7-degree earthquake on the Richter scale ends the lives of 5000 people in Fars province.
• April 16: In Cabo Kennedy, United States Launches Spacecraft Apollo 16 towards the Moon.
• 17 April: in Montevideo (Uruguay), the Joint Forces (Armed Forces and Police) murder eight unarmed communist workers at the local level of Section 20 of the PCU (Uruguayan Communist Party), which will then be declared a National Historic Monument), in a deepening step of the process leading to the 1973 coup d'etat in Uruguay.
• April 24: In Taiwan, an earthquake of 7.2 leaves 5 dead.

May

• May 1st: In Nicaragua, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and the triumvirate of the National Board of Government succeeds.
• 3 May: in Swansea (Gales), guitarist Les Harvey (27), who was performing a show with his band Stone the Crows, died electrocuted when playing his microphone (without ground connection) with breathed hands.
• 15 May:
  • United States Returns Okinawa Island to Japan after 27 years of military occupation.
  • The presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, suffers an attempted murder by Arthur Bremer.
• May 19: In the Axel Springer AG building in Hamburg, Germany, of 6 installed bombs explode 3, wounding 17 people; claimed by the Red Army Faction.
• 21 May: in Rome, a Laszlo Toth attackes the Pietà of Michelangelo with a hammer, screaming that he is Jesus Christ.
• 22 May: Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka.
• May 30: The Nike brand is created in the United States.

June

• 2 June: in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of the Red Army Faction are arrested after a shooting.
• June 5: the Stockholm Earth Summit begins the first major UN conference to put on the table the environmental problems generated by man.
• 8 June: seven men and three women hijack a plane from West Germany to Czechoslovakia.
• June 9: In South Dakota (United States), the Black Hills flood kills 238 people.
• 10 June: In Mexico City, the third expansion of Mexico City Metro Line 1 to its current Observatory terminal is inaugurated, thus concluding the first stage of construction Metro Collective Transport System, following its founding in 1967, and subsequent inauguration in 1969.
• 14-23 June: On the East Coast of the United States, Hurricane Agnes kills 117 people.
• 14 June:
  • Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashes outside New Delhi Airport, killing 82 people.
  • Colombia: The Colombian Television programmer broadcasts its first programs.
• June 15: In Langenhagen, West Germany, Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller of the Red Army Fraction are arrested in a teacher's apartment.
• June 17: An illegal registration of the seat of the Democratic Party is held at the Watergate Hotel in the United States.
• 20 June: in Uruguay exhuman to Pascasio Báez (1925-1971), rural pawn killed by MLN-T on 21 December 1971.
• June 23: Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman are recorded talking about using the CIA to cover up FBI investigations into the Watergate scandal.

July

• July 18: Centenary of the death of Benito Juárez.
• July 19: in El Salvador, President Arturo Armando Molina ordered a military intervention against the University of El Salvador to keep it closed for a year.
• 25 July: in the United States, the newspaper Washington Star It reveals the Tuskegee experiment: since 1932 the Government had deceived 400 families of Macon (Alabama), sick of syphilis, providing them with placebos instead of treatment.

August

• 14 August: in the city of San Juan (Argentina) the first National Festival of the Sun is held.
• 22 August: in the prison of Rawson (a unit of the Argentine Navy close to the city of Trelew), the Argentine Army killed 16 members of different left-wing armed organizations (Masacre de Trelew).

September

• September 5: In Munich, West Germany, during the 20th edition of the Summer Olympic Games, the Black September terrorist group murders eleven members of the Olympic team in Israel. (Masacre of Munich).

October

• 4 October: in Saltillo (Coahuila) one of the worst railway accidents in Mexico's history occurs, leaving a fatal balance (according to official figures) of 230 dead people.
• 6 October: the accident of a bimotor occurred on its route between Valparaíso and the archipelago of Juan Fernández.
• 13 October: the plane that transports a Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes. On 23 December, of a total of 45 people on board, only 16 will be rescued.
• 16 October: the group of swamp rock Creedence Clearwater Revival is separated.
• October 28: Antonio Cervantes (Kid Pambelé) won the first world boxing title for Colombia by nominating Frazer in ten rounds in the Panama City's New Panama Gymnasium.
• October 20th, despite his withdrawal from the show, singer and actor Frank Sinatra is requested by President Richard Nixon to participate in the "Young Voters Rally" for the new campaign. Sinatra obligator, choose to sing "My Kind of Town" for the rally.

November

• 7 November:
  • Presidential elections are held in the United States. Republican President Richard Nixon is reelected this time defeating Democratic candidate George McGovern with a comfortable advantage of 520 electoral votes compared to 17 of the Democrats.
  • Elecciones en Puerto Rico. The President of the Senate, Rafael Hernández Colón, is elected governor of Puerto Rico.

He obtained 658,856 votes against Luis A. Ferre Aguayo, from PER who obtained 563,609

• 8 November:
  • In the United States, the HBO channel begins its transmissions.
  • The abduction of Mexicana de Aviación flight 705 occurs.
• 25 November: in Madrid (Spain) the Grand Prix of the Ibero-American Song is held for the first time (called after Festival OTI de la Canción) where the Mexican song I'm not going to war. He will not participate because his letter causes controversy in the Franco dictatorship. The winners were the Brazilians Cláudia Regina and Tobias with the theme "Diálogo".

December

• 11 December: the Apollo 17 mission is located in the Taurus-Littrow valley, next to the crater Littrow, in the last visit of human beings to the Moon.
• December 12: in a well at 271 meters underground, in the U3gi area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:30 (local time) United States detonates its tuloso atomic bomb, 0.2 kt. It is the 780 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 14 December:
  • In the framework of the Apollo program, Eugene Cernan is the last person who walked on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt completed the third and last extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the Moon in the 20th century.
  • In a well 201 meters underground, in the U9itsw24 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:30 (local time) United States detonates its Solanum atomic bomb, less than 20 kt. It is the 781 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 21 December: in a well 440 meters underground, in the U2dj area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 12:15 (local time) United States detonates its 20 kt Flax-Source atomic bomb. 24,11 seconds later, it explodes its two Flax-Test atomic bombs (in a well at 689 m depth) and Flax-Backup (on the surface), 20 kt and less than 20 kt respectively. It is the 784 to 786 bombs of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• December 23: in the Andes Mountain Range, the 16 survivors of a rugged plane 72 days before with 45 people on board are rescued.
• December 23: in Nicaragua, an earthquake of 6.3 destroys the capital, Managua, and causes more than 11000 deaths.
• December 29: Eastern Flight 401 crashes in the Florida Everglades (United States) causing the death of 101 people.
• December 30: As part of the Vietnam War, the United States ceases to bomb civilian villages in North Vietnam.
• December 31: Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente died in an air accident.

Births

January

• 1 January:
  • Lilian Thuram, French footballer.
  • Micaela Nevárez, Puerto Rican actress.
  • Gabriela Alves, Brazilian actress.
  • Tom Barman, Belgian musician.
  • Abbas Chahrour, Lebanese footballer.
• 2 January:
  • Roger Beuchat, Swiss cyclist.
  • Egil Østenstad, Norwegian footballer.
• 5 January:
  • Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer.
  • Steffen Baumgart, footballer and German coach.
  • Andréi Zinchenko, Russian cyclist.
• 6 January:
  • Nek, Italian singer.
  • Oleksandr Golovko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 7 January:
  • Adrián Schinoff, Argentine key player and composer.
  • Pedro Contreras, Spanish footballer.
  • Yukari Asada, Japanese yudoca.
• 8 January:
  • Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer.
  • Mariela Magallanes, Venezuelan politics.
  • Serhiy Atelkin, Ukrainian footballer (f. 2020).
• January 9: Frédéric Bessy, French cyclist.
• 10 January:
  • Roberto Messuti, Venezuelan actor.
  • Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian skier.

Kathy Sáenz

• 11 January:
  • Amanda Peet, American actress.
  • Kathy Sáenz, Colombian actress.
• January 12, Toto Wolff, Austrian motor racing pilot.
• January 14: Russian Raimondas, Lithuanian cyclist.
• 16 January:
  • Jesus Enrique Velasco, Spanish footballer.
  • Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer.
• 17 January:
  • Ken Hirai, Japanese singer.
  • Juan Fernando Velasco, Ecuadorian singer.
  • Gaston Pauls, Argentine actor.
• January 18: Txe Arana, Spanish actress.
• January 19: R-Truth, professional fighter and American rapper.
• 21 January:
  • Joana Benedek, a Mexican actress of Romanian origin.
  • Catherine Siachoque, Colombian actress.
  • Hariyanto Arbi, Indonesian Badminton player.
• January 22: Gabriel Macht, American actor.
• January 24: Muriel Baumeister, Austrian actress.
• January 25: Chantal Andere, Mexican actress
• 27 January:
  • Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress.
  • Mark Owen, British singer and composer, Take That group.

February

Tego Calderón

Melvin Mora

• 1 February:
  • Johan Walem, Belgian footballer.
  • Isabel Fernández Gutiérrez, Spanish yudoca.
  • Kami, Japanese musician (f. 1999).
  • Tego Calderón, Puerto Rican rapper.
• 2 February:
  • Dana International, Israeli singer.
  • Ana Joselina Fortin, Honduran swimmer.
  • Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player.
• February 3: Mart Poom, Estonian footballer.
• 4 February: Javier Mazzoni, Argentine soccer player.
• 5 February:
  • Tamara Acosta, Chilean actress.
  • Alvaro de Lamadrid, Argentine lawyer and politician.
  • Edigson Velásquez, Colombian footballer.
• 6 February:
  • Ramón de Quintana, Spanish footballer.
  • Roberto Calcaterra, Italian waterpolista.
  • Mary Line, French halterophile (f. 2011).
  • Jorge Maldonado Contreras, Chilean lawyer and politician.
  • Walter Stern, Austrian skeleton pilot.
• 7 February:
  • Stephanie Swift, American pornographic actress.
  • Franck Perrot, French biathlet.
  • Essence Atkins, American actress.
  • Robyn Lively, American actress.
• 8 February:
  • Paul Wight, American professional fighter.
  • Hiroshi Tsuchida, Japanese seiyū.
  • Enrique Rivas Cuéllar, Mexican politician.
  • Marco Aurelio Silva Businhani, Brazilian footballer.
  • Gabriela Suvová, Czechoslovak biathlet.
  • Darío Ubríaco, Uruguayan football referee.
• 9 February:
  • Nelson Polanía, humorist and Colombian actor.
  • Chris Pohl, German musician.
  • Uğur Aslan, Turkish actor.
• 11 February:
  • Steve McManaman, British footballer.
  • Kelly Slater, American surfer.
  • Craig Jones, American musician.
• February 12: Sophie Zelmani, Swedish singer.
• 13 February: Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian athlete.
• February 14: Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress and singer.
• 15 February:
  • Enrico Cassani, Italian cyclist.
  • Stephen Arigbabu, German basketball player.
  • Natalia Gúseva, Russian actress.
  • Michelle, German singer.
  • Iva Prandzheva, Bulgarian athlete.
  • David Casinos, Spanish athlete.
  • Vladimir Ashurkov, Russian politician.
  • Hector Carabalí, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 16 February:
  • Margit Pörtner, Danish curling player (f. 2007).
  • Sarah Clarke, American actress.
  • Piotr Zaradny, Polish cyclist.
  • Dirk Dier, German tennis player.
  • Alexander Garcia, Brazilian Yudoca.
  • Grit Breuer, German athlete.
• 17 February:
  • Billie Joe Armstrong, American vocalist and guitarist of the Green Day band.
  • Taylor Hawkins, American band musician Foo Fighters (f. 2022).
  • Cezary Kucharski, Polish footballer.
  • Lloy Ball, American volleyball player.
  • Valeria Mazza, Argentine model.
• 18 February:
  • Takashi Kiyama, Japanese footballer.
  • Torsten Schmidt, German cyclist.
  • Oxana Kúshchenko, Russian acrobatic skier.
  • Fabian Picardo, a lawyer and a Gibraltarian politician.

Christian Tappan

• 19 February:
  • Christian Tappan, colombo-mexican actor.
  • Carol Padilla, Venezuelan judge.
  • Francisco Zas, Spanish taekwondista.
  • Diego Losada, Uruguayan basketball player.
  • Raquel Garcia i Ulldemolins, Spanish illustrator.
• 20 February:
  • Rolando Argueta, Honduran lawyer.
  • Robert Churchwell, American basketball player.
  • Roxana Díaz, Venezuelan actress and model.
  • Jason Vincent, British bike rider.
  • Anton Shkaplerov, Russian astronaut.
  • Maju Lozano, an Argentine actress.
  • Daniel Rossello, Uruguayan-Mexican footballer.
  • Corinna Harney, German model and actress.
  • Cristina Sánchez, Spanish bullfighter.
  • Magdalena Cielecka, Polish actress.
  • Ruben Nembhard, American basketball player.
• 21 February:
  • Seo Taiji, South Korean musician.
  • Mark Andrews, South African rugby player.
  • Auro Sónico, Colombian singer.
  • Paulo Henrique, Brazilian footballer.
  • Vanessa Rubio Márquez, Mexican politics.
• 22 February:
  • Michael Chang, American tennis player.
  • Jo Guest, American model.
• 23 February:
  • Jhonny Rivera, Colombian singer.
  • Atsushi Kisaichi, Japanese voice actor.
  • Washington Fernando Araújo, footballer and Uruguayan coach.
  • Jürgen Beneke, German cyclist.
  • Néstor Benedetich, Argentine soccer player.
• 24 February:
  • Sergio Tiempo, Argentine pianist.
  • Tomoko Ishimura, Japanese seiyu.
• February 25: Park Ji-a, South Korean actress.
• February 26: Keith Ferguson, an American voice actor.
• 27 February:
  • Alberto Felípez Ventureira, Spanish footballer.
  • Karina Banfi, Argentine lawyer and policy.
  • Francisco Araña Santana, Spanish basketball referee.
• 28 February:
  • Rory Cochrane, American actor.
  • Jan Boven, Dutch cyclist.
• 29 February:
  • Pedro Sánchez, Spanish politician (current president of the Spanish government).
  • Joey Greco, American actor and presenter.
  • Magnus Kihlstedt, Swedish footballer.
  • Angel Castresana, Spanish cyclist.
  • Ivan Garcia, Cuban athlete.
  • Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American activist (f. 1994).

Ruth Baza

• 29 February:
  • Dave Williams, American singer (f. 2002).
  • Saul Williams, American singer and actor.
  • Antonio Sabato, Jr., Italian-American actor.
  • Ruth Baza, a Spanish writer and journalist.

March

• 2 March:
  • Mauricio Pochettino, a former footballer and Argentine coach.
  • Sergio Manoel, Brazilian footballer.
• March 3: Darren Anderton, English footballer.

Ivy Queen

• 4 March:
  • Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican singer.
  • Jorge Rojas, Argentine folk singer.
• 5 March:
  • Helga Díaz, Colombian actress.
  • Cristián Flores, a Chilean footballer.
• 6 March:
  • Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player.
  • Luigi Ancona, Italian bike rider.
  • Ainhoa Artolazabal, Spanish cyclist.
  • Olga Sedakova, Russian swimmer.
• 7 March:
  • Nathalie Poza, Spanish actress.
  • Phyllisha Anne, American pornographic actress.
• 9 March:
  • Kerr Smith, American actor.
  • Gordon McCauley, New Zealand cyclist.
• March 11: Juan Sebastián Aragón, Colombian actor.
• 15 March:
  • Mark Hoppus, American band musician Blink 182 and Plus 44.
  • Elio Aggiano, Italian cyclist.
• March 17: Mia Hamm, American footballer.
• March 18: Iván René Valenciano, a former footballer and Colombian sports commentator.
• March 19: Gregorio Bare, Uruguayan cyclist.
• 20 March:
  • Alexander Kapranos, British musician of the Franz Ferdinand band.
  • Gerrod Abram, American basketball player.
  • Gregory Searle, British Remero.
• March 21: Piotr Adamczyk, Polish actor.
• 22 March:
  • Shawn Bradley, German basketball player.
  • José Manuel Albares, Spanish diplomat.
  • Linda Algotsson, Swedish rider.
• March 23: Juan David Arango, journalist and Colombian presenter (f. 2015).
• 25 March:
  • Roberto Acuña, Paraguayan soccer player.
  • Naftalí Bennett, Israeli politician, Act. Prime Minister of Israel since 2021.
• 28 March:
  • Fernando Arango, Colombian actor.
  • Milton Wynants, Uruguayan cyclist.
• 29 March:
  • Rui Costa, soccer player and Portuguese sports director.
  • Miguel Angel Acosta, Paraguayan soccer player.
• March 30: Karel Poborský, Czech footballer.
• 31 March:
  • Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish filmmaker.
  • Gustavo Angarita Jr., Colombian actor.
  • Claudio Luiz Assuncao de Freitas, Brazilian footballer.
  • Facundo Arana, Argentine actor and musician.

April

• 2 April:
  • Oliver Jesús Álvarez González, Spanish footballer.
  • Masahiro Andō, Japanese footballer.
• April 3: Jennie Garth, American actress.
• April 5: Nancy Silvestrini, Argentine mountaineer.
• 6 April:
  • Jason Hervey, American actor and producer.
  • Daniel Alcaíno, Chilean actor.
• April 7: Gianluca Grignani, singer, guitarist, record producer and Italian musician.
• 8 April:
  • Sung Kang, American actor.
  • Paul Gray, American bassist, Slipknot band (f. 2010).
  • Anabel Balkenhol, German rider.
• April 9: RedOne, producer composer and Moroccan singer.
• 12 April:
  • Kenji Hamada, Japanese voice actor.
  • Reyli, Mexican singer.
  • René Cattarinussi, Italian biathlete.
  • Mario Traversoni, Italian cyclist.
• 13 April:
  • Roxana Martínez, Argentine model.
  • Fabrizio Guidi, Italian cyclist.
• April 15: Maria Soave Alemanno, Italian politics.
• 16 April:
  • Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player.
  • Paolo Negro, Italian footballer.

Jennifer Garner

• 17 April:
  • Jennifer Garner, American actress.
  • Jarkko Wiss, Finnish footballer.
• 19 April:
  • Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer.
  • Christian Aragona, Argentine basketball player.
  • Iñaki Zubizarreta, Spanish basketball player.
• April 20: Carmen Electra, American actress and model.
• 21 April:
  • José Luis Munuera, Spanish cartoonist.
  • Vidar Riseth, Norwegian footballer.
• April 22: Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player.
• 23 April:
  • Patricia Manterola, Mexican actress.
  • Sonya Smith, Venezuelan-American actress.
  • Simone Mori, Italian cyclist.
• April 24: Chipper Jones, American baseball player.
• 26 April:
  • Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer.
  • Annette Moreno, American singer.
• April 27: Silvia Farina Elia, Italian tennis player.

May

• May 1st: Julie Benz, American actress.
• May 2: Dwayne Johnson, retired professional fighter and American actor.
• May 4: Mike Dirnt, American bassist of the Green Day band.
• May 8: Brian Tyler, composer, producer and director of American orchestra.
• May 9: Lisa Ann, American pornographic actress.
• May 10: Víctor Noriega, Mexican actor.

Buika shell

• May 11: Concha Buika, Ecuadorian-Spanish singer.
• 12 May:
  • Yadhira Carrillo, Mexican actress.
  • Pedro Aguado Moreno, Spanish footballer.
  • María Auxilio Vélez, actress, humorist and Colombian imitator.
• May 13: Sergio Assisi, an Italian actor.
• May 14: Ike Moriz, singer-songwriter and German-Sud African actor.
• 16 May:
  • Khary Payton, American voice actor, film and television.
  • Michael Falzon, Australian actor and singer (f. 2020).
  • Andrzej Duda, politician and president of Poland since 2015.
• 20 May:
  • Zdeněk Svoboda, Czech footballer.
  • Maarten Arens, Dutch york.
• 21 May:
  • Adriano Cintra, Brazilian multi-instrumentist.
  • Notorious B.I.G., American hip-hop artist (f. 1997).
• 22 May:
  • Anna Belknap, American actress.
  • Alison Eastwood, American actress.
  • Andrus Aug, Estonian cyclist.
  • Márcio May, Brazilian cyclist.
• May 23: Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian Formula 1 pilot.
• May 25: Jules Jordan, American director of porn movies.
• 26 May:
  • Sergio Vallín, guitarist of the Mexican band Maná.
  • Alex Dias de Almeida, Brazilian footballer.
• 27 May:
  • Mozhan Marnó, American-Iranian actress
  • Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer.
• May 28: Chiara Mastroianni, French actress.
• 29 May:
  • Scott Garlick, American footballer.
  • Monique Aarts, Dutch yudoca.

Manny Ramírez

• May 30: Manny Ramírez, Dominican baseball player.
• 31 May:
  • Pilar Montenegro, Mexican actress and singer.
  • Gilberto Adame, Mexican footballer.

June

• June 1st: Paula Andrea Betancur, model, entrepreneur and queen of Colombian beauty.
• 2 June:
  • Wentworth Miller, British actor.
  • Mariano Alameda, Spanish actor.
• June 3: Rossano Brasi, Italian cyclist.
• June 4: Nikka Costa, American singer.
• June 5: Brit Sandaune, Norwegian footballer.
• June 6: Darío Barrio, famous Spanish chef.
• June 7: Adrian Arana, Argentine soccer player.
• June 9: Sandro Cois, Italian footballer.
• June 10: Denis Amici, a politician and Sanmarinian economist.
• June 11: Eriberto Leão, Brazilian actor.
• 15 June:
  • Poppy Montgomery, an Australian actress.
  • Marcus Hahnemann, American footballer.
  • Lourdes Reyes, Mexican actress.
• June 17: Bjørn Tore Kvarme, Norwegian footballer.
• June 18: Luis Miguel Garrido, Spanish footballer.

Monica Ayos

• 19 June:
  • Jean Dujardin, French actor.
  • Brian McBride, American footballer.
  • Monica Ayos, an Argentine actress.
• June 21: Luz Amparo Álvarez, Colombian actress.
• June 22: Isabelle Adriani, Italian actress.
• June 23: Zinedine Zidane, Algerian French footballer.
• June 24: Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist.
• 25 June:
  • Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player.
  • Mike Kroeger, American musician, from the Nickelback band.
  • Jon Maia, verselari, Basque singer, writer and documentaryist.
• 26 June:
  • Garou, Canadian singer.
  • Koji Seki, Japanese footballer.
  • Satoshi Oishi, Japanese footballer.
  • Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician.
  • Caroline Nokes, British politics.
  • Jai Taurima, Australian athlete.
  • Roel Velasco, Filipino boxer.
• June 28: Alessandro Nivola, American actor.
• June 29: Samantha Smith, American character (f. 1985).
• June 30: Ramon Menezes, Brazilian footballer.

July

• 1 July:
  • Claire Forlani, British actress.
  • Tetsu Inada, Japanese voice actor.
• July 3: Marcos Aguilar Vega, Mexican politician.
• 4 July:
  • Alekséi Shírov, a Spanish chess player of Latvian origin.
  • Nina Badrić, Croatian singer.
• July 5: Niki Aebersold, Swiss cyclist.
• July 7: Kirsten Vangsness, American actress.
• July 8: Daniel González Sanz, Spanish footballer.
• 10 July:
  • Tilo Wolff, German vocalist and composer of the Lacrimosa band.
  • Sofia Vergara, Colombian film actress.
• July 11: Henrique Capriles, Venezuelan politician.
• 12 July:
  • Álvaro Iglesias Quintana, Spanish footballer.
  • Celia Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish journalist.
  • Kiwzo Fumero, Cuban musician.
  • Mario Acevedo Ruiz, soccer player and Nicaraguan coach.
• July 13: Clayton Ince, footballer trinitense.
• July 14: Valdeci Basílio da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 17 July:
  • Locus Amenus, Spanish rapper.
  • Andy Whitfield, British actor (f. 2011).
  • Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer.
  • Marcelo Angulo, Bolivian footballer.
• July 19: Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and musician.
• July 22: Franco Battaini, Italian bike rider.
• July 23: Marlon Wayans, actor, producer, comedian, American writer and director.

Carlos Morell

• July 26: Carlos Morell, Argentine singer.
• 27 July:
  • Maya Rudolph, actress, comic and American singer.
  • Elisângela Adriano, Brazilian athlete.
• 28 July:
  • Elizabeth Berkley, American actress.
  • Walter Bénéteau, French cyclist (f. 2022).
• July 29: Wil Wheaton, American actor.
• July 30: Fabiola Campomanes, Mexican actress.
• July 31: Denis Braidotti, Italian Yudoca.

August

• 1 August:
  • Nicke Andersson, Swedish musician.
  • Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer.
• 2 August:
  • Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist.
  • Federico Méndez, Argentinian rugby player.
  • La Bruja Salguero (María de los Angeles Salguero), Argentine folk singer.
  • Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer.
  • Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi footballer.
  • Antonio Puche, football player and Spanish coach.
  • Angel Almeida, Spanish basketball player (f. 1997).
• 3 August:
  • Adrià Collado, Spanish actor.
  • Jorge Luis Pila, Cuban actor.
  • Melissa Ponzio, American actress.
• 4 August:
  • Eva Amaral, Spanish singer and composer, member of the Amaral band.
  • Predrag Đorđević, Serbian footballer.
  • Daniel Šarić, Croatian footballer.
• 5 August:
  • J-Ax, Italian singer.
  • Arístides Moreno, Spanish singer.
  • Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist, from the Fear Factory band.
  • Theodore Whitmore, Jamaican footballer.
  • Reika Kirishima, Japanese actress.
• August 6: Geri Halliwell, British singer.
• August 8: Jorge Fernández Madinabeitia, presenter, model and Spanish actor.
• August 9: Juanes, Colombian singer.
• 10 August:
  • Angie Harmon, American actress and model.
  • Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician.
• 12 August:
  • Morre Romero, Colombian musician and accordioner of vallenata music.
  • Paolo Orlandoni, Italian footballer.

Michael Sinterniklaas

• 13 August:
  • Leo Mattioli, Argentine singer of cumbia (f. 2011).
  • Michael Sinterniklaas, actor, screenwriter, and American bent director.
• 14 August:
  • Yoo Jae-suk, South Korean TV presenter
  • Marco Serpellini, Italian cyclist.
  • Raly Barrionuevo, Argentine singer.
• 15 August:
  • Ben Affleck, American actor.
  • Raffaello Caserta, Italian scout.
  • Manuel Medina, Mexican actor.
• August 16: Coraje Abalos, Argentine actor.

Chiquinquirá Delgado

• 17 August:
  • Chiquinquirá Delgado, actress, TV host and Venezuelan model.
  • Federico Colonna, Italian cyclist.
  • Luciano Martín Toscano, footballer and Spanish coach.
• August 19: Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer.
• August 20: Derrick Alston, American basketball player.
• August 21: Ronnie Ekelund, Danish footballer.
• August 23: Souad Massi, Algerian singer.
• August 25: Andrea Noli, Mexican actress.
• August 26: Leslie Stewart, Peruvian actress.
• 27 August:
  • Patricia Vico, Spanish actress.
  • Heinz Arzberger, footballer and Austrian coach.
• 29 August:
  • Bae Yong Jun, South Korean actor.
  • Radek Bejbl, Czech footballer.
• 30 August:
  • Cameron Diaz, American actress.
  • Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer.

September

• September 1st: Kristal Summers, American porn actress.
• September 2: Silvia Gemignani, Italian triathle.
• 4 September:
  • Daniel Néstor, Canadian tennis player.
  • Carlos Ponce, Puerto Rican actor.
  • Raimondas Žutautas, soccer player and Lithuanian coach.
• 5 September: Salaheddine Bassir, Moroccan footballer.
• 6 September:
  • Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress.
  • China Miéville, British writer.
  • Idris Elba, British actor.
  • Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian musician, of the Gogol Bordello band.
  • Rodrigo Abed, Mexican actor.
  • Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer.
• 7 September:
  • Luis Gerónimo Abreu, Venezuelan actor.
  • Jean-Jacques Tizié, Ivory footballer.
  • Antonio Arias Alvarenga, Paraguayan football referee.
• 8 September:
  • Markus Babbel, German football player and coach.
  • Adrian "El Vitor" Uribe, Mexican actor.
  • Tomokazu Seki, Japanese vocalist and vocalist.
• September 9: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, Mexican politician.
• September 10: Yoshinori Abe, Japanese footballer.
• September 11: Juan Alejandro Abaurre, footballer and Argentine coach.
• September 14: Sandy Carriello, Dominican singer (f. 2020).
• September 15: Letizia Ortiz, queen consorte española.
• September 17: Llewellyn Riley, a barbarist.
• September 21: Liam Gallagher, British singer and composer of the Oasis band.
• September 23: Masayuki Katou, Japanese voice actor.
• September 26: Shawn Stockman, American singer.
• September 26: Alfonso Pérez Muñoz, Spanish footballer.
• September 27: Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress.
• September 28: Dita Von Teese, American actress and dancer.
• September 30: Serguéi Gurenko, Belarusian footballer.

October

• October 5: Grant Hill, American basketball player.
• 6 October:
  • Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer.
  • Stephen Gould, Canadian curling player.
• October 8: Enrique Arce, Spanish actor.
• October 11: Claudia Black, Australian actress.

Juan Manuel Silva.

• October 12: Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver.
• October 14: Nyomi Banxxx, American pornographic actress.
• 15 October:
  • Karla Álvarez, Mexican actress (f. 2013).
  • Sandra Kim, Belgian singer.
• 16 October:
  • Maritere Alessandri, Mexican driver and model
  • Tomasz Hajto, Polish footballer.
  • Julio Melgar, Guatemalan singer (f. 2019).
  • Angels Blanco, Spanish journalist.
• 17 October:
  • Eminem, American musician.
  • Tarkan, German singer of Turkish origin.
• October 20: Raúl Garrido Fernández, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 22 October:
  • Víctor Saldaño, an Argentine criminal sentenced to death in the United States.
  • Saffron Burrows, English actress.
• 23 October:
  • Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
  • Kate del Castillo, Mexican actress.
• 24 October:
  • Frédéric Déhu, French footballer.
  • Javier Antón Cacho, Spanish politician.
• 25 October:
  • Magali Caicedo, Colombian actress.
  • Dario Andriotto, Italian cyclist.
• October 26: Shan Sa, Chinese-French poet and novelist.
• October 27: Santiago Botero, Colombian cyclist.

Florence Raggi.

• 29 October:
  • Florence Raggi, actress and Argentine model.
  • Gabrielle Union, American actress.
• October 31: Noelia Amarillo, Spanish writer.

November

• 1 November:
  • Alessandra Silvestri-Levy, writer, journalist, art curator, art historian and Brazilian activist.
  • Toni Collette, Australian actress.
• 2 November:
  • Diego Cocca, footballer and Argentine coach.
  • Derlis Gómez, Paraguayan soccer player.
  • Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer.
• 4 November:
  • Luis Figo, Portuguese footballer.
  • Róbert Nagy, Slovak cyclist.
• 6 November: Thandie Newton, a British-born Zimbabwean actress.
• 7 November: Mar Abad, journalists and Spanish writer.
• 10 November:
  • DJ Ashba, American guitarist, Guns n’ Roses band.
  • Raúl Ibáñez Galdón, Spanish footballer.
• November 11: Adam Beach, Canadian actor.
• 12 November:
  • Sergio Lagos, Chilean TV presenter.
  • Reynaldo Gianecchini, Brazilian actor.
  • José Masegosa, football player and Spanish coach.
• 13 November: Pedro Reyes, Chilean footballer.
• 14 November: Dariusz Żuraw, footballer and Polish coach.
• 15 November: Montserrat Martí, Spanish soprano.
• 17 November: José Ángel Barrueco, Spanish writer.
• November 18: Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, Argentine lawyer.
• November 19: Nicole Forester, American actress.
• November 20: Jérôme Alonzo, French footballer.
• 21 November:
  • Leo Allen, American comedian and writer.
  • Cristian Moreni, Italian cyclist.
  • Bae Seong-woo, South Korean actor.
  • Thomas Schleicher, Austrian Yudoca (f. 2001).
  • David Tua, Samoan boxer.
• November 22: Luis Andújar, Dominican baseball player.
• November 23: Alf-Inge Håland, Norwegian footballer.
• November 26: James Dashner, author of the saga The Maze Runner (trilogy).
• 28 November:
  • Jade Puget, American guitarist of the AFI band.
  • Paulo José Lopes Figueiredo, Angolan footballer.
• November 29: Diego Ramos, actor, singer and Argentine driver.
• 30 November: Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer.

December

Angel Andreo.

• December 3: Angel Andreo, Spanish waterpolista.
• 4 December:
  • Jessica Canseco, American model.
  • Tamara Castro, Argentine folk singer (f. 2006).
• 5 December:
  • Stefano Bollani, Italian composer.
  • Stéphane Barthe, French cyclist.
• 6 December:
  • Mónica Santa María, Peruvian television model and driver (f. 1994).
  • Gonzalo Vivanco, Chilean actor.
• December 9: Tré Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III), American drummer of German origin (Green Day).
• December 10: Brian Molko, British singer and songwriter of the Placebo band.
• 11 December:
  • Raquel Barco González, Spanish writer.
  • Sami Al Jaber, Saudi footballer.
  • Sigurd Rushfeldt, Norwegian footballer.
  • Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player.
  • Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer (f. 2014).
  • Darío Barrio, Spanish cook (f. 2014).
• December 13: Mauricio Solís, soccer player and Costa Rican coach.
• December 16: Željko Kalac, Australian footballer.
• 17 December:
  • David Belenguer, Spanish footballer.
  • John Abraham, Indian actor and singer.
  • Ibon Zugasti, Spanish cyclist.
• 18 December:
  • Mitko Stojkovski, Macedonian footballer.
  • Daniel Andersson, Swedish footballer.
• December 19: Alyssa Milano, American actress.
• December 21: Felix Albo, Spanish writer.
• 22 December:
  • Vanessa Paradis, French actress and singer.
  • Anderson, Brazilian footballer.
• December 23: Sandy Martens, Belgian footballer.
• 24 December:
  • Klaus Schnellenkamp, a Chilean writer.
  • Alvaro Mesén, Costa Rican footballer.
  • Lorena Pokoik, Argentine policy.
• December 27: Igor Alexéyev, Russian halterophile.

Einar Díaz.

• 28 December:
  • Einar Díaz, a baseball player and a Panamanian coach.
  • Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player.
  • Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer.
• 29 December:
  • Analía Franchín, Argentine actress and panelist.
  • Hiromi Nishikawa, Japanese voice actress.
  • Jude Law, British actor.
  • Leonor Varela, Chilean actress and model.
  • Enrique Martín Sánchez, Spanish footballer.
  • Jaromír Blažek, Czech footballer.
• December 30: Daniel Amokachi, Nigerian footballer.

Teresa Zabalza Díez.

• 31 December:
  • Gregory Coupet, French footballer.
  • Joey McIntyre, American singer, composer and actor.
  • Grazia Zafferani, Sanmarinian politics.
  • Teresa Zabalza Díez, Spanish composer.

Unknown dates

• Erik Del Búfalo, a Venezuelan philosopher.

Deaths

January

• 1 January:
  • Maurice Chevalier, French actor (n. 1888).
  • Luis Banchero Rossi, Peruvian businessman (n. 1929).
• January 3: Frans Masereel, Belgian artist.
• 7 January:
  • John Berryman, American poet (n. 1914).
  • Trini de Figueroa, Spanish writer (n. 1918)
• January 12: Amaury Germán Aristy, a Dominican politician and revolutionary (n. 1947).
• 14 January: Federico IX of Denmark, Danish king (1947-1972) (n. 1899).
• January 23: Miguel García Vivancos, Spanish painter.
• January 27: Mahalia Jackson, American singer.
• January 28: Dino Buzzati, Italian writer and journalist.

February

• February 7: Walter Lang, American filmmaker.
• February 14: Melchor Rodríguez García, Spanish anarchist trade unionist.
• 20 February:
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physics of German origin, nobel prize of physics in 1963.
  • Vidal López, Venezuelan baseball player (n. 1918).

April

• April 11: Quinche J. Felix, politician and Ecuadorian trader (n. 1908).
• April 14: Bert Hawthorne, a New Zealand motor racing pilot (n. 1943).
• April 16: Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, nobel literature award in 1968. (n. 1899)
• April 19: Manuel Gómez Morin, Mexican politician and lawyer (n. 1897).
• April 30: Clara Campoamor, Spanish politics (n. 1888).

May

• 2 May: J. Edgar Hoover, American politician (n. 1895).
• May 16: Felix Armando Núñez, poet, essayist and Venezuelan literary critic (n. 1897).
• 19 May:
  • Tanguito, Argentine singer.
  • Narcissus Alonso Cortés, poet, researcher and historian of Spanish literature.
• May 28: Eduardo VIII of the United Kingdom, British Monarch from January 22, 1936 to his abdication the same year, later he was known as the Duke of Windsor. (n. 1894)

June

• 12 June:
  • Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist.
  • Al Koran, British magician and mentalist (n. 1914).

July

• 2 July: Felipe Pirela, Venezuelan Bolero singer (n. 1941).
• July 5: Raúl Leoni, Venezuelan politician and president of Venezuela between 1964 and 1969 (n.1905).
• July 21st: Ralph Craig, American athlete.
• July 22: Max Aub, a Spanish writer (n. 1903).
• July 25: Américo Castro, Spanish historian.
• July 31: Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician.

August

• 3 August:
• August 7: Aspasia Manos, queen consort Greek.
• 22 August: guerrillas killed in the Massacre of Trelew:
  • Carlos Astudillo (n. 1944).
  • Eduardo Capello
  • Mario Emilio Delfino (n. 1942).
  • Alfredo Kohan
  • Susana Lesgart (22), a large guerrilla (n. 1949).
  • José Ricardo Mena
  • Michelangelo Polti (21), n. 1951.
  • Clarisa Lea Place
  • Mariano Pujadas
  • Carlos Alberto del Rey
  • María Angélica Sabelli
  • Humberto Suárez
  • Humberto Toschi
  • Alejandro Ulla
  • Ana María Villarreal de Santucho
• August 29: Rene Leibowitz, French composer.

September

• 5 September:
• September 10: Ann Elizabeth Hodges, an American woman who was beaten by the meteorite Sylacauga on November 30, 1954 (n. 1920).
• September 11: Max Fleischer, Polish and American animator who was created Betty Boop and Koko the clown and who took Popeye and the animated Superman to the movies (n. 1883).
• September 15: Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, an Icelandic politician and president between 1952 and 1968.
• September 23: Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (76), Mexican businessman (n. 1895).
• September 25: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet.

October

• October 28: Mitchell Leisen, American filmmaker.

November

• November 14: Elisa Griensen, Mexican patriot.
• 28 November:
  • Angel Tacuarita Brandazza, an Argentine social activist killed by the Army (n. 1949).
  • Sibylla de Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (n. 1908).
• November 29: Carl Stalling, and an American composer and arranger of cartoons. (n. 1891).
• 30 November:
  • Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian classic composer.
  • Compton Mackenzie, British writer.

December

• 1 December:
  • Antonio Segni, politician and Italian president between 1962 and 1964.
  • Ip Man (Real Name Yip Man, ∙), Master in Martial Art Wing Chun (n. 1893).
• December 2: José Limón, dancer, choreographer and Mexican dance teacher.
• December 9: William Dieterle, a filmmaker and an American actor of German origin.

Art and literature

• January 6: José María Carrascal gets the Nadal Award for his novel Groovy.

Science and technology

• The company Atari is founded in the United States.
• On November 26 the PONG game comes out for sale.
• At the end of the year the first video game console in history, the Magnavox Odyssey is released.

Astronautics

• March 3: launch of the soviet tube Cosmos 482 towards Venus, which failed by explosion in the orbit of the rocket to propel it.
• March 27: launch of the soviet space probe Venera 8 with Venus destination.

Sports

Olympic Games

• From 3 to 13 February the 11th Winter Olympic Games are held in Sapporo, Japan.
• From 26 August to 11 September the XX Summer Olympic Games are held in Munich, Germany.

Chess

• From 11 July to 1 September the World Chess Championship is held in Reikiavik, Ireland, which wins Bobby Fischer in front of the Soviet Borís Spaski.

Athletics

• On March 11th and 12th the 3rd European Championship of athletics on the covered track in the city of Grenoble, France

Football

• From 14 to 18 June, the fourth edition of the male Eurocopa of nations in Belgium was held, in which Federal Germany defeated the Soviet Union by 3-0.
• The Ajax wins its second consecutive European Cup by winning 2-0 to the Milan Inter in the final.
• Inter-American Cup: National is dedicated champion for the first time, defeating the Mexican Blue Cross in the end, obtaining its third international title.
• Sporting Cristal is crowned for the fifth time as a champion of the Peruvian football league.
• Uruguayan Football Championship: National is dedicated champion for the first time, obtaining its first tetracampeonate (1969-1970-1971-1972).
• Professional Colombian Football: Millionaires (10th time).
• Football: The All Boys Athletic Club is dedicated champion of the climbing tournament of Argentina and ascends to the first division.
• Ecuadorian Football Championship: Emelec is dedicated champion for the fourth time.
• Chilean Rodeo: Ubaldo García and Ricardo de la Fuentes campeones del Championship Nacional de Rodeo of 1972.
• Football: the San Lorenzo Atlético Club of Almagro is dedicated champion of the two tournaments that were played in the first category of Argentine football.
• Football: the Club Atlético Independiente de Argentina wins its third title of the Copa Libertadores playing against university.

Formula 1

• Emerson Fittipaldi is the world champion of Formula 1.

Tennis

• The XXI South American Swimming Championship is held in Arica, Chile.

Tennis

• Andrés Gimeno wins the Roland Garros Tournament in Paris by beating Frenchman Patrick Proisy.

Cinema

• Cabaret American film directed by Bob Fosse becomes one of the great musicals of all time, and gets 8 Oscars in the 45th edition of the Oscar Awards.
• Love after noon French film directed by Éric Rohmer.
• The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie French film directed by Luis Buñuel receives the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film in the 45th edition of the Oscar Awards.
• The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola wins the 3 Oscar in the 45th edition of the Oscar Awards among them to the Best Film; Marlon Brando rejects his award as the best actor; the film becomes a classic film.
• The last tango in Paris French film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci overcomes censorship in many countries while consecting Marlon Brando as one of the great actors, as it also appears in The godfather.
• State of siege French film directed by Costa-Gavras.
• Screams and whispers Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman.
• There was once a circus Argentine film directed by Enrique Carreras has as protagonists Gaby, Fofó and Miliki.
• The Poseidon Adventure American film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
• The Adventures of Jeremiah Johnson American film directed by Sydney Pollack.
• The print British film directed by Ronald Neame.
• Dreams of a seductive American film directed by Herbert Ross, and starred at Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.

Music

• It forms the quartet Björn " Benny, Agnetha " Fridathat later the name would be changed to ABBA.
• The group of northern cumbia "Armony 10" was founded by Juan de Dios Lozada Naquiche, in the city of Piura, Peru.

• Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You
• Albert Hammond - It Never Rains in Southern California
• Alice Cooper... School's Out
• Big Star - #1 Récord
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4
• Bread - Guitar Man
• Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
• David Bowie... The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• Deep Purple - Machine Head
• Eagles - The Eagles
• Elton John - Honky Chateau
• Foghat - Foghat
• Genesis - Foxtrot
• Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
• Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
• John Lennon - Some Time In New York City (September).
• José José - People in town, Whenever you want me
• July Churches - A song to Galicia
• King Crimson - Earthbound
• Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk 2
• Lou Reed - Transformer
• Michael Jackson - Ben
• Modules: I don't want to think of that love, Mari, Mari, Mari (single 5o)
• Modules: Plenitude (LP 3o)
• Modules: Great successes (LP)
• Neil Young - Harvest
• Nick Drake - Pink Moon♪
• Nino Bravo - A kiss and a flower
• Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift for You
• Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
• Randy Newman - Sail Away
• Roberto Carlos - A cat in the dark
• Silvana Di Lorenzo - Words, words
• Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
• Steely Dan... Can't Buy A Thrill
• Stevie Wonder - Talking Book, Music of my Mind
• The Beach Boys: Carl and the Passions - "So Tough"
• The Doors - Full Circle
• The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles
• The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
• Todd Rundgren -,Montalbano, Something/Anything?
• Storm - Like a girl and a boy
• Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
• Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
• Yes - Fragile, Close to the Edge

Festivals

• The 17th edition of the 17th edition of the Eurovision Song Festival in Edinburgh, United Kingdom United KingdomUnited Kingdom.
  • Winner: The singer Vicky Leandros with the song «Après toi» representing Ireland .

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer.
• Chemistry: Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore and William H. Stein.
• Medicine: Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter.
• Literature: Heinrich Böll.
• Peace: destined to the main fund.
• Economy: John Hicks and Kenneth Arrow.

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