1975

1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year beginning on a Wednesday according to the Gregorian calendar. He was designated as:

• The Year of Rabbit, according to the Chinese horoscope.
• The International Year of Women, by the United Nations, see also the World Conference on Women.

Events

January

• 5 January: at Lake Illawarra (Australia) the Tasmanian bridge is broken by a freighter; 12 people die.
• January 11: In Chile, the dictator Augusto Pinochet released Clodomiro Almeyda, Jorge Tapia Valdés and three other personalities from the Government of Salvador Allende.
• January 17: Former Colombian President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla died.
• January 19: earthquake in Himachal Pradesh (India): 36 people die.

February

• 1 February: In the Near Islands in Alaska, there is a strong earthquake of 7.6 causing serious damage and several injuries.
• February 3: in Cali, Colombia, the FARC kidnapped the honorary consul of the Netherlands in that city.
• 4 February: At 19:36 local time there is a strong earthquake of 7.5 in the Chinese city of Haicheng causing the death of 2,000 people.
• February 5: in Lima (Peru) the Tacnazo begins.
• 5 February: In Argentina, the Operative Independence begins, which will extend until 28 September 1977. The counterinsurgency operation included fighting and repressive acts against the guerrilla organizations Revolutionary People’s Army (ERP)—which sought to install a “revolutionary focus” on the Tucuman Mount—and Montoneros, political parties, trade unions, student and religious organizations, and popular activists in general.
• February 7: In Argentina, members of the armed group Montoneros murder Antonio Muscat, director of the Alba factory.
• 8 February: the presidents of Chile and Bolivia, the dictator Augusto Pinochet and General Hugo Banzer respectively subscribe to the Charaña Agreement, re-establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
• February 10: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, President Isabel Martínez de Perón decides that the Argentine Army will intervene against the massive guerrillas; that decision will unleash the illegal repression.
• February 11: In the UK, Margaret Thatcher is elected president of the British Conservative Party.
• February 11: In Antananarivo (Madagascar) Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, president since February 5.
• February 18: The Italian Constitutional Court admits therapeutic abortion.
• February 23: The Holy See rebukes Hans Küng (theology professor at the University of Tubinga) for his controversial thesis.
• February 28: In London, a subway train hits the wall at the end of the line, at Moorgate station, causing 44 deaths.

March

• March 1st: in Australia the broadcasts of color television begin.
• March 3: In Spain an attack was carried out against the monument of the Cross of the Caídos.
• 4 March: In the UK, Queen Isabel II named actor Charlie Chaplin a gentleman.
• March 6: The Algiers Agreements between Iran and Iraq are produced, establishing the border between the two countries, in particular along the Arvand or Shatt al-Arab river fence to the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
• 8 March: the United Nations proclaims International Women ' s Day.
• March 13, the first Chili's restaurant opens.
• March 21: In the Great Buenos Aires (Argentina) the Triple A perpetrates the massacre of Pasco against militants of the Peronist Youth.
• 22 March: in Stockholm, Sweden, the song Ding A Dong from Teach In wins the XX edition of Eurovision by the Netherlands.
• March 25: In Saudi Arabia, King Fisteal is murdered by a nephew.

April

• April 2: in Tegucigalpa, President Oswaldo López Arellano is replaced as head of the Armed Forces.
• April 2nd: In Argentina, large guerrillas kill a lieutenant colonel of the army.
• April 3: Bobby Fischer refuses to defend his title as a world chess champion before Anatoly Karpov.
• April 4: In the United States, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company software Microsoft.
• April 9: The Beatles Co. society is dissolved by a supreme court in a private hearing, thus marking the official and legal dissolution of the rock band The Beatles.
• April 7: In Spain, Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta and José Antonio Girón de Velasco request the approval of the name of the Spanish Falange of the JONS, to constitute a political association.
• 17 April: in Cambodia, the Fall of Phnom Penh occurs, where the guerrillas of the Red Jemers led by Pol Pot take the capital and immediately begins a massive evacuation of the place that would be the prelude of the Democratic Kampuchea and later the Cambodian Genocide.

The Red Jemeres led by Pol Pot came to power with the Fall of Phnom Penh which meant the end of the Cambodian civil war that struck that country since 1967, however, the radical ideologies of the new government had serious consequences, one of them would be the beginning of the Cambodian Genocide.

• April 20: Inauguration of the Monumental Stadium of the Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo de Chile
• April 30: with the fall of Saigon the war of Vietnam ends.

May

• 2 May: Law 14/75 was enacted in Spain, which changed the legal situation of married women, and the work of the jurist Maria Telo was decisive.
• May 12: In Cambodia, the Red Jemers hijack the merchant ship SS Mayagüez in international waters.
• May 15: In Cambodia, the hostages are released by the guerrillas, but the U.S. army, unaware of the fact, addresses the empty boat. On the island of Koh Tang, in battles between the U.S. Marines and the Red Jemers, 60 Jemeres, 38 U.S. Marines die, and three other Marines were forgotten during the evacuation of the island (and possibly killed by the Jemers).
• 16 May: In the Himalayas, after a referendum, Sikkim ceases to be a monarchy and becomes the twenty-second state of India.
• May 16: In Nepal, the Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei (1939-) is the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest.
• May 27: Near North Yorkshire (north England) the Dibble accident happens; 32 people die. It's the most victimized accident in the history of the UK.
• 28 May: in Lagos, Nigeria, 15 African countries sign the Lagos Treaty, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

June

• June 5: The Suez Canal is opened again after the Six-Day War.
• June 25: Mozambique is independent of Portugal.

July

• July 5: Cape Verde is independent of Portugal.
• July 5: In England, Arthur Ashe is the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon Championship.
• July 6: Comoros is independent of France.
• July 9: A 4.6 earthquake shakes the state of Minnesota.
• 12 July: Sao Tome and Principe is independent of Portugal.
• July 17: inauguration of the 30th edition of the Americas Cup for the first time this tournament was not held in a fixed country.
• 22 July: in the Sevillian town of Paradas (Spain) the Crime of Los Galindos, committed in the court of the same name and where 5 people were killed.
• July 30: in El Salvador, Colonel Carlos Humberto Romero (who will be president of the country two years later) ordered a massacre of students from the University of El Salvador.
• July 30: In the United States, unionist Jimmy Hoffa disappeared.

August

• August 1-10: South Pacific Games 1975 in Tumon, Guam.
• 2 August: in Spain, the GRAPO commits their first murder. The victim is a civilian guard named Casimiro Sánchez García.
• August 20: The United States launches Viking 1 probe to Mars.
• August 29: in Peru, Francisco Morales Bermúdez leads a coup against the government of President Juan Velasco Alvarado. The next day the new president of Peru is self-proclaimed.
• August 31: El Salvador violates the ceasefire with Honduras, following the agreement signed in Guatemala.

September

Number of Line 1 of the Santiago Metro.

• September 5: In the Luna Park stadium (Buenos Aires), the Sui Generis group (formed by Charly García and Nito Mestre) is separated, giving a great recital called Bye Sui Generis.
• September 6th: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:00 (local time), the United States detonates to 427 m underground its 7 kt Marsh atomic bomb. It is the 851 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• September 15: In Santiago de Chile the first section of the Metro line 1 is opened.
• September 16: Papua New Guinea is independent of Australia.
• 27 September: in Spain the Francoist dictatorship executes the last shootings:3 members of the FRAP and 2 members of the ETA terrorist gang.
• 28 September: in Vatican City, Pope Paul VI canonizes the Spanish religious John Macías (1585-1645).
• September 29: in Barcelona (Spain) GRAPO kills a member of the armed police.

October

• October 1st GRAPO attack in Spain. Four members of the Armed Police die.
• 6 October: in Rome, Italy, at 20:20, a group of Italian fascist mercenaries paid by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ascribed to the exiled democratic ex-vice president of Chile, Bernardo Leighton (1909-1995), leaving him with grave wounds; his wife Anita Fresno (1915-2011) will be paraplegic.
• October 12th: The 7th Pan-American Games, of which Mexico is the venue to replace Chile, are opened.
• 16 October: Peru approves the general basic alphabet of the Quechua language.
• October 20: Two trains are crashing at the Viaducto station of Mexico City Metro Line 2, causing at least 30 dead and 70 injured.
• October 24: in a tunnel 328 meters underground, in the U12t.03 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:11 (local time) United States detonates its Husky Pup atomic bomb, less than 15 kt. It is the 853 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• October 28: in a tunnel 1265 meters underground, in the U20z area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 (local time) United States detonates its 1000 kt Kasseri atomic bomb. It is the 854 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• October 28: The American Cup ends in Caracas (Venezuela) and Peru is Champion for the second Vez after winning Colombia 1-0
• October 30th: in Spain Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón internly assumes the Spanish Head of State, due to illness of General Francisco Franco.
• October 31st: Queen's most successful song "Bohemian Rhapsody" is on sale.

November

• 3 November: there is the mining accident of Fígols (Spain), which leaves a balance of 30 dead.
• 6 November: invasion of Western Sahara by Morocco, in what was called Green march.

Moroccan ticket of 100 dirham commemorating the event of the Green March.

• 10 November: near Snowflake (Arizona), the forest employee Travis Walton reappears (after five days of disappearance), which was believed to be abducted by aliens.
• 11 November: Angola declares its independence from Portugal
• 14 November: The Madrid Declaration was signed between Spain, Morocco and Mauritania, by which Spain transferred the administration of Western Sahara.
• 15 November: in San Juan (Puerto Rico), the song Happiness by Gualberto Castro wins for Mexico the fourth edition of the OTI Festival.
• 20 November: in Spain, dictator Francisco Franco dies. The Francoist dictatorship ends and the transition begins.
• November 21st: The musical album of the British band Queen A Night at the Opera was published, which included the successful "Bohemian Rhapsody".
• 22 November: in Spain, Juan Carlos de Borbón is proclaimed king of Spain by the Courts.
• 25 November: In South America, Suriname is independent of the Netherlands. Johan Ferrier is appointed president
• 29 November:
  • In Hawaii there is a strong earthquake of 7.4 that generates a large tsunami with waves of up to 14 meters that leave 2 dead and 28 wounded.
  • Indonesia invades East Timor.
  • British atonement Graham Hill dies.

December

• December 20: in a well 716 meters underground, in the U2ek area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 12:00 (local time) United States detonates its 160 kt Chiberta atomic bomb. It is the 860 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• December 24: The British group Queen gives a legendary performance in the Christmas special organized by the BBC in the auditorium Hammersmith Odeon in the city of London, later the presentation comes out in the live album of the band called A Night at the Odeon - Hammersmith Odeon 1975 published in November 2015

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Cube of Rubik

• In Hungary, Ernö Rubik patents the Rubik cube that he had designed the previous year.
• In Argentina, General Alberto Numa Laplane is replaced by a putsch by Jorge Rafael Videla, who on March 24, 1976 will lead a coup against President María Estela Martínez de Perón.

Births

Jose Antonio Lopez Garcia

January

• January 1st: Eiichirō Oda, Japanese mangaka.
• 2 January:
  • Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, Ukrainian footballer.
  • Vladislav Vashchuk, Ukrainian footballer.
  • Douglas Robb, American singer, rock band Hoobastank.
  • Beate Zschäpe, German ultra-rightist.
• 3 January:
  • Thomas Bangalter, French musician, from the Daft Punk band.
  • Danica McKellar, American actress.

Bradley Cooper

• 5 January:
  • Bradley Cooper, American actor.
  • Emerson Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 6 January:
  • Daniela Krukower, Argentinian Yudoca.
  • Josico Moreno, Spanish footballer.
• January 7: Joubert Araújo Martins, Brazilian footballer.
• 8 January:
  • Geremi González, Venezuelan baseball player (f. 2008).
  • Kazushi Isoyama, Japanese footballer.
• January 10: Raúl Fernández de Pablo, a Spanish actor.
• January 11: Matteo Renzi, Italian Prime Minister.
• January 14: Alberto Olmos, Spanish writer.
• 15 January:
  • Valerio Bertotto, Italian footballer.
  • Diego Lombardi, Peruvian actor.
• January 17: Patrick Zwaanswijk, Dutch footballer.
• 21 January:
  • Nicky Butt, British footballer.
  • María Luisa Alonso, Spanish-Venezuelan policy.
• January 22: Jonatan Binotto, Italian footballer.
• January 23: Inés Oviedo, Colombian actress.
• 24 January:
  • Gianluca Basile, Italian basketball player.
  • Rónald Gómez, soccer player and Costa Rican coach.
• January 25: Markus Schroth, German footballer.
• 28 January:
  • Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese seiyū.
  • Julian Dean, New Zealand cyclist.
  • Pablo Zalba, Spanish politician.
• January 29: Javier Jáuregui, Spanish footballer.
• 30 January:
  • Andrés Montiel, Mexican actor.
  • Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer.
  • Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer.
  • Giacomo Galanda, Italian basketball player.

February

• February 2: Blaise Kouassi, Ivorian footballer.
• February 3: Gustavo Duque, Venezuelan politician
• 4 February: Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer.
• 5 February:
  • Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer.
  • Adam Carson, American drummer of the AFI band.
• February 7: Wes Borland, American guitarist of the band Limp Bizkit.

Ricardo Orrego

• 8 February:
  • Clarence Acuña, Chilean footballer.
  • Ricardo Orrego, Colombian sports journalist.
  • Patrizia Panico, Italian footballer.
• February 9: Sergio Fernández Álvarez, Spanish footballer.
• February 10: Yuriy Dmitrulin, Ukrainian footballer.
• 14 February:
  • Claudia Blasberg, German shirt.
  • Nika Gilauri, Georgian politician.
  • Mirka France, Cuban volleyballist.
  • Marcos Antônio de Lima, Brazilian footballer.
  • Leandro Fonseca, Brazilian footballer.
• 16 February:
  • Jordi Dot Vila, football player and Spanish coach.
  • Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer.
• 18 February:
  • Gary Neville, British footballer.
  • Serhiy Fedorov, Ukrainian footballer.
• February 19: Jackie Garcia, Cuban actress and driver.
• 20 February:
  • Brian Littrell, American singer, from the Backstreet Boys band.
  • Rahman Rezaei, a footballer and an Iranian coach.
• February 21: Sergio Martínez, Argentine boxer.

Drew Barrymore

• February 22: Drew Barrymore, American actress.
• 23 February:
  • Natalia Verbeke, Spanish actress.
  • Alvaro Morte, Spanish actor.
  • Ryōko Nagata, Japanese seiyū.
• February 24: Jiří Snítil, Czech curling player.
• February 25: Chiemi Chiba, Japanese seiyū.
• 26 February:
  • Carolina Gómez, Colombian actress and model.
  • Sergio de la Puente, pianist and Spanish composer.
  • Drew Goddard, American filmmaker
• 28 February:
  • Elijah Tana, Zambian footballer.
  • Mette Nielsen, Danish swimmer.
  • Josep Sucarrats Miró, Spanish journalist.

March

• 2 March: Florence de la V (Florence Trinidad), actress and Vedette Argentinian.
• March 4: Guísela Santa Cruz, Bolivian singer and folklorist.

Aracely Arámbula

• March 6: Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer.
• 8 March:
  • Jenny Cavallo, Chilean actress.
  • Ana Karina Casanova, Venezuelan actress and model.
• 9 March:
  • Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine soccer player.
  • Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer.
• March 12: Mr.đan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer.
• 13 March: Erika de La Vega, Venezuelan TV presenter.
• 14 March: Fredrik Ericsson, Swedish mountaineer (f. 2010).

Will.i.am

• 15 March:
  • Will.I.am, American rapper.
  • Eva Longoria, American actress.
  • Susana Soleto, Spanish actress.
• March 16: Sienna Guillory, British actress.
• 18 March:
  • Anita Martínez, actress, comedian, dancer and Argentine television driver.
  • Beverly Peele, American model and actress.
  • Rita Bürgi, Swiss cyclist.
  • Ester Workel, a Dutch shirt.
• March 19: Vivian Hsu, actress, model and Taiwanese singer.
• March 20: Arath de la Torre, Mexican actor and comedian.
• March 21st: Ismael Irurzun, Spanish footballer.
• 22 March:
  • Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player.
  • Anne Dudek, American actress.
  • Bea Segura, Spanish actress.
• 24 March:
  • Arturo Valls, Spanish actor.
  • Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player.
  • Davor Vugrinec, Croatian footballer.
• March 25: Lisa Stokke, Norwegian singer.
• March 26: Roberto Bolle, Italian dancer.
• March 27: Fergie, American singer and actress.
• 28 March:
  • April Flowers, American porn actress.
  • Ivan Helguera, Spanish footballer.
• March 31: Juan Carlos Dávila, actor and Venezuelan humorist.

April

• April 1: José Antonio García Calvo, Spanish footballer.
• April 2: Adam Rodriguez, American actor.
• April 4: Scott Rolen, American baseball player.
• April 6: Mathías Nolesi, Argentine motor racing pilot.
• 10 April:
  • Chris Carrabba, American singer, Dashboard Confessional band.
  • April 10: David Harbour, American actor.
• April 12: Camila Morgado, Brazilian actress.
• April 13: Lou Bega, German singer.
• April 14: Amy Dumas, American fighter.
• April 15: Adolfo Cambiaso, Argentine polo player.
• April 16: Mónica Martínez, model and presenter Spanish.
• 17 April:
  • Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor.
  • April 17: Stefano Fiore, Italian footballer.
  • April 17: José Luis Martínez-Almeida, a Spanish politician (current mayor of Madrid).
  • April 17: Miguel de Miguel, Spanish actor and musician.
• April 21: Sebastián Cejas, Argentine soccer player.
• April 22: Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist and Tour de France winner

Joey Jordison

• April 24: Nora Navas, Spanish actress.
• April 26: Joey Jordison, American drummer, Slipknot band (f. 2021).
• April 28: José Luis Martí, Spanish footballer.
• 29 April:
  • Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player.
  • Nicmer Evans, Venezuelan polytologist.

May

• 1 May:
  • Felipe Szarruk, a Colombian-Saudian musician.
  • Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (f. 2003).
• 2 May: David Beckham, British footballer.
• 3 May:
  • Ximo Cerdà, professor, scientist, writer and Spanish illustrator.
  • Valentino Lanús, Mexican actor and model.
• 4 May: Óscar Jaenada, Spanish actor.
• May 8: Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer.
• 9 May:
  • Juan Antonio Bayona, Spanish filmmaker.
  • Barbara Torres, Mexican nationalized Argentine actress.

Hélio Castroneves

• May 10: Hélio Castroneves, a Brazilian motor racing driver.
• 12 May:
  • Jonah Lomu, New Zealander.
  • Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, Colombian lawyer and politician.
• 13 May:
  • Andrés Palacios, Chilean actor.
  • Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress.
  • Raquel Infante, Spanish actress.
• May 16: Tony Kakko, Finnish power metal singer.
• May 18: Jack Johnson, American musician.
• May 21: Laurent Robert, French footballer.
• May 22: Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer.
• 25 May:
  • Keiko Fujimori, a Peruvian businessman and politics.
  • Chris Durán, French singer.
  • Victoria Foust, Russian pianist
• May 26: Lauryn Hill, rapper, singer, actress and American record producer
• May 27: Paco Álvarez, singer, film director and Mexican writer.
• May 29: Melanie Brown, British singer.
• May 30: Liberto Rabal, Spanish actor and filmmaker.
• May 31: Sandra Reyes, Colombian actress.

June

Angelina Jolie

• 4 June:
  • Angelina Jolie, American actress.
  • Russell Brand, British actor and comic.
• 5 June:
  • Jonathan Bachini, Italian footballer.
  • Sandra Beltrán, Colombian actress and model.
• 6 June:
  • Anabel Conde, Spanish singer.
  • Staci Keanan, American actress.
• June 7: Allen Iverson, American basketball player.
• June 11: Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model.
• June 13: Ante Covic, Australian footballer.
• June 17: Juan Carlos Valerón, Spanish footballer.
• June 18: Avery John, footballer trinitense.
• 19 June:
  • Hugh Dancy, British actor and model.
  • Pedro Munitis, Spanish footballer.
  • Anthony Parker, American basketball player.
• June 20: Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player.
• June 23: KT Tunstall, British singer.

Chenoa

• 25 June:
  • Chenoa, Spanish singer.
  • Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress.
• June 26: Jean-Paul Abalo, Togolese footballer.
• 27 June:
  • Asier Etxeandía, Spanish actor.
  • Tobey Maguire, American actor.
  • Esteban Suárez, Spanish footballer.
• June 28: Richard Hidalgo, Venezuelan baseball player.
• June 30: Ralf Schumacher, German Formula 1 pilot.

July

• 1 July:
  • Ingrid Cruz, Chilean actress.
  • Sufjan Stevens, American musician and singer.
• July 5: Hernán Crespo, Argentine soccer player.
• 6 July:
  • 50 Cent, American rapper.
  • Sebastian Rulli, Argentine actor.
• 9 July:
  • Jack White, American band singer The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.
  • Gaizka Garitano, Spanish footballer.
• 10 July:
  • Ruth Gabriel, Spanish actress.
  • Stefan Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (f. 2018).
• 11 July:
  • Samer El Nahhal, a Finnish actor and musician of the Lordi band.
  • Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer.
• July 12: Carolina Kasting, Brazilian actress.
• July 13: Ángel Morales Cuerva, Spanish footballer.
• July 14: Taboo, American rapper
• 16 July:
  • Ana Paula Arósio, actress and Brazilian model.
  • Manuel Sanhouse, Venezuelan footballer.

Elena Anaya

• 17 July:
  • Cécile de France, Belgian actress.
  • Daffney, professional fighter, American actress and manager (f. 2021).
  • Elena Anaya, Spanish actress.
• July 18: Daron Malakian, American guitarist, from the System of a Down band.
• 19 July:
  • Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer.
  • Patricia Ja Lee, American actress.
• 20 July:
  • Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Argentine soccer player.
  • Quique Alvarez, Spanish footballer.
  • Ray Allen, American basketball player.
  • Judy Greer, American actress.
• July 23: Alessio Tacchinardi, Italian footballer.
• July 24: Eric Szmanda, American actor and filmmaker.
• July 26: Liz truss, British politics (now the first minister of the United Kingdom).

Álex Rodríguez

• July 27: Álex Rodríguez, a Dominican American baseball player.
• July 28: Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer.
• July 29: Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer.
• July 30: John Reardon, actor and Canadian university football player.
• 31 July:
  • Manuel Busto, Spanish penguin.
  • Diana Angel, Colombian actress and singer.
  • Jodi Ann Paterson, American model.

August

Isabel Macedo

• 2 August: Isabel Macedo, an Argentine actress.
• August 3: Laura Términi, Venezuelan actress and speaker.
• 4 August:
  • Daniella van Graas, model and Dutch actress.
  • Fabiano Cezar Viegas, Brazilian footballer.
• 5 August:
  • Kajol, Indian actress.
  • Eicca Toppinen, a Dutch cellist.
  • Ada Milea, Romanian actress and singer.
  • Iddo Goldberg, an Israeli actor.
• August 6: Renate Götschl, Austrian skier.
• 7 August:
  • Charlize Theron, South African actress.
  • Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player.
  • Megan Gale, Australian model.
• 8 August:
  • Makoto Tanaka, Japanese footballer.
  • Alma Cero, actress, dancer, driver, singer and Mexican comedian.
• August 11: Kishō Taniyama, voice actor, Japanese singer and composer.
• 13 August: Laura Ferretti, an Argentine actress.
• 14 August:
  • Valentina Rendon, Colombian actress.
  • Raúl Otxoa, Spanish footballer.
  • Ricardo Silva Romero, Colombian writer.
  • Matti Helminen, Finnish cyclist.
  • Alex Felipe Nery, Brazilian footballer.
  • Nicolas Entel, director of Argentine cinema.
  • Kang Eui-Kei, South Korean Yudoca.
• August 15: Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer.
• August 17: İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer.
• 18 August:
  • Aitor López Rekarte, Spanish footballer.
  • Shery, Guatemalan singer.
• August 19: Adriana Romero, television actress and Venezuelan theatre.
• August 20: Luis Carreño Pinango, actor of hem and Venezuelan locutor.
• August 21: Alicia Witt, American actress.
• 22 August:
  • Franco Squillari, Argentine tennis player.
  • Salvador Carmona, Mexican footballer.
• August 24: James D'Arcy, British actor.
• 27 August:
  • Mario Gibanel, Spanish footballer.
  • Mark Rudan, Australian footballer.
  • Roberto Arrocha, Spanish journalist.
• August 28: Yūko Gotō, voice actress and Japanese singer.

Dante Basco

• 29 August:
  • Juan Diego Botto, Spanish-Argentine actor.
  • Dante Basco, double actor, rap singer, Filipino poet and dancer
• 30 August:
  • Roberto Carretero, Spanish tennis player.
  • Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer.
  • Krzysztof Jeżowski, Polish cyclist.
• August 31: Sara Ramírez, American actress.

September

• September: Stephen Rippy, American composer of soundtracks.
• September 1: Maritza Rodríguez, actress, model and Colombian presenter.
• September 3: Scarlett Linares, Venezuelan singer of plain music.
• September 8: Richard Hughes, British drummer, of the Keane band.
• September 9: Michael Bublé, Canadian singer.
• September 15: Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese footballer.
• September 16: Antonio Hortelano, Spanish actor.
• 17 September:
  • Jimmie Johnson, American car pilot.
  • Toks Olagundoye, Nigerian actress.

Juan Pablo Montoya

• September 20: Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian Formula 1 pilot.
• 21 September:
  • Lil Rob, Mexican-American rapper.
  • Ronny Deila, Norwegian soccer player and coach.
  • Marcelo Goux, Argentine soccer player.
  • Catherine Murphy, British athlete.
  • Kaisa Varis, a Finnish background skier.
  • Anna Marissa de Leon, Filipino taekwondista.
  • Gorka Villar, Spanish lawyer.
  • Craig Thompson, American hysterist.
• September 22: Freddy Grisales, Colombian footballer.
  • Javier López Vallejo, Spanish footballer.
• 23 September:
  • Kip Pardue, American actor and model.
  • Laurent Batlles, French footballer.
  • Jaime Bergman, American model and actress.
  • Demetrio Lozano, Spanish basketball player.
  • César Mateos, Mexican politician.
  • Walid Regragui, football player and Franco-Marroquí coach.
• September 26: Jake Paltrow, American filmmaker.
• September 28: Karan Ashley, American actress.
• 29 September:
  • Albert Celades, footballer and Spanish coach.
  • Nadia Erika Valenzuela, Argentine writer and journalist.
• 30 September:
  • Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player.
  • Marion Cotillard, French actress.

October

• October 2: Antonio Gallego Burgos, Spanish politician and economist.
• October 3: Alanna Ubach, American actress.
• 4 October:
  • Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer.
  • Sandra Barneda, Spanish journalist.

Kate Winslet

• 5 October:
  • Kate Winslet, British actress.
  • Parminder Nagra, British actress.
  • Scott Weinger, American actor and producer.
• October 6: Inés Sainz Esteban, Spanish model.
• 9 October:
  • Sean Lennon, British singer and musician, son of John Lennon.
  • Mark Viduka, Australian footballer.
• October 10: Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer.
• October 11: Nat Faxon, American actor and humorist.
• 14 October: Shaznay Lewis, British singer.
• October 15: Denys Shmyhal, Ukrainian politician and businessman, Act. Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2020.
• October 16: Mar Saura, Spanish actress.
• October 18: Daniel Rodrigo Martins, actor and driver of Argentine TV.
• October 19: Carlos de la Mota, architect, actor and Dominican singer.
• October 20: Diego Fiori, Italian film producer.
• October 22: Michel Salgado, Spanish footballer.
• October 24: Juan Pablo Angel, Colombian ex-futbolist.
• October 27: Zadie Smith, British writer.

Scutaro Framework

• October 30: Marco Scutaro, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 31 October:
  • Fabio Celestini, Swiss footballer.
  • Diaw Doudou, Senegalese footballer.

November

• November 1st: Manuel Ferrara, American film actor.
• 3 November: Marta Domínguez exatleta española.
• November 6: Mayumi Shintani, Japanese actress and seiyū.
• 8 November:
  • Angel Corella, Spanish dancer.
  • José Manuel Pinto, football player and Spanish music producer.
  • Tara Reid, American actress.
• 12 November:
  • Dario Šimić, Croatian footballer.
  • Edvin Murati, Albanian footballer.
• 13 November:
  • Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer.
  • Cristina Saavedra, Spanish journalist.
• 14 November: Travis Barker, American musician, Blink-182 band.
• 15 November: Boris Živković, Croatian nationalized Bosnian footballer.
• 16 November: Dani Borreguero, Spanish footballer.
• 17 November:
  • Ewan MacDonald, British curling player.
  • Lord Infamous, American rapper.
  • Jerome James, American basketball player.
  • Seigo Shimokawa, Japanese footballer.
  • Anders Anundsen, Norwegian politician.
• 18 November:
  • David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player.
  • Misstress Barbara, Italian DJ.
  • Renée Varsi, Mexican actress.
• November 20: Davey Havok American singer, AFI band.
• November 21: Carolina Escobar, Chilean journalist and presenter.
• 30 November:
  • Ben Thatcher, British footballer.
  • Mehrdad Minavand, a footballer and an Iranian trainer (f. 2021).

Eugenia Tobal

• 30 November: Eugenia Tobal, actress and presenter of Argentine television.

December

• 2 December:
  • Samo, Mexican singer and musician.
  • Gabriela Montaño, a medical and political Bolivian.
• 3 December:
  • Cristina Llanos, Spanish singer and guitarist, from the band Dover.
  • Luciano Siqueira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer.
• December 5: Ana La Salvia, Venezuelan actress and driver.
• December 7: Géraldine Zivic, actress and Argentine model.
• December 8: Kevin Harvick, American pilot.
• December 10: Josip Skoko, Australian footballer.
• 12 December:
  • Mayim Bialik, American actress, writer and doctor.
  • Craig Moore, Australian footballer.
• December 13: Tom DeLonge, American musician, Blink-182.
  • Javi Venta, Spanish footballer.
  • Alain Hernández, Spanish actor.
• December 15: Cosmin Contra, footballer and Romanian coach.

Milla Jovovich

• 17 December:
  • Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian actress.
  • Nick Dinsmore, American fighter.
• 18 December:
  • Sia, Australian singer.
  • Trish Stratus, Canadian fighter.
• 19 December:
  • Nicolas Saavedra, Chilean actor.
  • Olga Rodríguez, journalist, researcher and Spanish writer.
• 20 December:
  • Ignacio Escolar, Spanish journalist.
  • Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer.
• 21 December:
  • Charles Michel, Belgian Prime Minister.
  • Natalia Hernández, Spanish actress.
• December 22: Marvin Andrews, footballer trinitense.

Marcelo Rios

• 26 December:
  • Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player.
  • María Vasco, exatleta española specialist in athletic march.
• December 27: Heather O'Rourke, a child actress (f. 1988).
• December 29: Teresa Perales, swimmer, ex-politics and Spanish writer.
• 30 December:
  • Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer.
  • Tiger Woods, American golfer.
• 31 December:
  • Sendoa Agirre, Spanish footballer.
  • Reagan Foxx, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
  • Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer.
  • Mikko Sirén, Finnish drummer, of the Apocalyptic band.

Unknown dates

• Ali Al Jallawi, Bareinian poet.
• Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Indian computer.
• Maria Llopis, feminist artist.

Deaths

January

• 4 January: Carlo Levi, Italian writer and painter (n. 1902).
• January 11: Max Lorenz, German tenor (n. 1901).
• January 11: Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, comediagraph, diplomat and Spanish journalist (n. 1897).
  

  Speech by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla at the Casa de Nariño, after assuming the presidency through a coup d'etat.
• January 17: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, militar, engineer and Colombian president between 1953 and 1957 (n. 1900).
• January 24: Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (n. 1902).
• January 26: Sergio Salvador, Paraguayan footballer (n. 1907).
• January 29: Eduardo Márquez Talledo, Peruvian composer (n. 1902).

February

• February 10: Nikos Kavvadías, Greek poet (n. 1910).
• February 10: Dave Alexander, former bass player of the American band The Stooges (n. 1947).
• 11 February: Richard Ratsimandrava (43), Malagasy president; assassinated (n. 1931).
• February 12: P. G. Wodehouse (93), American-English writer (n. 1881).
• February 26: Francisco Laureana (22), young Argentinean, accused of being a serial killer; ascribed by the police (n. 1952).

March

• March 2: Salvador Mestres, author of comics and Spanish illustrator (n. 1910).
• March 7: Mikhail Bajtín, Soviet literary critic and linguist (n. 1895).
• March 8: George Stevens, a filmmaker, producer and American screenwriter (n. 1904).
• March 16: T-Bone Walker, American guitarist (n. 1910).

April

• 4 April: Albert Rudomine, French photographer (n. 1892).

Chiang Kai-shek

• April 5: Chiang Kai-shek, military, statesman and Chinese dictator (n. 1887).
• April 12: Joséphine Baker, dancer, cabaretera and Franco-American actress (n. 1906).
• 13 April: François Tombalbaye, Chadian President (n. 1918).
• April 14: Fredric March, American actor (n. 1897).
• April 24: Pete Ham, guitarist, composer, singer (n. 1947).

May

• 4 May: Moe Howard, American actor (n. 1897).
• May 10: Roque Dalton, Salvadoran political poet and activist (n. 1935).
• May 18: Aníbal Troilo, an Argentine musician (n. 1914).
• May 18: Kasimir Fajans, American chemical and physical (n. 1887).
• May 28: Ezzard Charles, American fighter, died of ELA (n. 1921).

June

• June 3: Hermann Busch, German cellist (n. 1897).
• June 5: Paul Keres, Estonian chessman (n. 1916).
• June 13: José María Guido, Argentine lawyer and politician (n. 1910).
• June 20: Marisa Villardefrancos, Spanish writer (n. 1915).
• June 26: Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, Spanish priest (n. 1902).
• June 26: Román Fresnedo Siri, Uruguayan architect (n. 1903).
• 29 June: Dionisio Ridruejo, Spanish writer and politician (n. 1912).

July

• July 14: Héctor Pavez, Chilean singer (n. 1932).

August

• August 6: Alfonso de Orleans, Infante and Spanish Military Aviator (n. 1886).
• August 9, Dmitri Shostakóvich, director of Soviet orchestra and composer (n. 1906).
• August 19: Argentino Larrabure, an Argentine military officer kidnapped for one year (n. 1932).
• 27 August: Haile Selassie, the last Ethiopian emperor (n. 1892).
• August 29: Éamon de Valera, Irish politician (n. 1882).

September

• September 10: George Paget Thomson, British physicist (n. 1892).
• September 15: Carlos Conti, Spanish writer and cartoonist (n. 1916).

October

• October 6: Henry Calvin, actor, lyric singer and texan comedian (n. 1918).
• October 7th: Antonio Welcome, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1922).
• October 9: Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (n. 1910).
• 27 October: Angela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher and writer, inventor of the Mechanical Encyclopedia (n. 1895).
• October 30: Gustav Hertz, German physicist (n. 1887).

November

Pier Paolo Pasolini

• November 2: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and filmmaker (n. 1922).
• 5 November: Augustine Tosco, Argentine trade union leader (n. 1930).
• 10 November: Manuel Aznar, journalist, politician and Spanish diplomat (n. 1894).
• November 20: Francisco Franco, Spanish military, dictator between 1939 and 1975 (n. 1892).
• 21 November: Luis Felipe Vivanco, Spanish poet (n. 1907).
• November 29: Graham Hill, British Car Pilot (n. 1929).

December

• 4 December: Hannah Arendt, philosopher and German sociologist (n. 1906).
• 4 December: Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (79) (n. 1896).
• December 8: Raimundo Martin, Mexican bishop.
• December 25: Gaston Gallimard, French editor (n. 1881).
• December 28: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (n. 1900).

Art and literature

Planet Award

• Winner: The gangrene Mercedes Salisachs.
• Finalist: The African Bird Victor Alba.

Nadal Award

• Francisco Umbral by The nymphs.

Pulitzer Prize

• Novel: Michael Shaara for The Killer Angels.
• Poetry: Gary Snyder for Turtle Island.

Science and technology

Astronautics

• April 19: launch of the first Indian artificial satellite, Aryabhata.
• June 8: launch of the Soviet space probe Venera 9 to Venus.
• 14 June: launch of the Soviet space probe Venera 10 to Venus.

Forensic Sciences

• 28 November: Doctor Luis Rafael Moreno González founded the Mexican Academy of Criminalistics in Mexico City.

Sports

Pan American Games

• The Pan American Games are held in Mexico City.

Chess

• The great American teacher Bobby Fischer yields his title as World Champion to Anatoly Karpov after his defeat.

Athletics

• 8-9 March VI European Athletic Championship in Pista Cubierta: held in Katowice, Poland.

Motor Racing

• Formula 1:
  • Pilot Championship:
  1. Niki Lauda 64,5 sts.
  2. Emerson Fittipaldi 45 pts.
  3. Carlos Reutemann 37 sts.
  • Championship of builders:
  1. Ferrari 89.5 sts.
  2. McLaren-Ford 65 sts.
  3. Brabham-Ford 61 sts.
• World Rally Championship:
  • Constructor Championship:
  1. Lancia.
  2. Fiat.
  3. Alpine-Renault.

Basketball

• Eurobasket:

Yugoslavia.

Soviet Union.

Italy.

• European Cup: Ignis Varese.
• NBA: Vigesimonovena NBA season.
  • Playoffs: Golden State Warriors to Washington Bullets for 4-0.
  • MVP of the Season: Bob McAdoo.
  • Rookie of the Year: Jamaal Wilkes.
  • Coach of the Year: Phil Johnson
• Korac Cup: Forst Cantu.
• National League: Real Madrid.
• Basketball King Cup: Real Madrid.

Handball

• Copa de Europa de Balonmano: ASK Frankfurt/Oder.
• Honor Division: CB Calpisa.

Baseball

• Game of the Stars: The National League beats 6-3.
• Caribbean Series: Caguas Criollos
• In the Dominican Republic the Cibao Summer League is founded.

National competitions

• Venezuela: Venezuelan Professional Baseball League: Tigers of Aragua

Cycling

• Tour de France:

1. Bernard Thévenet.
2. Eddy Merckx.
3. Lucien Van Impe.

• Cycling return to Spain:

1. Augustine Tamames.
2. Peruvian Sunday.
3. Miguel María Lasa.

• Giro de Italia:

1. Fausto Bertoglio.
2. Francisco Galdós.
3. Felice Gimondi.

• World Tour Cycling Championship

Hennie Kuiper.

Roger De Vlaeminck.

Jean-Pierre Danguillaume.

• Milan-Turin: Wladimiro Panizza.
• Bordeaux-Paris: Herman Van Springel.
• Liege-Bastogne-Lieja: Eddy Merckx.
• Paris-Roubaix: Roger De Vlaeminck.
• Paris-Tours: Freddy Maertens.
• Giro de Lombardy: Francesco Moser.
• Milan-San Remo: Eddy Merckx.
• Volta to Catalonia: Fausto Bertoglio.
• Tour de Flandes: Eddy Merckx.
• Zurich Championship: Roger De Vlaeminck.
• Return to the Basque Country: José Antonio González Linares.
• Return to Asturias: Miguel María Lasa.
• Plouay Grand Prix: Cyrille Guimard.
• National Critérium: Jacques Esclassan.
• United Nations Grand Prix: Roy Schuiten.
• Paris-Niza: Joop Zoetemelk.
• Ghent-Wevelgem: Freddy Maertens.
• Flecha Valona: André Dierickx.
• Return to Aragón: Augustine Tamames.
• Omloop Het Volk: Joseph Bruyere.
• Classic Amorebieta: Antonio Martos.
• Dauphiné Libéré: Bernard Thévenet.
• Tour de Romandía: Francisco Galdós.
• Midi Libre: Francesco Moser.
• Grand Prix Navarra: José Nazábal.
• Four Days of Dunkirk: Freddy Maertens.
• Return to La Rioja: Javier Elorriaga.
• Catalan Week: Eddy Merckx.
• Up to Montjuic: Eddy Merckx.
• Amstel Gold Race: Eddy Merckx.
• Tyrrhenian-Adriatic: Roger de Vlaeminck.
• Up to Arrate: Francisco Galdós.

Football

Championships by national teams

• Copa America: Peru.

International Championships

• Intercontinental Cup: He did not dispute.
• CONCACAF Champions Cup: Athletic Spanish.
• Copa Libertadores de América: Independent.
• European Cup: Bayern of Munich.
• UEFA Cup: Borussia Mönchengladbach.
• European Super Cup: Dynamo Kiev.

National Championships

• Argentina:
  • Metropolitan Tournament: River Plate.
  • National Tournament: River Plate.
  • First B: Quilmes Atlético Club.
• Germany:
  • Bundesliga: Borussia Mönchengladbach.
• Brazil:
  • Series A: International.
• Chile:
  • First Division: Spanish Union.
  • First B: Catholic University.
• Colombia:
  • Professional Colombian Football: Independent Santa Fe.
• Costa Rica:
  • First Division: Deportivo Saprissa.
• Ecuador:
  • Series A: Quito League.
• Spain:
  • First Division: Real Madrid.
  • Second Division: Real Oviedo.
  • Copa del Generalísimo: Real Madrid.
• France:
  • Ligue 1: Saint-Étienne.
• England:
  • First Division: Derby County.
• Italy:
  • Series A: Juventus.
• Mexico:
  • First Division: Deportivo Toluca.
• Netherlands:
  • Eredivisie: PSV Eindhoven.
• Paraguay:
  • First Division: Olympia.
• Peru:
  • Peruvian Football League: Alianza Lima.
• Uruguay:
  • First Division: Peñarol.
• Venezuela:
  • First Division: Portuguesa Football Club.

Trophies

• Gold Boot: Dudu Georgescu.
• African Gold Ball: Ahmed Faras.

American Football

• Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers.

Golfing

• US Open: Lou Graham.
• Masters of Augusta: Jack Nicklaus.
• British Open: Tom Watson.
• PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus.

Motorcycling

• 500cc: Giacomo Agostini.
• 350cc: Johnny Cecotto.
• 250cc: Walter Villa.
• 125cc: Paolo Pileri.
• 50cc: Angel Nieto.

Tennis

• Open from Australia: John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong.
• Roland Garros: Björn Borg and Chris Evert.
• Wimbledon: Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King.
• United States Open: Manuel Orantes and Chris Evert.
• WTA Tour Championships: Chris Evert.
• Tennis Masters Cup: Ilie Nastase.
• Davis Cup: Sweden Sweden.
• Copa: Czechoslovakia.

Cinema

Premieres

March

• 6 March:
  • Love in ruinsGeorge Cukor.
  • A girlfriend named Katy Tippel by Paul Verhoeven.
• 7 March: Profondo RossoDario Argento.
• 13 March: ShampooHal Ashby.

April

• 3 April: The knights of the square table and their mad followersMonty Python.

May

• 4 May: Seven beautiesLina Wertm.
• 21 May: The return of the pink pantherBlake Edwards.
• 22 May: The Wind and the LionJohn Milius.

June

• 10 June: The last night of Boris GrushenkoWoody Allen.
• 20 June: SharkSteven Spielberg.
• 23 June: A corpse to the dessertsRobert Moore.

August

• 8 August: Picnic at Hanging RockPeter Weir.
• 14 August: The Rocky Horror Picture ShowJim Sharman.
• 15 August: Room for four, Mario Monicelli.

September

• 21 September: Dog's lateSidney Lumet.
• 24 September: The three days of the CondorSydney Pollack.

October

• The wolf of the SSDon Edmonds.

November

• 6 November: The crazy coupleHerbert Ross.
• 19 November: Someone flew over the cuckoo nestMiloš Forman.
• 22 November: He went out or the 120 days of SodomaPier Paolo Pasolini.

December

• 17 December: The man who could reignJohn Huston.
• 18 December: Barry LyndonStanley Kubrick.
• 25 December: HindenburgRobert Wise.

All dates belong to the official premieres of their countries of origin, unless otherwise indicated.

Other films

Algeria

• Chronicle of the Years of Fire, directed by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina, and winner of the Palma de oro to the best film in the 28th edition the Festival de Cannes

Argentina

• Trapitodirected by Manuel García Ferré.

Austria

• Moses and Aarondirected by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.

Belgium

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxellesled by Chantal Akerman.

Spain

• Furniture, directed by José Luis Borau, winner of the Golden Concha at the 23rd edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
• Pim, pam, pum... fire!directed by Pedro Olea.

France

• Special Sectiondirected by Costa-Gavras.
• Chronicle of a Rapedirected by Yves Boisset.

Greece

• The journey of the comediansdirected by Theo Angelopoulos.

Hungary

• Adoption, directed by Márta Mészáros, and winner of the Gold Bear to the best film in the 25th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Italy

• Room for fourdirected by Mario Monicelli.

Mexico

• Rapiñadirected by Carlos Enrique Taboada.

Peru

• The Inquisitor-The Inquisitor of Limaled by Bernardo Arias.
• Pantaleón and the Visitors, directed by José María Gutiérrez Santos and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Portuguese

• The land of the great promise, directed by Andrzej Wajda.

Portuguese

• Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe, directed by Manoel de Oliveira.

German Federal Republic

• The Journey to the Happiness of Mom Küsterled by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• The law of the strongestled by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

USSR

• Dersu Uzala (The Hunter) led by Akira Kurosawa.
• The mirror led by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Oscars

• Best Movie: Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest.
• Best Director: Miloš Forman by Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest.
• Best Actor: Jack Nicholson by Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest.
• Best Actress: Louise Fletcher by Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest.
• Best Cast Actor: George Burns by The Crazy Couple.
• Best Cast Actress: Lee Grant by Shampoo.
• Best Original Guion: Frank Pierson for Dog Cake.

Golden Globe Awards

• Best movie - Drama: Chinatown.
• Best movie - Comedy or musical: The Bones.
• Best director: Roman Polanski for Chinatown.
• Best actor - Drama: Jack Nicholson by Chinatown.
• Best actor - Comedy or musical: Art Carney by Harry and Tonto.
• Best actress - Drama: Gena Rowlands by A woman under influence.
• Best actress - Comedy or musical: Raquel Welch by The Three Musketeers.
• Best script: Robert Towne for Chinatown.
• Best series - Drama: Up and down.
• Best series - Comedy or musical: Rhoda.

Music

• In Santiago del Estero is formed the group "Quinteto Imperial" that launches its first LP under the name Tirada on the Beach.

• In London the legendary song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by the rock group Queen is published
• In London the heavy metal group Iron Maiden is formed
• In London the punk group Sex Pistols is formed.
• In the United States, Alan Parsons Project forms.
• In the United States the group of hard rock and punk The Runaways forms
• The singer and actor Frank Sinatra performed concerts in New York together with Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. In England in the London Palladium along with Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan. In addition to a concert on November 24 at the Aryamehr Stadium in Tehran in Iran.

Albums

• ABBA: ABBA, Greatest Hits.
• AC/DC: High Voltage, TNT.
• Aerosmith: Toys in the attic.
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero y Óscar Avilés: Unique.
• Black Sabbath: Sabotage.
• Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks, The Basement Tapes.
• Bob Marley & The Wailers: Live!
• Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run.
• Camilo Sesto: Love free and Jesus Christ Superstar.
• Captain & Tennille: Love will keep us together
• Carpenters: Horizon
• Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band
• David Bowie: Young Americans
• Eagles: One of These Nights
• The Great Combo of Puerto Rico: 7
• Emilio José: My boat
• Fruko and his Treasures: Fruko the big
• Genesis: The lamb lies down on Broadway
• John Lennon: Rock 'n' roll
• José: So close... So far
• José Luis Perales: For you I sing
• KC & The Sunshine Band: KC & The Sunshine Band
• King Crimson: USA
• Kiss: Dressed to kill and Alive!.
• Kraftwerk: Radio-Aktivität
• Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
• Lolita: Love, love
• Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn
• Modules: Lost in my memories and Towards the 21st Century (single 7o)
• Piero: Inconclusive symphony at sea.
• Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
• Queen: A night at the opera
• Imperial Fifth: "Land on the Beach"
• Rainbow: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
• Rush: Fly by Night and Caress of steel.
• Silver Convention: Save me
• Triana: The courtyard
• Uriah Heep: Return to fantasy
• Wings: Venus and Mars
• Yola Polastry: Hi, Yola! and The romance of the bucket and the foam

Ernst von Siemens Prize

• Olivier Messiaen (French composer).

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater.
• Chemistry: John W. Cornforth.
• Medicine: David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Martin Temin.
• Literature: Eugenio Montale.
• Peace: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.
• Economy: Leonid Kantoróvich and Tjalling Koopmans.