1976

1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year beginning on Thursday according to the Gregorian calendar. He was designated as:

• The Year of the DragonAccording to the Chinese horoscope.

Events

January

• January 1: the Venezuelan government nationalizes the company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA).
• January 3: in a well 1452 meters underground, in the U19e area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 11:15 (local time) United States detonates its 800 kiloton Muenster atomic bomb. It is the 861 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 3 January: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force at the UN (New York).
• 5 January: in Cambodia, the Red Jemers rename the nation as "Democratic Republic of Campuchea".

Concorde's first flight.

• January 21st: Concorde's first commercial flight.

February

• 2 February: at the Palace of the Popes, in Avignon, France, theft of 119 paintings from the last time of Pablo Picasso.
• 4 February: an earthquake of 7.5 leaves in Guatemala a balance of 23 000 dead.
• February 6: The Directorate General of Security suspends Raimon's recitals.
• February 6: In Washington, United States, Lockheed society is suspected of having bribed multiple personalities from Europe and Japan.
• February 7: Hua Guofeng succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Prime Minister.
• 11 February: the GRAPO release the president of the Council of State, Antonio María de Oriol and Urquijo, kidnapped two months earlier.
• 13 February: the Oviedo-Gijón-Avilés motorway is opened.
• February 15: the president of the Colombian Confederation of Workers (CTC), José Raquel Mercado, is kidnapped by the M-19.
• February 18: The United States suspends all military aid to Chile.
• February 20: The Royal Academy of Basque Language achieves institutional recognition.
• February 22: The U.S. government recognizes that it carried out experiments between 1945 and 1947 with humans to study the effect of ionizing radiation on those who manufacture atomic bombs.
• February 24: The current Cuban Constitution, adopted a year earlier by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, enters into force.
• February 24: the World Tourism Organization installs its headquarters in Madrid.
• 27 February: After the Spanish withdrawal from Western Sahara, the Frente Polisario declared the independence of the territory under the name of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD).
• 28 February: Madagascar is the first country in the world to recognize the Arab Democratic Saharawi Republic.

March

• March 1st: Zozobra in front of Norway the Deep Sea Driller oil platform and six people die.
• 1 March: Burundi recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 2 March: Vietnam recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• March 3: A clash of the Armed Police with striking workers in Zaramaga results with five deceased workers.
• 6 March: Algeria recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 11 March: Angola and Benin recognize the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 13 March: Mozambique recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 15 March: Guinea Bissau recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 16 March: North Korea recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 17 March: Togo recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 23 March: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocol enter into force.
• March 24: In Argentina, a coup d'etat defeats Isabel Martínez de Perón and establishes a military regime until 1983, which would leave a "date" figure of 30 000 and a lost war: the Falklands War.

April

• April 1st: The computer company Apple Computer Company is founded in the United States.
• 1 April: in Darmstadt (Germany), thanks to the accelerator of UNILAC particles, owned by the GSI, it is achieved, for the first time, to accelerate a heavy ion (U-238) up to 6.7 MeV.
• April 1: Rwanda recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 2 April: the First Congress of the Democratic People ' s Federation, chaired by José María Gil-Robles, was opened in Segovia, Spain.
• 3 April: in The Hague, Netherlands, the song Save Your Kisses For Me of Brotherhood of Man wins for the UK the XXI edition of Eurovision.
• April 5: James Callaghan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom after the resignation of Harold Wilson.

May

• May 9: In Montejurra (Navarra) two Carlist militants (Sucesos de Montejurra) are killed.
• 10 May: in Madrid, Spain, the Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas is inaugurated.
• May 11: Peru creates the province of Huaral.
• May 29: Two earthquakes of 7.0 and 6.9 shake the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 98 people.

June

• June 12: In Uruguay, military commanders replace the dictator Juan María Bordaberry, imposing the internship of Alberto Demicheli until September 1.
• June 16: In Soweto, South Africa, approximately 15,000 students make a non-violent march. The apartheid Government instructs the police to machine the crowd. 566 young people die (including Hector Pieterson, 12). Several days of struggles are generated.
• June 24: The National Assembly of Vietnam announces the reunification of North and South Vietnam, with capital in Hanoi.
• June 26: In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower was inaugurated, one of the highest structures in recent times.
  • In the Indonesian province of Papua, there is an earthquake of 7.1 that leaves 422 dead and thousands disappeared.
• 29 June: The Seychelles Islands are independent of the British Empire.

July

• 1 July: in Madrid (Spain) Carlos Arias Navarro resigns as president.
• July 2: North Vietnam and South Vietnam join to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• July 3: Adolfo Suárez is appointed President of the Government of Spain.
• 4 July: at Entebbe Airport near Kampala, Uganda, the Israel Defense Forces carry out Operation Entebbe, killing four Palestinian terrorists holding 105 Israeli hostages.
  • in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the dictatorship of Videla murders three priests and two Palotino seminarians.
  • The United States celebrates the bicentennial of its independence.
• 6 July: about 30 km south of General Güemes (North of Argentina), Lieutenant Carlos Mullhall (interventing governor of Salta) ordered the massacre of Palomites: 11 political prisoners are shot and their dynamite remains to fake a clash with guerrillas.

View of Mars from Lander Viking 1.

• 14 July: in Bali, an earthquake of 6.5 leaves 573 dead and 4,000 wounded.
• July 18: Nadia Comaneci makes History at the Montreal Olympic Games (Canada).
• July 20th: the U.S. Viking 1 ship performs the first landing on Mars.
• July 23: in Portugal, Mário Soares becomes prime minister.
• 26 July: In Malaysia there is an earthquake of 6.2.
• 28 July: there is a devastating earthquake of 7.6 in the Chinese city of Tangshan that leaves a balance of 242,000 dead, which can be up to 655,000. It is the second most deadly earthquake in history, the first being the Shaanxi earthquake of 1556 that left 8300,000 dead.
• 30 July: A general amnesty was given for prisoners for political and opinion crimes.

August

• August 15 Flight 011 from SAETA flying from Quito to Cuenca (in Ecuador) mysteriously disappears on the way. After more than 25 years it was known that he collided with the Chimborazo Volcano, killing his 59 occupants.
• From 16 to 23 August, three earthquakes of 7.0, 6.6 and 6.7, respectively, shake the Chinese counties of Songpan and Pingwu killing 800 people.
• 17 August: in the Gulf of Moro, near the Philippines, there is a strong earthquake of 8.0 and a devastating tsunami with waves of up to 9 meters that leave a balance of 8,000 dead.
• August 26: in Amsterdam (Netherlands) the letters show that the U.S. company Lockheed bribed Prince Consort, Bernardo de Lippe-Biesterfeld with $1.1 million (52 million in 2021). threatens the Dutch people if their husband was tried.

September

• September 1st: In Uruguay, after the internship of Alberto Demicheli, the military imposes on the Presidency of the Republic Aparicio Méndez.
• September 7: Mexico founded the Mexican Academy of Computer Sciences, AC (AMIAC), one of the country's oldest professional organizations in this field.
• 9 September: Chinese politician, poet, writer, philosopher and librarian Mao Zedong died.
• 12 September: in Junín street corner Rawson, in the city of Rosario (Argentina), a group of guerrillas belonging to the organization Montoneros detonates a bomb located within a Citroën car, taking as a goal a collective in which they traveled mostly policemen. 9 police and 2 civilians die in the explosion.
• 16 September: in the city of La Plata (capital of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires) the civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983) perpetrates the Night of the Penets in which students from secondary schools are kidnapped and tortured until death.
• September 21: In Washington DC, former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier (who Pinochet had taken away Chilean citizenship 11 days earlier) is killed along with his secretary Ronni Moffitt for spies of the Chilean dictatorship and anti-Castro Cuban mercenaries led by CIA agent Michael Townley.
• September 24: Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh discovered asteroid No. 3158, Anga.
• 29 September: Bolivia conducts the population and housing census of 1976, after 26 years regarding the previous census of 1950.
• September 30: Hurricane Liza hits the capital of Baja California Sur in Mexico, twenty colonies are literally erased from the map with an unofficial sum of 2000 dead.

October

• October 6: In Barbados, Cuban terrorists—including Luis Posada Carriles—are attacking with bombs on a civilian flight of Cubana de Aviación, which falls on the beach (a few unarmed), causing the death of all 73 occupants. (See Atentated against Cubana de Aviación flight 455).
• October 6: In China, the new Prime Minister Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Four Band—Jiang Qing (the widow of Mao Zedong), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen—. This ends the Cultural Revolution.
• 6 October: in Bangkok, Thailand, students at the University of Thammasat have a day of protest against the return of the Thanom dictator. A coalition of right-wing paramilitaries and government forces murder more than 100 students (Masacre of Thammasat University).
• October 6th: 201 meters underground, in the U2ef area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 (local time), the United States detonates its Gouda atomic bomb of 0.6 kilotons. It is the 872 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• October 12: In Mexico City, the new Basilica of Guadalupe opened on the skirts of the Tepeyac hill. The Virgin's lime is moved to its current location and the old basilica is closed for 24 years.
• October 17: In the Argentine people of Los Surgentes (the province of Córdoba), the Rosario police murder seven Peronist political prisoners (the massacre of Los Surgentes), in the framework of the dictatorship of Videla (1976-1983).
• 30 October: in Acapulco, Mexico, the song Canta cigarra by María Ostiz wins the fifth edition of the OTI Festival in Spain.

November

• 2 November: United States presidential elections in 1976. Republican President Gerald Ford does not get re-election for very little being defeated by Democratic candidate James Carter. The dreadful victory of the Democrats is reflected both in popular vote and in electoral vote, with the results of 297 electoral votes for Carter and 240 for Ford.
• November 2: Mayor PNP of San Juan, Carlos Romero Barcelo becomes the governor of Puerto Rico, when he obtained 703,968 votes in front of Rafael Hernández Colon, who obtained 660,401 votes.
• 2 November: Ethernet is invented.
• 6 November: in Mexico, Julio Scherer García, together with ex-workers of the newspaper Excélsior, founded the magazine Proceso.
• 10 November: in a tunnel 183 meters underground, in the U3hc area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:58 (local time) United States detonates its Sprit atomic bomb, less than 20 kilotons. It is the 873 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 16 November: in Madrid, Spain, the Courts approve the Law for Political Reform.
• 19 November: in the city of San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Argentina)—in the framework of the Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983)—the joint forces of the Army, the federal police and the Buenos Aires police murder in their Juan B street house. Just n.o 676 to Omar Darío Amestoy and María del Carmen Fettolini, along with his two sons, Fernando (3) and María Eugenia Amestoy (5) and Ana María del Carmen Granada (Masacre de San Nicolás).
• 20 November: in the mountains near San Juan Cotzal (Guatemala), the army murders U.S. Third World Priest William Woods (1931-1976) and four other Americans, breaking down the plane they were traveling on.

The Spanish Communist leader Santiago Carrillo signs books at the Madrid Book Fair (Spain).

• November 24: In Turkey there is an earthquake of 7.3 that leaves between 4,000 and 5,000 dead.
• The leader of the Communist Party of Spain Santiago Carrillo is arrested, together with other communist militants, at his entrance to Spain.

December

• December 1st: in Mexico, José López Portillo takes office as the 58th (quincuagesimoctavo) president, for the presidential term 1976-1982.
• December 2: In Cuba, Fidel Castro is the president.
• 4 December: In the Central African Republic, Jean Bédel Bokassa is self-proclaimed as an “emperor”, initiating the Central African Empire.
• 5 December: the XXVII Congress of the PSOE is held in Spain, after 32 years in exile.
• 8 December: in a well at 427 meters underground, in the U7ab area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:49 (local time) United States detonates its 20 kiloton Redmud atomic bomb. It is the 877 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 13 December: about 40 km north of the Chaqueña de Resistencia (Argentina) city—in the framework of the dictatorship of Videla (1976-1983), 22 members of the U.S. are tortured, castrated, raped and shot dead in a joint operation of the Argentine Army and the Chaco Police (Masacre de Margarita).
• 15 December: the Law on Political Reform was adopted in referendum.
• December 15: the Panamanian Man Museum, the present Anthropological Museum Reina Torres de Araúz, is inaugurated.
• 21 December: in a well 331 meters underground, in the U2ar area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:09 (local time) United States detonates its 11 kiloton Asian atomic bomb. 58 minutes later, 3.2 km north, in a well 201 meters underground, the Sutter pump, less than 20 kilotons, is detonated. It is the 880 and 881 of the 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• December 28: in a well 331 meters underground, in the U7aj(s) area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 883, Rudder, of 89 kilotons.
• December 29: In Buenos Aires, the dictatorship of Videla (1976-1983) kidnapped the Peronist trade unionist Jorge Di Pascuale (47) and killed him on February 3, 1977.
• In Chile, Luis Werner discovers the archaeological site of Monte Verde.

Births

January

• January 1st: Marko Topić, Bosnian footballer.
• January 1st: Jesus Muñoz Calonge, Spanish footballer.
• January 2: Patricia de León, professional model, television presenter and Panamanian actress.
• January 2: Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist.
• January 2nd: Paz Vega, Spanish actress.
• January 2: Nicolas Goussé, French footballer.
• January 3: Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer.
• January 3: Daniel Hendler, Uruguayan actor.
• January 3: Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor.
• January 4: Chris Klein, American footballer.
• January 4: Yuriy Metlushenko, Ukrainian cyclist.
• January 5: Diego Tristan, Spanish footballer.
• January 5th: Matt Wachter, bass player, American key player and singer, from the band Angels & Airwaves.
• January 5: Shintarō Asanuma, voice actor, screenwriter and Japanese director.
• January 6: David Di Michele, footballer and Italian coach.
• January 6: Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor.

Alfonso Soriano

• 7 January: Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player.
• January 7: Paulo César Chávez, Mexican footballer.
• January 7: Marcelo Bordon, Brazilian footballer.
• January 7: Gabriel Urdaneta, Venezuelan footballer.
• 7 January: Kaies Ghodhbane, Tunisian footballer.
• January 8: Alexandre Pires, Brazilian singer, Só Pra Contrariar.
• January 8: Jenny Lewis, American actress and singer, Rilo Kiley band.
• January 8: Marta Solaz, Spanish actress.
• January 9: Andrea Stramaccioni, footballer and Italian coach.
• January 9: Yoanka González, Cuban cyclist.
• January 9: Todd Grisham, American commentator.
• January 9: Joep Beving, Dutch composer.
• January 9: Eva Vives, director of Spanish cinema.
• January 9: Hayes Carll, American singer.
• January 9: Gustavo Alberto Nuñez, Argentine footballer.
• January 9: Thummala Narsimha Reddy, Indian actor (f. 2021).
• January 9: José Lepere, American politician.
• January 9: Diego Ocampo, Spanish basketball coach.
• January 9: Passion Kristal, Mexican professional fighter (f. 2021).
• January 10: David Muñoz, Spanish singer, from the Estopa band.
• January 11: Eduardo Madina, Spanish politician.
• January 11: Fernando Cebrián Alarcón, footballer and Spanish coach.
• January 12: María José, Mexican singer and composer, of the Kabah band.
• January 12: Dragan Isailović, Serbian footballer.
• January 13: Michael Peña, an American actor of Mexican descent.
• January 13: Mario Yepes, ex-futbolist and Colombian coach.
• January 13: Magno Alves, Brazilian footballer.
• January 14: Angel Gahona, journalist and Nicaraguan reporter.
• January 14: Benoît Joachim, luxembourgeois cyclist.
• January 15: Andreas Klier, German cyclist.
• January 15: Virginia Tola, soprano argentina.
• January 15: Mamen Mendizábal, journalist and Spanish television presenter.
• January 16: Domenico Morfeo, Italian footballer.
• January 18: Marcelo Gallardo, Argentine soccer player.
• January 18: Pavel Mareš, Czech footballer.
• January 18: Lars Paaske, Danish Badminton Player.
• January 18: Cecilia Brozovich, Peruvian television actress and presenter.
• January 19: Marsha Thomason, American actress.
• January 20: Pablo Lastras, Spanish cyclist.
• January 20: David Fernández Miramontes, Spanish footballer.
• January 21st: Emma Bunton, British singer.
• January 21: Giorgio Frezzolini, Italian footballer.
• January 21: Raivis Belohvoščiks, Latvian cyclist.
• January 22: Sebastián Morquio, Uruguayan footballer.
• January 23: Ingrid Grudke, model and driver of Argentina.
• January 23: Haritz Garde, Spanish drummer and musician, from the band La Oreja de Van Gogh.
• January 24: Giuliano Figueras, Italian cyclist.
• January 24: Iñaki Lafuente, Spanish footballer
• January 24: Cibell Naime Yordi, a Venezuelan killer.
• January 24: Simone Vergassola, Italian footballer.
• January 25: Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress.
• January 27: Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer.
• January 27: Dedimar Souza Lima, Brazilian footballer.
• January 27: Manolo Sánchez Murias, footballer and Spanish coach.
• January 28: Pedro Piquero, pianist and Spanish Buddhist monk.
• January 29: Tracy Lynn Cruz, American actress (Power Rangers).
• January 29: Marcelo Rosa da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• January 29: Petr Benčík, Czech cyclist.
• January 30: Mike Petke, American footballer.
• January 30: Carlos Manuel Vesga, Colombian actor.
• January 31: Malvino Salvador, Brazilian actor.

February

• February 1st: Santiago Cruz, Colombian singer.
• February 1st: Pavel Dobrý, Czech footballer.
• 1 February: Giacomo Tedesco, Italian footballer.
• February 1: Carlos Marcora, Uruguayan footballer.
• February 2: Petter Wastå, Swedish footballer.
• February 2: Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian.
• February 3: Tommy Vásquez, Colombian actor.
• February 4: Christian Ledesma, an Argentine motor racing pilot.
• February 5: Tony Jaa, martial artist, Thai actor and choreographer.
• February 5: John Aloisi, Australian footballer.
• February 6: Frans Mohede, Indonesian singer, actor and martial artist.
• 7 February: Sreto Ristic, footballer Croatian.
• February 7: Felipe Peláez, a singer of the colombo-Venezuelan music from Vallenata.
• February 10: Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer.
• February 10: Carmelo Imbriani, Italian footballer (f. 2013).
• February 10: Marcin Sapa, Polish cyclist.
• 11 February: Ricardo Pereira, Portuguese footballer.
• February 11: Óscar Vallejo Duarte, Uruguayan footballer.
• February 12: Silvia Saint, Czech pornographic actress.
• 13 February: Feist, Canadian singer.
• February 14: Liv Kristine, Norwegian heavy metal singer.
• February 15: Óscar Freire, Spanish cyclist.
• February 15: Ronnie Vannucci Jr., American drummer, The Killers.
• February 16: Dragan Mladenović, Serbian footballer.
• February 16: Edmilson Alves, Brazilian footballer.
• February 16: Janet Varney, American actress.
• 16 February: Andrea Tonti, Italian cyclist.
• February 17: Kelly Carlson, American actress and model.
• February 20: Sophie Evans, Hungarian pornographic actress.

Kelly Macdonald

• February 23: Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress.
• February 25: Marco Pinotti, Italian cyclist.
• February 26: Mauro Lustrinelli, Swiss footballer.
• February 26: Stanislav Vlček, Czech footballer.
• February 27: Barry Opdam, Dutch footballer.
• February 28: Ali Larter, American actress.
• February 29: José Reginaldo Vital, Brazilian footballer.
• February 29: Katalin Kovács, Hungarian penguin.
• February 29: Emilio Merchán, Spanish penguinist.
• February 29: Ja Rule, rapper and American actor.

March

• March 2: Florence de la V, Argentine transgender.
• March 2nd: Emmanuel Esparza, Spanish actor.
• March 2: França, Brazilian footballer.
• March 6: Kenneth Anderson American professional fighter.
• March 8: Freddie Prinze, Jr. American actor.
• March 12: Maria Adamez, Spanish actress.
• March 14: Antonio Sancho, a Mexican footballer and coach.
• March 16: Kenji Nojima, voice actor, Japanese singer and narrator.
• March 17: Roxanne Hall, English pornographic actress.
• March 18: Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress.
• March 19: Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer.
• March 20: Chester Bennington, American singer, from the Linkin Park band (f. 2017).
• March 20: Paco Jurado, Spanish footballer.
• March 21: Duilio Davino, Mexican footballer.
• March 21st: Liza Harper, French porn actress.
• March 22: Iker Garai, Spanish footballer.
• March 22: Reese Witherspoon, American actress.
• March 23: Dougie Lampkin, British trial pilot.
• March 23: Marcos Gomes de Araujo, Brazilian footballer.
• March 24: Peyton Manning, American quarterback.
• March 26: Amy Smart, American actress.
• March 28: Dave Keuning, American guitarist, The Killers band.
• March 30: Bernardo Corradi, Italian footballer.
• March 31: Ashton Moore, American porn actress.

April

• April 1st: Jafet Soto, soccer player, coach and Costa Rican sports manager.
• April 1st: Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer and coach of Surinamese origin.
• April 2: Christophe Jaquet, Swiss footballer.
• April 4: Emerson Ferreira da Rosa, Brazilian footballer.
• 4 April: Elvir Rahimić, Bosnian footballer.
• April 5: Fernando Morientes, footballer and Spanish coach.
• April 6: Candace Cameron, American actress.
• April 8: Marek Čech, Czech footballer.
• April 11: Mimi Morales, Colombian actress.
• April 11: Kelvim Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player.
• April 13: Jonathan Brandis, American actor (f. 2003).
• April 14: María Fernanda Ampuero, Ecuadorian writer.
• April 14: Santiago Abascal, Spanish politician.
• April 17: Sizzla, Jamaican singer.
• April 18: Melissa Joan Hart, American actress.
• April 20: Shay Given, Irish footballer.
• April 22: Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer.
• April 22: Marcin Żewłakow, Polish footballer.
• April 23: Passion Vega, Spanish singer.
• April 24: Steve Finnan, Irish footballer.

Tim Duncan

• April 25: Tim Duncan, American basketball player.
• April 25: Gilberto da Silva Melo, Brazilian footballer.
• April 25: Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player.
• April 29: Kelvin Jack, footballer trinitense.

May

• 3 May: Roberto Luís Gaspar Deus Severo, Portuguese footballer.
• May 4: Heather Kozar, American model.
• May 5: Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine soccer player.
• May 5: Sage Stallone, American actor, son of Sylvester Stallone (f. 2012).
• May 6: Denny Landzaat, Dutch footballer.
• May 6: Ivan de la Peña, Spanish footballer.
• May 7: Dave van den Bergh, Dutch footballer.
• 7 May: Matteo Gianello, Italian footballer.
• 7 May: Gauchinho, Brazilian footballer.
• May 7: Elizabeth Pérez, Cuban-American journalist of CNN in Spanish
• May 9: Monica Godoy, Chilean actress.
• May 11: Alexander Perls, American musician.
• May 14: Hunter Burgan, American musician.
• May 15: Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer.
• May 15: Ryan Leaf, American football player.
• May 16: Silvia Olmedo, psychologist, sexologist, television presenter and Spanish writer.
• May 17: Mayte Martínez, exatleta española.
• May 18: Laisha Wilkins, Mexican actress.

Kevin Garnett

• May 19: Kevin Garnett, American basketball player.
• May 19: Fabian Mendoza, Colombian actor and comedian.
• May 20: Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player.
• May 22: Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish drummer of the Arch Enemy band.
• May 22: Fernando Andina, Spanish actor.
• May 23: Ricardo Luís Pozzi Rodrigues, footballer and Brazilian coach.
• May 23: Antonio Naelson, Mexican naturalized Brazilian footballer.
• May 25: Cillian Murphy, Irish actor.
• May 25: Miguel Zepeda, Mexican footballer.
• May 26: Verónica Alcocer García, activist and first lady of Colombia
• 27 May: Jiří Štajner, Czech footballer.
• May 28: Denisse Malebrán, Chilean singer and composer.
• May 29: Javier Oliva, Spanish footballer.
• May 31: Colin Farrell, Irish actor.
• May 31: Tonka Tomicic, Chilean TV presenter.

June

• June 2: Tim Rice-Oxley, a British writer and composer, of the Keane band.
• June 3: María Pía Copello, Peruvian television presenter.
• June 3: Rodrigo Candamil, Colombian actor.
• June 5: Takayuki Suzuki, Japanese footballer.
• June 6: Geoff Rowley, British professional skater.
• June 6: Nicolás Rotundo, Uruguayan footballer.
• June 7: Nora Salinas, Mexican actress.
• June 10: Michel Brown, Argentine actor.
• June 10: Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress.
• June 14: Takahiro Mizushima, Japanese seiyū.
• June 15: Gary Lightbody, Irish singer and guitarist, from the Snow Patrol band.
• June 16: Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer.
• June 18: Irene Montalá, Spanish actress.
• June 18: Blake Shelton, American country music antante.
• June 18: Alana de la Garza, American actress.
• June 20: Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
• June 21: Pablo Benegas, composer and Spanish guitarist, from the band La Oreja de Van Gogh.
• June 23: Patrick Vieira, French footballer of Senegalese origin.
• June 23: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress.
• June 24: Ricardo Alexandre dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.
• June 28: Sheila Herrero Lapuente, Spanish skater.
• June 28: Simone Cadamuro, Italian cyclist.
• June 28: Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi footballer.

July

• July 1st: Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer.
• July 1st: Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer.
• July 3: Andrea Barber, American actress.
• July 7: Hamish Linklater, American actor.
• July 8: David Kennedy, American guitarist and composer.
• July 8: Grettell Valdez, Mexican actress.
• July 9: Fred Savage, American actor.
• July 10: Ludovic Giuly, French footballer.
• July 11: Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player.
• July 11: Oscar Schwebel, Mexican singer, from the OV7 band.
• July 12: Anna Friel, British actress.
• July 14: Andrés Ospina, Colombian radio writer and director.
• July 14: Monique Covét, pornographic actress and Hungarian model.
• July 14: María José Tafur, Colombian actress and screenwriter.
• July 15: Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer.
• July 15: Juanfran García, Spanish footballer.
• July 15: Diane Kruger, German actress.
• July 16: Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguayan footballer.
• July 16: Bobby Lashley, American fighter.
• July 16: Lucas Pusineri, former footballer and Argentine coach.
• July 17: Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer.
• July 17: Marcos Senna, Brazilian nationalized Spanish footballer.
• July 18: Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress.

Benedict Cumberbatch

• July 19: Benedict Cumberbatch, British actor.
• July 19: Vinessa Shaw, American actress.
• July 19: Oleksandr Radchenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• July 21: Vahid Hashemian, an Iranian footballer.
• July 22: Diana Doll, pornographic actress and Slovak erotic model.
• July 23: Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player.
• July 23: Juanito Gutiérrez, footballer and Spanish coach.
• July 24: Cacá Bueno, Brazilian motor racing driver.
• July 24: Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese pilot.
• July 25: Marcos Assunção, Brazilian footballer.
• July 26: Pavel Pardo, Mexican footballer.
• July 27: Fernando Ricksen, Dutch footballer.
• July 28: Jacoby Shaddix, American singer, of the band Papa Roach.
• July 31: Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer.

August

• August 1st: Iván Duque Márquez, Colombian politician, president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022.
• August 3: Johann Charpenet, French footballer.
• August 5: Marlene Favela, Mexican actress.
• August 5: Kwon Sang-woo, actor and South Korean model.
• August 6: Soleil Moon Frye, American actress, film director and screenwriter.
• August 6: Javier Estrada, singer, actor and Spanish television presenter.
• August 8: JC Chasez, American singer, from the band 'N Sync.
• August 9: Audrey Tautou, French actress.
• August 10: Emilia de Poret, Swedish singer.
• August 11: Ben Gibbard, American singer.

Will Friedle

• August 11: Will Friedle, actor and American comedian.
• August 11: Ivan Ramiro Córdoba, Colombian footballer.
• August 11: Hugo Miguel Fernandes Vieira, Portuguese footballer.
• August 12: Antoine Walker, American basketball player.
• August 15: Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer.

Scott Halberstadt

• August 16: Nuria Fernández, exatleta española.
• August 17: Scott Halberstadt, American actor.
• August 23: Scott Caan, American actor.
• August 24: Luna Monti, Argentine folk singer.
• August 24: Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor.
• August 24: Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer.

Amaia Montero

• August 26: Amaia Montero, Spanish singer and composer, ex de la banda La Oreja de Van Gogh, soloist since 2008.
• August 26: Pedro Falla, Colombian actor.
• August 27: Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player.
• August 27: Mark Webber, Australian Formula 1 pilot.
• August 29: Jon Dahl Tomasson, coach and Danish footballer.
• August 29: Pablo Mastroeni, American footballer of Argentine origin.
• August 31: Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer.

September

• September 1st: Lâm, French singer.
• September 1st: Takashi Fukunishi, Japanese footballer.
• September 3: Samuel Kuffour, Ghanaian footballer.
• September 4: Jun Fukushima, Japanese voice actor.
• September 6: Verónica Jaspeado, Mexican actress.
• September 8: Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer.
• September 9: Juan Alfonso Baptista, Venezuelan actor.
• September 9: Masaya Matsukaze, Japanese seiyū.
• September 10: Álex Campos, Colombian singer of Christian music.
• September 10: Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player.
• September 11: Tomáš Enge, Czech motor racing driver.
• September 11: Athenea Mata, Spanish actress.
• September 12: Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer.
• 13 September: Alejandro Tous, actor and Spanish theatrical producer.
• September 13: Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress.
• September 14, Augustine Calleri, Argentine tennis player.
• September 15: Paul Thomson, British musician, of the Franz Ferdinand band.
• September 15: Tiko, Spanish footballer.
• September 15: Martijn Meerdink, Dutch footballer.
• September 16: Tina Barrett, British singer, actress and dancer, S Club 7 band.
• September 16: Mónica Carrillo, a Spanish journalist.
• September 16: Luis Fernando Centi, Italian footballer.
• September 16: Leire Pajín, sociologist and Spanish politics.
• September 18: Carlos Domínguez Domínguez, Spanish footballer.
• September 20: Agata Buzek, Polish actress.
• September 21: Daniel Esquenazi, Mexican businessman.
• September 22: Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer.
• September 22: Pavel Drsek, Czech footballer.
• September 24: Pedro Andreu, Spanish writer.
• 25 September: Petit, French footballer nationalized in Portugal.
• September 25: Frank Lobos, Chilean footballer.
• September 25: Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer.
• September 25: Chauncey Billups, American basketball player.
• September 26: Michael Ballack, German footballer.
• September 27: Francesco Totti, Italian footballer.
• September 27: Daniel Vázquez, Mexican singer, of the OV7 band.
• September 28: Fiódor Yemelianenko, Russian fighter.
• September 29: Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• September 29: Ninel Conde, Mexican singer and actress.
• September 30: Ernesto Munro López politician Mexican.

October

• October 1: Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer.
• October 3: Herman Li, guitarist hongkonés, from the British power metal band DragonForce.
• October 3: Gabriela de la Garza, Mexican actress.
• October 4: Alicia Silverstone, American actress.
• 4 October: Mauro Camoranesi, a nationalized Argentine nationalist.
• October 5: Katia Aveiro, Portuguese singer.
• October 6: Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player.
• October 7: Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer.
• October 7: Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• October 7: Andrés Cabas, Colombian singer.
• October 8: Seryoga, Belarusian singer.
• October 8: Juan Cruz Real, Argentine soccer coach.
• 10 October: Darwin González, Venezuelan politician.

Emily Deschanel

• October 11: Emily Deschanel, American actress.
• October 14: Carolina Tejera, actress and Venezuelan model.
• October 15: Rodrigo Lombardi, Brazilian actor.
• October 16: Juan Diego Alvira, Colombian news anchor.
• October 19: Vanessa Guzmán, Mexican actress.
• October 21: Esther Marisol, Bolivian singer.
• October 21: Jeremy Miller, American actor.
• October 23: Ryan Reynolds Canadian actor and comedian.
• October 25: Ahmed Al-Dokhi, Saudi footballer.
• October 30: Stern John, footballer trinitense.
• October 31: Guti (José María Gutiérrez Hernández), Spanish footballer.

November

• 1 November: Petr Johana, Czech footballer.
• November 3: Guillermo Franco, Mexican naturalized Argentine soccer player.
• 5 November: Oleg Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer.
• 5 November: Anasol, Colombian actress and singer.
• 7 November: Camila Canabal, Venezuelan host.
• 7 November: Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player.
• November 8: Jawhar Mnari, Tunisian footballer.
• November 8: Adriana Romero, Colombian actress.
• 9 November: Laura Csortan, TV presenter and Australian model.
• 9 November: Gabriela Zamora, Mexican actress.
• November 10: Sergio González Soriano, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 10 November: Andrés Juan, actor and Colombian singer.
• November 11: Jason Grilli, italian American baseball player.
• 12 November: Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer.
• November 15: Gaby Espino, actress, model and Venezuelan host.
• 15 November. Vladimir Yezerskiy, Ukrainian footballer.
• November 17: Brandon Call, American actor.
• November 17: Diane Neal, American actress and model.
• November 18: Esther Rinaldi, Mexican actress.
• November 19: Estefanía Gómez, Colombian actress.
• November 19: Joshua Alirio Barrera, a politician, a Colombian merchant and rancher.
• November 20: Paola Rojas, Mexican journalist.
• November 20: Francisco Rufete, footballer and Spanish coach.
• November 22: Torsten Frings, German footballer.
• November 22: Ville Valo, Finnish singer and composer, of the HIM band.
• 22 November: Felipe Calero, Colombian actor and singer.
• November 23: Julián Román, a Colombian actor.
• November 28: Aitor Ocio Carrion, Spanish footballer.
• 28 November: Juana Acosta, Colombian actress of Spanish nationality.
• November 29: Anna Faris, American actress.
• November 29: Adriana Vargas, a Colombian journalist.
• 29 November: Chadwick Boseman, American actor (f. 2020).

December

• December 1st: Pablo Chiapella, Spanish actor.
• December 1: Dean O'Gorman, New Zealand actor.
• December 1st: Matthew Shepard, an American university student, tortured and killed for being gay (f. 1998).
• December 1st: Raúl Sánchez Soler, Spanish footballer.
• 2 December: Vladimír Janočko, Slovak footballer.
• December 3: Arelys Henao, Colombian singer of popular music.
• December 6: Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and model, former Miss Universe.
• December 6: Jey Mammon (John Rago), musician, humorist and Argentine actor.
• December 6: Lindsay Price, American actress.
• December 7: Martina Klein, model, television presenter and Argentine humorist.
• December 7: Sergio Marcos G., director, screenwriter and producer of Paraguayan cinema and television.
• December 7: Andrea López, Colombian actress.
• December 8: Horacio Bernardo, Uruguayan writer.
• December 10: Álvaro Benito, actor, footballer and Spanish singer, from the Pignoise band.
• December 11: Timmy Simons, Belgian footballer.
• December 12: Maria Busquorelli, Italian actress.
• 13 December: Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer.
• December 13: Mark Paston, New Zealand footballer.
• 13 December: Jean Carlos Centeno, singer colombo-venezolano of vallenata music.
• December 14: Santi Ezquerro, Spanish futbloist.
• December 15: Tiberio Cruz, Colombian actor.
• December 17: Marina Anna Eich, German actress.
• December 17: Patrick Müller, Swiss futbloist.
• December 19: Theo Lucius, a Dutch footballer.
• December 23: Giba (Gilberto Godoy Filho), Brazilian volleyball player.
• December 25: Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keynote player, of the Nightwish band.
• December 25: Armin Van Buuren, musical producer and Dutch dj.
• December 30: A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player.
• December 30: Rui Torres, Mexican television driver, program Art Attack (f. 2008).

Unknown date

• Sara Mesa, Spanish writer.

Deaths

January to June (deaths)

• January 5: Mal Evans, British assistant to the Beatles group (n. 1935).
• January 6: Óscar Esplá, Spanish composer (n. 1886).
• January 8: Zhou Enlai, Communist politician and Chinese Prime Minister (n. 1898).
• January 10: Howlin' Wolf, American blues musician (n. 1910).
• January 10: Stith Thompson, American folklorist (n. 1885).
• January 12: Agatha Christie, British writer (n. 1890).
• January 14: Juan D ́Arienzo, director of Argentine orchestra and violinist tango (n. 1900).
• January 18: Frederick Hollander, German composer (n. 1896).
• January 23: Erminio Blotta, Argentine sculptor (n. 1892).
• February 1: Werner Karl Heisenberg, German physicist, nobel prize of physics (n. 1901).
• February 1st: George Hoyt Whipple, American doctor, nobel medical prize (n. 1878).
• February 11: Lee J. Cobb, American actor (n. 1911).
• 17 February: Pedro Leandro Ipuche, Uruguayan poet (n. 1889).
• February 21st: Héctor Basaldúa, painter and Argentinean scenographer (n. 1895).
• 17 March: Luchino Visconti, Italian filmmaker (n. 1906).
• March 24: Bernard Law Montgomery, British military (n. 1887).
• March 26: Josef Albers, German artist (n. 1888).
• April 1st: Max Ernst, German painter (n. 1891).

Howard Hughes.

• April 5: Howard Hughes, American entrepreneur and filmmaker (n. 1905).
• April 12: Henrik Dam, Danish biochemical and physiologist, nobel medical prize (n. 1895).
• April 25: Achilles Nazoa, writer, journalist, poet and Venezuelan humorist (n. 1920).
• April 25: Carol Reed, British filmmaker (n. 1906).
• May 6: José Guerra Vicente, composer, cellist and Lusobrasileño professor (n. 1907).
• May 11: Alvar Aalto, furniture designer and Finnish architect (n. 1898).
• May 22: Oscar Ringo Bonavena (33), Argentine boxer (n. 1942).
• May 23: Tatico Henríquez, Dominican music accordionist (n. 1943)
• May 26: Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher (n. 1889), one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.
• June 6: Jean Paul Getty, American oil entrepreneur (n. 1892), one of the richest men in the world.
• June 16: Hector Pieterson (n. 1963) and 565 South African students victims of State terrorism.
• June 22: Fofó (Alfonso Aragón, 53), Spanish clown (n. 1923).
• June 30: Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, Austrian mathematician (n. 1901).

July to December (deaths)

• 1 July: Anneliese Michel (23), young German, victim of a demonic possession of 6 demons including nero judas and lucifer (n. 1952).
• 4 July: Dora Bloch (75), British Jewish hostage, killed by Idi Amin because of the rescue at Entebbe (n. 1901).
• 4 July: Ida Borochovitch (56), Jean-Jacques Maimoni (19) and Pasco Cohen (52), Israeli hostages.
• 4 July: Yonatan Netanyahu (30), Israeli military, during the rescue in Entebbe (n. 1946).
• 4 July: Juan Rejano, Spanish poet (n. 1903).
• July 5: Walter Spalding, writer, journalist, essayist, genealogist and Brazilian folklorist (n. 1901).
• July 15: Rodolfo Mondolfo, Italian philosopher (n. 1877).
• July 19: Benito Urteaga, Argentine guerrilla (n. 1946).
• August 2: Fritz Lang, German filmmaker (n. 1890).
• 2 August: Cecilia (Evangelina Sobredo), Spanish singer (n. 1948).
• August 9: José Lezama Lima (65), novelist, cuentist, essayist, aesthetic thinker and Cuban poet (n. 1910).
• August 14: Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian Bishop (n. 1923), who was assassinated by the Argentine Civil-Military-Ecclesiastical dictatorship (1976-1983).
• September 8: Joaquín Zamacois, Chilean composer and musicologist (n. 1894).
• 9 September: Mao Zedong (82), politician, Chinese revolutionary and founder of the People's Republic of China (n. 1893).
• September 21: Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (n. 1932).
• September 21: Ronni Moffitt, American activist, Letelier Secretary (n. 1951)
• September 25: Gonzalo Arango, a Colombian writer and poet (n. 1931).
• September 26: Leopold Ruzicka, Swiss chemist, nobel chemistry prize (n. 1887).
• 4 October: Juan María de Araluce Villar (59), notary and Spanish politician, president of the Diputación de Guipúzcoa (n. 1917).
• October 5: Lars Onsager, a Norwegian American chemical, a nobel chemistry award in 1968 (n. 1903).
• October 18: Count Ossie drummer and rastafari jamaicano (n. 1926)
• 25 October: Raymond Queneau, a French writer (n. 1903).

Man Ray.

• November 18: Man Ray (86), American artist (n. 1890).
• 22 November: Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel, Spanish politician (n. 1917).
• 23 November: André Malraux (75), French novelist and politician (n. 1901).
• November 28: Rosalind Russell, American actress (n. 1907).
• December 4: Tommy Bolin (25), American guitarist, Deep Purple band (n. 1951).
• December 12: Francesco Merli, Italian tenor (n. 1887).
• December 18: Sergio Méndez, Salvadoran footballer (n. 1843).
• December 22: Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican writer and journalist (n. 1887).

Art and literature

Cervantes Award

• Jorge Guillén.

Planet Award

• Winner: Jesus Storted by Today.
• Finalist: Alfonso Grosso by Good death.

John Ashbery.

Nadal Award

• Raul Guerra Garrido by Unique Reading of Capital.

Pulitzer Prize

• Novel: Saul Bellow for The Legacy of Humboldt.
• Poetry: John Ashbery for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

Science and technology

• Maths: theorem of the four colors, first demonstration of an important mathematical theorem using electronic means.
• Astronomy: the Viking 1 ship discovers the Face of Mars.
• Video: the JVC brand invents the VHS home video system.

Sports

Olympic Games

• Montreal Olympics: held in Canada from 17 July to 1 August.

Athletics

• Olympic Games:
  • Male

Event
100 m	Hasely Crawford	Don Quarrie	Valery Borzov
200 m	Don Quarrie	Millard Hampton	Dwayne Evans
400 m	Alberto Juantorena	Frederick Newhouse	Herman Frazier
800 m	Alberto Juantorena	Ivo van Damme	Richard Wohluter
1500 m	John Walker	Ivo van Damme	Paul-Heinz Wellmann
5000 m	Lasse Virén	Dick Quax	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand
10 000 m	Lasse Virén	Carlos Lopes	Brendan Foster
Marathon	Waldemar Cierpinski	Frank Shorter	Karel Lismont
110 m fence	Guy Drut	Alejandro Casañas Ramírez	Willie Davenport
400 m fence	Edwin Moses	Michael Shine	Yevgeny Gavrilenko.
3000 m	Anders Gärderud	Bronislaw Malinowski	Frank Baumgartl
4 × 100 m	United States	East Germany	Soviet Union
4 × 400 m	United States	Poland	Germany
20 km march	Daniel Bautista Rocha	Hans-Georg Reimann	Peter Frenkel
Height balance	Jacek Wszola	Gregory Joy	Dwight Stones
Powdered jump	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Antti Kalliomäki	David Roberts
Length balance	Clarence "Arnie Robinson"	Randy Williams	Frank Wartenberg
Triple jump	Viktor Saneyev	James Butts	João Carlos de Oliveira
Weight launch	Udo Beyer	Yevgeny Mironov	Aleksandr Baryshnikov
Disk launch	Maurice "Mac" Wilkins	Wolfgang Schmidt	John Powell
Hammer launch	Yuriy Sedykh	Aleksei Spiridonov	Anatoly Bondarchuk
Jabalin launch	Miklos Németh	Hannu Siitonen	Gheorghe Megelea
Decatlon	Bruce Jenner	Guido Kratschmer	Mykola Avilov

• • Female

Event
100 m	Annegret Richter	Renate Stecher	Inge Helten
200 m	Bärbel Eckert	Annegret Richter	Renate Stecher
400 m	Irena Szewinska	Christina Brehmer	Ellen Streidt
800 m	Tatiana Kazankina	Nikolina Shtereva	Elfi Zinn
1500 m	Tatiana Kazankina	Gunhild Hoffmeister	Ulrike Klapezynski
100 m	Johanna Schaller	Tatiana Anisimova	Natalya Lebedeva
4 × 100 m	East Germany	Germany	Soviet Union
4 × 400 m	East Germany	United States	Soviet Union
Height balance	Rosemarie Ackermann	Sara Simeoni	Yordanka Blagoyeva
Length balance	Angela Voigt	Kathy McMillan	Lidiya Alfeyeva
Weight launch	Ivanka Hristova	Nadezhda Chizhova	Helena Fibingerova
Disk launch	Evelin Schlaak	Maria Vergova	Gabriele Hinzmann
Jabalin launch	Ruth Fuchs	Marion Becker	Kathryn Schmidt
Pentathlon	Siegrun Siegl	Christine Laser	Burglinde Pollak

• European Championship of Athletics in Pista Cubierta: The VII was held in Munich, West Germany.

Motor Racing

• Formula 1:
  • Pilot Championship:
• # James Hunt 69 sts.
• # Niki Lauda 68 sts.
• # Jody Scheckter 49 sts.
  • Championship of builders:
• # Ferrari 99 sts.
• # Tyrrell-Ford 88 pts.
• # McLaren-Ford 88 pts.
• World Rally Championship:
  • Pilot Championship:
• # Pilot: Sandro Munari.

  Copilot: Silvio Maiga.

  • Constructor Championship:
• # Lancia.
• # Opel.
• # Ford.

Basketball

• Olympic Games:

Event
Male	United States	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union
Female	Soviet Union	United States	Bulgaria

• European Cup: Mobilgirgi Varese - Real Madrid 81-74.
• NBA:
  • Playoffs: The season ended with Boston Celtics as champions after winning Phoenix Suns for 4-2.
  • MVP of the Season: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Lakers).
  • Rookie of the Year: Alvan Adams (Phoenix Suns).
  • Coach of the Year: Bill Fitch (Cleveland Cavaliers).
• Korac Cup: Jugoplastika Split.
• National League: Real Madrid.
• Basketball King Cup: Youth Schweppes.

Handball

• Olympic Games:

Event
Male	Soviet Union	Romania	Poland
Female	Soviet Union	Eastern Germany	Hungary

• Copa de Europa de Balonmano: Borac Banja Luka - KFUM Fredericia 17 - 15.
• Recopa de Europa de Balonmano: BM Granollers.
• Honor Division: CB Calpisa.

Baseball

• Game of the Stars: The National League beats 7-1.

Cycling

• Olympic Games:

Event
Individual route (175 km) male	Bernt Johansson	Giuseppe Martinelli	Mieczyl Nowicki
100 km route by team against male clock	Soviet Union	Poland	Denmark
1000 m against male clock	Klaus-Jurgen Grunke	Michel Vaarten	Niels Fredborg
1000 m Male Sprint	Anton Tkac	Daniel Morelon	Hans-Jurgen Geschke
Persecution 4000 m individual male	Gregor Braun	Herman Ponsteen	Thomas Huschke
Persecution 4000 m per male team	Western Germany	Soviet Union	United Kingdom

• Tour de France:

1. Lucien Van Impe
2. Joop Zoetemelk
3. Raymond Poulidor

• Cycling return to Spain:

1. José Pesarrodona
2. Luis Ocaña
3. José Nazabal

• Giro de Italia:

1. Felice Gimondi
2. Johan De Muynck
3. Fausto Bertoglio

• World Tour Cycling Championship:

Freddy Maertens

Francesco Moser

Tino Conti

• Milan-San Remo: Eddy Merckx
• Tour de Flandes: Walter Planckaert
• Paris-Roubaix: Marc Demeyer
• Amstel Gold Race: Freddy Maertens
• Liege-Bastogne-Lieja: Joseph Bruyère
• Zurich Championship: Freddy Maertens
• Paris-Tours: Ronald Dewitte
• Giro de Lombardy: Roger De Vlaeminck
• Bordeaux-Paris: Walter Godefroot
• Four Days of Dunkirk: Freddy Maertens
• Dauphiné Libéré: Bernard Thévenet
• Rise to Montjuic: Michel Pollentier
• Flecha Valona: Joop Zoetemelk
• Grand Prix Navarra: Agustín Tamares
• Classic Amorebieta: Enrique Cima
• Ghent-Wevelgem: Freddy Maertens
• Plouay Grand Prix: Jacques Bossis
• United Nations Grand Prix: Freddy Maertens
• Midi Libre: Alain Meslet
• Milan-Turin: Enrio Paolini
• Omloop Het Volk: Willem Peeters
• Paris-Niza: Michel Laurent
• Catalan Week: Eddy Merckx
• Tyrrhenian-Adriatic: Roger de Vlaeminck
• Tour de Romandía: Johan De Muynck
• Volta to Catalonia: Enrique Martínez Heredia
• Return to Aragón: Javier Elorriaga
• Return to Asturias: Santiago Lazcano
• Return to the Basque Country: Gianbattista Baronchelli

Football

Championships by national teams

• Olympic Games:

Event
Male	Eastern Germany	Poland	Soviet Union

• Euro:

Czechoslovakia

Federal

Netherlands

International Championships

• Intercontinental Cup: Bayern of Munich.
• CONCACAF Champions Cup: CD Eagle.
• Copa Libertadores: Cruzeiro.
• European Cup: Bayern of Munich.
• UEFA Cup: Liverpool.
• European Super Cup: Anderlecht.

National Championships

• Argentina:
  • Metropolitan Tournament: Boca Juniors.
  • National Tournament: Boca Juniors.
  • First B: Platense and Lanús.
• Germany:
  • Bundesliga (Germany): VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach.
• Brazil:
  • Series A: International.
• Chile:
  • First Division of Chile: Everton for the third time.
• Colombia:
  • Professional Colombian Football: National Athletic Club.
• Costa Rica:
  • First Division: Deportivo Saprissa.
• Ecuador:
  • Series A: The National.
• Spain:
  • First Division: Real Madrid.
  • Second Division: Burgos.
  • Copa del Generalísimo: Atlético de Madrid.
• France:
  • Ligue 1: Saint-Étienne.
• England:
  • First Division: Liverpool.
• Italy:
  • Series A: Torino.
• Mexico:
  • First Division: America.
• Netherlands:
  • Eredivisie: PSV Eindhoven.
• Paraguay:
  • First Division: Freedom.
• Peru:
  • Peruvian Football League: Huaral Union.
• Uruguay:
  • First Division: Defender.
• Venezuela:
  • First Division: Portuguesa FC.

Trophies

• Gold Boot: You're Kaiafas.

American Football

• Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers.

Golfing

• US Open: Jerry Pate.
• Masters of Augusta: Raymond Floyd.
• British Open: Johnny Miller.
• PGA Championship: Dave Stockton.

Motorcycling

• 500cc: Barry Sheene.
• 350cc: Walter Villa.
• 250cc: Walter Villa.
• 125cc: Pier Paolo Bianchi.
• 50cc: Angel Nieto.

Tennis

• Open from Australia: Mark Edmondson and Evonne Goolagong.
• Roland Garros: Adriano Panatta and Sue Barker.
• Wimbledon: Björn Borg and Chris Evert.
• United States Open: Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert.
• WTA Tour Championships: Evonne Goolagong.
• Tennis Masters Cup: Manuel Orantes.
• Davis Cup: ItalyItaly.
• Copa: United States.

Other sports

• Boxing:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Less than 48 kg	Jorge Hernández	Byong Uk Li	Payao Pooltarat Orlando Maldonado
48-51 kg	Leo Randolph	Ramón Duvalon	David Torosyan Leszek Blazynski
51-54 kg	Yong Jo Gu	Charles Mooney	Patrick Cowdell Chulsoon Hwang
54-57 kg	Angel Herrera	Richard Nowakowski	Leszek Kosedowski Juan Paredes
57-60 kg	Howard Davis	Simion Cutov	Vasili Solomin Ace Rusevski
60.0 to 63.5 kg	Ray Leonard	Andrés Aldama	Wladimir Kolev Kachimierz Szcerba
63.5 to 67.0 kg	Jochen Bachfeld	Pedro Gamarro	Reinhard Skricek Victor Zilberman
67-71 kg	Jerzy Rybicki	Tadja Kacar	Viktor Savchenko Rolando Garbey
71-75 kg	Michael Spinks	Rufat Riskiev	Alec Nastac Luis Felipe Martínez
75-81 kg	Leon Spinks	Sixto Soria	Costica Danifoiu Janusz Gortat
More than 81 kg	Theophile Stevenson	Mircea Simon	John Tate Clarence Hill

• Equipment:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Individual in three days	Edmund Coffin	John Plumb	Karl Schultz
For teams in three days	United States	Western Germany	Australia
Great Individual Doma Award	Christine Stuckelberger	Harry Boldt	Reiner Klimke
Grand Doma Award for Teams	Western Germany	Switzerland	United States
Great individual leap prize	Alwin Schockemohle	Michel Vaillancourt	Francois Mathy
Grand prize for team jumps	France	Western Germany	Belgium

• Scream:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Single male flower	Fabio dal Zotto	Aleksandr Románkov	Bernard Talvard
Flower by male team	Western Germany	Italy	France
Male individual sword	Alexander Pusch	Jurgen Hehn	Gyozo Kulcsar
Sword by male team	Sweden	Germany	Switzerland
Single male	Viktor Krovopouskov	Vladimir Nazlimov	Viktor Sidjak
Sable by male team	Soviet Union	Italy	Romania
Single female flower	Ildiko Schwarczenberger	Maria Consolata Collino	Elena Belova
Floret per female team	Soviet Union	France	Hungary

• Gymnastics:
  • Olympic Games

Event
General masculine contest	Nikolai Andrianov	Sawao Kato	Mitsuo Tsukahara
By male team	Japan	Soviet Union	Eastern Germany
Male parallel bars	Sawao Kato	Nikolai Andrianov	Mitsuo Tsukahara
Male	Nikolai Andrianov	Vladimir Marchenko	Peter Korman
Male Poter Salt	Nikolai Andrianov	Mitsuo Tsukahara	Hiroshi Kajiyama
Male fixed bar	Mitsuo Tsukahara	Eizo Kenmotsu	Henri Boerio Ebergard Gienger
Male rings	Nikolai Andrianov	Alexander Ditiatin	Dan Grecu
Potro with male rings	Zoltan Magyar	Eizo Kenmotsu	Nikolai Andrianov
General female contest	Nadia Comaneci	Nelli Kim	Ludmilla Tourischeva
By female teams	Soviet Union	Romania	Eastern Germany
Female soil	Nelli Kim	Ludmilla Tourischeva	Nadia Comaneci
Feminine potato salt	Nelli Kim	Carola Dombeck Ludmilla Tourischeva
Balance bar	Nadia Comaneci	Olga Kórbut	Theodora Ungureanu
Female asymmetric bars	Nadia Comaneci	Theodora Ungureanu	Marta Egervari

• Halterophilia:
  • Olympic Games

Event
52 kg	Alexander Voronin	Gyorgy Koszegi	Mohammed Nassiri
56 kg	Norair Nurikyan	Grzegorz Cziura	Kenkichi Ando
60 kg	Nikolai Kolesnikov	Georgi Todorov	Kazumasa Hirai
67.5 kg	Pjotr Korol	Daniel Senet	Kazimierz Czarnicki
75 kg	Yordan Mitkov	Vartan Militosyan	Peter Wenzel
82.5 kg	Valery Shariy	Trendachil Stoichev	Peter Baczako
90 kg	David Rigert	Lee James	Atanas Chopov
110 kg	Vuri Zaitsev	Krastio Semerdiev	Tadeusz Rutkowski
More than 110 kg	Vasili Alexeyev	Gerd Bonk	Helmut Losch

• Hockey weed:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Male	New Zealand	Australia	Pakistan

• Judo:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Less than 63 kg male	Héctor Rodríguez	Eun-Kyung Chang	Jozef Tuncsik Felice Mariani
63-70 kg male	Vladimir Nevzorov	Koji Kuramoto	Patrick Vial Marian Talaj
70-80 kg male	Isamu Sonoda	Valery Dvoinikov	Slavko Obadov Yung-Chul Park
80-93 male	Kazuhiro Ninomiya	Ramaz Harshiladze	David Starbrook Jorg Rothlisberger
More than 93 kg male	Sergy Novikov	Gunther Neureuther	Allen Coage Sumio Endo
Male Open	Haruki Uemura	Keith Remfry	Jeaki Cho Shota Chochoshvili

• Fight:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Grecorromana 48 kg Male	Alexei Shumakov	Gheorge Berceanu	Stefan Anghelov
Grecorromana 52 kg Male	Vitaly Konstantinov	Nicu Ginga	Koichiro Hirayama
Grecorromana 52-57 kg male	Pertti Ukkola	Ivan Frgic	Farhat Mustafin
Grecorromana 57-62 kg male	Kazimierz Lipien	Nelson Davidian	Laszlo Reczi
Grecorromana 62-68 kg male	Suren Balbandyan	Stefan Rusu	Heinz-Helmut Wehling
Grecorromana 68-74 kg male	Anatoli Bykov	Vitezslav Macha	Karl-Heinz Helbing
Grecorromana 74-82 kg male	Momir Petkovic	Vladimir Cheboksarov	Iván Kolev
Grecorromana 82-90 kg male	Valery Rezanzev	Stoyan Nikolov	Czeslaw Kwiecinski
Grecorromana 90-100 kg male	Nikolai Bolboshin	Kamen Goranov	Andrzej Skrzylewski
Grecorromana over 100 kg male	Alexander Kolchinski	Alexander Tomov	Romes Codreanu
Free 48 kg male	Khassan Issayev	Roman Dmitriev	Akira Kudo
Free 52 kg male	Yuji Takada	Alexander Ivanov	Hae Sup Jeon
Free 52-57 kg male	Vladimir Umin	Hans-Dieter Bruchert	Masao Arai
Free 57-62 kg male	Jung Yang	Zeveg Oidov	Gene Davis
Free 62-68 kg male	Pavel Pinigin	Lloyd Keaser	Yasaburo Sugawara
Free 68-74 kg male	Jiichiro Date	Mansour Barzegar	Stanley Dziedzic
Free 74-82 kg male	John Paterson	Viktor Novoshilev	Adolf Seger
Free 82-90 kg male	Levan Tediashvili	Benjamin Peterson	Stelica Morcov
Free 90-100 kg male	Ivan Yarygin	Russell Hellickson	Dimo Kostov
Free more than 100 kg male	Soslan Andyev	Jozef Balla	Ladislav Simon

• Swimming:
  • Olympic Games

Event
100 m free male	Jim Montgomery	Jack Babashoff	Peter Nocke
200 m free masculine	Bruce Furniss	John Naber	Jim Montgomery
400 m free masculine	Brian Goodell	Tim Shaw	Vladimir Raskatov
1500 m free masculine	Brian Goodell	Bobby Hackett	Stephen Holland
100 m male back	John Naber	Peter Rocca	Roland Matthes
200 m male back	John Naber	Peter Rocca	Dan Harrigan
100 m masculine brace	John Hencken	David Wilkie	Arvidas Iuozaytis
200 m male	David Wilkie	John Hencken	Richard Colella
100 m male butterfly	Matt Vogel	Joe Bottom	Gary Hall
200 m male butterfly	Mike Bruner	Steven Gregg	Bill Forrester
400 m masculine styles	Rod Strachan	Alexander McKee	Andrei Smirnov
Relevo 4 × 200 m free masculine	United States	Soviet Union	United Kingdom
Relevo 4 × 100 m masculine styles	United States	Canada	Western Germany
3 m masculine	Philip Boggs	Giorgio Cagnotto	Alexander Kosenkov
Platform 10 m masculine	Klaus Dibiasi	Greg Louganis	Vladimir Aleinik
100 m free female	Kornelia Ender	Petra Priemer	Enith Brigitha
200 m free female	Kornelia Ender	Shirley Babashoff	Enith Brigitha
400 m free female	Petra Thumer	Shirley Babashoff	Shannon Smith
800 m free female	Petra Thumer	Shirley Babashoff	Wendy Weinberg
100 m female back	Ulrike Richter	Birgit Treiber	Nancy Garapick
200 m female back	Ulrike Richter	Birgit Treiber	Nancy Garapick
100 m feminine brace	Hannelore Anke	Lubov Rusanova	Marina Koscheveya
200 m feminine brace	Marina Koscheveya	Marina Yurchenia	Lubow Rusanova
100 m female butterfly	Kornelia Ender	Andrea Pollack	Wendy Boglioli
200 m female butterfly	Andrea Pollack	Ulrike Tauber	Rosemarie Gabriel
400 m female styles	Ulrike Tauber	Cheryl Gibson	Becky Smith
Relevo 4 × 100 m free female	United States	Eastern Germany	Canada
Relevo 4 × 100 m feminine styles	Eastern Germany	United States	Canada
3 m female	Jennifer Chandler	Christa Köhler	Cynthia McIngvale
Platform 10 m feminine	Elena Vaitsenkhovskaya	Ulrika Knape	Deborah Wilson

• Modern Pentathlon:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Individual	Janusz Pyciak-Peciak	Pavel Lednev	Jan Bartu
By equipment	United Kingdom	Czechoslovakia	Hungary

• Penguinism:
  • Olympic Games

Event
K1 500 m masculine	Vasile Diba	Zoltán Sztanity	Rüdiger Helm
K1 1000 m masculine	Rüdiger Helm	Géza Csapó	Vasile Diba
K2 500 m masculine	Joachim Mattern Bernd Olbricht	Vladimir Romanovski Sergei Nakhorny	Larion Serghei Policarp Malihin
K2 1000 m masculine	Vladimir Romanovski Sergei Nakhorny	Joachim Mattern Bernd Olbricht	Zoltan Bako István Szabó
K4 1000 m masculine	Sergei Chukhrai Alexander Degtiarev Yuri Filatov Volodimir Morozov	José María Esteban Celorrio José Ramón López Díaz Herminio Menéndez Luis Gregorio Ramos Misioné	Rüdiger Helm Jürgen Lehnert Peter Bischof Bernd Duvigneau
C1 500 m masculine	Alexander Rogov	John Wood	Matija Ljubek
C1 1000 m masculine	Matija Ljubek	Vasili Yurchenko	Tamás Wichmann
C2 500 m masculine	Sergei Petrenko Alexander Vinogradv	Andrzej Gronowicz Jerzy Opara	Tamás Buday Oszkár Frey
C2 1000 m masculine	Sergei Petrenko Alexander Vinogradv	Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov	Tamás Buday Oszkár Frey
K1 500 m female	Carola Zirzow	Tatiana Korshunova	Klára Rajnai
K2 500 m female	Nina Gopova Galina Kreft	Klára Rajnai Anna Pfeffer	Carola Zirzow Bärbel Köster

• Remo:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Male Skiff	Pertti Karppinen	Peter-Michael Kolbe	Joachim Dreifke
By male couple	Norway	United Kingdom	Eastern Germany
By couple without male hemonel	Eastern Germany	United States	Western Germany
By male couple	Eastern Germany	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia
For four without male hemonel	Eastern Germany	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia
For four without male hemonel	Eastern Germany	Norway	Soviet Union
For four men	Soviet Union	Eastern Germany	Western Germany
For eight men	Eastern Germany	United Kingdom	New Zealand
Female Skiff	Christina Scheiblich	Joan Lind	Elena Antonova
By female couple	Bulgaria	Eastern Germany	Soviet Union
By couple without female timonel	Bulgaria	Eastern Germany	Western Germany
For four women	Eastern Germany	Soviet Union	Romania
For four women	Eastern Germany	Bulgaria	Soviet Union
For eight women	Eastern Germany	Soviet Union	United States

• Tyre:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Free pistol 50 m	Uwe Potteck	Harald Vollmar	Rudolf Dollinger
Quick pistol 25 m	Norbert Klaar	Jürgen Wiefel	Roberto Ferrari
Rifle in 3 positions 50 m	Lanny Bassham	Margaret Murdock	Werner Seibold
Rifle in position 50 m	Karlheinz Smieszek	Ulrich Lind	Gennadi Lushikov
Mobile white 10 m	Alexandr Gazov	Alexandr Kediarov	Jerzy Greszkiewicz
Olympics	Donald Haldeman	Armando Silva	Ubaldesco Baldi
Skeet	Josef Panacek	Eric Swimkels	Wieslaw Gawlikowski
Male Arc	Darrell Pace	Hiroshi Michinaga	Giancarlo Ferrari
Female Arc	Luann Ryan	Valentina Kovpan	Zebiniso Rustamova

• Go.:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Finn	Jochen Schurmann	Andrey Balashov	John Bertrand
Tempest	Sweden	Soviet Union	United States
Flying Dutchman	Western Germany	United Kingdom	1968
Tornado	United Kingdom	United States	Western Germany
470	Harro Bode and Frank Hubner	Antonio Gorostegui and Pedro Millet	Ian Brown and Ian Ruff
Soling	Denmark	United States	Western Germany

• Volleyball:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Male	PolandPoland	Soviet Union	CubaCuba
Female	JapanJapan	Soviet Union	South KoreaSouth Korea

• Waterpolo:
  • Olympic Games

Event
Male	Hungary	ItalyItaly	NetherlandsNetherlands

Cinema

News

• The movie Furniture, directed by José Luis Borau, is awarded at the Cartagena International Film Festival in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Premieres

• 8 February: Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese.
• 4 April: All the men of the president by Alan J. Pakula.
• 5 April: Face to face by Ingmar Bergman.
• 23 June: Logan's Run Michael Anderson.
• 25 June: Prophecy Richard Donner.
• 30 June: Outside the law Clint Eastwood.
• 1 August: Obsession Brian De Palma.
• 11 August: The last gunman Don Siegel.
• 8 September: King Kong John Guillermin.
• 12 September: Bugsy Malone Alan Parker.
• 17 September: The Tapas Martin Ritt.
• 22 September: Victory in Chantant by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
• 8 October: Marathon Man John Schlesinger.
• 24 October: Elemental, Mr Freud Herbert Ross.
• 3 November: Carrie. Brian De Palma.
• 5 November: Assault on district police 13 John Carpenter.
• 12 November: Panic at the stadium Larry Peerce.
• 15 November: The last magnate Elia Kazan.
• 19 November: Cousin, cousine by Jean Charles Tacchella.
• 21 November: Rocky John G. Avildsen.
• 27 November: Network Sidney Lumet.
• 3 December: The Chicago Express of Arthur Hiller.
• 5 December: This land is my land Hal Ashby.
• 7 December: Casanova (Fellini) by Federico Fellini.
• 15 December: The pink panther strikes again Blake Edwards.
• 17 December: A star was born Frank Pierson.
• 22 December: The trip of the damned Stuart Rosenberg.

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

Oscars

• Best movie: Rocky.
• Best director: John G. Avildsen Rocky.
• Best actor: Peter Finch by An implacable world.
• Best actress: Faye Dunaway by An implacable world.
• Best cast actor: Jason Robards by All the men of the president.
• Best cast actress: Beatrice Straight by An implacable world.
• Best original script: Paddy Chayefsky by An implacable world.

Golden Globe Awards

• Best movie - Drama: Someone flew over the cuckoo nest.
• Best movie - Comedy or musical: The crazy couple.
• Best director: Miloš Forman Someone flew over the cuckoo nest.
• Best actor - Drama: Jack Nicholson by Someone flew over the cuckoo nest.
• Best actor - Comedy or musical: Walter Matthau The crazy couple.
• Best actress - Drama: Louise Fletcher by Someone flew over the cuckoo nest.
• Best actress - Comedy or musical: Ann-Margret by Tommy..
• Best script: Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben The crazy couple.
• Best series - Drama: Kojak.
• Best series - Comedy or musical: Barney Miller.

Music

News

• The item Save Your Kisses For Me by Brotherhood of Man wins the XXI Eurovision Edition held in The Hague, the Netherlands.
• The item Sing, cigar by María Ostiz wins the 5th edition of the OTI Festival of Song held in Mexico City.
• British band The Clash is formed.
• British band Saxon is formed.
• It forms the Irish band U2.
• The British band Siouxsie And The Banshees, considered pioneer of the Post-Punk genre.
• It forms the American Toto band.
• The Spanish-Argentine band Tequila is formed in Madrid.
• Ebola virus is discovered near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Posts

• ABBA: Arrival
  • Dancing Queen
  • Knowing Me, Knowing You
  • Money, Money, Money
• AC/DC: Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
• Aerosmith: Rocks
• Al Stewart: Year of The Cat
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero y Óscar Avilés: I sing to my land
• Bee Gees: Children of the world
• Billy Joel: Turnstiles
• Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy
• Blondie: Blondie
• Bob Dylan: Desire
• Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
• Bob Marley & The Wailers: Rastaman Vibration
• Boney M: Take the heat off me
• Camel Moonmadness
• Camilo Sesto: Memories
• David Bowie: Station to station
• Dyango: If I were him...
• Eagles: Hotel California (8 December), one of the best-selling albums of all time.
• Eagles: Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)
• Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record. It was the band's first album to use its iconic logo.
• Genesis: A trick of the Thai
• Harpo: Moviestar
• Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius
• Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygène
• José: The Prince
• José Luis Perales: If you want to meet me
• Juan Gabriel: With Mariachi Vol. II
• Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny
• Kiss: Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over
• Led Zeppelin: Presence
  • Achilles last stand
• Lolita: Hold me.
  • I won't give up.
• The Chichos: I don't know why
• María Jiménez: Maria Jiménez
• Marvin Gaye: I want you
• Modules: Remember? , Consumption S.A. (single 8.o)
• Queen: A day at the races
  • Tie Your Mother Down
  • Someone to Love
• Raffaella Carrà: In love everything is to begin
• Ramones: Ramones
  • Blitzkrieg bop
• Rosario Ríos (Rosario Flores): What does this mean?
• Rush: 2112
• Rush: All the world's a stage
• Scorpions: Virgin killer
• Stevie Wonder: Songs in the key of life
• The Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
• The Rolling Stones: Black and blue
• The Runaways: The Runaways
• The Beach Boys publish 15 Big Ones and return to Top 10, win the gold record and edit the successful British compile album 20 Golden Greats.
• Uriah Heep: High and mighty
• Wilkins: You can't die inside
• Wings: At The Speed of Sound and Over America
• Yola Polastry: Las Palmaditas and The Semillita

Festivals

• On April 3, the 21st edition of the Eurovision Song Festival in The Hague, NetherlandsNetherlands.
  • Winner: The Brotherhood of Man group with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me" representing the United Kingdom .

Ernst von Siemens Prize

• Mstislav Rostropóvich.

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting.
• Chemistry: William Lipscomb.
• Medicine: Baruch Samuel Blumberg and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.
• Literature: Saul Bellow.
• Peace: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan.
• Economy: Milton Friedman.