1982

1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year beginning on a Friday in the Gregorian calendar. It was declared:

International Year of Mobilization for the Imposition of Sanctions against South Africa by the United Nations Organization.

Events

January

• January 1st: New York, Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar assumes the position of Secretary General of the United Nations.
• 7 January: In the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II condemned the Israeli annexation of the Golan territories.
• 7 January: in Aquisgrán (Germany) the king of Spain Juan Carlos I is awarded the prize Carlomagno, first awarded to a sovereign.
• January 11: The statutes of the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Asturias, Andalusia and Cantabria are promulgated.
• January 13: In Washington D.C., Air Florida Flight 90 crashes on a highway and falls to the Potomac River: 74 occupants die, 4 people on the ground and 4 other occupants survive.
• January 14: In Andorra, the first Andorran government, chaired by Òscar Ribas Reig, took office.
• January 16: The first chapter of the Colombian television program Don Chinche is released.
• January 22: In Chile, the politician Eduardo Frei Montalva (president between 1964 and 1970) was murdered. A cable from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile—built by WikiLeaks—marked the complicity of doctors from the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the Pontifical Catholic University, who—by the orders of the military dictatorship of Pinochet—poisoned the former president with sulfuric mustardy and talium.
• January 27: in Honduras, the civilian Roberto Suazo Córdova has been granted the presidency after a decade of military dictatorship.

February

• 4 February: In Suriname, Desi Bouterse, head of the National Military Council, destitutes Hendrick Chin A Sen.
• February 5: In Vizcaya, the Basque businessman Lipperheide is released by the ETA terrorist gang after paying 20 million ransom pesetas.
• February 7: In Costa Rica, Social-Democratic Luis Alberto Monge wins the presidential elections of that country.
• February 8: In Suriname, Desi Bouterse (military leader of the army) appointed L. F. Ramdat Misier as Acting President.
• 10 February: Spain approves the regulations governing the functioning of the Congress of Deputies.
• February 14: In the United States, Stanford University physicists claim to have managed to detect a magnetic monopole.
• February 15: In front of the coasts of the island of Newfoundland (Canada) a violent storm hits an oil platform with the result of 84 deaths.
• 15 February: in Spain the reopening of the Altamira cave occurs.
• February 16: In Colombia, the MAS rescues Martha Nieves Ochoa (followed by the guerrilla movement M-19 since November 12, 1981).
• 17 February: in Madrid (Spain) the I Feria-Exhibition of Contemporary Art, ARCO-82 is closed.
• February 18: In Spain the trial against those involved in the coup d'etat in Spain in 1981 begins.
• February 18: In Ireland, the party Fianna Fáil becomes the first political force of the Lower House, obtaining 81 of the 166 seats and winning the general elections.
• February 19: In Renton, Washington State, United States, the Boeing 757 makes its first flight.
• 20 February: NATO carries out its first naval manoeuvres in the Caribbean.
• 21 February: in Spain, Manuel Fraga Iribarne is re-elected president of Popular Alliance.
• February 23: In northern Syria there are fierce clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood and the forces of President Hafez al-Asad.
• 23 February: In Denmark, 52 per cent of the population supports in the referendum the departure of the European Economic Community (ECE).

March

• 2 March: In Peru, an armed command of the Sendero Luminoso terrorist group assaults the Ayacucho prison.
• 3 March: in Paris, France My last breathLuis Buñuel's autobiography.
• 7 March: General elections are held in Guatemala.
• 14 March: Legislative elections are held in Colombia.
  • in California, USA, Metallica performs its first concert in history.
• March 19: In a plane crash, Randy Rhoads, lead guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne and former Quiet Riot die.
• 21 March: an earthquake of 6.9 in Japan leaves 167 wounded and several damages.
• March 22: the record is made: The Number Of The Beast, of the Heavy Metal band, Iron Maiden.
• March 23: In Guatemala, right-wing general Efraín Ríos Montt defeats the democratic government of Fernando Romeo Lucas García.

April

• 2 April: in the south of the Argentine Atlantic coast, the Armed Forces take over the Malvinas Islands, which led to the war of the Malvinas between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
• April 3: Airbus A310 makes its first flight.
• 17 April: Queen Elizabeth II approves the new constitution of Canada.
• April 24: in Harrogate (United Kingdom), the song Ein Bißchen Frieden by Nicole, wins the XXVII edition of Eurovision in Germany.
• 29 April: in the Guatemalan village of Los Josefinos 70 km from St. Helena, in the Guatemalan department of La Libertad (Petén), the dictatorship of General Efraín Ríos Montt carries out the Masacre of Los Josefinos, in which they torture and murder the entire village population (about 57 people, 15 of them boys and girls).
• April 29: El Salvador's presidential elections are being held.

May

• 2 May:
  • in El Salvador, Alvaro Magaña becomes Acting President.
  • In the framework of the Falklands War, the British submarine HMS Conqueror (S48) sinks into the Argentine light cruise. ARA General Belgrano; 323 soldiers die.
• 8 May:
  • in Costa Rica the Social Democracy returns to the power of the political Luis Alberto Monge.
  • In the Zolder circuit, (Belgium) the Canadian pilot Gilles Villeneuve died in accident.
• May 16: General elections are held in the Dominican Republic, with Salvador Jorge Blanco winning.
• May 23: It is premiered in the UK The Wall (The Film) musical by Pink Floyd.
• May 24: In the framework of the war between Iran and Iraq, Iranian troops recover Jorramchar.
• 25 May: During the Falklands War, Argentine aircraft fled to the destroyer HMS Coventry (D118).
• 30 May: Spain joins NATO.
• May 30: In Colombia, Belisario Betancur wins the presidential elections and is elected new president.

June

• 6 June: Israeli troops invade Lebanon and reach the capital of Beirut.
• 7 June: two earthquakes of 6.9 and 7.0 shake the Mexican city of Ometepec.
• 8 June: In the framework of the Falklands War, Argentine aircraft bombard United Kingdom ships in the Agradable Bay Air Attack.
• June 8: In the Dominican Republic, Antonio Guzmán resigns his post as president. (He will commit suicide on 4 July).
• 9 June: in Spain the statutes of autonomy of Murcia and La Rioja are approved.
• June 11: Juan Pablo II travels to Argentina.
• June 13: inauguration of the 12th edition of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, with the Argentina-Belgium match.
• June 15: Argentine troops surrender in Puerto Argentino/Stanley; the Falklands War ends up restoring the British administration over the Malvinas Islands.
• June 19: An earthquake of 7.3 is recorded in El Salvador, leaving 43 dead and several wounded.
• June 24: In the Galunggung Volcano (Indonesia), British Airways Flight 9 suffers from a temporary blackout of the four engines and damages outside the plane after crossing a volcanic ash cloud.
• June 24: the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).

July

• 1 July: Mauritius recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• 4 July: in Mexico, Miguel de la Madrid wins the 1982 elections is elected new president.
• 4 July: In the Dominican Republic, the 71-year-old Antonio Guzmán was killed, the first genuinely democratic president in that country. He is replaced by Vice President Jacobo Majluta for 43 days (until August 16th).
• July 9: In London, Michael Fagan infiltrated Queen Elizabeth II's room at Buckingham Palace, with whom he had a brief conversation for about 10 minutes. This was his second victorious attempt to access the palace as in the previous one it took place just three weeks before while the queen was at Windsor Castle.
• July 11: in Madrid (Spain) The World Cup is finished and Italy is a third-time World Cup champion after defeating the disappeared Germany Federal now Germany by a 3-1 marker.
• 15 July: in the Valencian Community the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community was promulgated.
• July 19: In El Salvador, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 in the Richter scale affects one quarter of the territory and causes several deaths and serious material losses.
• 22 July: in San Isidro (Argentina), the kidnapping of the Puccio begins: the first victim of the clan is Ricardo Manoukian, years later there are other kidnappings of Eduardo Aulet in 1983, Emilio Naum in 1984 and Nélida Bollini in Prado in 1985.
• July 23: in Ventura County (California), during the shooting of the film At the limits of reality: the filmA helicopter loses control and decapitates actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese actors.
• July 26: in Lima (Peru), Canadian Karen Dianne Baldwin wins the Miss Universe contest.
• 27 July: in Santiago de Chile, a series of temporary events cause the flooding of the Mapocho River, one of the largest disasters in the city, and other more serious disasters in the south of the country.
• July 30: Arístides Royo resigns his post as president of Panama for health reasons. Ricardo de la Espriella assumes the head of state.

August

• August 3: Venezuela recognizes the Saharawi Democratic Arab Republic (RASD).
• August 7: In Bogotá, Belisario Betancur assumes the post of president of Colombia.
• August 10: The Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands is approved in the Canary Islands.
• August 11th: in the Nevada test camp (100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 local time United States detonates the atomic bomb Cheese (of 20 kilotons), the 978 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 11 August: Suriname recognizes the Arab Democratic Saharan Republic (RASD).
• August 16: Salvador Jorge Blanco takes office as president in the Dominican Republic.

September

• September 1st: in Mexico, President José López Portillo in his latest government report decrees the nationalization of the banking system.
• 8 September: The general elections of the Netherlands are held.
• September 12: the Mexican fighter and actor El Santo offers his last free-fighting function in the (today extinct) Four-Wal Toureo, after 43 years of career as a professional fighter and 40 years of artistic career.
• September 13: Spantax's 995 flight, suspends the take-off of Malaga airport, noting a strong vibration, leaving the track and burning. 50 people die.
• September 14: On a road that connects France to Monaco, Princess Grace Kelly died in a traffic accident.
• 14 September: Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel died in attempted murder in Beirut.
• September 18: in Lebanon the massacres of Sabra and Chatila are carried out.
• 19 September: General elections are held in Sweden.
• September 23: 408 meters underground, in the area 12N.15 of the Nevada Test Site (100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:00 local time United States simultaneously detonates two atomic bombs: Diamond Ace and Huron Landing, both of 20 kt. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kt). An hour later, in the 8M area of the Nevada test site, detonates the atomic bomb Frisco21 kt. It is the 980, 981 and 982 of the 1129 bombs that the United States exploded between 1945 and 1992.
• September 29: 563 meters underground, in the U7br area of the Nevada atomic testing site, at 5:30 local time United States detonates its Borrego atomic bomb, of 1 kt. It is the 983 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

Chicago deaths from Tylenol drugs contaminated with Potassium Cyanide

• September 30: In Germany, Helmut Schmidt resigns from his position as Chancellor.

October

• October 1st: In Germany, Helmut Kohl became Chancellor.
• October 2: In Spain, the police dismantled the coup plot for October 27, 1982.
• October 10: In Bolivia, Hernán Siles Zuazo became president for the second and last time.
• October 19: In Sweden, Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• October 20: In Spain, the breakage of the Tous dam provokes the greatest flood so far, called the Tous swamp.
• October 26: Colombia renounces to be the headquarters of the Mexican World Cup 86, by decision of the national government, motivated by the lack of resources.
• October 28: In Spain, the PSOE won the general elections and Felipe González becomes president-elect.
• October 28: In Colombia, Pablo Escobar is elected alternate to the House of Representatives.
• October 31: Pope John Paul II begins his first visit to Spain.

November

• 2 November: Legislative elections are held in the United States.
• 4 November: The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 37/9, which provided for a status quo ante bellum for the Falklands War.
• 4 November: In Spain, the ETA terrorist gang murders Victor Lago, head of the Brunete Ward Division of the Land Army (Spain).
• 4 November: Ruud Lubbers becomes Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 5 November: Brazil and Paraguay inaugurated the Itaipu dam, at that time the world's largest hydroelectric plant.
• 5 November: John Paul II beatifies the Spanish nun Angela de la Cruz in Seville.
• 7 November: large floods in Lérida and Andorra.
• 9 November: An ambush of the Mujahidin murders more than a thousand young unarmed workers.
• 10 November: the head of the USSR Leonid Brézhnev died.
• 11 November: Palestinian combatant Ahmad Qassir destroys the building that housed the Israeli occupation headquarters in southern Lebanon.
• 12 November: In Moscow, Yuri Andropov is elected secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and actually led the leadership of the USSR.
• 15 November: legislative elections are held in Brazil.
• 16 November: Asia founded the Asian Olympic Council.
• November 18: Mariasela Álvarez de República Dominicana is crowned Miss Mundo.
• 19 November: in New Delhi (India) the IX Asian Games begin.
• November 24: The General Elections in Ireland are again held.
• November 27: Yasuhiro Nakasone was appointed Prime Minister of Japan.
• 27 November: in Lima, Peru, the song You can count on me. of Unicorn, wins for Venezuela the XI edition of the OTI Festival.
• 28 November: in Uruguay, during the civil-military period of Dr. Aparicio Méndez, suppresses and lifts the railway branch Maldonado-Punta del Este. In this last city, where a terminal station lay, a bus terminal is built.
• 28 November: in Uruguay, three political parties hold their internal elections.
• 30 November: In her residence on Downing Street 10 (London), Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a bomb package.
• November 30: In the United States, Michael Jackson released his sixth album as a soloist entitled Thriller.

December

• 1 December: in Mexico, Miguel de la Madrid assumes the presidency, which ends in November 1988.
• December 2: In Utah (United States) Dr. De Bries has the first implantation of a permanent artificial heart.
  • in Madrid, Spain, Felipe González assumes as president of the Government.
  • in Madrid (Spain), Pedro Laín Entralgo is elected director of the Royal Spanish Academy.
• December 3: in Chile, trade union leaders Manuel Bustos, Héctor Cuevas and Carlos Poldech are expelled from the country.
  • in the United States is founded the company Adobe.
• December 4th: in New Delhi, India, the IX Asian Games culminate.
  • the People ' s Republic of China adopts its constitution.
• 6, 7 and 8 December: in the village Las Dos Erres, 90 km from St. Helena, in the Guatemalan department of La Libertad (Petén), the Government of General Efraín Ríos Montt carries out the Massacre of Las Dos Erres, in which they will torture and kill the entire village population (more than 400 people).
• 8 December: In Peru the Fenomeno del Niño begins again with rains in the upper areas of the department of Piura (north century) extending for 6 months.
• 10 December: in a well at 413 meters underground, in the U4al area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:20 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Manteca, of 20 kt. It is the 987 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 13 December: Yemen has an earthquake of 6.2, leaving 2,800 dead and 1,500 wounded.
• December 14: In Spain, Gerardo Iglesias is elected Secretary General of the PCE to replace Santiago Carrillo.
  • Bolivia recognizes the Saharawi Democratic Arab Republic (RASD).
• December 15: In Spain, the Government opens La Verja de Gibraltar and allows the pedestrian passage through it.
• December 19: In Venezuela, a fire consumes the electricity generation plant "Ricardo Zuloaga", killing more than 160 people, among firefighters, police and social communicators (Tragedia de Tacoa).
  • In Buenos Aires, the Argentine musical group Soda Stereo performs its first performance with that name.
• December 25: On the island of Flores there is an earthquake of 5.9 that kills 13 people and leaves 400 wounded and hundreds of houses destroyed.
• 30 December: In Peru, the state of emergency is instituted in seven provinces, as the Shining Path terrorist group disobeys the ultimatum of the Government.

No date

• Morocco begins the formal claim for the sovereignty of Ceuta, Melilla and other uninhabited islands such as the Perejil Island.
• The video game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for Atari 2600, considered to be one of the worst video games in history, is a factor in the crisis of the video game of 1983.

Births

January

• 1 January:
  • Egidio Arévalo Rios, Uruguayan footballer.
  • Coralie Clément, French singer.
  • David Nalbandián, Argentine tennis player.
  • Radosław Matusiak, Polish footballer.
  • Sheikh Abdulkadir, Somali footballer.
• 2 January:
  • Juan Sebastián Calero, Colombian actor.
  • Dustin Clare, Australian actor.
• 3 January:
  • Ricardo Braz, Brazilian footballer.
  • José María Manzanares, Spanish bullfighter.
  • Luca Garri, Italian basketball player.
• January 4: Iñigo Calderón, Spanish footballer.
• 5 January:
  • Jaroslav Plašil, Czech footballer.
  • Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier.
  • Giovanni Pasquale, Italian footballer.
  • Takashi Aizawa, Japanese footballer.

Eddie Redmayne

• January 6: Eddie Redmayne, British actor.
• 7 January:
  • Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model.
  • Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player.
  • Lauren Cohan, American actress.
  • Camilo Villegas, Colombian golfer.
  • Antonio González Rodríguez, Spanish footballer.
• January 8: Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer.
• 9 January:
  • Catherine Middleton, British aristocrat.
  • Bailey Brooks, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 10 January:
  • Tomasz Brzyski, Polish footballer.
  • Mitsuhiro Ichiki, Japanese voice actor.
  • Ana Layevska, Ukrainian-Mexican actress.
• 11 January:
  • Grégory Lacombe, French footballer.
  • Kaijiro Fujiyoshi, Japanese footballer.
  • Tony Allen, American basketball player.
• 12 January:
  • Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player.
  • Tony Lochhead, New Zealand footballer.
• 13 January:
  • Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player.
  • Ruth Wilson, British actress.
  • Alessandro Livi, Italian footballer.
• 14 January:
  • Victor Valdés, Spanish footballer.
  • Caleb Followill, American musician
  • Emilio Munda, Italian composer.
  • Reinier Alcántara Núñez, a Cuban footballer.
• 15 January:
  • Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player.
  • Angel Sanchez Martin, football player and Spanish coach.
• 16 January:
  • Bobby Zamora, British footballer.
  • Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer.
• 17 January:
  • Dwyane Wade, American basketball player.
  • Mel Lisboa, Brazilian actress.
  • Ricardo Bóvio, Brazilian footballer.
  • Nestor Silva, Uruguayan footballer.
• 18 January:
  • Álvaro Mejía Pérez, Spanish footballer.
  • Ivan Saraiva de Souza, Brazilian footballer.
  • Jader Volnei Spindler, Brazilian footballer.
• 19 January:
  • Jodie Sweetin, American actress.
  • Lucas Pierre, Brazilian footballer.
• January 20: Serghei Covalciuc, Ukrainian footballer.
• 21 January:
  • Simon Rolfes, German footballer.
  • Malik Couturier, French footballer.
• January 22: Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer.
• January 23: Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iranian student (f. 2009).
• 25 January:
  • Noemí, Italian singer.
  • Patrik Ingelsten, Swedish footballer.
  • Jody Viviani, French footballer.
  • Feis, Dutch rapper (f. 2019).
• 27 January:
  • Rhys Evans, English footballer.
  • Javi Muñoz Arévalo, Spanish footballer.
  • Alair de Souza Camargo Junior, Brazilian footballer.
• 28 January:
  • Camila Sosa Villada, Argentine actress.
  • Sébastien Puygrenier, French footballer.
• 29 January:
  • Adam Lambert, American singer and actor.
  • Kim Dong-jin, South Korean footballer.
  • Leonardo Ponzio, Argentine soccer player.
  • Rubén González Rocha, Spanish footballer.
  • Mohammad Alavi, Iranian footballer.
• 30 January:
  • Gilles Yapi Yapo, ivory footballer.
  • Antonis Georgallides, Cypriot footballer.
• 31 January:
  • Helena Paparizou, Greek singer.
  • Andreas Görlitz, German footballer.
  • Taisei Fujita, Japanese footballer.
  • Marta Nieto, Spanish actress.

February

• February 1: Jean Machí, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 3 February:
  • David Fuster, Spanish footballer.
  • Roland Schwegler, Swiss footballer.
• February 4th: Roman Wallner, Austrian footballer.
• 5 February:
  • Pablo Palacios, Ecuadorian footballer.
  • Rodrigo Sebastián Palacio, Argentine soccer player.
  • Yū Kobayashi, Japanese seiyū.
• 8 February:
  • Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer.
  • Juan Gabriel Rufián Romero, Spanish politician.
• 10 February:
  • Yoshimasa Hosoya, Japanese voice actor.
  • Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer.
  • Claudio Dadómo, Uruguayan footballer.
• February 11: Christian Maggio, Italian footballer.
• 12 February:
  • Mahmoud Fathallah, Egyptian footballer.
  • Markus Feulner, German footballer.
• February 14: Isabel Jiménez, journalist and presenter of Spanish news.
• February 15: Alejandro Aguilar, Colombian actor.
• 16 February:
  • Lucia González Lavado, Spanish writer.
  • Caterin Escobar, Colombian actress.
• 17 February:
  • Timothée Atouba, Cameroonian footballer.
  • Tomáš Hrdlička, Czech footballer.
  • Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer.
• February 18: Christian Tiffert, German footballer.
• February 19: Stefan Kramer, Chilean comedian.
• 20 February:
  • Osita Iheme, Nigerian actor.
  • Rawle Marshall, American basketball player.
  • Krystian Brzozowski, Polish fighter.
• 22 February:
  • Jenna Haze, American porn actress.
  • Kelly Johnson, American baseball player.
  • Siaka Tiéné, Ivory footballer.
• 24 February:
  • Gustavo Molina, Venezuelan baseball player.
  • Emanuel Villa, Argentine soccer player.
• 25 February:
  • Steve Olfers, Dutch footballer.
  • Maria Kanellis-Bennett, professional fighter, model and American actress.
• 26 February:
  • Nate Ruess, American singer.
  • Brenda Navarro, writer, sociologist and Mexican economist.
• 27 February:
  • Luca Fainello, Italian singer, Sonohra band.
  • Ali Bastian, British actress.
• 28 February:
  • Jonathan Aspas, Spanish footballer.
  • Martin Galmarini, Argentine soccer player.
  • Natalia Vodiánova, Russian model.

March

• March 1: Enrique Corrales, Spanish footballer.
• 2 March:
  • Kevin Kurányi, a Brazilian German footballer.
  • Ben Roethlisberger, American quarterback.
• 3 March:
  • Jessica Biel, American actress.
  • Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt, Brazilian footballer.
• 4 March:
  • Landon Donovan, American footballer.
  • Rodrigo de Souza Cardoso, Brazilian footballer.
• March 5: Dan Carter, New Zealander.
• March 6: Riccardo Meili, Swiss footballer.
• March 7: Aaron Díaz, Mexican actor, singer and businessman.
• March 8: David Lorenzo Magariño, Spanish writer.
• 10 March:
  • Gerardo Noriega, Spanish footballer.
  • Xisco Campos, Spanish footballer.
  • Paolo Ragone, actor, singer and Argentine model.
  • Andreas Johansson, Swedish footballer.
• 11 March:
  • Thora Birch, American actress.
  • Patrícia Araújo, Brazilian pornographic actress (f. 2019).
• 12 March:
  • Gonzalo Heredia, Argentine actor.
  • Nikki Daniels, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 13 March:
  • Lee Soo-kyung, South Korean actress.
  • Manuel Pasqual, Italian footballer.
• 15 March:
  • Malú, Spanish singer.
  • José Emilio Guerra, Spanish footballer.
• March 16: Brian Wilson, American baseball player.
• 18 March:
  • Timo Glock, German Formula 1 pilot.
  • Mantorras, Angolan footballer.
• March 19: Hana Kobayashi, a Japanese-born Venezuelan singer.
• March 20: Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer.
• 22 March:
  • Alinne Rosa, Brazilian singer.
  • Hugo Catalán, Mexican actor.
• March 24: KENN, voice actor and Japanese singer.
• 25 March:
  • David Bustamante, Spanish singer.
  • Jenny Slate, American actress.
  • Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer.
• 30 March:
  • Javier Portillo, Spanish footballer.
  • Philippe Mexès, French footballer.
• March 31: Ciel, Brazilian footballer.

April

• 2 April:
  • Marco Amelia, Italian footballer.
  • Mario Brondo, Mexican filmmaker.
  • Jack Evans, American professional fighter.
  • David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player.
• 3 April:
  • Ruben Schaken, Dutch footballer.
  • Adriano Pererira da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• April 4: Jessica Cediel, Colombian model and host.
• 5 April:
  • Hayley Atwell, British actress.
  • Marcel Seip, Dutch footballer.
• 6 April:
  • Adam Raga, Spanish trial pilot.
  • David Cobeño, Spanish footballer.
• April 8: Luba Shumeyko, Ukrainian model.
• April 9: Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor.
• 13 April:
  • Mía Kihl, Swedish actress.
  • Bruno Gagliasso, Brazilian actor.
• April 14: Paolla Oliveira, Brazilian actress.
• 15 April:
  • Albert Riera, Spanish footballer.
  • Damià Abella, Spanish footballer.
  • Seth Rogen, actor, comedian, writer and Canadian producer.
  • Andrés Cuervo, singer and Colombian model (f. 2022).
• April 17: Jimena Durán, Colombian actress.
• April 19: Ignacio Serricchio, Argentine-American actor.
• 20 April: Dario Knežević, Croatian footballer.

Kaká

• 22 April:
  • Kaká, Brazilian footballer.
  • Jorge Molina Vidal, Spanish footballer.
• April 24: Kelly Clarkson, American singer.
• 26 April:
  • Jon Lee, British singer, actor and dancer, S Club 7 band.
  • Alejandro Machado, Venezuelan baseball player.
• April 27: Jordi Codina, Spanish footballer.
• April 28: Harry Shum, Jr., dancer and Costa Rican actor.
• 30 April:
  • Kirsten Dunst, American actress.
  • Drew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer.
  • Maria Adelaida Puerta, Colombian actress.

May

• 1 May:
  • Jamie Dornan, an actor and a North Irish model.
  • Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player.
  • Darijo Srna, Footballman Croatian.
• 3 May:
  • Rebecca Hall, British actress.
  • Joey Montana, Panamanian artist.
• May 4: Isabel Aboy, Spanish actress.
• May 5: Sándor Torghelle, Hungarian footballer.
• May 7: Chumel Torres, Mexican comedian and youtuber.
• 8 May:
  • Buakaw Por Pramuk, Thai boxer.
  • Aaron Galindo, Mexican footballer.
• May 9: Kim Jung-woo, South Korean footballer.
• May 10: José Luis Cabrera Cava, Spanish footballer.
• May 11: Cory Monteith, Canadian actor (f. 2013).
• 13 May:
  • Oguchi Onyewu, an American footballer of Nigerian origin.
  • Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer.
  • Taishi Murata, Japanese voice actor.
• 15 May:
  • Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor.
  • Second Alejandro Castillo, Ecuadorian soccer player.
• May 16: Dimitri Vegas, DJ and Belgian producer.
• 17 May:
  • Tony Parker, French basketball player.
  • Borja Oubiña, Spanish footballer.
• May 20: Petr Čech, Czech footballer.
• 24 May:
  • DaMarcus Beasley, American footballer.
  • Conrado Pérez, a Venezuelan politician.
• May 26: Monique Alexander, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• May 27: Natalya, Canadian professional fighter.
• May 29: Dennis Masina, a Swiss footballer.
• 31 May:
  • Tony Dize, Puerto Rican singer.
  • Jonathan Tucker, American actor.

June

• June 1st: Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player.
• June 3: Yelena Isinbáyeva, a Russian athlete.
• June 5: Achille Emana, Cameroonian footballer.
• June 9: Timmy Trumpet, Australian DJ
• 10 June:
  • Madeleine Bernadotte, Swedish princess.
  • Monica Fonseca, journalist and Colombian presenter.
  • Mauricio Lomonte, Cuban radio and television presenter.
  • Etienne Barbara, Maltese footballer.
• June 14: Lang Lang, Chinese pianist.
• June 15: Laura Acuña, Colombian model and presenter.
• 19 June:
  • Ana Sofia Henao, model, writer and Colombian illustrator.
  • Silvia Natalia Niño, Colombian skater.
  • May Andersen, Danish model.
• 20 June:
  • Example, British singer and rapper.
  • Antonio Castelo, presenter, speaker and Spanish humorist.
• 21 June:
  • William Mountbatten-Windsor, British aristocrat.
  • Biassini Segura, Colombian actor.
• 22 June:
  • Jason Motte, American baseball player.
  • Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer.
  • Hamad Al-Montashari, Saudi footballer.
• June 24: Lotte Verbeek, a Dutch actress.
• 25 June:
  • Rain, singer, composer, dancer, actor and South Korean model.
  • Fernando Navarro Corbacho, Spanish footballer.
• 28 June:
  • Iraqli Garibashvili, Georgian Prime Minister.
  • Grazi Massafera, Brazilian actress.
• June 29: Giancarlo Maldonado, Venezuelan footballer.

July

• July 1: Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player.
• July 2nd: Diego Castro, Spanish footballer.
• 5 July:
  • Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer.
  • Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress.
• 6 July:
  • Malena Pichot, actress, comedian and Argentine screenwriter.
  • Adriana Lucía, Colombian singer.
• 8 July:
  • Sophia Bush, American actress.
  • Joshua Alba, American film and television actor.
  • Schuyler Fisk, American actress and singer.
  • Mikołaj Burda, Polish maid.
• July 10: Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer.
• July 11: Yūna Inamura, Japanese voice actress.
• July 12: Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer.
• 13 July:
  • Ion Ansotegi, Spanish footballer.
  • Omar Cummings, Jamaican footballer.
• July 14: Kim Do-heon, South Korean footballer.
• 16 July:
  • Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer.
  • DrossRotzank, internet celebrity.
• 18 July:
  • Ryan Cabrera, American singer.
  • Carlo Costly, Honduran soccer player.
• July 19: Jared Padalecki, American actor.
• July 20: Laila Jiménez, a Spanish journalist.
• July 21: Rochelle Stormont, New Zealand Yudoca.
• July 23: Valentina Acosta, Colombian actress.
• July 24: Anna Paquin, Canadian-Dutch actress.
• July 25: Brad Renfro, American actor (f. 2008).
• 27 July:
  • Luiz Carlos Vieira, Brazilian footballer.
  • Johana Bahamón, Colombian actress and activist.
• July 28: Cain Velásquez, American professional fighter.
• July 29: Allison Mack, American actress.
• July 31: Edmond Kapllani, Albanian footballer.

August

• August 2: Helder Postiga, Portuguese footballer.
• 3 August:
  • Damien Sandow, American professional fighter.
  • Domenico Maietta, Italian footballer.
• August 4: Yina Gallego, Colombian singer.
• August 7: Juan Martín Hernández, Argentinian rugby player.
• August 9: Anna Simon, TV presenter and Spanish journalist.
• August 10: John Alvbåge, Swedish footballer.
• August 13: Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor.
• 15 August:
  • Richar Estigarribia, Paraguayan footballer.
  • Carolina Sepúlveda, Colombian actress.
• 17 August:
  • Mark Salling, American actor and musician (f. 2018).
  • Hassan Abdel-Fattah, Jordanian footballer.
  • María José Blum, Ecuadorian singer and actress.
  • Hugo Lusardi, Paraguayan footballer (f. 2022).
• August 19: Amara Diané footballer ivory.
• August 20: Lil' Cease, American rapper.
• August 22: Mai Gotō, Japanese seiyū.
• August 24: Kim Källström, Swedish footballer.
• August 26: Sara Petrov, Canadian swimmer.
• 27 August:
  • Bergüzar Korel, Turkish actress.
  • Rafael dos Santos Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 28 August:
  • Thiago Motta, Brazilian nationalized Italian footballer.
  • LeAnn Rimes, American singer.
• 29 August:
  • A+ (Andre Levins), American rapper.
  • Mayana Moura, actress, model and Brazilian singer.
  • Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player.
  • Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer.
  • Jessie Riffá, Cuban singer and actress.
  • Shohei Yamamoto, Japanese footballer.
  • Mathías Riquero, Uruguayan footballer.
  • Darian Schijman, Argentine lawyer, actor and journalist.
  • Miguel Alejandro Gómez, director of Costa Rican cinema.
  • Yakhouba Diawara, French basketball player.
  • Johan Sotil, Peruvian footballer.
  • Mike Phillips, Welsh Ripper.
• August 30: Andy Roddick, American tennis player.
• August 31: Pepe Reina, Spanish footballer.

September

• September 2: Raúl and Gabriel Peralta, Chilean dancers.
• September 3: Ayumi Fujimura, Japanese seiyū.
• September 8: Leandra Leal, Brazilian actress.
• September 9: Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer.
• 10 September:
  • David López Moreno, Spanish footballer.
  • Javi Varas, Spanish footballer.
• 12 September:
  • Amiel Tena, Mexican singer.
  • Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure-idol.
  • Kiran Bechan, Dutch footballer.
• 13 September:
  • Soraya Arnelas, Spanish singer.
  • Clara Serra, Spanish feminist policy.
• September 16: Ramón Ramírez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 19 September:
  • Cristina Esmeralda López, an athlete and Salvadoran politics.
  • Juninho, Brazilian soccer player of Polish and naturalized Mexican descent.
• 23 September:
  • Eduardo Nascimento da Costa, Brazilian footballer.
  • Aina Clotet, Spanish actress.
• 25 September:
  • Hyun Bin, actor, model and South Korean singer.
  • Kany García, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
  • Erika de la Rosa, Mexican actress and model.
  • Sue Ellen Bernal Bolnik, Mexican politics.
• September 26: Damian Priest, Puerto Rican professional fighter.
• 27 September:
  • Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer.
  • Algis Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer.
  • Fabian Soyanoff, Uruguayan footballer.
  • Cassandra Cruz, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 28 September:
  • Alex Adames, actor and colombo-venezolano model.
  • Aleksandr Aniukov, Russian footballer.
• September 30: Teal Redmann, American actress.

October

• October 2nd: Cléo Pires, Brazilian actress.
• 3 October:
  • Erik von Detten, American actor.
  • El Juli, Spanish bullfighter.
• October 5: Rustam Judzhámov, Ukrainian footballer.
• 7 October:
  • Robby Ginepri, American tennis player.
  • Jermain Defoe, British footballer.
  • Carolina Acevedo, Colombian actress.
• October 10: Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer.
• October 12: Paweł Golański, Polish footballer.
• October 13: Yohana Vargas, actress, model and Venezuelan cheerleader.
• 15 October:
  • Matías Oyola, Argentine-Ecuadorian footballer.
  • Sebastian Yatra, Colombian singer.
• 20 October:
  • Damian Betular, a baker and an Argentine cook.
  • José Acasuso, Argentine tennis player.
  • Wojciech Łobodziński, Polish footballer.
  • Ramón Ávila Castro, Chilean footballer.
• October 21st: Matt Dallas, American actor.
• 22 October:
  • Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player.
  • Oleksandr Kucher, Ukrainian footballer.
• October 25: Victoria French, Spanish artist.
• 27 October:
  • Litzy, Mexican singer and actress.
  • Patrick Fugit, American actor.
  • James Riley, American footballer.
• 29 October:
  • Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer.
  • Sharon Taylor, Australian york.

November

• 1 November: Moharram Navidkia, footballer and Iranian coach.
• November 2: Kyōko Fukada, Japanese actress, singer and model.
• November 3: Raquel del Rosario, Spanish singer, of the band El Sueño de Morfeo.
• November 6: Oleksiy Gai, Ukrainian footballer.
• 7 November: Andrés Zuno, Mexican actor and singer.
• November 8: Ted DiBiase, Jr, American fighter.
• November 10: Heather Matarazzo, American actress.

Anne Hathaway

• 12 November:
  • Anne Hathaway, American actress.
  • Ellen Oléria, singer and black Brazilian actress.
  • Oscar Javier González Marcos, Spanish footballer.
  • Robert Redman, a Venezuelan student. (f. 2014).
• November 15: Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer.
• 16 November:
  • Caterin Escobar, Colombian actress.
  • Pere Aragonès, Spanish politician (current president of the Generality of Catalonia).
• 18 November:
  • Ferdinando Valencia, Mexican actor.
  • Andrés Sandoval, Colombian actor.
• November 20: Margo Stilley, American actress and model.
• 22 November:
  • Mystic, Mexican professional fighter.
  • Charlene Choi, actress and Dutch singer.
• November 23: Asafa Powell, a Jamaican athlete.
• November 25: Freddy Vava, a Vanuatuian footballer.
• November 27: Amaktie Maasie, Surinamese footballer.
• 29 November:
  • Lucas Black, American actor.
  • Krystal Steal, American porn actress.
  • Marcin Robak, Polish footballer.
  • John Mensah, Ghanaian footballer.
  • Souleymane Youla, Guinean footballer.
  • János Balogh, Hungarian footballer.
  • Shirley Marulanda, Colombian actress.
• 30 November:
  • Clémence Poésy, French actress.
  • Elisha Cuthbert, American actress.
  • Mercedes Carrera, American pornographic actress.
  • Domenico Pozzovivo, Italian cyclist.

December

• 2 December: Horacio Pancheri, Argentine actor
• December 3: Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer.
• December 4: Nick Vujicic, Australian lecturer.
• 5 December:
  • Keri Hilson, American singer.
  • Karl Palatu, Estonian footballer.
• 6 December:
  • Ryan Carnes, American actor.
  • Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist.
  • Susie Wolff, British motor racing pilot.
• 7 December:
  • Vanesa Amorós, Spanish basketball player.
  • Lou Amundson, American basketball player.

Nicki Minaj

• December 8: Nicki Minaj, rapper trinitiense.
• December 9: Kevin Goldthwaite, American footballer.
• December 12: Dmitri Tursúnov, Russian tennis player.
• 13 December: Elisa Di Francisca, Italian farmer.
• December 14: Mark-Jan Fledderus, Dutch footballer.
• December 15: Marina Albiol, Spanish politics.
• December 16: Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer.
• 17 December:
  • Dynamo, British illusionist.
  • Boubacar Sanogo, ivory footballer.
• 20 December:
  • Keny Arkana, a French singer of Argentine origin.
  • David Wright, American baseball player.
  • Mikel Alvaro Salazar, Spanish footballer.
• December 21: Charlie Cox, British actor.
• 22 December:
  • Steffi Jones, German footballer.
  • Alinne Moraes, Brazilian actress.
• 23 December:
  • Tony Rivera, Puerto Rican singer.
  • Mane de la Parra, Mexican actor and singer.
• December 24: Robert Schwartzman, American actor and musician.
• 25 December:
  • Dani Martinez, Spanish copycat and comic.
  • Robert Owen Edwards, welsh footballer.
• 26 December:
  • Oguri Shun, Japanese actor.
  • Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier.
  • Claudio Corioni, Italian cyclist.
• 27 December:
  • Michael Bourn, American baseball player.
  • Kouko Guehi, ivory footballer.
  • Richarlyson, Brazilian footballer.
  • Elisa Isoardi, model and presenter of Italian television.
• December 28: Matt Walst, Canadian vocalist and guitarist, My Darkest Days and Three Days Grace.
• 29 December:
  • Alison Brie, American actress.
  • Alejandro Albarracín, Spanish actor.
  • Marko Baša, Montenegrin footballer.
• December 30: Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress.
• 31 December:
  • Ronald Belisario, Venezuelan baseball player.
  • Craig Gordon, British footballer.
  • Jesse Huerta, Mexican-American singer, musician and composer, from the duo Jesse & Joy.
  • Rafael Ledesma, Brazilian footballer.

Unknown dates

• Alicia Calderón Tazón, a physicist and a Spanish researcher.
• Araminta González, Venezuelan chemistry.
• Toni Morillas, communicatedloga and Spanish feminist.

Deaths

Art and literature

• January 6: Fernando Arrabal gets the Nadal award for his novel The tower wounded by lightning.
• Isabel Allende: The House of Spirits.

Science and technology

• August 29: for the first time the chemical element meitnerio (Mt), number 109 in the periodic table.
• The compact disc (CD) enters the market.
• April 23: In the UK the ZX Spectrum, the first massive domestic computer in Europe, is released.

Sports

• In Colombia the world of basketball is celebrated. The Soviet Union is crowned champion of the contest by defeating the United States in the final.
• Baseball: the Caracas Lions conquer their first title of the Caribbean Series held in Hermosillo, Mexico.
• FC Barcelona is proclaimed champion of the King of Basketball Cup.
• The FC Barcelona, champion of the European Hockey Cup on skates.
• In Guayaquil (Ecuador) the fourth edition of the World of Swimming Championships is held.

Football

• In Spain the XII World Football Championship: Italy wins its third Football World Cup by winning in the final to Federal Germany for 3-1.
• Golden Ball: the Italian Paolo Rossi, from Juventus, is appointed best footballer in the world of the year by the magazine France Football.
• Club Atlético Peñarol is proclaimed champion of the Intercontinental Cup Football after defeating Aston Villa for 2 to 0.
• Libya celebrates African Cup of Nations, in the end comes the selection of soccer from Libya and the selection of football from Ghana, they pack 1-1 but in the tanda of criminals, Ghana gets the title after defeating 7-6 to Libya, which gets its first and only sub-campo.
• Copa Libertadores: Club Atlético Peñarol is champion for the fourth time after defeating Cobreloa.
• UEFA Champions Cup 81-82: Aston Villa wins for 1st time after beating Bayern from Munich for 1 to 0 in Rotterdam.
• The FC Barcelona is proclaimed champion of the European football team, by defeating the Belgian Standard Liège by 2-1 in the final contested at the Camp Nou in Barcelona.
• Argentina Soccer: West Railroad is dedicated national champion in undefeated form for the first time in his history, beating Quilmes for 2-0.
• Chile: Cobreloa is titled champion of the Professional Football Championship. Fernandez Vial is Second Division champion. Colo Colo wins the Copa Polla Gol (current Chilean Cup).
• Serie A of Ecuador: The National of Quito is dedicated champion for the sixth time of the tournament.
• Professional Colombian Football: America of Cali is champion for 2.a time.
• Mexican Football: On June 6, 1982 the Tigers of the UANL obtain their second title of League (81-82), after beating in penal 5-3 the Atlantean in the Aztec Stadium

Motor Racing

• Formula 1: Keke Rosberg is a world champion on board a Williams F1. Ferrari wins the builder championship.
• WRC: Walter Röhrl wins for the second time the title on board an Opel Ascona
• Rally Dakar: Claude Marreau, along with his co-driver brother, wins the competition on board a Renault 4
• NASCAR: Darrell Waltrip wins the title aboard a Buick Regal for the second consecutive time
• Champ Car: Rick Mears wins second consecutive title on board a Penske Cosworth
• 500 Miles from Indianapolis: Gordon Johncock wins the competition
• Tourism: Jorge Martínez Boero wins the title aboard a Ford Falcon
• Competition 2000: Jorge Omar del Rio wins the championship for the third consecutive time on board a VW 1500

Tennis

• Open from Australia: Men: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton. Women: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova.
• Roland Garros: Men: Mats Wilander beats Guillermo Vilas. Women: Martina Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger.
• Wimbledon: Men: Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe. Women: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert.
• US Open: Men: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl. Women: Chris Evert beats Hana Mandlíková.

Volleyball

• Argentina: Tenth edition of the Men's Volleyball World Championship. Soviet Union comes out champion in front of Brazil.
• Peru: Tenth edition of the Women's Volleyball World Championship. The local team loses the end to its similar China.

Cinema

• He's calm. Blade Runner by Ridley Scott who would later become a cult movie and a science fiction classic.
• E.T., the alienSteven Spielberg, a science fiction film that becomes the cinematographic phenomenon of the year beating all the world's record of collection, and consecrates his director.
• First Blood (Corralted, in Spain), film adaptation of David Morrell's novel First blood.
• Friday the 13th Part III by Steve Miner
• Gandhi Richard Attenborough, Oscar winner to better movie.
• Grease 2 by Patricia Birch.
• The hive by Mario Camus, based on the famous novel by Camilo José Cela.
• The dogs of the plague Martin Rosen.
• Pink Floyd – The Wall by Alan Parker, a musical classic.
• Poltergeist Tobe Hooper.
• Rocky III starred and directed by Sylvester Stallone.
• The Draughtsman's Contract Peter Greenaway.
• The Thing John Carpenter.
• Tron by Steven Lisberger, considered the first feature film with digital effects.
• Go back to start by José Luis Garci, first Spanish feature film to win the Oscar to the best non-English speaking film.

Music

• It forms the American band Dio.
• British band The Smiths is formed.
• The Norwegian band is formed a-ha.
• Argentinian band Soda Stereo is formed.

• ABBA: The Singles: The First Ten Years
• Accept: Restless & Wild
• Aerosmith: Rock in a hard place
• Alejandro Lerner: Alexander Lerner and the Magic
• Asia: Asia
• Bad Brains: Bad Brains
• Bad Religion: How could Hell Be Any Worse?
• Red Baron: Brutal volume
• Billy Idol: Billy Idol
• Billy Joel: The nylon curtain
• Blondie: The hunter
• Camilo Sesto: Walk (in English)
• Charly García: Going from bed to living room
• Christian Death: Only theatre of pain
• Camel:The Single Factor
• Depeche Mode: A Broken Frame
• Dire Straits: Love over gold
• Discharge: Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
• Duran Duran: Rio
• Eva Ayllón: When we make love
• Fleetwood Mac: Mirage
• Gato Pérez: Prohibited to disturb cats
• George Harrison: Gone Troppo
• Guillermo Dávila: Guillermo Dávila
• Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast
• Jean-Michel Jarre: The concerts in China
• José Feliciano: Scenes of love
• José: My life
• José Luis Perales: Between the water and the fire
• José Luis Rodríguez: I don't care.
• Judas Priest: Screaming

for vengeance

• Venom Black Metal.
• Julio Iglesias: Moments
• King Crimson: Beat (album)
• Kiss: Creatures of the Night
• Led Zeppelin: Coda
• Leño: Run, run!
• The Chichos: Neither you nor me.
• The Jaivas: Aconcagua
• The Northern Tigers: Our Father: successes forever
• Lucia Méndez: Near you
• Luis Alberto Spinetta: Kamikaze
• Luis Angel: Meself
• Luis Miguel
  • 1+1=2 in love
  • Direct to the heart
• Mom: Mom..
• Manowar: Battle Hymns
• Mazapán: To the round...
• María Conchita Alonso: Dangerous Rhythm
• Mecano: Mecano
• Menudo: An adventure called Menudo
• Miami Sound Machine: Rio
• Michael Jackson: Thriller
• Miguel Ríos: Rock and Rios
• Mike Oldfield: Five Miles Out
• Misfits: Walk Among Us
• Motörhead: Iron Fist
• Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a madman
• Paul McCartney: Tug of war
• Small Company: Again
• Peter Gabriel: 4 (in America known as Security).
• Prince: 1999
• Queen: Hot Space
• Richard Clayderman:
  • Reveries no. 2
  • Richard Clayderman
  • The magic of Richard Clayderman
• Ringo Starr: Stop and smell the roses
• Rod Stewart: Absolutely live
• Roxy Music: Avalon
• Rush: Signals
• Scorpions: Blackout
• Simple Minds:
  • Celebration
  • New gold dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
• Total sinister: When do you eat here?
• Siouxsie And The Banshees: A Kiss in The Dreamhouse
• Supertramp: ...Famous last words...
• The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the sky
• The Clash: Combat Rock
• The Misfits: Walk among us
• Timbiriche: The Timbiriche band
• Toto: Topic IV
• Uriah Heep: Abominog
• Van Halen: ♪
• Yazoo: Upstairs at Eric's
• Yola Polastry: Yola and her wrists

Festivals

• On April 24th the XXVII edition of the Eurovision Song Festival in Harrogate, United KingdomUnited Kingdom.
  • Winner: The singer Nicole Hohlochwith the song «Ein bißchen Frieden» representing Germany .

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Kenneth G. Wilson.
• Chemistry: Aaron Klug.
• Medicine: Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane.
• Literature: Gabriel García Márquez.
• Paz: Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles.
• Economy: George Stigler.

Prince of Asturias Awards

• Arts: Pablo Serrano
• Social Sciences: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
• Communication and Humanities: Mario Augusto Bunge
• International cooperation: Enrique V. Iglesias
• Scientific and Technical Research: Manuel Ballester Boix
• Letters: Miguel Delibes y Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Cervantes Award

• Luis Rosales