MCMLXVII

MCMLXVII .:. nineteen sixty-seven .:. mil novecientos sesenta y siete .:. тысяча девятьсот шестьдесят седьмой .:. 1967

Literature

• Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
• Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan
• Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) by Akiyuki Nosaka
• La Femme rompue by Simone de Beauvoir
• Lupin III by Monkey Punch first appears in just-created magazine Weekly Manga Action
• Searle’s Cats by Ronald Searle
• The first issue of Spockanalia, the first all-Star Trek fanzine
• The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler
• Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) by Yasutaka Tsutsui
• Una ballata del mare salato (The Ballad of the Salty Sea) by Hugo Pratt, the first episode of the adventures of Corto Maltese
• Žert (The Joke), the first novel by Milan Kundera
• Лолита, the Russian version of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov first published (in Russian and in English)
• Сказка о тройке by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Film and TV

• 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle by Jean-Luc Godard
• A Countess from Hong Kong by Charlie Chaplin
• At Last the 1948 Show by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Marty Feldman
• Bedazzled by Stanley Donen
• Belle de jour by Luis Buñuel
• Casino Royale by Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest and Richard Talmadge
• Chingachgook, die große Schlange by Richard Groschopp
• Da uomo a uomo (Death Rides a Horse) by Giulio Petroni
• Fantômas contre Scotland Yard by André Hunebelle, the third and final installment of the Fantômas trilogy
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by Stanley Kramer
• Her Private Hell by Norman J. Warren
• Hoří, má panenko! (The Firemen’s Ball), the last film directed by Miloš Forman in Czechoslovakia
• In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
• Jag är nyfiken – en film i gult by Vilgot Sjöman
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort by Jacques Demy
• Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde by Claude Autant-Lara, Mauro Bolognini, Philippe de Broca, Jean-Luc Godard, Franco Indovina and Michael Pfleghar
• Le Samouraï by Jean-Pierre Melville
• Lo straniero by Luchino Visconti
• Peppermint Frappé by Carlos Saura
• PlayTime by Jacques Tati
• Point Blank by John Boorman
• Rocky Road to Dublin by Peter Lennon
• To Sir, with Love by James Clavell
• The Graduate by Mike Nichols
• The Jungle Book by Wolfgang Reitherman; the last film to be produced by Walt Disney
• Último encuentro by Antonio Eceiza
• Valley of the Dolls by Mark Robson
• Vedreba (Мольба) by Tengiz Abuladze
• Vivre pour vivre by Claude Lelouch
• Who’s That Knocking at My Door, the first feature film directed by Martin Scorsese
• Woman Times Seven by Vittorio De Sica
• You Only Live Twice by Lewis Gilbert
• Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard
• Анна Каренина by Aleksandr Zarkhi
• Вертикаль, the debut film by Stanislav Govorukhin
• Вий by Konstantin Ershov and Georgi Kropachyov, officially the first Soviet horror film
• Война и мир by Sergey Bondarchuk
• Война под крышами by Viktor Turov
• История Аси Клячиной, которая любила, да не вышла замуж by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Кавказская пленница by Leonid Gaidai
• Короткие встречи by Kira Muratova
• Пароль не нужен by Boris Grigoriev
• Свадьба в Малиновке by Andrey Tutyshkin
• Шпионские страсти, a cult animation by Yefim Gamburg

Music

• A Whiter Shade of Pale, the debut song by Procol Harum
• Ara que tinc vint anys, the debut album of Joan Manuel Serrat
• Are You Experienced, the debut album of The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Bee Gees’ 1^st, the first international full-length album of Bee Gees
• Big Brother & the Holding Company, the debut album by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin
• Blood, Sweat & Tears is formed in New York City
• Cállate niña, the debut single by Pic-Nic
• Canned Heat, the debut album of Canned Heat
• Carlos Santana Blues Band formed
• Care of Cell 44, a single by The Zombies
• Carmen Suite, a ballet by Alberto Alonso on music by Rodion Shchedrin
• Chelsea Girl, the debut solo album by Nico
• Chicago is formed in Chicago, Illinois
• Chris Wright and Terry Ellis found the Ellis-Wright Agency, later known as Chrysalis Music
• Crow is formed in Minneapolis
• David Bowie, the debut album by David Bowie
• Delilah is recorded by Tom Jones
• Easter Everywhere by 13th Floor Elevators
• El Rey y Yo, an album by Tito Puente and La Lupe
• Fender introduces Elvis Kingman acoustic guitar
• Expression, the last studio recording by John Coltrane
• 1^st Festival de Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Fleetwood Mac is formed in London
• Flowers in the Rain, a hit single by The Move
• Giles, Giles and Fripp is formed
• Hair première
• Happy Together, a hit song by The Turtles
• Il Balletto di Bronzo is formed in Naples
• Hush, a song by Joe South
• I’d Rather Go Blind is recorded by Etta James
• Inti-Illimani is formed in Santiago, Chile
• Ivan, Boris et moi, a song by Marie Laforêt
• Je t’aime... moi non plus, a song by Serge Gainsbourg
• The Jeff Beck Group is formed in London
• Jethro Tull is formed in Blackpool
• John Wesley Harding, an album by Bob Dylan
• Kentucky Woman, a single by Neil Diamond
• La fabulosa guitarra de Paco de Lucía, the first solo studio recording by Paco de Lucía
• L’amour est bleu, a hit song by André Popp and Pierre Cour
• Las Desenamoradas, a ballet by Eleo Pomare based on Federico García Lorca’s play La casa de Bernarda Alba and featuring music by John Coltrane
• Livin’ Blues is formed in The Hague
• Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
• Massachusetts, the first Number 1 hit of Bee Gees in the UK
• More Than a New Discovery, the debut album of Laura Nyro
• Release Me and The Last Waltz, hit singles of Engelbert Humperdinck
• Ruby Tuesday, a hit song by The Rolling Stones
• Respect and Chain of Fools, hit singles by Aretha Franklin
• Santa Barbara Machine Head is formed and disbanded
• Sensazioni, the debut single of New Trolls
• Shocking Blue is formed
• Songs of Leonard Cohen, the debut album of Leonard Cohen
• Spinal Tap Sings “(Listen to The) Flower People” and Other Favourites, the debut album of Spın̈al Tap
• Sunshine of Your Love, a song by Cream
• Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane
• Tangerine Dream is formed in West Berlin
• Ten Years After, the debut album of Ten Years After
• The Doors, the debut album of The Doors
• The Golliwogs change their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The Grateful Dead, the debut album of Grateful Dead
• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the debut album of Pink Floyd
• The Sorcerer and More Sorcery, the live albums by Gábor Szabó
• The Stooges are formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, the debut album of The Nice
• The Velvet Underground & Nico, the debut album of The Velvet Underground
• The Who Sell Out by The Who
• Traffic is formed in Birmingham; their debut album, Mr. Fantasy, is released in December
• Travessia, the debut album by Milton Nascimento
• United, the first collaborative album by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
• Van der Graaf Generator is formed in Manchester
• Violin Phase by Steve Reich
• Wave, the most successful album by Antônio Carlos Jobim
• Wildflowers, an album by Judy Collins

Births

• Monica Ali (20 October), British writer
• Anne Aly (29 March), Australian politician
• Vicente Amigo Girol (25 March), Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer
• Pamela Anderson (1 July), Canadian actress and model
• Richard Bona (28 October), Cameroonian jazz bassist
• Sandrine Bonnaire (31 May), French actress, film director and screenwriter
• Pep Brocal, Catalan illustrator
• Carla Bruni (23 December), Italian-French singer, songwriter and model
• Enrique Bunbury (11 August), Spanish singer-songwriter
• Peter Callesen, Danish artist and author
• Matt Chamberlain (17 April), American drummer
• Adam Cegielski (3 April), Polish jazz bassist
• Nick Clegg (7 January), British politician
• Kurt Cobain (20 February), American rock musician († 1994)
• Pierre Coffin, French animator and director
• Zsuzsa Czinkóczi (23 January), Hungarian actress
• Marcelo D2 (5 November), Brazilian rapper
• Laura Dern (10 February), American actress
• George Eads (1 March), American actor
• Lola García, Spanish journalist and political analyst
• Paul “Gazza” Gascoigne (27 May), English footballer
• Michael Giacchino (10 October), American composer
• Marco de Goeij, Dutch composer
• Michel Hazanavicius (29 March), French film director, producer and screenwriter
• Ruthie Henshall (7 March), English actress, singer and dancer
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (23 July), American actor and director († 2014)
• Johan Inger, Swedish dancer and choreographer
• Veli-Matti Järvenpää, Finnish accordionist and composer
• Mirjana Joković (24 November), Serbian actress
• Ulrika Jonsson (16 August), Swedish-British television presenter
• Etgar Keret (20 August), Israeli writer
• Dmitry Kholodov (21 July), Russian journalist († 1994)
• Nicole Kidman (20 June), Australian actress
• Oleg Kuvaev (6 February), Russian animator
• Matt LeBlanc (25 July), American actor
• João Magueijo (18 September), Portuguese cosmologist
• Claire Martin (6 September), English jazz singer
• Daler Mehndi (18 August), Indian Bhangra singer
• Gabriele Mirabassi (16 September), Italian clarinetist
• Gorō Miyazaki (21 January), Japanese film director and landscaper
• Charnett Moffett (10 June), American jazz musician
• Christoph H. Müller (2 July), Swiss musician, composer and producer
• Dani Nel·lo (2 October), Catalan saxophonist
• Amélie Nothomb (13 August), Belgian novelist
• François Ozon (15 November), French film director
• Mercedes Peón, Galician singer and musician
• Kristen Pfaff (26 May), American musician († 1994)
• Lucia Rijker (6 December), Dutch boxer, kickboxer and actress
• Mark Ruffalo (22 November), American actor and producer
• Mikheil Saakashvili (21 December), Georgian politician
• Antony Santos “El Bachatú” (5 May), Dominican musician and singer
• Marta Sanz, Spanish writer (14 November)
• Patty Schemel (24 April), American drummer
• Anna Nicole Smith (28 November), American model and actress († 2007)
• Cauleen Smith (25 September), American filmmaker and multimedia artist
• Sol Kyung-gu (14 May), South Korean actor
• Song Kang-ho (17 January), South Korean actor
• Mira Sorvino (28 September), American actress
• Lili Taylor (20 February), American actress
• Kathryn Tickell (8 June), English folk musician
• Benicio del Toro (19 February), Puerto Rican actor
• Spencer Tunick (1 January), American photographer
• Lee Unkrich (8 August), American film director
• Denis Villeneuve (3 October), Canadian filmmaker
• Lilly Wachowski (29 December), American film director
• Emily Watson (14 January), English actress
• Gillian Welch (2 October), American singer-songwriter
• Dhafer Youssef (19 November), Tunisian musician
• Toni Zenet, Spanish actor, singer and songwriter

Deaths

• Konrad Adenauer (19 April), German statesman
• Red Allen (17 April), American jazz trumpeter
• Clement Attlee (8 October), British politician
• Buster Bailey (12 April), American jazz clarinetist
• James Bedford (12 January), American psychology professor; the first person to be cryopreserved after death
• Lawrence Beesley (14 February), English science teacher, journalist and author, a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic
• Randy Brooks (21 March), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
• David Burliuk (15 January), Russian avant-garde artist and writer
• Roger B. Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White (27 January), the crew of Apollo 1
• John Coltrane (17 July), American jazz saxophonist
• Zbigniew Cybulski (8 January), Polish actor
• Ilya Ehrenburg (31 August), Soviet writer
• Brian Epstein (27 August), British music manager
• Fridrikh Ermler (12 July), Soviet film director
• Forugh Farrokhzad (13 February), Iranian poet and filmmaker
• Waldo David Frank (9 January), American writer
• Kazimierz Funk (19 November), Polish biochemist
• Oliverio Girondo (24 January), Argentine poet
• Victor Gollancz (8 February), British publisher, writer and humanitarian
• Che Guevara (9 October), Argentine revolutionary
• Woody Guthrie (3 October), American singer-songwriter
• Edward Hopper (15 May), American painter
• Langston Hughes (22 May), American poet
• Jacques Jaujard (21 June), Director of the French National Museums who was instrumental in the saving of the Louvre art collection during World War II
• Vladimir Komarov (24 April), Soviet cosmonaut, the pilot of Soyuz 1
• Vivien Leigh (8 July), English actress
• Carson McCullers (29 September), American writer
• René Magritte (15 August), Belgian artist
• Jayne Mansfield (29 June), American actress, singer and nightclub entertainer
• Edison Marshall (29 October), American writer
• Evelyn Nesbit (17 January), American artists’ model
• J. Robert Oppenheimer (18 February), American physicist
• Dorothy Parker (7 June), American poet and short story writer
• Violeta Parra (5 February), Chilean singer-songwriter
• Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 October), inventor of the Pilates method of physical fitness
• Puyi (17 October), the last Emperor of China
• Zinaida Serebriakova (19 September), Russian painter
• Stuff Smith (25 September), American jazz violinist
• Rex Stewart (7 September), American jazz cornetist
• Robert Van de Graaff (16 January), American physicist

Events

• The Apollo 1 disaster (27 January)
• Lynn Margulis publishes her landmark paper on the theory of endosymbiosis (March)
• Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire while performing in London Astoria (31 March)
• The State Public Library (La Biblioteca Pública del Estado) of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria inagurated (10 April)
• Kathrine Switzer is the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry (19 April)
• The Colonels’ Coup in Greece (21 April)
• The Soyuz 1 disaster (24 April)
• Muhammad Ali is arrested, his boxing license is suspended (28 April)
• The first meeting of the Moscow КСП (Author Song Club) (7—9 May)
• Games for May, the first-ever surround-sound rock concert is performed by Pink Floyd at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (12 May)
• Yuri Andropov becomes the chairman of the KGB (18 May)
• The Six-Day War (5—10 June)
• The USS Liberty incident (8 June)
• Loving v. Virginia decision of the United States Supreme Court invalidates laws prohibiting interracial marriage (12 June)
• Monterey International Pop Festival (16—18 June)
• The Summer of Love
• The first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held in New York City (24—28 June)
• Photographer Al Clayton tours the Mississippi Delta to create an iconic documentary
• Major Paddy Roy Bates founds the Principality of Sealand (2 September)
• The first broadcast of BBC Radio 1 (30 September)
• The Outer Space Treaty enters into force (10 October)
• The last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi assumes the title Shāhanshāh, or “King of Kings” (26 October)
• The Abortion Act 1967 (27 October)
• The two unmanned Soviet Union spacecraft, Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188, make the first fully automated space docking in the history of space exploration (30 October)
• Devaluation of the pound (18 November)
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the first pulsar (28 November)
• Christiaan Barnard performs first successful heart transplant (3 December)
• Hans Bethe is awarded Nobel Prize in Physics “for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars” (10 December)
• The Silver Bridge disaster (15 December)
• The concept of living will is proposed by Luis Kutner
• The first Queen’s Christmas Message to be shown in colour (25 December)
• Anne Sexton wins the Pulitzer Prize for her book Live or Die
• George Cotzias and coworkers show that orally administered L-DOPA can be used to treat Parkinsonism
• Mac Hack IV becomes the first computer chess program to defeat a human in tournament play
• The first electronic breathalyser is developed. The Road Safety Act 1967 introduces the first legally enforceable maximum blood alcohol level for drivers in the UK
• The ISBN format is created
• The first version of Logo is created
• The Lourdes signals intelligence facility is opened near Havana, Cuba
• The last British pre-decimal coins such as ha’pence and shillings issued for circulation
• The small-world experiment by Stanley Milgram
• The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) is established