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

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
Marc Marginedas, Spanish journalist
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
Bibian Norai (1 September), Spanish adult film actress and director
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
Otto M. Schwarz (15 October), Austrian composer and conductor
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
Keri-Lynn Wilson (17 May), Canadian conductor, founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
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
Jobyna Ralston (22 January), American stage and film actress
Albert Rémy (26 January), French actor
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

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