1981 in the United States
Events from the year 1981 in the United States.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia) (until January 20), Ronald Reagan (R-California) (starting January 20)
- Vice President: Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) (until January 20), George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) (starting January 20)
- Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger (Minnesota)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tip O'Neill (D-Massachusetts)
- Senate Majority Leader: Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) (until January 3), Howard Baker (R-Tennessee) (starting January 3)
- Congress: 96th (until January 3), 97th (starting January 3)
Events
January
January 20: Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th U.S. President
January 20: George H. W. Bush becomes the 43rd U.S. Vice President
January 20: The Iran hostage crisis ends with their release
- January 19 – United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- January 20 – Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, and George H. W. Bush is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. Minutes later, Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, ending the Iran hostage crisis.
- January 25 – Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 27–10 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
February
- February 10 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
March
March 30: Reagan assassination attempt
- March 6 – After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- March 19 – Three workers are killed and five are injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
- March 21 – Michael Donald is lynched in Mobile, Alabama.
- March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.
- March 31 – The 53rd Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, wins four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull tie in receiving eight nominations each.
April
April 12: The first Space Shuttle launch
- April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia (John Young, Robert Crippen) launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14.
- April 18 – A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).
- April 26 – The 5.9 Mw Westmorland earthquake shook the Imperial Valley of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing $1–3 million in damage.
May
- May 15 – Donna Payant is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith, the first time a female correctional officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.
June
- June – The United States enters the severe early 1980s recession, exactly a year after the more minor 1980 recession ended; the unemployment rate is 7.2%
- June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS).
- June 12
- Major League Baseball goes on strike, forcing the cancellation of 38 percent of the schedule.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg is released as the first film of the Indiana Jones film series.
- June 21 – Wayne Williams, a 23-year-old African American, is arrested and charged with the murders of two other African Americans. He is later accused of 28 others, in the Atlanta child murders.
- June 29 – Morris Edwin Robert, armed with a machine gun, holds hostages in the FBI section at the Atlanta, Georgia Federal Building. After three hours, the hostages are rescued and Robert is killed in a shootout with federal agents.
July
July 17: Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
- July 7 – President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- July 8 – California Governor Jerry Brown, faced with a Mediterranean fruit fly infestation, chooses to delay the aerial spraying of malathion, in favor of continuing ground-based eradication efforts.
- July 9 – First release of Donkey Kong and debut of Mario.
- July 10 – Walt Disney Productions' 24th feature film, The Fox and the Hound, is released after a six month delay due to the departure of Don Bluth and his animation team from the studio. The film receives mixed-to-positive reviews and is a box office success.
- July 17
- Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.
- Israeli aircraft bomb Beirut, destroying multi-story apartment blocks containing the offices of PLO associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.[1]
- July 27 – Adam Walsh, 6, is kidnapped from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida.
August
- August 1 – MTV (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States.
- August 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
- August 7 – The Washington Star ceases publication after 128 years.
- August 9 – Major League Baseball resumes from the strike with the All-Star Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.
- August 10 – Exactly two weeks after his disappearance, the severed head of 6-year-old Hollywood, Florida native Adam Walsh is found in a canal in Vero Beach, Florida; to this day the rest of the boy's body has never been recovered.
- August 12 – The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.
- August 19
- Gulf of Sidra incident (1981): Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends 2 Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept 2 U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.
- August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after being convicted of murdering John Lennon in Manhattan eight months earlier.
- August 31 – A bomb explodes at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, West Germany, injuring 20 people.
September
- September 10 – Picasso's painting "Guernica" is moved from New York City to Madrid.
- September 11 – A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California, damaging the venue beyond repair.
- September 15 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC.
- September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.
- September 19 – Simon & Garfunkel perform The Concert in Central Park, a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.
- September 25
- Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The Rolling Stones begin their Tattoo You tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
October
- October 28
- The thrash metal band Metallica forms in Los Angeles.
- The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 2, to win their fifth World Series Title.
November
- November 12 – STS-2: Space Shuttle Columbia (Joe Engle, Richard Truly) lifts off for its second mission.
- November 16 – Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
- November 23 – Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- November 30 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, December 17).
December
- December 5 – American general James L. Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades.
- December 8 – The No. 21 Mine explosion in Whitwell, Tennessee kills 13.
- December 11 – Boxing: Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proved to be Ali's last-ever fight.
- December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Ongoing
- Cold War (1947–1991)
- Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981)
- Early 1980s recession (1981–1982)
Births
- January 1 – Eden Riegel, actress
- January 2 – Kirk Hinrich, basketball player
- January 4
- Alicia Garza, activist
- Aaron Schwartz, actor
- January 5 – Brooklyn Sudano, actress
- January 6
- Camila Grey, singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Mike Jones, rapper[2]
- January 7 – Marquis Daniels, basketball player
- January 9 – Caroline Lufkin, singer
- January 10 – Brian Joo, R&B singer
- January 12 – Quentin Griffin, American football player
- January 15 – Howie Day, singer and songwriter
- January 17
- Scott Mechlowicz, actor
- Ray J, rapper and singer
- January 19 – Elizabeth Tulloch, actress
- January 20 – Jason Richardson, basketball player
- January 22 –
- Chantelle Anderson, basketball player
- Willa Ford, singer, television hostess, and actress
- Beverley Mitchell, actress
- Ben Moody, guitarist
- January 24 – Carrie Coon, actress
- January 25 – Alicia Keys, singer, pianist and actress[3]
- January 28 – Elijah Wood, actor and music producer
- January 29 – Jonny Lang, musician
- January 30 – Jonathan Bender, basketball player
- January 31 – Justin Timberlake, singer-songwriter, actor and record producer[4]
- February 1 – John Gemberling, actor and comedian
- February 2 – Emily Rose, actress
- February 3 – Alisa Reyes, actress
- February 5 – Nora Zehetner, actress
- February 6 – Alison Haislip, actress and former TV personality
- February 8 – Dawn Olivieri, actress
- February 9 – The Rev, drummer (d. 2009)
- February 14 – Erin Torpey, actress
- February 15
- Matt Hoopes, musician, guitarist and singer-songwriter, (Relient K)
- Jenna Morasca, television personality
- Olivia, singer-songwriter and actress
- February 17 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor, director, producer and writer
- February 18 – Kamasi Washington, crossover jazz saxophonist
- February 20
- Majandra Delfino, actress
- Adrian Lamo, computer hacker (died 2018)[5]
- Chris Thile, mandolinist
- February 23
- February 26 – Maria Sansone, journalist and Internet personality
- February 27 – Josh Groban, singer[7]
- March 1
- Adam LaVorgna, actor
- Zach Cregger, actor and comedian
- Brad Winchester, ice hockey player
- March 2
- Lance Cade, professional wrestler (died 2010)
- Bryce Dallas Howard, actress[8]
- March 3 – Lil' Flip, rapper
- March 6 – Ellen Muth, actress
- March 9 – Antonio Bryant, football player
- March 10 – Kristen Maloney, gymnast
- March 11
- David Anders, actor
- Lee Evans, American football player
- LeToya Luckett, singer[9]
- March 13 – David Bailey, basketball player
- March 16 – Danny Brown, rapper and songwriter
- March 17 – Kyle Korver, basketball player
- March 18 – Vanessa Lee Evigan, actress
- March 22
- Tiffany Dupont, actress[10]
- MIMS, rapper
- March 24 – Philip Winchester, actor
- March 25 – Casey Neistat, YouTube personality
- March 28
- Lindsay Frimodt, model
- Julia Stiles, actress[11]
- March 29
- Megan Hilty, actress and singer[12]
- PJ Morton, musician, singer, and producer
- April 2 – Bethany Joy Lenz, actress and singer
- April 5 – Michael A. Monsoor, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2006)
- April 6
- Eliza Coupe, actress
- April 7 – Terrell Roberts, American football player (died 2019)
- April 9 – Eric Harris, American mass murderer (died 1999)
- April 10
- Gretchen Bleiler, snowboarder
- Laura Bell Bundy, actress and singer
- Michael Pitt, actor
- Timmy Williams, actor and comedian[13]
- April 12
- Tulsi Gabbard, politician
- Paul Rust, American actor and comedian
- April 13
- Courtney Peldon, actress
- Brenden Shucart, HIV/AIDS and LGBT rights activist, actor, and writer
- April 16 – Jake Scott, American football player
- April 19
- Troy Polamalu, American football player
- Jonas Neubauer, Tetris player
- April 22 – Ken Dorsey, football player
- April 29 – Alex Vincent, actor
- April 30 – Tom Goss, singer-songwriter and actor
- May 1 – Wes Welker, American football player
- May 2 – Robert Buckley, actor
- May 3 – Farrah Franklin, singer
- May 4
- Jason Kander, politician and podcaster[14]
- Dallon Weekes, musician
- May 5
- Chris Duncan, baseball player (died 2019)
- Danielle Fishel, actress[15]
- Zach McGowan, actor
- May 11
- JP Karliak, actor, voice actor and comedian[16]
- Austin O'Brien, actor and photographer
- Daniel Ortmeier, baseball player
- May 12 – Rami Malek, actor
- May 15 – Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress[17]
- May 18 – Adam Green, singer-songwriter
- May 20 – Lindsay Taylor, basketball player
- May 21 – Josh Hamilton, baseball player
- May 22 – Melissa Gregory, figure skater
- May 23
- Tim Robinson, actor and comedian
- Charles Rogers, American football player (died 2019)
- May 26
- Anthony Ervin, swimmer
- Isaac Slade, singer-songwriter and pianist
- May 28
- Laura Bailey, voice actress
- Aaron Schock, politician[18]
- May 29
- Justin Chon, actor
- Anders Holm, actor and comedian
- Brian Simnjanovski, American football player (died 2009)
- Alton Ford, basketball player (died 2018)
- May 31
- Andy Hurley, musician
- Jake Peavy, baseball player
- June 1
- Smush Parker, basketball player
- Johnny Pemberton, actor and comedian
- June 3 – Rich Rundles, baseball player (died 2019)
- June 6 – Johnny Pacar, actor
- June 7 – Tyler Johnson, baseball player
- June 8
- Rachel Held Evans, Christian columnist, blogger and author (died 2019)
- Alex Band, musician
- Sara Watkins, violinist
- June 10 – Jonathan Bennett, actor and model
- June 12
- John Gourley, musician and singer
- Jeremy Howard, actor
- June 13 – Chris Evans, actor
- June 15
- Billy Martin, guitarist, songwriter, and illustrator
- Jeremy Reed, baseball player
- Haley Scarnato, American singer
- Maxey Whitehead, voice actress
- June 16
- Ben Kweller musician
- Joe Saunders, baseball player
- June 19 – Melissa McMorrow, boxer
- June 22 – Monty Oum, animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- June 21 – Brandon Flowers, singer-songwriter
- June 24
- Tilky Jones, singer and actor
- Cris Lankenau, actor
- Vanessa Ray, actress and singer
- June 27 – John Driscoll, actor
- June 29 – Joe Johnson basketball player
- July 1 – Amanda Seales, comedian, actress, rapper and songwriter
- July 2 – Alex Koroknay-Palicz, activist
- July 4
- Brock Berlin, American football player
- Will Smith, American football player (d. 2016)
- July 6
- Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
- Mike Karney, American football player
- July 7 – Brad James, actor
- July 8 – Lance Gross, actor, model and photographer
- July 11 – Andre Johnson, American football player
- July 13 – Fran Kranz, actor[19]
- July 15 – Taylor Kinney, actor and model
- July 21
- Blake Lewis, singer, songwriter and beatboxer
- Chrishell Stause, actress
- July 27 – Dash Snow, artist (died 2009)
- July 28
- Billy Aaron Brown, actor
- Cole Williams, actor
- July 29 – Dyana Liu, actress
- July 30 – Nicky Hayden, motorcycle racer (died 2017)[20]
- July 31
- M. Shadows, singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
- Eric Lively, actor
- Brandon Scott, actor
- Vernon Carey, American football player
- August 1 – Jordan Wall, actor
- August 3 – Travis Willingham, voice actor
- August 4
- Marques Houston, singer and actor (IMx)
- Abigail Spencer, actress
- August 5
- Jesse Williams, actor, director, producer, and activist
- Carl Crawford, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Rachel Scott, murder victim (died 1999)
- Travie McCoy, alternative hip-hop artist
- August 6 – Leslie Odom Jr., actor and singer
- August 14
- Scott Lipsky, tennis player[21]
- Ray William Johnson, actor, comedian, rapper and YouTuber
- August 21 – Ross Thomas, actor
- August 22 – Ross Marquand, actor
- August 24 – Chad Michael Murray, fashion model, actor and spokesperson
- August 26 – Nico Muhly, contemporary classical composer[22]
- August 28
- Charlie Frye, National Football League quarterback
- Jake Owen, country music singer-songwriter
- September 1 – Clinton Portis, American football player
- September 4
- September 8
- Dan Fredinburg, Google executive
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor
- September 11
- Hallowicked, wrestler
- Dylan Klebold, mass murderer (died 1999)[24]
- Charles Kelley, country music singer-songwriter and founding member of Lady Antebellum
- September 12
- Jennifer Hudson, singer and actress
- Hosea Chanchez, actor
- September 15 – Ben Schwartz, actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer[25]
- September 16 – Alexis Bledel, actress and model
- September 18 – Jennifer Tisdale, actress
- September 21 – Nicole Richie, actress, singer and socialite
- September 22 – Ashley Eckstein, actress, voice actress, and fashion designer
- September 23 – Misti Traya, actress
- September 25
- Rocco Baldelli, baseball player
- Van Hansis, actor
- Lee Norris, actor
- Shane Tutmarc, singer-songwriter (Dolour)
- September 26 – Serena Williams, tennis player[26]
- September 27 – Anand Giridharadas, writer
- September 28 – Melissa Claire Egan, actress
- September 29 – Shay Astar, actress, singer, and songwriter
- September 30 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, child actress (died 2007)
- October 3 – Seth Gabel, actor
- October 5 – Jeanette Antolin, gymnast[27]
- October 7 – Austin Eubanks, American motivational speaker (d. 2019)
- October 9
- Zachery Ty Bryan, actor
- Darius Miles, basketball player
- October 12
- Tom Guiry, actor
- Brian J. Smith, actor
- October 13 Michelle Moseley-Pace
- October 14 – Boof Bonser, baseball player
- October 16 – Boyd Melson, boxer
- October 20 – Willis McGahee, football player
- October 22 – Michael Fishman, actor
- October 26 – Sam Brown, actor and comedian
- October 28 – Noah Galloway, former soldier and Dancing With The Stars contestant
- October 29 – Amanda Beard, swimmer
- October 30
- Chris Clemons, football player
- Fiona Dourif, actress, daughter of Brad Dourif
- October 31 – Frank Iero, guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
- November 1
- Matt Jones, actor and comedian
- LaTavia Roberson, singer (Destiny's Child)[28]
- November 3
- Blair Chenoweth, beauty queen
- Jackie Gayda, professional wrestler[29]
- November 4 – Vince Wilfork, American football player
- November 6 – Cassie Bernall, murder victim (died 1999)
- November 8 – Azura Skye, actress
- November 9 – Scottie Thompson, film, television and stage actress
- November 10 – Jason Dunham, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2004)
- November 11 – Susan Kelechi Watson, actress
- November 13
- Ryan Bertin, wrestler and coach
- Kirsten Price, model and adult film star
- Rivkah, author and illustrator
- November 15 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player
- November 16 – Caitlin Glass, voice actress
- November 17 – Doug Walker, Italian-born internet comedian (Nostalgia Critic)
- November 18
- Maggie Stiefvater, author
- Allison Tolman, actress
- Christina Vidal, actress and singer
- November 21 – Bryant McFadden, American football player
- November 25
- Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush
- Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush[30]
- Chevon Troutman, basketball player
- November 29
- Kimberly Cullum, actress
- John Milhiser, actor and comedian[31]
- December 2 – Britney Spears, singer, dancer and actress[32]
- December 3
- Liza Lapira, actress
- Brian Bonsall, actor
- Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
- December 4 – Lila McCann, singer
- December 8 – Philip Rivers, American football player
- December 11
- Jeff McComsey, author and illustrator
- Kevin Phillips, actor
- Zacky Vengeance, guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
- December 12
- Ronnie Brown, American football player
- Spencer Johnson, NFL player
- December 13
- Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer
- Amy Lee, singer-songwriter
- December 15 – Thomas Herrion, American football player (died 2005)
- December 16
- Krysten Ritter, actress, musician, model and author[33]
- A. J. Allmendinger, race car driver
- December 20
- Royal Ivey, basketball player
- James Shields, baseball player
- Roy Williams, American football player
- December 27 – Jay Ellis, actor
- December 28 – Elizabeth Jordan Carr, first American test-tube baby
- December 30 – Kyle Eckel, American National Football League player
Deaths
- January 5
- Frederick Osborn, philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1889)
- Harold Urey, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1893)
- January 7 – John Pascal, playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist (b. 1932)
- January 8 – Matthew Beard, child film actor (b. 1925)
- January 10
- Katharine Alexander, film actress (b. 1898)
- Richard Boone, Western film actor (b. 1917)
- January 11 – Beulah Bondi, actress (b. 1888)
- January 13 – Robert Kellard, film actor (b. 1915)
- January 25 – Adele Astaire, dancer (b. 1896)
- February 9
- Jack Z. Anderson, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1904)
- Bill Haley, rock & roll musician (b. 1925)
- February 22 – Ilo Wallace, wife of Henry A. Wallace, Second Lady of the United States (born 1888)
- March 5 – Yip Harburg, lyricist (b. 1896)
- March 7 – Bosley Crowther, film critic (b. 1905)
- March 9 – Max Delbrück, biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906 in Germany)
- April 4 – Brad Johnson, actor (b. 1924)
- April 5
- Bob Hite, musician (b. 1943)
- Lucile Godbold, Olympic athlete (b. 1900)
- April 7 – Norman Taurog, film director (b. 1899)
- April 8 – Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Army General (b. 1893)
- April 12 – Joe Louis, African American heavyweight boxer (b. 1914)
- April 15 – John Thach, naval aviator and admiral (b. 1905)
- April 26
- Jim Davis, television actor (b. 1909)
- Madge Evans, actress (b. 1909)
- April 27 – John Aspinwall Roosevelt, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)
- April 28 – Cliff Battles, American footballer (Boston Redskins) (b. 1910)
- May 9 – Nelson Algren, novelist (b. 1909)
- May 11 – Bob Marley, reggae musician (b. 1945 in Jamaica)
- May 18
- Arthur O'Connell, actor (b. 1908)
- William Saroyan, dramatist and author (b. 1908)
- May 23 – George Jessel, actor and entertainer (b. 1898)
- May 28 – Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist (b. 1910)
- June 1 – Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
- June 9 – Allen Ludden, television game show host (b. 1917)
- July 10 – Ken Rex McElroy, murder victim (b. 1934)
- July 27
- Adam Walsh, murder victim and son of John Walsh (b. 1974)
- William Wyler, film director (b. 1902)
- July 29 – Robert Moses, urban planner (b. 1888)
- August 15 – Carol Ryrie Brink, author (b.1895)[34]
- November 3 – H. C. Westermann, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1922)
- November 7 – Will Durant, philosopher and writer (b. 1885)
- November 12 – William Holden, film actor (b. 1918)
- November 17 – Sibyl M. Rock, mathematician (b. 1909)
- November 27 – Lotte Lenya, singer (b. 1898 in Vienna)
- November 29 – Natalie Wood, actress (b. 1938)
- December 2 – Wallace Harrison, architect (b. 1895)
- December 6 – Harry Harlow, psychologist (b. 1905)
- December 13 – Pigmeat Markham, African American vaudevillian (b. 1904)
- December 27 – Hoagy Carmichael, composer and singer (b. 1899)
See also
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