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{{mergeto|Pequannock Township, New Jersey}}

'''1981''' is a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].

'''Pequannock''' is a small [[suburban]] township located in [[Morris County, New Jersey|Morris County]] northern [[New Jersey]]. It is primarily a bedroom community to nearby [[New York City]] and home to roughly 4,661 residents. What the town lacks in entertainment or commerce it makes up for in historical significance.

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== Linguistic Significance ==

==Events==

Pequannock is thought to have been derived from the Lenni Lenape "Paquettahhnuake", meaning, "cleared land ready or being readied for cultivation". Pompton has been cited by some sources to mean "a place where they catch soft fish".

===January-February===

* [[January]] - [[Sarawak chamber]] found

* [[January 1]] - [[Greece]] enters the [[European Community|EEC]]

* [[January 1]] - [[Palau]] becomes self-governing

* [[January 4]] - [[Sheffield]] police arrests [[Peter Sutcliffe]], the [[Yorkshire Ripper]]

* [[January 13]] - [[Donna Griffiths]], a schoolgirl in [[Pershore]], [[Worcestershire]], UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end [[September 16]] [[1983]] - after 978 days

* [[January 16]] - Protestant gunmen shoot and wound [[Bernadette Devlin McAliskey]] and her husband

* [[January 19]] - [[United States]] and [[Iran]]ian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity

* [[January 20]] - [[Ronald Reagan]] succeeds [[Jimmy Carter]] as [[President of the United States|President of the United States of America]]. Minutes after Reagan becomes president, [[Iran]] releases 52 American hostages that had been held captive for 444 days - [[Iran hostage crisis]] ends.

* [[February 4]] - [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] becomes the [[Prime Minister of Norway]]

* [[February 9]] - Polish Prime Minister [[Józef Pinkowski]] resigns and is replaced by General [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]

* [[February 10]] - A fire at the [[Las Vegas Hilton]] [[hotel]]-[[casino]] kills eight and injures 198

* [[February 14]] - [[Australia]] withdraws recognition of the [[Pol Pot]] regime in [[Cambodia]]

* [[February 23]] - [[Antonio Tejero]], with members of the [[Guardia Civil (Spain)|Guardia Civil]] enters the [[Spanish Congress of Deputies]], and stops the session, where [[Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo]] was going to be named president of the government. The [[coup d'état]] would fail thanks to King [[Juan Carlos of Spain|Juan Carlos]].

== Historic Pequannock ==

===March-April===

[[Image:Shuttle.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']] launches on the [[STS-1]].]]

* [[March 1]] - [[Bobby Sands]], an [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] member, begins [[hunger strike]] for [[political status]] in [[Maze (HM Prison)|Long Kesh prison]] - he dies [[May 5]], the first of ten men.

* [[March 6]] - After [[1962|19 years]] hosting the ''[[CBS Evening News]]'' [[Walter Cronkite]] signs off for the last time.

* [[March 7]] - [[Colombia]]n guerillas execute US bible translator [[Chester Allen Bitterman]] for being a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent

* [[March 11]] - [[Chile]]an president [[Augusto Pinochet]] sworn in for an eight-year term as president.

* [[March 19]] - Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the [[Space Shuttle Columbia]].

* [[March 30]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] is shot in the chest outside a [[Washington, D.C.]], hotel by [[John Hinckley, Jr.]], whose family had connections with the vice president. Two police officers and [[James Brady]] are also wounded.

* [[April 11]] - [[Brixton riot (1981)|Riot in Brixton]], [[South London]] - rioters throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.

* [[April 12]] - The first launch of a [[Space Shuttle]]: [[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']] launches on the [[STS-1]] mission.

* [[April 15]] - The Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock resigns from cabinet accusing the Australian Prime Minister Fraser of gross disloyalty.

* [[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 baseball game|longest professional baseball game]] in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning was not played until [[June 23|June 23rd]]).

Incorporated in [[1740]] as one of the largest townships in the region, this 6.96 square mile bedroom community composed of [[Pompton Plains]] in its northern portion and old Pequannock in its southern was once a vast 176 square mile region of [[rural]] [[farmland]] settled by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] after its purchase by [[Arent Schuyler]] and associates in the late [[1690]]'s.

===May===

* [[May]] - [[Daniel K. Ludwig]] abandons the [[Jari project]] in the [[Amazon Basin]]

* [[May 6]] - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects [[Maya Ying Lin]]'s design for the [[Vietnam Veterans Memorial]] from 1,421 other entries.

* [[May 10]] - In the second round of the presidential elections in [[France]] ([[French presidential election, 1981]]), [[François Mitterrand]] beats [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]].

* [[May 13]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] is shot at and nearly killed by [[Mehmet Ali Agca]], a [[Turkey|Turkish]] gunman, as he entered [[St. Peter's Square]] in [[Rome]] to address a general audience. (Two days after [[Christmas]] in [[1983]], Pope John Paul went to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin)

* [[May 21]] - In [[France]], socialist [[François Mitterrand]] becomes [[President of France|president of the Republic]].

* [[May 22]] - [[Peter Sutcliffe]], the [[Yorkshire Ripper]], imprisoned for life for 13 counts of murder

* [[May 25]] - In [[Riyadh]], the [[Gulf Cooperation Council]] is created between [[Bahrain]], [[Kuwait]], [[Oman]], [[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].

* [[May 26]] - The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell [[P-2]]

* [[May 30]] - [[Bangladesh]] President [[Ziaur Rahman]] assassinated in [[Chittagong]].

During the [[Revolutionary War]], [[George Washington]]'s troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle School. Washington himself of course made sure to get a room in the nearby Mandeville Inn.

===June-July===

[[Image:Charles Diana wedding.jpg|thumb|250px|The newlywed [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince]] and [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Princess of Wales]] return to [[Buckingham Palace]] following their wedding watched by over 1 billion people worldwide.]]

* [[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 system]]s (these were the first recognized cases of [[AIDS]]).

* [[June 6]] - Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the [[River Kosi]], in [[Bihar]], [[India]] - about 800 dead

* [[June 7]] - [[Israeli Air Force]] destroys [[Iraq]]'s [[Osiraq]] nuclear reactor

* [[June 13]] - At the [[Trooping the Colour]] ceremony in [[London]], a teenager [[Marcus Sargeant]] fires six blank shots at Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]].

* [[June 22]] - [[Hamas]] attacks a travel agency in [[Greece]] - two dead

* [[June 22]] - Iranian president [[Abolhassan Banisadr]] deposed

* [[June 29]] - [[Morris Edwin Robert]] armed with a machine gun holds hostages in the FBI section in [[Atlanta]] [[Federal Building]]. After three hours the hostages are rescued - Robert is shot

* [[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

* [[July 17]] - [[Israel]]i bombers destroy the [[PLO]] HQ in [[Beirut]]

* [[July 27]] - [[Wheel of Fortune]] premiers in Australia on the [[Seven Network]].

* [[July 29]] - [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Spencer]] marries [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].

During the Civil War, Pequannock was a stop on the underground railroad. The Giles Mandeville House, a field and quarrystone structure located at 515 Turnpike, which served as a waypoint for many runaway slaves, still stands today in use as the Manse of the adjacent First Reformed Church since 1953.

===August-October===

* [[August 5]] - [[Ronald Reagan]] fires 11,359 [[Strike action|striking]] [[air-traffic controller]]s who ignored his order for them to return to work

* [[August 7]] - ''[[The Washington Star]]'' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication

* [[August 12]] - The original [[IBM PC]] released in the United States.

* [[August 19]] - [[Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)]]. [[Libya]]n leader [[Muammar Qaddafi]] sends two [[Sukhoi Su-22]] fighter jets to intercept two [[United States|US]] fighters over the [[Gulf of Sidra]]. The American jets destroyed the Libyan fighters.

* [[August 19]] - US President [[Ronald Reagan]] appoints the first female US Supreme Court Justice, [[Sandra Day O'Connor]]

* [[August 28]] - [[South Africa]]n troops invade [[Angola]]

* [[August 31]] - A bomb explodes at the US Army base in [[Ramstein]], [[West Germany]] injuring 20 people

* [[September 4]] - An explosion at a mine in [[Zalizin]], [[Czechoslovakia]] - 65 dead

* [[September 10]] - [[Picasso]]'s painting "[[Guernica (painting)|Guernica]]" is moved from New York to Madrid

* [[September 15]] - The [[John Bull (locomotive)|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 18]] - [[France]] abolishes [[capital punishment]]

* [[October 6]] - [[Egypt]]ian president [[Anwar Sadat]] is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the [[Egypt]]ian [[Islamic Jihad]] organization, who opposed his negotiations with [[Israel]]

* [[October 14]] - Vice President [[Hosni Mubarak]] is elected President of [[Egypt]] one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

* [[October 21]] - [[Andreas Papandreou]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Greece]].

===November-December===

[[Image:Antigua and barbuda flag large.png|thumb|200px|[[Flag of Antigua and Barbuda]].]]

* [[November 1]] - [[Antigua and Barbuda]] gain [[independence]] from the [[United Kingdom]]

* [[November 13]] - The first [[Friday the 13th]] event held by [[motorcycle|motorcyclists]] in [[Port Dover]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]

* [[November 23]] - [[Iran-Contra scandal]]: [[Ronald Reagan]] signs the [[Classified information|top secret]] National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] the authority to recruit and support [[Contra]] rebels in [[Nicaragua]]

* [[November 25]]-[[November 26|26]] - Group of [[mercenary|mercenaries]] lead by [[Mike Hoare]] take over [[Mahe]] airport in the [[Seychelles]] in a [[coup]] attempt. Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered [[Air India]] passenger jet, six are later arrested

* [[November 30]] - [[Cold War]]: In [[Geneva]], representatives from the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] begin to negotiate intermediate-range [[nuclear weapon]] reductions in [[Europe]] (the meetings ended inconclusively on [[December 17|Thursday, December 17]])

* [[December 1]] - A Yugoslavian DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching [[Ajaccio Airport]] in [[Corsica]] killing 178

* [[December 4]] - [[South Africa]] grants "homeland" [[Ciskei]] independence (not recognized outside South Africa)

* [[December 11]] - [[El Mozote massacre]] - in [[El Salvador]], army units kill 900 civilians

* [[December 13]] - [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] declares the state of [[martial law in Poland|martial law]] in [[Poland]] to prevent dismantling of the communist system by [[Solidarity]]

* [[December 15]] - A [[car bomb]] destroys the [[Iraq]]i [[Embassy]] in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]], killing 61 people. This is the first modern [[suicide bombing]]. [[Syria]]n intelligence is blamed.

* [[December 20]] - The [[Penlee lifeboat disaster]] off the coast of South-West [[Cornwall]]

* [[December 28]] - The first American [[test-tube baby]], Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born ([[Norfolk, Virginia]])

== Other Pequannock Information ==

===unknown dates===

People in Pequannock do lots of hardxcore drugs and get trashed nearly every night. Hooray Beer!

* Millennium Renactment of the translation of Saint [[Edward the Martyr]]'s relics from [[Wareham]] to [[Shaftesbury]]

Pequannock people are usually white. Notar needs to leave town.

* [[Mauritania]] abolishes the institution of [[slavery]].

* [[James Tobin]] wins the [[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]].

* [[Mike Cooley]], [[Bill Mollison]] and [[Patrick van Rensburg]] / [[Education with Production]] win the [[Right Livelihood Award]]

* The counter-culture wire service [[Liberation News Service|LNS]] ceases operations.

* Public funding of election Campaigns introduced in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]

* The [[State Council of the People's Republic of China]] listed the four cities ([[Beijing]], [[Hangzhou]], [[Suzhou]] and [[Guilin]]) as where the protection of historical and cultural heritage as well as natural scenery should be treated as a prior project.

* [[Cuba]] suffers a major outbreak of [[Dengue hemorrhagic fever]], with 344 203 cases. [http://w3.whosea.org/en/Section10/Section332/Section521_2454.htm]

* [[Computer and Video Games (magazine)]] begins publication.

== Current statistics==

==Births==

===January-March===

* [[January 1]] - [[Zsolt Baumgartner]], Hungarian race car driver

* [[January 3]] - [[Eli Manning]], American football player

* [[January 6]] - [[Mike Jones]], rapper

* [[January 12]] - [[Quentin Griffin]], American football player

* [[January 15]] - [[El Hadji Diouf]], Senegalese footballer; [[Howie Day]], singer-songwriter

* [[January 17]] - [[Scott Mechlowicz]], actor

* [[January 20]] - [[Jason Richardson]], American basketball player

* [[January 20]] - [[Owen Hargreaves]], Canadian-born English footballer

* [[January 21]] - [[Dany Heatley]], hockey player

* [[January 22]] - [[Willa Ford]], international popstar, TV host, and actress; [[Chantelle Anderson]], American basketball player; [[Beverley Mitchell]], TV actress

* [[January 25]] - [[Alicia Keys]], musician

* [[January 28]] - [[Elijah Wood]], actor

* [[January 31]] - [[Justin Timberlake]], musician

* [[February 3]] - [[Alisa Reyes]], TV actress

* [[February 10]] - [[Natasha St-Pier]], Canadian singer

* [[February 11]] - [[Kelly Rowland]], singer ([[Destiny's Child]])

* [[February 14]] - [[Erin Torpey]], former actress on [[One_Life_to_Live|One Life to Live]]

* [[February 15]] - [[Jenna Morasca]], winner on [[Survivor_%28TV_series%29|Survivor]]

* [[February 17]] - [[Paris Hilton]], American actress and heiress; [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]], TV actor

* [[February 18]] - [[Andrei Kirilenko (athlete)|Andrei Kirilenko]], Russian basketball player

* [[February 22]] - [[Jeanette Biedermann]], German singer and actress

* [[February 24]] - [[Lleyton Hewitt]], Australian tennis player

* [[February 27]] - [[Josh Groban]], singer

* [[March 2]] - [[Bryce Howard]], film actress

* [[March 3]] - [[Lil%27_Flip]], rapper

* [[March 9]] - [[Antonio Bryant]], American football player

* [[March 11]] - [[David Anders]], actor

* [[March 11]] - [[Lee Evans (football player)|Lee Evans]], American football player; [[LeToya_Luckett]], former member of [[Destiny's Child]]

* [[March 16]] - [[Andrew Bree]], Irish swimmer

* [[March 28]] - [[Julia Stiles]], actress

*Population ([[2000]] Census): 4,661

===April-June===

*Housing Units: 1,675

* [[April 1]] - [[Hannah Spearritt]], British singer ([[S Club 7]])

*Land Area: 1.67 square miles

* [[April 10]] - [[Michael Pitt]], American actor

*Water Area: 0.07 square miles

* [[April 14]] - [[Mary Castro]], American model and actress

*Zip Codes: 07440, 07444

* [[April 17]] - [[Hanna Pakarinen]], Finnish singer

*Area Code: (973)

* [[April 19]] - [[Catalina Sandino Moreno]], Colombian actress

*County: Morris

* [[April 19]] - [[Hayden Christensen]], Canadian actor

*State: New Jersey

* [[April 28]] - [[Jessica Alba]], American actress

[http://www.hometownlocator.com/ZCTA.cfm?ZIPCode=07440 2000 Census Info]

* [[May 5]] - [[Danielle Fishel]], American actress; [[Craig David]], British singer

* [[May 11]] - [[Lauren Jackson]], Australian basketball player

* [[May 13]] - [[Sunny Leone]], entertainer

* [[May 15]] - [[Jamie-Lynn DiScala]], actress

* [[May 19]] - [[Klaas-Erik Zwering]], Dutch swimmer

* [[May 20]] - [[Lindsay Taylor]], American basketball player

* [[May 20]] - [[Sean Conlon]], former [[5ive]] member

* [[June 1]] - [[Carlos Zambrano]], baseball player

* [[June 7]] - [[Anna Kournikova]], tennis player; [[Larisa Oleynik]], actress ([[The_Secret_World_of_Alex_Mack|The Secret World of Alex Mack]])

* [[June 9]] - [[Natalie Portman]], actress

* [[June 12]] - [[Adriana Lima]], [[Victoria's Secret]] model

* [[June 21]] - [[Brandon Flowers]], singer and keyboardist ([[The Killers (band)]])

== External links ==

===July-September===

* [[July 8]] - [[Anastasia Myskina]], tennis player

* [[July 23]] - [[Michelle Williams]], singer ([[Destiny's Child]])

* [[August 4]] - [[Marques Houston]], singer and actor

* [[August 5]] - [[Carl Crawford]], baseball player; [[Kou Shibasaki|Kō Shibasaki]], Japanese singer and actress

* [[August 8]] - [[Vanessa Amorosi]], Australian singer and songwriter; [[Roger Federer]], Swiss tennis player; [[Meagan Good]], actress

* [[August 16]] - [[Taylor Rain]], American [[pornographic actress]]

* [[August 24]] - [[Chad Michael Murray]], TV actor ([[One_Tree_Hill_%28television_program%29|One Tree Hill]])

* [[August 25]] - [[Rachel Bilson]], TV actress ([[The_O.C.|The O.C.]])

* [[September 1]] - [[Clinton Portis]], American football player

* [[September 4]] - [[Beyoncé Knowles]], American singer

* [[September 8]] - [[Jonathan Taylor Thomas]], TV actor ([[Home Improvement]])

* [[September 16]] - [[Alexis Bledel]], actress ([[Gilmore_Girls|Gilmore Girls]])

* [[September 19]] - [[Demetrius Armstrong]], writer

* [[September 21]] - [[Nicole Richie]], actress

* [[September 22]] - [[Rocco Baldelli]], baseball player

* [[September 26]] - [[Christina Milian]], singer and actress; [[Serena Williams]], American tennis player

* [[September 30]] - [[Dominique Moceanu]], American gymnast

*[http://www.pequannocktownship.org/ Pequannock Township Official Website]

===October-December===

*[http://www.pequannock.org/ Pequannock School District]

* [[October 1]] - [[Jamelia]], British [[R&B]] singer

*[http://www.hometownlocator.com/ZCTA.cfm?ZIPCode=07440 2000 Census Information]

* [[October 3]] - [[Zlatan Ibrahimovic]], Swedish footballer

*[http://www.pequannocklacrosse.org/ Pequannock Lacrosse Club]

* [[October 11]] - [[Beau Brady]], actor

*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/njpequa.htm Revolutionary Petition of Patriots (May 1776)]

* [[October 15]] - [[Elena Dementieva]], tennis player

* [[October 20]] - [[Willis McGahee]], American football player

* [[October 22]] - [[Michael Fishman]], TV actor ([[Roseanne]])

* [[October 28]] - [[Milan Baros]], Czech footballer

* [[October 29]] - [[Amanda Beard]], swimmer

* [[October 30]] - [[Ivanka Trump]], model

* [[October 31]] - [[Frank Iero]], guitarist ([[My Chemical Romance]])

* [[November 1]] - [[LaTavia Roberson]], former member of [[Destiny's Child]]

* [[November 3]] - [[Jackie Gayda]], former [[World_Wrestling_Entertainment|World Wrestling Entertainment]] Diva

* [[November 4]] - [[Vince Wilfork]], American football player

* [[November 8]] - [[Azura Skye]], actress

* [[November 25]] - [[Barbara and Jenna Bush]], first daughters

* [[November 26]] - [[Aurora Snow]], American [[pornographic_actress|pornographic actress]]; [[Natasha Bedingfield]], British singer

* [[December 2]] - [[Britney Spears]], singer

* [[December 3]] - [[Brian Bonsall]], former actor ([[Family Ties]])

* [[December 4]] - [[Lila McCann]], singer

* [[December 7]] - [[Ben Adams]], singer ([[A1 (band)|a1]])

* [[December 11]] - [[Zacky Vengeance]], guitarist ([[Avenged Sevenfold]])

* [[December 13]] - [[Amy Lee]], singer ([[Evanescence]])

* [[December 15]] - [[Thomas Herrion]], [[American football]] player (d. [[2005]])

* [[December 21]] - [[Shizuka Arakawa]], figure skater

* [[December 27]] - [[Yuvraj Singh]], Indian cricketer

* [[December 28]] - [[Sienna Miller]], actress; [[Elizabeth Jordan Carr]], first U.S. test-tube baby

* [[December 29]] - [[Angela Via]], singer

==Deaths==

* [[January 5]] - [[Harold C. Urey]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1893]])

** [[Lanza del Vasto]], philosopher, poet, and activist

* [[January 6]] - [[A.J. Cronin]], novelist

* [[January 10]] - [[Katherine Alexander]], actress

* [[January 23]] - [[Samuel Barber]], American composer (b. [[1910]])

* [[February 1]] - [[Geirr Tveitt]], Norwegian composer

* [[February 9]] - [[Bill Haley]], American musician

* [[February 15]] - [[Karl Richter]], German conductor (b. [[1926]])

* [[February 26]] - [[Howard Hanson]], American composer (b. [[1896]])

* [[March 6]] - [[George Geary]], English cricketer (b. [[1893]])

* [[March 7]] - [[Kiril Kondrashin]], Russian conductor (b. [[1914]])

* [[March 9]] - [[Max Delbrück]], German biologist

* [[April 7]] - [[Norman Taurog]], director

* [[April 12]] - [[Joe Louis]], American boxer

* [[April 27]] - [[John Aspinwall Roosevelt]], businessman and philanthropist

* [[May 9]] - [[Nelson Algren]], American author (b.[[1909]])

* [[May 11]] - [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican singer and musician

* [[May 18]] - [[William Saroyan]], American author

* [[June 1]] - [[Carl Vinson]], U.S. Congressman (b. [[1883]])

* [[June 19]] - [[Lotte Reiniger]], German-born silhouette animator

* [[June 28]] - [[Terry Fox]], cancer activist

* [[August 14]] - [[Karl Böhm]], Austrian conductor (b. [[1894]])

* [[September 1]] - [[Albert Speer]], Nazi official

* [[September 2]] - Dame [[Enid Lyons]], Australia politician

* [[September 8]] - [[Bill Shankly]], football manager

** [[Hideki Yukawa]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1907]])

* [[September 9]] - [[Robert Askin|Sir Robert (Bob) Askin]], Premier of New South Wales

* [[October 2]] - [[Harry Golden]], American journalist

* [[October 6]] - [[Anwar Sadat]], [[President of Egypt]] (assassinated)

* [[October 16]] - [[Stanley Clements]], American actor

** [[Moshe Dayan]], Israeli general

* [[November 7]] - [[Will Durant]], American philosopher and writer

* [[November 22]] - [[Hans Adolf Krebs]], German physician and biochemist

* [[November 29]] - [[Natalie Wood]], actress (drowned)

* [[December 28]] - [[Allan Dwan]], film director

==[[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prizes]]==

* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]], [[Kai Manne Boerje Siegbahn|Kai M. Siegbahn]]

* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Kenichi Fukui]], [[Roald Hoffmann]]

* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Roger W. Sperry]], [[David H. Hubel]], [[Torsten N. Wiesel]]

* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Elias Canetti]]

* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]]

==[[Templeton Prize]]==

* [[Cicely Saunders|Dame Cicely Saunders]]

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