1967
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1967th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1960s decade.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s |
Years: | 1964 1965 1966 – 1967 – 1968 1969 1970 |
Events
- February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed.
- February 15 – Chicago, a musical group forms
- March 13 – Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
- April 28 – Montreal hosts Expo '67.
- May 1 – Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu.
- June 5 – June 10 – The Six-Day War
- November 30 – Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
- December 3 – Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first heart.
- The Summer of Love
- Blue Öyster Cult forms.
- Jethro Tull forms.
Births
- February 10 – Laura Dern, American actress
- February 20 – Kurt Cobain, rock musician (d. 1994)
- March 17 – Debi Derryberry, American actress
- May 7 – Martin Bryant, Australian criminal
- June 19 – Mia Sara, American actress
- June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
- July 23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
- October 16 – Davina McCall, English television presenter
- October 28 – Julia Roberts, American actress
- November 1 - Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter
- November 7 – David Guetta, French DJ
- November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
- November 22 – Boris Becker, tennis player
- November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress (d. 2007)
- December 3 - Nicolae Guță, Romanian manele singer
- December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
- December 19 – Criss Angel, American illusionist
Deaths
January
February
- February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American theoretical physicist (b. 1904)
March
April
May
- May 14 - Osvaldo Moles, Brazilian journalist and radio personality (b.. 1913)
- May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1901)
- May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889)
June
- June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
- June 30 – Shukri al-Quwatli, President of Syria (b. 1891)
July
- July 8 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)
- July 9 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dental surgeon (b. 1893)
- July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, President of Brazil (b. 1897)
August
September
- September 19 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
October
- October 9 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (b. 1928)
- October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
November
December
- December 10 – Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics – Hans Albrecht Bethe, American physicist
- Chemistry – Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
- Medicine – Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
- Literature – Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer
- Peace – not awarded