1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
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Events
January
January 1
Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993.
January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened.
January 13–24 – South Yemen Civil War.
January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
January 21 – Conservative protestors attacked a mock shanty town that had been erected on the Green at Dartmouth College as part of anti-apartheid protests.
January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.
January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 coup.
January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disaster – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch from the United States, killing the crew of seven astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
January 29 – Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.
February
February 3 – Pixar is founded by John Lasseter along with Steve Jobs.
February 7
Anti-Duvalier protest movement: President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.
The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President Ferdinand Marcos is held amidst controversy, that paves the way for a chain of protests, culminating in the People Power Revolution.
February 8 – Hinton train collision: A Canadian National train heading westbound collides with a Via Rail train in Hinton, Alberta; 23 people are killed and 71 injured in the accident.
February 9 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the Solar System in the 20th century (the first was in 1910).
February 10 – The Maxi Trial (Italian: Maxiprocesso) begins in the bunker room of the Ucciardone prison (Palermo). It will be the largest trial against the Sicilian Mafia.
February 11 – Human rights activist Natan Sharansky is released by Soviet authorities and leaves the country for Israel.
February 15 – The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.
February 16
The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
Ouadi Doum air raid: The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.
Mário Soares wins the second round of the Portuguese presidential election.
March
March 1 – Olof Palme's deputy Ingvar Carlsson becomes acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He is elected Prime Minister by the Swedish Riksdag on March 15.
March 3
The first paper is published describing the atomic force microscope invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger.
Full independence of Australia - Australia Act 1986: This law formally severed all legal ties between Australia and the United Kingdom.
March 8 – The Japanese Suisei probe flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
March 9 – United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.
March 13
In a Black Sea incident, American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron, claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.
Microsoft Corporation holds its initial public offering of stock shares.
March 15 – Hotel New World collapses; 33 were killed and 17 rescued from rubble.
March 24 – The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Out of Africa winning Best Picture.
March 26 – An article in The New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary-General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.
April
April – The government of Ivory Coast requests international diplomatic use of the French form of its name, Côte d'Ivoire.
April 1 – Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
April 2 – A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people.
April 5 – 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discothèque La Belle, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing three and injuring 230; Libya is held responsible.
April 11 – The infamous FBI shootout in Miami results in the death of two FBI agents and the wounding of five others.
April 13
Pope John Paul II officially visits the Great Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue.
The first child born to a non-related surrogate mother is born.
April 14 – Hailstones weighing 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) fall on Gopalganj District, Bangladesh, killing 92.
April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region.
April 16 – The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands sign a peace treaty, thus ending the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, one of the longest wars in human history.
April 17
Lebanon hostage crisis: British journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (he is released in August 1991) and three others are killed in retaliation for the bombing of Libya.
May
May 2 – Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
May 8 – Óscar Arias is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica.
May 12 – NBC unveils its current peacock logo at the finale of its 60th anniversary special.
May 16
The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
Paramount Pictures releases Top Gun.
May 23 – Somali President Siad Barre is injured in a car accident in Mogadishu and taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment. Somali opposition groups see this as an opportunity to try to remove Barre, beginning the Somali Civil War.
May 25
Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
The Bangladeshi double-decked ferry Shamia capsizes in the Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing more than 500 by some estimates.
May 26
Swedish rock band Europe releases its third studio album, The Final Countdown. The title track would become one of the band's most notable works, achieving global success.
May 27
Islamic scholars Isma'il and Lois Lamya al-Faruqi are murdered in their home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, drawing attention due to their academic prominence and the brutality of the attack.
June
June – Construction of the Oosterscheldekering, the world's largest openable storm surge flood barrier, is completed in the Netherlands.
June 4 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
June 7 - Washington DC metro opens Falls Church, Vienna, and Dunn Loring train stations on the Orange line.
June 8 – Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
June 9 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
June 12 – South Africa declares a nationwide state of emergency.
June 14 – Fantasyland's Mindbender derails and kills three people.
June 22 – In one of the most famous FIFA World Cup matches, Argentinian football player Diego Maradona scores one handball goal (nicknamed the "Hand of God") and then dribbles past the entire English football team to score a second goal (nicknamed "The Goal of the Century") with Argentina winning 2–1 against England.
June 23 – Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software.
June 29 – Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 in the final to win the 1986 World Cup at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
July
July 2 – Walt Disney Pictures releases the company's 26th animated film, The Great Mouse Detective.
July 4 – The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after celebrating its centennial and an extensive refurbishment.
July 5 – 20 – The inaugural Goodwill Games are held in Moscow, marking the first international event in a decade for competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.
July 7 – Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers are executed in Malaysia.
July 11 – The New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Act decriminalizes consensual sex between men from the age of 16.
July 23 – In London, the then Prince Andrew, Duke of York (later Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
August
August 6
A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (12.9 in) of rain in a day on Sydney.
Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.
Metroid is released by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System.
August 16 – Typhoon Wayne formed over the South China Sea, going on to become one of the longest-lived tropical cyclones at 21 days, and kill 490.
August 19 – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting The Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
August 20 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his coworkers before committing suicide.
August 21 – The Lake Nyos disaster, a limnic eruption, occurs in Cameroon, killing nearly 2,000 people.
August 31
The Soviet passenger liner SS Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.
Aeroméxico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 82 (67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground).
The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It wanders the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo. The waste is later dumped in Haiti.
September
September 1 – Jordan University of Science and Technology is established in Jordan.
September 4 – Eusko Alkartasuna, the Basque Social Democratic Party, is created in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
September 5 – Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four Abu Nidal terrorists.
September 6
The Big Mac Index is introduced in The Economist newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of purchasing power parity.
In Istanbul, two Abu Nidal terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
September 7
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed.
September 13 – The 6.0 Mw Kalamata earthquake shook southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The shock left at least 20 dead, 300 injured, and caused $5 million in damage.
September 28 – The Democratic Progressive Party is founded. It was part of the Tangwai movement in the new generation to challenge Kuomintang in Taiwan's one-party politics, and is currently one of only two parties to win presidential elections in Taiwan.
October
October 1 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater–Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.
October 3
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron, officially opens at Chalk River Laboratories.
A hybrid solar eclipse was visible off the coast of Iceland, and was the 53rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 124.
October 9
United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
News Corporation completes its acquisition of the Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching the Fox Broadcasting Company.
The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
October 10 – The 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shook San Salvador, El Salvador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to 1,500 people were killed.
October 11–12 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe, which end in failure.
October 16 – The International Olympic Committee chooses Albertville, France to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Barcelona, Spain to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics. The IOC also announces that the summer and winter games will separate with the winter games on every even, common year; and the summer games on every leap year starting from 1992.
November
November 1
Queensland, Australia: Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
Sandoz chemical spill: A major environmental disaster near Basel, Switzerland pollutes the Rhine, when an agrochemical storehouse catches on fire.
November 3
Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
The Northern Mariana Islands enter in a political union with the United States. The island's government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978. The covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred United States citizenship on legally qualified island residents.
November 6
45 people are killed in the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash.
Alex Ferguson is appointed as the new manager of Manchester United.
November 18 – Greater Manchester Police announce that they will search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.
November 21 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
December
December 4
The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the port of Savannah in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L).
29 people are killed in the Pozzetto massacre
December 6 – Johnny Hallyday released his 35th album Gang.
December 7 – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake destroys most of the Bulgarian town of Strajica, killing 2 people.
December 14 – Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world from Edwards Air Force Base in the United States.
December 16 – Jeltoqsan, mass anti-government protests, break out across the Kazakh SSR, resulting in the massacre of over 165 protesters.
December 19 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after six years of internal exile.
December 20 – Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York. One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.
December 23 – Rutan Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
December 31
Dupont Plaza Hotel arson: A hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
Soviet submarine Krasnoyarsk (K-173) is commissioned.
Date unknown
Average per capita income in Japan exceeds that in the United States.
The first commercially available 3D printer is sold.
Opus Pro, a Latvian hard rock group, is established.
The band Sweet Children (now known as Green Day) was formed by the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong.
The Province of Flevoland is established in the Netherlands.
Cadbury Dairy Milk range adopts separate wrappers for different countries until 1992.
Births
Those born in the year 1986 are considered millennials (Generation Y or Gen Y).
January
January 1
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
Glen Davis, American basketball player
Lee Sung-min, South Korean actor and singer
Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor
Jessica Gunning, English actress
January 2
Yulia, Russian-New Zealander classical crossover singer
Nathan Cowen, New Zealand rower
Nicole Reinhardt, German canoeist
Trombone Shorty, American jazz musician
January 4
Katrina Halili, Filipina actress and commercial model
Andrei Krauchanka, Belarusian decathlete
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwanese tennis player
James Milner, English footballer
January 5
Teppei Koike, Japanese singer and actor
Deepika Padukone, Indian actress and producer
Yana Shemyakina, Ukrainian fencer
January 6
Paul McShane, Irish professional footballer
February
February 1 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality and fashion designer
February 2
Gemma Arterton, British actress
Miwa Asao, Japanese beach volleyball player
February 5
Kevin Gates, American hip-hop musician and entrepreneur
Madison Rayne, American professional wrestler
Billy Sharp, English footballer
February 6
Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian international footballer
Dane DeHaan, American actor
Alice Greczyn, American actress and model
Sofia Nizharadze, Georgian pop musician
Yunho, South Korean actor and singer
February 8
Anna Hutchison, New Zealand actress
Anderson .Paak, American musician and record producer
February 9 – Ciprian Tătărușanu, Romanian footballer
February 10
Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress
March
March 1
Big E
Ayumu Goromaru, Japanese rugby union player
Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
March 2 – Ethan Peck, American actor
March 3
Stacie Orrico, American singer
Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer
March 4 – Margo Harshman, American actress
March 5
Corey Brewer, American basketball player
Julie Henderson, American model
Sarah J. Maas, American novelist
Mika Newton, Ukrainian singer
Shikabala, Egyptian footballer
March 6
Francisco Cervelli, Venezuelan baseball player
Eli Marienthal, American actor
Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
Lucas Saatkamp, Brazilian volleyball player
March 8
Tal Slutzker, Israeli painter and poet
Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, member of the Japanese imperial family
April
April 1
Kid Ink, American hip-hop musician
Özge Özpirinçci, Turkish actress
Hillary Scott, American musician
Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
April 2
Lee DeWyze, American rock musician
Drew Van Acker, American actor
April 3
Amanda Bynes, American actress and fashion designer
Coleen Rooney, English media personality
April 4
Eunhyuk, South Korean actor and singer
Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish footballer (d. 2018)
Jason Richardson, American hurdler
April 5, Charlotte Flair, American professional wrestler
April 7
Choi Si-won, South Korean actor and singer
Yu Yang, Chinese badminton player
April 8
Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
Cliff Avril, American football player
Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
May
May 1
Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2013)
Jesse Klaver, Dutch politician
Diego Valeri, Argentine footballer
Cassie Jaye, American actress and film director
May 2
Sani Kaita, Nigerian footballer
Thomas McDonell, American actor, musician, and artist
May 5 – Grace Wong, Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant contestant
May 6
Gims, Congolese born-French rapper
Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor and filmmaker
Sasheer Zamata, American actress and comedian
May 8
Galen Rupp, American long distance and marathon runner
Laura Spencer, American actress
May 10 – Fernanda Garay, Brazilian volleyball player
May 12
Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
Christinna Pedersen, Danish badminton player
Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
May 13
June
June 1
Ricardo Abarca, Mexican actor and singer
Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner
Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model and beauty queen
Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
Skream, British DJ and producer
Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player
June 2
Todd Carney, Australian rugby player
Matt Kean, English bassist
Curtis Lofton, American football player
June 3
Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner
Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
Josh Segarra, American actor
Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver
Tomáš Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
June 4
Oona Chaplin, Spanish-English actress and dancer
Fahriye Evcen, German-Turkish actress
Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
Shelly Woods, British wheelchair racer
July
July 1 – Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player
July 2
Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
Bruno Rezende, Brazilian volleyball player
Kseniya Sydorenko, Ukrainian synchronized swimmer
Katie Taylor, Irish boxer
July 3
Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
Felixia Yeap, Malaysian model
July 4 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese actor and singer
July 5
Iurii Cheban, Ukrainian canoe sprinter
Ashkan Dejagah, Iranian footballer
Adam Young, American musician
July 7
Ana Kasparian, American progressive political commentator, media host, and journalist
Sevyn Streeter, American singer
July 8
Kaiane Aldorino, Gibraltarian politician, beauty queen who won Miss World 2009
Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
Jake McDorman, American film and television actor
July 9 – Kiely Williams, American actress and singer
August
August 1
Josh Harder, American politician
Daisy May Cooper, English actress and writer
Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
August 2 – Lily Gladstone, Native-American actress
August 3
Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque heiress, royal and socialite
Darya Domracheva, Belarusian biathlete and coach
Prince Louis of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
August 4 – Oleg Ivanov, Russian footballer
August 5
Paula Creamer, American golfer
Kyoko Oshima, Japanese artistic gymnast
August 6
Nanna Blondell, Swedish actress
Bryan Young, Canadian ice hockey player
August 7
Altaír Jarabo, Mexican actress and model
Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
August 8
Kateryna Volodko, Ukrainian tennis player
Jackie Cruz, Dominican-American actress
September
September 1 – Jean Sarkozy, French politician
September 2
Moses Ndiema Kipsiro, Ugandan middle-distance runner
Stevan Faddy, Montenegrin singer
September 3
OMI, Jamaican-born singer
Shaun White, American professional snowboarder
September 4
Jaclyn Hales, American actress
Xavier Woods, American professional wrestler
September 5 – Francis Ngannou, Cameroonian Professional MMA Fighter
September 7 – Charlie Daniels, English footballer
September 8
Leah LaBelle, Canadian-born American singer (d. 2018)
Jake Sandvig, American actor
September 9 – José Aldo, Brazilian mixed martial artist
September 10 – Sarah Levy, Canadian actress
September 12
Alfie Allen, English actor
Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
Yang Mi, Chinese actress and singer
October
October 1
Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (d. 2021)
Jurnee Smollett, American actress
October 2
Camilla Belle, Brazilian-American actress, director, writer and producer
Kiko Casilla, Spanish footballer
October 3 – Joonas Suotamo, Finnish basketball player and actor
October 4
Sara Forestier, French actress
Nina Vislova, Russian badminton player
October 5 – Novica Veličković, Serbian basketball player
October 6
Luisa D'Oliveira, Canadian actress
Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer
Olivia Thirlby, American actress
October 7
Holland Roden, American actress
Amber Stevens West, American actress and model
October 9
Ezequiel Garay, Argentine footballer
Blagoy Ivanov, Bulgarian mixed martial artist
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
November
November 1 – Penn Badgley, American actor and musician
November 3
Davon Jefferson, American basketball player
Jasmine Trias, Filipino singer
Heo Young-Saeng, South Korean singer
November 4
Hanna Jaff, American born-Mexican journalist, media personality and business person
Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer
Angelica Panganiban, Filipino-American actress and comedian
November 5
Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
November 8 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer (d. 2013)
November 10
Nong-O Gaiyanghadao, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer and former ONE Bantamweight Muymay Thai World Champion
Andy Mientus, American actor, singer, composer and writer
Josh Peck, American actor and director
Eric Thames, American baseball player
Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (d. 2011)
November 11
December
December 1
DeSean Jackson, American football player
Andrew Tate, American-British Internet personality and former professional kickboxer
December 3 – Leah Wilkinson, British field hockey player
December 4 – Martell Webster, American basketball player
December 7 – Jakov Milatović, President of Montenegro
December 8
Amir Khan, British boxer
Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter and actress
December 9 – Aron Baynes, Australian basketball player
December 11
Alex House, Canadian actor
Lee Peltier, English footballer
Condola Rashad, American actress
December 15
Lauren Boebert, American politician
Keylor Navas, Costa Rican footballer
Xiah, Korean singer
December 17 – Emma Bell, American actress
December 18 – Jery Sandoval, Colombian actress, model and singer
December 19
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
Chemistry – Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Polanyi
Physiology or Medicine – Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
Literature – Wole Soyinka
Peace – Elie Wiesel
Economics – James M. Buchanan