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Gregorian Year
1994 (MCMXCIV) was
a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1994th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 994th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of
the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1990s decade. The
year 1994 was designated as the "International
Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport
and the Olympic Ideal"
by the United Nations. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events January ·
The North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. ·
The Zapatista
Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico. ·
January 8 – Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day
orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. ·
January 11 – The Irish government
announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional
Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. ·
January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian
President Boris Yeltsin sign
the Kremlin accords,
which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear
missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for
the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. ·
January 17 – The 6.7 Mw Northridge
earthquake strikes the Greater Los
Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and
more than 8,700 injured. ·
January 19 – Record cold temperatures hit
the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history,
−36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland,
Indiana. ·
January 25 – U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address,
calling for health care reform,
a ban on
assault weapons, and welfare reform. ·
January 26 – Student David Kang fires two blank shots from
a starting pistol at Prince Charles in Sydney, Australia.[1][2][importance?] February ·
February 3 – In the aftermath of
the Chadian–Libyan
conflict, the International
Court of Justice rules that
the Aouzou Strip belongs
to the Republic of Chad. ·
February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is
convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. ·
February 6 – Markale massacres:
a Bosnian Serb
Army mortar shell kills
68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. ·
February 9 – The Vance–Owen peace plan for Bosnia and
Herzegovina is announced. ·
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it
is recovered on May 7). ·
The 1994 Winter Olympics begin
in Lillehammer. ·
February 24 – In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell
Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect
in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested. ·
February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside
the Cave of the
Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before
worshippers beat him to death. ·
Four
United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and
Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny
Flight and its no-fly zone. ·
At
midnight Walvis Bay is
officially handed over to Namibia by South
Africa. March ·
March
– The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the Internet.[3] ·
March 6 – A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate
voting against possible reunification with Romania. ·
March 12 ·
A
photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of
the Loch Ness Monster,
is confirmed to be a hoax. ·
The Church of England ordains
its first female priests. ·
March 14 – Apple Computer, Inc.
releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC
Microprocessors. ·
March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn
from Somalia. ·
March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran
Hrovatin are assassinated in Somalia. ·
March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards,
hosted by Whoopi Goldberg,
are held at the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama, Schindler's List,
wins seven Oscars including Best
Picture and Best
Director (Spielberg). ·
March 23 ·
Green Ramp disaster:
two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina causing 24 fatalities. ·
Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is
assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana ·
March 27 ·
TV
tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's
right-wing coalition wins the Italian
general election. ·
The
biggest tornado
outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern
United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United
Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama. ·
March 28 – Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom
Party and ANC supporters
battle in central Johannesburg, South
Africa. ·
March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus
afarensis skull. April ·
April 2 – The National
Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum. ·
April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die
when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin
the Rwandan genocide. ·
April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda. ·
April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to
join the European Union in
a referendum. ·
April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of
thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda. ·
April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan
Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the
9th Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia. Nelson Mandela casts his vote in
the South
African general election, 1994 ·
April 26 ·
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan
Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia. ·
China Airlines
Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people. ·
April 27 – South Africa holds its first
fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and
is sworn in as the first democratic president. May ·
May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an
accident during the San Marino
Grand Prix in Imola,
Italy. ·
May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan is signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. ·
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers
more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling
passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes. ·
May 10 ·
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South
Africa's first black president. ·
May 17 – Malawi holds its first multiparty
elections. ·
May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny
Parish Church, Edinburgh attended
by 900 people and after which 3,000 people lined the streets, John
Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island
of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig
Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as
monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.[4] ·
May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues
the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio
Sacerdotalis from the Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring
"the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone". June ·
June 1 – The Republic of South Africa rejoins
the Commonwealth after
the first democratic election. South Africa left the then British
Commonwealth in 1961. ·
June 6–8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation
of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days). ·
June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are
murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the
killings, but is held liable in a civil suit. ·
June 15 – Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. ·
June 17 ·
NFL
star O. J. Simpson and
his friend Al Cowlings flee
from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at
Simpson's Brentwood, Los
Angelesmansion, where he surrenders. ·
The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts
in the United States. ·
June 23 – The International
Olympic Committee celebrates its first centennial. ·
June 25 – Cold War: the last Russian troops leave
Germany. ·
June 26 – Microsoft announces it will no longer
sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows.
This had been its mainstay since 1980. ·
June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the
first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto,
Japan, killing eight and injuring 200. ·
June 30 – An Airbus A330 crashes during a test
flight near Toulouse, France,
where Airbus is based, killing the
seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low
speed with maximum angle of climb. ·
June 30 – The Liberal
Democratic Party in Japan regained power after spent 11
months of opposition, with the coalition with Japanese
Socialist Party. ·
Tropical
Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of Florida causing $1.03 billion in damage
and 32 deaths. July Brown spots mark
impact sites of the Shoemaker–Levy
Comet on Jupiter's southern
hemisphere. ·
July 2 – Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar,
27, is shot dead in Medellín. His murder is
commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the 1994 FIFA World Cup against
the United
States soccer team. ·
July 4 – Rwandan Patriotic
Front troops capture Kigali, a major breakthrough in the Rwandan Civil War. ·
July 5 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon. ·
July 7 – 1994 civil war in
Yemen: Aden is occupied by
troops from North Yemen. ·
July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il-sung dies, but officially
continues to hold office. ·
July 12 – The Allied
occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors
ceremony attended by U.S. President Bill Clinton. ·
July 16–22 – Fragments of Comet
Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter. ·
July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup,
defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time
0–0). ·
July 18 ·
AMIA bombing: In Buenos Aires, a terrorist
attack destroys a building housing several Jewish
organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more. ·
Rwandan Patriotic
Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government
into Zaire and ending the Rwandan genocide. ·
July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration
as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan
peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has
existed between the nations since 1948. August ·
August 5 – Groups of protesters spread
from Havana, Cuba's
Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests
against Fidel Castro's
government since 1959. ·
Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York.
It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969. ·
All Major League
Baseball players go on strike,
beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history. ·
The Provisional
Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation
of military operations". ·
The Russian army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern
Europe's Soviet occupation.[5] September ·
September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic
of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. ·
September 5 – New South Wales State MP for
Cabramatta John
Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first
political assassination since 1977. ·
September 8 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board,
crashes on approach to Pittsburgh
International Airport killing all on board. ·
September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Federal
Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms
with certain features for a period of 10 years. ·
September 14 – The 1994 World Series is
officially cancelled due to the ongoing work
stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played
since 1904 ·
Danish tour guide
Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three
British soldiers in Cyprus.[6] ·
Britain
lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from
Northern Ireland. ·
September 19 – American troops stage a
bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the
legitimate elected leader, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, to power. ·
The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in
the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. ·
José
Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on
orders of Raúl Salinas de
Gortari. ·
September–October
– Iraq disarmament
crisis: Iraq threatens to stop
cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors
and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to
deploy troops to Kuwait. October ·
In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins
the general
election. ·
Palau gains independence from the United
Nations Trusteeship Council. ·
October 4 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the
Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their
fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin-Heights,
Quebec. ·
October 8 – Iraq disarmament
crisis: The President of the United
Nations Security Council says that Iraq must
withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with
weapons inspectors. ·
October 12 – NASA loses
radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends
into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned
up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14). ·
After
three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Aristide returns
to his country. ·
Iraq disarmament
crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the
U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait. November ·
A
letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease,
is released. ·
George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World
Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the
oldest heavyweight
champion in history. ·
Johan Heyns, an influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid, is assassinated. ·
November 6 – A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people. ·
November 7 – WXYC,
the student radio station of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast. ·
November 8 – Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United
States Republican Party in taking control of both the House
of Representatives and the Senate in
midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans
secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas. ·
Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba,
the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern
United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152
fatalities. ·
Voters
in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum. ·
The
first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel. ·
November 16 – A federal judge issues
a temporary restraining order,
prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied
most public services to illegal aliens. ·
November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol. ·
November 28 – Voters in Norway decide
not to join the European Union in
a referendum. December ·
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico. ·
December 2 – The Australian government
agrees to pay reparations to indigenous
Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s. ·
December 3 – Taiwan held the first full
local elections; James Soong elected
as the first and only direct elected Governor of
Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became
the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first
directed Mayor of Kaohsiung. ·
December 11 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya. ·
The
trial of former President Mengistu begins
in Ethiopia. ·
Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, is remanded in custody, charged
with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies
are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rose West, 41, is charged with 10 murders. ·
December 14 – Construction commences on
the Three Gorges Dam,
at Sandouping, China. ·
A
planned exchange rate correction
of the Mexican peso to
the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the
'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50
billion "bailout" by the Clinton
Administration. ·
Civil unions between
same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden. ·
December 31 is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from
the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time
zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii. Date unknown ·
Pyroclastic flows –
clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting Mount Merapi volcano in central Java,
causing sixty deaths. ·
Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This
marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average
American. ·
The
population of Nigeria exceeds 100
million, making the republic the first African nation to have a population
above 100 million. Births
January ·
January 4 – Derrick Henry, American football player ·
January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons,
Latvian ice hockey player ·
Jameis Winston, American football player ·
Denis Suárez, Spanish footballer ·
Justin Basson, South African rugby union player ·
Landon Collins, American football player ·
Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance
runner ·
January 11 – Mathieu Marquet, Mauritian swimmer ·
January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer ·
Kai,
South Korean singer ·
Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner ·
January 15 – Eric Dier, English footballer ·
January 17 – Sajal Ali, Pakistani actress and model ·
Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and
dancer ·
Sam Strike, English actor ·
January 19 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer ·
January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor ·
Kwak Min-jeong, South Korean figure skater ·
Addison Russell, American baseball player ·
January 24 – Juanpi, Venezuelan footballer ·
January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer ·
January 29 – Ayane Sakura, Japanese voice actress February ·
February 1 – Harry Styles, English singer ·
February 5 – Saki Nakajima,
Japanese singer ·
February 6 – Charlie Heaton, English actor ·
February 8 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer ·
Makenzie Vega, American actress ·
Seulgi, South Korean singer ·
February 11 – Dansby Swanson, American baseball player ·
Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer ·
Axel Reymond, French Marathon swimmer ·
February 15 – Eric Dier, English footballer ·
February 16 – Federico
Bernardeschi, Italian footballer ·
February 18 – J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter ·
Hayley Orrantia, American actress ·
Wendy, South Korean-Canadian singer ·
February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion
model ·
February 24 – Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper ·
February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player ·
February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player ·
February 28 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer March ·
March 1 ·
Justin Bieber, Canadian singer ·
Tyreek Hill, American football player ·
March 5 – Aislinn Paul, Canadian actress ·
March 7 ·
Christina Gao, American figure skater ·
Chase Kalisz, American swimmer ·
Jordan Pickford, English footballer ·
March 8 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer
(d. 2014) ·
March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer ·
March 12 – Christina Grimmie,
American singer (d. 2016) ·
March 13 ·
Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer ·
Yannick Gerhardt, German footballer ·
March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer and DJ ·
March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player ·
March 25 – Justin Prentice, American actor ·
March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer ·
March 27 – Yoan Cardinale, French footballer ·
March 28 – Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper ·
March 30 ·
Alex Bregman, American baseball player ·
Haruka Shimazaki, Japanese singer April ·
April 4 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer ·
April 6 – Jasmine Curtis-Smith,
Filipina actress ·
April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards,
English actress ·
April 12 ·
Oh Sehun,
South Korean singer ·
Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish
actress ·
Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer ·
April 14 – Skyler Samuels, American actress ·
April 16 – Will Fuller, American football player ·
April 18 – Moisés Arias, American actor ·
April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler ·
April 27 – Corey Seager, American baseball player May ·
May 4 – Alexander Gould, American actor and voice
artist ·
May 5 – Marco Benassi, Italian footballer ·
May 6 – Mateo
Kovačić, Croatian footballer ·
May 14 – Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer ·
May 16 – Miles Heizer, American actor ·
May 20 – Piotr Zieliński,
Polish footballer ·
May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver ·
May 25 ·
Aly Raisman, American gymnast ·
Kylee, Japanese-American singer ·
May 27 ·
Aymeric Laporte, French footballer ·
Maximilian Arnold,
German footballer ·
May 28 ·
Son Yeon-jae South Korean rhythmic
gymnast ·
John Stones, English footballer June ·
June 11 ·
Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress ·
Jessica Fox,
Australian canoeist ·
June 15 ·
Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer ·
Iñaki Williams,
Spanish footballer ·
June 17 ·
Amari Cooper, American football player ·
Shaq Lawson, American football player ·
June 18 – Takeoff, American rapper ·
June 20 – Leonard
Williams, American football player ·
June 29 ·
Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer ·
Camila Mendes, American actress July ·
July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer ·
July 6 – Corey Coleman, American football player ·
July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet and artistic
prodigy ·
July 10 – Iuri Medeiros, Portuguese footballer ·
July 16 – Mark Indelicato, American actor ·
July 17 ·
Derrick Henry, American football player ·
Victor Lindelöf,
Swedish footballer ·
Benjamin Mendy, French footballer ·
July 22 – Jaz Sinclair, American actress ·
July 27 – Winnie Harlow, Canadian model ·
July 29 – Daniele Rugani, Italian footballer ·
July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper August ·
August 3 ·
Todd Gurley, American football player ·
Corentin Tolisso, French footballer ·
August 4 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress ·
August 8 − Lauv,
American singer ·
August 9 – Kelli Hubly, American soccer player ·
August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer ·
August 13 – Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player ·
August 16 – Tippy Dos Santos, Filipino-American singer
and actress ·
Jack Conklin, American football player ·
Tiémoué Bakayoko,
French footballer ·
Taissa Farmiga, American actress ·
Morgan Sanson, French footballer ·
Madelaine Petsch, American actress ·
August 22 – Israel Broussard, American actor ·
August 27 – Ellar Coltrane, American actor ·
August 30 - Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and
singer ·
August 31 — Can Aktav, Turkish football player September ·
Bruno
Fernandes, Portuguese footballer ·
Cameron Dallas, American internet
personality and actor ·
Mhairi Black, Scottish politician ·
RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter ·
September 21 – Ben Proud, English swimmer ·
September 22 – Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American
baseball player ·
September 29 – Halsey, American singer October ·
October 3 – Seth Jones,
American ice hockey player ·
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress ·
Suzy, South Korean singer and actress ·
Ilhoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter and actor ·
Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer ·
Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player ·
October 14 – Jared Goff, American football player ·
October 15 – Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper ·
Krystal Jung, South Korean singer ·
Jalen Ramsey, American football player ·
Bruma,
Portuguese footballer ·
October 26 – Allie DeBerry, American actress and model ·
October 27 – Kurt Zouma, French footballer ·
October 30 – Miyū
Tsuzurahara, Japanese actress November ·
November 1 – James Ward-Prowse,
English footballer ·
November 2 – Jordan Howard, American football player ·
November 3 − Ella Mai, British singer ·
November 4 – Deion Jones, American football player ·
Óliver Torres, Spanish footballer ·
Zoey Deutch, American actress ·
Tyler Boyd, American football player ·
Emma Dumont, American actress, model, and
dancer ·
November 21 – Saúl Ñíguez,
Spanish footballer ·
November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor ·
November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer ·
November 28 – Bonnie Anderson,
Australian singer ·
November 29 – Julius Randle, American basketball player ·
November 30 – Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder December ·
December 3 – Jake T. Austin, American actor ·
December 6 – Giannis
Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player ·
Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater ·
Hunter Henry, American football player ·
Raheem Sterling, English footballer ·
Conseslus Kipruto,
Kenyan middle distance runner ·
December 9 - Zach Veach, American race car driver ·
December 10 – Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer ·
December 16 - Christopher
Bell, American race car driver ·
December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor ·
December 19 – Michele Bravi, Italian singer ·
December 23 – Tajae Sharpe, American football player ·
December 26 – Dalyn Dawkins, American football player ·
December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer Deaths
January ·
Arthur Espie Porritt,
New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900) ·
Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907) ·
Edward Arthur
Thompson, British historian (b. 1914) ·
January 2 – Pierre-Paul
Schweitzer, French director of the IMF (b. 1912) ·
January 3 – Frank Belknap Long,
American writer (b. 1901) ·
Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator
(b. 1912) ·
Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and
soldier (b. 1906) ·
Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912) ·
January 7 – Phoumi Vongvichit,
President of Laos (b. 1909) ·
Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915) ·
Chandrashekarendra
Saraswati, Indian sage (b. 1894) ·
Madge Ryan, Australian actress (b. 1919) ·
Johnny Temple, American baseball player
(b. 1927) ·
January 11 – John
Bradley, American Navy sailor (b. 1923) ·
January 12 – Samuel Bronston, American film producer and
director (b. 1908) ·
January 13 – Johan Jørgen Holst,
Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1937) ·
Esther Ralston, American actress (b. 1902) ·
Delio Rodríguez,
Spanish cyclist (b. 1916) ·
Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian businessman
(b. 1906) ·
Federica Montseny,
Spanish politician (b. 1905) ·
January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941) ·
Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918) ·
Chung Il-kwon, South Korean politician
(b. 1917) ·
Matt Busby, Scottish football manager
(b. 1909) ·
Jaramogi Oginga
Odinga, Kenyan politician (b. 1911) ·
Jean-Louis Barrault,
French actor and director (b. 1910) ·
Frances Gifford, American actress (b. 1920) ·
Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922) ·
Brian Redhead, British journalist and
broadcaster (b. 1929) ·
Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet marshal (b. 1917) ·
January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene,
American mathematician (b. 1909) ·
January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926) ·
January 28 – Hal Smith,
American actor (b. 1916) ·
Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier
(b. 1967) ·
Nick Cravat, American actor and acrobat
(b. 1912) ·
Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912) ·
Rudolf Schwarz,
Austrian-born British conductor (b. 1902) ·
Bahjat Talhouni, Jordanian politician
(b. 1913) February ·
February 1 – Olan Soule, American actor (b. 1909) ·
February 2 – Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American
archeologist (b. 1921) ·
February 3 – Walter Havighurst,
American critic, novelist, and historian (b. 1901) ·
February 4 – Jane Arbor, British writer (b. 1903) ·
Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905) ·
Jack Kirby, American comic book writer and
illustrator (b. 1917) ·
Witold
Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913) ·
Arnold Smith, Canadian diplomat (b. 1915) ·
February 9 – Howard Martin Temin,
American geneticist (b. 1934) ·
Neil Bonnett, American race car driver
(b. 1946) ·
Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930) ·
William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920) ·
Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher
(b. 1924) ·
Antonio Martín,
Spanish cyclist (b. 1970) ·
February 12 – Donald Judd, American artist (b. 1928) ·
Christopher Lasch,
American historian, moralist, and social critic (b. 1932) ·
Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer
(executed) (b. 1936) ·
February 17 – Randy Shilts, American author and activist
(b. 1951) ·
February 19 – Derek Jarman, English film director
(b. 1942) ·
February 22 – Papa John Creech, American fiddler (b. 1917) ·
Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906) ·
Dinah Shore, American actress and singer
(b. 1916) ·
Henry Milton Taylor,
3rd Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1903) ·
February 25 – Jersey Joe Walcott,
American boxer (b. 1914) ·
February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961) ·
February 28 – Josephat Karanja, Kenyan politician
(b. 1931) March ·
March 2 ·
Peter Cureton, Canadian actor and playwright ·
Anita Morris, American actress and singer
(b. 1943) ·
March 4 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor
(b. 1950) ·
March 5 – Abdullah al-Sallal,
1st President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1917) ·
March 6 ·
Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer (b. 1899) ·
Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and
politician (b. 1920) ·
March 9 ·
Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920) ·
Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917) ·
Lawrence E. Spivak,
American journalist (b. 1900) ·
March 10 – D. J. M. Mackenzie,
New Zealand-born British medical officer (b. 1905) ·
March 11 – Kaku Takashina, Japanese actor (b. 1919) ·
March 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (b. 1909) ·
March 17 ·
Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player
(b. 1911) ·
Mai Zetterling, Swedish actor and director
(b. 1925) ·
March 20 ·
Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist
(b. 1946) ·
March 21 ·
Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913) ·
Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941) ·
March 22 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899) ·
March 23 ·
Álvaro del Portillo,
Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1914) ·
Luis Donaldo Colosio,
Mexican politician (b. 1950) ·
Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921) ·
March 25 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (b. 1899) ·
March 28 ·
Eugène Ionesco,
Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909) ·
Ira Murchison, American athlete (b. 1933) ·
March 29 – Bill Travers, English actor (b. 1922) April ·
April 1 ·
Léon Degrelle, Belgian politician and Nazi
collaborator (b. 1906) ·
Robert Doisneau, French photographer
(b. 1912) ·
April 2 – Betty Furness, American actress, author, and
consumer advocate (b. 1916) ·
April 3 – Jérôme Lejeune,
French pediatrician and geneticist (b. 1926) ·
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1967) ·
April 6 ·
Juvénal Habyarimana,
3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937) ·
Cyprien Ntaryamira,
5th President of Burundi (b. 1956) ·
April 7 ·
Agathe
Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953) ·
Albert Guðmundsson,
Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923) ·
Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909) ·
April 10 ·
Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924) ·
Viktor
Afanasyev, Soviet journalist (b. 1922) ·
April 11 – Hal Lawrence, Canadian naval officer
(b. 1920) ·
April 14 ·
Manuel Andújar,
Spanish writer (b. 1913) ·
Hugh Springer, Governor-General of Barbados
(b. 1913) ·
April 15 – John Curry, British figure skater (b. 1949) ·
April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914) ·
April 17 – Roger Wolcott Sperry,
American neurobiologist (b. 1913) ·
April 18 – Ken Oosterbroek, South African
photojournalist (b. 1962) ·
April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United
States (b. 1913) ·
April 24 – Masutatsu Ōyama,
Korean-Japanese Karate master (b. 1923) ·
April 27 – Lynne Frederick, English actress (b. 1954) ·
April 28 – Berton Roueché,
American writer (b. 1910) ·
April 29 ·
Russell Kirk, American political philosopher
(b. 1918) ·
Sak Sutsakhan, Cambodian politician
(b. 1928) ·
April 30 ·
Roland Ratzenberger,
Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960) ·
Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919) ·
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma,
Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1930) May ·
May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula One driver
(b. 1960) ·
May 2 ·
William Albertini,
English cricketer (b. 1913) ·
Dorothy Marie
Donnelly, American poet (b. 1908) ·
May 5 – Joe Layton, American director and
choreographer (b. 1931) ·
May 7 – Clement Greenberg,
American art critic (b. 1909) ·
May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928) ·
May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer
(b. 1942) ·
May 12 ·
Erik Erikson, Danish-American developmental
psychologist (b. 1902) ·
John
Smith, Scottish politician (b. 1938) ·
Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910) ·
May 14 – W. Graham Claytor,
Jr., American businessman and naval officer (b. 1914) ·
May 15 ·
Royal Dano, American actor (b. 1922) ·
Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905) ·
May 16 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908) ·
May 17 – Étienne Hirsch,
French engineer and administrator (b. 1901) ·
May 19 ·
Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, and First
Lady of the United States (b. 1929) ·
Henry Morgan,
American comedian (b. 1915) ·
Luis Ocaña, Spanish bicycle racer (b. 1945) ·
May 21 ·
Giovanni Goria, Italian Prime Minister
(b. 1943) ·
Masayoshi Ito, Japanese politician (b. 1913) ·
Ralph Miliband, Polish-born British academic
(b. 1924) ·
Johan Hendrik
Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (b. 1912) ·
May 26 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz musician
(b. 1940) ·
May 27 – Red Rodney, American trumpeter (b. 1927) ·
May 28 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920) ·
May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German politician
(b. 1912) ·
May 30 ·
Juan Carlos Onetti,
Uruguayan novelist (b. 1909) ·
Marcel Bich, French businessman (b. 1914) ·
Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader
(b. 1899) ·
May 31 – Sidney Gilliat, British film director
(b. 1908) June ·
June 2 – David Stove, Australian philosopher
(b. 1927) ·
June 3 – Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1912) ·
June 4 ·
Benedict J.
Semmes, Jr., American admiral (b. 1913) ·
Peter Thorneycroft,
British politician (b. 1909) ·
June 6 – Barry Sullivan,
American actor (b. 1912) ·
June 7 – Dennis Potter, English dramatist (b. 1935) ·
June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903) ·
June 10 – Edward Kienholz, American artist and
sculptor (b. 1927) ·
June 12 – Menachem
Mendel Schneerson, American Hasidic rabbinical leader (b. 1902) ·
June 13 – K. T. Stevens, American actress (b. 1919) ·
June 14 ·
Lionel Grigson, British jazz pianist,
composer and educator (b. 1942) ·
Henry Mancini, American composer and
arranger (b. 1924) ·
June 15 ·
Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967) ·
Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925) ·
June 20 – Jay Miner, American computer pioneer
(b. 1932) ·
June 21 – William Wilson
Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906) ·
June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908) July ·
July 2 ·
Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (b. 1969) ·
Maung Maung, President of Myanmar (b. 1925) ·
Marion Williams, American gospel singer
(b. 1927) ·
July 3 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934) ·
July 6 – Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist
(b. 1932) ·
July 7 ·
Friedrich
August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (b. 1907) ·
Cameron Mitchell,
American actor (b. 1918) ·
Anita Garvin, American actress (b. 1907) ·
July 8 ·
Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930) ·
Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea
(b. 1912) ·
Christian-Jaque, French film director
(b. 1904) ·
July 11 – Gary Kildall, American computer inventor
(b. 1942) ·
July 14 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player
(b. 1940) ·
July 16 ·
Patricio Carvajal,
Chilean admiral, minister and diplomat (b. 1916) ·
Julian Schwinger, American physicist
(b. 1918) ·
July 17 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898) ·
July 19 – Ray Flaherty, American football coach
(b. 1903) ·
July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897) ·
July 21 ·
Marijac, French cartoonist (b. 1908) ·
Pere Calders, Spanish writer and cartoonist
(b. 1912) ·
July 22 – Alexandre Hogue, American painter (b. 1898) ·
July 27 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist
(b. 1960) ·
July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910) August ·
August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini,
Italian Prime Minister (b. 1925) ·
August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter
and actor turned politician (b. 1928) ·
August 11 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913) ·
August 13 – Manfred Wörner,
German politician and diplomat (b. 1934) ·
August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer
(b. 1905) ·
August 17 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902) ·
August 18 – Richard
Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist (b. 1914) ·
August 19 – Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901) ·
Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player
(b. 1915) ·
Michael Peters, American choreographer
(b. 1948) ·
August 23 – Zoltán Fábri,
Hungarian film director (b. 1917) ·
August 28 – David Wright,
South African poet (b. 1920) ·
Lindsay Anderson, British film director
(b. 1923) ·
Hubert Zemke, American fighter ace (b. 1914) September Louis
Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia ·
September 2 – Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932) ·
September 3 – Billy
Wright, English footballer (b. 1924) ·
September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician
(b. 1921) ·
Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944) ·
Duccio Tessari, Italian director and
screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
Paul Xuereb, Maltese politician (b. 1923) ·
James Clavell, British writer (b. 1921) ·
Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer
(b. 1908) ·
Terence Young,
British film director (b. 1915) ·
September 8 – János Szentágothai,
Hungarian anatomist (b. 1912) ·
September 9 – Patrick O'Neal,
American actor (b. 1927) ·
September 11 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress
(b. 1909) ·
Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909) ·
Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937) ·
September 15 – Mark Stevens,
American actor (b. 1916) ·
September 16 – Jack Dodson, American actor (b. 1931) ·
Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player
(b. 1954) ·
Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher
(b. 1902) ·
September 18 – Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer
(b. 1950) ·
September 19 – Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921) ·
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author
(b. 1924) ·
Jule Styne, English-born American songwriter
(b. 1905) ·
September 22 – Bud Sagendorf, American cartoonist (b. 1915) ·
September 23 – Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917) ·
September 24 – Sir David Napley, British solicitor
(b. 1915) ·
September 26 – Louis
Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907) ·
September 27 – Carlos Lleras
Restrepo, President of Colombia (b. 1908) ·
September 28 – José
Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (b. 1946) ·
André Michel Lwoff,
French microbiologist (b. 1902) ·
Roberto Eduardo
Viola, military president of Argentina (b. 1924) October ·
October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909) ·
Tim Asch, American anthropologist (b. 1932) ·
Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907) ·
Niels Kaj Jerne, English immunologist
(b. 1911) ·
James Hill,
British film and television director (b. 1919) ·
October 15 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934) ·
October 19 – Martha Raye, American actress and comedian
(b. 1916) ·
October 18 – Conchita Montes, Spanish actress (b. 1914) ·
October 19 – Oldřich
Černík, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921) ·
Sergei Bondarchuk,
Russian film director (b. 1920) ·
Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913) ·
October 21 – Benoît Régent,
French actor (b. 1953) ·
October 22 – Fabio Grobart, Cuban politician (b. 1905) ·
October 23 – Robert Lansing,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
Gamini Dissanayake,
Sri Lankan politician (b. 1942) ·
Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and
singer (b. 1940) ·
October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905) ·
October 28 – Calvin S. Fuller,
American physical chemist (b. 1902) ·
October 29 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi (b. 1918) November ·
November 1 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (b. 1913) ·
November 5 – Johan Heyns, South African theologian and
apartheid critic (b. 1928) ·
November 9 – Priscilla Morrill,
American actress (b. 1927) ·
November 10 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (b. 1920) ·
Dame Elizabeth
Maconchy, British composer (b. 1907) ·
Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist
(b. 1972) ·
Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940) ·
J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish novelist
(b. 1906) ·
November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924) ·
November 14 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953) ·
Doris Speed, English actress (b. 1899) ·
Dino Valente, American musician (b. 1937) ·
Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and
bandleader (b. 1907) ·
Peter Ledger, Australian artist (b. 1945) ·
November 20 – John Lucarotti, British screenwriter
(b. 1926) ·
November 21 — Pino Locchi, Italian actor and voice actor
(b. 1925) ·
November 22 – Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (b. 1908) ·
November 23 – Art Barr, American professional wrestler
(b. 1966) ·
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer
(b. 1960) ·
Vicente
Enrique y Tarancón, Spanish cardinal (b. 1907) ·
November 29 – Sir James Crane, British police officer
(b. 1921) ·
Guy Debord, French theorist, writer, and
filmmaker (b. 1931) ·
Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908) December ·
December 4 – Sir Geoffrey Elton, British historian
(b. 1921) ·
December 6 – Gian Maria Volontè,
Italian actor (b. 1933) ·
December 8 – Antônio Carlos Jobim,
Brazilian composer (b. 1927) ·
December 10 – Alex
Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905) ·
Philip
Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900) ·
Carl Marzani, American filmmaker, author,
editor and publisher (b. 1912) ·
Donna J. Stone, American poet and
philanthropist (b. 1933) ·
Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933) ·
December 13 – Hu Lanqi, Chinese revolutionary, general,
and writer (b. 1901) ·
December 18 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-born American actress
(b. 1896) ·
Hans Herlin, German novelist (b. 1925) ·
Dean Rusk, American diplomat (b. 1909) ·
December 23 – Sebastian Shaw,
English actor (b. 1905) ·
John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947) ·
Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916) ·
John Osborne, English playwright (b. 1929) ·
December 25 – Zail Singh, 7th President of India (b. 1916) ·
Jock
Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, British businessman and life
peer (b. 1912) ·
Allie Reynolds, American baseball player
(b. 1917) ·
Fanny Cradock, British television chef and
restaurant critic (b. 1909) ·
Peter May,
English cricketer (b. 1929) ·
J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902) Nobel Prizes ·
Physics – Bertram N.
Brockhouse, Clifford Glenwood
Shull ·
Chemistry – George Andrew Olah ·
Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell ·
Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin ·
Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash, John Harsanyi Templeton Prize |
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