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Gregorian Year 1990 (MCMXC) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of
the 20th century,
and the 1st year of the 1990s decade. Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of
Germany and the unification of Yemen,[1] the
formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished
in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space
Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and
the Baltic states declaring
independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika. Yugoslavia's communist
regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and
multiparty elections held within its constituent republics result
in separatist governments being elected in
most of the republics marking the beginning of the breakup of
Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to
the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraqinvasion and the largely internationally
unrecognized annexation of Kuwait resulting in
a crisis in the Persian Gulfinvolving
the issue of the sovereignty of Kuwait and fears by Saudi Arabia over Iraqi
aggression against their oil fields near Kuwait, this resulted in
Operation Desert Shield being
enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on
the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from
Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from
prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned
as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom after over 11 years. 1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In the fall of
1990, Tim Berners-Lee created
the first web serverand the
foundation for the World Wide Web.
Test operations began around December 20 and it was released outside CERN the
following year.[2] 1990
also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet system
and the introduction of the first content search engine, Archie on
September 10.[3] September 14, 1990 saw the first case of
successful somatic gene therapy on
a patient.[4] Due to the early 1990s
recession that began that year and uncertainty due to the
collapse of the socialist governments
in Eastern Europe,
birth rates in many countries stopped rising or fell steeply in 1990. In most
western countries the Echo Boom peaked
in 1990; fertility rates declined thereafter.[5] Encyclopædia
Britannica,
which ceased printing in 2012, saw its highest all time sales in 1990;
120,000 volumes were sold that year.[6] The number of librarians in the United States also
peaked around 1990.[7] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 7: The Pisa tower closed. ·
Poland
becomes the first country in Eastern Europe to begin abolishing its state socialist economy. Poland also
withdraws from the Warsaw Pact. ·
The
first Internet companies catering to commercial users, PSINet and EUnet begin selling Internet access to
commercial customers in the United States and Netherlands respectively.[8][9] ·
Glasgow begins its year as European
Capital of Culture. ·
January 3 – United
States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega is deposed as leader
of Panama and surrenders to the American
forces. ·
January 4 – Two trains collide in
Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people
and injuring an estimated 700 others. ·
January 7 – The Leaning Tower of
Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns. ·
January 9 – Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello,
who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in
Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. ·
January 11 – Singing Revolution:
In the Lithuania
SSR, 300,000 demonstrate for independence. ·
January 12–19 – Most of the remaining 50,000 Armenians are driven out of Baku in
the Azerbaijan SSR during the Baku pogrom.[10] ·
January 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first
elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia. ·
The National
Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian
Communist Party. ·
Thousands
storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their
government records. ·
Martin
Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit,
including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T
software bug. ·
January 17 – Smith & Wesson introduce the .40 S&W cartridge. ·
Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan
SSR, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet
premier Mikhail Gorbachev,
and kill over 130 protesters who
were demonstrating for independence.[11] ·
Clashes
break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir. ·
The
government of Haiti declares a state of emergency,
under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests
political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29. ·
The League
of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on
power. ·
Robert Tappan Morris is
convicted of releasing the Morris worm. ·
Avianca Flight 52 crashes
into Cove Neck, Long
Island, New York after a miscommunication between the flight
crew and JFK
Airport officials, killing 73 people on board. ·
Prime Minister
of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl,
becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office. ·
Pope John Paul II begins
an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad. ·
January 25–26 – The Burns' Day storm kills
97 in northwestern Europe. ·
January 27 – The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian
SSR briefly declares independence. ·
January 28 – Four months after their
exit from power, the Polish
United Workers' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize
itself as the Social
Democracy of the Republic of Poland.[12] ·
The
trial of Joseph Hazelwood,
former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska.
He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to
date. ·
In Holmdel, New
Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created
a digital optical
processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of
light rather than electric currents to make calculations. ·
Globalization – The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens
8 months after construction began on 3 May 1989. 8 months later the first
McDonald's in Mainland China is
opened in Shenzhen.[13] ·
Liberal
Muslim Rashad Khalifa is
murdered in Tucson, Arizona;
his killer is theorized to be a member of an early al-Qaeda sleeper cell.[14] ·
President
of the United States George H. W. Bush gives
his first State of the
Union address and proposes that the U.S. and the Soviet Union make deep cuts to their
military forces in Europe. January 29: Trial relating to Exxon Valdez. February[edit] ·
February/March
– 100,000 Kashmiri Pandits leave
their homeland in Jammu and Kashmir's
Valley after being targeted by Islamistextremists.[15] ·
February
– Smoking is banned on all cross-country flights in the United States.[16] ·
February 2 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African
National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela. ·
The Communist
Party of the Soviet Union votes to end its monopoly of power,
clearing the way for multiparty elections. ·
In
the Tajik SSR, rioting breaks out against
the settlement of Armenian refugees there. ·
President of
South Africa F. W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released the
next day. ·
Las
Cruces Bowling Alley massacre: 2 people walked into the 10 Pin
Alley in Las Cruces, New
Mexico, (known then as the Las Cruces Bowl) and shot seven people,
four of whom were killed. The case is currently unsolved. ·
February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor
Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South
Africa, after 27 years behind bars. ·
February 12 – Representatives of NATO and
the Warsaw Pact meet
in Ottawa for an "Open
Skies" conference. The conference results in agreements
about superpower troop
levels in Europe and on German reunification. ·
German reunification:
An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. ·
Drexel Burnham
Lambert files for bankruptcy protection, Chapter
11. ·
February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing
its primary mission, from around 5.6 billion kilometers (3.5 billion mi)
away. ·
The
United Kingdom and Argentina restore
diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to
Argentina's invasion of
the Falkland Islands,
a British
Dependent Territory, in 1982. ·
In Cartagena, Colombia,
a summit is held between President
of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora, President of
Colombia Virgilio Barco
Vargas, and President of Peru Alan García. The leaders pledge additional
cooperation in fighting international drug trafficking. ·
The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections, with Violeta Chamorro elected as the
new president of
Nicaragua (the first elected woman president in the
Americas), replacing Daniel Ortega. ·
The USSR agrees
to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991. ·
February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil
spill: Exxon and its
shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts. ·
February 28 – President of Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega announces a cease-fire with the U.S.-backed contras. March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
A
fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people. ·
Steve Jackson Games is
raided by the U.S. Secret
Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. ·
The Royal New Zealand
Navy discontinues its daily rum ration. ·
Luis Alberto Lacalle,
a grandson of the late politician and diplomat Luis Alberto de
Herrera, is sworn in as President
of Uruguay. ·
March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition,
a group of six explorers from six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica. ·
March 6 – An SR-71 sets
a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes
17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight. ·
March 8 – The Nintendo
World Championships were held within the Fair Park's Automobile Building,
kickstarting an almost year long gaming competition across 29 American
cities. ·
March 9 ·
Police
seal off Brixton in South London after
another night of protests against
the poll tax. ·
Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind
Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord. ·
March 10 – Eighteen months after
seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti. ·
March 11 – Singing Revolution:
The Lithuanian
SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. ·
March 11–13 – The March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak produces
64 tornadoes across six US states, including four violent F4/F5 tornadoes. The outbreak leaves 2
dead, 89 injured, and causes over $500 million in damages. ·
March 12 ·
Cold
War: Soviet soldiers begin leaving Hungary under terms of an agreement to
withdraw all Soviet troops by June 1. ·
Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the
first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970. ·
March 13 – The Supreme
Soviet of the Soviet Union approves changes to the Constitution
of the Soviet Union to create a strong U.S.-style presidency. Mikhail Gorbachev is
elected to a five-year term as the first-ever President
of the Soviet Union on March 15. ·
March 15 ·
Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne
Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an
accomplice. ·
The
first high speed (T1) transatlantic Internet connection is
made over the TAT-8 fiber optic cable between CERN and Cornell University,
allowing faster Internet communication between North America and Europe.[17] ·
Mikhail Gorbachev is
elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union. ·
Singing Revolution:
The Soviet Union announces
that Lithuania's declaration of independence is
invalid. ·
Fernando Collor
de Mello takes office as President of Brazil, Brazil's first democratically elected
president since Jânio Quadros in 1961.
The next day, he announces a currency freeze and freezes large bank accounts
for 18 months. ·
March 18 ·
Twelve
paintings and a Shang dynasty vase,
collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from
the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by two thieves posing as
police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the
paintings (as of 2018) have not been recovered. ·
Cold War: East Germany holds its first free
elections. ·
March 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. ·
March 21 – After 75 years of South
African rule since World War I, Namibia becomes independent. ·
March 24 – Australian
federal election, 1990: Bob Hawke's Labor Government is re-elected with a reduced
majority, narrowly defeating the Liberal/National Coalitionled
by Andrew Peacock.[18] ·
March 25 ·
In
New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87. ·
Archbishop of
Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention
to retire at the end of the year. ·
In
the Hungarian
parliamentary election, Hungary's first multiparty election
since 1948, the Hungarian
Democratic Forum wins the most seats. ·
March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards,
hosted by Billy Crystal,
are held at the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisywinning Best
Picture. ·
March 27 – The United States begins
broadcasting Radio y
Televisión Martí to Cuba. ·
March 28 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously
awards Jesse Owens the Congressional
Gold Medal. ·
March 30 – Singing Revolution:
After its first
free elections on March 18, the Estonian
SSR declares the Soviet
rule to have been illegal since 1940 and declares a
transition period for full independence. ·
March 31 – "The Second Battle of Trafalgar": A
massive anti-poll tax demonstration
in Trafalgar Square,
London, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 are arrested. April[edit] April 1990 in Moscow ·
April 1 ·
The Community Charge (poll
tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests ·
Strangeways
Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins
at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3
days, until April 25. ·
The 1990 United
States Census begins. There are 248,709,873 residents in the
U.S. ·
April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's
"The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens
at the CincinnatiContemporary
Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for
Community Values. ·
April 7 ·
Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5
charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on
appeal. ·
Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en
route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead. ·
April 8 ·
In Nepal, Birendra of Nepal lifts
a ban on political parties following violent protests. ·
In
the Greek
legislative election, the conservative New Democracy wins
the most seats in the Hellenic Parliament;
its leader, Konstantinos
Mitsotakis, becomes Prime Minister
of Greece on April 11. ·
In
the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist
Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first
multiparty election since 1938. After the election, a center-right
coalition led by Lojze Peterle forms
Yugoslavia's first non-Communist government since 1945. ·
April 9 – Comet Austin, the brightest comet visible from Earth since 1975,
makes its closest approach to the sun. ·
April 12 – Lothar de Maizière becomes
prime minister of East Germany,
heading a conservative coalition that favors German reunification. ·
April 13 – Cold War: The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn massacre. ·
April 14 – Junk bond financier Michael Milken pleaded guilty to
fraud-related charges. He agreed to pay US$500 million in restitution and was
sentenced on November 21 to 10 years in jail. ·
April 22 ·
Lebanon hostage
crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert
Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987. ·
Earth Day 20 is celebrated by millions
worldwide. ·
April 24 ·
Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency
and economies on July 1. ·
STS-31: The Hubble Space
Telescope is launched aboard Space
Shuttle Discovery.[19] ·
President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko lifts a 20-year ban on
opposition parties. ·
April 25 – Violeta Chamorro is elected President of Nicaragua, the first woman elected in her
own right as a head of state in the Americas. ·
April 28 – Liverpool F.C. win their 18th and as to
date last English Football League Title when they beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1
at Anfield thanks to goals from Ian Rush and John Barnes.
Their nearest challengers Aston Villa can only draw 3-3 at home
to Norwich City. ·
April 30 – Lebanon hostage
crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H.
Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986. May[edit] ·
May 1 – The former Episcopal
Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal
Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy
and raised to the state of an Autocephalous Anglican province and
renamed the Episcopal
Church of the Philippines. ·
May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a
knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the
second largest mugging to date). ·
May 2–4 – First talks between the government
of South Africa and the African
National Congress. ·
May 4 – Singing Revolution:
The Latvian
SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union. ·
May 6–13 – Pope John Paul II visits
Mexico. ·
May 8 ·
Singing Revolution:
The Estonian
SSR restores the formal name of the country, the Republic of
Estonia, as well as other national emblems (the coat of arms, the flag and the anthem). ·
Rafael
Ángel Calderón Fournier assumes office as President of
Costa Rica. ·
May 9 – In South Korea, police battle
anti-government protesters in Seoul and two other cities. ·
May 13 ·
In
the Philippines, gunmen
kill two United States Air
Force airmen near Clark Air Base on the eve of talks
between the Philippines and the United States over the future of American
military bases in the Philippines. ·
The Dinamo–Red Star riot took
place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans
of Dinamo Zagreb)
and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade). ·
May 15 ·
Singing Revolution:
The pro-Soviet Intermovement attempts to take power
in Tallinn, Estonia, but are forced down by local Estonians. ·
Portrait of Dr.
Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a
record $82.5
million. ·
May 17 – The World Health
Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.[20] ·
May 18 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany sign a
treaty to merge their economic and social systems, effective July 1. ·
May 19 – The US and the USSR agree to
end production of chemical weapons and
to destroy most of their stockpiles of chemical weapons. ·
May 20 – Cold War: The first post-Communist presidential and
parliamentary elections are held in Romania. ·
May 21 – In Kashmir, a Kashmiri Islamic leader is
assassinated and Indian security forces open fire on mourners carrying his
body, killing at least 47 people. ·
May 22 ·
Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and
the People's
Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of
their countries as the Republic of Yemen. ·
Microsoft releases Windows 3.0. ·
May 27 ·
In
the Burmese
general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30
years, the National
League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide,
but the State
Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election
results. ·
In
the Colombian
presidential election, César Gaviria is elected President of
Colombia; he takes office on August 7. ·
May 29 ·
Mikhail Gorbachev arrives
in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit. ·
Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first
ever elected president of the Russian
Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. ·
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
founded. ·
May 30 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail
Gorbachev begin a four-day summit meeting in Washington, D.C. June[edit] ·
June
– Joanne Rowling gets
the idea for Harry Potter while
on a train from Manchester to
London Euston railway
station. She begins writing Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which will be
completed in 1995 and published in 1997.[21] ·
June 1 ·
Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign
a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin
destroying their respective stocks. ·
Members
of the Provisional
Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee
and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside
his home in Dortmund, Germany and
Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England. ·
June 2 – The Lower
Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in
Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of
April 1974. ·
June 4 – Violence breaks out in
the Kirghiz
SSR between the majority Kyrgyz people and minority Uzbeks over the distribution of
homestead land. ·
June 7 ·
Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad is
elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch
of Moscow and all Rus'. ·
Nickelodeon Studios opens ·
Universal
Studios Orlando opens ·
June 8 ·
The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins
in Italy. This was the first broadcast of digital HDTV in
history; Europe would not begin HDTV broadcasting en masse until 2004.[22] ·
Prime Minister
of Israel Yitzhak Shamir ends 88 days with only
an acting government by forming a coalition of right-wing and religious
parties led by Shamir's Likud party. ·
June 8–9 – In the Czechoslovakian
parliamentary election, Czechoslovakia's first free election since
1946, the Civic Forum wins
the most seats but fails to secure a majority. ·
June 9 – Mega Borg oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas. ·
June 10 ·
Alberto Fujimori is elected President of Peru;
he takes office on July 28. ·
First
round of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election sees
the Bulgarian
Socialist Party win a majority. The second round of voting is
held June 17. ·
June 11 – Sri Lankan Civil War:
The Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre over
600 unarmed police officers in the Eastern
Province. ·
June 12 ·
Cold War: The Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty. ·
In
the Algerian
local elections, Algeria's first multiparty election
since 1962, the Islamic Salvation
Front wins control of more than half of municipalities and 32
of Algeria's 48 provinces. ·
June 13 – Cold War – The destruction of the Berlin Wall by East Germany officially starts, 7
months after it was opened the previous November.[23] ·
June 13–15 – June 1990 Mineriad:
Clashes break out in Bucharest between
supporters and opponents of the ruling National
Salvation Front. ·
June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America,
visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities. ·
June 19 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow. ·
June 21 – The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar
earthquake affects northern Iran with
a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and
injuring 60,000–105,000. ·
June 22 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is
dismantled. ·
June 23 – In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord of 1987 dies
after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures
fail to approve it ahead of the deadline. ·
June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene
Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom. July[edit] July 16: 1990 Luzon
earthquake ·
July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge
their economies, the West German Deutsche Markbecoming the official currency
of the East also. The Inner German border (constructed 1945)
also ceases to function. ·
July 2 ·
1990 Hajj stampede:
A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426. ·
A
U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud
charges. ·
July 5 – In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya
African National Union's monopoly on power. ·
July 6 ·
President of
Bulgaria Petar Mladenov resigns over accusations
that he ordered tanks to disperse anti-government protests in December 1989. ·
Somali President Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre
anti-government demonstrators during a soccer match; 65 people are killed,
more than 300 seriously injured. ·
July 7–8 – In tennis, Martina Navratilova of
the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the 1990
Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles. ·
July 8 – 1990 FIFA World
Cup Final (Association football): West
Germany defeats Argentina 1–0
to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup. ·
July 9–11 – The 16th G7 summit is held in Houston, Texas. ·
July 11 – Terrorists blow up a
passenger bus travelling from Kalbajar to Tartar in Azerbaijan. 14 people are
killed, 35 wounded.[24] ·
July 12 – Foster v British
Gas plc decided in the European Court
of Justice, a leading case on the definition of the
"state" under European law. ·
July 16 – 1990 Luzon
earthquake: An earthquake measuring M 7.7 kills
more than 1,600 in the Philippines. ·
July 22 – First round of the Mongolian
legislative election, the first multiparty ever held in Mongolia;
the Mongolian
People's Party wins by a wide margin after the second round
of voting on July 29. ·
July 25 ·
George Carey, Bishop of Bath
and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of
Canterbury in the Church of England. ·
The Serb
Democratic Party (Croatia) declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia. ·
July 26 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs
the Americans
with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from
discrimination. ·
July 27 ·
The
parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are
stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in
a coup d'étatattempt
which lasts five days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several
are wounded (including the Prime Minister, A. N. R. Robinson,
who is shot in the leg). ·
Cold War: Belarus declares
its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the Soviet Union. ·
July 28 – Alberto Fujimori becomes president
of Peru. ·
July 30 – British politician and former
Member of Parliament Ian Gow is
assassinated by a Provisional
Irish Republican Army car bomb outside his home in England. August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
The National
Assembly of Bulgaria elects Zhelyu Zhelev as the first
non-Communist President of
Bulgaria in 40 years. ·
RELCOM is created in the Soviet Union by combining several
computer networks. Later in August, the Soviet Union got its first connection
to the Internet.[25] ·
August 2 ·
Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait,
eventually leading to the Gulf War. ·
The
first ban of smoking in bars in the US (and possibly the world) is passed
in San Luis
Obispo, California.[26] ·
August 6 ·
Gulf War: The United
Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion
of Kuwait. ·
President of
Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Prime Minister
of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, accusing her of corruption
and abuse of power. ·
The
South African government and ANC begin talks on ending Apartheid in
South Africa. ·
August 7 ·
U.S.
President Bush orders U.S. combat planes and troops to Saudi Arabia to prevent a possible
attack by Iraq. ·
Prime Minister of
India V. P. Singh announces
plan to reserve 49% of civil service jobs for lower-caste Hindus. The plan triggers riots, leaving at
least 70 dead by September. ·
August 8 ·
Iraq
announces its formal annexation of Kuwait. ·
The
government of Peru announces an austerity plan that
results in huge increases in the price of food and gasoline. The plan sets
off days of rioting and a national strike on August 21. ·
Egypt, Syria, and 10 other Arab states vote to send
military forces to Saudi Arabia to discourage an invasion from Iraq. ·
A
passenger bus, traveling along the route "Tbilisi-Agdam", is blown
up; 20 people died and 30 were injured. The organizers of the crime
were Armenians A.
Avanesian and M. Tatevosian who were brought to criminal trial.[24] ·
In
South Africa, fighting breaks out between the Xhosa people and the Zulu people; more than 500 people are killed
by the end of August. ·
"Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever
found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson. ·
August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts
his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed
by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. ·
August 21 – Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian
Civil War. ·
August 22 – U.S. President Bush calls
up U.S. military reservists for service in the Persian Gulf Crisis. ·
August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce
they will unite on October 3.[27] ·
The Armenian
SSR declares its independence from the Soviet Union. ·
Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is
released from Lebanon after being
held hostage for nearly 5 years. ·
August 26 – In Sofia, protesters set fire to the
headquarters of the governing Bulgarian
Socialist Party. ·
August 28 – The Plainfield
Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill,
and Joliet, Illinois,
killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago
metropolitan area). September[edit] ·
September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast. ·
September 2 – Cold War: Transnistria declares its independence
from the Moldavian
SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government. ·
September 4 – Geoffrey
Palmer resigns as Prime
Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Mike
Moore. ·
September 4–6 – Premier of North
Korea Yon Hyong-muk meets
with President of
South Korea Roh Tae-woo, the highest level contact
between leaders of the two Koreas since 1945. ·
September 5 – Sri Lankan Civil War:
Sri Lankan Army soldiers massacre 158
civilians. ·
September 6 – In Myanmar, the State
Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other
political dissidents. ·
U.S.
President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev meet in Helsinki to discuss the Persian Gulf
crisis. ·
First Liberian
Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel
leader Prince Johnson and
killed in a filmed execution. ·
Sri Lankan Civil War:
Sri Lankan Army soldiers massacre 184
civilians in Batticaloa. ·
September 10 – The first Pizza Hut opens up in the Soviet Union.[28] ·
Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers
a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to
remove Iraqi soldiers
from Kuwait. ·
First Pizza Hut opens in the People's
Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first KFC opened
there in 1987.[28] ·
Cold War: The two German states and
the Four Powers sign
the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in
Moscow, paving the way for German reunification. ·
A
judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase,
former owner of the Seven Network,
after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed
shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.[29] ·
September 17 – In what is now regarded
as a landmark event in regards to women in journalism, reporter Lisa Olson was sexually harassed by
multiple New England Patriots players
while trying to conduct a locker room interview. ·
The International
Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.[30] ·
Provisional
Irish Republican Army assassination attempt on the life of
Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at
his home near Stafford, England. Hit
by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of
Gibraltar survives, as does his wife, Lady Betty Terry, who
is also shot (most likely by accident). ·
September 24 – The Supreme
Soviet of the Soviet Union grants Gorbachev special powers
for 18 months to secure the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy. ·
September 27 – David Souter is confirmed to serve on
the Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice William Brennan. ·
September 29 – Washington, D.C.'s National
Cathedral is finished. ·
September 29–30 – The United Nations World Summit
for Children draws more than 70 world leaders to United
Nations Headquarters. October[edit] October 3: The former flag of West Germany
becomes the flag of all Germany. ·
October
– Tim Berners-Lee begins
his work on the World Wide Web,
19 months after his seminal 1989 outline of what
would become the Web concept.[31] ·
October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic
Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War. ·
October 3 – Cold War: East Germany and West Germany reunify into a
single Germany. ·
October 4 – Moro conflict: Rebel forces seize two
military posts on the island of Mindanao, Philippines before surrendering on
October 6. ·
Israeli–Palestinian
conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and
wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount. ·
Globalization: The first McDonald's restaurant is opened
in Mainland China in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.[13] Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a Special economic
zone. ·
October 13 – Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and
occupy Mount Lebanon,
ousting General Michel Aoun's
government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of
Lebanese soil. ·
October 14 – Composer and
conductor Leonard Bernstein dies
of a heart attack at his home in New York City at the age of 72. ·
Cold War: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions
and reform his nation. ·
South
Africa ends segregation of libraries, trains, buses, toilets, swimming pools,
and other public facilities. ·
October 17 – A peace agreement which
formally ended 28 years of Sarawak Communist insurgency in Malaysia was
signed by North
Kalimantan Communist Partyinsurgents. ·
October 22 – Nizhny Novgorod restores its official
name from Gorky, Volga Federal
District, Russia. ·
October 24 – In the Pakistani
general election, Prime Minister Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples
Party loses power to a center-right coalition government led
by the Islami Jamhoori
Ittehad party. ·
Cold War: The Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz
SSR selects Askar Akayev as the republic's
first president. ·
The New
Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand
National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister. ·
October 29 – In Norway, the government
headed by Prime Minister
of Norway Jan P. Syse collapses. ·
October 30 – The first
transatlantic fiber optic cable TAT-8 fails, causing a slowdown of
Internet traffic between the United States and Europe.[32] November[edit] November 22: Margaret Thatcher,
the UK's first female Prime Minister, resigns after 11 years. ·
November
– The earliest known portable digital camera sold in the United
States ships.[33] ·
November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on
favorite Brian Lenihan to
become the first female President of Ireland. ·
November 2 – British
Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge
to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses. ·
November 3 – Gro Harlem Brundtland assumes
office as Prime Minister of Norway. ·
November 5 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech
at a New York City hotel. ·
November 6 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as the Prime Minister
of Pakistan. ·
Indian
Prime Minister Singh resigns over losing a confidence vote in the Parliament of India,
having lost the support of Hindus who want a Muslim mosque in Ayodhya torn down to build a Hindu temple. ·
The
final military parade to mark the anniversary of the Great October
Socialist Revolution takes place in the USSR. ·
A
new constitution comes into effect in the Kingdom of Nepal, establishing multiparty
democracy and constitutional monarchy; this is the culmination of the 1990 People's
Movement. ·
The Parliament of
Singapore enacts the Maintenance
of Religious Harmony Act. ·
November 10 – Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister
of India as head of a minority government. ·
Akihito is enthroned as the 125th
emperor of Japan following the death of his father on January 7, 1989. ·
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal
proposal for the World Wide Web.[34] ·
The
first known web page
is written.[35] ·
In
New Zealand, David Gray kills 13 people in what will become known as
the Aramoana massacre. ·
November 14 – Germany and Poland sign
a treaty confirming
the border at the Oder–Neisse line. ·
STS-38: Space
Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S.
military mission. ·
President
Bush signed new Clean Air
Act, focused on urban pollution and cancer-causing emissions from
industrial sources. ·
November 17 – Soviet President Gorbachev
proposes a radical restructuring of the Soviet government, including the
creation of a Federal Council to be made up of the heads of the 15 Soviet
republics. ·
November 19–21 – The leaders of Canada, the United
States, and 32 European states meet in Paris to formally mark the end of
the Cold War. ·
Charter
of Paris for a New Europe signed. ·
Agreement
for decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in Queensland,
Australia. ·
November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces
she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative
Party. ·
November 25 – Lech Wałęsa and Stanisław
Tymiński win the first round of the first
Polish presidential election. ·
November 27 – Women's suffrage is
introduced in the last Swiss half-canton of Appenzell
Innerrhoden. ·
Prime
Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew resigns and is replaced
by Goh Chok Tong. ·
Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher resigns
and is replaced by John Major. ·
Gulf War: The United
Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678,
authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that state does not withdraw
its forces from Kuwait and free all
foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991. ·
Prime Minister
of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov and his government of
former communists resign under pressure from strikes and street protests. December[edit] ·
Channel Tunnel workers from the United
Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing
the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe
for around 8,000 years. ·
President of Chad Hissène Habré is
deposed by the Patriotic
Salvation Movement and replaced as president by its
leader Idriss Déby. ·
December 2 – The German
federal election (the first election held since German reunification)
is won by Helmut Kohl, who
becomes Chancellor of
Germany. ·
At Detroit
Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas
DC-9) collides with
Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8
passengers and 4 crew members on Flight 1482. ·
Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland,
becoming the first female to hold this office. ·
Saddam Hussein releases a group of
Western hostages he captured. ·
President Hussain Muhammad
Ershad of Bangladesh is forced to resign
following massive protests; he is replaced by Shahabuddin Ahmed,
who becomes interim president. ·
In Brussels, trade talks fail because of a
dispute between the U.S. and the European Union over farm export
subsidies. ·
The National
Assembly of Bulgaria elects Dimitar Iliev Popov as Prime Minister
of Bulgaria. ·
Slobodan
Milošević elected President of Serbia in
first round, general
elections won by his Socialist Party. ·
Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd
round of Poland's first
presidential election. ·
December 16 – Jean-Bertrand
Aristide is elected president of Haiti,
ending 3 decades of military rule. ·
Eduard Shevardnadze announces
his resignation as Soviet
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
Tim
Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at CERN. ·
The
first constitution of
the Republic of Croatia is
adopted. ·
The Marshall Islands and Federated
States of Micronesia become independent, after the
termination of their trusteeship. ·
The Polish
government-in-exile is dissolved in London after being in
exile since 1939. ·
December 23 – In the Slovenian
independence referendum, 88.5% of the overall electorate (94.8% of
votes), with the turnout of 93.3%, supported independence of the country. ·
December 24 – Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup. ·
December 25 – Russian
aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov commissioned. ·
December 31 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by
winning the World Chess
Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov. World population[edit]
Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Toni Kroos, German footballer ·
Alberto Paloschi, Italian footballer ·
January 5 – Yoseob, Korean pop singer ·
Sandro Cortese, German motorcycle racer ·
Abhinav Mukund, Indian cricketer ·
Natalie Palamides,
American actress ·
Alex Teixeira, Brazilian footballer ·
Elene Gedevanishvili,
Georgian figure skater ·
Camryn Grimes, American actress ·
Gregor
Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper ·
Justin Blackmon, American football player ·
Oteng Oteng, Batswana boxer ·
Melissa Ricks, Filipino-American actress ·
Son Ji-hyun, South Korean actress and singer ·
Facundo Gambandé,
Argentine actor and singer ·
Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer ·
January 12 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player ·
January 13 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor ·
Grant Gustin, American actor and singer ·
Áron Szilágyi,
Hungarian fencer ·
Fernando Forestieri,
Italian footballer ·
Luke Willson, American football player ·
January 17 – Tom Bosworth, British race walker ·
George Finn, Georgian actor ·
Kelly Rohrbach, American model and actress ·
Alizé Cornet, French tennis player ·
Logic, American rapper, singer-songwriter,
and record producer ·
January 23 – Artsem Mikhalenka,
Belarusian singer ·
January 24 – Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
Christopher Massey,
American actor ·
Peter Sagan, Slovakian road bicycle racer ·
January 27 – Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field
athlete (d. 2018) ·
January 28 – Luce, French actress/singer ·
January 29 – MacKenzie Porter, Canadian actress and
singer February[edit] ·
Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter ·
Hersi Matmuja, Albanian singer ·
February 3 – Sean Kingston, American singer ·
Nairo Quintana, Colombian road bicycle racer ·
Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress ·
Zach King, American videos maker ·
Jermaine Kearse, American football player ·
Dominic Sherwood, English actor and model ·
Anna Abreu, Finnish pop singer ·
Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Christian Madsen, American actor ·
Klay Thompson, American basketball player ·
Facundo Affranchino,
Argentine footballer ·
Camille Winbush, American actress ·
February 10 – Sooyoung, Korean singer ·
February 11 – Q'orianka Kilcher,
German-born American actress and activist ·
February 12 – Robert Griffin III,
American football player ·
February 13 – Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism
according to some sources ·
Brett Dier, Canadian actor ·
Jake Weary, American actor ·
February 15 – Masashi Ebinuma, Japanese judoka ·
February 16 – The Weeknd, Canadian musician ·
February 17 – Bea Rose Santiago,
Filipino model ·
February 18 – Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress ·
February 19 – Luke Pasqualino, English actor ·
February 20 – Anjli Mohindra, English actress ·
David Addy, Ghanaian footballer ·
Thabiso Baholo, Lesotho swimmer ·
Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player ·
Kevin Cheung, Mauritian swimmer ·
Terry Hawkridge, English footballer ·
Georgina Leonidas,
English actress ·
Anna Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess player March[edit] ·
March 1 – James Lomas,
British actor ·
March 2 ·
Adderly Fong, Hong Kong Chinese race car
driver ·
Tiger Shroff, Indian actor ·
March 3 ·
Sebastian Gregory,
Australian actor and musician ·
Celina Ree, Danish singer ·
March 4 – Andrea Bowen, American actress ·
March 6 – Esti Ginzburg, Israeli model ·
March 7 ·
Abigail and
Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins ·
Daniel Samonas, Canadian actor ·
March 8 ·
Kristinia DeBarge,
American singer-songwriter ·
Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player ·
March 13 – Sasha Clements, Canadian actress ·
March 14 ·
Joe Allen, Welsh footballer ·
Thali García, Mexican actress ·
March 16 – Madison Riley, American actress ·
March 17 – Hozier,
Irish singer-songwriter ·
March 18 – Luke Tarsitano, American actor ·
March 19 ·
Maddy Hill, English actress ·
Anthony Skorich, Australian soccer player ·
March 20 – Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer ·
March 21 ·
Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter,
dancer and model ·
March 23 ·
Princess Eugenie
of York, British princess ·
Jaime Alguersuari,
Spanish Formula One driver ·
March 24 ·
Keisha Castle-Hughes,
Australian-born New Zealand actress ·
Starlin Castro, American baseball player ·
March 26 ·
James Buescher, American stock car driver ·
Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer
(d. 2016) ·
Carly Chaikin, American actress ·
Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor ·
Xiumin, South Korean singer ·
March 27 – Hubert Wu, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
March 28 – Laura Harrier, American actress and model ·
March 30 ·
Thomas Rhett, American singer and songwriter ·
Cassie Scerbo, American actress ·
March 31 – Bang Yong-guk, South Korean rapper April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Miralem Pjanić,
Bosnian footballer ·
Yevgeniya Kanayeva,
Russian gymnast ·
April 6 – Charlie McDermott,
American television and film actor ·
April 8 ·
Kim Jong-hyun,
South Korean singer (d. 2017) ·
Freddie, Hungarian singer ·
April 9 – Kristen Stewart, American actress ·
April 10 ·
Ben Amos, English footballer ·
Maren Morris, American country singer ·
Alex Pettyfer, English actor ·
April 15 – Emma Watson, English actress ·
April 16 ·
Lily Loveless, British actress ·
Lorraine Nicholson,
American actress ·
April 17 – Astrit
Ajdarević, Swedish professional football player ·
April 18 ·
Anna van der Breggen,
Dutch cyclist ·
Britt Robertson, American actress ·
Wojciech
Szczęsny, Polish football player ·
Fiona Themann, Australian netball player ·
April 19 ·
Kim Chiu, Filipino actress ·
Kim Himchan, South Korean singer ·
April 20 – Lu Han, South Korean singer ·
April 22 – Machine Gun
Kelly, American rapper ·
April 23 – Dev Patel, British actor ·
April 24 ·
Carly Pearce, American country singer ·
Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress ·
April 25 – Jean-Éric Vergne,
French former Formula 1 driver ·
April 27 – Austin Dillon, American stock car driver May[edit] ·
May 1 – Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress ·
May 2 ·
Daria Joura, Australian artistic gymnast ·
Kay Panabaker, American actress ·
Paul George, American basketball player ·
May 3 ·
Miranda Chartrand,
Canadian singer ·
Brooks Koepka, American professional golfer ·
May 4 ·
Nic Naitanui, Australian rules footballer ·
David Hasler, Liechtenstein footballer ·
Andrea Torres, Filipino actress ·
May 5 ·
Hannah Davis,
American model ·
Saad Al Sheebi, Qatari footballer ·
May 8 ·
Anastasia
Zuyeva, Russian swimmer ·
Kemba Walker, American basketball player ·
May 9 ·
Jose Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player ·
May 10 ·
Brandun DeShay, American rapper and record
producer ·
Maxine Medina, Filipino actress and model ·
May 12 – Florent Amodio, French figure skater ·
May 16 ·
Thomas
Brodie-Sangster, British actor ·
Darko Šarović,
Serbian sprinter ·
May 18 – Gayoon, South Korean singer and actress ·
May 24 ·
Joey Logano, American race car driver ·
Yuya Matsushita, Japanese singer, dancer,
and actor ·
May 26 ·
Umar Akmal, Pakistani cricketer ·
May 27 – Chris Colfer, American actor ·
May 28 – Kyle Walker, English footballer ·
May 30 ·
Matías Nocedal,
Argentine basketball player ·
Dean Collins,
American actor ·
Yoona, Korean singer ·
May 31 – Phillipa Soo, American actress and singer June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
Kristiina Brask, Finnish pop singer ·
Brittany Curran, American actress and singer ·
Jack Lowden, Scottish actor ·
June 3 – Jason Akeson, Canadian professional ice
hockey player ·
June 4 – Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. ·
June 6 – Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer ·
June 7 ·
Iggy Azalea, Australian recording artist ·
Daniel Rich, Australian rules footballer ·
June 9 ·
Lauren Socha, English actress ·
Matthias Mayer, Austrian Olympic alpine
skier ·
June 10 ·
Tristin Mays, American actress ·
Princess
Nora of Oettingen-Spielberg, German stationer ·
Niamh Perry, Irish actress and singer ·
June 11 – Christophe Lemaitre,
French sprinter ·
June 12 ·
Jrue Holiday, American basketball player ·
KevJumba, American Youtuber ·
June 13 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
English actor ·
June 15 – Denzel Whitaker, American actor ·
June 16 – John Newman,
English singer ·
June 17 ·
Alan Dzagoev, Russian footballer ·
Jordan Henderson, English international
footballer ·
Laura Wright,
English singer ·
June 18 – Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast and
Olympic gold medalist ·
June 19 ·
Jason Dy, Filipino singer ·
Ashly Burch, American actress and voice
actress ·
June 20 – Jacob Wysocki, American actor and comedian ·
June 21 ·
Nicolás Maduro
Guerra, Venezuelan politician ·
Ričardas
Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player ·
Håvard Nordtveit,
Norwegian football player ·
June 22 ·
Kei Inoo, Japanese idol, singer and actor ·
T. J. DiLeo, American-German professional
basketball player ·
Kyrylo Petrov, Ukrainian football defender ·
June 23 ·
Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player ·
Lim Ji-yeon, ·
June 25 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress and model ·
June 26 – Filip Novák,
Czech football player ·
June 27 ·
Angelia Ong, Filipino–Chinese model ·
Bobby Wagner, American football player ·
June 28 ·
Nick Purcell, American actor ·
Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress ·
Malhar Thakar, Indian actor ·
June 29 ·
Subaru Kimura, German-Japanese voice actor ·
Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer ·
Harish Kalyan, Indian actor ·
June 30 ·
Bryan Nickson Lomas,
Malaysian diver ·
N, South Korean singer and actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Jeremy Irvine, English actor ·
Ángelo Balanta,
Colombian footballer ·
Dan Mayo, Israeli drummer, composer and
educator ·
July 2 ·
Roman Lob, German recording artist ·
Grey Henson, American actor, dancer, and
singer ·
Margot Robbie, Australian actress ·
Kayla Harrison, American judoka ·
July 3 – Lucas Mendes, Brazilian professional
footballer ·
July 4 – David Kross, German actor ·
July 5 ·
Arron Villaflor, Filipino actor and dancer ·
Carlotta Giovannini,
Italian artistic gymnast ·
July 6 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor ·
July 7 – Amadeus Serafini, American actor ·
July 9 ·
Sosuke Ikematsu, Japanese actor ·
Rafael,
Brazilian footballer ·
Fabio da Silva,
Brazilian footballer ·
Sung Joon, South Korean actor and model ·
July 10 ·
Elliot Knight, British actor ·
Sung Joon, South Korean actor and model ·
Portia Clark, Zambian pop singer,
songwriter, and philanthropist ·
July 11 ·
Caroline Wozniacki,
Danish tennis player ·
Connor Paolo, American actor ·
Kelsey Sanders, American actress ·
Patrick Peterson, American football player ·
Feroze Khan, Pakistani actor, model and
video jockey ·
July 15 ·
Olly Alexander, English actor and singer ·
Alexander Calvert,
Canadian actor ·
Damian Lillard, American basketball player ·
Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player
(d. 2018) ·
July 16 ·
James Maslow, American actor and singer ·
Wizkid,
Nigerian recording artist, songwriter, and performer ·
July 17 – Jonty Usborne, British radio engineer ·
July 18 ·
Saúl Álvarez,
Mexican boxer ·
Anders Konradsen, Norwegian footballer ·
July 19 ·
Rosie Jones,
English glamour model ·
Steven Anthony
Lawrence, American actor ·
July 20 – Dominic Roque, Filipino actor and model ·
July 21 ·
Satyajeet Dubey, Indian voice and film actor ·
Fabrice N'Sakala,
Congolese-democratic footballer ·
Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete ·
July 22 – Anaqi Sufi Omar Baki,
Bruneian footballer ·
July 23 – Kevin
Reynolds, Canadian figure skater ·
July 24 ·
Daveigh Chase, American actress ·
Jay McGuiness, British singer ·
July 27 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress ·
July 28 – Soulja Boy, American rapper ·
July 29 ·
Anna Selezneva, Russian model ·
Munro Chambers, Canadian actor ·
Shin Se-kyung, Korean actor ·
Oleg Shatov, Russian footballer ·
Penny Bae Bridges,
American actress ·
July 30 – Chris Maxwell,
Welsh footballer August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Jean Hugues Gregoire,
Mauritian swimmer ·
Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player ·
Jack O'Connell,
English actor ·
August 3 ·
Jourdan Dunn, British model ·
James Baxter,
British actor ·
August 7 – Tom Beugelsdijk, Dutch footballer ·
August 8 ·
Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress ·
Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricketer ·
August 9 ·
Bill Skarsgård,
Swedish actor ·
Emily Tennant, Canadian actress ·
Lucas Till, American actor ·
Tai Woffinden, English speedway rider ·
August 12 – Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer ·
Shila Amzah, Malaysian singer-songwriter ·
DeMarcus Cousins, American basketball player ·
August 15 – Jennifer Lawrence,
American actress ·
August 17 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress ·
August 20 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo,
Dutch swimmer ·
August 21 – Bo Burnham, American comedian ·
August 22 – Adam Thielen, American Football player ·
August 24 – Elizabeth Debicki,
Australian actress ·
Madison Welch, English glamour model ·
Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer (d. 2009) ·
Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer ·
Katie Findlay, Canadian actress ·
August 29 – Nicole Gale Anderson,
American actress September[edit] ·
September 2 – Merritt Patterson,
Canadian actress ·
September 3 – Abbas Ali,
Pakistani footballer ·
Olha Kharlan, Ukrainian fencer ·
Danny Worsnop, British musician ·
September 5 – Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater ·
Matt McAndrew, American singer-songwriter ·
John Wall,
American basketball player ·
Matt Barkley, American football player ·
Ella Rae Peck, American actress ·
Dianne Doan, Canadian actress ·
Melody Klaver, Dutch actress ·
Klaudia Tiitsmaa, Estonian actress ·
Eddy Martin, American actor ·
Chandler Massey, American actor ·
September 12 – Wayne Dalglish, American actor ·
September 13 – Jamie
Anderson, American snowboarder ·
September 14 – Alex and Sam Lowes, English twin brother motorcycle
racers ·
September 15 – Matt Shively, American actor ·
Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress ·
Kieran Trippier, English footballer ·
Erich Gonzales, Filipina actor and dancer ·
Phillip Phillips, American singer ·
John Tavares,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
Laurent Alvarez, Swiss figure skater ·
Allison Scagliotti,
American actress ·
Christian Serratos,
American actress ·
Marigona Dragusha,
Kosovan model ·
Agustín Sierra,
Argentine actor ·
Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater ·
Edie Campbell, English model ·
September 27 – Dion Lewis, American football player ·
September 28 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress ·
September 30 – Dominique Aegerter,
Swiss Grand prix motorcycle racer October[edit] ·
October 2 – Samantha Barks, Manx singer and actress ·
Johan Le Bon, French cyclist ·
Rhian Ramos, Filipino actress ·
October 5 – Myles Jeffrey, American actor ·
Ayla Kell, American actress ·
Thunder, South Korean pop singer ·
October 11 – Sebastian Rode, German footballer ·
Brock Coyle, American football player ·
Henri Lansbury, English footballer ·
October 13 – Bailey Noble, American actress ·
October 14 – Raquel Diaz, American singer, model, and
professional wrestler ·
October 15 – Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean rapper,
singer-songwriter and actress ·
October 16 – Jóhanna Guðrún
Jónsdóttir (Yohanna), Icelandic singer ·
October 18 – Carly Schroeder, American actress ·
Samantha Munro, American actress ·
Ciara Renée, American actress ·
October 20 – Galadriel Stineman,
American actress ·
October 21 – Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player ·
October 22 – Ashley Fiolek, American champion motocross
racer ·
October 23 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer-songwriter ·
Kirby Bliss Blanton,
American actress ·
İlkay
Gündoğan, German footballer ·
Austin Peralta, American jazz musician and
composer (d. 2012) ·
Ryan Preece, American Race Car Driver ·
October 28 – Kianna Underwood, American actress ·
October 29 – Eric Saade, Swedish pop singer November[edit] ·
November 2 – Kendall Schmidt, American actor and singer ·
November 4 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau,
Canadian actor ·
Dorothea Barth
Jörgensen, Swedish model ·
Kris, South Korean singer ·
André Schürrle,
German footballer ·
Joy Burke, Taiwanese basketball player ·
Matt Corby, Australian singer ·
David de Gea, Spanish footballer ·
Marisa Siketa, Australian actress ·
November 8 – SZA, American R&B-singer ·
Hodgy Beats, American rapper and record
producer ·
Christine Michael,
American football player ·
Vanessa Ferrari, Italian gymnast ·
Leo, South Korean singer-songwriter ·
November 11 – Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer ·
November 13 – Kathleen Herles, American voice actress ·
November 14 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and
singer (d. 2008) ·
November 15 – Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor ·
November 16 – Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor ·
November 17 – Shanica Knowles, American actress and singer ·
November 20 – Zack Martin, American football player ·
Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer, dancer,
and rapper ·
Seo Eunkwang, South Korean singer ·
November 23 – Nick
Williams, American football player ·
November 24 – Sarah Hyland, American actress ·
Rita Ora, English singer ·
Danny Welbeck, English footballer ·
November 27 – Josh James,
British singer ·
Sena Acolatse, American professional ice
hockey player ·
Holly Hale, Welsh model ·
Diego González,
Mexican actor and singer-songwriter ·
Sheldon Richardson,
American football player ·
Lee Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, rapper ·
November 30 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess grandmaster December[edit] ·
December 1 – Chanel Iman, American model ·
Jamille Matt, Jamaican footballer ·
Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese idol ·
December 3 – Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis
player ·
Giulia Boverio, Italian actress ·
Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle rider
(d. 2010) ·
December 11 – Adrienne Murphy, Irish model ·
December 12 – Seungri, South Korean singer ·
December 13 – Corey Anderson, New Zealand cricketer ·
December 15 – Rachel Brosnahan, American actress ·
Folashade Abugan, Nigerian sprinter ·
John Rooney,
English footballer ·
December 18 – Lara Scandar, Egyptian singer ·
JoJo, American singer and actress ·
Bugzy Malone, English grime artist ·
December 22 – Jean-Baptiste
Maunier, French actor ·
December 24 – Marcus Jordan, American college basketball
player ·
Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer ·
Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter ·
December 27 – Milos Raonic, Canadian tennis player ·
December 28 – David Archuleta, American singer ·
December 30 – Joe Root, English cricketer ·
Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater ·
Zhao Jing,
Chinese swimmer Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Evangelos Averoff,
Greek politician (b. 1910) ·
Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921) ·
Sir Henry Bolte, Australian politician (b. 1908) ·
Harold Eugene
Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903) ·
Alberto Lleras
Camargo, Colombian politician, 20th President of
Colombia (b. 1906) ·
January 5 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914) ·
Ian Charleson, British actor (b. 1949) ·
Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
Avraham Abba Leifer,
American Hassidic dynastic rabbi (1918) ·
Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football
player (b. 1908) ·
Jaime Gil de Biedma,
Spanish poet (b. 1929) ·
Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian
(b. 1911) ·
Northern Calloway,
American actor (b. 1948) ·
Spud Chandler, American baseball player
(b. 1907) ·
Bazilio Olara-Okello,
Ugandan military officer and statesman (b. 1929) ·
January 10 – Lyle R. Wheeler, American art director
(b. 1905) ·
January 15 – Gordon Jackson,
British actor (b. 1923) ·
January 17 – Charles Hernu, French politician (b. 1923) ·
Melanie Appleby, British musician (b. 1966) ·
Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947) ·
Edouard Izac, American naval officer
(b. 1891) ·
Arthur Goldberg, American Justice of
the Supreme
Court (b. 1908) ·
Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh, Indian mystic (b. 1931) ·
Herbert Wehner, German Social Democratic
politician (b. 1906) ·
Prince
Naruhiko Higashikuni, 30th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1887) ·
Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907) ·
Mariano Rumor, Italian politician,
39th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1915) ·
Roman Vishniac, Russian-American
photographer (b. 1897) ·
January 23 – Allen Collins, American musician (b. 1952) ·
Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899) ·
Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1902) ·
Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922) ·
Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet (b. 1898) ·
January 26 – Lewis Mumford, American historian of science
(b. 1895) ·
January 27 – Helen Jerome Eddy,
American actress (b. 1897) ·
January 28 – Joseph Payne Brennan,
American poet and author (b. 1918) ·
Elise Blumann, German-born Australian artist
(b. 1897) ·
Sir Edward Pochin, British physician
(b. 1909) ·
January 30 – John Rogers Cox, American painter (b. 1915) February[edit] ·
Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist (b. 1905) ·
Joe Erskine,
British boxer (b. 1934) ·
Mel Lewis, American jazz musician (b. 1929) ·
February 3 – Jane Novak, American silent film era actress
(b. 1896) ·
February 5 – Joseph J. Nazzaro,
American United States Air
Force general (b. 1913) ·
February 6 – Ilse
Rosenthal-Schneider, German-born Australian physicist and
philosopher (b. 1891) ·
Alfredo M. Santos,
Filipino general (b. 1905) ·
Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer
(b. 1913) ·
Nazarena of Jesus,
American Roman Catholic nun and missionary (b. 1907) ·
February 8 – Del Shannon, American musician and singer
(b. 1934) ·
February 9 – Una Hanbury, British-born, American bronze
sculptress (b. 1904) ·
February 10 – Bill Sherwood, American film director
(b. 1952) ·
February 11 – Fred
Jones, English footballer (b. 1898) ·
Jean Wallace, American actress (b. 1923) ·
José Luis Panizo,
Spanish footballer (b. 1922) ·
Henry Brandon,
German-American actor (b. 1912) ·
Ulf Johansson, Swedish actor (b. 1922) ·
Keith Haring, American pop artist (b. 1958) ·
Robert Ouko,
Kenyan politician (b. 1931) ·
Erik
Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906) ·
Brendan Corish, Irish labour politician
(b. 1918) ·
Otto E. Neugebauer,
Austrian-born American mathematician and historian of science (b. 1899) ·
Michael Powell, British director (b. 1905) ·
Edris Rice-Wray
Carson, medical doctor and researcher (b. 1904) ·
February 22 – Stephen W. Burns, American actor (b. 1954) ·
James M. Gavin, American general (b. 1907) ·
José Napoleón Duarte,
Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El
Salvador (b. 1925) ·
Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player
(b. 1945) ·
Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1919) ·
Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927) ·
Sandro Pertini, Italian Socialist
politician, 7th President of Italy (b. 1896) ·
Torchy Atkinson, New Zealand scientist
(b. 1909) ·
Nahum Norbert
Glatzer, American scholar (b. 1903) March[edit] ·
March 4 – Hank Gathers, American basketball (b. 1967) ·
March 5 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915) ·
March 6 ·
William Raborn, United States Navy officer
(b. 1905) ·
Joe Sewell, American baseball player
(b. 1898) ·
March 7 – Shuddhananda Bharati,
Indian philosopher (b. 1897) ·
March 12 ·
Gene Klein, American businessman (b. 1921) ·
Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist and
translator (b. 1901) ·
Philippe Soupault,
French poet (b. 1897) ·
March 13 ·
Karl Münchinger,
German conductor (b. 1915) ·
Bruno Bettelheim, American child
psychologist (b. 1903) ·
Michael
Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, British politician (b. 1906) ·
March 14 – Harold Medina, American lawyer, teacher, and
judge (b. 1888) ·
March 15 – Tom Harmon, American football player and
broadcaster (b. 1919) ·
March 17 ·
Capucine, French actress and fashion model
(b. 1928) ·
Ric Grech, British musician (b. 1946) ·
March 18 – Robin Harris, American actor, comedian and
voice artist (b. 1953) ·
March 19 ·
Andrew Wood,
American musician (b. 1966) ·
Oyinkansola Abayomi,
Nigerian nationalist and feminist (b. 1897) ·
Neta Lohnes Frazier,
American children's author (b. 1890) ·
March 20 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929) ·
March 22 ·
Bernardo
Jaramillo Ossa, Colombian politician (b. 1956) ·
Gerald Bull, Canadian scientist (b. 1928) ·
March 23 – John Dexter, English theatre director
(b. 1925) ·
March 24 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922) ·
March 26 – Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Émile Roche, French economist, radical
politician, and journalist (b. 1893) ·
April 2 – Aldo Fabrizi, Italian actor (b. 1905) ·
April 3 ·
Sarah Vaughan, American jazz vocalist
(b. 1924) ·
Edna Reindel, Surrealist and American
Regionalist painter and sculptor (b. 1894) ·
April 6 ·
James MacNabb, British Olympic rower
(b. 1901) ·
Alfred Sohn-Rethel,
German economist and philosopher (b. 1899) ·
April 7 – Ronald Evans,
American astronaut (b. 1933) ·
April 8 ·
Doreen Sloane, British actress (b. 1934) ·
Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971) ·
April 10 – Fortune Gordien, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1922) ·
April 13 – Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer,
director, writer, actor, and architect (b. 1892) ·
April 14 ·
Ahmed Balafrej, Moroccan politician, Foreign
Minister and 2nd Prime Minister
of Morocco (b. 1908) ·
Sabicas, Spanish guitarist (b. 1912) ·
April 15 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress
(b. 1905) ·
April 17 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights
leader (b. 1926) ·
April 18 ·
Frédéric Rossif,
French film and television director (b. 1922) ·
Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and father
of Eddie Guerrero (b. 1921) ·
Robert D. Webb, American film director
(b. 1903) ·
April 19 – Marco Aurelio Robles,
Panamanian politician, 20th President of Panama (b. 1905) ·
April 20 – Horst Sindermann, East German politician,
3rd Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (b. 1915) ·
April 21 – Erté (Romain de Tirtoff), French Art Deco artist (b. 1892) ·
April 22 – Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928) ·
April 23 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910) ·
April 25 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist
(b. 1923) ·
April 26 – Carlos Pizarro
León-Gómez, Colombian politician (b. 1951) ·
April 27 – Bella Spewack,
American songwriter (b. 1899) ·
April 30 – Joseph
E. Johnson, American government official (b. 1895) May[edit] Walter Bruchbehind camera ·
May 1 – Sunset Carson, American actor (b. 1920) ·
May 2 ·
William L.
Dawson, American composer, choir director and, professor (b. 1899) ·
David Rappaport, American actor (b. 1951) ·
May 3 – Patriarch
Pimen I of Moscow (b. 1910) ·
May 5 – Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer
(b. 1908) ·
May 6 – Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1900) ·
May 7 – Prince Andrew
of Yugoslavia (b. 1929) ·
May 8 ·
Tomás Ó Fiaich,
Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1923) ·
Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924) ·
May 10 ·
Susan Oliver, American actress (b. 1932) ·
Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916) ·
May 12 ·
Andrei
Kirilenko, Soviet politician (b. 1906) ·
Albert Öberg, Swedish athlete (b. 1888) ·
May 14 – Franklyn Seales, American actor (b. 1952) ·
May 16 ·
Sammy Davis Jr., American actor, dancer, and
singer (b. 1925) ·
Jim Henson, Muppets creator, American
puppeteer, and filmmaker (b. 1936) ·
May 18 – Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936) ·
May 21 ·
The Hon Mrs
Victor Bruce, British racing motorist, speedboat racer, and
aviator (b. 1895) ·
Max Wall, English actor (b. 1908) ·
May 22 ·
Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1919) ·
Pat Reid, British soldier and author
(b. 1910) ·
May 24 – José Del Vecchio,
Venezuelan physician and youth baseball promoter (b. 1917) ·
May 25 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930) ·
May 29 – Hussein bin Onn, Malay politician, 3rd Prime Minister
of Malaysia (b. 1922) ·
May 31 – Willy Spühler, Swiss politician (b. 1902) June[edit] ·
June 2 – Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908) ·
June 3 – Robert Noyce, American businessman and
inventor (b. 1927) ·
June 4 ·
Stiv Bators, American singer (b. 1949) ·
Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908) ·
June 5 – Vasili
Kuznetsov, Soviet politician, former provisional head of the State
(b. 1901) ·
June 7 ·
Barbara Baxley, American actress (b. 1923) ·
Alfredo Poveda, Ecuadorean military officer
and statesman, Interim President of Ecuador (b. 1926) ·
June 8 – José Figueres Ferrer,
Costa Rican politician, 32nd President of
Costa Rica (b. 1906) ·
June 9 – Angus McBean, Welsh photographer (b. 1904) ·
June 11 – Vaso
Čubrilović, Yugoslav politician (b. 1897) ·
June 12 ·
Lord
O'Neill, Northern Irish politician, former Prime Minister
(b. 1914) ·
Laura Scales, American educator (b. 1879) ·
June 13 – Ra'ana Liaquat
Ali Khan, Pakistani stateswoman, First Lady of Pakistan (b. 1905) ·
June 14 – Philip Henry
Bridenbaugh, American football player and coach (b. 1890) ·
June 15 ·
Prince Ernst
August of Lippe (b. 1917) ·
Leonard Sachs, British actor (b. 1909) ·
June 16 – Dame Eva Turner, British soprano (b. 1892) ·
June 19 – Steen Eiler
Rasmussen, Danish architect and urban planner (b. 1898) ·
June 20 – Ina Balin, American actress (b. 1937) ·
June 22 ·
Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1908) ·
Mollie Moon, American civil rights activist
(b. 1912) ·
Joseph Murumbi, Kenyan politician, former
Vice-President of the Republic (b. 1911) ·
June 23 – Harindranath
Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician, (b. 1898) ·
June 24 – Germán Suárez
Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 50th President of
Venezuela (b. 1907) ·
June 27 – William Edward
Davies, American geologist and speleologist (b. 1917) ·
June 29 – Irving Wallace, American writer (b. 1916) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Willem Winkelman, Dutch track and field
athlete (b. 1887) ·
July 4 – Phil Boggs, American Olympic diver (b. 1949) ·
July 7 ·
Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer
(b. 1958) ·
Bill Cullen, American game show host
(b. 1920) ·
July 8 – Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913) ·
July 13 – Lois Moran, American actress (b. 1909) ·
July 15 ·
Margaret Lockwood,
English actress (b. 1916) ·
Enn Roos, Estonian Soviet sculptor (b. 1908) ·
Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav-Bosnian
writer (b. 1920) ·
July 16 ·
Isabella Smith
Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905) ·
Tomás Blanco,
Spanish actor (b. 1910) ·
July 18 ·
Gerry Boulet, Canadian musician (b. 1946) ·
Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (b. 1957) ·
Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist
(b. 1893) ·
Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (b. 1918) ·
Yun Posun, South Korean politician,
2nd President
of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (b. 1897) ·
July 19 ·
Egil Aarvik, Norwegian politician, chairman
of the Norwegian Nobel
Committee (b. 1912) ·
Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907) ·
July 21 – Joe Turner,
American jazz pianist (b. 1907) ·
July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932) ·
July 23 – Kenjiro Takayanagi,
Japanese television engineer (b. 1899) ·
July 26 – Brent Mydland, American keyboard player
(b. 1952) ·
July 27 – René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician
(b. 1912) ·
July 29 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Social Democratic
politician, 17th Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1911) ·
July 30 – Ian Gow, British politician (b. 1937) ·
July 31 – Fernando Sancho, Spanish actor (b. 1916) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Willard L. Beaulac,
American diplomat (b. 1899) ·
Norbert Elias, German Jewish sociologist
(b. 1897) ·
Robert Krieps, Luxembourgian Social
Democratic politician (b. 1922) ·
August 2 – Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921) ·
August 3 – Nella Maria Bonora,
Italian actress (b. 1904) ·
August 4 ·
Mathias Goeritz, Mexican-born German artist
(b. 1915) ·
Ettore Maserati, Italian automotive engineer
(b. 1894) ·
August 6 ·
Lemuel C.
Shepherd, Jr., 4-star general of the American Marine Corps
(b. 1896) ·
Jacques Soustelle,
French politician and anthropologist (b. 1912) ·
August 9 ·
Dorothy Appleby, American film actress
(b. 1906) ·
Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914) ·
August 12 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American
actress (b. 1903) ·
August 15 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer, actor, and poet
(b. 1962) ·
August 17 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress
(b. 1918) ·
August 18 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist
(b. 1904) ·
August 22 – Luigi Dadaglio, Italian cardinal (b. 1914) ·
August 23 – David Rose,
British-born American songwriter, composer, and arranger (b. 1910) ·
August 24 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian author (b. 1941) ·
August 26 – Mário Pinto de
Andrade, Angolan politician and poet (b. 1928) ·
Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete
(b. 1907) ·
Raymond St. Jacques,
American actor (b. 1930) ·
Stevie Ray Vaughan,
American guitarist (b. 1954) ·
August 31 – Sergey
Nikolayevich Volkov, Soviet figure skater (b. 1949) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Geir Hallgrímsson,
Icelandic politician, 16th Prime Minister of
Iceland (b. 1925) ·
September 2 – John Bowlby, British psychologist and
psychiatrist (b. 1907) ·
September 4 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898) ·
Tom Fogerty, American musician (b. 1941) ·
Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916) ·
A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (b. 1906) ·
Ahti Karjalainen, Finnish politician,
28th Prime Minister
of Finland (b. 1923) ·
September 8 – Denys
Watkins-Pitchford, British author (b. 1905) ·
Samuel Doe, Liberian military officer and
statesman, 21st President of Liberia (b. 1951) ·
Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher
(b. 1901) ·
September 11 – Cai Chang, Chinese politician, women's
rights activist (b. 1900) ·
September 14 – Lotus Long, American actress (b. 1909) ·
September 17 – Lilí Martínez,
Cuban pianist and arranger (b. 1917) ·
Hermes Pan, American choreographer (b. 1910) ·
Walter
Tucker, Canadian politician (b. 1899) ·
September 21 – Xu Xiangqian, Communist military leader in
the People's Republic of China, former Defense minister (b. 1901) ·
September 23 – Betty Warfel, American Women's professional
baseball player (b. 1928) ·
Togyu Okumura, Japanese modern painter
(b. 1889) ·
Prafulla Chandra Sen,
Indian politician (b. 1897) ·
September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (b. 1907) ·
September 27 – Mary Rotolo, American writer and political
activist (b. 1910)[importance?] ·
September 28 – Prince Karl of
Leiningen (b. 1928) ·
September 30 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1912) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force
general (b. 1906) ·
October 3 – André Grabar, historian of Romanesque art
and the art of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 1896) ·
Jill
Bennett, British actress (b. 1931) ·
Avis Bunnage, British actress (b. 1923) ·
October 5 – Peter
Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1928) ·
Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect
(b. 1893) ·
Rashid bin
Said Al-Maktoum, Vice-President and 2nd Prime
Minister of United Arab Emirates and Emir (Ruler) of Dubai
(b. 1912) ·
Grim Natwick, American animator (b. 1890) ·
Juan José Arévalo,
Guatemalan politician, 24th President of
Guatemala (b. 1904) ·
William
H. Harrison, American politician (b. 1896) ·
October 12 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub,
Speaker of the Egyptian Assembly (b. 1926) ·
Douglas Edwards, American television news
anchor (b. 1917) ·
Lê
Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911) ·
October 14 – Leonard Bernstein,
American composer and conductor (b. 1918) ·
Helen Bray, American actress (b. 1889) ·
Delphine Seyrig, French actress (b. 1932) ·
October 16 – Art Blakey, American jazz musician (b. 1919) ·
October 20 – Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905) ·
October 21 – Dany Chamoun, Lebanese politician (b. 1934) ·
October 22 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher
(b. 1918) ·
October 23 – Zephania Mothopeng,
South African politician (b. 1913) ·
October 26 – William S. Paley, American radio and
television executive (b. 1901) ·
Xavier Cugat, American band leader (b. 1900) ·
Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931) ·
Helmut Maandi, Estonian statesman (b. 1906) ·
Elliott Roosevelt,
American writer (b. 1910) ·
Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922) ·
October 29 – William French Smith,
American lawyer and former Attorney General of the United States (b. 1917) November[edit] ·
November 3 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer
(b. 1913) ·
Henry Cravatte, Luxembourgian Social
Democratic politician, former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1911) ·
Sir David Stirling, British army officer,
founder of the SAS (b. 1915) ·
November 5 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and political
figure (b. 1932) ·
November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (b. 1912) ·
Sadi Irmak, Turkish politician, 17th Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1904) ·
Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909) ·
November 12 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908) ·
November 13 – Don Chaffey, British film director (b. 1917) ·
November 17 – Robert Hofstadter,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1915) ·
November 19 – Georgy Flyorov, Soviet nuclear physicist
(b. 1913) ·
November 20 – Herbert Kegel, German conductor (b. 1920) ·
Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (b. 1916) ·
Nguyễn
Văn Tâm, South Vietnamese politician, 4th Prime
Minister of the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1893) ·
Helga Feddersen, German actress (b. 1930) ·
Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright
(b. 1896) ·
November 26 – Feng Youlan, Chinese philosopher (b. 1895) ·
Frank Edward
Figgures, British civil servant (b. 1910) ·
David White,
American actor (b. 1916) December[edit] ·
Octavio Beras Rojas,
Dominican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1906) ·
Sergio Corbucci, Italian film director
(b. 1927) ·
Vijaya Lakshmi
Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician (b. 1900) ·
Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900) ·
Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1910) ·
December 4 – Naoto Tajima, Japanese Olympic athlete
(b. 1912) ·
Tunku Abdul Rahman,
Malaysian politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Malaysia (b. 1903) ·
Pavlos Sidiropoulos,
Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1948) ·
Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (b. 1943) ·
Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910) ·
Dee Clark, American soul singer (b. 1938) ·
Enrico Coveri, Italian fashion designer and
entrepreneur (b. 1952) ·
Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage
designer and theatre director (b. 1915) ·
Boris Kochno, Russian poet, dancer, and
librettist (b. 1906) ·
Martin Ritt, American film director
(b. 1914) ·
December 9 – Mike Mazurki, American actor and wrestler
(b. 1909) ·
December 10 – Armand Hammer, American business tycoon
(b. 1898) ·
December 11 – Concha Piquer, Spanish singer and actress
(b. 1908) ·
December 13 – Alice Marble, American tennis champion
(b. 1913) ·
Friedrich Dürrenmatt,
Swiss writer (b. 1921) ·
Francisco
Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer (b. 1907) ·
Edmund Franklin Ward,
illustrator (b. 1892) ·
December 15 – Ed Parker, American Kenpo founder (b. 1931) ·
Douglas
Campbell, American World War I pilot (b. 1896) ·
Jackie Mittoo, Jamaican musician (b. 1948) ·
December 18 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903) ·
December 20 – Elmo Tanner, American singer and whistler
(b. 1910) ·
December 24 – Thorbjørn Egner,
Norwegian author (b. 1912) ·
Kiel Martin, American actor (b. 1944) ·
Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and
film producer (b. 1946) ·
George
Allen, American football coach (b. 1918) ·
Vasily Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928) Nobel Prizes[edit] |
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