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Gregorian Year
1992 (MCMXCII) was
a leap year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1992nd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of
the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1990s decade. 1992 was designated as: ·
International
Space Year by the United Nations. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 6Sources Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Boutros
Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de
Cuéllar of Peru as United
Nations Secretary-General. ·
January 2 – President of Russia Boris Yeltsin ends price controls. ·
The Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic is proclaimed by the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. ·
President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees
the country as a result of the military coup. ·
January 7 – The Yugoslav Air Force downs
a helicopter, killing five military observers from the European Community. ·
January 9 – Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia and
Herzegovina, in protest of the decision by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition. ·
Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to
tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. ·
Albanian referendum for territorial and
political autonomy in FYR Macedonia.[1] ·
January 13 – Japan apologizes for
forcing Korean women into sexual
slavery during World War II. ·
January 15 – The Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence and
international recognition in some Western countries. ·
January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders
sign the Chapultepec
Peace Accords in Mexico City, ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that
claimed at least 75,000 lives. ·
January 18 – In Nairobi, Kenya, more than 100,000 attend
protests demanding an end to one-party rule by the Kenya
African National Union. ·
The Bulgarian
presidential election is won by Zhelyu Zhelev, leader of the Union
of Democratic Forces. ·
Paramount Leader of China Deng Xiaoping speaks in Shenzhen during
his southern tour, a move that would return China on its right-wing march
towards free market economics.[2] ·
January 22 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the
government's resignation. ·
January 24 – China and Israel establish diplomatic relations. ·
Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia
will stop targeting cities of the United States and her allies with nuclear weapons. In return President George H. W. Bush announces
that the United States and her allies will stop targeting Russia and the
remaining communist states
with nuclear weapons. ·
In Mauritania, security forces open fire on
opponents of President
of Mauritania Maaouya Ould
Sid'Ahmed Taya, killing at least five people. ·
January 27 – Nagorno-Karabakh War:
in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, fighting between Armenians and Azeris leaves
at least 60 people dead. ·
January 30 – North Korea signs an accord with
the International
Atomic Energy Agency allowing for international inspections
of North
Korea's nuclear power plants. February[edit] ·
President
of the United States George H. W. Bush meets
with President of Russia Boris Yeltsin at Camp David, where they formally declare that
the Cold War is over. ·
The United States
Coast Guard begins deporting the first of some 14,000
refugees from Haiti. ·
February 3 – South African State
President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, African
National Congress leader, are jointly awarded the Felix
Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. ·
February 4 – In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez leads an
unsuccessful coup attempt against President of
Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez ·
February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is
signed, founding the European Union. ·
February 8 – The opening ceremony for
the 1992 Winter Olympics is
held in Albertville, France. ·
February 9 – Algerian Civil War:
The government of Algeria declares
a state of emergency and
begins a crackdown on the Islamic Salvation
Front. ·
February 14 – Ukraine and four other nations in
the Commonwealth
of Independent States reject Russia's proposal to maintain
unified armed forces. Ukraine, Moldova, and Azerbaijan announce they will go ahead
with plans to create their own armed forces. ·
February 16 – In Lebanon, Israeli helicopter
gunships assassinate Abbas al-Musawi, the leader of Hezbollah, and his son, in retaliation for a
February 14 raid that killed three Israeli soldiers. ·
February 17 – A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison. ·
February 18 – Iraq disarmament
crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's
refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions. ·
February 21 – The United
Nations Security Council approves Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia. ·
February 25–26 – 613 Azerbaijani civilians
are massacred in Khojaly. ·
February 26 – The Supreme Court of
Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to
England to have an abortion. ·
February 28 – Ownership of the port
town of Walvis Bay is
transferred from South Africa to Namibia. March[edit] ·
March 1 – The first victims of the
Bosnian War are a Serb groom's father and an Orthodox priest in a Sarajevo
shooting.[3] The Bosnian
independence referendumwas held from February 29–March 1, in which
the majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities, but
boycotted by Bosnian Serbs,
voted for Bosnia-Herzegovina's
independence. ·
March 2 – In Dubăsari, Moldova, escalating tensions
turn into open hostilities and the beginning of the Transnistria War. ·
March 3 – Turkey's worst coal mine disaster leaves 263 dead
near Zonguldak. ·
March 4 – The Supreme Court of Algeria
bans the Islamic Salvation
Front, which is poised to win control of the Parliament of
Algeria in runoff elections. ·
March 9 – The People's Republic of
China ratifies the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. ·
March 12 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of
the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
March 13 – The 6.7 Mw Erzincan
earthquake affects eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 498–652, and
injuring around 2,000. ·
March 16 – President Boris Yeltsin announces the creation of
a separate Russian army,
leading to questions about the viability of the Commonwealth
of Independent States. ·
March 18 – White South Africans vote
in favour of political reforms which will end the apartheid regime and create a
power-sharing multi-racial government.[4] ·
March 22 ·
In French
regional elections, the conservative Rally for the
Republic and the centre-right Union for
French Democracy win in a landslide, capturing 20 of 22
metropolitan regional presidencies. ·
STS-45: Space
Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments
designed to study global warming. ·
March 24 – The Open Skies Treaty is
signed in Helsinki, Finland to establish a program of unarmed survelliance
flights over the 34 member states. It went into effect on January 1, 2002. ·
March 25 ·
The International
Atomic Energy Agency orders Iraq to
destroy an industrial complex at Al Atheer that
is being used to manufacture nuclear weapons. ·
Pakistan beats England in the final to
win the Cricket World Cup for
the very first time. ·
March 31 – The Maintenance
of Religious Harmony Act of Singapore comes into force. April[edit] "April
1992" redirects here. For the Merzbow album, see April 1992 (album). ·
April 5 ·
The
Assembly of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (without the presence of Serb political delegates) proclaims
independence from the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ·
Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass
rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and
Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence
from Yugoslavia, besiege
the city of Sarajevo. ·
Approximately
500,000 people march on Washington, D.C. in support of abortion rights in
advance of oral arguments in the case of Planned
Parenthood v. Casey. ·
President of Peru Alberto Fujimori issues Decree Law 25418, dissolving the Congress
of the Republic of Peru, imposing censorship and having opposition
politicians arrested, setting off the 1992
Peruvian constitutional crisis. ·
April 6 – Republic of Ilirida,
was proclaimed by Albanian Macedonian activists
in Struga, Republic of
Macedonia.[5] ·
April 7 – The United States recognizes
the independence of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The European Community also
recognizes Bosnia and
Herzegovina. ·
April 9 ·
A Miami jury convicts former Panamanian
ruler Manuel Noriega of
assisting Colombia's cocaine
cartel. ·
The United
Kingdom general election is narrowly won by the Conservative
Party led by Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom John Major. ·
April 10 ·
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Maraga massacre – At least 43 Armenian civilians are killed as their
village of Maraga, Azerbaijan,
is captured and destroyed by Azerbaijani
Armed Forces. ·
A Provisional
Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; three are killed, 91
injured. ·
April 13 – The 5.3 Mw Roermond
earthquake affects the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VII (Very strong). ·
April 15 – The National
Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. ·
April 16 – President of
Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is
ousted and detained by Muslim rebels moving towards Kabul, setting the stage for the civil
war in Afghanistan (1992–96). ·
April 20 – The
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium,
London, is televised live to over one billion people and raises millions of
dollars for AIDSresearch. ·
April 21 – The death of Grand
Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia results in a succession
dispute between Nicholas
Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter Maria for
the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia. ·
April 22 – Fuel that
leaked into a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1,500
injured. ·
April 27 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman
elected Speaker
of the British House of Commons. ·
April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of
the former Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named
the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and
Montenegro), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs,
Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed
from 1918 (with the exception of the period
during World War II). ·
April 29 – Los Angeles riots:
The acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial
triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days
resulting in 53 deaths and over a $1 billion in damages before order is
restored. ·
In Sierra Leone, a group of young soldiers
launch a military coup that sends president Joseph Saidu Momoh into
exile in Guinea, and the National Provisional Ruling
Council (NPRC) is established, with 25-year-old Captain Valentine Strasser as
its chairman and Head of State of the country. May[edit] ·
May 1 – Lithuania introduces its new currency,
the talonas.[6] ·
May 5 ·
Russian
leaders in Crimea declare their separation
from Ukraine as a new republic. They
withdraw the secession on May 10. ·
Armand
Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): 18 people are killed and 2,300 are
injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match
between SC Bastia and Olympique de
Marseille. ·
May 7 ·
STS-49: Space
Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, as a
replacement for Space
Shuttle Challenger. ·
The Sydney
River McDonald's murders in Nova Scotia, Canada got international
attention as three employees where killed and a fourth was left permanently
disabled during a botched robbery. It was the first fast food restaurant
murders in Canada. ·
May 9 ·
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is
adopted in New York. ·
The Westray Mine
Disaster occurs in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, when the
mine explodes, killing all 26 miners working the night shift. ·
May 10 – Sweden wins
the Ice Hockey
World Championships in Czechoslovakia defeating Finland,
5-2, in the final game in Prague. ·
May 13 – Falun Gong is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China. ·
May 15 – The Commonwealth
of Independent States Collective Security Treaty (CST)
is signed (effective 20 April 1994). ·
May 16–17 – Bosnian War: U.N.
peacekeepers withdraw from Sarajevo. ·
May 17 – Protests begin in Bangkok, Thailand, against the government of General Suchinda
Kraprayoon, sparking a bloody crackdown. ·
May 18 – The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States
Constitution is enacted. ·
May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia
judge Giovanni Falcone. ·
May 24 ·
In Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon agrees
to resign. ·
Parliamentary
election held in Burkina Faso, for the first time since 1978. ·
May 30 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 imposes
economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia
and Hercegovina. June[edit] ·
June 2 – In a national
referendum Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a narrow
margin. ·
June 8 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated,
coinciding with the Earth Summit held
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ·
June 10–26 – Sweden hosts the UEFA Euro 1992 football tournament,
which is won by Denmark. ·
June 16 ·
A
'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S.
President George H. W. Bush and
Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this
is later codified in START II). ·
A
federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for
his role in covering up the Iran–Contra affair. ·
June 17 ·
Two
German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig,
are released (they are the last Western hostages in Lebanon). ·
Violence
breaks out between the African
National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom
Party in Boipatong,
South Africa, leaving 46 dead. ·
June 18 – Ireland votes to accept the Maastricht Treaty with
a popular vote of over 69%. ·
June 20 – Estonia adopts the kroon and becomes the first former
Soviet Republic to replace the Soviet ruble. ·
June 21 – Nelson Mandela announces that the African
National Congress will halt negotiations with the government
of South Africa following the Boipatong massacre of
June 17. ·
June 22 – Two skeletons excavated
in Yekaterinburg are
identified as Tsar Nicholas II of
Russia and Tsarina
Alexandra. ·
June 23 – The Israeli
legislative election is won by the Israeli Labor Party under
the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin,
ousting a Likud government. ·
June 25 – The Black Sea
Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is founded. ·
June 26 – Denmark beats Germany 2–0
in the final to
win the 1992
UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. ·
June 28 – Estonia holds a referendum on its constitution,
which will come into effect on July 3. ·
June 29 – President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria is assassinated by one of his
bodyguards. July[edit] ·
July 6–8 – The 18th G7 summit is held in Munich. ·
July 6–29 – Iraq disarmament
crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N.
inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims
that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to
illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in"
outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi
soldiers. ·
July 9 – Bill Clinton announces his selection
of Al Gore as his running mate in the 1992
U.S. presidential election. ·
July 10 ·
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years
in prison for drug and racketeering violations. ·
The Giotto spacecraft flies
past Comet 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup,
gathering measurements about the comet. ·
July 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister
of Israel. ·
July 16 – At the 1992
Democratic National Convention, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton accepts
his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the "forgotten middle
class". ·
July 17 – The Slovak
National Council declares Slovakia an independent country,
signaling the breakup of
Czechoslovakia. ·
July 19 ·
A
car bomb placed by the Mafia (with
the collaboration of Italian intelligence) kills judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of
his escort. ·
The Cabinet of Israel approves
a freeze on new settlements in the
occupied territories, a move expected to reinvigorate the Middle
East Peace Process. ·
July 20 – Václav Havel resigns as president
of Czechoslovakia. ·
July 21 – Transnistria War ends with a ceasefire. ·
July 22 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury
prison, fearing extradition to the United States. ·
July 23 – Abkhazia declares independence
from Georgia. ·
July 25–August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are
held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ·
July 26 – Iraq agrees
to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to search the Iraqi Agricultural Ministry
building in Baghdad. When inspectors arrive on July 28 and 29, they find
nothing and voice suspicions that Iraqi records had been removed. ·
July 31 ·
The
ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia becomes
the 179th member of the United Nations. ·
Thai
Airways International Flight 311, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into a mountain
north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board. ·
China
General Aviation Flight 7552 bound for Xiamen crashes soon after taking off
from Nanjing
Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108 of the 116 people on board. August[edit] ·
August 3–4 – Millions of black South Africans
participate in a general strike called
by the African
National Congress to protest the lack of progress in
negotiations with the government of State
President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk. ·
August 12 – Canada, Mexico, and the
United States announce that a deal has been reached on the North
American Free Trade Agreement; the deal will be formally signed on
December 17, 1992. ·
August 18 – Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom John Major announces
the creation of the Iraqi no-fly zones. ·
August 20 – Kristiansund's connection to the mainland of
Norway, Krifast, opens. ·
August 23 – Hurricane Andrew attains Category 5
status on the Saffir–Simpson
hurricane scale, and at 2100 UTC hits Eleuthera and the Bahama Banks. ·
Concordia
University massacre – Valery Fabrikant murders four
colleagues and seriously wounds another in a shooting at Concordia University,
in Montreal, Quebec. ·
China and South Korea establish diplomatic relations. ·
August 24–28 – Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and dissipates over the
Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed. ·
August 29 – In Rostock, Germany, tens of thousands rally to
protest neo-Nazi attacks
on refugees and immigrants begun on August 22. September[edit] ·
September 1 – In Beijing, police
arrest Shen Tong for
his role in organizing the Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989. ·
September 2 – The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua
earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms–Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered
a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116
killed. Average runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft). ·
In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal
to dictator Oupa Gqozo open
fire into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African
National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly
200. ·
President of
Tajikistan Rahmon Nabiyev is forced to resign
following weeks of clan and religious warfare that left nearly 2,000 people
dead. ·
September 11 – Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu. ·
September 12 – In Peru,
police arrest Abimael Guzmán,
the leader of the Shining Path guerilla
movement, who had evaded capture for 12 years. ·
September 16 – Black Wednesday: The pound sterling and the Italian
lira are forced out of the European
Exchange Rate Mechanism. ·
September 17 – Two Kurdish opposition leaders are
assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi
and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel. ·
September 20 – French voters narrowly
approve the Maastricht Treaty in
the French
Maastricht Treaty referendum. ·
September 21 – Mexico establishes
diplomatic relations with Vatican City, ending a break that lasted
over 130 years. ·
September 23 – Operation Julin is the last nuclear test conducted by the United
States at the Nevada Test Site. ·
September 28 – Law enforcement
officials in the United States, Colombia, and Italy announce that they have
arrested more than 165 people on money launderingcharges related to cocaine trafficking. ·
September 29 – The Chamber of
Deputies of Brazil votes to impeach President of Brazil Fernando Collor
de Mello, the country's first democratically elected leader in 29
years. Vice President Itamar Franco becomes acting president. October[edit] ·
October 1 – Turner
Broadcasting System launches Cartoon Network, the first all-animation television channel. ·
October 2 – A riot breaks out in
the Carandiru
Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru massacre. ·
October 3 – After performing a song
protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips
up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live,
causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to
ring off the hook. ·
The
government of Mozambique signs
a truce with leaders of RENAMO, ending the
16-year-old Mozambican Civil War. ·
Israeli
cargo plane El Al Flight 1862 crashes
into residential buildings in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer, Netherlands, after taking off
from Schiphol
Airport and losing two engines, killing all 4 people on board
and 39 on the ground. ·
October 6 – Lennart Meri becomes the first President of Estonia after
regaining independence. The Estonian
Government in Exile resigns on the next day. ·
October 7 – In Peru, Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán is
convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. ·
October 11 – The Catechism
of the Catholic Church is promulgated by Pope John Paul II with
his apostolic
constitution, Fidei depositum.[7] ·
In
the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates
the 500th anniversary of the meeting of two cultures. ·
The
5.8 mb Cairo earthquake affects
the city with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving
545 dead and 6,512 injured. ·
October 14 – In Japan, Shin Kanemaru of the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party resigns over receiving illegal payments
from Sagawa Express. ·
October 19 – The Communist Party
of China promotes several market-oriented reformers to
the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of
China, signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues. ·
October 21 – 150,000 of coal miners
march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce
the number of coal miners.[8] ·
October 23 – Emperor of Japan Akihito begins the first imperial visit
of China, telling a Beijing audience he felt deep sorrow for the suffering of
the Chinese people during World War II. ·
October 25 – Lithuania holds a referendum on its first
constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. ·
October 26 – In a national referendum,
voters in Canada reject the Charlottetown Accord. ·
October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues
an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei. November[edit] ·
November 3 – Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican
President George H. W. Bush and
Independent Ross Perot in
the 1992
Presidential Election. ·
November 8 – More than 350,000 people
rally in Berlin to protest right-wing violence against immigrants; radicals
throw stones and eggs at President of GermanyRichard von
Weizsäcker and Chancellor of
Germany Helmut Kohl. ·
November 11 – The Church of England votes
to allow women to become priests. ·
The government of Peru announces
it has arrested a small group of army officers who were plotting the
assassination of President Alberto Fujimori. ·
A
report by the World
Meteorological Organization reports an unprecedented level
of ozone depletion in
both the Arctic and Antarctic. ·
November 15 – The Lithuanian
parliamentary election sees the Communists of the Democratic
Labour Party of Lithuania, led by Algirdas Brazauskas,
return to power. ·
November 18 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin releases the flight data
recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets in 1983. ·
November 24 – In the People's Republic
of China, a China Southern
Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on
board. ·
The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes
to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993. ·
In a national referendum related to abortion, voters in Ireland reject the
proposed Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1992 but
approve the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and
the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland. ·
November 27 – The government of
Venezuela announces that it has put down a
coup attempt by a group of army officers who bombed the
presidential palace. December[edit] ·
UN
Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed,
approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the
United States to form UNITAF, tasked with
ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia. ·
A
test engineer for Sema Group uses
a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone
network to the phone of a colleague. ·
December 4 – U.S. military forces land
in Somalia. ·
December 6 – Extremist Hindu
activists demolish Babri Masjid – a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya, India, which had been used as a
temple since 1949, leading to widespread communal
violence, including the Bombay riots, in all killing over 1,500
people. ·
December 9 – The Prince and Princess of
Wales publicly announce their separation. ·
December 12 – The 7.8 Mw Flores
earthquake affected the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe) leaving at least 2,500 dead. A destructive
tsunami with wave heights of 25 m (82 ft) followed. ·
December 16 – The Czech National
Council adopts the Constitution
of the Czech Republic. ·
December 18 – The South
Korean presidential election is won by Kim Young-sam, the first non-military
candidate elected since 1961. ·
December 21 – President of Serbia Slobodan
Milošević defeats Milan Panić in the Serbian
presidential election. ·
December 22 – The Archives of Terror are
discovered by Dr. Martín Almada, detailing the fates of thousands of Latin
Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the
security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and
Uruguay, in what became known as Operation Condor. ·
December 24 – President George H. W. Bush pardons
six national security officials implicated in the Iran–Contra affair,
including Caspar Weinberger. ·
December 29 – Brazil's president Fernando Collor
de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than
$32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected
office for eight years. Date unknown[edit] ·
First
confirmed detection of extrasolar planets,
with the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, by Aleksander Wolszczanand Dale Frail. ·
Deng Xiaoping accelerates market
reforms to establish a socialist market
economy in the People's Republic of China. ·
Queensland
introduces Freedom Of Information Laws. ·
The Council
for National Academic Awards, UK is wound up. ·
In
terms of units sold, compact discs outsell audiocassettes for the first time in
the United States.[9] Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
He Kexin, Chinese artistic gymnast ·
Jack Wilshere, English footballer ·
January 8 – Koke,
Spanish footballer ·
January 11 – Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer ·
January 12 – Georgia May Jagger,
English model ·
January 14 – Nimue Smit, Dutch model ·
January 15 – Valerie Abou Chacra,
Lebanese actress, radio announcer, and model ·
January 17 – Nate Hartley, American actor ·
Logan Lerman, American actor ·
Shawn Johnson, American Olympic gymnast ·
Mac Miller, American rapper, singer and
record producer (d. 2018) ·
January 20 – Maria Harfanti, Indonesian social activist,
pianist, and beauty pageant titleholder ·
January 24 – Becky Downie, British artistic gymnast ·
Cassidy Lehrman, American actress ·
Sasha Banks, American professional wrestler ·
Sam Barry,
Irish tennis player ·
Connor Widdows, Canadian actor ·
Hunter Renfroe, American baseball player ·
Simone Egeriis, Danish singer ·
January 29 – David Fluellen, American football player ·
Tom Ince, English footballer ·
Matthew Werkmeister,
Australian stage and television actor ·
Christopher Nissen,
Danish singer ·
Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player February[edit] ·
February 1 – Kelli Goss, American actress ·
Neymar, Brazilian footballer ·
Kejsi Tola, Albanian singer ·
February 6 – Cara McCollum, American journalist (d. 2016) ·
February 7 – Sergi Roberto, Spanish footballer ·
February 8 – Karle Warren, American actress ·
Avan Jogia, Canadian actor ·
Valentina Barron, Australian actress ·
Ana Yorkira Binet,
Dominican volleyball player ·
Georgia Groome, English actress ·
Taylor Lautner, American actor and martial
artist ·
February 14 – Freddie Highmore, English actor ·
February 15 – Greer Grammer, American actress ·
Le'Veon Bell, American football player ·
Logan Miller, American actor and musician ·
Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress ·
February 19 – Paulina Gaitán,
Mexican actress ·
Nastassja Burnett,
Italian tennis player ·
Jarred Tinordi, American ice hockey player ·
February 23 – Samara Weaving, Australian actress ·
Max Aaron, American figure skater ·
Zahia Dehar, French lingerie designer ·
Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer ·
Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice-hockey player ·
Ai Shinozaki, Japanese gravure idol and
singer ·
February 27 – Ty Dillon, American race car driver ·
Caitlin EJ Meyer, American actress ·
Jessie Usher, American actor March[edit] ·
March 2 ·
Charlie Coyle, American hockey player ·
Maisie
Richardson-Sellers, English actress ·
March 4 ·
Érik Lamela, Argentine footballer ·
Jared Sullinger, American basketball player ·
March 6 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer ·
March 7 – Im Hyun-sik (singer),
South Korean singer-songwriter ·
March 9 – María Eugenia Suárez,
Argentine actress and model ·
March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress, singer and
songwriter ·
March 13 ·
Lucy Fry, Australian actress ·
George MacKay,
English actor ·
Antoni Sarcevic, English footballer ·
Kaya Scodelario, English actress and model ·
March 14 – Jasmine Murray, American singer ·
March 15 ·
Sosie Bacon, American actress ·
Anna Shaffer, English actress ·
March 17 ·
Eliza Bennett, British actress ·
John Boyega, British actor ·
March 21 – Karolína Plíšková,
Czech tennis player ·
March 23 ·
Morgan Evans,
Welsh rugby league player ·
Kyrie Irving, American-Australian basketball
player ·
Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress and singer ·
March 24 – MyCole Pruitt, American football player ·
March 26 – Stoffel Vandoorne,
Belgian racing driver ·
March 27 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese actress and singer ·
March 28 ·
Elena Bogdan, Romanian tennis player ·
Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Alex Gilbert, New Zealand adoption advocate ·
Sui Lu, Chinese artistic gymnast ·
April 3 – Young M.A., American rapper ·
April 4 ·
Lucy May Barker, British actress ·
Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter ·
Alexa Nikolas, American actress ·
April 6 – Ken, South Korean singer and actor ·
April 7 – Alexis Jordan, American singer and actress ·
April 8 – Shelby Young, American actress ·
April 10 ·
Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer ·
Chaz Mostert, Australian race car driver ·
Daisy Ridley, British actress ·
April 11 – Naya, Lebanese singer ·
April 12 ·
Giorgio Cantarini,
Italian actor ·
Chad le Clos, South African Olympic swimmer ·
April 13 ·
Péter Bernek, Hungarian swimmer ·
George North, Welsh rugby player ·
Paul
Richardson, American football player ·
April 14 – Oliver Bohm, Swedish ice hockey player ·
April 15 ·
Amy Deasismont, Swedish pop musician ·
John Guidetti, Swedish footballer ·
Richard Sandrak, Ukrainian bodybuilder ·
April 16 – Prince
Sébastien of Luxembourg ·
April 17 – Shkodran Mustafi, German footballer ·
April 18 – Chloe Bennet, American actress and singer ·
April 21 ·
Isco,
Spanish footballer ·
Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast ·
April 22 ·
Thomas James Longley,
British actor ·
Joc Pederson, American baseball player ·
April 23 – Syd tha Kyd, American singer, producer and
DJ ·
April 24 ·
Doc Shaw, American actor and rapper ·
Laura Kenny, British cyclist ·
April 26 – Aaron Judge, American baseball player ·
April 27 – Keenan Allen, American football player ·
April 30 ·
Kenny Agostino, American professional ice
hockey player ·
Travis Scott,
American recording artist and music producer ·
Marc-André ter
Stegen, German footballer May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Lacey Banghard, English model ·
Hani, South Korean singer and entertainer ·
May 6 ·
Brendan Gallagher,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
Vanesa Gabriela
Leiro, Argentine actress and singer ·
Jonas
Valančiūnas, Lithuanian basketball player ·
Baekhyun, South Korean singer, songwriter,
actor, and model ·
May 7 – Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor ·
May 10 – Charice Pempengco,
Filipino singer ·
May 11 – Christina McHale, American tennis player ·
May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley,
American actor ·
May 13 – Tyrann Mathieu, American football player ·
May 17 – Eric Jagielo, American baseball player ·
May 18 ·
Spencer Breslin, American actor ·
Brian Idowu, Russian athlete ·
Laurie Kingsbury, Canadian athlete ·
Kevin Mendy, French athlete ·
John Persson, Swedish athlete ·
Nina Petushkova, Russian figure skater ·
May 19 ·
Sam Smith,
British soul singer ·
Eleanor Tomlinson,
English actress ·
Heather Watson, British tennis player ·
May 20 – Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player ·
May 22 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer ·
May 24 – Agustín Velotti,
Argentine tennis player ·
May 28 – Mira Gonzalez, American poet ·
May 29 ·
Erica Lindbeck, American actress ·
Gregg Sulkin, British actor ·
May 30 – Harrison Barnes, American basketball player ·
May 31 – VanossGaming, Canadian game commentor and
music producer June[edit] ·
June 1 – Amanda Ware, Australian model ·
June 3 – Mario Götze, German footballer ·
June 6 ·
DeAndre Hopkins, American football player ·
Hyuna, South Korean singer ·
June 9 ·
Yannick Agnel, French Olympic swimmer ·
Lucien Laviscount,
British actor and recording artist ·
June 10 – Kate Upton, American model and actress ·
June 12 ·
Philippe Coutinho,
Brazilian footballer ·
Allie DiMeco, American actress and
instrumentalist ·
Ryan Malgarini, American actor ·
June 14 – Daryl Sabara, American actor ·
June 15 – Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer ·
June 19 – Oscar Taveras, professional baseball player
(d. 2014) ·
June 20 – Sage the Gemini, American rapper ·
June 21 ·
Carly Booth, Scottish golfer ·
Max Schneider, American actor ·
June 22 ·
Harry Reid,
British actor ·
Darius Jennings, American football player ·
June 23 ·
Kate Melton, American actress ·
Bridget Sloan, American artistic gymnast ·
Nyambayaryn
Tögstsogt, Mongolian boxer ·
June 24 ·
David Alaba, Austrian football player ·
Raven Goodwin, American actress ·
Germán Sánchez,
Mexican diver ·
June 25 – Jaden Schwartz, Canadian ice hockey player ·
June 26 ·
Jennette McCurdy, American actress and
singer ·
Austin Voth, American baseball player ·
June 27 ·
Michał Daszek, Polish handball player ·
Ahn So-hee, South Korean actress and singer ·
June 28 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer ·
June 29 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer ·
June 30 ·
Chay Suede, Brazilian actor, singer and
composer ·
Alfred Labatos, Filipino actor, singer and
voice actor July[edit] ·
July 3 ·
Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer ·
Maasa Sudo, Japanese singer ·
Santiago Segura,
American actor ·
July 4 ·
Ángel Romero,
Paraguayan footballer ·
Óscar Romero,
Paraguayan footballer ·
July 5 ·
Flash,
South Korean StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II player ·
Mirna Radulović,
Serbian singer-songwriter ·
July 6 – Seedy Bah, Gambian footballer ·
July 7 – Manjot Singh, Indian actor ·
July 8 ·
Sky Ferreira, American singer, songwriter,
model, and actress ·
Son Heung-min, South Korean professional
footballer ·
Kelsey-Beth Crossley,
British actress ·
July 9 – Douglas Booth, English actor ·
July 10 ·
Ahn Ji-hyun, South Korean actress ·
Kristin Allen, American acrobatic gymnast ·
Eva Lim, Dutch figure skater ·
July 11 ·
Karise Eden, Australian singer and
songwriter ·
Mohamed Elneny, Egyptian footballer ·
July 12 ·
Jang Dong-yoon, South Korean actor ·
Larissa Miller, Australian gymnast ·
Woo Do-hwan, South Korean actor ·
Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish pop singer ·
July 13 ·
Dylan Patton, American actor ·
Rich the Kid, American rapper ·
Bryan Parry, Welsh actor ·
July 14 – Brytiago, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter ·
July 15 – Wayde van Niekerk,
South African athlete ·
July 16 – Sam Naismith, Australian rules footballer ·
July 17 ·
Tom Eisenhuth, Australian rugby league
footballer ·
Denis Prychynenko,
Ukrainian-German footballer ·
July 18 – Timothy Dolensky, American figure skater ·
July 19 – Ellie Rowsell, English singer-songwriter and
musician ·
July 20 ·
Paige Hurd, American actress ·
Jordan Rodrigues, Australian actor ·
July 21 ·
Jessica Barden, English actress ·
Rachael Flatt, American figure skater ·
July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer ·
July 23 ·
Danny Ings, English footballer ·
Diwakar Vaish, Indian roboticist ·
July 24 – Dionatan Teixeira,
Brazilian footballer (d. 2017) ·
July 27 – Tory Lanez, Canadian rapper ·
July 28 ·
Stephone Anthony, American football player ·
George
Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland ·
July 31 ·
Jose Fernandez,
Cuban-born American baseball pitcher (d. 2016) ·
Kyle Larson, American racing driver August[edit] ·
August 1 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player ·
August 2 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress ·
August 3 – Karlie Kloss, American model ·
August 4 – Tiffany Evans, American singer ·
August 6 – Victor Silayan, Filipino actor and
commercial model ·
August 7 – Bobby Lynn Bryant,
American boxer ·
August 12 – Cara Delevingne, British model ·
August 16 – Diego Schwartzman,
Argentine tennis player ·
August 17 – Paige, English professional wrestler ·
Rebecca Brown,
American actress and musician ·
Frances Bean Cobain,
American visual artist ·
Amy Willerton, British model ·
Demi Lovato, American singer and actress ·
Alex Newell, American actor and singer ·
August 21 – Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver ·
August 24 – Johnny Rapid, American gay pornographic film
actor ·
August 25 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer ·
Jesse Delgado, American wrestler ·
Yang Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast ·
August 28 – Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player ·
August 31 – Holly Earl, English actress September[edit] ·
September 1 – Hyelim, Korean singer and rapper ·
Konrad Abeltshauser,
German professional ice hockey player ·
Madilyn Bailey, American singer ·
September 4 – Layvin Kurzawa, French footballer ·
September 7 – Gizem Karaca, Turkish model ·
Frencheska Farr, Filipina singer, model, and
dancer ·
Damian McGinty, Irish singer and actor ·
Desireé Bassett,
American guitarist and recording artist ·
María Gabriela de
Faría, Venezuelan actress and singer ·
September 12 – Connor Franta, American YouTuber and entrepreneur ·
September 14 – Zico, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and
producer ·
September 15 – Camélia Jordana,
French singer ·
Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter and
actor ·
Jake Roche, British actor and singer ·
September 18 – Amber Liu,
American singer ·
September 19 – Palmer Luckey, American entrepreneur ·
September 20 – Safura Alizadeh, Azerbaijani singer,
actress, and saxophonist ·
Chen, South Korean singer ·
Mariya Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess player ·
September 22 – Philip Hindes, British cyclist ·
September 24 – Jack Sock, American tennis player ·
Jake Burbage, American actor ·
Sam Lerner, American actor ·
Skye McCole
Bartusiak, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Mawra Hocane, Pakistani actress and model ·
Tyler Lockett, American football player ·
Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese artistic gymnast ·
September 29 – Marina Antipova, Russian ice dancer ·
September 30 – Ezra Miller, American actor October[edit] ·
October 1 – Drew Chadwick, American musician ·
October 2 – Alisson Becker, Brazilian footballer ·
October 3 – Aina Hashimoto, Japanese singer, actress ·
October 4 – Shun Miyazato, Japanese actor ·
Eric Cabral, Canadian actor ·
Lais Ribeiro, Brazilian model ·
Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver ·
October 7 – Grace Bawden, Australian singer ·
October 9 – Tyler James Williams,
American actor ·
October 10 – Gabrielle Aplin, English singer and
songwriter ·
October 11 – Cardi B, American hip hop artist ·
October 12 – Josh Hutcherson, American actor ·
October 15 – Vincent Martella, American actor and singer ·
October 16 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player ·
Jacob Artist, American actor, singer and
dancer ·
Sam Concepcion, Filipino actor, singer and
dancer ·
October 20 – Ksenia Semyonova, Russian Olympic gymnast ·
21 Savage, American rapper ·
Sofia Vassilieva, American actress ·
October 23 – Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer ·
Thelma Fardin, Argentine actress ·
Marcus
Tell, Israeli film director ·
Emily Hagins, American film director ·
Taiko Katono, Japanese actor and model ·
Brandon Saad, American professional ice
hockey player ·
Stephan El Shaarawy,
Italian footballer ·
October 28 – Lexi Ainsworth, American actress ·
October 31 – Vanessa Marano, American actress November[edit] ·
November 2 – Chelsea Davis, American artistic gymnast ·
Odell Beckham Jr.,
American football player ·
Marco Verratti, Italian footballer ·
Teddy Bridgewater,
American football player ·
Wilfried Zaha, English footballer ·
November 12 – Macey Cruthird, American actress ·
Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer and
actress ·
Trevor Story, American baseball player ·
November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor ·
Lara Custance, New Zealand actress ·
Yen Santos, Filipino television actress ·
Mireia Lalaguna, Spanish actress and model ·
Conor Maynard, British singer ·
Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer ·
Gabriel Landeskog,
Swedish hockey player ·
Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player ·
Haru Nomura, Japanese golfer ·
Zack Shada, American actor ·
November 26 – Paul Dunne,
Irish golfer ·
Chanyeol, South Korean singer ·
Tola Szlagowska, Polish singer ·
Cameron Ansell, Canadian voice actor ·
Adam Hicks, American rapper, actor and
dancer ·
Jarvis Landry, American football player ·
Jake Miller,
American rapper and songwriter ·
Sophie Moulds, Welsh TV host, model, and
beauty queen ·
November 30 – Samson Lee, Welsh rugby union player December[edit] ·
December 2 – Jin, South Korean singer ·
December 3 – Jessy Mendiola, Filipina actress ·
December 6 – TooSmooth, American singer, songwriter,
musician, record producer, and entrepreneur ·
December 8 – Katie Stevens, American singer ·
December 12 – Chen Ruolin, Chinese diver ·
Tori Kelly, American singer and songwriter ·
Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer ·
December 15 – Jesse Lingard, English footballer ·
December 17 – Thomas Law, British actor ·
December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress,
singer-songwriter, and musician ·
Andrew Chalmers,
Canadian teen actor ·
Isobel Pooley, British track and field
athlete ·
Haylee Wanstall, Canadian actress ·
December 22 – Shiori Kutsuna, Australian-Japanese actress ·
December 23 – Spencer Daniels, American film and
television actor Deaths[edit]
January[edit] ·
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist
(b. 1906) ·
George M. Ferris, American investment banker
and philanthropist (b. 1893) ·
Edward Leslie Gray,
politician and member of the Legislative
Assembly of Alberta (b. 1895) ·
Kenneth Emory, American anthropologist
(b. 1897) ·
Josef R. Sheetz, American World War II
military commander (b. 1895) ·
Francis J. Field, American philatelist and
stamp dealer (b. 1895) ·
January 2 – Virginia Field, British actress (b. 1917) ·
Dame Judith Anderson, Australian-born British
actress (b. 1897) ·
Gábor Szarvas, Hungarian Olympic
weightlifter (b. 1943) ·
January 7 – Richard Hunt,
American puppeteer (b. 1951) ·
Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910) ·
Hans Jenny,
soil scientist and expert on pedology (b. 1899) ·
Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical,
hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer (b. 1900) ·
January 11 – Juan Gilberto Funes,
Argentine footballer (b. 1963) ·
January 14 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary
scholar and politician (b. 1909) ·
January 17 – Frank Pullen, English business person and
racehorse owner (b. 1915) ·
Alexander Almetov,
Soviet Olympic ice hockey player (b. 1940) ·
Theodore Leslie
Futch, United States Army officer with the rank of Brigadier
General (b. 1895) ·
January 20 – Abdul Khalek
Hassouna, Egyptian diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General
of the Arab League (b. 1898) ·
January 21 – Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights
activist (b. 1936) ·
January 22 – A. J. Antoon, American theater director
(b. 1944) ·
Freddie Bartholomew,
British actor (b. 1924) ·
Ian Wolfe, American actor (b. 1896) ·
January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor
(b. 1912) ·
Sally Hayfron, First Lady of
Zimbabwe (b. 1933) ·
Dame Gwen
Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress and centenarian (b. 1891) ·
January 28 – Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist
(b. 1905) ·
January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician
(b. 1915) ·
January 31 – Mel Hein, American football player and
member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1909) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Bert Parks, American game show host
(b. 1914) ·
Junior Cook, American musician (b. 1934) ·
Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (b. 1955) ·
February 4 – Lisa Fonssagrives,
Swedish model (b. 1911) ·
February 8 – Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist
(b 1924) ·
February 10 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921) ·
February 11 – Ray Danton, American actor (b. 1931) ·
February 12 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907) ·
Nikolay Bogolyubov,
Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909) ·
Dorothy Tree, American actress (b. 1906) ·
February 15 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910) ·
Jules Gros, Breton linguist specializing in
popular language (b. 1890) ·
Angela Carter, English novelist and
journalist (b. 1940) ·
Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917) ·
Abbas al-Musawi, Lebanese Shia cleric and
Secretary General of Hezbollah (b. 1952) ·
Eugene R. Black Sr.,
American banker, former president of the World Bank (b. 1898) ·
A. J. Casson, member of the Canadian group
of artists known as the Group of Seven (b. 1898) ·
Roberto D'Aubuisson,
Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing political leader (b. 1944) ·
Dick York, American actor (b. 1928) ·
February 22 – Sudirman Arshad, Malaysian singer and
songwriter (b. 1954) ·
February 23 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek Communist leader
(b. 1906) ·
February 27 – Algirdas Julien
Greimas, French-Lithuanian literary scientist (b. 1917) ·
February 29 – Buddy O'Grady, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1920) March[edit] ·
March 2 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937) ·
March 3 – Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (b. 1909) ·
March 4 ·
Néstor Almendros,
Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930) ·
Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907) ·
March 5 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905) ·
March 9 – Menachem Begin, Israel politician, 6th Prime Minister
of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913) ·
March 11 ·
László Benedek,
Hungarian film director (b. 1905) ·
Richard Brooks, American film director
(b. 1912) ·
Liu Geping, Chinese politician (b. 1904) ·
March 13 – Joseph Anderson,
secretary to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1889) ·
March 14 ·
Jean Poiret, French actor, screenwriter and
director (b. 1926) ·
Elfrida Vipont, British writer (b. 1902) ·
March 16 – Yves Rocard, French nuclear physicist
(b. 1903) ·
March 17 – Jack Arnold,
American TV and film director (b. 1912) ·
March 18 – Antonio Molina,
Spanish singer (b. 1928) ·
March 19 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor
(b. 1926) ·
March 20 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925) ·
March 21 ·
John Ireland,
Canadian actor (b. 1914) ·
Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930) ·
March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1899) ·
March 25 – Nancy Walker, American actress and comedian
(b. 1922) ·
March 26 – Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937) ·
March 28 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist
(b. 1909) ·
March 29 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-born American actor
(b. 1908) ·
March 30 – Manolis Andronikos,
Greek archaeologist (b. 1919) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Juan
Gómez González, Juanito, Spanish footballer (b. 1954) ·
Jan van Aartsen, Dutch politician (b. 1909) ·
April 4 ·
Samuel Reshevsky, seven-time U.S. Chess
Champion (b. 1911) ·
Vintilă Horia, Romanian writer
(b. 1915) ·
April 5 ·
Nawab Zulfikar Ali Khan,
Indian Royal- Titular Nawab of Rampur;
Indian politician and army major (b. 1933) ·
Suada
Dilberović, Bosnian medical student. First casualty of
the Siege of Sarajevo (b. 1968) ·
Molly Picon, American and Yiddish-language
actress (b. 1898) ·
Sam Walton, American businessman, founder
of Wal-Mart (b. 1918) ·
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920) ·
April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903) ·
April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907) ·
April 10 ·
Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953) ·
Peter D. Mitchell,
British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (b. 1920) ·
April 11 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920) ·
April 13 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and
physicist (b. 1921) ·
April 14 ·
David Miller,
American film director (b. 1909) ·
Sammy Price, American pianist and bandleader
(b. 1908) ·
April 16 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920) ·
April 18 – Abdul Kadir Yusuf,
Malyasian politician (b. 1915) ·
April 19 – Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor
(b. 1917) ·
April 20 – Benny Hill, British comedian and actor
(b. 1924) ·
April 23 ·
Czesław
Zbierański, Polish engineer, pioneer of Polish aviation,
major of Polish Army (b. 1885) ·
Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921) ·
Tanka Prasad Acharya,
Nepalese politician, 19th Prime Minister of
Nepal (b. 1912) ·
April 25 ·
Ernesto Balducci, Italian priest (b. 1922) ·
Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965) ·
April 27 ·
Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908) ·
Louise de
Kiriline Lawrence, naturalist, author and nurse (b. 1894) ·
April 28 – Francis Bacon,
Irish-born British painter (b. 1909) ·
April 29 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910) May[edit] ·
May 3 – George Murphy, American actor and politician
(b. 1902) ·
May 4 – Gregor Mackenzie, British Labour Party
politician (b. 1927) ·
May 5 – Adriana
Admiraal-Meijerink, Dutch olympic fencer (b. 1893) ·
May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901) ·
May 8 – Otto Šimánek,
Czech actor (b. 1925) ·
May 10 – John Lund,
American actor (b. 1911) ·
May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932) ·
May 13 ·
Gisela Elsner, German writer (b. 1937) ·
F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor
(b. 1909) ·
May 14 ·
Lyle Alzado, American football player
(b. 1949) ·
Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military
leader (b. 1899) ·
May 16 ·
Chalino Sánchez,
Mexican musician (b. 1960) ·
Sir Robert
Thompson, British military officer and counter-insurgency expert
(b. 1916) ·
May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903) ·
May 18 ·
Janusz Kruk, Polish musician (b. 1946) ·
Jake Leicht, American athlete (b. 1919) ·
May 19 – James Bate,
American actor (b. 1945) ·
May 21 – T. B. Ilangaratne,
Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (b. 1913) ·
May 22 ·
Abraham Moles, French sociologist and
psychologist (b. 1920) ·
Tony Accardo, American gangster (b. 1906) ·
May 23 ·
Atahualpa Yupanqui,
Argentine singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1908) ·
Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939) ·
William Keene, American actor (b. 1915) ·
Francis McFadzean, Baron McFadzean of Kelvinside,
British industrialist (b. 1915) ·
May 25 ·
Philip Habib, Lebanese-born American
diplomat (b. 1920) ·
Tulio Demicheli, Argentine film director
(b. 1914) ·
May 30 – Karl Carstens, German politician and
statesman, 7th President
of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1914) June[edit] ·
June 2 – Philip Dunne,
American screenwriter and director (b. 1908) ·
June 3 ·
Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908) ·
Patrick Peyton, American priest and saint
(b. 1909) ·
June 4 – Carl Stotz, American founder of Little League
Baseball (b. 1910) ·
June 7 – Bill France, Sr., American founder of NASCAR (b. 1909) ·
June 10 – Sir Glyn Jones,
British colonial administrator (b. 1908) ·
June 11 – Chitrananda
Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (b. 1930) ·
June 15 – Warren Prall Watters,
Founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch (b. 1890) ·
June 18 ·
Carlos Humberto
Perette, Argentinian politician, former Vice President (b. 1915) ·
Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896) ·
Peter Allen,
Australian singer, songwriter (b. 1944) ·
June 19 – Kathleen McKane
Godfree, British tennis player (b. 1896) ·
June 21 ·
Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (b. 1922) ·
Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop
proprietor (b. 1922)[importance?] ·
Li Xiannian, 3rd President
of the People's Republic of China and one of the Eight
Elders of the Communist Party of China (b. 1909) ·
June 21 – Rudra Mohammad
Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1956) ·
June 22 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927) ·
June 24 – Vera Griner, Russian rhythmitician (b. 1890) ·
June 25 ·
Jerome Brown, American football player
(b. 1965) ·
Sir James
Stirling, British architect (b. 1926) ·
June 26 – Buddy Rogers,
American wrestler (b. 1921) ·
June 27 – Allan Jones,
American actor (b. 1907) ·
June 28 ·
Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion
(b. 1936) ·
Guy Nève, racing driver (b. 1955) ·
June 29 ·
Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1919) ·
Pierre Billotte, French Army officer and
politician (b. 1906) ·
May Farquharson, Jamaican social worker,
birth control advocate, philanthropist and reformer (b. 1894) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Camarón de la Isla,
Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950) ·
July 4 ·
Ástor Piazzolla,
Argentine tango composer (b. 1921) ·
Francis Perrin, French nuclear physicist
(b. 1901) ·
July 5 – Paul Hackman, Canadian musician (b. 1953) ·
July 7 – Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish Olympic athlete
(b. 1927) ·
July 9 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912) ·
July 10 ·
Albert Pierrepoint,
British executioner (b. 1905) ·
Doris Tate, American campaigner for the
rights of crime victims (b. 1924) ·
July 11 – Deng Yingchao, Chinese Communist politician,
widow of Zhou Enlai (b. 1904) ·
July 12 – Florence McClung, American painter,
printmaker, and art teacher (b. 1894) ·
July 13 ·
Alex Wojciechowicz,
American football player and member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1915) ·
Cicely Williams, Jamaican physician
(b. 1893) ·
July 14 – Giuseppe Prezzolini,
Italian literary critic, journalist, editor, and writer (b. 1882) ·
July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922) ·
July 16 – Buck Buchanan, American football player
(b. 1940) ·
July 18 ·
Rudolph Ising, American cartoon animator
(b. 1903) ·
Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter. (b. 1896) ·
July 19 ·
Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (b. 1940) ·
Heinz Galinski, German President of
the Central
Council of Jews (b. 1912) ·
Allen Newell, American computer scientist
(b. 1927) ·
July 22 ·
Suleiman Frangieh,
Lebanese politician, 5th President of Lebanon (b. 1910) ·
Alexander McKee,
British journalist, military historian and diver, discoverer of the Mary Rose (born 1918) ·
John Meyendorff, Russian scholar (b. 1926) ·
July 23 ·
Rosemary Sutcliff,
British author (b. 1920) ·
July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898) ·
July 25 – Alfred Drake, American actor (b. 1914) ·
July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943) ·
July 27 – Anthony Salerno, American mobster (b.1911) ·
July 29 – Ed Ocampo, Filipino basketball player and
coach (b. 1938) ·
July 30 ·
Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915) ·
Irene Silva de
Santolalla, Peruvian politician (b. 1902) ·
Joe Shuster, Canadian-American comic book
artist (b. 1914) ·
July 31 – Leonard Cheshire, British war hero,
activist, and philanthropist (b. 1917) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter
(b. 1947) ·
August 3 ·
Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist politician
(b. 1935) ·
Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and
politician (b. 1899) ·
August 4 ·
František Tomášek,
Czech Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1899) ·
Seichō
Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909) ·
August 5 ·
Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921) ·
Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954) ·
August 6 – Simcha Bunim Alter,
the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger (b. 1898) ·
August 7 ·
Francisco
Fernández Ordóñez, Spanish politician, former Foreign minister
(b. 1930) ·
Lilo Milchsack, German promoter of
Anglo-German relations (b. 1905) ·
Fereydoun Farrokhzad,
Iranian entertainer (b. 1938) ·
August 8 ·
Abu al-Qasim
al-Khoei, Iranian-Iraqi Shia ayatollah and scholar (b. 1899) ·
Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist
(b. 1966) ·
August 10 – Annisteen Allen, American blues singer
(b. 1920) ·
August 12 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912) ·
August 16 – Mark Heard, American singer (b. 1951) ·
John Sturges, American film director
(b. 1911) ·
Keith Henderson, Scottish painter (b. 1911) ·
August 19 – Curtis M. Scott, American role-playing game
designer (birth unknown, age 32) ·
August 22 – Hallowell Davis, American physiologist,
otolaryngologist and researcher (b. 1896) ·
August 23 – Charles August
Nichols, American animator and film director (b. 1910) ·
August 28 – Tan Qixiang, Chinese historian (b. 1911) September[edit] ·
Morris Carnovsky, American actor (b. 1897) ·
Piotr Jaroszewicz,
Polish politician, Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1909) ·
September 2 – Barbara McClintock,
American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902) ·
September 4 – John van Dreelen, Dutch actor (b. 1922) ·
Billy Herman, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame) (b. 1909) ·
Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910) ·
September 6 – Mervyn Johns, Welsh actor (b. 1899) ·
Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932) ·
Ruth Nelson,
American actress (b. 1905) ·
Hans F. Koenekamp,
American special effects artist and cinematographer (b. 1891) ·
Dario Cabanelas, Spanish orientalist
(b. 1916) ·
Princess
Margaret of Denmark (b. 1895) ·
September 19 – Wu Zhonghua, Chinese physicist,
pioneered three-dimensional
flow theory (b. 1917) ·
William Penn Mott
Jr., American director of Oakland Zoo, East Bay Regional Park
District, California State Parks and U.S. National Park Service (b. 1909) ·
Bill Williams,
American actor (b. 1915) ·
September 22 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player
(b. 1948) ·
September 25 – César Manrique,
Spanish artist (b. 1919) ·
September 29 – Paul Jabara, American actor, singer, and
songwriter (b. 1948) October[edit] ·
October 4 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver
(b. 1936) ·
October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939) ·
October 6 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922) ·
Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904) ·
Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author
(b. 1930) ·
October 8 – Willy Brandt, German politician and
statesman, 29th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913) ·
October 11 – Choi Sae-hwang, South Korean lawyer and
Vice-Minister of Defense (b. 1919) ·
October 12 – Ulysses Guimarães,
Brazilian politician (b. 1916) ·
October 14 – Willie Waddell, Scottish footballer
(b. 1921) ·
October 15 – Oliver
Franks, Baron Franks, British civil servant, diplomat and
philosopher (b. 1905) ·
October 16 – Shirley Booth, American film, radio, stage,
and television actress (b. 1898) ·
October 17 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor,
scientist and politician (b. 1912) ·
Arthur Wint, Jamaican Olympic runner
(b. 1920) ·
Gert Bastian, German politician (b. 1923) ·
Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947) ·
October 21 – Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921) ·
Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908) ·
Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939) ·
October 24 – Laurie Colwin, American author (b. 1944) ·
October 25 – Adelino da Palma
Carlos, Portuguese politician, 102nd Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1905) ·
October 27 – David Bohm, American-born physicist,
philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917) ·
October 29 – Sir Kenneth MacMillan,
British choreographer (b. 1929) ·
October 31 – Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player
(b. 1974) November[edit] ·
November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer
(b. 1892) ·
George Klein,
Canadian inventor (b. 1904) ·
José Luis
Sáenz de Heredia, Spanish film director (b. 1911) ·
November 5 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (b. 1900) ·
Alexander
Dubček, Slovakian politician, former First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921) ·
Jack Kelly,
American actor (b. 1927) ·
Richard Yates,
American writer (b. 1926) ·
November 10 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921) ·
November 11 – Earle Meadows, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1913) ·
November 19 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938) ·
November 21 – Kaysone Phomvihane,
Laotian statesman and Communist Party leader, 11th Prime Minister of
Laos and 2nd President of Laos (b. 1920) ·
November 22 – Sterling Holloway,
American actor (b. 1905) ·
Roy Acuff, American singer (b. 1903) ·
Mohamed Benhima, 5th Prime Minister
of Morocco (b. 1924) ·
November 25 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah,
2nd President of Ghana (b. 1903) ·
November 26 – John Sharp,
English actor (b. 1920) ·
November 27 – George M. Ferris, American investment banker
and philanthropist (b. 1893) ·
Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (b. 1914) ·
Jean Dieudonné,
French mathematician (b. 1906) ·
November 30 – Peter Blume, American painter and sculptor
(b. 1906) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Esau Khamati Oriedo,
Kenyan of African ancestry; an anti-colonialism activist and crusader
(b. 1888) ·
December 2 – Michael Gothard, British actor (b. 1939) ·
Luis Alcoriza, Mexican film director
(b. 1918) ·
Nureddin al-Atassi,
Syrian Baathist,
54th Prime Minister of
Syria and 17th President of Syria (b. 1929) ·
Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian
of John Lennon (b. 1906) ·
Percy Herbert,
English actor (b. 1920) ·
Jean Bell Thomas, American festival promoter
(b. 1881) ·
Richard J. Hughes,
American politician, 45th Governor of New
Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
(b. 1909) ·
December 9 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor
(b. 1920) ·
Celia Gámez, Argentinian actress (b. 1908) ·
Dan Maskell, British tennis coach and
commentator (b. 1908) ·
Ali Amini, Iranian politician and 67th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1905) ·
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist
and playwright (b. 1901) ·
Sir Robert Rex, 1st Premier of Niue
(b. 1909) ·
Günther Anders,
German philosopher (b. 1902) ·
Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909) ·
December 18 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer
(b. 1915) ·
Stella Adler, American acting teacher
(b. 1901) ·
Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist
(b. 1903) ·
Albert King, American blues musician
(b. 1923) ·
Frederick William
Franz, 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of
Pennsylvania (b. 1893) ·
Milo Sperber, Polish-born British actor,
director and writer (b. 1911) ·
Ted Willis,
British television dramatist and author (b. 1914) ·
December 23 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (b. 1950) ·
December 24 – Peyo,
Belgian comics artist, creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928) ·
Ted Croker, English former football official
(b. 1924) ·
Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915) ·
Jules Gros, Breton linguist specializing in
popular language (b. 1890) ·
Jan Cienski, Ukrainian clandestine Roman
Catholic prelate (b. 1905) ·
Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist
(b. 1912) ·
December 28 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player
(b. 1917) ·
December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress and singer
(b. 1897) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Rudolph A. Marcus ·
Medicine – Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs ·
Economics – Gary Becker References |
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