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