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The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Decades: 1970s · 1980s ·
Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic 1990s · 2000s ·
Ideal" by the United Nations. 2010s
Years: 1991 · 1992 · 1993 ·
1994 · 1995 · 1996 ·
Contents 1997
April
April 2 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, commits suicide at age 27 at his home in
Seattle. His body was found three days later.
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 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the
"Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used
during apartheid.
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. Nelson Mandela casts his
China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while vote in the 1994 South
landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people. African general election
April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections,
marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson
Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the
following month.
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 18 – The Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is deemed safe for consumption by
the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a
license for human consumption.
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.[2]
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".
May 26 - Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic.
June
June 1 – The Republic of South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth after the first democratic
election. South Africa left the then-British Commonwealth in 1961.
June 6–8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a
one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the
Simpson home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held
liable in a civil suit.
June 15 – Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
June 17
NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford
Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion,
where he surrenders.
The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
June 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing
building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
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. Brown spots mark impact sites of
July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il-sung dies, but the Shoemaker–Levy Comet on
officially continues to hold office. Jupiter's southern hemisphere.
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 11 – The formation of Hurricane John which
would go one to become the longest-lasting tropical
cyclone recorded worldwide. It would dissipate on
September 13th, lasting a little over 31 days.
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 16 – The release of the IBM Simon smartphone,
being the first ever commercially available smartphone. Hurricane John near peak intensity to
the south of Hawaii on August 23
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.[3]
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.[4]
Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from
Northern Ireland.
September 17 – Heather Whitestone is crowned the first deaf Miss America; she is crowned
Miss America 1995.
September 19
U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimately elected leader,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power.
Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem, solving the 357-year-old mathematical
theorem first proposed by Pierre de Fermat in 1637. He would publish it in 1995.
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 – Mohammed Omar would found the Taliban movement in his home town of
Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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.
The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee, becoming the main
international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
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.
Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid Johan Heyns is assassinated; the
killers are never apprehended or identified.
November 6
A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people.
Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped
in time to avoid casualties.
November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
November 8
Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in
taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm
congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both
houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti and the
Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
November 11 – Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, was established.
November 13
Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
Dale Earnhardt wins his 7th and final NASCAR championship.
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
Sony releases the PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million
units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.
Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only
directly-elected Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected
Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly-elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
December 11
Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.
A bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434 1 person is killed and 10 people
are injured.
December 13
The trial of former President Mengistu begins in Ethiopia.
Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, England, 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 Rosemary West, 41, is charged
with 10 murders.
December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.
December 15 – The initial release of Netscape
Navigator, a web browser that will control the majority of
the usage share for web browsers for the rest of the
1990s.
December 19
A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican
peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial
The Netscape Navigator web browser
meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect
as it first appeared in December
on global financial markets. This prompts a
1994
US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration.
Civil unions between same-sex couples are
legalized in Sweden.
December 26 - GIGN storm Air France Flight 8969 at Marseille and kill 4 Armed Islamic
Group of Algeria terrorists.
December 31 – This date is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time
zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter
becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.
Date unknown
Pyroclastic flows – clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting
Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, causing sixty deaths.
Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This
marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.
The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million, making it the first African state to have a
population above 100 million.
Births
Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November ·
December
January—February
January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist[5]
January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player[6]
January 6 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model and singer
January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer[7]
January 14
Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner[8]
Kai, South Korean singer
January 17 – Lucy Boynton, American-British actress
January 18
Dakota Fanning
March–April
March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
March 2 – Nikkie de Jager, Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger
March 5 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
March 7
Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
Jordan Pickford, English footballer
March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer
March 11 − Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer
March 12 – Christina Grimmie, American singer (d. 2016)[16] Justin Bieber
May – June
May 6 – Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer[20]
May 14 – Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer[21]
May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter[22]
May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer[23]
May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver[24]
May 24
Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-
instrumentalist
Emma McKeon, Australian swimmer Marquinhos
September–October
September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter[31] Madelaine Petsch
September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
September 8 – Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
September 10 – Mehdi Torabi, Iranian footballer
September 12
Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter[32] Nafi Thiam
Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer[33]
September 26 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian sprinter
September 29 – Halsey, American singer[34]
September 30
Raphaël Coleman, English actor (d. 2020)
Aliya Mustafina, Russian artistic gymnast
October 1 – Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer
October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress[35]
October 10
Ilhoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor
Suzy, South Korean singer and actress
October 12
Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer[36]
October 14 – Jared Goff, American football player
October 24
Bruno Fernandes
Bruma, Portuguese footballer
Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer[37]
October 25 – Manzoor Pashteen, Pakistani human rights activist
November–December
November 8 – Lauren Alaina, American singer, songwriter
November 10
Deaths
Giannis
Antetokounmpo
Deaths
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)[43]
January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American writer (b. 1901)
January 4 – R. D. Burman, Indian music composer (b. 1939)[44]
January 5 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
January 7 – Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (b. 1909)
January 8 – Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
January 13 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat
(b. 1937) Cesar Romero
January 14
Esther Ralston, American actress (b. 1902)
Federica Montseny, Spanish politician (b. 1905)
January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)[45]
January 17
György Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1921)[46]
Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
Chung Il-kwon, South Korean politician (b. 1917)
Telly Savalas
January 20
Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and 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 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet marshal (b. 1917)
January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926) Sir Matt Busby
March
March 2 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
March 4 – John Candy, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1950)
March 5 – Abdullah al-Sallal, 1st President of the Yemen Arab
Republic (b. 1917)
March 6 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)[54]
March 9
Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
John Candy
March 10 – D. J. M. Mackenzie, New Zealand-born British medical
officer (b. 1905)
March 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (b. 1909)
March 17
Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (b. 1911)
Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
March 21
Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
March 22 Melina Mercouri
April
April 1
Léon Degrelle, Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator (b. 1906)
Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
April 3 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (b. 1926)
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, American singer and songwriter (b. 1967)
April 6
Sheck Exley, American cave diver (b. 1949) Kurt Cobain
Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (b. 1955)
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 9 – Marcel Ichac, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (b. 1906)
April 13 – Nikolai Kryuchkov, Russian actor (b. 1911)
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 29
Russell Kirk, American political philosopher (b. 1918)
Marcel Bernard, French tennis champion (b. 1914)
April 30 Juvénal
Habyarimana
Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1930)
May
May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
May 7 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
Richard Nixon
May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
May 12
Erik Erikson, Danish-American developmental psychologist (b.
1902)
Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910)
May 13 – Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver (b. 1920)
May 15
Royal Dano, American actor (b. 1922)
Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)
Ayrton Senna
May 16 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
May 19
Luis Ocaña, Spanish bicycle racer (b. 1945)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist,
and First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
May 21
Giovanni Goria, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1943)
Masayoshi Ito, Japanese politician (b. 1913)
Ralph Miliband, Polish-born British academic (b. 1924)
May 28 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920) Jacqueline
May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (b. 1912) Kennedy Onassis
May 30
Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader (b. 1899)
Marcel Bich, French businessman (b. 1914)
Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist (b. 1909)
June
June 4
Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect (b. 1909)
Stephen McNally, American actor (b. 1911)
Massimo Troisi, Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (b.
1953)
June 6 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
June 7 – Dennis Potter, English dramatist (b. 1935)
June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903) Barry Sullivan
June 10
Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman (b. 1929)
Edward Kienholz, American artist and sculptor (b. 1927)
June 12
Ron Goldman, American model, waiter (b. 1968)
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, American Hasidic rabbinical
leader (b. 1902)
Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American actress, waitress (b.
1959)
Menachem Mendel
June 13 – K. T. Stevens, American actress (b. 1919) Schneerson
June 14 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
June 15 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
June 20 – Jay Miner, American computer pioneer (b. 1932)
June 21 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
June 26 – A. den Doolaard, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1901)
July
July 2
Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (b. 1969)
Maung Maung, President of Myanmar (b. 1925)
July 3 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
July 7
Anita Garvin, American actress (b. 1907)
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer Kim Il-sung
(b. 1907)
Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
July 8
Christian-Jaque, French film director (b. 1904)
Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
July 11 – Gary Kildall, American computer inventor (b. 1942)
July 16 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918)
July 17 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
July 21 – Pere Calders, Spanish writer and cartoonist (b. 1912)
July 27 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (b. 1960)
July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)
August
August 3 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (b. 1925) Julian Schwinger
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 16 – John Doucette, American actor (b. 1921) Peter Cushing
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)
Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet (b. 1932)
August 20 – Aleksandar Petrović, French film director (b. 1929)
August 21 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis champion (b. 1915)
August 23 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian film director (b. 1917) Linus Pauling
August 27 – Roberto Goyeneche, Argentine tango singer (b. 1926)
August 30 – Lindsay Anderson, British film director (b. 1923)
September
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
Karl Popper
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 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 Robert Bloch
Republic of the Congo (b. 1921)
September 20 – Jule Styne, English-born American songwriter (b.
1905)
September 23 – Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917)
September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)
September 27 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (b.
1908)
September 30
November
November 1 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
November 2 – Grisha Filipov, 38th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1919)
November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
November 10 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (b. 1922)
November 11 – Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, British composer (b. 1907)
November 12
Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940)
J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish novelist (b. 1906)
November 13
Wilma Rudolph
Vladimir Ivashko, Ukrainian Soviet Communist politician (b. 1932)
Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
November 14 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader
(b. 1907)
November 19 – Julian Symons, British crime writer and poet (b. 1912)
November 21 – Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer (b.
1899)
November 23 – Alberto Natusch, Bolivian general, 55th President of
Bolivia (b. 1933)
November 28 Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Spanish cardinal (b. 1907)
November 30
Guy Debord, French theorist, writer, and filmmaker (b. 1931)
Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
December
December 4 – Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (b. 1929)
December 6 – Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (b. 1933)
December 8
Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b. 1927)
Enrique Líster, Spanish communist politician and military officer (b.
1907)
December 9 – Max Bill, Swiss architect and artist (b. 1908)
Stuart Roosa
December 10 – Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
December 11 – Stanisław Maczek, Polish general (b. 1892)
December 12 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
December 13 – Antoine Pinay, French politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1891)
December 18 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1896)
December 20 – Dean Rusk, American diplomat, 54th Secretary of State (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
Karl Schiller, German economist and politician (b. 1911)
Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (b. 1933)
December 31 – Woody Strode, American athlete and actor (b. 1914)
Dean Rusk
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
Michael Novak
Fields Medal
Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
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