Year '1995' ('
MCMXCV') was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995
Gregorian calendar).
The year 1995 was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-
2005).
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Events
January
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January 1 -
Austria,
Finland and
Sweden enter the
European Union.
★
January 1 - The
World Trade Organization is established to replace
GATT.
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January 1 - The
Draupner wave in the
North Sea in
Norway is detected, confirming the existence of
freak waves.
★
January 4 - The
104th Congress convenes, the first controlled by Republicans in both houses since
1953.
★
January 6-
January 7 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in
Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander
Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for
Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind,
Ramzi Yousef, is arrested 1 month later.
★
January 9 -
Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the
Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
★
January 16 - An
avalanche hits the village
Súðavík in
Iceland, killing 14 people.
★
January 17 - A magnitude 7.3
earthquake called the "
Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near
Kobe,
Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.
★
January 25 - The
Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at
Andøya,
Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
★
January 25 -
Eric Cantona of
Manchester United, after being red carded, kicks a
Crystal Palace fan in the head and is suspended until October.
★
January 29 - The
San Francisco 49ers become the first
NFL franchise to win 5
Super Bowls, as they defeat the
San Diego Chargers 49-26 in
Super Bowl XXIX at
Joe Robbie Stadium in
Miami,
Florida.
★
January 29 -
Tatachilla Lutheran College officially opens at
McLaren Vale,
South Australia.
★
January 31 - U.S. President
Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help
Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
★
February 9 - ''
STS-63'': Dr.
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and
Michael Foale become the first
African American and
Briton, respectively, to
walk in space.
★
February 13 - A
United Nations tribunal on
human rights violations in the
Balkans charges 21
Bosnian Serb commanders with
genocide and crimes against humanity.
★
February 15 -
Hacking:
Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the
FBI and charged with breaking into some of the
United States' most
"secure" computers systems.
★
February 15 -
Taiwan's deadliest fire at a
karaoke restaurant in
Taichung kills 64.
★
February 15 -
Dublin -
Republic of Ireland vs
England soccer match in
Lansdowne Road abandoned due to violence and rioting.
★
February 17 -
Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of
murder for the December
1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
★
February 21 -
Serkadji prison mutiny in
Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
★
February 21 -
Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old
Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right
National Front activists.
★
February 21 -
Steve Fossett lands in
Leader, Saskatchewan,
Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the
Pacific Ocean in a
balloon.
★
February 23 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 -- The Dow's
first ever close above 4,000.
★
February 26 - The
United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm,
Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker
Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by
speculating on the
Tokyo Stock Exchange.
★
February 27 - In
Denver, Colorado, the old
Stapleton Airport closes; it is replaced by a new
Denver International Airport, the largest airport in the United States.
★
February 28 - Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in
Minnesota of manufacturing
ricin.
March
★
March 1 - Polish Prime Minister
Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist
Jozef Oleksy.
★
March 1 -
Muntinlupa City,
Philippines officially becomes a city.
★
March 1 - In
Moscow,
Russian anti-corruption journalist
Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.
★
March 1 -
Yahoo! is founded in
Santa Clara, California.
★
March 2 -
Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of
Barings Bank.
★
March 3 - In
Somalia, the
United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
★
March 6 - Adrianus Jacobs, chairman of Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV, announces that his company will buy bankrupt
Barings PLC Bank for a nominal price.
★
March 6 - On an episode of ''
The Jenny Jones Show'' ("Same-Sex Crushes"),
Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend
Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.
★
March 13 - David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans working for a military contractor in
Kuwait, are arrested after straying into
Iraq.
★
March 14 - Astronaut
Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a
Russian launch vehicle (the ''
Soyuz TM-21''),lifting off from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.
★
March 18 - Basketball superstar
Michael Jordan announces he's returning to basketball with his former team, the
Chicago Bulls, and the next day returns to the basketball court facing the
Indiana Pacers wearing jersey
number 45, as opposed to his famed
number 23.
★
March 20 - Members of the
Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release
sarin gas on 5 separate railway trains in
Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
★
March 22 - Cosmonaut
Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in
outer space.
★
March 24 - For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of
Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
★
March 26 - The
Schengen Agreement easing cross-border travel goes into effect in several European countries.
★
March 30 - A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of
Japan.
★
March 31 - In
Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar
Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by
Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
April
★
April 2 - An explosion in
Gaza kills 8, including a Hamas leader.
★
April 5 - The
U.S. House of Representatives votes 246-188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.
★
April 7 - House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the
Contract with America.
★
April 19 -
Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Murrah Federal Building.
Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices,
Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.
★
April 24 - A
Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in
Sacramento, California.
May
★
May 7 -
Jacques Chirac is elected president of
France.
★
May 11 - In
New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
★
May 13 -
Earthquake hit the regions of
Kozani and
Grevena in
Greece, with an intensity of 6,6R.
★
May 14 - The
Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh
reincarnation of the
Panchen Lama.
★
May 16 - Japanese police besiege the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo near
Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader
Shoko Asahara.
★
May 16 -
Jacques Chirac assumes the presidency of
France.
★
May 17 -
Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a
tank rampage in
San Diego.
★
May 20 -
Everton FC beats Manchester United 1-0 to win the FA Cup.
★
May 21 -
Pope John Paul II canonizes John Sarkander during his visit to
Olomouc, the
Czech Republic.
★
May 23 -
Oklahoma City bombing: In
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
★
May 24 -
AFC Ajax beats AC Milan 1-0 to win the Champions League.
★
May 25 -
Egan v. Canada: The
Supreme Court of Canada rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited grounds of discrimination under the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
★
May 25 - The
Quebec Nordiques are sold and move to
Denver, Colorado.
★
May 27 - In
Culpeper, Virginia, actor
Christopher Reeve is
paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his
horse in a riding competition.
★
May 28 -
Neftegorsk,
Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude
earthquake, killing at least 2000 people (2/3rd of the town's population).
June
★
June 1 - The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins. (see
1995 Atlantic hurricane season).
★
June 2 -
United States Air Force Captain
Scott O'Grady's
F-16 is shot down over
Bosnia while patrolling the
NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady survives on bugs and grass until he is rescued.
★
June 2 -
SS Captain
Erich Priebke is
extradited from
Argentina to
Italy.
★
June 5 - The
Bose-Einstein condensate is created.
★
June 6 -
U.S. astronaut
Norman Thagard breaks
NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the
Russian space station
Mir.
★
June 8 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain
Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
★
June 13 -
French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in
French Polynesia.
★
June 15 - During his murder trial,
O.J. Simpson puts on a pair of gloves that were found soaked with
blood at the murder scene. The gloves appear not to fit, prompting defense attorney
Johnny Cochran to remark: "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit."
★
June 15 - A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6.2, hits the city of
Egion,
Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.
★
June 16 -
Salt Lake City is awarded the
2002 Winter Olympics.
★
June 20 - Oil multinational
Royal Dutch Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the
Brent Spar oil rig at sea.
★
June 22 -
Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked Nippon Airlines 747 at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of
Shoko Asahara.
★
June 24 - The
New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored
Detroit Red Wings to win their first
Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.
★
June 29 -
Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo
circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
★
June 29 - ''
STS-71'':
Space Shuttle ''
Atlantis'' docks with the
Russian
Mir space station for the first time.
★
June 29 - The
Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of
Seoul,
South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
★
June 29 -
Summer -
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly
France and
Russia, are starting to become increasingly more interested in making financial deals with
Iraq than disarming the country.
July
The Taiwan Strait
★
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by Thursday,
August 31, 1995.
★
Midwestern United States heat wave: An unprecedented heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States for most of the month. Temperatures exceed 104°F (40°C) in the afternoon in numerous cities for 5 straight days. At least 3000 people die, 750 in
Chicago alone.
★
July 1 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
★
July 4 - UK
Prime Minister John Major wins his battle to remain leader of the
Conservative Party.
★
July 5 - The
U.S. Congress passes the
Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, requiring that producers of
pornography keep records of all models who are filmed or photographed. This act also requires that all models be at least 18 years of age.
★
July 8 - A volcanic eruption begins on the island of
Montserrat.
★
July 10 - Burmese dissident
Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.
★
July 11 -
Bosnian Serbs march into
Srebrenica while
UN Dutch
peacekeepers leave. Large numbers of
Bosniak men and boys are killed in the
Srebrenica massacre.
★
July 13 - Dozens of cities, most notably
Chicago and
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, set all-time record high temperatures. Hundreds in these and other cities die as the
July 1995 heat wave reaches its peak.
★
July 17 - The
Nasdaq Composite index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
★
July 21-
July 26 -
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The
People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of
Taiwan.
★
July 23 - David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans held as spies by
Iraq, are released by
Saddam Hussein.
★
July 27 - In
Washington, DC, the
Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
★
Iraq disarmament crisis: Following the defection of his son-in-law,
Hussein Kamel al Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation,
Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of
Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs.
Iraq also withdraws its last
UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
August
★
August - A dam at the Omai mine in Guyana ruptures, spilling cyanide into the Essequibo and Omai rivers.
★
August 4 -
Croatian forces launch
Operation Storm against
Serbian forces in
Krajina, with the cooperation of the
ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central
Bosnia.
★
August 5 - Croatian forces take
Knin and continue to advance.
★
August 6 - Hundreds in
Hiroshima,
Nagasaki,
Washington, D.C., and
Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the
atomic bomb.
★
August 7 -
Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered
ceasefire; remaining
Serbian forces start surrendering.
★
August 11 -
Russell Hill subway accident in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
★
August 14 - An avalanche buries
Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; she is reported dead.
★
August 24 -
Microsoft releases
Windows 95.
★
August 28 - A
Serbian
Mortar bomb near a
Sarajevo market square kills 37 civilians.
★
August 30 - The
NATO bombing campaign against
Serb artillery positions begins in
Bosnia, continuing into October. At the same time
ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the
Serb Army around
Sarajevo,
central Bosnia and
Bosnian Krajina.
September
★
September -
DVD, an
optical disc computer storage media format, is announced.
★
September 4 - The
Fourth World Conference on Women opens in
Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
★
September 6 - With the jury absent,
Los Angeles Police Department detective
Mark Fuhrman invokes his
Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of
O.J. Simpson.
★
September 6 -
NATO air strikes continue, after repeated attempts at a solution with the
Serbs fail.
★
September 6 -
Cal Ripken Jr of the
Baltimore Orioles breaks the all time consecutive games played record in MLB
★
September 22 - American millionaire
Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996
Republican presidential nomination.
★
September 23 -
Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in
Phoenix, Arizona on charges of
industrial espionage. His sales to
Cuba,
China,
North Korea and
Iran are believed to have involved
Intel and
AMD trade secrets worth USD$10-20 million.
★
September 26 - The trial against former Italian Prime Minister
Giulio Andreotti, accused of
Mafia connections, begins.
★
September 27-
September 28 -
Bob Denard's
mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the
Comoros; the local army does not resist.
October
★
October 1 - Ten people are convicted of bombing the
World Trade Center in
1993.
★
October 3 -
O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman. (He will be found liable in a civil trial in
1997).
★
October 4 -
France launches a counter-
coup in the
Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest
Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France. Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the new interim president.
Hurricane Opal makes landfall at
Pensacola Beach, FL as a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds.
★
October 6 -
Michael Mayor and
Didier Queloz announce the discovery of
51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed
Extrasolar planet.
★
October 9 -
1995 Palo Verde derailment: An
Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near
Palo Verde,
Arizona.
★
October 15 - The
Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the
New York Jets at
Clemson Memorial Stadium in
South Carolina.
★
October 16 - The
Million Man March is held in
Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by
Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan.
★
October 23 - In
Houston, Texas,
Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of
Selena Quintanilla Perez and three days later would be sentenced to life in prison. Saldivar will be eligible for parole in
2025.
★
October 24 - A total
solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.
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★
October 25 - A
Metra commuter train slams into a school bus in
Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing 7 students.
★
October 26 - An
avalanche hits the village
Flateyri in
Iceland, killing 20 people.
★
October 28 - The
Atlanta Braves win the World Series.
★
October 28 - Fire breaks on a crowded
metro train in
Baku,
Azerbaijan killing more than 300 passengers. World's worst metro disaster.
★
October 30 -
Quebec separatists narrowly lose a
referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from
Canada
November
★
November 1 - Participants in the
Yugoslav War begin negotiations in
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Dayton, Ohio.
★
November 1 - The
U.S. House of Representatives votes to ban "partial birth"
abortions by a vote of 288-139.
★
November 2 - The
Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of
Erich Priebke, ex-S.S. captain.
★
November 3 - At
Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. President
Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
★
November 5 - The British rock band
Oasis plays the biggest indoor concert in Europe ever at
Earl's Court, London.
★
November 10 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from
Israel and
Jordan, UN inspector Ritter intercepts 240
Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.
★
November 10 - In
Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist
Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with 8 others from the
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
★
November 12 - Agreement and announcement of the
Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to on the implementation of the
Harare Declaration, by
Heads of Government of the
Commonwealth of Nations.
★
November 14 - A budget standoff between
Democrats and
Republicans in the
Congress of the United States, forces the federal government to temporarily close
national parks and
museums, and run most government offices with skeleton staff.
★
November 16 - A
United Nations tribunal charges
Radovan Karadžić and
Ratko Mladic with
genocide during the
Bosnian War.
★
November 21 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses 2 millennium marks in a single year. It will do it again in
1997,
1999 and
2006.
★
November 21 - A peace agreement for
Bosnia is reached.
★
November 22 -
Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff (the other is
Myra Hindley).
★
November 22 - Six year old
Elisa Izquierdo's child abuse related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in
New York City's
child welfare system, so as to prevent similar tragedies.
★
November 22 -
Eilat,
Israel,
Egypt, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake in Israel's history - 7.2 mW. Curiously, within a week there is attempted historical revisionism downwards to 6.2 with
Gulf of Aqaba architects and engineers holding the bag for alleged 'shoddy construction'. A 6.2 mW earthquake is only 1/32nd the magnitude of a 7.2 quake.
★
November 28 - The
Barcelona Treaty is signed by 27 attending nations.
★
November 28 - U.S. President
Bill Clinton signs
a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph
speed limit.
★
November 30 -
Javier Solana becomes the new
NATO General Secretary.
December
★
December 1 - First recorded educational
Virtual field trip. The
audioconference live from Antarctica involved interaction between two teachers and two schools in
Canterbury,
New Zealand (LEARNZ '95). Schools from all over
New Zealand listened in to the audioconference.
★
Strikes paralyzed France's public sector.
★
December 7 -
NASA's
Galileo probe reenters over
Jupiter.
★
December 14 - The
Dayton Peace Agreement is signed in Paris.
★
December 15 - The
European Court of Justice rules that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer between
European Union member states at the end of their contracts (see
Bosman ruling).
★
December 15 - Because of the "quadruple-witching"
option expiration, volume on the
New York Stock Exchange hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since
October 20,
1987 when the Dow staged a stunning recovery a day after
Black Monday.
★
December 16 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of UNSCOM, dredge the
Tigris River near
Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited
Russian made missile instruments and components.
★
December 30 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at
Altnaharra in the
Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at
Braemar,
Aberdeenshire in
1895 and
1982.
★ The
Republic of Texas group claims to have formed a provisional government in
Texas.
Undated
★ The oldest
flute, made by
Neanderthal, was found by
Dr. Ivan Turk in the cave Divje babe I in
Slovenia. See:
prehistoric music.
★ The
Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in
Kikwit,
Zaire in Central
Africa.
★
Audi A4 automobile goes on sale as a 1996 model.
★
Katherine Prescott elected president of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
★
Capital One is founded.
Ongoing
★
Search engine revolution.
Fictional
The following are references to year 1995 in fiction:
★ Television:
:
★
Dr. Samuel Beckett, theorizing that one could time travel within his own life time, steps into the quantum accelerator and vanishes in the television series ''
Quantum Leap'', set in 1995.
★ Computer/video games:
:
★ ''
Metal Gear'' (1987) is set in 1995
:
★ '' (2004), '' (2006):
Belka invades its neighbors, setting off the
1995 Belkan War.
:
★ ''
EarthBound'' (Role Playing game)
:
★ ''
Gangs of London'' (2006). Set in 1995.
:
★ ''
Command & Conquer'' events take place.
World population
| World population |
|---|
| 1995 | 1990 | 2000 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | '5,674,380,000' | 5,263,593,000 | | 6,070,581,000 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | '707,462,000' | 622,443,000 | | 795,671,000 | |
|---|
| Asia | '3,430,052,000' | 3,167,807,000 | | 3,679,737,000 | |
|---|
| Europe | '727,405,000' | 721,582,000 | | 727,986,000 | |
|---|
| Latin-America | '481,099,000' | 441,525,000 | | 520,229,000 | |
|---|
| Northern America | '299,438,000' | 283,549,000 | | 315,915,000 | |
|---|
| Oceania | '28,924,000' | 26,687,000 | | 31,043,000 | |
|---|
Births
January - June
★
January 4 -
María Isabel, Spanish singer
★
February 8 -
Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
★
March 19 -
Philip Bolden, American actor
★
May 2 -
Kelsey Lewis, American actress
★
May 12 -
Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors
★
May 24 -
Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
July - December
★
July 7 -
Chloe Greenfield, American actress
★
July 9 -
Georgie Henley, English actress
★
August 8 -
Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
★
August 15 -
Luke Benward, American actor
★
August 24 -
Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
★
September 13 -
Mitch Holleman, American actor
★
September 20 -
Sammi Hanratty, American actress
★
September 22 -
Juliette Goglia, American actress
★
October 17 -
Alexandria, McKenzie and Megan Calabrese, American triplets and actresses
★
October 25 -
Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
★
November 13 -
Stella Hudgens, American actress
★
December 5 -
David Levi, American actor and musician
★
December 6 -
Joy Gruttmann, German singer
Unconfirmed
★ (Presumably between January and June) -
Maia Mitchell, Australian actress
Deaths
January-March
★
January 1 -
Fred West, English serial killer (suicide) (b.
1941)
★
January 1 -
Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
★
January 2 -
Siyad Barre,
President of Somalia (b.
1919)
★
January 4 -
Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b.
1907)
★
January 7 -
Murray Rothbard, American economist (b.
1926)
★
January 7 -
Larry Grayson, British comedian and game show host (b.
1923)
★
January 9 -
Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b.
1937)
★
January 18 -
Adolf Butenandt, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
★
January 18 -
Ron Luciano, baseball umpire (b.
1937)
★
January 22 -
Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b.
1890)
★
January 30 -
Gerald Durrell British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b.
1925)
★
January 31 -
George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b.
1887)
★
February 2 -
Fred Perry, English tennis player (b.
1909)
★
February 2 -
Donald Pleasence, English actor (b.
1919)
★
February 4 -
Patricia Highsmith, American author (b.
1921)
★
February 12 -
Robert Bolt, English writer (b.
1924)
★
February 14 -
U Nu, Burmese politician (b.
1907)
★
February 22 -
Melvin Franklin, American singer (b.
1942)
★
February 23 -
James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b.
1916)
★
March 3 -
Howard W. Hunter, fourteenth president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1907)
★
March 5 -
Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b.
1943)
★
March 7 -
Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1946)
★
March 8 -
Ingo Schwichtenberg, drummer (
Helloween) (suicide)
★
March 12 -
Juanin Clay, American actress (b.
1949)
★
March 13 -
Leon Day, baseball player (b.
1916)
★
March 13 -
Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (b.
1912)
★
March 14 -
William Alfred Fowler, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
★
March 17 -
Ronald Kray, leading figure in
organised crime in
London,
UK (b.
1933)
★
March 17 -
Rick Aviles, American actor (b.
1952)
★
March 18 -
Robin Jacques, illustrator of children's books (b.
1920)
★
March 19 -
Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b.
1932)
★
March 23 -
Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b.
1956)
★
March 26 -
Eazy-E, American musician and record producer (b.
1963)
★
March 27 -
Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (murdered) (b.
1948)
★
March 29 -
Tony Lock, English cricketer (b.
1929)
★
March 31 -
Selena Quintanilla Perez, American singer (b.
1971)
April-June
★
April 2 -
Harvey Penick, American golfer (b.
1904)
★
April 2 -
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish chemist, Nobel-prize (b.
1908)
★
April 4 -
Kenny Everett, British comedian (b.
1944)
★
April 10 -
Morarji Desai, Indian politician (b.
1896)
★
April 14 -
Burl Ives, American singer (b.
1909)
★
April 15 -
Harry Shoulberg, American painter and
serigrapher (b.
1903)
★
April 18 -
Arturo Frondizi, President of
Argentina (b.
1908)
★
April 23 -
Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b.
1918)
★
April 24 -
Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (b.
1924)
★
April 25 -
Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b.
1911)
★
April 25 -
Andrea Fortunato, football player (b.
1971)
★
May 5 -
Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b.
1911)
★
May 6 -
Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (b.
1956)
★
May 8 -
Teresa Teng,
Taiwanese singer (b.
1953)
★
May 14 -
Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1916)
★
May 15 -
Eric Porter, English actor (b.
1928)
★
May 15 -
Ben Bubar, American activist (b.
1917)
★
May 18 -
Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b.
1903)
★
May 18 -
Alexander Godunov, Russian-born ballet dancer and actor (b.
1949)
★
May 18 -
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b.
1933)
★
May 24 -
Harold Wilson,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1916)
★
May 26 -
Friz Freleng, American animator (b.
1905)
★
May 28 -
Irfan Ljubijankic, Bosnian diplomat (b.
1952)
★
May 30 -
Ted Drake, English footballer (b.
1912)
★
June 7 -
Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist master (b.
1918)
★
June 12 -
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b.
1920)
★
June 20 -
Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b.
1911)
★
June 23 -
Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b.
1914)
★
June 24 -
Juan Manuel Fangio,
Formula One champion (b.
1911)
★
June 26 -
Ernest Walton, Irish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
★
June 29 -
Lana Turner, American actress (b.
1921)
★
June 30 -
Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (b.
1921)
July-September
★
July 1 -
Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (b.
1939)
★
July 4 -
Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b.
1919)
★
July 4 -
Bob Ross, American television painter (b.
1942)
★
July 5 -
Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (b.
1905)
★
July 17 -
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b.
1911)
★
July 18 -
Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b.
1970)
★
July 24 -
George Rodger, British photojournalist (b.
1908)
★
August 3 -
Ida Lupino, British actress (b.
1914)
★
August 3 -
Edward Whittemore, American author and Central Intelligence agent (b.
1933)
★
August 4 -
Lee Newman, musician (
Technohead)
★
August 4 -
J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (b.
1905)
★
August 7 -
Brigid Brophy, English author (b.
1929)
★
August 9 -
Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (
Grateful Dead) (b.
1942)
★
August 11 -
Phil Harris, American actor (b.
1904)
★
August 13 -
Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b.
1931)
★
August 15 -
John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b.
1906)
★
August 19 -
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b.
1910)
★
August 21 -
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1910)
★
August 29 -
Michael Ende, German author (b.
1929)
★
August 30 -
Fischer Black, American economist (b.
1938)
★
August 30 -
Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (
The Velvet Underground) (b.
1942)
★
September 11 -
Jimmy Ryce, American murder victim (b.
1985)
★
September 12 -
Jeremy Brett, English actor (b.
1933)
★
September 15 -
Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b.
1901)
★
September 15 -
Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b.
1921)
★
September 20 -
Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b.
1920)
★
September 25 -
Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b.
1891)
October-December
★
October 5 -
Linda Gary, American voice actress (b.
1944)
★
October 9 -
Alec Douglas-Home,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1903)
★
October 12 -
Johnny Gammage,
African American motorist (from a scuffle in nearly all-white
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
★
October 21 -
Maxene Andrews, American Singer part of The Andrews Sisters (b.
1916)
★
October 21 -
Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b.
1919)
★
October 21 -
Shannon Hoon, American singer (
Blind Melon) (b.
1967)
★
October 22 -
Mary Wickes, American actor (b.
1915)
★
October 26 -
Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b.
1913)
★
October -
Margaret Gorman, first Miss America (b.
1905)
★
November 4 -
Yitzhak Rabin,
Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b.
1922)
★
November 4 -
Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b.
1925)
★
November 21 -
Noel Jones, British diplomat (b.
1940)
★
November 22 -
Elisa Izquierdo, American murder victim (b.
1989)
★
December 2 -
Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b.
1913)
★
December 10 -
Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (
The Fat Boys) (b.
1967)
★
December 16 -
Johnny Moss, American poker player (b.
1907)
★
December 18 -
Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b.
1910)
★
December 22 -
James Meade, English economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1907)
★
December 23 -
Patric Knowles, English actor (b.
1911)
★
December 25 -
Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian/American musicologist (b.
1894)
★
December 25 -
Dean Martin, American actor (b.
1917)
★
December 30 -
Doris Grau, American actress (b.
1924)
★
December 30 -
Heiner Müller, German poet and playwriter (b.
1929)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Martin L. Perl,
Frederick Reines
★
Chemistry -
Paul J. Crutzen,
Mario J. Molina,
F. Sherwood Rowland
★
Medicine -
Edward B. Lewis,
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard,
Eric F. Wieschaus
★
Literature -
Seamus Heaney
★
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Templeton Prize
★
Paul Davies
Right Livelihood Award
★
András Biró /
Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance, The
Serb Civic Council (SCC),
Carmel Budiardjo /
TAPOL,
Sulak Sivaraksa
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Culture - Action in favour of Indigenous Peoples
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