1994 ([[Roman numerals|MCMXCIV]] was a common year starting on Saturday In the Gregorian calendar it was the 1994th year of the Common Era or of Anno Domini the 994th year of the 2nd millennium the 94th year of the 20th century and the 5th of the 1990s The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Charter by the United Nations

Events of 1994

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 6 – In Detroit, Michigan Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant, under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding s ex-husband. *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 Ireland government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin **[[The Superhighway Summit]]is held at UCLA s Royce Hall. It is the first conference to discuss the growing information superhighway and is presided over by U.S. Vice President Al Gore *January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russia President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of Intercontinental ballistic missile toward each countrys targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine *January 15 – The [[SS American Star]]breaks tow in the Atlantic Ocean and is beached at Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands a few days later. *January 17 – The 1994 Northridge earthquake Richter magnitude scale 6.7, hits San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California at 4:31 a.m., killing 72 and leaving 26,029 homeless. *January 19 – Cold wave#1994 Northern US/Southern Canada cold outbreak 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 20 – In South Carolina Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel (Military College) but soon drops out. *January 21 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John. *January 25 – U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform a Federal Assault Weapons Ban , and welfare reform *January 26 – A man fires 2 Blank (cartridge) at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney Australia

February

Image:William Perry official DoD photo.jpg ] *February 1 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan He accepts a plea bargain admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding. *February 3 – William J. Perry is sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense *February 4 – The Federal Open Market Committee raises the Fed Funds Inflation targeting for the first time since May 1989. The rate is raised by 25 basis point to 3¼ percent http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/19940204default.htm]. *February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers * February 6 – Markale massacres A Army of the Republika Srpska Mortar (weapon) kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. *February 9 – The Vance-Owen Peacebuilding for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced. *February 12 **Edvard Munch s painting "The Scream is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on May 7). *February 12 – The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer *February 22 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice Ames is later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; his wife receives 5 years in prison. *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 27 – Australian Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a pork barreling fashion. *February 28 – 4 United States F-16 Banja Luka incident (February 1994) 4 Serbia Soko J-21 Jastreb over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone

March

Image:Mary Ellen Withrow.jpg ] *March 1 **A lone terrorism kills Ari Halberstam during an attack on 14 Judaism students on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City http://www.arihalberstam.com] **South Africa cedes Walvis Bay to Namibia **Mary Ellen Withrow begins her term of office as Treasurer of the United States serving under President Bill Clinton *March 6 – A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania *March 7 – [[Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.]] The Supreme Court of the United States rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use *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. This is considered to be a major leap in personal computer, as well as Macintosh history. *March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia *March 16 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport. *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, California Steven Spielberg s Holocaust drama, [[Schindlers List]], wins 7 Oscars including Academy Award for Best Picture and Academy Award for Best Director (Spielberg). *March 23 – Green Ramp disaster Two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base North Carolina causing dozens of fatalities. *March 27 **TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi s right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election, 1994 **The biggest 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States 1 tornado hits a Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama killing 22 people. **The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching Germany *March 28 – Shell House Massacre Inkatha Freedom Party and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg South Africa *March 31 – The journal [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete [[Australopithecus afarensis]]skull (see Human evolution .

April

*April 3 – Last date on which Kurt Cobain of the band Nirvana (band) is seen alive. *April 6 – Rwanda 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 8 **Michelangelo s [[Sistine Chapel|Universal Judgement]]is reopened to the public after 10 years of restorations. **Kurt Cobain songwriter and frontman for the band Nirvana (band) is Death of Kurt Cobain at his Lake Washington home, apparently of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound. *April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum. *April 20 – Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he served in the Vichy France Milice *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 **The largest high school arson ever in the United States is started at Burnsville High School in Burnsville, Minnesota resulting in over 15 million dollars in damages. The same arsonist also goes on to set arsons at Edina High School and Minnetonka High School http://www.olafire.com/AFSAContest.asp] *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 *April 29 – Commodore International declares bankruptcy. * April 30 – Formula One driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed while qualifying for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix

May

*May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna Death of Ayrton Senna during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari *May 3 – Japan signs the 200th treaty between itself and the African nation of Chad making this day known as JapaTreaty 200. *May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan was signed, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict *May 6 – The Channel Tunnel which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens between England and France enabling passengers to travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes. *May 10 **Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa s first black president **Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy by lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys. **An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America *May 12 **Ice hockey becomes Canada s official winter sport **U.K. Labour Party (UK) leader John Smith (UK politician) 55, dies of a Myocardial infarction Deputy leader Margaret Beckett stands in until an election can be held. Smith is succeeded by Tony Blair the 41-year-old Scotland born Member of Parliament for Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency) in County Durham *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 (Labour Party leader) 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.http://www.scotland.org.uk/guide/Isle_of_Iona *May 21 – Italian former minister and Democrazia Cristian leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of Mafia allegiance by the court of Palermo

June

*June 6 – June 8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva they agree to a 1-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days). *June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles, California O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a Lawsuit *June 14 – Hacker (computer security) Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to 7 counts of mail fraud wire and computer fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice *June 15 – Israel and the Holy See 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 Simpsons Brentwood, Los Angeles, California mansion, where he surrenders. *June 23 – The International Olympic Committee celebrates their first centennial. *June 24 – U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Holland crashes a B-52 in Fairchild Air Force Base Washington (U.S. state) as a result of pilot error. *June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release a sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Nagano Japan killing 7 and injuring 660. *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

July

Image:Jupiter showing SL9 impact sites.jpg on Jupiter s southern hemisphere.]] *July 2 – Colombian people Football (soccer) 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 men's national soccer team *July 6 – Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon wildfire on Storm King Mountain (New York) in Colorado The event inspires the 1999 book [[Fire on the Mountain (1999 book)|Fire on the Mountain]] *July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen *July 15 – July 21 – The planet Jupiter is hit by 21 large fragments of Comet Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of 6 days. *July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup defeating Italy by 3–2 in penalties (full time 0–0). *July 18 – In Buenos Aires a List of terrorist incidents destroys a building housing several Jew sh organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more (see 1994 AMIA bombing . *July 19 - Four 26-pound ceiling tiles fall from the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, just hours before a scheduled Seattle Mariners game. *July 20 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 s Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter *July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Israel–Jordan peace treaty which formally ends the war that has existed between the nations since 1948.

August

*August – [[Wollemia]] nobilis a "fossil tree", is discovered by bushwalker David Noble, only 150 km from the largest city in Australia *August 1 **Fire destroys the Norwich Central Library in the United Kingdom including most of its History **The University of London founds the School of Advanced Study a group of postgraduate research institute . *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 **The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike is called, ending the 1994 MLB 1994 Major League Baseball season **Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties (town), New York It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock Festival in 1969. *August 18 – Irish mobster Martin Cahill is assassinated in Dublin *August 20 – In Honolulu, Hawaii during a circus international performance, an elephant named Tyke (elephant) crushes her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators, at the Neal Blaisdell Arena. *August 23 – Eugene Bullard is posthumously commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, 33 years after his death, and 77 years to the day after his rejection for U.S. military service in 1917. *August 31 **The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operation ." **The Russian army leaves Estonia

September

*September 3 – Cold War Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapon against each other. *September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai. *September 5 – New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman (Australian politician) 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 there are no survivors. *September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban which bans the manufacture of new weapons with certain features for a period of 10 years. *September 16 – Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.lt;/ref> *September 17 – Heather Whitestone becomes the first hearing impaired contestant to win the Miss America entitlement. Whitestone becomes Miss America *September 19 – American troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti in order to restore the legitimate elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. *September 28 – The RORO [[MS Estonia]]sinks in the Baltic Sea killing 852 people. *September 28 – Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raul Salinas de Gortari *September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with United Nations Special Commission 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 Vladimir Meciar wins the general election. *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 5 – UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on October 5, 1966. *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 3 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. *October 29 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over 2 dozen shots at the White House he is later convicted of trying to kill President Bill Clinton *October 31 **An American Eagle Airlines ATR 72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana after circling in icy weather killing 64 passengers. **Prince Philip attends a ceremony in Israel where his late mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazism in Athens during World War II

November

*November 3 **A French magazine publishes photo of President François Mitterrand s secret daughter. **The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is enacted in the UK. The whole of Part V, which covers collective trespass and nuisance on land, includes sections against raves, including the "succession of repetitive beats" definition. *November 4 **San Francisco The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens. Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media. **Sydney s third runway opens, ensuring protests about noise levels. *November 5 **A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease is released. **George Foreman wins the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation World Heavyweight Championships by KO ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest List of heavyweight boxing champions 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 worlds first webcast *November 8 – Georgia (U.S. state) Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress of the United States George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas *November 13 **Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a Referenda in Sweden **The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel **Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One World Championship. *November 16 – A United States 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 alien . *November 20 – The Angola government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol *November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a Norwegian European Union membership referendum, 1994 *November 30 – The National Football League announces that the Jacksonville Jaguars will become the leagues 30th franchise.

December

*December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico *December 2 – The Australia government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear test at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s. *December 11 **Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya **A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 killing a Japan se businessman. The bombing was a field test done by Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka *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. Police believe that the murders took place between 1967 and 1987, and suspect that they may have killed up to 30 people. *December 14 **A Learjet piloted by Richard Anderson and Brad Sexton misses an Primary education and crashes into an apartment complex in Fresno, California killing both pilots and injuring several apartment residents. **A runaway Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe freight train rear ends a Union Pacific train at the bottom of Cajon Pass California **United Kingdom Home Secretary Michael Howard announces that Myra Hindley will serve a whole life tariff for the Moors Murders of the 1960s *December 15 – The first version of web browser Netscape Navigator is released. *December 19 **A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the United States Dollar becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico unleashing the Tequila effect on global financial market . This prompts a US$ 50 billion bailout by the Bill Clinton Administration. **The Whitewater scandal investigation begins in Washington, DC **Civil union between homosexuals are legalized in Sweden. *December 21 – A http://gothamist.com/2006/02/13/subway_bombing.php homemade bomb] explodes on the 4 (New York City Subway service) on Fulton Street/Broadway–Nassau Street (New York City Subway) in New York City *December 26 – French Counter-terrorism police storm a Air France Flight 8969 at Marseille and kill 4 Islamist terrorists. *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

Undated

* Tropical Storms Tropical Storm Alberto (1994) & Hurricane Gordon (1994) cause very damaging floods, intense winds and extensive problems directly over the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean Islands The death tolls are unusually severe and damages are extreme in both tropical storms.

Births

January–June

*January 21 – Marny Kennedy Australian actress *February 5 – Saki Nakajima (singer) Japanese singer *February 10 – Makenzie Vega American actress *February 14 **Paul Butcher (actor) American actor **Allie Grant American actress *February 23 – Dakota Fanning American actress *February 27 – Hou Yifan Chinese chess player *March 1 – Justin Bieber Canadian pop/R&B singer *April 4 – Risako Sugaya Japanese singer *April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards English actress *April 12 **Saoirse Ronan Irish actress **Airi Suzuki Japanese singer *April 16 – Liliana Mumy American actress *May 4 – Pauline Ducruet daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco *May 12 – Drew Mikuska American actor *May 21 – Tom Daley (diver) British diver *May 24 – Cayden Boyd American actor *June 11 – Ivana Baquero Spanish actress *June 21 – Chisato Okai Japanese singer *June 28 **Sophia Lorentzen British heiress **Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II prince of Jordan

July–December

*July 6 – Camilla and Rebecca Rosso English twin actresses *July 9 – Akiane Kramarik Poetry of the United States and painter *July 16 – Mark Indelicato American actor *July 27 – Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria *August 4 – Mayuko Fukuda Japanese actress *August 9 – Forrest Landis American actor *August 25 – Josh Flitter American actor *August 28 – Jessie Flower American actress *September 1 – Bianca Ryan American singer *September 19 – Alex Etel British actor *September 22 – Danielle Van Dam American murder victim (d. 2002) *September 25 – Jansen Panettiere American actor *October 9 – Jodelle Ferland Canadian actress *November 17 – Raquel Castro American actor *November 30 – Nyjah Huston American skateboarder *December 3 – Jake T. Austin American actor *December 15 – Flora Ogilvy British heiress *December 17 – Nat Wolff American actor, Singer-songwriter, and keyboardist

Deaths

January

File:CesarRomero.jpg ] File:Savalas 1980.png ] * January 1 – Arthur Espie Porritt New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900) * January 1 – Cesar Romero Cuban-American actor (b. 1907) * January 1 – Edward Arthur Thompson British historian (b. 1914) * January 5 – Tip O'Neill American politician (b. 1912) * January 5 – Elmar Lipping Estonian statesman and soldier (b. 1906) * January 5 – Brian Johnston British cricket commentator (b. 1912) * January 8 – Pat Buttram American actor (b. 1915) * January 9 – Johnny Temple American baseball player (b. 1927) * January 14 – Esther Ralston American actress (b. 1902) * January 15 – Harry Nilsson American musician (b. 1941) * January 16 – Frances Gifford American actress (b. 1920) * January 17 – Helen Stephens American runner (b. 1918) * January 20 – Matt Busby Scottish football manager (b. 1909) * January 22 – Jean-Louis Barrault French actor and director (b. 1910) * January 22 – Telly Savalas American actor (b. 1924) * January 23 – Brian Redhead British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929) * January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene American mathematician (b. 1909) * January 27 – Claude Akins American actor (b. 1914) * January 28 – Hal Smith (actor) American character actor and voice-over artist (b. 1916) * January 29 – Ulrike Maier Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967) * January 29 – Nick Cravat American actor and acrobat (b. 1912) * January 30 – Pierre Boulle French author (b. 1912)

February

File:Dinah Shore in Till the Clouds Roll By cropped.jpg ] * February 1 – Olan Soule Character actor (b. 1909) * February 3 – Walter Havighurst American critic, novelist, literary and social historian (b. 1901) * February 6 – Joseph Cotten American actor (b. 1905) * February 6 – Jack Kirby American comic book writer and illustrator (b. 1917) * February 7 – Witold Lutosławski Polish composer (b. 1913) * February 9 – Howard Martin Temin American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1934) * February 11 – Sorrell Booke American actor (b. 1930) * February 11 – William Conrad American actor (b. 1920) * February 11 – Neil Bonnett American race car driver (b. 1946) * February 14 – 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) * February 24 – Dinah Shore American actress and singer (b. 1916) * February 25 – Baruch Goldstein American-born mass murder (b. 1956) * February 25 – Jersey Joe Walcott American boxer (b. 1914) * February 26 – Bill Hicks American comedian (b. 1961)

March

File:Melina Mercouri.JPG ] * March 2 – Anita Morris American actress (b. 1943) * March 4 – John Candy Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950) * March 6 – Ray Arcel American boxing trainer (b. 1899) * March 6 – Melina Mercouri Greek actress and politian (b. 1920) * March 9 – Charles Bukowski American writer (b. 1920) * March 9 – Fernando Rey Spanish actor (b. 1917) * March 9 – Lawrence E. Spivak American journalist (b. 1900) * March 17 – Ellsworth Vines American tennis champion (b. 1911) * March 17 – Mai Zetterling Swedish actor and director (b. 1925) * March 21 – MacDonald Carey American actor (b. 1913) * March 21 – Dack Rambo American actor (b. 1941) * March 22 – Walter Lantz American cartoonist (b. 1899) * March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexican politician (b. 1950) * March 23 – Giulietta Masina Italian actress (b. 1921) * March 25 – Max Petitpierre Member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1899) * March 28 – Eugène Ionesco Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909) * March 29 – Bill Travers English actor and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation (b. 1922)

April

File:RichardNixoncrop.jpg ] * April 1 – Léon Degrelle Belgian Nazi (b. 1906) * April 1 – Robert Doisneau French Photographer (b. 1912) * April 2 – Betty Furness American actress, author, and consumer advocate (b. 1916) * April 5 – Kurt Cobain American singer and songwriter (b. 1967) * April 6 – Juvénal Habyarimana President of Rwanda (b. 1937) * April 6 – Cyprien Ntaryamira President of Burundi (b. 1956) * April 7 – Albert Guðmundsson Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923) * April 7 – Golo Mann German historian (b. 1909) * April 10 – Sam B. Hall American politician (b. 1924) * April 15 – John Curry British figure skater (b. 1949) * April 16 – Ralph Ellison American writer (b. 1914) * April 17 – Roger Wolcott Sperry American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1913) * April 22 – Richard Nixon List of Presidents of the United States 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) * April 30 – Roland Ratzenberger Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960) * Unknown date – Francis Bell (actor) Australian actor (b. 1944)

May

File:Ayrton Senna Imola 1989 Cropped.jpg ] File:JBK In Ft Worth (11-22-63).jpg ] * May 1 – Ayrton Senna Brazilian Formula One driver (b. 1960) * 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) * May 12 – John Smith (Labour Party leader) Scottish politician (b. 1938) * May 15 – Royal Dano American actor (b. 1922) * May 15 – Gilbert Roland Mexican-born actor (b. 1905) * May 16 – Alain Cuny French actor (b. 1908) * May 19 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis First Lady of the United States (b. 1929) * May 19 – Henry Morgan (comedian) American comedian (b. 1915) * May 21 – Johan Hendrik Weidner Belgian World War II resistance fighter (b. 1912) * May 29 – Erich Honecker leader of German Democratic Republic (b. 1912)

June

* June 2 – David Stove Australian philosopher (b. 1927) * June 4 – Peter Thorneycroft British politician (b. 1909) * June 4 – Massimo Troisi Italian actor (b. 1953) * June 6 – Barry Sullivan (actor) American actor (b. 1912) * June 7 – Dennis Potter English dramatist (b. 1935) * June 9 – Jan Tinbergen Dutch economist, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate (b. 1903) * June 12 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902) * June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson Divorce of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959) * June 12 – Ronald Goldman friend of Nicole Brown Simpson (b. 1968) * June 13 – K. T. Stevens American actress (b. 1919) * June 14 – Henry Mancini American composer and arranger (b. 1924) * June 15 – Kristen Pfaff American bassist (b. 1967) * June 20 – Jay Miner American computer pioneer (b. 1932) * June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn German conductor (b. 1908)

July

File:Kim Il-sung 1984.jpg ] * July 1 – Dominic Lucero American actor anddancer (b. 1967) * July 3 – Lew Hoad Australian tennis champion (b. 1934) * July 7 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte German Luftwaffe Officer (b. 1907) * July 7 – Cameron Mitchell (actor) American actor (b. 1918) * July 8 – Dick Sargent American actor (b. 1930) * July 8 – Kim Il-sung President of North Korea (b. 1912) * July 11 – Gary Kildall American computer inventor (b. 1942) * July 14 – César Tovar Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940) * July 17 – Jean Borotra French tennis champion (b. 1898) * July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin British chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1910)

August

File:Pauling.jpg ] * August 6 – Domenico Modugno Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (b. 1928) * August 7 – Larry Martyn comedy actor (b. 1934) * August 11 – Peter Cushing English actor (b. 1913) * August 13 – Elias Canetti Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1905) * August 17 – Jack Sharkey American boxer (b. 1902) * August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1914) * August 19 – Linus Pauling American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901) * August 21 – Anita Lizana Chilean tennis champion (b. 1915) * August 21 – Michael Peters American choreographer (b. 1948) * August 30 – Lindsay Anderson British film director (b. 1923)

September

File:Louis ferdinand c1930.jpg ] * September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1921) * September 6 – Nicky Hopkins British musician (b. 1944) * September 7 – James Clavell British writer (b. 1921) * September 7 – Dennis Morgan American actor and singer (b. 1908) * September 7 – Terence Young (director) American film director (b. 1915) * September 11 – Jessica Tandy English actress (b. 1909) * September 12 – Tom Ewell American actor (b. 1909) * September 12 – Boris Yegorov Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937) * September 15 – Moana Pozzi Italian porn actress (b. 1961) * September 15 – Mark Stevens (actor) American actor (b. 1916) * September 16 – Jack Dodson American actor (b. 1931) * September 17 – Vitas Gerulaitis American tennis champion (b. 1954) * September 17 – Karl Popper Austrian and British philosopher (b. 1902) * September 20 – Abioseh Nicol Sierra Leone n diplomat, UN official and author (b. 1924) * September 20 – Jule Styne British-born songwriter (b. 1905) * September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907) * September 30 – André Michel Lwoff French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)

October

File:Burt Lancaster.jpg ] * October 2 – Harriet Nelson American actress (b. 1909) * October 3 – Tim Asch Anthropologist, photographer and ethnographic filmmaker (b. 1932) * October 3 – Dub Taylor American actor (b. 1907) * October 7 – Niels Kaj Jerne English immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911) * October 14 – Emil Gilels Russian pianist (b. 1916) * October 19 – Martha Raye American actress (b. 1916) * October 20 – Sergei Bondarchuk Russian film director (b. 1920) * October 20 – Burt Lancaster American actor (b. 1913) * October 21 – Benoît Régent French actor (b. 1953) * October 24 – Raul Julia Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940) * October 25 – Mildred Natwick American actress (b. 1905) * October 29 – Shlomo Goren Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1918)

November

* November 1 – Noah Beery, Jr. American actor (b. 1913) * November 4 – Fred "Sonic" Smith American guitarist (b. 1949) * November 5 – Johan Heyns Afrikaner theologian and critic of Apartheid (b. 1928) * November 9 – Priscilla Morrill American actress (b. 1927) * November 10 – Carmen McRae American jazz singer (b. 1920) * November 11 – Pedro Zamora Cuban-born AIDS activist (b. 1972) * November 12 – Wilma Rudolph American athlete (b. 1940) * November 13 – Motoo Kimura Japanese geneticist (b. 1924) * November 14 – Tom Villard American actor (b. 1953) * November 16 – Doris Speed English actress (b. 1899) * November 16 – Dino Valente American musician (b. 1943) * November 18 – Peter Ledger Australian artist (b. 1945) * November 18 – Cab Calloway American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1908) * November 20 – John Lucarotti British born television writer (b. 1926) * November 22 – Charles Upham New Zealand soldier, double Victoria Cross winner (b. 1908) * November 23 – Art Barr American professional wrestler (b. 1966) * November 28 – Jeffrey Dahmer American serial killer (b. 1960) * November 28 – Buster Edwards English Great train robber (b. 1932) * November 30 – Lionel Stander American actor (b. 1908) * November 30 – Guy Debord French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (b. 1931)

December

File:Dean Rusk.jpg ] * December 6 – Gian Maria Volonté Italian actor (b. 1933) * December 8 – Antonio Carlos Jobim Brazilian composer (b. 1927) * December 10 – Alexander Wilson (athlete) Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b. 1905) * December 11 – Philip Phillips (archaeologist) American archaeologist (b. 1900) * December 11 – Carl Marzani American political documentary filmmaker, author, editor and publisher (b. 1912) * December 12 – Stuart Roosa American astronaut (b. 1933) * December 18 – Lilia Skala Austrian-born actress (b. 1896) * December 20 – Hans Herlin German novelist (b. 1925) * December 20 – Dean Rusk List of Secretaries of State of the United States United States Secretary of State (b. 1909) * December 23 – Sebastian Shaw (actor) English actor (b. 1905) * December 24 – John Boswell (historian) American historian (b. 1947) * December 24 – Rossano Brazzi Italian actor (b. 1916) * December 24 – John Osborne English playwright (b. 1929) * December 27 – Fanny Craddock British television chef and restaurant critic (b. 1909) * December 27 – J. B. L. Reyes Filipino jurist (b. 1902)

Nobel Prizes

File:Nobel Prize.png * Nobel Prize in Physics – Bertram N. Brockhouse Clifford Glenwood Shull * Nobel Prize in Chemistry – George Andrew Olah * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman Martin Rodbell * Nobel Prize in Literature – Kenzaburo Oe * Nobel Peace Prize – 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

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

See also

* 20th century

Notes

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