File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord
The Oslo I Accord or Oslo I, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or short Declaration of Principles (DOP), was an attempt in 1993 to set up a framework that would lead to the resolution of th ...
is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, beginning in the mid-20th century. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other eff ...
; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, also known as the 1993 October Coup, Black October, the Shooting of the White House or Ukaz 1400, was a War of Laws#Issues in a new Russia, political stand-off and a constitutional crisis between the Pr ...
; Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. Th ...
and Slovakia
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; In the United States, the ATF
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and preven ...
besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh
David Koresh (; born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was an American cult leader who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect and offshoot of the Davidian Sev ...
and the Branch Davidians
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) were an Apocalypticism, apocalyptic new religious movement founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. They regard themselves as a continuation of the Shepherd' ...
in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
gains independence; A major snow storm
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passes over the United States
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and Canada
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, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord
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and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (; ; 1 December 19492 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in h ...
is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef ( ur, , translit=''Ramzī Ahmad Yūsuf''; born 20 May 1967 or 27 April 1968) is a Pakistani convicted terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines ...
and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb
rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord
The Oslo I Accord or Oslo I, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or short Declaration of Principles (DOP), was an attempt in 1993 to set up a framework that would lead to the resolution of th ...
rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, also known as the 1993 October Coup, Black October, the Shooting of the White House or Ukaz 1400, was a War of Laws#Issues in a new Russia, political stand-off and a constitutional crisis between the Pr ...
rect 400 0 600 200 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia ( cs, Rozdělení Československa, sk, Rozdelenie Česko-Slovenska) took effect on December 31, 1992, and was the self-determined split of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries ...
rect 0 200 300 400 1993 World Trade Center bombing
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, U.S., carried out on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the complex. The urea nitrate–hydrogen gas ...
rect 300 200 600 400 Waco siege
The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the law enforcement siege of the compound that belonged to the religious sect Branch Davidians. It was carried out by the U.S. federal government, Texas state law enforcement, and the U.S ...
rect 0 400 200 600 Pablo Escobar
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (; ; 1 December 19492 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in h ...
rect 200 400 400 600 1993 Storm of the Century
The 1993 Storm of the Century (also known as the 93 Superstorm, The No Name Storm, or the Great Blizzard of '93/1993) was a cyclonic storm that formed over the Gulf of Mexico on March 12, 1993. The cold weather, heavy snowfall, high winds and s ...
rect 400 400 600 600 Independence of Eritrea
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1993 was designated as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the
Kwajalein Atoll
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in the
Marshall Islands
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had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the
Eastern Hemisphere
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side of the
International Date Line
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, skipping
August 21
Events Pre-1600
* 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
*1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
*1169 – B ...
, 1993.
Events
January
*
January 1
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**
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
ceases to exist, as the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. Th ...
and
Slovakia
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separate in the
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia ( cs, Rozdělení Československa, sk, Rozdelenie Česko-Slovenska) took effect on December 31, 1992, and was the self-determined split of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries ...
.
** The
European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European
single market.
*
January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents
George H. W. Bush (United States) and
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
(Russia) sign the
second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
*
January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French army ...
** US$7.4 million is stolen from the
Brink's
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(Thus do we reach the stars)
, image_map =
, mapsize = 250 px
, map_caption ...
Armored Car Depot in
Rochester, New York
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, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
** , a
Liberia
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n-registered
oil tanker
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, runs aground off the Scottish island of
Mainland, Shetland
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Geography
It has an area of , making it the third-largest Scottish island and ...
, causing a massive oil spill.
*
January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
**
Douglas Hurd
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A career diplomat and political secretary to ...
is the first high-ranking British official to visit
Argentina
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since the
Falklands War
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.
**
January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
–
20 – The
Bombay riots take place in
Mumbai
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.
*
January 7 – The
Fourth Republic of Ghana
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is inaugurated, with
Jerry Rawlings
Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 194712 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the de ...
as president.
*
January 8–
17 – The
Braer Storm of January 1993
The Braer Storm was the most intense extratropical cyclone ever recorded over the northern Atlantic Ocean, as well as the strongest recorded worldwide. Developing as a weak frontal wave on 8 January 1993, the system moved rapidly northeast. The ...
, the most intense
extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
*
January 13
Events Pre-1600
*27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racin ...
** The
Chemical Weapons Convention
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(CWC) is signed.
**
Iraq disarmament crisis
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biologi ...
:
US, British and French aircraft attack Iraqi Surface to Air Missile sites in Southern Iraq.
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
* 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
* 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written ...
– The Polish ferry sinks off the coast of
Rügen
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The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, w ...
in the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and fr ...
, killing 54 people.
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
- Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and
Kuwait
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, and the northern
Iraqi no-fly zones
The Iraqi no-fly zones conflict was a low-level conflict in the two no-fly zones (NFZs) in Iraq that were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War of 1991. The United States stated that the NFZs were intende ...
. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...
factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program (→
January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq
During January 1993, numerous coalition airstrikes occurred against Iraq in response to actions by the latter predominantly due to the No-Fly Zone in Southern Iraq.
Prelude
Just after the Gulf War ended, there were fears that Iraq might invade ...
). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
*1156 &nda ...
–
Bill Clinton
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is
sworn in
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as the 42nd
President of the United States
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.
*
January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
* 1438 – The ...
– In
Turkey
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, thousands protest against the murder of journalist
Uğur Mumcu.
*
January 25 –
Social Democrat
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Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds
Conservative
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Poul Schlüter as
Prime Minister of Denmark
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.
*
January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
*1564 – The Council of Trent ...
–
Václav Havel
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is elected President of the Czech Republic.
February
*
February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling ...
– Members of the right-wing Austrian
Freedom Party of Austria
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split to form the
Liberal Forum
The Liberal Forum (german: Liberales Forum, LiF) was a centrist, liberal political party in Austria. The party was active from February 1993 to January 2014, when the party merged into NEOS – The New Austria.
A member of the Liberal Intern ...
in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
*
February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
*1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...
**
Lien Chan
Lien Chan (; born 27 August 1936) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to ...
is named by
Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui (; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and economist who served as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the fir ...
to succeed
Hau Pei-tsun
Hau Pei-tsun (, 8 August 1919 – 30 March 2020) was a Chinese politician and military officer who was the Premier of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1 June 1990 to 27 February 1993, and the longest-serving Chief of the General Staff of the Rep ...
as
Premier of the Republic of China
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.
** ''
Mani pulite
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'' scandal: Italian legislator
Claudio Martelli
Claudio Martelli (born 24 September 1943) is an Italian politician. He was the right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the socialist Prime Minister from 1983–1987.
Biography
Martelli was born at Gessate, in the province of Milan.
He graduated in ...
resigns, followed by various politicians over the next two weeks.
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Lo ...
**
Glafcos Clerides defeats incumbent
George Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election.
**
Albert Zafy
Albert Zafy (1 May 1927 – 13 October 2017) was a Malagasy politician and educator who served as President of Madagascar from 27 March 1993 to 5 September 1996. In 1988, he founded the National Union for Democracy and Development (UNDD).
In ...
defeats
Didier Ratsiraka
Didier Ignace Ratsiraka (; 4 November 1936 – 28 March 2021) was a Malagasy politician and naval officer who was President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving President o ...
in the Madagascar presidential election.
*
February 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
*1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdi ...
–
United Nations Security Council Resolution 808
United Nations Security Council resolution 808, adopted unanimously on 22 February 1993, after reaffirming Resolution 713 (1991) and subsequent resolutions on the situation in former Yugoslavia, including resolutions 764 (1992), 771 (1992) and 7 ...
is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...
. The tribunal is established on
May 25
Events Pre-1600
*567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
*1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
by
Resolution 827.
*
February 26
Events Pre-1600
* 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is ...
–
World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the
World Trade Center explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.
March
*
March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
*1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern j ...
–
Macedonian
Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia.
Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to:
People Modern
* Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North M ...
Palair Flight 301, an
F-100 on a flight to
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon
, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
Zürich () i ...
, crashes shortly after take-off from
Skopje
Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre.
The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; ...
, killing 83 of the 97 on board.
*
March 8
Events Pre-1600
*1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
* 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
*1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bo ...
– The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided was in 2008.
*
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ve ...
–
Janet Reno
Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as the 78th United States attorney general. She held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only Wi ...
is confirmed by the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and ...
and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
*1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...
**
1993 Bombay bombings
The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of 12 terrorist bombings that took place in Bombay, Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries. The attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, ...
: Several bombs explode in
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the '' de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the sec ...
, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
**
North Korea nuclear weapons program
North Korea has a military nuclear weapons program and, as of early 2020, is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 30 to 40 nuclear weapons and sufficient production of fissile material for six to seven nuclear weapons per year.< ...
:
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...
announces that it plans to withdraw from the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation ...
and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites, beginning the
1993-94 North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
*
March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
* 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
* 1591 – At the Battle of ...
–
15 – The
Great Blizzard of 1993
The 1993 Storm of the Century (also known as the 93 Superstorm, The No Name Storm, or the Great Blizzard of '93/1993) was a cyclonic storm that formed over the Gulf of Mexico on March 12, 1993. The cold weather, heavy snowfall, high winds and st ...
strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
to
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...
; it reportedly kills 184 people.
*
March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
* 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
* 1591 – At the Battle of ...
–
1993 Australian federal election
The 1993 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 37th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 13 March 1993. All 147 seats of the Australian House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Australian Senate ...
:
Paul Keating
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician and unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He previously ser ...
's
Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...
is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the
Liberal/
National Coalition led by
John Hewson
John Robert Hewson AM (born 28 October 1946) is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.
Hewson was ...
.
*
March 17
Events Pre-1600
*45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age o ...
– The
Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of sou ...
announces a unilateral
ceasefire
A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be between state ac ...
in
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
.
*
March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate ...
** The Israeli
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
elects
Ezer Weizman
Ezer Weizman (; he, עֵזֶר וַיצְמָן ''Ezer Vaytsman''; 15 June 1924 – 24 April 2005) was the seventh President of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Ai ...
as
President of Israel
The president of the State of Israel ( he, נְשִׂיא מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or he, נְשִׂיא הַמְדִינָה, Nesi HaMedina, President of the State) is the head of state of Israel. The posi ...
.
** South Africa officially abandons its
nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in
1989
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.
*
March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII i ...
**
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as pre ...
becomes
President of the People's Republic of China
The president of the People's Republic of China, commonly called the president of China, is the head of state and the second-highest political office of the People's Republic of China. The presidency is constitutionally a largely ceremonial off ...
.
** Following a rash of
integrist murders (including those of foreigners),
Algeria
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breaks
diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
**
Mahamane Ousmane
Mahamane Ousmane (born 20 January 1950), press release no. 179, is a Nigerien politician. He was the first democratically elected and fourth President of Niger, serving from 16 April 1993, U.S. Department of State. until he was deposed in a mili ...
is elected president of
Niger
)
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Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...](_blank)
–
1993 French legislative election
French legislative elections took place on 21 and 28 March 1993 to elect the tenth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
Since 1988, President François Mitterrand and his Socialist cabinets had relied on a relative parliamentary majority. ...
:
Rally for the Republic (Gaullist party) wins a majority and
Édouard Balladur
Édouard Balladur (; born 2 May 1929) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 17 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election, co ...
becomes
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...
.
*
March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
*1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– The
65th Academy Awards, hosted by
Billy Crystal
William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)On page 17 of his book ''700 Sundays'', Crystal displays his birth announcement, which gives his first two names as "William Edward", not "William Jacob" is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. ...
, are held at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center
The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. Located ...
in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the wor ...
, with ''
Unforgiven
''Unforgiven'' is a 1992 American Revisionist Western film starring, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood, and written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more jo ...
'' winning
Best Picture
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
.
April
* April–May –
1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
The 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak was an outbreak of hantavirus that caused the first known human cases of hantavirus disease in the United States. It occurred within the Four Corners region – the geographic intersection of the U.S. stat ...
: Thirteen people are killed by
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is one of two potentially fatal syndromes of zoonotic origin caused by species of hantavirus. These include
Black Creek Canal virus (BCCV), New York orthohantavirus (NYV), Monongahela virus (MGLV), '' Sin N ...
, mainly in the
Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that generally includes Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent portions of California, Colorado, N ...
.
* April–October –
Great Flood of 1993
The Great Flood of 1993 (or Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993) was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993. The flood wa ...
: The
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mis ...
and
Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
*
April 8 – The
Republic of Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...
is admitted to the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...
.
*
April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masada ...
–
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...
: the enclave of
Srebrenica
Srebrenica ( sr-cyrl, Сребреница, ) is a town and municipality located in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a small mountain town, with its main industry being salt mining and a nearby ...
is declared a UN-protected "safe area".
*
April 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians ...
–
Waco siege
The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the law enforcement siege of the compound that belonged to the religious sect Branch Davidians. It was carried out by the U.S. federal government, Texas state law enforcement, and the U.S ...
: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near
Waco, Texas
Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and Interstate 35, I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin, Texas, Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the List ...
, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including
David Koresh
David Koresh (; born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was an American cult leader who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect and offshoot of the Davidian Sev ...
.
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– The
Council for National Academic Awards
The Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) was the national degree-awarding authority in the United Kingdom from 1965 until its dissolution on 20 April 1993.
Background
The establishment followed the recommendation of the UK government Com ...
, the national degree-awarding authority in the United Kingdom, is officially dissolved.
*
April 21 – The Supreme Court in
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the third-most populous city in Bo ...
,
Bolivia
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, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
, sentences former dictator
Luis Garcia Meza
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archa ...
to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
*215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
*599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in south ...
** The
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level o ...
declares
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in w ...
a global emergency.
**
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
ns vote overwhelmingly for independence from
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Er ...
in a
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...
-monitored referendum, the
1993 Eritrean independence referendum
An independence referendum was held in Eritrea, at the time part of Ethiopia, between 23 and 25 April 1993. The result was 99.83% in favour, with a 98.5% turnout. Independence from Ethiopia was declared on 27 April.
Conduct
The UN Observer Mis ...
.
*
April 26 –
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (; 9 December 1920 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian politician and banker who was the prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006.
Biography Education
Ciampi was born i ...
Prime Minister of Italy
The Prime Minister of Italy, officially the President of the Council of Ministers ( it, link=no, Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of president of the Council of Ministers is ...
.
*
April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the '' ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes o ...
**
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
: Eritrean independence is declared verified by the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...
.
**
1993 Yemeni parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1993, the first after Yemeni unification. The General People's Congress emerged as the largest party, winning 123 of the 301 seats. Voter turnout was 84.8%.
Electoral system
The country cont ...
: The
General People's Congress of Yemen wins a
plurality
Plurality may refer to:
Voting
* Plurality (voting), or relative majority, when a given candidate receives more votes than any other but still fewer than half of the total
** Plurality voting, system in which each voter votes for one candidate and ...
of 121 seats.
**
1993 Zambia national football team plane crash: All members of the
Zambia national football team
The Zambia national football team represents Zambia in men's international association football and it is governed by the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ). During the 1980s, they were known as the KK 11, after founding president Dr. Kenneth ...
die in a
plane crash
An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the ''intention of fl ...
off Libreville, Gabon en route to
Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in ...
,
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣 ...
.
*
April 30
Events Pre-1600
* 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
* 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
*1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columb ...
– Tennis player
Monica Seles
Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Sla ...
– at this time the top-ranked player in women's tennis – is stabbed during a match at the
1993 Citizen Cup
The Citizen Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the Citizen Cup and was a Tier II tournament on the 1993 WTA Tour. The tournament took place from 26 April to 2 May 1993 at the Am Rothen ...
in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
.
May
*
May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 &ndas ...
** A
Tamil Tigers
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...
suicide bomber
A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout history ...
assassinates President
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( si, රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස ''Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa'', ta, ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா ''Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā''; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was th ...
of
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Sri Lankabhimanya Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ( si, ඩිංගිරි බණ්ඩා විජේතුංග, ta, டிங்கிரி பண்ட விஜேதுங்க; 15 February 1916 – 21 September 2008) was the fourth Presid ...
becomes the
third executive president of
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
*
May 4
Events Pre-1600
*1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
*1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...
–
UNOSOM II assumes the
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
n duties of the dissolved
UNITAF.
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally ...
–
Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected
President of Paraguay
The president of Paraguay ( es, Presidente del Paraguay), officially known as the President of the Republic of Paraguay ( es, Presidente de la República del Paraguay), is according to the Constitution of Paraguay the head of the executive bran ...
in nearly 40 years, after defeating
Domingo Laíno in the
1993 Paraguayan general election.
*
May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arb ...
–
Niamh Kavanagh
Niamh Kavanagh ( ; born 13 February 1968) is an Irish singer who sang the winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993.
The 1993 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Millstreet, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. She sang " In Your Eyes ...
wins the
Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with ''
In Your Eyes''.
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
*1364 ...
– The
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament ( tr, or ''Parlamento''), is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Consti ...
elects Prime Minister
Süleyman Demirel
Süleyman Sami Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Turkey seven times between ...
as
President of Turkey
The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey. The president directs the executive branch of the national governm ...
. After Demirel becomes president, the acting
Prime Minister of Turkey
The prime minister of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: ''Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı'') was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018, who led a political coalition in the Turkish Parliament and presided over the cab ...
is
Erdal İnönü of
Social Democratic Populist Party for 40 days.
*
May 24
Events Pre-1600
* 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
*1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
* 1276 – Magnus La ...
–
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
gains independence from
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Er ...
.
*
May 25
Events Pre-1600
*567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
*1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– The
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try ...
is created in
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's ad ...
.
*
May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– Eritrea and
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign
''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word ...
gain entry to the United Nations.
June
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king o ...
** Large protests erupt against
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...
's regime in
Belgrade; opposition leader
Vuk Drašković
Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, and served as the war-time Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugo ...
and his wife Danica are arrested.
**
President of Guatemala
The president of Guatemala ( es, Presidente de Guatemala), officially known as the President of the Republic of Guatemala ( es, Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a ...
Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted
self-coup
A self-coup, also called autocoup (from the es, autogolpe), is a form of coup d'état in which a nation's head, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means. The leader may dissolve or render powerless ...
.
**
1993 Burundian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Burundi on 1 June 1993 following the approval of a new constitution in a referendum the previous year. They were the first multi-party elections for the presidency, the only previous elections in 1984 having bee ...
: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of
Melchior Ndadaye
Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he moved to attempt to ...
, leader of the
Front for Democracy in Burundi
The Front for Democracy in Burundi (french: link=no, Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi, FRODEBU) is a Hutu progressive political party in Burundi.
History
It was formed by followers of Melchior Ndadaye from the disbanded Burundi Worker ...
. The next day's
legislative election sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 ...
** The
National Assembly of Venezuela
The National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional) is the legislature for Venezuela that was first elected in 2000. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members, who were elected by a "universal, direct, personal, and secret" vo ...
designates
Ramón José Velásquez
Ramón José Velásquez Mujica (28 November 1916 – 24 June 2014) was a Venezuelan politician, historian, journalist, and lawyer. He served as the president of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994.
Background and personal life
Velásquez was born ...
as successor of suspended
President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...
Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as '' El Gocho'' (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 M ...
.
** Twenty-four
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
i troops in the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...
forces are killed in
Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Oc ...
,
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
.
*
June 6
** Following the
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( es, Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario , MNR) is a centre-right conservative political party in Bolivia and was the leading force behind the Bolivian National Revolution from 1952 to 1964. It influenc ...
's victory,
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (born 1 July 1930), often referred to as Goni, is a Bolivian businessman and politician who served as the 61st president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. A member of the Revolut ...
becomes President of Bolivia.
**
Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 millio ...
holds its first direct presidential elections.
*
June 8 – The PKK-declared ceasefire ends in
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
.
*
June 14
Events Pre-1600
*1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
*1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon ...
– Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in
Malawi
Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northe ...
.
*
June 18
Events Pre-1600
* 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
* 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
* 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of abo ...
–
Iraq disarmament crisis
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biologi ...
: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Per ...
– Japan's
New Party Sakigake
The , also known as the New Harbinger Party, was a political party in Japan that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on 22 June 1993. The party was created by Masayoshi Takemura. The party was centrist, and had many reformist a ...
breaks away from the
Liberal Democratic Party.
*
June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
*109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome.
...
– UK mathematician
Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awar ...
wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of
Fermat's Last Theorem
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers , , and satisfy the equation for any integer value of greater than 2. The cases and have bee ...
, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
*
June 25
**
Kim Campbell
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and so far only female ...
becomes the 19th, and first female,
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority the elected House of Commons; as suc ...
.
**
Tansu Çiller
Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. As the leader of the True Path ...
of
True Path Party forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
.
**
Zoran Lilić
Zoran Lilić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Лилић; born 27 August 1954) is a Serbian and former Yugoslav politician. He served as President of the National Assembly of Serbia from 1992 to 1994, and as President of the Federal Republic o ...
succeeds
Dobrica Ćosić
Dobrica Ćosić ( sr, Добрица Ћосић, ; 29 December 1921 – 18 May 2014) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician, writer, and political theorist.
Ćosić was twice awarded the prestigious NIN award for literature and Medal of Pushkin f ...
as
President of Yugoslavia
The president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or the president of the Republic for short, was the head of state of that country from 14 January 1953 to 4 May 1980. Josip Broz Tito was the only person to occupy the office. Tito ...
.
** The
litas is introduced as the new currency of
Lithuania.
**
Jacques Attali
Jacques José Mardoché Attali (; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991, and was the fir ...
resigns as President of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies. Initially fo ...
.
*
June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fro ...
–
28 –
Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
, China and
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
.
*
June 27 – U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (Birth name, né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 ...
orders a
cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the
Al-Mansur
Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (; ar, أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab Al-Manṣūr (المنصور) ...
District of
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...
, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President
George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
July
*
July 5
**
Iraq disarmament crisis
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biologi ...
: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to
UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return.
** Electrochemist
Faiza Al-Kharafi is appointed rector (president) of
Kuwait University
Kuwait University ( ar, جامعة الكويت, abbreviated as Kuniv) is a public university located in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
History
Kuwait University (KU), (in Arabic: جامعة الكويت), was established in October 1966 under Act N. 2 ...
, the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish '' conquistador ...
–
9 – The
19th G7 summit
The 19th G7 Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan, on July 7–9, 1993. The venue for the summit meetings was the State Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past. Accessed 2009-03-11. 2009-04-30.
...
is held in Tokyo, Japan.
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish '' conquistador ...
–
Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July and kills 34.
*
July 12 – The 7.7
Hokkaidō earthquake affected northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe'') and triggers a devastating
tsunami
A tsunami ( ; from ja, 津波, lit=harbour wave, ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater exp ...
that kills 230 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
* July 19 – 1993 Japanese general election: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.
* July 25 – In a terrorist attack members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army open fire on a congregation inside Saint James' Church Massacre, St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing eleven and injuring fifty.
* July 26
** Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.
** Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea; 68 are killed.
* July 29 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
August
* August – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism margin was expanded to 15% to accommodate speculation against the French franc and other currencies.
* August 5 – The discovery of the Tel Dan Stele, the first archaeological confirmation of the existence of the Davidic line, is announced.
* August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin of Belgium, Baudouin I.
* August 13 – More than 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand's worst hotel disaster.
*
August 21
Events Pre-1600
* 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
*1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
*1169 – B ...
– NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
* August 28 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population.
* August 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from
Lithuania.
September
* September 13
** 1993 Norwegian parliamentary election: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.
**
Oslo I Accord
The Oslo I Accord or Oslo I, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or short Declaration of Principles (DOP), was an attempt in 1993 to set up a framework that would lead to the resolution of th ...
: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
* September 15–September 21, 21 – Hurricane Gert (1993), Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
* September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland.
* September 19 – 1993 Polish parliamentary election: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power.
* September 22 – Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A bridge collapses while the Amtrak ''Sunset Limited'' is in the process of crossing it, killing 47 people.
* September 23 – The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia, to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.
* September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
* September 26
** The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after two years.
** PoSAT-1 (the first Portuguese satellite) is launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.
* September 27 – War in Abkhazia (1992–93), War in Abkhazia: Sukhumi massacre, Fall of Sukhumi – Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity.
* September 30 – 1993 Latur earthquake, Latur earthquake: A 6.2 earthquake occurs in the vicinity of Maharashtra, India having a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
October
* October 3–October 4, 4– Battle of Mogadishu (1993), Battle of Mogadishu: The U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of
Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Oc ...
, Somalia, deploying Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 74 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured.
* October 4 – The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Russian constitutional crisis culminates with Russian military and security forces, using tanks and clearing the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
.
* October 5 – China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide ''de facto'' Moratorium (law), moratorium.
* October 10 – The South Korean ferry ''Sinking of the MV Seohae, Seohae'' capsizes off Pusan, South Korea; 292 are killed.
* October 11–October 28, 28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti by its military-led regime. On October 18,
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...
economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.
* October 13
** 1993 Greek legislative election: Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
** The fifth summit of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Francophonie opens in Mauritius.
** The 1993 Finisterre earthquakes in Papua New Guinea kill at least 60 due to landslides.
* October 19 – Benazir Bhutto becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
* October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president
Melchior Ndadaye
Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he moved to attempt to ...
and sparks the Burundi Civil War.
* October 25 – 1993 Canadian federal election: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party, which falls to a historic low of two seats.
November
* November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
* November 4 – Jean Chrétien becomes the 20th
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority the elected House of Commons; as suc ...
.
* November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.
* November 9 – Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Croat forces destroy the ''Stari Most'', or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.
* November 12 – London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.
* November 14 – In Puerto Rican status referendums, a status referendum, residents of Puerto Rico vote by a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth status.
* November 17–November 22, 22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
* November 17
** In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
** The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle.
* November 20 – An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.
* November 28 – ''The Observer'' reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.
* November 30
** An agreement establishing the Permanent Tripartite Commission for East African Co-operation is signed.
** U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (Birth name, né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 ...
signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
December
* December 2
** ''STS-61'': NASA launches the Space Shuttle ''Space Shuttle Endeavour, Endeavour'' on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
** Colombian drug lord
Pablo Escobar
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (; ; 1 December 19492 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in h ...
is gunned down by police.
* December 5
** Omar Bongo is re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections.
** Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president
Ramón José Velásquez
Ramón José Velásquez Mujica (28 November 1916 – 24 June 2014) was a Venezuelan politician, historian, journalist, and lawyer. He served as the president of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994.
Background and personal life
Velásquez was born ...
.
* December 7
** In Garden City, New York, six people are murdered and 19 injured in the Long Island Rail Road massacre, a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.
** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
** List of heads of state of Ivory Coast, President of Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 88, the oldest African head of state. He is succeeded four days later by Henri Konan Bédié.
* December 8 – U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (Birth name, né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 ...
signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
* December 11
** One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Highland Towers collapse, collapses, killing 48.
** 1993 Chilean presidential election: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58% of the vote.
* December 13
** Former
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority the elected House of Commons; as suc ...
Kim Campbell
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and so far only female ...
resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party and is succeeded as leader by Jean Charest.
** The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.
* December 15 – The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reach a successful conclusion after seven years.
* December 17 – Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.
* December 20
** The United Nations General Assembly votes to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
** The first corrected images from the Hubble Space Telescope are taken.
* December 21 – The Hungarian Parliament elects Péter Boross Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall on December 12.
* December 30
** The Indian National Congress, Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.
** Representatives of Israel and the Holy See sign the Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State of Israel, preparing for the establishment of Holy See–Israel relations, diplomatic relations.
**
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...
passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second consecutive term. It also shortens presidential terms to 4 years and removes the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.
Date unknown
* 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak, 1993 Jack in the Box ''E. coli'' outbreak occurs in the United States when 732 people, mostly children, are infected with the ''Escherichia coli'' O157:H7 bacterium originating from undercooked beef patties in hamburgers; four die.
* Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
* Wildfires in California destroy over and 700 homes.
Births
January
*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. ...
– Larry Nance Jr., American basketball player
* January 2 – Bryson Tiller, American rapper, singer and songwriter
* January 4 – Scott Redding, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer
*
January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
– Jesús Manuel Corona, Mexican footballer
*
January 7 – Jan Oblak, Slovenian footballer
* January 9
** Ashley Argota, American actress and singer
** Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English heptathlete
** Aminata Savadogo, Latvian singer-songwriter
* January 12
** D.O. (entertainer), D.O., South Korean singer and actor
** Zayn Malik, British singer
*
January 13
Events Pre-1600
*27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racin ...
** Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast
** Tyler Barnhardt, american actor
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
* 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
* 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written ...
– Mariya Lasitskene, Russian track and field athlete
* January 15 – Paulina Vega, Colombian model and television presenter
* January 22 – Netta Barzilai, Israeli singer
*
January 25 – Iris Mittenaere, French beauty queen and model
* January 28
** John Brooks (soccer, born 1993), John Brooks, German-born American soccer player
** Will Poulter, English actor
* January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger, and recording artist
February
* February 6 – Tinashe, American actress and singer
* February 7 – Diego Laxalt, Uruguayan footballer
* February 1 – Karl Geiger, German ski-jumper
* February 17
** Elhaida Dani, Albanian singer-songwriter
** Marc Márquez, Spanish four time MotoGP world champion
* February 19 – Victoria Justice, American actress and singer
* February 28 – Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer and songwriter
March
* March 1 – Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer
* March 2
** Pandelela Rinong, Malaysian diver
** Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
* March 3 – Antonio Rüdiger, German footballer
* March 4 – Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (d. 2015)
*
March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
*1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern j ...
** Fred (footballer, born 1993), Fred, Brazilian footballer
** Harry Maguire, English footballer
* March 9 – Suga (rapper), Suga, South Korean rapper and songwriter
* March 10 – Peniel Shin, Peniel, South Korean based rapper
*
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ve ...
** Jodie Comer, English actress
** Anthony Davis (basketball), Anthony Davis, American basketball player
* March 14 – Anna Ewers, German model
* March 15
** Alia Bhatt, British actress and singer in Bollywood
** Paul Pogba, French footballer
** Mark Scheifele, Canadian ice hockey player
* March 18 – Mana Iwabuchi, Japanese footballer
* March 19 – Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer
* March 20 – Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
* March 23 – Lee Hyun-woo (actor, born 1993), Lee Hyun-woo, South Korean actor and singer
*
March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate ...
– Mackenzie Dern, American mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner
*
March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
*1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer
* March 30
** Anitta (singer), Anitta, Brazilian singer and dancer
** Ji Soo, South Korean actor
April
* April 2
** Shin Jae-ha, South Korean actor
** Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower
* April 10 – Sofia Carson, American actress and singer
* April 12 – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
*
April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masada ...
** Chance the Rapper, American rapper
** Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
* April 24 – Ben Davies (footballer, born 1993), Ben Davies, Welsh footballer
* April 25 – Raphaël Varane, French footballer
* April 28 – Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder
*
April 30
Events Pre-1600
* 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
* 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
*1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columb ...
– Arnór Ingvi Traustason, Icelandic footballer
May
* May 6 – Naomi Scott, English actress, singer and musician
* May 8 – Kayla Williams (gymnast), Kayla Williams, American gymnast
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally ...
– Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese idol
* May 10
** Tímea Babos, Hungarian tennis player
** Halston Sage, American actress
* May 13
** Romelu Lukaku, Belgian football player
** Stefan Kraft, Austrian ski jumper
** Debby Ryan, American actress and singer
** Tones and I, Australian singer-songwriter
* May 14
** Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
** Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
*1364 ...
** IU (singer), IU, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
** Atticus Mitchell, Canadian actor and musician
* May 18 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
*
May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– Jonnie Peacock, English Paralympic athlete
* May 29 – Richard Carapaz, Ecuadorian cyclist
June
* June 3 – Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, American theoretical physicist
*
June 6
** Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model
** Ashley Spencer (athlete), Ashley Spencer, American track and field athlete
* June 7
** Swae Lee, American singer, rapper and songwriter
** George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
** Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress
* June 10 – Scott McLaughlin (racing driver), Scott McLaughlin, New Zealand racing driver
* June 12 – Robbie Henshaw, Irish rugby union player
* June 13 – Thomas Partey, Ghanaian footballer
*
June 14
Events Pre-1600
*1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
*1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon ...
– Gunna (rapper), Gunna, American rapper
* June 15 – Carolina Marín, Spanish badminton player
* June 16
** Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor
** Alex Len, Ukrainian basketball player
* June 17 – Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer
* June 20 – Sead Kolašinac, German-Bosinian footballer
* June 21
** Caroline Brasch Nielsen, Danish model
** Matej Palčič, Slovenian footballer
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Per ...
– Loris Karius, German footballer
*
June 25 – Barney Clark (actor), Barney Clark, British actor
*
June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fro ...
– Ariana Grande, American singer, songwriter, and actress
*
June 27 – Gabriela Gunčíková, Czech singer
* June 28
** Bradley Beal, American basketball player
** Beanie Feldstein, American actress
** Jung Dae-hyun, South Korean singer
* June 29 – Alyssa Valdez, Filipino volleyball player
* June 30 – Alexander Evtushenko, Russian racing cyclist
July
* July 1 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress and singer
* July 2
** Yassine Meriah, Tunisian footballer
** Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Lithuanian singer
** Saweetie, American rapper
* July 3
** Mathias Anderle, American singer-songwriter and actor
** Vincent Lacoste, French actor
* July 4 – Mate Pavić, Croatian tennis player
* July 6 – Jana Burčeska, Macedonian singer
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish '' conquistador ...
** Ally Brooke, American singer
** Shakhram Giyasov, Uzbekistani boxer
* July 8 – Ergys Kaçe, Albanian footballer
* July 9 – DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player
* July 10 – Florian Sénéchal, French racing cyclist
* July 11 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast
* July 14 – Sayaka Yamamoto, Japanese singer
* July 16
** Alexander Ipatov, Ukrainian-Turkish chess grandmaster
** Ganna Rizatdinova, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
* July 18
** Alex Esmail, British actor and wrestler
** Taemin, South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer.
* July 20
** Alycia Debnam-Carey, Australian actress
** Lucas Digne, French footballer
** Debrah Scarlett, Norwegian-Swiss singer
* July 21 – Haziq Kamaruddin, Malaysian archer
* July 26
** Elizabeth Gillies, American actress
** Taylor Momsen, American singer, songwriter, and model
** Stormzy, English rapper
* July 27
** Omer Atzili, Israeli footballer
** Jordan Spieth, American golfer
* July 28
** Harry Kane, English footballer
** Cher Lloyd, English singer
* July 30 – Andre Gomes, Portuguese footballer
August
* August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
* August 10 – Andre Drummond, American basketball player
* August 11
** Gita Gutawa, Indonesian soprano, actress, and songwriter
** Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Iranian footballer
** Alyson Stoner, American actress, singer and dancer
* August 12
** Ewa Farna, Polish singer
** Luna (South Korean singer), Luna, South Korean singer, musical actress, and television presenter
* August 13
** Artur Gachinski, Russian figure skater
** Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player
* August 15
** Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer
** Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
* August 16 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
* August 17
** Ederson Moraes, Brazilian football goalkeeper
** Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
** Yoo Seung-ho, South Korean actor
* August 18
** Jung Eun-ji, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress, and voice actress
** Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer
* August 20 – Laura Glauser, French handballer
* August 24 – Marina Rajčić, Montenegrin handballer
* August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and singer
* August 28
** Sora Amamiya, Japanese voice actress
** Shira Naor, Israeli actress
* August 29
** Lucas Cruikshank, American comedian, actor, & YouTuber
** Liam Payne, British singer-songwriter
* August 30 – Paco Alcácer, Spanish footballer
* August 31
**Haruka Imai, Japanese figure skater
**Pablo Marí, Spanish footballer
September
* September 1
** Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
** Silje Norendal, Norwegian snowboarder
* September 3 – Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player
* September 4 – Yannick Carrasco, Belgian footballer
* September 10 – Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian singer and actor
* September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini, American singer
* September 13 – Niall Horan, Irish singer-songwriter
* September 15
** Dennis Schröder, German basketball player
** JP Tokoto, American basketball player
* September 16 – Bryson DeChambeau, American golfer
* September 17 – Sofiane Boufal, French-Moroccan footballer
* September 20 – Julian Draxler, German footballer
* September 21 – Ante Rebić, Croatian footballer
* September 23 – Pontus Åberg, Swedish ice hockey player
* September 24
** Sonya Deville, American professional wrestler
** Ben Platt, American actor and singer
* September 25
** Rosalía (singer), Rosalía, Spanish singer, songwriter and record producer
** Abdel Nader, Egyptian-American basketball player
* September 26 – Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player
* September 27
** Patrick Mölleken, German actor, dubber, and voice-over artist
** Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
* September 28 – Jodie Williams, British sprint runner
* September 29
** Lee Hong-bin, Hongbin, South Korean singer and actor
** Milad Mohammadi, Iranian footballer
** Carlos Salcedo, Mexican footballer
October
* October 1 – Christian Bravo, Chilean footballer
* October 2
** Michy Batshuayi, Belgian footballer
** Lasha Talakhadze, Georgian weightlifter
* October 6 – Adam Gemili, British sprinter
* October 8
** Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish professional tennis player
** Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model
** Molly Quinn, American actress
* October 9
** Lauren Davis, American tennis player
** Scotty McCreery, American singer
* October 16
** Wílmar Barrios, Colombian footballer
** Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
* October 19 – Youna Dufournet, French artistic gymnast
* October 23 – Fabinho (footballer, born 1993), Fabinho, Brazilian footballer
* October 29 – India Eisley, American actress
* October 31
** Letitia Wright, Guyanese-British actress
**Zarah Sultana, British politician, Member of Parliament for Coventry South
November
* November 4 – Elisabeth Seitz, German artistic gymnast
* November 13 – Julia Michaels, American singer and songwriter
* November 14
** Luis Gil (soccer), Luis Gil, American soccer player
** Samuel Umtiti, Cameroonian-French footballer
* November 15
** Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
** Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast
* November 16
** Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor
** Dakota Earnest, American gymnast
* November 17 – Taylor Gold, American Olympic snowboarder
* November 19 – Suso (footballer), Suso, Spanish footballer
* November 21 – Elena Myers, American motorcycle racer
* November 22 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
* November 25 – Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer
* November 28
** David Nofoaluma, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
** Stephanie Park, Canadian paralympic wheelchair basketball player
* November 29 – David Lambert (actor), David Lambert, American actor
* November 30
** Yuri Chinen, Japanese idol
** Mia Goth, English actress and model
December
* December 5 – Ross Barkley, English footballer
* December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress, singer and model
* December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress and preschool teacher
* December 16 – Thiago Braz da Silva, Brazilian pole vaulter
* December 17 – Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer
* December 18
** Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast
** Riria, Japanese actress
* December 20
** Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer
** Yana Egorian, Russian sabre fencer
* December 22
** Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer
** Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
Deaths
January
*
January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French army ...
** Juan Benet, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
** Yuri Bezmenov, Soviet KGB informant (b. 1939)
*
January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
** Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993), Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1922)
** Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (b. 1917)
** Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
** Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
* January 9 – Paul Hasluck, Australian politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
*
January 13
Events Pre-1600
*27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racin ...
– René Pleven, French politician, 88th Prime Minister of France (b. 1901)
* January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
* January 16
** Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
** Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman (b. 1960)
* January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert, Eleanor Burford, English writer (b. 1906)
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
*1156 &nda ...
– Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (b. 1929)
* January 21
** Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
** Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist (b. 1900)
* January 22
** Kōbō Abe, Japanese author (b. 1924)
** Jim Pollard, American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
* January 23
** Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician and Christian evangelist, "Father of Gospel Music" (b. 1899)
** Keith Laumer, American science fiction author (b. 1925)
*
January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
* 1438 – The ...
** Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor (b. 1908)
** Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, first African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
**
Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
*
January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1911)
*
January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
*1564 – The Council of Trent ...
** Baron Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Axel von dem Bussche, German military officer, member of the anti-Hitler Resistance (b. 1919)
** Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1905)
** Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912)
** Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (b. 1922)
* January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946)
* January 30 – Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
February
* February 2 – Alexander Schneider, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1908)
* February 3 – Karel Goeyvaerts, Belgian composer (b. 1923)
* February 5
** Hans Jonas, German philosopher (b. 1903)
** Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
* February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
* February 9 – Saburo Okita, Japanese politician, Foreign Minister of Japan (b. 1914)
*
February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
*1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...
** Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (b. 1914)
** Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
* February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
* February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
* February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
* February 21 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
*
February 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
*1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdi ...
– Jean Lecanuet, French politician (b. 1920)
* February 23
** Phillip Terry, American actor (b. 1909)
** Robert Triffin, Belgian economist (b. 1911)
* February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
* February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born French actor and singer (b. 1917)
* February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
* February 28
** Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
** Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)
March
* March 3
** Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906)
** Carlos Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist and a founder of the modern-day popular flamenco style of music (b. 1903)
*
March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
*1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern j ...
– Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (b. 1957)
*
March 8
Events Pre-1600
*1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
* 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
*1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bo ...
– Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
* March 10 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
*1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...
– Wang Zhen (general), Wang Zhen, Chinese politician, Vice President of the PRC (b. 1908)
* March 15 – Ricardo Arias (politician), Ricardo Arias, Panamanian politician, 29th President of Panama (b. 1912)
* March 16 – Muhammad Khan Junejo, Pakistani politician, 10th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1932)
*
March 17
Events Pre-1600
*45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age o ...
– Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
* March 20
** Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
** Paul László, Hungarian-born architect (b. 1900)
*
March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate ...
– John Hersey, American writer and journalist (b. 1914)
*
March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII i ...
** Kate Reid, Canadian actress (b. 1930)
** Kamal Hassan Aly, Egyptian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
* March 30
** Andrée Brunet, French pair skater (b. 1901)
** Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b. 1922)
* March 31
** Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
** Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
** Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
April
* April 1
** Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, Spanish royal, Count of Barcelona (b. 1913)
** Alan Kulwicki, U.S. race car driver (b. 1954)
** José María Lemus, Salvadorian politician and military officer, 33rd President of El Salvador (b. 1911)
* April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian film actress (b. 1974)
*
April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
* April 10
** Chris Hani, South African politician (b. 1942)
** Donald Broadbent, British psychologist (b. 1926)
* April 11 – Rahmon Nabiyev, Tajik politician and Communist leader, 2nd President of Tajikistan (b. 1930)
* April 13 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
* April 15
** Leslie Charteris, British author (b. 1907)
** John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
* April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish statesman, 19th Prime Minister of Turkey, Prime Minister and 8th
President of Turkey
The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey. The president directs the executive branch of the national governm ...
(b. 1927)
*
April 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians ...
–
David Koresh
David Koresh (; born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was an American cult leader who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect and offshoot of the Davidian Sev ...
, American spiritualist, leader of the Branch Davidian religious cult (b. 1959)
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– Cantinflas, Mexican comedian (b. 1911)
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
*215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
*599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in south ...
– Cesar Chavez, Mexican American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
* April 24 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and former president of the African National Congress, ANC (b. 1917)
* April 29
** Michael Gordon (film director), American actor and director (b. 1906)
** Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist (b. 1946)
May
*
May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 &ndas ...
** Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
**
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( si, රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස ''Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa'', ta, ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா ''Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā''; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was th ...
, Sri Lankan statesman, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
* May 5 – Irving Howe, American writer (b. 1920)
* May 6 – Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
* May 7 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1902)
* May 8
** Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
** Alwin Nikolais, American choreographer (b. 1912)
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally ...
– Freya Stark, Dame Freya Stark, British explorer and travel writer (b. 1893)
* May 12 – Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b. 1920)
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
*1364 ...
– Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (b. 1951)
* May 21 – John Frost (British Army officer), John Frost, English army officer (b. 1912)
* May 22 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (b. 1892)
*
May 24
Events Pre-1600
* 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
*1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
* 1276 – Magnus La ...
– Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Mexican Cardinal (b. 1926)
*
May 25
Events Pre-1600
*567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
*1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (b. 1907)
* May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)
June
* June 2
** Tahar Djaout, Algerian writer (b. 1954)
** Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
** Norton Simon, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1907)
* June 3 – Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (b. 1918)
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 ...
– Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
*
June 6 – James Bridges, American screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
* June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian professional basketball player (b. 1964)
*
June 8
** René Bousquet, head of the Vichy France Police (b. 1909)
** Severo Sarduy, Cuban poet (b. 1937)
* June 9
** Arthur Alexander, American musician (b. 1940)
** Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (b. 1921)
* June 10
** Arleen Auger, American soprano singer (b. 1939)
** Richard Webb (actor), Richard Webb, American actor (b. 1915)
* June 11
** Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (b. 1934)
** Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
* June 13 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (b. 1924)
* June 15
** John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
** James Hunt, British racing driver (b. 1947)
* June 19
** William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
** Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist (b. 1909)
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Per ...
– Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
*
June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
*109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome.
...
– Archie Williams, American Olympic athlete (b. 1915)
*
June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fro ...
– Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
* June 28
** GG Allin, American punk singer (b. 1956)
** Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1914)
* June 29 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1946)
* June 30 – George McFarland, Spanky McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July
* July 2 – Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
* July 3
** Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
** Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
* July 4
** Anne Shirley (actress), Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918)
** Lola Gaos, Spanish actress (b. 1921)
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish '' conquistador ...
– Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b. 1965)
* July 8 – Abul Hasan Jashori, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and freedom fighter (b. 1918)
* July 10 – Masuji Ibuse, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
* July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b. 1961)
* July 14 – Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter (b. 1916)
* July 15
** Hugo Ballivián, Bolivian general, 44th President of Bolivia (b. 1901)
** David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
* July 18 – Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born film director (b. 1900)
* July 19 – Gordon Gray (cardinal), Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (b. 1910)
* July 25 – Nan Grey, American actress (b. 1918)
* July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, American army general (b. 1895)
* July 27 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
* July 30 – Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish aristocrat, diplomat, writer, and politician, 8th President of Poland (b. 1891)
* July 31
** Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (b. 1903)
** King Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)
August
* August 1 – Claire Du Brey, American actress (b. 1892)
* August 3 – James Donald, Scottish actor (b. 1917)
* August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (b. 1908)
* August 10
** Euronymous, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1968)
** Irene Sharaff, American costume designer (b. 1910)
* August 16 – Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (b. 1913)
* August 19 – Salah Jadid, Syrian general and Ba'athist politician (b. 1926)
*
August 21
Events Pre-1600
* 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
*1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
*1169 – B ...
– Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1938)
* August 22 – Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Kazakh Soviet communist politician (b. 1912)
* August 26 − Roy Raymond, American entrepreneur (b. 1947)
* August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and activist (b. 1924)
* August 30 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1937)
September
* September 1 – Hasan Abdullayev, Azerbaijani physicist and scientist (b. 1918)
* September 4 – Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (b. 1943)
* September 5 – Baek Du-jin, Korean politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (b. 1908)
* September 7 – Christian Metz (critic), Christian Metz, French film theorist (b. 1931)
* September 9 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
* September 11 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
* September 12
** Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (b. 1917)
** Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director (b. 1895)
* September 15
** Pino Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1937)
** Maurice Yaméogo, Burkinabé statesman, 1st President of Upper Volta, current Burkina Faso (b. 1921)
* September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian political activist, artist, and educator (b. 1920)
* September 20 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring fighter ace in world history (b. 1922)
* September 22
** Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born American conductor (b. 1903)
** Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
* September 24
** Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
** Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer (b. 1957)
* September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
* September 29 – Gordon Douglas (director), Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)
October
* October 5 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
* October 7 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
* October 11 – Andy Stewart (musician), Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)
* October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
* October 17 – Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (b. 1963)
* October 21 –
Melchior Ndadaye
Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he moved to attempt to ...
, Burundian politician, 4th President of Burundi (b. 1953)
* October 22
** Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat (b. 1913)
** Said Mohamed Jaffar, former head of State of Comoros (b. 1918)
* October 25
** Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer (b. 1958)
** Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
* October 26 – František Filipovský, Czech actor (b. 1907)
* October 28
** Doris Duke, American heiress and philanthropist (b. 1912)
** Juri Lotman, Russian formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist (b. 1922)
* October 31
** Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b. 1920)
** Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
** River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
November
* November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
* November 3 – Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin (b. 1896)
* November 7 – Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer, entertainer (b. 1901)
* November 9 – Stanley Myers, British film composer (b. 1930)
* November 10 – Alberto Breccia, Argentine comics artist and writer (b. 1919)
* November 12
** Bill Dickey, American baseball player (b. 1907)
** H. R. Haldeman, American political aide and businessman (b. 1926)
** Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born American actress (b. 1908)
* November 14 – Sanzō Nosaka, Japanese Communist politician (b. 1892)
* November 15 – Luciano Leggio, Italian mobster (b. 1925)
* November 16
** Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (b. 1939)
** Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. 1913)
* November 18 – Fritz Feld, German actor (b. 1900)
* November 19 – Leonid Gaidai, Soviet comedy director (b. 1923)
* November 20 – Emile Ardolino, American film director (b. 1943)
* November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
* November 22
** Anthony Burgess, English author (b. 1917)
** Joseph Yodoyman, Chadian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
* November 24 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1932)
* November 28 – Kenneth Connor, English comedian (b. 1916)
* November 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian aviator and businessman (b. 1904)
December
* December 2 –
Pablo Escobar
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, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
* December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1940)
* December 5 – Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer (b. 1906)
* December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
* December 7
** Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
** Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
* December 9 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager (b. 1926)
* December 11 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress (b. 1894)
* December 12 – József Antall, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
* December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
* December 15 – Penaia Ganilau, 1st President of Fiji (b. 1918)
* December 16
** Charles Willard Moore, American architect (b. 1925)
** Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
** Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
* December 17 – Janet Margolin, American actress (b. 1943)
* December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American film director and actor (b. 1919)
* December 19 – Michael Clarke (musician), Michael Clarke, American musician (b. 1946)
* December 20 – W. Edwards Deming, American engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant (b. 1900)
* December 21 – Gussie Nell Davis, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes (b. 1906)
* December 22
** Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
** Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film director (b. 1912)
* December 23 – James Ellison (actor), James Ellison, American actor (b. 1910)
* December 24
** Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer (b. 1898)
** Yen Chia-kan, Taiwanese politician and 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1905)
** Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
* December 25 – Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1895)
* December 28
** William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
** Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
* December 29 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian stage and film actor (b. 1930)
* December 31
** İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1908)
** Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)
** Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972)
** Thomas Watson Jr., American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith (chemist), Michael Smith
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Robert W. Fogel, Douglass North
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Toni Morrison
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Phillip Allen Sharp
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