1994 In Philippine Basketball

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The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.

Events

January

* January 1 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
* January 8 – ''Soyuz TM-18'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
* January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.
* January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
* January 17 – The 6.7 Northridge earthquake strikes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
* January 19 – Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.

February

* February 3
** In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the International Court of Justice rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad.
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* February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
* February 6 – Markale massacres: a Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
* February 9 – The Vance–Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
* February 12
** Edvard Munch's painting '' The Scream'' is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7).
** The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer.
* February 21 – Revealing of the first photo of Pluto and its moon Charon taken from the Hubble Space Telescope.
* February 24 – In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
* February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
* February 28 – Four United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.

March

* March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the Internet.
* March 1 – Walvis Bay is handed over to Namibia by South Africa.
* March 6 – A 1994 Moldovan referendum, referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
* March 8 – Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, ''The Downward Spiral'', is released to critical acclaim.
* March 12
** A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the Loch Ness Monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
** The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
* March 14
** Apple Inc., Apple Computer, Inc. releases the Power Macintosh, the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC microprocessors.
** The Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development.
* March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
* March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in Somalia.
* March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama ''Schindler's List'' wins seven Oscars including Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture and Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director (Spielberg).
* March 23
** Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina causing 24 fatalities.
** Mexico, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana.
* March 27
** TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the 1994 Italian general election, Italian general election.
** The biggest 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama.
* March 28 – Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and African National Congress, ANC supporters battle in central Johannesburg, South Africa.
* March 31 – The journal ''Nature (journal), Nature'' reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete ''Australopithecus afarensis'' skull.

April

* April 2 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
* April 5 – Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana (band), Nirvana, Suicide of Kurt Cobain, commits suicide at 27 Club, age 27 at his home in Seattle. His body was found three days later.
* April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.
* April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.
* April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
* April 20 – South Africa adopts Flag of South Africa, a new national flag, replacing the "Flag of South Africa (1928–1994), Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during apartheid.
* April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.
* April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
* April 26
** Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
** China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people.
* April 27 – South Africa holds its 1994 South African general election, first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.

May

* May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna Death of Ayrton Senna, is killed in an accident during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, San Marino Grand Prix in Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy.
* May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan is signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
* May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
* May 10
** Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president (government title), president.
** The Pinkenba Six, including future political candidate Mark Ellis, kidnap 3 Indigenous children in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
** Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection in the Stateville Correctional Center.
** Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Jeffery Dahmer is baptised in prison.
** A solar eclipse occurs in The United States
* May 17 – Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
* May 18 – The Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown Genetic engineering, genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption.
* May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people lined the streets, John Smith (Labour Party leader), John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.
* May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter ''Ordinatio sacerdotalis'' from the Vatican City, Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".
*May 26 - Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic.

June

* June 1 – The South Africa, Republic of South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth of Nations after the first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in 1961.
* June 6–June 8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
* June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a Lawsuit, civil suit.
* June 15
** Israel and the Holy See, Vatican establish full Diplomatic Relations, diplomatic relations.
** ''The Lion King'', the highest-grossing Traditional animation, hand-drawn animated film of all time, is released by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation.
* June 17
** NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
** The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
* June 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
* June 25 – Cold War: the last Russian troops leave Germany.
* June 26 – Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows.
* June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first Matsumoto incident, sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Nagano, Matsumoto, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200.
* June 30 – An Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near Toulouse, France, where Airbus is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum angle of climb.
* June 30
** The Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party in Japan regained power after spent 11 months of opposition, with the coalition with Japanese Socialist Party.
** Tropical Storm Alberto (1994), Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of Florida causing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.

July

* July 2 – Colombian people, Colombian Association football, footballer Andrés Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Medellín. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the 1994 FIFA World Cup against the United States men's national soccer team, United States soccer team.
* July 4 – Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Kigali, a major breakthrough in the Rwandan Civil War.
* July 5 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon (company), Amazon.
* July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
* July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il-sung dies, but officially continues to hold office.
* July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
* July 16–July 22, 22 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.
* July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, final (full-time 0–0).
* July 18
** AMIA bombing: In Buenos Aires, a List of terrorist incidents, terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
** Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the Rwandan genocide.
* July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.

August

* August 5 – Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
*August 11 – The formation of Hurricane John (1994), Hurricane John which would go one to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It would dissipate on September 13th, lasting a little over 31 days.
* August 12
** Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
** All Major League Baseball players go on 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, strike, beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history.
*August 16 – The release of the IBM Simon smartphone, being the first ever commercially available smartphone.
* August 18 - 1994 Mascara earthquake. A 5.8 earthquake lefts 171 dead in Algeria.
* August 31
** The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations".
** The Russian Ground Forces, Russian Army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's Soviet Union, Soviet occupation.

September

* September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
* September 5 – New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman (Australian politician), John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
* September 8 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport killing all on board.
* September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
* September 14 – 1994 World Series, The 1994 World Series is officially cancelled due to the ongoing 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904 World Series, 1904.
* September 16
** Murder of Louise Jensen, Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.
** Britain lifts the 1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions, broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.
* September 17 – Heather Whitestone is crowned the first deaf Miss America; she is crowned Miss America 1995.
* September 19
**U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimately elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power.
**Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem, solving the 357-year-old mathematical theorem first proposed by Pierre de Fermat in 1637. He would publish it in 1995.
* September 28
** The Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry MS Estonia, MS ''Estonia'' sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
** José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari.
* September – Mullah Omar, Mohammed Omar would found the Taliban movement in his home town of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
*September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with United Nations Special Commission, UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.

October

* October 1
** In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the 1994 Slovak parliamentary election, general election.
** Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
**The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee, becoming the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
* October 4 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin-Heights, Quebec.
* October 7 - Ingvar Carlsson returns as Prime Minister of Sweden .
* October 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the United Nations Security Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
* October 12 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan (spacecraft), ''Magellan'' spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
* October 15
** After three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Aristide returns to his country.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.

November

* November 5
** A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.
** George Foreman wins the World Boxing Association, WBA and International Boxing Federation, IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest List of heavyweight boxing champions, heavyweight champion in history.
** Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified.
* November 6
** A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people.
** Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties.
* November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first webcast, internet radio broadcast.
* November 8
** Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives and the United States Senate, Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress of the United States, Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
** Hurricane Gordon (1994), Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
* November 11 – Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, was established.
* November 13
** Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a 1994 Swedish European Union membership referendum, referendum.
** The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
**Dale Earnhardt wins his 7th and final NASCAR championship.
* November 16 – A United States federal judge, federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to Alien (law), illegal aliens.
* November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
* November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum, referendum.
* November 30 – The Italian cruise ship ''MS Achille Lauro, Achille Lauro'' catches fire in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia with nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.

December

* December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
* December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
* December 3
**Sony releases the PlayStation (console), PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.
**Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly-elected Governor of Taiwan Province, Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly-elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
* December 11 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.
* December 13
** The trial of former President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mengistu begins in Ethiopia.
** Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, UK, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
* December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.
*December 15 – The initial release of Netscape Navigator, a web browser that will control the majority of the Usage share of web browsers, usage share for web browsers for the rest of the 1990s.
* December 19
** A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration.
** Civil union in Sweden, Civil unions between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden.
* December 31 – This date is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.

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* Fundación Arco Iris – a Catholic Non-governmental organization, NGO is founded in Bolivia.
* Pyroclastic flows – clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, causing sixty deaths.
* Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.
* The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million, making it the first African state to have a population above 100 million.

Births

January—February

* January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist
* January 4 – Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player
* January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
* January 6 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and pageant titleholder won Miss Universe 2018
* January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
* January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer
* January 14
** Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner
** Kai (entertainer, born 1994), Kai, South Korean singer
* January 17 – Lucy Boynton, American-British actress
* January 18
** Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
** Kang Ji-young, Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress
* January 19 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
* January 20 – Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
* January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor
* January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer
* January 29 – Sudan Archives, American singer and violinist
* February 1
** Julia Garner, American actress
** Harry Styles, English singer
* February 6 – Charlie Heaton, English actor
* February 8 – Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
* February 10 - Seulgi (singer), Seulgi, South Korean singer
* February 12 – Arman Hall, American sprinter
* February 13 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
* February 14 – Becky Hill, British singer
* February 16
** Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
** Ava Max, American singer
* February 18 – J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter
* February 21 – Wendy (singer), Wendy, South Korean singer
* February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model
* February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
* February 26 - Jacob Trouba, American Ice Hockey Player
* February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
* February 28 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer

March–April

* March 1
** Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
** Tyreek Hill, American football player
* March 2 – Nikkie de Jager, Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger
* March 5 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
* March 7
** Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
** Jordan Pickford, English footballer
* March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer
* March 11 − Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer
* March 12
** Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
** Christina Grimmie, American singer (d. 2016)
* March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ
* March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
* March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer
* March 29 – Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d. 2019)
* March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
* April 6 – Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Filipina-Australian actress
* April 11
** Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer
** Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
* April 12
** Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer
** Oh Se-hun, South Korean singer
** Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress
* April 14 – Skyler Samuels, American actress
* April 15 – Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian track and field sprinter
* April 18 – Moisés Arias, actor
* April 24 – Jordan Fisher, American actor
* April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler

May – June

* May 6 – Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer
* May 8 – Zach Tinker, American actor
* May 14 – Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer
* May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter
* May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer
* May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
* May 24
** Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
** Emma McKeon, Australian swimmer
** Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
* May 25 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast and model
* May 27 – João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer
* May 28
** Son Yeon-jae, South Korean rhythmic gymnast
** John Stones, English footballer
* June 8 – Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (d. 2021)
* June 9 – Lee Hye-ri, South Korean singer and actress
* June 11
** Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
** Jessica Fox (canoeist), Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist
* June 14 – Moon Tae-il, Moon Taeil, South Korean singer
* June 15 – Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer
* June 23 – HoYeon Jung, South Korean actress
* June 28 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent of Jordan
* June 29
** Camila Mendes, American actress
** Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer
* June 30 – Joshua Rojas, American baseball player

July–August

* July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer
* July 4 – Era Istrefi, Kosovar Albanian singer and songwriter
* July 7 - Ashton Irwin, Australian musician
* July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet
* July 12 – Molly Seidel, American marathon runner
* July 17
** Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer
** Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
* July 18 – Taylor Russell, Canadian actress
* July 24 – Boyan Slat, Dutch CEO of The Ocean Cleanup
* July 27 – Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
* August 7
** Damon Severson, American Ice Hockey Player
* August 8
** Lauv, American singer-songwriter
** Mirabai Chanu, Indian weightlifter
* August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
* August 11 – Song I-han, South Korean singer
* August 13 – Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
* August 15
** Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
** Theodor Blueger, American Ice Hockey Player
* August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress
* August 18 – Madelaine Petsch, American actress
* August 19 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete
* August 21 - Jacqueline Emerson, American actress
* August 28 – Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
* August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer

September–October

* September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter
* September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
* September 8 – Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
* September 10 – Mehdi Torabi, Iranian footballer
* September 12
** Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
** RM (rapper), RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter
** Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
* September 15 – Wout van Aert, Belgian road cyclist
* September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer
* September 26 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian sprinter
* September 29 – Halsey (singer), Halsey, American singer
* September 30
** Raphaël Coleman, English actor (d. 2020)
** Aliya Mustafina, Russian artistic gymnast
* October 1 – Trézéguet (Egyptian footballer), Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer
* October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter
* October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
* October 10
** Jung Il-hoon, Ilhoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor
** Bae Suzy, Suzy, South Korean singer and actress
* October 12
** Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
** Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
* October 24 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer
* October 25 – Manzoor Pashteen, Pakistani human rights activist

November–December

* November 10
** Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer
** Zoey Deutch, American actress
** Andre De Grasse, Canadian sprinter
* November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
* November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
* November 29 – Julius Randle, American basketball player
* December 3
** Jake T. Austin, American actor
** Lil Baby, American rapper
* December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
* December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
* December 8
** Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner
** Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English footballer
* December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor
* December 19 – M'Baye Niang, French-Senegalese footballer
* December 21 – Daniel Amartey, Ghanaian footballer
* December 26 – Javianne Oliver, American female track and field sprinter
* December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer
* December 30 - Trey Edmunds, American football player
* December 31 – Max Bowden, English actor

Deaths

January

* January 1
** Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900)
** Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907)
* January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American writer (b. 1901)
* January 4 – R. D. Burman, Indian music composer (b. 1939)
* January 5 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
* January 7 – Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (b. 1909)
* January 8 – Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
* January 13 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1937)
* January 14
** Esther Ralston, American actress (b. 1902)
** Federica Montseny, Spanish politician (b. 1905)
* January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
** György Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1921)
* January 17
** Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
** Chung Il-kwon, South Korean politician (b. 1917)
* January 20
** Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1909)
** Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan politician (b. 1911)
* January 22
** Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
** Frances Gifford, American actress (b. 1920)
** Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)
* January 23 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet marshal (b. 1917)
* January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
* January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926)
* January 28 – Hal Smith (actor), Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
* January 29
** Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
** Nick Cravat, American actor and acrobat (b. 1912)
* January 30
** Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
** Bahjat Talhouni, Jordanian politician (b. 1913)

February

* February 1 – Olan Soule, American actor (b. 1909)
* February 2 – Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921)
* February 6
** Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
** Jack Kirby, American comic book writer and illustrator (b. 1917)
** Luis Alberto Sánchez, Peruvian politician, former Vice President and Prime Minister (b. 1900)
* February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
* February 9 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
* February 11
** Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
** William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
** Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (b. 1924)
** Antonio Martín, Spanish cyclist (b. 1970)
* February 12 – Donald Judd, American artist (b. 1928)
* February 14
** Christopher Lasch, American historian, moralist, and social critic (b. 1932)
** Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
* February 19 – Derek Jarman, English film director (b. 1942)
* February 24 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
* February 25
** Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli physician, religious extremist, and mass murderer (b. 1956)
** Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
* February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)

March

* March 2 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
* March 4 – John Candy, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1950)
* March 5 – Abdullah al-Sallal, 1st President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1917)
* March 6 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)
* March 9
** Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
** Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
* March 10 – D. J. M. Mackenzie, New Zealand-born British medical officer (b. 1905)
* March 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (b. 1909)
* March 17
** Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (b. 1911)
** Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
* March 21
** Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
** Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
** Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
* March 22
** Dan Hartman, American musician (b. 1950)
** Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
* March 23
** Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
** Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
** Álvaro del Portillo, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1914)
* March 25 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (b. 1899)
* March 26 – Whina Cooper, New Zealand schoolteacher, historian, and activist (b. 1895)
* March 28
** Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909)
** Ira Murchison, American athlete (b. 1933)
* March 29 – Bill Travers, English actor (b. 1922)

April

* April 1
** Léon Degrelle, Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator (b. 1906)
** Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
* April 3 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (b. 1926)
* April 5 – Kurt Cobain, American singer and songwriter (b. 1967)
* April 6
** Sheck Exley, American cave diver (b. 1949)
** Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
** Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (b. 1955)
* April 7
** Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
** Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923), Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
** Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
* April 9 – Marcel Ichac, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (b. 1906)
* April 13 – Nikolai Kryuchkov, Russian actor (b. 1911)
* April 15 – John Curry, British figure skater (b. 1949)
* April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
* April 17 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (b. 1913)
* April 18 – Ken Oosterbroek, South African photojournalist (b. 1962)
* April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
* April 24 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Korean-Japanese Karate master (b. 1923)
* April 27 – Lynne Frederick, English actress (b. 1954)
* April 29
** Russell Kirk, American political philosopher (b. 1918)
** Marcel Bernard, French tennis champion (b. 1914)
* April 30
** Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
** Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)
** Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1930)

May

* May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
* May 7 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
* May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
* May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
* May 12
** Erik Erikson, Danish-American developmental psychologist (b. 1902)
** Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910)
* May 13 – Duncan Hamilton (racing driver), Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver (b. 1920)
* May 15
** Royal Dano, American actor (b. 1922)
** Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)
* May 16 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
* May 19
** Luis Ocaña, Spanish bicycle racer (b. 1945)
** Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, and First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
* May 21
** Giovanni Goria, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1943)
** Masayoshi Ito, Japanese politician (b. 1913)
** Ralph Miliband, Polish-born British academic (b. 1924)
* May 28 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
* May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (b. 1912)
* May 30
** Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader (b. 1899)
** Marcel Bich, French businessman (b. 1914)
** Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist (b. 1909)

June

* June 4
** Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect (b. 1909)
** Stephen McNally, American actor (b. 1911)
** Massimo Troisi, Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1953)
* June 6
** Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
** Barry Sullivan (American actor), Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
* June 7 – Dennis Potter, English dramatist (b. 1935)
* June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
* June 10
** Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman (b. 1929)
** Edward Kienholz, American artist and sculptor (b. 1927)
* June 12
** Ron Goldman, American model, waiter, and murder victim (b. 1968)
** Menachem Mendel Schneerson, American Hasidic rabbinical leader (b. 1902)
** Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American actress, waitress (b. 1959)
* June 13 – K. T. Stevens, American actress (b. 1919)
* June 14 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
* June 15 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
* June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
* June 20 – Jay Miner, American computer pioneer (b. 1932)
* June 21 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
* June 26 – A. den Doolaard, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1901)

July

* July 2
** Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (b. 1969)
** Maung Maung, President of Myanmar (b. 1925)
* July 3 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
* July 7
** Anita Garvin, American actress (b. 1907)
** Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (b. 1907)
** Cameron Mitchell (actor), Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
* July 8
** Christian-Jaque, French film director (b. 1904)
** Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
** Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
* July 11 – Gary Kildall, American computer inventor (b. 1942)
* July 16 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918)
* July 17 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
* July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
* July 21 – Pere Calders, Spanish writer and cartoonist (b. 1912)
* July 27 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (b. 1960)
* July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)

August

* August 3 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (b. 1925)
* August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1925)
* August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and actor turned politician (b. 1928)
* August 11 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
* August 13 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
* August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
* August 16 – John Doucette, American actor (b. 1921)
* August 17 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
* August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist (b. 1914)
* August 19
** Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901)
** Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet (b. 1932)
* August 20 – Aleksandar Petrović (film director), Aleksandar Petrović, French film director (b. 1929)
* August 21 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis champion (b. 1915)
* August 23 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian film director (b. 1917)
* August 27 – Roberto Goyeneche, Argentine tango singer (b. 1926)
* August 30 – Lindsay Anderson, British film director (b. 1923)

September

* September 3 – Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924), Billy Wright, English footballer (b. 1924)
* September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (b. 1921)
* September 6
** Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
** Duccio Tessari, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
** Paul Xuereb, Maltese politician (b. 1923)
* September 7
** James Clavell, British writer (b. 1921)
** Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
** Terence Young (director), Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
* September 8 – János Szentágothai, Hungarian anatomist (b. 1912)
* September 9 – Patrick O'Neal (actor), Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
* September 11 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (b. 1909)
* September 12
** Tom Ewell, American actor and producer (b. 1909)
** Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
* September 15 – Mark Stevens (actor), Mark Stevens, American actor (b. 1916)
* September 17
** Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
** Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (b. 1902)
* September 18 – Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer (b. 1950)
* September 19 – Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921)
* September 20 – Jule Styne, English-born American songwriter (b. 1905)
* September 23 – Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917)
* September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)
* September 27 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (b. 1908)
* September 30
** André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
** Roberto Eduardo Viola, military president of Argentina (b. 1924)

October

* October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
* October 3 – Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
* October 7
** Niels Kaj Jerne, English immunologist (b. 1911)
** James Hill (British director), James Hill, British film and television director (b. 1919)
* October 9 – Raich Carter, English sportsman (b. 1913)
* October 15 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934)
* October 19
** Oldřich Černík, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921)
** Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916)
* October 20
** Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian film director (b. 1920)
** Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
* October 23 – Robert Lansing (actor), Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
* October 24 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
* October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
* October 29 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi (b. 1918)

November

* November 1 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
* November 2 – Grisha Filipov, 38th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1919)
* November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
* November 10 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (b. 1922)
* November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, British composer (b. 1907)
* November 12
** Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940)
** J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish novelist (b. 1906)
* November 13
** Vladimir Ivashko, Ukrainian Soviet Communist politician (b. 1932)
** Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
* November 14 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
* November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1907)
* November 19 – Julian Symons, British crime writer and poet (b. 1912)
* November 21 – Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1899)
* November 23 – Alberto Natusch, Bolivian general, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1933)
* November 28
** Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
** Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Spanish cardinal (b. 1907)
* November 30
** Guy Debord, French theorist, writer, and filmmaker (b. 1931)
** Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)

December

* December 4 – Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (b. 1929)
* December 6 – Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (b. 1933)
* December 8
** Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b. 1927)
** Enrique Líster, Spanish communist politician and military officer (b. 1907)
* December 9 – Max Bill, Swiss architect and artist (b. 1908)
* December 10 – Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter), Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
* December 11 – Stanisław Maczek, Polish general (b. 1892)
* December 12 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
* December 13 – Antoine Pinay, French politician, former Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister (b. 1891)
* December 18 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1896)
* December 20 – Dean Rusk, American diplomat, 54th United States Secretary of State, Secretary of State (b. 1909)
* December 23 – Sebastian Shaw (actor), Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
* December 24
** John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
** Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916)
** John Osborne, English playwright (b. 1929)
* December 25 – Zail Singh, 7th President of India (b. 1916)
* December 26
** Karl Schiller, German economist and politician (b. 1911)
** Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (b. 1933)
* December 31 – Woody Strode, American athlete and actor (b. 1914)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – George Andrew Olah
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Kenzaburō Ōe
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi

Templeton Prize

* Michael Novak

Fields Medal

* Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

Right Livelihood Award

* Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra), Ken Saro-Wiwa / MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people, Ogoni People)

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