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1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Centennial Olympic Park
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in Atlanta
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, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800
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, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die
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in a blizzard on Mount Everest
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; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal
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to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell
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; The Port Arthur Massacre Port Arthur massacre may refer to:
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*Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
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occurs on Tasmania
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, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon
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; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
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crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands
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after the plane was hijacked
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; the 1996 Summer Olympics
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are held in Atlanta
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, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games
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Events
January
*January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– A Zaire
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an cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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, Kinshasa
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, killing 300 people.
* January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– 20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya
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.
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhamma ...
– Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan
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* 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 racing ...
– Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government.
* 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 of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
– Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal.
* January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– President of Sierra Leone
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Valentine Strasser
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is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February.
* 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 ...
** The ''North Cape'' oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat ''Scandia'' ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island
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. The ''North Cape'' Barge is pulled along with it and leaks 820,000 gallons of home heating oil.
** An Indonesia
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n ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra
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, drowning more than 100 people.
* 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 &ndas ...
– Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority
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.
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Co ...
– France undertakes its last nuclear weapons test.
* January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
– Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece
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, resigns due to health problems; a new government forms under Costas Simitis.
* 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 Cou ...
– Polish Premier Józef Oleksy
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In his youth he lived in Nowy Sącz, and was ...
resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow
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. He is replaced by Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
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.
* January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
– Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected President of Niger
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* August
** The first three-parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through mitochondrial donation.
** The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York City.
* August 1
** Sarah Balabagan returns to the
* January 2 – Xiaoyu Yu, Chinese figure skater
* January 3 – Florence Pugh, English actress
* January 5
** Maxim Baldry, English actor
** Tyler Ulis, American basketball player
* January 6
** Courtney Eaton, Australian actress
** Harmanpreet Singh, Indian hockey player
* January 7 – Helly Shah, Indian actress
* January 10 – Anna Sztankovics, Hungarian swimmer
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* February 1 – Ahmad Abughaush, Jordanian taekwondo athlete
* February 2 – Harry Winks, English footballer
*
* April 2
** Polina Agafonova, Russian figure skater
** Matheus Santana, Brazilian swimmer
* April 3 – Sarah Jeffery, Canadian actress
* April 4 – Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor
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* May 2 – Julian Brandt, German footballer
* May 3 – Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
* May 4
** Arielle Gold, American snowboarder
** Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist.
* May 8 – 6ix9ine, American rapper
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* July 1 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
* July 3 – Kendji Girac, French singer
* July 5 – Risa Shōji, Japanese figure skater
* July 7 – Ivan Ljubic, Austrian footballer
* July 10 – Moon Ga-young, South Korean actress
* July 11
** Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter
** Andrija Živković, Serbian footballer
* July 18 – Yung Lean, Swedish rapper and record producer
* July 20 – Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player
* August 1
** Arisa Higashino, Japanese badminton player
** Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
* August 2 – Simone Manuel, American swimmer
* August 5
** Francesca Deagostini, Italian artistic gymnast
** Mai Murakami, Japanese artistic gymnast
* August 10 – Evan Evagora, Australian actor
* August 12 – Arthur Melo, Arthur, Brazilian footballer
* August 14 – Brianna Hildebrand, American actress
* August 16 – Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
* August 19
** Almoez Ali, Sudanese-Qatari footballer
** Laura Tesoro, Belgian singer and actress
* August 20 – Axell Hodges, American motocross competitor
* August 24 – Kenzō Shirai, Japanese gymnast
* August 27
** Femke Van den Driessche, Belgian cyclist found guilty of mechanical doping
** Ebru Topçu, Turkish footballer
* August 28 – Kim Se-jeong, South Korean singer and actress
* August 30
** Gabriel Barbosa, Brazilian footballer
** Chen Dequan, Chinese short track speed skater
* September 1 – Zendaya, American actress and singer
* September 3 – Joy (singer), Joy, South Korean singer and actress
* September 5 – Sigrid (singer), Sigrid, Norwegian singer
* September 9 – Jaïro Riedewald, Dutch footballer
* September 12 – Colin Ford, American actor
* September 13
** Playboi Carti, American rapper
** Lili Reinhart, American actress
September 16 – Baka Prase, Serbian YouTuber, rapper, gamer, and entertainer
* September 17
** Duje Ćaleta-Car, Croatian footballer
** Ella Purnell, English actress
** Esteban Ocon, French Formula 1 Driver
* September 23
** Lee Hi, South Korean singer-songwriter
** Evgeny Rylov, Russian swimmer
* September 25 – Mie Nielsen, Danish swimmer
* September 27 – Maxwel Cornet, French-Ivorian footballer
* September 28 – Michael Ronda, Mexican actor and singer
* October 1
** Shenseea, Jamaican Singer
* October 3 – Kelechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
* October 4 – Ella Balinska, English actress
* October 5 – Sevn Alias, Dutch rapper
* October 7 – Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter
* October 8 – Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
* October 9
** Jacob Batalon, American-Filipino actor
** Bella Hadid, American model
* October 10 – Oscar Zia, Swedish singer and songwriter
* October 13
** Joshua Wong, Hong Kong student activist and politician
** Đỗ Mỹ Linh, Vietnamese model
* October 15 – Zelo, Korean singer
* October 20 – Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
* October 24
** Jaylen Brown, American basketball player
** Kyla Ross, American gymnast
* October 28 – Lee June-hyoung, South Korean figure skater
* October 30
** Devin Booker, American basketball player
** Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer
* November 1
** Sean Gelael, Indonesian racing driver
** Lil Peep, American rapper (d. 2017)
**Daniela Melchior, Portuguese actress
** Jeongyeon, South Korean singer
* November 4 – Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater
* November 7
** André Horta, Portuguese footballer
** Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
* November 9
** Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên, Vietnamese swimmer
** Momo Hirai, Japanese singer and dancer
* November 11
** Adam Ounas, French-born Algerian footballer
** Tye Sheridan, American actor
* November 14 – Borna Ćorić, Croatian tennis player
* November 16 – Brendan Murray, Irish singer
* November 17 – Ruth Jebet, Bahraini long-distance runner
* November 18
** Akram Afif, Qatari footballer
** Noah Ringer, American actor
** Sorn (singer), Sorn, South Korean based singer
* November 19 – Liliána Szilágyi, Hungarian swimmer
* November 20 – Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
* November 22
** Hailey Baldwin, American model and socialite
** JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player
* November 23
** James Maddison, English footballer
** Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
* November 26 – Louane (singer), Louane Emera, French singer and actress
* November 27 – Felix Kashweka, Zambian journalist and publicist
* November 29 – Gonçalo Guedes, Portuguese footballer
* December 1 – Pradyumn Karthic, the indian chad was born.
* December 4 – Daria Svatkovskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
* December 6 – Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer
* December 10
** Joe Burrow, American football player
** Kang Daniel, South Korean singer
* December 11
** Eliza McCartney, New Zealand track and field athlete
** Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, model and singer
** Jack Griffo, American actor
* December 12
** Lucas Hedges, American actor
** Oliver Askew, American racing driver
** Rajinikanth, Indian Actor
* December 14 – Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater
* December 15 – Oleksandr Zinchenko (footballer), Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
* December 16 – Wilfred Ndidi, Nigerian footballer
* December 17 – Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
* December 19 – Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer
* December 21 – Kaitlyn Dever, American actress
* December 28 – Alfred Kipketer, Kenyan middle-distance runner
* December 29
** Dylan Minnette, American actor, singer and musician
** Sana (singer), Sana, Japanese singer
* December 30
** Stephanie Del Valle, Puerto Rican musician, model and beauty queen
** Zack Baun, American Football Player
* January 1 – Arleigh Burke, American naval officer (b. 1901)
* January 5 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian shaheed (b. 1966)
* January 7
** Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)
** Tarō Okamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1911)
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* February 2 – Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (b. 1912)
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*
* April 3 – Ron Brown, American politician (b. 1941)
* April 4 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
* April 6 – Greer Garson, British-American actress (b. 1904)
* April 8 – Ben Johnson (actor), Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
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* May 1 – David M. Kennedy (politician), David M. Kennedy, American politician, businessman (b. 1905)
* May 2 – Emile Habibi, Palestinian Israeli writer and politician (b. 1922)
* May 3 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
* May 6 – Leo Joseph Suenens, Belgian cardinal (b. 1904)
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*
* July 1 – Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (b. 1954)
* July 3 – Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1926)
* July 9
** Eno Raud, Estonian writer (b. 1928)
** Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (b. 1954)
* July 13 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
* July 15 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
* July 17 – Paul Touvier, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1915)
* July 20 – František Plánička, Czech footballer (b. 1904)
* July 21
** Luana Anders, American actress (b. 1938)
** Herb Edelman, American actor (b. 1933)
* July 22 – Jessica Mitford, British-American author, journalist and political campaigner (b. 1917)
* July 23 – Jean Muir (actress), Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)
* July 27 – Jane Drew, English architect (b. 1911)
* July 28 – Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist (b. 1908)
* July 30 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
* August 1
** Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somali military commander and politician (b. 1934)
** Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
** Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss Nobel chemist (b. 1897)
* August 2
** Michel Debré, 99th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
** Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
* August 6 – Hernán Siles Zuazo, 46th President of Bolivia (b. 1914)
* August 8 – Nevill Francis Mott, English Nobel physicist (b. 1905)
* August 11
** Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born Swiss conductor (b. 1914)
** Baba Vanga, Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)
* August 12 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Armenian scientist (b. 1908)
* August 13
** António de Spínola, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
** David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
* August 26 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 37th President of Argentina (b. 1918)
* August 27 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
* August 30 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
* September 1 – Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
* September 7 – Bibi Besch, American actress (b. 1942)
* September 9
** Ruggero Mastroianni, Italian film editor (b. 1929)
** Bill Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
* September 10 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
* September 12 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
* September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper (b. 1971)
* September 14 – Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress (b. 1936)
* September 16
** McGeorge Bundy, American academic (b. 1919)
** Gene Nelson, American dancer and actor (b. 1920)
* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
* September 18 – Annabella (actress), Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
* September 20
** Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1954)
** Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
** Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1914)
* September 22
** Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, 1st Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1927)
** Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
* September 24 – Zeki Müren, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet (b. 1931)
* September 26
** Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
** Pavel Sudoplatov, Soviet spy (b. 1907)
** Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel chemist (b. 1921)
* September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
* September 29 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (b. 1923)
* October 4 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b. 1913)
* October 5 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
* October 11
** Renato Russo, Brazilian singer (b. 1960)
** William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
* October 12
** René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
** Roger Lapébie, French racing cyclist (b. 1911)
* October 13 – Beryl Reid, British actress (b. 1919)
* October 19 – Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (b. 1935)
* October 24 – Artur Axmann, German Nazi leader (b. 1913)
* October 31 – Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1909)
* November 1 – J. R. Jayewardene, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
* November 2 – Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (b. 1963)
* November 3
** Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 2nd President of the Central African Republic and Emperor of Central Africa (b. 1921)
** Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist (b. 1956)
* November 6 – Tommy Lawton, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
* November 14
** Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (b. 1928)
** Virginia Cherrill, American actress (b. 1908)
* November 15 – Alger Hiss, American diplomat (b. 1904)
* November 18 – Zinovy Gerdt, Russian actor (b. 1916)
* November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel physicist (b. 1926)
* November 22 – María Casares, French-Spanish actress (b. 1922)
* November 26 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
* November 27 – Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician (b. 1897)
* November 28 – Don McNeill (tennis), Don McNeill, American tennis player (b. 1918)
* November 30 – Tiny Tim (musician), Tiny Tim, American musician (b. 1932)
* December 3 – Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
* December 7 – José Donoso, Chilean writer (b. 1924)
* December 9 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1913)
* December 10 – Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
* December 11 – Willie Rushton, English comedian, actor and cartoonist (b. 1937)
* December 13 – Cao Yu, Chinese playwright (b. 1910)
* December 16 – Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b. 1910)
** Laurens van der Post, South African author (b. 1906)
* December 17 – Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist politician (b. 1920)
* December 18 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist (b. 1895)
* December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
* December 20
** Amata Kabua, 1st President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1928)
** Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)
* December 30
** Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
** Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
1996 Year in Review
– CNN {{DEFAULTSORT:1996 1996, Leap years in the Gregorian calendar
January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– The Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisi ...
defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steel ...
27–17 in Super Bowl XXX
Super Bowl XXX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion ...
for their fifth Super Bowl victory.
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...
** Colombo Central Bank bombing
The Central Bank bombing was one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the separatist civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers.
Incident
The attack took place on 31 ...
: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
, 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 ...
, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
** An amateur astronomer from southern Japan discovers Comet Hyakutake; it will pass very close to the Earth in March.
February
*February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– The 6.6 earthquake near Lijiang in South-west China kills up to 322 people, injures 17,000, and leaves 300,000 homeless.
* February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– The Kowloon Station From Hung Hom Station
Hung Hom () is a railway station in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is an interchange station between the and the domestic services of the MTR network, as well as the southern terminus of cross-border through-trains to mainland China whic ...
, the Canton Rail to KCR East Rail.
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– Birgenair Flight 301
Birgenair Flight 301 was a flight chartered by Turkish-managed Birgenair partner Alas Nacionales from Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic to Frankfurt, Germany, via Gander, Canada, and Berlin, Germany. On February 6, 1996, the 757-200 oper ...
, on a charter flight from the Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
to Germany
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, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic
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, killing all 189 passengers and crew.
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
– René Préval succeeds Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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as President of Haiti
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in the first peaceful handover of power since the nation achieved independence 192 years earlier, in 1804.
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
** The element copernicium is created by fusing a 208Pb nucleus with a 70Zn nucleus, forming 278Cn. Given the placeholder name "ununbium", the element is not named until 2010.
** An IRA
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*Ira (name), a Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian or Finnish language personal name
*Ira (surname), a rare Estonian and some other language family name
*Iran, UNDP code IRA
Law
*Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, US, on status of ...
ceasefire ends with the Docklands bombing
The London Docklands bombing (also known as the South Quay bombing or erroneously referred to as the Canary Wharf bombing) occurred on 9 February 1996, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb in South Q ...
in London's Canary Wharf District, killing two people and causing over £85,000,000 worth of damage.
** Disney
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formally finalizes its $19 billion acquisition of the ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
parent, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
* 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, sparkin ...
– Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO
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localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.
* 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 Louis ...
– Violent clashes erupt between Filipino
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* Something from or related to the Philippines
** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines.
** Filipinos, people who are citizens of th ...
soldiers and Vietnamese boat people, as the Filipino government attempts to forcibly repatriate hundreds of Vietnamese asylum seekers.
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
** The American Embassy in Athens
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, Greece
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, comes under mortar fire.
** Begum Khaleda Zia is re-elected as Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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. The country's second democratic election is marred by low voter turnout, due to several boycotts and pre-election violence, which has resulted in at least thirteen deaths.
** The UK government publishes the Scott Report
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.
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– The 8.2 Biak earthquake strikes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia
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with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''). A large tsunami followed, leaving 166 people dead or missing and 423 injured.
* February 24
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
* 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
* 13 ...
– Cuba
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n fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
– Two suicide bombs in Israel
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kill 25 and injure 80; Hamas
Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Bri ...
claims responsibility.
* February 29
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** Faucett Perú Flight 251
Faucett Perú Flight 251 refers to a Boeing 737-200 that was operating a domestic scheduled Lima–Arequipa–Tacna passenger service and crashed on 29 February 1996, while completing the first leg, on approach to Rodríguez Ballón Internation ...
en route from Lima
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to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa
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; all 123 people on board are killed.
** At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala
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, Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
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.
** The Bosnian government
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declares the end of the Siege of Sarajevo
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.
March
*March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
– Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces refuse UNSCOM inspection teams access to five sites designated for inspection. The teams enter the sites only after delays of up to seventeen hours.
* March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
** The plane of the Brazilian rock band Mamonas Assassinas
Mamonas Assassinas was a Brazilian satirical rock band. Their musical style employed a humorous mixture between rock and a wide range of styles, often borrowing elements from other music, among which were the main riff of the Portuguese Vira (" ...
crashes in the Serra da Cantareira
The Serra da Cantareira is a Brazilian mountain range to the north of the city of São Paulo in the São Paulo state. The area has many walking trails, and is popular among locals."Serra da Cantareira." ''Brazil Footprint Handbook'' Footprint Trav ...
, killing all its members on board. Their short lived and "meteoric" success were celebrated for decades and the members are remembered and celebrated even to the present day in Brazil.
** 1996 Australian federal election
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: The Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
/National
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Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
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Coalition
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Formation
According to ''A Gui ...
led by John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...
defeats the Labor Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
led by Prime Minister
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Paul Keating. Howard was sworn in on March 11.
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– José María Aznar
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A member of the Fre ...
, leader of the Popular Party, is elected as Prime Minister of Spain
The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government ( es, link=no, Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain. The office was established in its current form by the Constitution of 1978 and it was first regula ...
, replacing Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez (; born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish lawyer, professor, and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997, and the 3rd Prime Minister of Spain since the ...
.
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– 4 – Two suicide bombs explode in Israel
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, killing 32 people. The Yahya Ayyash Units
Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Bri ...
admit responsibility, and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat condemns the killings in a televised address. Israel warns of retaliation.
* March 6
** Mesut Yılmaz of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey
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(53rd government).
** A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown
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harbour in Sierra Leone
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, killing at least 86 people.
** Chechnya, Chechen rebels attack the Russian government headquarters in Grozny
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The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2010 census, it had a pop ...
; 70 Russian soldiers and policemen and 130 Chechen fighters are killed.
* March 8 – China
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begins surface-to-surface missile testing and military exercises off Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
ese coastal areas. The United States
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government condemns the act as provocation, and the Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
ese government warns of retaliation.
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
– Jorge Sampaio becomes the new Portuguese president.
* 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 Tond ...
– Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing sixteen infant school pupils and one teacher before committing suicide.
* March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– An international peace summit is held in Egypt
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in response to escalating terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
– Fokker
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, a major manufacturer of small size aircraft
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, goes bankrupt in Netherlands
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.
* March 16 – Robert Mugabe is re-elected as President of Zimbabwe
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, although only 32% of the electorate actually voted.
* March 17 – Sri Lanka
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wins the Cricket World Cup by beating Australia
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in the final
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.
* March 18 – The Ozone Disco Club fire in Quezon City
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, Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
kills 163 people.
* March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– Sweden
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's Finance Minister Göran Persson becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden
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.
* March 23 – Taiwan
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(Republic of China) holds its first direct elections for president; Lee Teng-hui
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is re-elected.
* March 24 – The Marcopper mining disaster
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on the island of Marinduque
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, Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
takes place.
* March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
– The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles
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with ''Braveheart
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'' winning Best Picture.
* March 26 – The International Monetary Fund
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approves a $10.2 billion loan to Russia
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for economic reform.
April
* April 3 ** ABoeing 737
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Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two un ...
military jet crashes into a mountain north of Dubrovnik, Croatia. All 35 people on board are killed, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
** Massacres of Hutu
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s by Tutsi
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s in Burundi
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take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.
** The FBI arrested Theodore Kaczynski
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, the suspected Unabomber at his cabin in Lincoln, Montana.
* April 6
** Fighting breaks out in Monrovia
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, Liberia
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, between various rebel factions struggling for power in the country's interrupted civil war. Several foreign nationals leave the nation.
** Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
authorities begin Operation Hawk, a military offensive against rebels from 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 south ...
in south-east Turkey.
* April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...
– In a common statement, the European Union
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officially recognises the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
.
* April 11 – The Israel
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i government launches Operation Grapes of Wrath
Operation Grapes of Wrath ( he, מבצע ענבי זעם ''Mivtsa Enavi Zaam''), known in Lebanon as the April Aggression (), is the seventeen-day campaign of the Israeli Defense Forces against Hezbollah in 1996 which attempted to end rocket att ...
, consisting of massive attacks on Lebanon
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, in retaliation for "terrorist attacks", and sparking off a violent series of retaliations.
* April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Mansouri massacre
The Mansouri attack occurred on 13 April 1996, when an Israel Defence Forces helicopter attacked a vehicle in Mansouri, a village in Southern Lebanon, killing two women and four children.
Attack
At 1:30 PM, Abbas Jiha, a farmer and volunteer am ...
: 2 women and 4 children are killed after an Israeli helicopter strikes an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon
Mansouri ( ar, المنصوري) is a village in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records in the early Ottoman era, it was named as a village, ''Mansura'', in the ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Tibnin under th ...
.
* April 16 – Nabatieh Fawka massacre
The Nabatieh Fawka attack occurred on 16 April 1996, when Israeli warplanes bombed an apartment in the village of Nabatieh Fawka, killing nine people, seven of whom were children.
Context
On September 19, 1994, the village came under attack and ...
: A Israeli strike on a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka
Nabatieh Fawka ( ar, النبطية الفوقا), also known as Upper Nabatieh is a Lebanese village in the Nabatieh Governorate. History
In the 1596 tax records in the early Ottoman era, it was named as a village, ''Nabatiyya al-Fawqa'', in t ...
, Lebanon, kills 9 people, including 7 children.
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
** Qana massacre
The Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in Southern Lebanon, when the Israel Defense Forces fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound. The artillery barrage had been launched to cover an Israeli special f ...
: Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed after Israel shells the United Nations
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compound in Qana. In reaction, an Islamist group in Egypt
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opens fire on a hotel, killing eighteen Greek tourists and injuring seventeen others.
** Two days before the NFL draft, Nebraska Quarterback
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Brook Berringer
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is killed when the plane he is piloting crashes in an alfalfa field. During the 1996 NFL draft, the league held a moment of silence for Berringer, who was expected to be selected by the Denver Broncos
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.
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– 19 – Two consecutive tornados hit Decatur, Illinois
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, causing approximately $10.5 million in damage. The April 19 tornado also hits Urbana __NOTOC__
Urbana can refer to:
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*Urbana, Italy
United States
*Urbana, Illinois
**Urbana (conference), a Christian conference formerly held in Urbana, Illinois
*Urbana, Indiana
* Urbana, Iowa
*Urbana, Kansas
* Urbana, Maryland
*Urbana, ...
and Ogden.
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– A general election
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in Italy proclaims a new center-left government headed by Romano Prodi
Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prim ...
, replacing Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...
.
* April 24 – At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establ ...
drops its clause calling for the removal of Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. The Israeli government responds by dropping a similar clause concerning the existence of Palestine
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Palestine may refer to:
* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
* Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...
.
* April 26 – Shanghai Five group, predecessor of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, is created with the signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in Shanghai
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by the heads of states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
* April 28
** Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the worst massacre in mod ...
: Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in Tasmania
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.
** Bhai Pheru bus bombing
The Bhai Pheru bus bombing was a bombing targeting a bus in Bhai Pheru (now Phool Nagar), Pakistan killing 52 and injuring 26.
Bombing
On 28 April 1996, a bus picked up passengers at Kot Radha Kishan bus stop in Bhai Pheru. The bus (FDJ 9176) was ...
: A bomb explodes in Bhai Pheru
Phool Nagar (Punjabi and ur, ), previously Bhai Pheru ( ur, بھائی پھیرو), is a city of the Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city is named after the former Minister of the area Rana Phool Muhammad Khan.
Location
...
, Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
, Pakistan
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, killing more than 60 people.
May
* May – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents. *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 rati ...
** South Africa's National Party pulls out of the coalition government formed two years earlier, and the African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when ...
assumes full political control.
** Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
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n president Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and retired senior military officer who has been the 9th and current President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. Museveni spearheaded rebellions with aid of then ...
wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75% of the vote.
* May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
** 1996 Everest disaster
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: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest
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with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving eight people dead. By the end of the month, at least four other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.
** The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on the private possession of both automatic
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Music Bands
* Automatic (band), Australian rock band
* Automatic (American band), American rock band
* The Automatic, a Welsh alternative rock band
Albums
* ''Automatic'' (Jack Bruce album), a 1983 electronic rock ...
and semi-automatic rifle
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s, in response to the Port Arthur massacre Port Arthur massacre may refer to:
*Port Arthur massacre (China), an 1894 event in which Japanese troops killed several thousand Chinese in the Liaodong Peninsula
*Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting t ...
.
* May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– After takeoff from Miami
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, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen
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canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta
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-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades
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, killing all 110 people on board.
* May 13
Events Pre-1600
*1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''.
* 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...
– Severe thunderstorm
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s and a tornado
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in Bangladesh
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kill 600 people.
* May 17– 28 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party
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, is elected as Prime Minister of India
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, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the 9th prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He is known for introducing various liberal reforms to Indi ...
of the Indian National Congress
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. However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns thirteen days later rather than face a no confidence vote and is replaced by the United Front
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leader, Deve Gowda
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.
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
– The X Prize Foundation launches the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize.
* May 21
** The ''MV Bukoba
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'' sinks in Tanzania
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n waters in Lake Victoria
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, killing nearly 1,000 people in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.
** The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas On the night of 26–27 March 1996, seven monks of the Trappist order from the Our Lady of the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine near Médéa, Algeria, were kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War. They were held for two months, and found dead in late May ...
are executed.
* May 23 – Members of the Armed Islamic Group
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in Algeria
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kill seven French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.
* May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– First Chechnya War
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: Russian President Boris Yeltsin
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meets with Chechnya
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n rebels for the first time and negotiates a ceasefire for the dispute.
* May 28 – Albania
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's general election of May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
is declared unfair by international monitors, and the ruling Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
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*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
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under President Muhannad Ibrahim is charged by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with rigging the elections. Several hundred protestors gather in Tirana
Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...
to demonstrate against the election result.
* May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
– The Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu
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, wins a narrow victory in the Israel
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i general election.
June
* June – Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the United States fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council. *June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– 3 – The Czech Republic's first general election ends inconclusively. Prime Minister Václav Klaus
Václav Klaus (; born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the secon ...
and his incumbent Civic Democratic Party emerge as the winners, but are unable to form a majority government. President Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as ...
refuses to invite Klaus to form a coalition.
* June 4 – The space rocket
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Ariane 5
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explodes forty seconds after takeoff in French Guiana
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. The project costs European governments $7,500,000,000 over eleven years.
* June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– Leighton W. Smith, Jr.
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resigns as NATO
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commander in the face of increasing criticism.
* June 8
Events Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
– 30 – England
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hosts the UEFA Euro 1996
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football tournament, which is won by Germany
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.
* June 11
** An explosion in a São Paulo
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suburban shopping centre kills 44 people and injures more than 100.
** A peace convoy carrying Chechen separatist leaders and international diplomats is targeted by a series of remotely controlled land mines; eight people are killed.
* June 15 – In Manchester
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, UK, an IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
* June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
** A new government is formed in 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 ...
, with Necmettin Erbakan of Refah Partisi
The Welfare Party ( tr, Refah Partisi, RP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal, and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, National Order Party (MNP) and National ...
becoming Prime Minister of the coalition government, and Deputy/Foreign Minister Tansu Çiller of the True Path Party succeeding him after two years.
** The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
* June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
** The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
** An explosion in a firecrackers factory in Sichuan Province, China kills at least 52 people and injures 83 others.
* June 30
** Costas Simitis is elected president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece.
** Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić relinquishes power to his deputy, Biljana Plavšić.
July
* July ** Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector Scott Ritter attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport but is blocked by Iraqi officials. ** The Indian government officially renames the city of Madras, restoring the name Chennai. * July 1 ** The Northern Territory in Australia legalises voluntary euthanasia. ** German orthography reform of 1996 agreed internationally. * July 3 –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 ...
is 1996 Russian presidential election, re-elected as President of Russia after the second round of elections.
* July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...
to be successfully cloning, cloned from an adult cell (biology), cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, UK.
* July 11 – Arrest warrants are issued for Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić by the Russell Tribunal in The Hague.
* July 12 – Hurricane Bertha (1996), Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage ($ in present-day terms) to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
* July 16 – An outbreak of Escherichia coli, E. coli food poisoning in Japan results in 6,000 children being ill, including two deaths, after a group of school children eat contaminated lunches.
* July 17
** The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is constituted.
** Paris- and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800
Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31pm. Eastern Daylight Time, EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. K ...
(Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board.
* July 19
** The 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in Atlanta
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, United States, begin.
** Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes.
* July 21 – The Saguenay Flood, one of Canada's most costly natural disasters, is caused by flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec.
* July 24 – The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
.
* July 25 – The Tutsi
The Tutsi (), or Abatutsi (), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic grou ...
-led Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...
an army performs a 1996 Burundian coup d'état, coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
* July 27
** The Centennial Olympic Park bombing
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed ...
at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
kills one person and injures 111.
** Indonesian government forces 27 July 1996 incident, attacked the head office of the Indonesian Democratic Party, which was being occupied by supporters of recently ousted party leader Megawati Sukarnoputri.
August
* August
** The first three-parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through mitochondrial donation.
** The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York City.
* August 1
** Sarah Balabagan returns 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 ...
.
** A pro-democracy demonstration supporting Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
is broken up by riot police.
* August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
conclude.
* August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms; further tests are inconclusive.
* August 7 – Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near Huesca, Spain.
* August 9 – 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 ...
is sworn in at the Kremlin for a second term as President of Russia.
* August 13 – Data sent back by the Galileo (spacecraft), Galileo space probe indicates there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons.
* August 14 – A rocket ignited during a fireworks display in Arequipa
Arequipa (; Aymara and qu, Ariqipa) is a city and capital of province and the eponymous department of Peru. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru". It is the second most populated city ...
, Peru knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people.
* August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.
* August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue.
* August 21
** Former State President of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, makes an official apology for crimes committed under Apartheid to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town.
** In the UK, Queen Elizabeth II issues letters patent on divorced former wives of British princes, taking away from the ex-wives the attribute and style of Royal Highness. With that Sarah, Duchess of York as well as Diana, Princess of Wales legally cease to be Royals, but they remain as non-royal Duchess and Princess.
* August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
* August 26 – Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn and 10 others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service (United States), Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during 1996 Democratic National Convention, that year's Democratic National Convention.
* August 28 – Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess of Wales, due to the Queen's letters patent issued a week earlier.
* August 29
** U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
** A Russian Tupolev 154 jetliner Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, crashes into a mountain as it approaches the airport at Spitsbergen, Norway, killing all 141 people on board.
* August 31 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces launch an offensive into the northern Iraqi no-fly zones, No-Fly Zone and capture Arbil.
September
* September 2 – A permanent peace agreement is signed at the Malacañan Palace between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (Misuari faction), Moro National Liberation Front. * September 3 – The United States launches Operation Desert Strike against Iraq in reaction to the attack on Arbil. * September 4 – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attack a military base in Guaviare Department, Guaviare, Colombia, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians. * September 5 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear (headland), Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 hurricane, Category 3 storm with sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damages ($ in present-day terms) and killed 27 people, mainly in North Carolina. The name "Fran" was retired due to the extensive damage. * September 10 – Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed (it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries). * September 13 – Alija Izetbegović is elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country's first election since the Bosnian War. * September 20 – Leader ofPakistan
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 opposition party Pakistan Peoples Party Murtaza Bhutto is killed during a gunfight with police.
* September 22 – The Panhellenic Socialist Movement under the leadership of Costas Simitis succeeds in the 1996 Greek legislative election.
* September 24 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
.
* September 27 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
* September 29 – The Nintendo 64 is released in North America.
October
* October 2 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff fromLima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
Airport, killing all 70 people on board.
* October 6 – The government of New Zealand agrees to pay $130 million worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori people, Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864.
* October 22 – A fire at La Planta prison in southwest Caracas, Venezuela, kills thirty prisoners.
* October 24 – The First Congo War begins.
* October 31 – TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into a densely populated area of São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
, killing all 96 people on board.
November
* November – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country. * November 5 – 1996 United States presidential election: Incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican Party (United States), Republican challenger, Bob Dole and Reform Party of the United States of America, Reform Party candidate Ross Perot. * November 7 ** A Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, category 4 1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone, cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India, killing at least 1,000 people. ** NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. * November 8 – All 144 people on board a Nigerian-owned Boeing 727 die after the aircraft ADC Airlines Flight 086, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while approaching Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport, airport. * November 12 – Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, collides in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76 in New Delhi, India, resulting in the loss of 349 lives. * November 17 ** A bomb explodes in Kaspiysk, Russia, killing 32 people. ** Emil Constantinescu is elected as President of Romania. * November 18 – Frederick Chiluba is re-elected as President of Zambia. * November 19 ** Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1,035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree inTasmania
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earlier this year.
** Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization (CTBTO) established.
** ''STS-80'': Space Shuttle Columbia conducts the longest mission of the Space Shuttle program.
* November 20 – The 1996 Garley Building fire occurred in Hong Kong, resulting in 41 deaths and 81 injuries.
* November 21 – A propane Humberto Vidal explosion, explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33 people.
* November 23
** The Angola, Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization as ''Angola''.
** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nai ...
is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
* November 25 – An ice storm strikes the U.S. killing 26 directly and hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts Florida with winds gusts up to 90 mph.
December
* December 9 – Jerry Rawlings is re-elected as President of Ghana. * December 11 – Tung Chee-hwa is appointed to become the new leader of Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, at the end a 99-year lease to the United Kingdom. * December 13 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is elected by the United Nations Security Council the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. * December 17 – The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the Japanese Embassy inLima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
, Peru.
* December 25 – At least 283 migrants drown in the Sinking of F174, sinking of ''F174'' near Capo Passero (Sicily).
* December 26
** The 1996–97 strikes in South Korea, largest strike in South Korean history begins.
** Six-year-old Death of JonBenét Ramsey, JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
* December 27 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Air Base, solidifying their buffer zone around Kabul.
* December 29 – Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord that ends the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War.
* December 30 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo people, Bodo separatists, killing 26.
Births
January
* January 2 – Xiaoyu Yu, Chinese figure skater
* January 3 – Florence Pugh, English actress
* January 5
** Maxim Baldry, English actor
** Tyler Ulis, American basketball player
* January 6
** Courtney Eaton, Australian actress
** Harmanpreet Singh, Indian hockey player
* January 7 – Helly Shah, Indian actress
* January 10 – Anna Sztankovics, Hungarian swimmer
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhamma ...
– Leroy Sané, German footballer
* January 12 – Ella Henderson, English singer
* January 15 – Dove Cameron, American actress and singer
* January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
** Anastasia Grishina, Russian artistic gymnast
** Jennie (singer), Jennie, South Korean singer and rapper
* January 17 – Nile Wilson, British artistic gymnast
* 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 ...
– Taylor Bennett (rapper), Taylor Bennett, American rapper
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Co ...
– Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer
* 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 Cou ...
– Patrik Schick, Czech footballer
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...
– Joel Courtney, American actor
February
* February 1 – Ahmad Abughaush, Jordanian taekwondo athlete
* February 2 – Harry Winks, English footballer
* February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– Zeng Siqi, Chinese artistic gymnast
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
** Aaron Ekblad, Canadian ice hockey player
** Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
** Jimmy Bennett, American actor
** Kelli Berglund, American actress
** Chungha (singer), Chungha, South Korean singer and dancer
* February 11 – Lucas Torreira, Uruguayan footballer
* February 13 – Muhammad Rian Ardianto, Indonesian badminton player
* 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 Louis ...
** Lucas Hernandez, French footballer
** Viktor Kovalenko (footballer), Viktor Kovalenko, Ukrainian footballer
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– Sasha Pieterse, South African-born American actress
* February 19 – Ashnikko, American singer and rapper
* February 20 – Mabel (singer), Mabel, English singer
* February 21
** Noah Rubin (tennis), Noah Rubin, American tennis player
** Sophie Turner, English actress
* February 23 – D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
– Emel Dereli, Turkish shot putter
* February 28 – Shi Yuqi, Chinese badminton player
March
*March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
– Ye Shiwen, Chinese swimmer
* March 5 – Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese professional basketball player
** Michael Evans Behling, American actor
* March 6
** Christian Coleman, American sprinter
** Timo Werner, German footballer
** Yan Han (figure skater), Yan Han, Chinese figure skater
* March 8 – Emil Imre, Hungarian short track speed skater
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
– Giorgio Minisini, Italian synchronized swimmer
* March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– Janai Haupapa, Canadian rugby league player
* March 23 – Alexander Albon, Thai racing driver
* March 24
** Valentino Lazaro, Austrian footballer
** Myles Turner, American basketball player
* March 26 – Kathryn Bernardo, Filipina actress
* March 27 – Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Italian-American actress
* March 28
** Benjamin Pavard, French footballer
** Xie Siyi, Chinese diver
* March 31 – Kira Hagi, Romanian actress
April
* April 2
** Polina Agafonova, Russian figure skater
** Matheus Santana, Brazilian swimmer
* April 3 – Sarah Jeffery, Canadian actress
* April 4 – Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor
* April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...
– Giovani Lo Celso, Argentinian footballer
* April 10
** Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer
** Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australian tennis player
** Loïc Nottet, Belgian singer
* April 11
** Dele Alli, English footballer
** Summer Walker, American singer
* April 12 – Polina Korobeynikova, Russian figure skater
* April 14 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
* April 16 – Anya Taylor-Joy, actress
* April 17 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress
* April 22 – Wendy Sulca, Peruvian singer
* April 23 – Álex Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
* April 24 – Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
* April 25
** Mack Horton, Australian swimmer
** Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
* April 27
** Tejan Koroma, American Football Player
* April 28 – Tony Revolori, American actor
* April 29 – Katherine Langford, Australian actress
May
* May 2 – Julian Brandt, German footballer
* May 3 – Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
* May 4
** Arielle Gold, American snowboarder
** Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist.
* May 8 – 6ix9ine, American rapper
* May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– Tyus Jones, American basketball player
* May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– Andrés Cubas, Argentinian footballer
* May 14
** Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
** Pokimane, Imane Anys, Canadian Twitch streamer
* May 15 – Birdy (singer), Birdy, English singer and songwriter
* May 17 – Ryan Ochoa, American actor and musician
* May 19 – Lakshmi Menon (actress), Lakshmi Menon, Indian film actress
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
– Yuki Kadono, Japanese snowboarder
* May 23 – Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper
* May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
** Aleksandr Golovin (footballer), Aleksandr Golovin, Russian footballer
** Lucki, American rapper
* May 31 – Normani, American singer
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– Tom Holland, English actor
* June 3 – Han Tianyu, Chinese short track speed skater
* June 7 – Christian McCaffrey, American football player
* June 10 – Wen Junhui, Chinese singer and actor
* June 12
**Annalisa Cochrane, American actress
**Davinson Sánchez, Colombian footballer
* June 13
** Kingsley Coman, French footballer
** Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
* June 15 – Aurora (singer), Aurora, Norwegian singer
* June 16 – Lily Zhang, American table tennis player
* June 17 – Godfred Donsah, Ghanese footballer
* June 18 – Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
* June 19 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian artistic gymnast
* June 22
** Hugo Calderano, Brazilian table tennis player
** Kong Sang-jeong, South Korean short track speed skater
* June 24 – Harris Dickinson, English actor, writer, and director
* June 27 – Lauren Jauregui, American singer
* June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
** Milot Rashica, Kosovar footballer
** Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player
July
* July 1 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
* July 3 – Kendji Girac, French singer
* July 5 – Risa Shōji, Japanese figure skater
* July 7 – Ivan Ljubic, Austrian footballer
* July 10 – Moon Ga-young, South Korean actress
* July 11
** Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter
** Andrija Živković, Serbian footballer
* July 18 – Yung Lean, Swedish rapper and record producer
* July 20 – Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player
August
* August 1
** Arisa Higashino, Japanese badminton player
** Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
* August 2 – Simone Manuel, American swimmer
* August 5
** Francesca Deagostini, Italian artistic gymnast
** Mai Murakami, Japanese artistic gymnast
* August 10 – Evan Evagora, Australian actor
* August 12 – Arthur Melo, Arthur, Brazilian footballer
* August 14 – Brianna Hildebrand, American actress
* August 16 – Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
* August 19
** Almoez Ali, Sudanese-Qatari footballer
** Laura Tesoro, Belgian singer and actress
* August 20 – Axell Hodges, American motocross competitor
* August 24 – Kenzō Shirai, Japanese gymnast
* August 27
** Femke Van den Driessche, Belgian cyclist found guilty of mechanical doping
** Ebru Topçu, Turkish footballer
* August 28 – Kim Se-jeong, South Korean singer and actress
* August 30
** Gabriel Barbosa, Brazilian footballer
** Chen Dequan, Chinese short track speed skater
September
* September 1 – Zendaya, American actress and singer
* September 3 – Joy (singer), Joy, South Korean singer and actress
* September 5 – Sigrid (singer), Sigrid, Norwegian singer
* September 9 – Jaïro Riedewald, Dutch footballer
* September 12 – Colin Ford, American actor
* September 13
** Playboi Carti, American rapper
** Lili Reinhart, American actress
September 16 – Baka Prase, Serbian YouTuber, rapper, gamer, and entertainer
* September 17
** Duje Ćaleta-Car, Croatian footballer
** Ella Purnell, English actress
** Esteban Ocon, French Formula 1 Driver
* September 23
** Lee Hi, South Korean singer-songwriter
** Evgeny Rylov, Russian swimmer
* September 25 – Mie Nielsen, Danish swimmer
* September 27 – Maxwel Cornet, French-Ivorian footballer
* September 28 – Michael Ronda, Mexican actor and singer
October
* October 1
** Shenseea, Jamaican Singer
* October 3 – Kelechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
* October 4 – Ella Balinska, English actress
* October 5 – Sevn Alias, Dutch rapper
* October 7 – Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter
* October 8 – Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
* October 9
** Jacob Batalon, American-Filipino actor
** Bella Hadid, American model
* October 10 – Oscar Zia, Swedish singer and songwriter
* October 13
** Joshua Wong, Hong Kong student activist and politician
** Đỗ Mỹ Linh, Vietnamese model
* October 15 – Zelo, Korean singer
* October 20 – Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
* October 24
** Jaylen Brown, American basketball player
** Kyla Ross, American gymnast
* October 28 – Lee June-hyoung, South Korean figure skater
* October 30
** Devin Booker, American basketball player
** Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer
November
* November 1
** Sean Gelael, Indonesian racing driver
** Lil Peep, American rapper (d. 2017)
**Daniela Melchior, Portuguese actress
** Jeongyeon, South Korean singer
* November 4 – Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater
* November 7
** André Horta, Portuguese footballer
** Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
* November 9
** Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên, Vietnamese swimmer
** Momo Hirai, Japanese singer and dancer
* November 11
** Adam Ounas, French-born Algerian footballer
** Tye Sheridan, American actor
* November 14 – Borna Ćorić, Croatian tennis player
* November 16 – Brendan Murray, Irish singer
* November 17 – Ruth Jebet, Bahraini long-distance runner
* November 18
** Akram Afif, Qatari footballer
** Noah Ringer, American actor
** Sorn (singer), Sorn, South Korean based singer
* November 19 – Liliána Szilágyi, Hungarian swimmer
* November 20 – Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
* November 22
** Hailey Baldwin, American model and socialite
** JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player
* November 23
** James Maddison, English footballer
** Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
* November 26 – Louane (singer), Louane Emera, French singer and actress
* November 27 – Felix Kashweka, Zambian journalist and publicist
* November 29 – Gonçalo Guedes, Portuguese footballer
December
* December 1 – Pradyumn Karthic, the indian chad was born.
* December 4 – Daria Svatkovskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
* December 6 – Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer
* December 10
** Joe Burrow, American football player
** Kang Daniel, South Korean singer
* December 11
** Eliza McCartney, New Zealand track and field athlete
** Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, model and singer
** Jack Griffo, American actor
* December 12
** Lucas Hedges, American actor
** Oliver Askew, American racing driver
** Rajinikanth, Indian Actor
* December 14 – Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater
* December 15 – Oleksandr Zinchenko (footballer), Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
* December 16 – Wilfred Ndidi, Nigerian footballer
* December 17 – Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
* December 19 – Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer
* December 21 – Kaitlyn Dever, American actress
* December 28 – Alfred Kipketer, Kenyan middle-distance runner
* December 29
** Dylan Minnette, American actor, singer and musician
** Sana (singer), Sana, Japanese singer
* December 30
** Stephanie Del Valle, Puerto Rican musician, model and beauty queen
** Zack Baun, American Football Player
Deaths
January
* January 1 – Arleigh Burke, American naval officer (b. 1901)
* January 5 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian shaheed (b. 1966)
* January 7
** Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)
** Tarō Okamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1911)
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– François Mitterrand, French politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)
* January 15
** Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
** Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (b. 1938)
* January 17 – Barbara Jordan, American lawyer, educator, politician and civil rights activist (b. 1936)
* January 18
** Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
** Endel Puusepp, Estonian pilot (b. 1909)
** N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, producer, director, editor and politician (b. 1923)
* 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 ...
– Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
* 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 &ndas ...
– Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
* January 25 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
** Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American Nobel poet (b. 1940)
** Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
February
* February 2 – Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (b. 1912)
* February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922)
* February 4 – Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 106th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1923)
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
– Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
– Adolf Galland, German general (b. 1912)
* February 11
** Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
** Bob Shaw, Irish science fiction writer (b. 1931)
* February 12 – Ryōtarō Shiba, Japanese novelist (b. 1923)
* February 13 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
* 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 Louis ...
** Eva Hart, British Titanic survivor (b. 1905)
** Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
* February 16 – Pat Brown, American politician (b. 1905)
* February 20
** Solomon Asch, Polish-American psychologist (b. 1907)
** Audrey Munson, American model and actress (b. 1891)
** Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
* February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)
* February 23
** William Bonin, American serial killer (b. 1947)
** Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (b. 1915)
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
– Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian activist and actor (b. 1940)
* February 26 – Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer (b. 1919)
* February 27 – Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (b. 1912)
March
* March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
** Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1934)
** Lyle Talbot, American actor (b. 1902)
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
** Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)
** John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910)
* March 4 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
* March 5
** Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh (b. 1918)
** Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
– George Burns, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
* March 10 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)
* March 11 – Vince Edwards, American actor (b. 1928)
* March 12 – Gyula Kállai, 48th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1910)
* 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 Tond ...
** Lucio Fulci, Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1927)
** Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
* March 17 – René Clément, French film director (b. 1913)
* March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (b. 1911)
* March 19
** Virginia Henderson, American nurse and theorist (b. 1897)
** Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b. 1933)
* March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– Robert F. Overmyer, American astronaut (b. 1936)
* March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
– Lola Beltrán, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (b. 1932)
* March 26
** Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
** David Packard, American engineer (b. 1912)
* March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (b. 1958)
April
* April 3 – Ron Brown, American politician (b. 1941)
* April 4 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
* April 6 – Greer Garson, British-American actress (b. 1904)
* April 8 – Ben Johnson (actor), Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
* April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– James Burke (gangster), James Burke, Irish-American gangster (b. 1931)
* April 16 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917)
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– Bernard Edwards, American bass player (b. 1952)
* April 20 – Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (b. 1920)
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician and President of Ichkeria (b. 1944)
* April 23 – P. L. Travers, British actress, journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1899)
* April 25 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (b. 1920)
* April 26 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
* April 28 – Siti Hartinah, 2nd First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
May
* May 1 – David M. Kennedy (politician), David M. Kennedy, American politician, businessman (b. 1905)
* May 2 – Emile Habibi, Palestinian Israeli writer and politician (b. 1922)
* May 3 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
* May 6 – Leo Joseph Suenens, Belgian cardinal (b. 1904)
* May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
**Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
** Scott Fischer, American mountaineer (b. 1955)
** Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
**Andy Harris (mountain guide), Andrew Harris, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1964)
**1996 Mount Everest disaster, Doug Hansen, American mountaineer (b. 1949)
**Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
**1996 Mount Everest disaster, Tsewang Samanla, Indo-Tibetan Border police officer and mountaineer (b. 1957)
**1996 Mount Everest disaster, Tsewang Paljor, Indo-Tibetan Border police officer and mountaineer (b. 1968)
**1996 Mount Everest disaster, Dorje Morup, Indo-Tibetan Border police officer and mountaineer (b. 1948)
**Ademir de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
* May 17 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1935)
* May 19 – John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)
* May 20 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
* May 23 – Sim Iness, American Olympic athlete (b. 1930)
* May 24
** John Abbott (actor), John Abbott, English actor (b. 1905)
** Jacob Druckman, American composer (b. 1928)
* May 25 – Bradley Nowell, American musician (b. 1968)
* May 29 – Tamara Toumanova, Russian-American dancer and actress (b. 1919)
* May 31 – Timothy Leary, American writer and social activist (b. 1920)
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
* June 2
** John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
** Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (b. 1928)
* June 3 – Peter Glenville, English film director (b. 1913)
* June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
** Kusuo Kitamura, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1917)
** George Davis Snell, American Nobel geneticist (b. 1903)
* June 10 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
* June 11 – Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
* June 15 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
* June 19
** Hillevi Rombin, Swedish actress and beauty queen (b. 1933)
** Edvin Wide, Swedish middle- and long-distance runner (b. 1896)
* June 23
** Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer (b. 1921)
** Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece
The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρωθυπουργός της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Prothypourgós tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), colloquially referred to as the prime minister of Greece ( el, Πρωθυ ...
(b. 1919)
* June 26 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
* June 27 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
* June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
– Kwan Tak-hing, Hong Kong actor (b. 1905)
July
* July 1 – Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (b. 1954)
* July 3 – Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1926)
* July 9
** Eno Raud, Estonian writer (b. 1928)
** Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (b. 1954)
* July 13 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
* July 15 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
* July 17 – Paul Touvier, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1915)
* July 20 – František Plánička, Czech footballer (b. 1904)
* July 21
** Luana Anders, American actress (b. 1938)
** Herb Edelman, American actor (b. 1933)
* July 22 – Jessica Mitford, British-American author, journalist and political campaigner (b. 1917)
* July 23 – Jean Muir (actress), Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)
* July 27 – Jane Drew, English architect (b. 1911)
* July 28 – Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist (b. 1908)
* July 30 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
August
* August 1
** Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somali military commander and politician (b. 1934)
** Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
** Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss Nobel chemist (b. 1897)
* August 2
** Michel Debré, 99th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
** Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
* August 6 – Hernán Siles Zuazo, 46th President of Bolivia (b. 1914)
* August 8 – Nevill Francis Mott, English Nobel physicist (b. 1905)
* August 11
** Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born Swiss conductor (b. 1914)
** Baba Vanga, Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)
* August 12 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Armenian scientist (b. 1908)
* August 13
** António de Spínola, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
** David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
* August 26 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 37th President of Argentina (b. 1918)
* August 27 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
* August 30 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
September
* September 1 – Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
* September 7 – Bibi Besch, American actress (b. 1942)
* September 9
** Ruggero Mastroianni, Italian film editor (b. 1929)
** Bill Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
* September 10 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
* September 12 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
* September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper (b. 1971)
* September 14 – Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress (b. 1936)
* September 16
** McGeorge Bundy, American academic (b. 1919)
** Gene Nelson, American dancer and actor (b. 1920)
* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
* September 18 – Annabella (actress), Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
* September 20
** Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1954)
** Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
** Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1914)
* September 22
** Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, 1st Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1927)
** Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
* September 24 – Zeki Müren, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet (b. 1931)
* September 26
** Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
** Pavel Sudoplatov, Soviet spy (b. 1907)
** Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel chemist (b. 1921)
* September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
* September 29 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (b. 1923)
October
* October 4 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b. 1913)
* October 5 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
* October 11
** Renato Russo, Brazilian singer (b. 1960)
** William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
* October 12
** René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
** Roger Lapébie, French racing cyclist (b. 1911)
* October 13 – Beryl Reid, British actress (b. 1919)
* October 19 – Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (b. 1935)
* October 24 – Artur Axmann, German Nazi leader (b. 1913)
* October 31 – Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1909)
November
* November 1 – J. R. Jayewardene, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
* November 2 – Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (b. 1963)
* November 3
** Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 2nd President of the Central African Republic and Emperor of Central Africa (b. 1921)
** Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist (b. 1956)
* November 6 – Tommy Lawton, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
* November 14
** Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (b. 1928)
** Virginia Cherrill, American actress (b. 1908)
* November 15 – Alger Hiss, American diplomat (b. 1904)
* November 18 – Zinovy Gerdt, Russian actor (b. 1916)
* November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel physicist (b. 1926)
* November 22 – María Casares, French-Spanish actress (b. 1922)
* November 26 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
* November 27 – Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician (b. 1897)
* November 28 – Don McNeill (tennis), Don McNeill, American tennis player (b. 1918)
* November 30 – Tiny Tim (musician), Tiny Tim, American musician (b. 1932)
December
* December 3 – Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
* December 7 – José Donoso, Chilean writer (b. 1924)
* December 9 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1913)
* December 10 – Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
* December 11 – Willie Rushton, English comedian, actor and cartoonist (b. 1937)
* December 13 – Cao Yu, Chinese playwright (b. 1910)
* December 16 – Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b. 1910)
** Laurens van der Post, South African author (b. 1906)
* December 17 – Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist politician (b. 1920)
* December 18 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist (b. 1895)
* December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
* December 20
** Amata Kabua, 1st President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1928)
** Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)
* December 30
** Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
** Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson, Robert C. Richardson * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Wisława Szymborska * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – James Mirrlees, William VickreyRight Livelihood Award
* Herman Daly, The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad and George VithoulkasReferences
1996 Year in Review
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