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is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States
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; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan
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, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...
; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft
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for PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b
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, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
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1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the
Internet
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was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the
Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, or New Media Age) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during ...
.
America Online and
Prodigy
Prodigy, Prodigies or The Prodigy may refer to:
* Child prodigy, a child who produces meaningful output to the level of an adult expert performer
** Chess prodigy, a child who can beat experienced adult players at chess
Arts, entertainment, and ...
offered access to the
World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.
Events
January
*
January 1
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** The
World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
**
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
,
Finland
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and
Sweden
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join the
European Union
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.
*
January 9 –
Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the
Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– The 6.9
Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern
Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan with a maximum
Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
*
January 25 –
Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at
Andøya, Norway, is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
*
January 31 –
Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again ...
invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
*
February 13 – Twenty-one
Bosnian Serb commanders are charged with
genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the ...
and
crimes against humanity in the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...
'
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a tribunal on
human rights
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violations during the
Wars in the Balkans.
*
February 21 –
Steve Fossett lands in
Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a
balloon
A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, and air. For special tasks, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g. sand, flour or rice), or lig ...
.
*
February 25 – The
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica
TCA is formed.
*
February 26 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm,
Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker
Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by
speculating on the
Tokyo Stock Exchange.
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
**
Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as
President of Uruguay for his second term.
** Polish Prime Minister
Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist
Józef Oleksy
Józef Oleksy (; 22 June 1946 – 9 January 2015) was a Polish left-wing politician, former chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (''Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej'', SLD).
Early life and education
In his youth he lived in Nowy Sącz, and was ...
.
*
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 ...
–
United Nations Operation in Somalia II, the
United Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia, ends.
*
March 14 – Astronaut
Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the ''
Soyuz TM-21''), lifting off from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.
*
March 20 – Members of the doomsday cult
Aum Shinrikyo carry out the
Tokyo subway sarin attack, killing 14 people and leading to over a thousand injured. The attack remains the deadliest terrorist incident in Japanese history.
*
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 ...
– Cosmonaut
Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in
outer space
Outer space, commonly shortened to space, is the expanse that exists beyond Earth and its atmosphere and between celestial bodies. Outer space is not completely empty—it is a near-perfect vacuum containing a low density of particles, pred ...
.
*
March 25 – Boxer
Mike Tyson is released from prison after serving nearly 3 years.
*
March 26 – The
Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
*
March 31
**
TAROM Flight 371 from
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north o ...
to
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
crashes shortly after takeoff killing all 60 people on board.
**American singer
Selena is
murdered by her fan club president,
Yolanda Saldívar.
April
*
April 7 –
First Chechen War –
Samashki massacre: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in
Samashki,
Chechnya.
*
April 19
Events Pre-1600
* AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persi ...
–
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by two anti-government extremists, Timothy McVeigh and T ...
: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by
Timothy McVeigh.
*
April 30 – The United States government stops funding the
NSFNET, making the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, p ...
a wholly privatized system.
May
*
May 7 –
Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
*
May 10 – At
Vaal Reefs gold mine in
Orkney, a runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge to the bottom of the deep shaft, killing 104.
*
May 11 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
Sega launches the
Saturn game console in North America four months before its initial scheduled date.
*
May 13 – The 6.6
Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and f ...
– The
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current D ...
proclaims 6-year-old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (born 25 April 1989) is the Dalai Lama appointed 11th Panchen Lama belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Central Government of China rejected such appointment. The 14th Dalai Lama recognized and announce ...
as the 11th
reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrectio ...
of the
Panchen Lama
The Panchen Lama () is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Panchen Lama is one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition, with its spiritual authority second only to Dalai Lama. Along with the council of high lamas, ...
.
*
May 16 – Following the
Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo near
Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader
Shoko Asahara
, born , was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. Asahara was sentenc ...
. Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.
*
May 24 –
AFC Ajax
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wins the
UEFA Champions League at the
Ernst Happel Stadium in
Vienna
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by defeating
A.C. Milan 1–0.
*
May 28 – The 7.0
Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern
Sakhalin
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Island in Russia with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 1,967 people dead and 750 injured.
June
*
June 2
**
Mrkonjić Grad incident
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: A United States Air Force
F-16 piloted by Captain
Scott O'Grady is shot down over
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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while patrolling the
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two N ...
no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by
U.S. Marines six days later.
**
Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is
extradited from
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest ...
to Italy.
*
June 6
** U.S. astronaut
Norman Thagard breaks
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station
Mir.
** The
Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes
capital punishment in South Africa in the case of ''
S v Makwanyane and Another''.
*
June 13 – French President
Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in
French Polynesia.
*
June 16 – The IOC selects
Salt Lake City to host the
2002 Winter Olympics
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.
*
June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked
All Nippon Airways
, also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had m ...
Flight 857 (
Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of
Shoko Asahara
, born , was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. Asahara was sentenc ...
.
*
June 24 – South Africa wins the
Rugby World Cup.
*
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, ...
**
Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo
circumnavigation
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The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the ...
from the Northern Hemisphere.
** ''
STS-71'':
Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian Mir
space station for the first time.
** The
Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...
, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.
**
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
than in disarming the country.
July
* July –
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by
August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law,
Hussein Kamel al-Majid,
Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
*
July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
*
July 4
Events Pre-1600
*362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
–
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern p ...
John Major is
re-elected as leader of the
Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right.
Political parties called The Conservative P ...
.
*
July 9 –
Sri Lankan Civil War: 125 civilians are
killed in
Navaly as result of bombing by the
Sri Lanka Air Force
The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) ( si, ශ්රි ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාව, Śrī Laṃkā guwan hamudāva; ta, இலங்கை விமானப்படை, Ilaṅkai vimāṉappaṭai) is the air arm and the yo ...
.
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince ...
– Burmese dissident
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...
is freed from house arrest.
*
July 11
**
Srebrenica massacre: Units of the
Army of Republika Srpska,
under the command of
General
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.
In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". O ...
Ratko Mladić, enter
Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutch
peacekeepers of the
United Nations Protection Force
The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR; also known by its French acronym FORPRONU: ''Force de Protection des Nations Unies'') was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav ...
, going on to kill thousands of
Bosniak men and boys and
rape many women.
** President Clinton announces the restoration of
United States–Vietnam relations twenty years after the
Vietnam War.
** A
Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into 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 ...
off southeast
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribb ...
killing 44 people.
*
July 21–
26 –
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the China, People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five Military branch, service branches: the People's ...
fires missiles into the waters north of
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 no ...
.
August
* August – The
International Rugby Football Board declares that
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
players may be professional.
*
August 4 –
Croatia
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n forces, with the cooperation of the
ARBiH, launch
Operation Storm against rebel forces of the
Republic of Serbian Krajina, which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity.
*
August 7 – The Chilean government declares
state of emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to be able to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare such a state du ...
in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the
White Earthquake
image:Terremotoblanco.jpg, 400px, Map of Chile showing communes in state of catastrophe during the White Earthquake in red. Communes in pink were declared zones of "agrarian emergency". Communes in both state of catastrophe and agrarian emergency a ...
.
*
August 14 - The Nepali Prime Minister
Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives Helicopter crash.
*
August 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs.
* 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamda ...
–
Bermudans reject independence in a
referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or less commonly referenda) is a Direct democracy, direct vote by the Constituency, electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a Representative democr ...
.
*
August 29 –
Eduard Shevardnadze, the
Georgian head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and ...
, survives an assassination attempt in
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million pe ...
.
*
August 30 – The
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two N ...
bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
, continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia and
Bosnian Krajina
Bosanska Krajina ( sr-cyrl, Босанска Крајина, ) is a geographical region, a subregion of Bosnia, in western Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is enclosed by a number of rivers, namely the Sava (north), Glina (northwest), Vrbanja and Vrbas ...
.
September
* September – The European Parliament elects the first
European Ombudsman,
Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
*36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301 – San Marino, one of t ...
–
eBay
eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became ...
is founded by
Pierre Omidyar.
*
September 4–
15 The
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
*
September 6 –
NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail.
*
September 9 –
Sony enters the North American video game market with the release of the
PlayStation.
*
September 19 – ''
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large n ...
'' and ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' publish the
Unabomber manifesto
*
September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister
Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of
Mafia connections, begins.
*
September 27–
28 –
Bob Denard
Robert Denard (born Gilbert Bourgeaud; 7 April 1929 – 13 October 2007) was a French soldier of fortune and mercenary. He served as the Military Leader of The Comoros twice with him first serving from 13 May 1978 to 15 December 1989 and agai ...
's
mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the
Comoros; the local army does not resist.
October
*
October 3 –
O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman.
*
October 5 –
Tansu Çiller of
DYP forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
(51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
*
October 6 –
Michel Mayor
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory ...
and
Didier Queloz announce the discovery of
51 Pegasi b
51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium , and formerly unofficially dubbed Bellerophon , is an extrasolar planet approximately away in the constellation of Pegasus. It was the first exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, the ...
, the first confirmed
extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary
main-sequence
In astronomy, the main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness. These color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams after their co-developers, Ejnar ...
star.
*
October 16 – The
Million Man March is held in
Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by
Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan.
*
October 24 – A
total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.
*
October 25
Events Pre-1600
* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
* 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II ...
–
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
*
October 26 – An
avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
Avalanches can be set off spontaneously, by such factors as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, animals, and ea ...
hits the village
Flateyri in
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...
, killing 20 people. It was the second of two deadly avalanches that occurred in Iceland during the calendar year.
*
October 28 – A
fire in Baku Metro,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
, kills 289 passengers, becoming the world's worst subway disaster.
*
October 30
**
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...
independentists narrowly lose a
referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or less commonly referenda) is a Direct democracy, direct vote by the Constituency, electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a Representative democr ...
for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
**
Tansu Çiller of
DYP forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
.
November
* November – The
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
n government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...
.
*
November 1
Events Pre-1600
*365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, ...
** The last signal is received from
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
's ''
Pioneer 11
''Pioneer 11'' (also known as ''Pioneer G'') is a robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar winds, and cosmic rays. It was the first probe to encoun ...
'' spacecraft.
** Participants in the
Yugoslav Wars begin negotiations at the
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County, Ohio, Greene County. The 2020 United S ...
.
*
November 2 – The
Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of ex-S.S. captain
Erich Priebke.
*
November 4
Events Pre-1600
*1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
*1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
*1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII ...
– Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin is
assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
*
November 7 –
Typhoon Angela leaves 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 ...
and
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...
devastated, with 882 deaths and
US$315 million in damage. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of and gusts of .
*
November 12 – The
Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the
Harare Declaration, is announced by the
Commonwealth Heads of Government.
*
November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges
Radovan Karadžić and
Ratko Mladić with
genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the ...
during the
Bosnian War.
*
November 19
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battl ...
– A car bomb explosion outside the
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...
ian Embassy in
Islamabad, Pakistan, destroyed the face of the building, killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens more.
*
November 21 – The
Dayton Agreement to end the
Bosnian War is reached at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County, Ohio, Greene County. The 2020 United S ...
(signed
December 14).
*
November 22
Events Pre-1600
* 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
* 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Fr ...
** The 7.3
Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
** The first-ever full-length computer-animated feature film, ''
Toy Story'', is released by
Pixar and
Walt Disney Pictures.
*
November 28 – Twenty-seven nations sign the Barcelona Treaty, creating the
Union for the Mediterranean.
*
November 30 – Operation
Desert Storm
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases ...
officially ends.
December
*
December 3 –
Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
*
December 6 – The United States
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food ...
approved
Saquinavir, the first
protease inhibitor to treat
HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...
. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fell from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.
*
December 7 – NASA's ''
Galileo Probe
''Galileo'' was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It ...
'' enters
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousand ...
's atmosphere.
*
December 8 – Five-year-old
Gyaincain Norbu
Chökyi Gyalpo, also referred to by his secular name Gyaincain Norbu or Gyaltsen Norbu (born 13 February 1990), is considered the 11th Panchen Lama by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He is also the vice president of th ...
is enthroned as the 11th
reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrectio ...
of the
Panchen Lama
The Panchen Lama () is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Panchen Lama is one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition, with its spiritual authority second only to Dalai Lama. Along with the council of high lamas, ...
at
Tashilhunpo Monastery
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (), founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, is the traditional
monastic seat of the Panchen Lama, and an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet.
The monastery was ...
.
*
December 9 –
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah is released by
Toho Studios, the last Godzilla incarnation in the "Heisei" era of Godzilla films.
*
December 14 – The
Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the
Bosnian War.
*
December 16
Events Pre-1600
* 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
* ...
– Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the
United Nations Special Commission, dredge the
Tigris near
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
*
December 20
**
American Airlines Flight 965 (
Boeing 757
The Boeing 757 is an American narrow-body airliner designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The then-named 7N7, a twinjet successor for the 727 (a trijet), received its first orders in August 1978.
The prototype completed its maid ...
) crashes into a mountain near
Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, killing 160 of the 164 on board.
**
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two N ...
begins peacekeeping in
Bosnia.
*
December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of is recorded at
Altnaharra in the
Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at
Braemar,
Aberdeenshire in
1895 and
1982.
Date unknown
*
Sudden oak death, the tree disease caused by the
plant pathogen ''
Phytophthora ramorum'', is first observed, in
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
.
* The existence of the
Top Quark
The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles. It derives its mass from its coupling to the Higgs Boson. This coupling y_ is very close to unity; in the Standard ...
is announced by the international scientific community.
* The first
SampTA conference for mathematicians, engineers, and applied scientists is held in
Riga,
Latvia.
World population
Births
January
*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...
**
Sardar Azmoun, Iranian footballer
**
Poppy, American musician and model
*
January 3
**
Jisoo, South Korean singer, actress, and model
**
Seolhyun, South Korean singer, actress, and model
*
January 4 –
María Isabel, Spanish singer
*
January 6 –
Michaela DePrince, Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer
*
January 9 –
Nicola Peltz, American actress
*
January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
**
Alessio Romagnoli
Alessio Romagnoli (born 12 January 1995) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for club Lazio and the Italy national team.
Romagnoli began his career with Roma in 2012, and later spent a season on loan with Sampdori ...
, Italian footballer
**
Maverick Viñales, Spanish motorcycle racer
*
January 13 –
Natalia Dyer, American actress
*
January 16
**
Hansamu Yama Pranata, Indonesian footballer
**
Takumi Minamino
is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Ligue 1 club Monaco and the Japan national team.
Minamino began his club career at J.League Division 1 club Cerezo Osaka in 2012 and in his first se ...
, Japanese footballer
*
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 a ...
**
Mathieu van der Poel, Dutch bicycle racer
**
Maxi Rolón, Argentine footballer (d.
2022)
*
January 20
**
Joey Badass, American rapper
**
Calum Chambers, English footballer
**
José María Giménez
José María Giménez de Vargas (; born 20 January 1995) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a central defender for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Uruguay national team.
After starting out his professional career with ...
, Uruguayan 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 Counc ...
–
Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
*
January 30
**
Danielle Campbell, American actress
**
Viktoria Komova, Russian artistic gymnast
*
January 31 –
Nina Sublatti
Nino Sulaberidze ( ka, ნინო სულაბერიძე, born 31 January 1995), better known by her stage name Nina Sublatti ( ka, ნინა სუბლატი), is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and model.
Sublatti achieved in ...
, Georgian singer and model
February
*
February 1 –
Oliver Heldens, Dutch DJ and electronic music producer
*
February 4 –
Pione Sisto, South Sudanese-Danish footballer
*
February 5 –
Adnan Januzaj
Adnan Januzaj (born 5 February 1995) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Sevilla and the Belgium national team.
Born and raised in Brussels, he began his career with Anderlecht before joining Manchester ...
, Belgian footballer
*
February 6
**
Leon Goretzka, German footballer
**
Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver
*
February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...
–
Joshua Kimmich
Joshua Walter Kimmich (; born 8 February 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right-back for club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. Known for his complete playstyle, versatility, aggression ...
, German footballer
*
February 9 –
Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer
*
February 10
Events Pre-1600
*1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...
–
Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer
*
February 11 –
Milan Škriniar, Slovak footballer
*
February 15 –
Megan Thee Stallion, American rapper
*
February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of K ...
–
Denzel Curry
Denzel Rae Don Curry (born February 16, 1995) is an American rapper and singer. Born and raised in Carol City, Florida, Curry started rapping while in the sixth grade and began working on his first mixtape in 2011. Influenced by underground Fl ...
, American rapper
*
February 17 –
Madison Keys, American tennis player
*
February 18
Events Pre-1600
*1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 &n ...
–
Mikhail Kolyada, Russian figure skater
*
February 23
** Volodymyr Khorolskyi, Ukrainian football defender
**
Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
*
February 27 –
Sergej Milinković-Savić
Sergej Milinković-Savić ( sr-Cyrl, Сергеј Милинковић-Савић, ; born 27 February 1995), also known mononymously as Sergej, is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Lazio and the Serbia ...
, Serbian footballer
March
*
March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome (537–38), Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths, Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Piazza del Popolo, Flaminian Gate; he a ...
–
Mats Møller Dæhli
Mats Møller Dæhli (born 2 March 1995) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg and the Norway national team.
Born in Oslo, he was previously contracted to English club Manchester ...
, Norwegian footballer
*
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 ...
–
Maine Mendoza, Filipina television personality
*
March 7
**
Fajar Alfian, Indonesian badminton player
**
Haley Lu Richardson, American actress
*
March 8 –
Keita Baldé, Senegalese footballer
*
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 &ndas ...
–
Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer
*
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 &ndas ...
–
Meezaan Jafri, Indian film actor
*
March 10 –
Zach LaVine, American basketball player
*
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 Ton ...
–
Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier
*
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 &ndash ...
–
Jabari Parker, American basketball player
*
March 19
**
Héctor Bellerín
Héctor Bellerín Moruno (born 19 March 1995) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or wing-back for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Spain national team.
Bellerín started his career at Barcelona, and moved ...
, Spanish footballer
**
Julia Montes
Mara Hautea Schnittka (; born March 19, 1995), known professionally as Julia Montes (), is a Filipino-German actress and model. She is one of the most sought-after actresses in the country and has been hailed as the “''Royal Princess of Dram ...
, Filipina actress
*
March 23 –
Ester Ledecká, Czech winter athlete
*
March 25 –
Carlos Vinícius, Brazilian footballer
*
March 27 –
Zaur Uguev, Russian freestyle wrestler
*
March 30 –
Tao Geoghegan Hart, British cyclist
April
*
April 1 –
Logan Paul, American actor and YouTube personality
*
April 3 –
Adrien Rabiot, French footballer
*
April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his ...
–
Nguyễn Phương Khánh, Vietnamese model and beauty queen, Miss Earth 2018
*
April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
* 1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Has ...
–
Wheein, South Korean singer and songwriter
*
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 bet ...
–
Divock Origi
Divock Okoth Origi (born 18 April 1995) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward for club AC Milan and the Belgium national team.
Origi began his career at Lille, and scored on his professional debut for them in 2013. A y ...
, Belgian footballer
*
April 23 –
Gigi Hadid
Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid ( ; born April 23, 1995) is an American model and television personality. In November 2014, she made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models.com. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the ...
, American fashion model
*
April 24 –
Kehlani, American singer
*
April 26 –
Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor
*
April 28 –
Melanie Martinez, American singer
May
*
May 1
**
Jake Cannavale, American musician and actor
**
Radhika Madan, Indian actress and dancer
*
May 2 –
Yook Sung-jae
Yook Sung-jae (; born ), also known mononymously as Sungjae, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, host and entertainer. He is a member of the boy group BtoB and its sub-group, BtoB Blue. Aside from his group's activities, Yook has acted ...
, South Korean singer and actor
*
May 3 –
Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013)
*
May 6 –
Marko Pjaca
Marko Pjaca (; born 6 May 1995) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Empoli, on loan from Juventus.
Pjaca began his professional club career in Croatia with Lokomotiva in 2012, before moving to Dinamo Zagreb in ...
, Croatian footballer
*
May 10
**
Missy Franklin
Melissa Franklin Johnson (born May 10, 1995) is an American former competition swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist. She formerly held the world record in the 200-meter backstroke (long course). As a member of the U.S. national swim team ...
, American swimmer
**
Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
*
May 11
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Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
**
Shira Haas, Israeli actress
*
May 12 –
Kenton Duty
Jeffrey Kenton Duty (born May 12, 1995) is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for his recurring role as "Young Jacob" on the final season of the ABC primetime drama, '' Lost'', and for his co-starring role as the flamboyant ...
, American actor, singer, and dancer
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and f ...
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Kelly Gale, Swedish model
*
May 15 –
Ksenia Sitnik
Ksenia Mikhailovna Sitnik, translit. ''Ksienija Michajlaŭna Sitnik''; russian: Ксения Михайловна Ситник, translit. ''Kseniya Mikhaylovna Sitnik'' (born 15 May 1995), sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik or Xen ...
, Belarusian singer
*
May 23
**
Eula Caballero
Lou Eula May Caballero Simo-Samson (born May 23, 1995), known professionally as Eula Caballero, is a Filipina actress. She is known as the first ''Star Factor'' grand winner. She also played the role of Holly Posadas in the TV mini-series, '' N ...
, Filipina actress
*
May 25 –
José Luis Gayà, Spanish footballer
*
May 29 –
Nicolas Pépé, Ivorian footballer
June
*
June 4 –
Willie Rioli, Australian football player
*
June 5 –
Troye Sivan
Troye Sivan Mellet ( ; born 5 June 1995) is an Australian singer-songwriter, actor and YouTuber. After gaining popularity as a singer on YouTube and in Australian talent competitions, Sivan signed with EMI Australia in 2013 and released his th ...
, South African-born Australian singer
*
June 13 –
Petra Vlhová, Slovak alpine skier
*
June 16 –
Joseph Schooling
Joseph Isaac Schooling (born 16 June 1995) is a Singaporean professional swimmer who specialises in butterfly, freestyle and medley events. He was the gold medalist in the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Olympics, achieving Singapore's first ev ...
, Singaporean swimmer
*
June 19 –
Raphael Veiga, Brazilian footballer
*
June 21
**
Jessica Ahlquist
Jessica Ahlquist (born June 21, 1995) is an American activist and public speaker who filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Cranston High School West, where she was a student, to remove a religious prayer from its auditorium. The suit, '' Ahlquist v. ...
, American activist and public speaker
**
Darko Velkovski
Darko Velkovski ( mk, Дарко Велковски; born 21 June 1995) is a Macedonian footballer. He was born in Skopje, and he currently plays for Saudi club Al-Ettifaq as a centre-back or as a central midfielder.
International career
He mad ...
, Macedonian footballer
**
Jesper Karlström
Jesper Kewe Karlström (born 21 June 1995) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań and the Sweden national team.
Club career
Early career
Karlström started out his career playing for ...
, Swedish footballer
*
June 22
**
Aleksandr Maltsev
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
, Russian artistic (synchronized) swimmer
**
Ádám Borbély, Hungarian handball player
*
June 23
**
Eva Lazzaro, Australian actress
**
Jorge Mateo, Dominican baseball shortstop
**
Danna Paola, Mexican singer and actress
*
June 24 –
Abdel Fadel Suanon
Abdel Fadel Suanon (born 24 June 1995) is a Beninese professional footballer who plays for Al Kharaitiyat
Al Kharaitiyat ( ar, الخريطيات, Al Khurayţīyāt) is a town in the municipality of Umm Salal in Qatar.
Etymology
"Kharaitiyat" ...
, Beninese footballer
*
June 25
**
Wilhem Belocian, French sprinter
**
Laura Jung
Laura Jung (born 25 June 1995 in St. Wendel) is a German retired individual rhythmic gymnast.
Career
Junior
Jung started training on federal base in Fellbach with coach Galina Krilenko. She won a bronze medal in the Team event at the 201 ...
, German rhythmic gymnast
**
Juan Córdova, Chilean footballer
**
Kamil Dragun
Kamil Dragun (born 25 June 1995) is a Polish chess grandmaster.
Chess career
Dragun won medals in the Polish Junior Chess Championship in different age categories. In 2009 he won European Youth Chess Championship (U14) in Fermo, Italy. In 2 ...
, Polish chess grandmaster
*
June 26 –
Natsuhiko Watanabe, Japanese footballer
*
June 28
**
Syafiq Ahmad, Malaysian footballer
**
Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
**
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, South African model and beauty pageant titleholder
**
Adama Traoré, Malian footballer
*
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, ...
–
João Paulo Silva Martins
João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below.
Kings
...
, Brazilian footballer
*
June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
* 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
**
Marina Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian actress
**
Kristoffer Olsson, Swedish footballer
July
*
July 1
**
Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo
Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo (born 1 July 1995) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or defender for Belgian club Mechelen.
Career
Club Brugge
Bolingoli made his debut with Club Brugge on 26 July 2013 in the first gam ...
, Congolese-Belgian footballer
**
Krzysztof Piątek, Polish footballer
*
July 2
**
Ito Ohno, Japanese fashion model and actress
**
Ryan Murphy, American competitive swimmer
*
July 3 –
Emircan Koşut, Turkish basketball player
*
July 4
Events Pre-1600
*362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
**
Brayden Schnur, Canadian tennis player
**
Álex Berenguer, Spanish footballer
**
Post Malone, American rapper
*
July 5
**
Hyuk, South Korean singer and actor
**
Phataimas Muenwong, Thai badminton player
*
July 9
**
Georgie Henley, English actress
**
Sandro Ramírez, Spanish footballer
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince ...
**
Trayvon Bromell
Trayvon Jaquez Bromell (born July 10, 1995) is an American professional track and field athlete specializing in sprinting events. He was the first junior to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters with a time of 9.97 seconds, the former ju ...
, American sprinter
**
Ada Hegerberg, Norwegian footballer
**
Edymar Martínez, Venezuelan model
**
Lu Shanglei
Lu Shanglei (; born 10 July 1995) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and 2014 World Junior Chess Champion.
Career
In 2010, Lu played on the Chinese team (alongside Yu Yangyi, Wang Chen, and Wang Jue) that won the 5th Vladimir Dvorkovich Cup, a ...
, Chinese chess grandmaster
*
July 11 –
Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer
*
July 12
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
* 927 – King Constantine I ...
**
Jordyn Wieber, American artistic gymnast
**
Luke Shaw, English footballer
**
Yohio, Swedish singer and songwriter
*
July 13
**
Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
**
Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
*
July 14
Events Pre-1600
* 982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
*1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
*1420 ...
–
Serge Gnabry Serge may refer to:
*Serge (fabric), a type of twill fabric
*Serge (llama) (born 2005), a llama in the Cirque Franco-Italien and internet meme
*Serge (name), a masculine given name (includes a list of people with this name)
*Serge (post), a hitchi ...
, German footballer
*
July 15 –
Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player
*
July 16 –
Torstein Træen
Torstein Træen (born 16 July 1995) is a Norwegian bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . He competed in the 2017 UCI Road World Championships – Men's team time trial, men's team time trial event at ...
, Norwegian racing cyclist
*
July 19
Events Pre-1600
* AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is ...
**
Manuel Akanji
Manuel Obafemi Akanji (born 19 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Manchester City and the Switzerland national team.
Club career Youth football and early career
Born in Neftenbach, Akanji began his ...
, Swiss footballer
**
María José Alvarado
María José Alvarado Muñoz (19 July 1995 – 13 November 2014) was a Honduras, Honduran model, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder who was Miss Honduras 2014.
Biography
She was born on July 19, 1995, in Santa Bárbara, Honduras as María Jo ...
, Honduran model (d.
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...
)
**
Matt Miazga
Matthew Miazga (born July 19, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati and the United States national team. Having come through the academy system of the New York ...
, American soccer player
**
Maria Paseka, Russian artistic gymnast
*
July 23 –
Hwasa, South Korean singer, songwriter, and rapper
*
July 24 –
Kyle Kuzma
Kyle Alexander Kuzma (born July 24, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes and was named first-team all-confere ...
, American basketball player
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
* 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
* 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Is ...
–
Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer
August
*
August 1 –
Madison Cawthorn
David Madison Cawthorn (born August 1, 1995) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. Cawthorn became the first member of Congress born in the 1990s and d ...
, American politician
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
* 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
* 216 BC – The Carthaginian ...
**
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (born 2 August 1995) is an Indonesian badminton player who was formerly ranked world number 1 in the men's doubles by the Badminton World Federation. He plays for PB Djarum, and has been a member of the club since 2007. ...
, Indonesian badminton player
**
Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
*
August 4
**
Bruna Marquezine
Bruna Reis Maia (born 4 August 1995), known professionally as Bruna Marquezine, is a Brazilian actress. She debuted on television in 2000 as one of the children interviewers for the children's program ''Gente Inocente''. She has already been pa ...
, Brazilian actress
**
Jessica Sanchez, American singer
*
August 5
Events Pre-1600
*AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
* 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...
–
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg (born 5 August 1995) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Denmark national team.
Højbjerg started his career as a youth for Danish clubs ...
, Danish footballer
*
August 6 –
Sasha Vezenkov, Bulgarian professional basketball player
*
August 9 –
Hwang Min-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
*
August 12 –
Sara Ali Khan, Indian actress
*
August 13
Events Pre-1600
* 29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
* 523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
* 554 &ndas ...
–
Presnel Kimpembe
Presnel Kimpembe (born 13 August 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. He was part of the France squad that won the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Early yea ...
, French footballer
*
August 15 –
Chief Keef
Keith Farrelle Cozart (born August 15, 1995), better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. His music first became popular during his teen years in the early 2010s among high school s ...
, American rapper
*
August 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs.
* 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamda ...
–
James Young, American basketball player
*
August 17 –
Gracie Gold
Grace Elizabeth Gold (born August 17, 1995), known as Gracie Gold, is an American figure skater. She is a 2014 Olympic team event bronze medalist, the 2014 NHK Trophy champion, the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard champion, and a two-time U.S. na ...
, American figure skater
*
August 22
**
Huang Wenpan
Huang Wenpan (22 August 1995 – 15 March 2018) was a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. He won five gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics: at the Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S3, Men's 50 metre freestyl ...
, Chinese swimmer (d.
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
)
**
Dua Lipa, English singer
**
Nasrat Haqparast
Nasrat Haqparast (born August 22, 1995) is a German mixed martial artist (MMA) who currently competes in the Lightweight division in the UFC.
Background
Haqparast was born in Germany to Afghan parents from Kandahar who came as refugees from ...
, Afghan-German mixed martial artist
**
Jonnu Smith
Jonnu Andre Smith (born August 22, 1995) is an American football tight end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at FIU and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the third round of ...
, American football player
*
August 24
Events Pre-1600
* 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
* 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is writte ...
**
Lady Amelia Windsor
Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor (born 24 August 1995) is an English fashion model and a relative of the British royal family. She is currently 42nd in the line of succession to the British throne, as of September 2022. She is ...
, member of the British royal family
**
Justine Skye, American singer
*
August 26
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Gracie Dzienny
Gracie Dzienny (born August 26, 1995) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Amanda McKay on Nickelodeon's '' Supah Ninjas'', as Greer Danville on ABC Family's ''Chasing Life'', and as Clementine Lewis on CBS' ''Zoo''.
Early life
...
, American actress
**
Solomon Thomas
Solomon Christopher Thomas (born August 26, 1995) is an American football defensive tackle for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford and was drafted third overall by the San Francisco 4 ...
, American football player
**
Hannah van der Westhuysen
Hannah Jo van der Westhuysen (; born 26 August 1995) is an English actress. They began their career as a child actor on the CITV series '' The Fugitives''. From 2021 to 2022, they played Stella in the Netflix series '' Fate: The Winx Saga''.
Ea ...
, British actress
*
August 27 –
Sergey Sirotkin, Russian racing driver
*
August 28
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
* 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way ...
–
Andreas Wellinger
Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German ski jumper. His career-best achievements include winning an individual gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, individual silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics, mixed team gold at the 2017 Ski Jump ...
, German ski jumper
*
August 29 –
Gud, Swedish DJ and producer
September
*
September 1
**
Munir El Haddadi
Munir El Haddadi Mohamed ( ar, منير الحدادي; born 1 September 1995), or simply Munir, is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Getafe and the Morocco national team.
Munir began his career in the youth ra ...
, Spanish footballer
**
Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian hockey player
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
*36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301 – San Marino, one of t ...
**
Myles Jack
Myles David Jack (born September 3, 1995) is an American football linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at UCLA and was named the top freshman player in the Pac-12, receiving ho ...
, American football player
**
Niklas Süle
Niklas Süle (born 3 September 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team.
Club career Early career
Süle started his career with Rot-Weiß Walldorf. In Ju ...
, German footballer
*
September 5 –
Caroline Sunshine, American actress, dancer, singer and political operative
*
September 6 –
Bertrand Traoré
Bertrand Isidore Traoré (born 6 September 1995) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a forward for Süper Lig club İstanbul Başakşehir, on loan from Premier League club Aston Villa and the Burkina Faso national team.
Af ...
, Burkinabé footballer
*
September 8 –
Julian Weigl
Julian Weigl (born 8 September 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach, on loan from Benfica. He also represents the Germany national team.
Club career 1860 Mu ...
, German footballer
*
September 12
**
Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter
**
Ryan Potter
Ryan Potter (born September 12, 1995) is an American actor and voice actor. He made his acting debut as the lead of the Nickelodeon action comedy series ''Supah Ninjas'' (2011–2013). As a voice actor, he voiced Hiro Hamada in the animated su ...
, American actor
*
September 14 –
Deshaun Watson, American football player
*
September 15 –
Awer Mabil
Awer Bul Mabil (born 15 September 1995) is a professional soccer player who plays as a winger for La Liga club Cádiz. Born in Kenya, he represents the Australia national team at international level.
Born a South Sudanese refugee in Kenya, M ...
, Australian association footballer
*
September 16 –
Aaron Gordon, American basketball player
*
September 17 –
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II (born September 17, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). The son of former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Pat Mahomes, he initially play ...
, American football player
*
September 20 –
Laura Dekker
Laura Dekker (; born 20 September 1995) is a New Zealand-born Dutch sailor. In 2009, she announced her plan to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. A Dutch court stepped in, owing to the objections of the local ...
, Dutch sailor
*
September 22 –
Nayeon, South Korean singer
*
September 23
**
Eli Dershwitz
Eli Dershwitz (born September 23, 1995) is an American left-handed sabre fencer, four-time individual Pan American champion, and two-time Olympian.
In 2014, Dershwitz won the US Men's Saber National Championship, becoming the youngest US senio ...
, American fencer
**
Agnes Jebet Tirop, Kenian athlete (d.
2021)
*
September 29 –
Mozzik, Albanian rapper
October
*
October 1 –
Scott Helman, Canadian singer-songwriter
*
October 4
**
Mikolas Josef
Mikoláš Josef (; born 4 October 1995), known professionally as Mikolas Josef, is a Czech singer-songwriter and former model. He represented the Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal with the song "Lie to Me", ...
, Czech singer and music producer
**
Jabrill Peppers, American football player
**
Jeonghan, South Korean singer
*
October 5 –
Kim A-lim South Korean golfer
*
October 9 –
Kenny Tete
Kenny Joelle Tete (born 9 October 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right back for club Fulham and the Netherlands national team.
Club career Ajax
Tete was born in Amsterdam where he grew up and played for AFC DWS and AV ...
, Dutch footballer
*
October 13 –
Jimin, South Korean singer
*
October 15 –
Billy Unger, American actor and musician
*
October 17 –
Queen Naija, American singer
*
October 21 –
Antoinette Guedia Mouafo
Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo (born 21 October 1995) is a Cameroonian swimmer.
She began swimming in 2003, at the age of 8, and became national champion in the women's 100 metre breaststroke category in 2006.
Guedia represented Cameroon at t ...
, Cameroonian swimmer
*
October 21 –
Doja Cat, American singer and rapper
*
October 23 –
Ireland Baldwin
Ireland Eliesse Baldwin (born October 23, 1995), also known as Ireland Basinger Baldwin, is an American fashion model. Baldwin started modeling and acting in 2013 and appeared in the film ''Grudge Match'' and in editorials for magazines such as ...
, American fashion model and actress
*
October 25
Events Pre-1600
* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
* 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II ...
–
Conchita Campbell
Conchita Elizabeth Campbell (born October 25, 1995) is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Maia Rutledge on the USA Network series ''The 4400''.
Biography
Campbell was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is trained i ...
, Canadian actress
*
October 28 –
Mia Wray
Mia Isobel Wray-McCann (born 28 October 1995), known professionally as Mia Wray, is an Australian pop singer, songwriter and musician from Noosa, Queensland.
Born and raised in Noosa before later relocating to Melbourne, Wray rose to prominence ...
, Australian pop musician
November
*
November 1
Events Pre-1600
*365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, ...
** lucas car was born in sports.
**
Nour El Sherbini, Egyptian squash player
*
November 2 –
Rafael Vitti
Rafael Alencar Vitti (born November 2, 1995) is a Brazilian actor, musician and poet. He became known for his character Pedro Ramos, one of the protagonists of the 22nd season of ''Malhação'', titled ''Malhação Sonhos''. He is the son of ac ...
, Brazilian actor, musician and poet
*
November 3
**
Kelly Catlin
Kelly Catlin (November 3, 1995 – March 7, 2019) was an American professional racing cyclist who rode for UCI Women's Team . Catlin won gold medals in the women's team pursuit at the 2016, 2017, and 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. S ...
, American racing cyclist (d.
2019)
**
Kendall Jenner, American model and television personality
*
November 5
**
Madison McLaughlin
Madison Blaine McLaughlin (born November 5, 1995) is an American actress. She is known for playing Evelyn Sharp/Artemis on the CW superhero television series ''Arrow''.
Early life
Madison Blaine McLaughlin lived in Louisiana before moving to ...
, American Actress
*
November 6 –
André Silva, Portuguese footballer
*
November 13 –
Oliver Stummvoll
Oliver Stummvoll (born 13 November 1995) is an Austrian fashion model. He is best known for being the winner of cycle 6 of '' Austria's Next Topmodel''.
''Austria's Next Topmodel''
Stummvoll defeated seventeen fellow contestants, including hi ...
, Austrian model
*
November 15
Events Pre-1600
* 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
*1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Mor ...
–
Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
*
November 17 –
Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player
*
November 18 –
Ihsan Maulana Mustofa
Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (born 18 November 1995) is an Indonesian badminton player who plays in singles event. He is from PB. Djarum, a badminton club in Kudus, Central Java and has joined the club since 2010. He was a boys' singles bronze medalis ...
, Indonesian badminton player
*
November 19
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battl ...
**
Vanessa Axente
Vanessa Axente (born 19 November 1995) is a Hungarian fashion model.
Early life
Vanessa Axente was born in Nagylengyel, Hungary. Her older sister, Benedetta, a model, was the one who convinced her to visit her agency in Budapest, and start ...
, Hungarian fashion model
**
Asuka Teramoto, Japanese artistic gymnast
**
Melinda Ademi
Melinda Ademi (; born 19 November 1995), known professionally as Melinda, is a Kosovan-American rapper, singer and songwriter. She gained notice in 2011 competing on the television program ''American Idol'' at the age of 16. In 2019, she relaunch ...
, Kosovan singer
*
November 20
Events Pre-1600
* 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
* 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
*1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henr ...
**
Timothy Cheruiyot
Timothy Cheruiyot (born 20 November 1995) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event. At the World Athletics Championships, Cheruiyot won the silver medal in 20 ...
, Kenyan athlete
**
Michael Clifford, Australian guitarist and singer
*
November 22
Events Pre-1600
* 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
* 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Fr ...
–
Katherine McNamara, American actress
*
November 28
**
Tin Jedvaj
Tin Jedvaj (; born 28 November 1995) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Emirati club Al Ain on loan from Russian Premier League club Lokomotiv Moscow. He was a part of the Croatia national team's squad which ende ...
, Croatian footballer
**
Chase Elliott, American race car driver
*
November 29 –
Laura Marano, American actress and singer
December
*
December 4 –
**
Dina Asher-Smith, British sprinter
**
John Mateer
John Mateer (born 1971) is a South African-born Australian poet and author.
Early life and education
He was born in Roodepoort, South Africa in 1971, and grew up on the outskirts of Johannesburg. He spent some of his childhood in Canada, before ...
, American musician and filmmaker
*
December 5
**
Anthony Martial, French footballer
**
Kaetlyn Osmond
Kaetlyn Osmond (born December 5, 1995) is a retired competitive Canadian figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. A three-time Canadian national champion (2013, 2014, 2017), Osmond competed internationally at the senior level from 2012 to ...
, Canadian figure skater
*
December 6
**
Joy Gruttmann, German singer
**
A Boogie wit da Hoodie, American rapper and singer
*
December 9
**
McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
**
Kelly Oubre Jr., American basketball player
*
December 14 –
Yulia Belokobylskaya, Russian gymnast
*
December 15
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
* 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theodo ...
–
Yoshihide Kiryū
is a Japanese sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
Born in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Kiryū played football while at elementary school and became interested in track and field at junior high school, as his brother took part in the spo ...
, Japanese sprinter
*
December 18 –
Lim Na-young
Lim Na-young (; born December 18, 1995), also known as Im Nayoung, known mononymously as Nayoung, is a South Korean singer, rapper and actress signed under Sublime Artist Agency. She was first known after participating in the survival show ''Pro ...
, South Korean singer
*
December 27
**
Timothée Chalamet, French-American actor
**
Carlos Cuevas, Spanish actor
*
December 29 –
Ross Lynch, American actor
*
December 30
**
Sakura Fujiwara
in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actress. She is managed by the agency Amuse Inc. and signed to SPEEDSTAR RECORDS.
Biography
Sakura Fujiwara was born on December 30, 1995, and grew up in Fukuoka prefecture, ...
, Japanese actress
**
V, South Korean singer
*
December 31 –
Gabby Douglas
Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas (born December 31, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympic all around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist. She was a member of the gold-winning teams at both the 20 ...
, American gymnast
Deaths
January
*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...
**
Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (b. 1902)
**
Fred West, English serial killer (b.
1941)
*
January 2
**
Siad Barre, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd
President of Somalia (b. 1919)
**
Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
*
January 6 –
Joe Slovo,
ANC activist and South African minister of Housing (b.
1926)
*
January 7 –
Murray Rothbard, American economist (b.
1926)
*
January 8 –
Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (b.
1942)
*
January 9
**
Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b.
1937)
**
Souphanouvong, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st
President of Laos (b.
1909)
*
January 11 –
Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b.
1909)
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
–
Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (b. 1907)
* January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1903)
*
January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan, 46th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1907)
* January 22 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
*
January 25
** John Smith (actor), John Smith, American actor (b. 1931)
** William Sylvester, American actor (b. 1922)
*
January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
*
January 31
** George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b. 1887)
** George Stibitz, American computational engineer (b. 1904)
February
* February 2
** Tikvah Alper, South African scientist (b.
1909)
** Fred Perry, English tennis champion (b.
1909)
** Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
*
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
*
February 5 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
*
February 6
** James Merrill, American poet (b.
1926)
** Art Taylor, American jazz drummer (b. 1929)
*
February 9
** J. William Fulbright, American senator and congressman (b. 1905)
** David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
* February 12 – Robert Bolt, English dramatist (b. 1924)
*
February 13 – Alberto Burri, Italian artist (b. 1915)
* February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1907)
* February 19 – John Howard (American actor), John Howard, American actor (b. 1913)
* February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
*
February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
* February 24 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (b. 1914)
*
February 26 – Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
** Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist (b. 1946)
** Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
*
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 ...
– Howard W. Hunter, American President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
* March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. 1943)
*
March 8
** Paul Horgan, American writer (b. 1903)
** Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
*
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 &ndas ...
** Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American propagandist (b. 1891)
** Yisrael Galil, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
*
March 10 – Ovidi Montllor, Spanish singer and actor (b.
1942)
* March 11 – Wilfred Jacobs, 1st Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1919)
*
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 Ton ...
– Odette Hallowes, French intelligence officer (b. 1912)
*
March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (b. 1911)
* March 16 – Albert Hackett, American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900)
* March 17
** Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
** Sunnyland Slim, American blues pianist (b. 1906)
*
March 19 – Nike Ardilla, Indonesian singer, actress, and model (b. 1975)
*
March 20
** Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (b. 1906)
** Big John Studd, John William Minton, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
*
March 23 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
* March 24 – Joseph Needham, British biochemist, historian, and sinologist (b. 1900)
*
March 25 – James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (b.
1926)
*
March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer (b. 1964)
*
March 31 –
Selena, American singer (b. 1971)
April
* April 2 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish chemist (b. 1908)
* April 4
** Kenny Everett, British comedian (b. 1944)
** Priscilla Lane, American actress (b. 1915)
* April 6 – V. J. Sukselainen, Finnish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1906)
* April 10 – Morarji Desai, 4th Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
* April 14 – Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b.
1909)
* April 16 – Cy Endfield, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
*
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 bet ...
– Arturo Frondizi, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
* April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (b. 1911)
*
April 23 – Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)
* April 25
** Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and novelist (b. 1907)
** Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
* April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
*
April 30 – Maung Maung Kha, 5th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1920)
May
*
May 2 – Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
* May 4 – Louis Krasner, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1903)
* May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
*
May 6 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1907)
* May 8 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
*
May 12
** Arthur Lubin, American film director (b. 1898)
** Adolfo Pedernera, Argentinian footballer (b. 1918)
** Mia Martini, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and f ...
– Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
*
May 15 – Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
*
May 16 – Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer and actress (b. 1923)
* May 18
** Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
** Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
** Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
* May 21 – Les Aspin, American politician (b. 1938)
*
May 24 – Harold Wilson,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern p ...
(b. 1916)
*
May 25
** Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian professional basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
** Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
* May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1906)
*
May 29 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (b. 1897)
* May 30 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
June
* June 3 – J. Presper Eckert, American engineer (b. 1919)
* June 7 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist (b. 1918)
* June 8 – Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th President of Argentina (b. 1914)
* June 12 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
* June 14 – Rory Gallagher, Irish blues and rock guitarist (b. 1948)
* June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
*
June 22 – Yves Congar, French cardinal (b. 1904)
*
June 23
** Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
** Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
*
June 25
** Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
** Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
*
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, ...
– Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
*
June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
* 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
** Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921)
** Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
** Phyllis Hyman, American singer and actress (b. 1949)
July
*
July 1
** Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (b. 1938)
** Bruce Mitchell (cricketer), Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (b.
1909)
*
July 3 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis champion (b. 1928)
*
July 4
Events Pre-1600
*362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
** Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, businesswoman, and socialite (b. 1919)
** Bob Ross, American television painter (b.
1942)
*
July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1905)
* July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (b. 1915)
*
July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (b. 1908)
*
July 16
** Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1904)
** Stephen Spender, English poet and writer (b.
1909)
* July 17
** Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b. 1911)
** Harry Guardino, American actor (b. 1925)
* July 18
** Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
** Srinagarindra, Thai princess (b. 1900)
* July 20 – Genevieve Tobin, American actress (b. 1899)
* July 22 – Harold Larwood, British cricketer (b. 1904)
*
July 24 – George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
* July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (b. 1932)
* July 27 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian composer (b. 1907)
August
* August 3 – Ida Lupino, British-born American actress (b. 1918)
*
August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead) (b.
1942)
* August 11 – Phil Harris, American comedian and actor (b. 1904)
*
August 13
Events Pre-1600
* 29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
* 523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
* 554 &ndas ...
– Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
* August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
* August 20 – Hugo Pratt, Italian comics creator (b. 1927)
* August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
*
August 22 – Johnny Carey, Irish football player and manager (b. 1919)
*
August 24
Events Pre-1600
* 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
* 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is writte ...
** Gary Crosby (actor), Gary Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1933)
** Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (b. 1898)
*
August 29
** Michael Ende, German author (b. 1929)
** Frank Perry, American stage director and filmmaker (b. 1930)
*
August 30
** Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
** Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian chess Grandmaster (b. 1934)
September
*
September 4 – William Kunstler, American radical lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1919)
*
September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920)
*
September 12 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
*
September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
*
September 19 – Sir Rudolf Peierls, German-born British physicist (b. 1907)
* September 25 – Kei Tomiyama, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator (b. 1938)
*
September 29
** Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (b. 1919)
** Pedro Nolasco, Dominican boxer (b. 1963)
October
*
October 5
** Linda Gary, American film and television actress and voice actress (b. 1944)
** Pin Malakul, Thai educator and politician (b. 1903)
*
October 9
** Alec Douglas-Home,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern p ...
(b. 1903)
** M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
* October 19 – Don Cherry (trumpeter), Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
*
October 21 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)
* October 22
** Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
** Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)
*
October 25
Events Pre-1600
* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
* 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II ...
** Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
** Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
*
October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b.
1909)
* October 31
** Alan Bush, British composer, pianist, and conductor (b. 1900)
** Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
** Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1927)
November
*
November 4
Events Pre-1600
*1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
*1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
*1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII ...
** Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
** Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
**
Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
*
November 7 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b.
1942)
*
November 12 – Robert Stephens, English actor (b. 1931)
*
November 20
Events Pre-1600
* 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
* 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
*1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henr ...
– Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
* November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
* November 24 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b.
1909)
December
* December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
*
December 9 – Vivian Blaine, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
* December 12 – Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Danish princess (b. 1912)
* December 13 – Anatoly Dyatlov, Soviet engineer in charge during the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1931)
*
December 18
** Nathan Rosen, Israeli physicist (b.
1909)
** Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910)
*
December 20 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
* December 22
** Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
** James Meade, English economist (b. 1907)
* December 23 – Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
* December 25
** Dean Martin, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1917)
** Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American musicologist (b. 1894)
*
December 27 – Edgar Bischoff, Romanian-born French composer (b. 1912)
*
December 29 – Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
*
December 30 – Heiner Müller, German poet and playwright (b. 1929)
Date unknown
* Richey Edwards, Welsh musician (b. 1967)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Seamus Heaney
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Lucas, Jr.
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
References
External links
1995: A look back- CNN
CNN Time Capsule: The Defining Moments of 1995- CNN
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