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1999 was designated as the
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* March 2 – Abdullah Al-Qwabani, Yemeni long-distance runner
* March 5
** Madison Beer, American singer
** Yeri (singer), Yeri, South Korean singer
* March 6 – Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Japanese athlete
* March 14 – Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player
* March 16 – Antonis Stergiakis, Greek footballer
* March 19 – Jack Higgins (Australian footballer), Jack Higgins, Australian rules footballer
* March 22 – Mick Schumacher, German racing driver
* March 24 – Arina Openysheva, Russian swimmer
* March 25 – Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
* April 4 – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, British cellist
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* May 5
** Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
** Nathan Chen, American figure skater
* May 8
** Maykel Massó, Cuban long jumper
** Rebeca Andrade, Brazilian artistic gymnast
* May 11 – Sabrina Carpenter, American actress, singer, and songwriter
* May 18 – Teo Halm, American actor and singer
* May 22 – Camren Bicondova, American actress and dancer
* May 24 – Charlie Plummer, American actor
* May 25 – Ibrahima Konaté, French footballer
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* July 2 – Nicolò Zaniolo, Italian footballer
* July 4 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer and dancer
* July 6 – Denis Khodykin, Russian pair skater
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* November 9 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress and singer
* November 10
** Armand Duplantis, American-born Swedish pole vaulter
** João Félix, Portuguese footballer
** Kiernan Shipka, American actress
* November 11 – Fan Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast
* November 12 – Choi Yoo-jung (singer), Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer and songwriter
* November 13 – Lando Norris, British racing driver
* November 19 – Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater
* November 26 – Olivia O'Brien, American singer
* December 4
** Kang Mi-na, South Korean singer and actress
** Kim Do-yeon (singer), Kim Do-yeon, South Korean singer
* December 22 – Ameer Idreis, Canadian author
* December 29 – Nadine Joy Nathan, Singaporean artistic gymnast
* January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, Italian-American actor (b. 1904)
* January 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist and composer (b. 1962)
* January 11
** Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1912)
** Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
** Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian writer (b. 1921)
* January 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914)
* January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
* January 21 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
* January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
* January 23 – Joe D'Amato, Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
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* February 1 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943)
* February 2 - Deborah Makepeace, English actress (b. 1957).
* February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist (b. 1906)
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* March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (b. 1939)
* March 3
** Jackson C. Frank, American folk musician (b. 1943)
** Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist (b. 1904)
* March 4
** Harry Blackmun, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
** Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, 79th President of Switzerland (b. 1917)
* March 5 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
* March 6
** Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
** Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain (b. 1931)
* March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (b. 1928)
* March 8
** Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
** Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist (b. 1924)
** Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
* March 10
** Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
** Kusumagraj, Indian poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1912)
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* April 4
** Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
** Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1944)
** Bob Peck, English actor (b. 1945)
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* May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
* May 8
** Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
** Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
* May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American author and poet (b. 1930)
* May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
* May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
* May 17 – Henry Jones (actor), Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
* May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
* May 19 – Candy Candido, American voice actor (b. 1913)
* May 21 – Vanessa Brown, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1928)
* May 23 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
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*
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* August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali writer (b. 1897)
* August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
* August 7 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
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* September 6 – Lagumot Harris, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
* September 8 – Moondog, American musician and composer (b. 1916)
* September 9 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
* September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
* September 11 – Gonzalo Rodríguez (racing driver), Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (b. 1972)
* September 12 – Allen Stack, American swimmer (b. 1928)
* September 14 – Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
* September 20 – Raisa Gorbacheva, Soviet first lady (b. 1932)
* September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
* September 24 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist (b. 1910)
* September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
* October 2 – Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar (b. 1914)
* October 3 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
* October 4
** Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
** Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1928)
* October 6
** Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
** Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer and actress (b. 1920)
* October 9
** Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
** Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani businessman (b. 1914)
* October 11 – Galina Bystrova, Soviet athlete (b. 1934)
* October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American professional basketball player (b. 1936)
* October 14 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
* October 17 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American physicist (b. 1915)
* October 19 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (b. 1900)
* October 20 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
* October 21 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
* October 23 – András Hegedüs, Hungarian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1922)
* October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
* October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
* October 26
** Hoyt Axton, American singer and actor (b. 1938)
** Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
* October 27
** Frank De Vol, American arranger, composer, and actor (b. 1911)
** Karen Demirchyan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia (b. 1932)
** Robert Mills (physicist), Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
** Leonard Petrosyan, 3rd Prime Minister of Artsakh (b. 1953)
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* November 1
** Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1924)
** Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
** Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
* November 2 – Demetrio B. Lakas, 27th President of Panama (b. 1925)
* November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
* November 8 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (b. 1898)
* November 11
** Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b.
* December 1 – Fritz Fischer, German historian (b. 1908)
* December 2 – Charlie Byrd, American jazz musician and classical guitarist (b. 1925)
* December 3
** John Archer (actor), John Archer, American actor (b. 1915)
** Scatman John, American musician (b. 1942)
** Madeline Kahn, American actress, singer and comedian (b. 1942)
* December 4 – Nilde Iotti, Italian politician (b. 1920)
* December 5 – Nathan Jacobson, American mathematician (b. 1910)
* December 7 – Darling Légitimus, French actress (b. 1907)
* December 9 – Yakov Rylsky, Soviet sabre fencer (b. 1928)
* December 10
** Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
** Franjo Tuđman, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
* December 12
** Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
** Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923)
* December 13 – Stane Dolanc, Yugoslav politician (b. 1925)
* December 17
** Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
** Jürgen Moser, German-American mathematician (b. 1928)
** Grover Washington Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
* December 18 – Robert Bresson, French filmmaker (b. 1901)
* December 19 – Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914)
* December 20
** Irving Rapper, American film director (b. 1898)
** Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
** Hank Snow, Canadian-American country musician (b. 1914)
* December 23
** John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908)
** Wallace Diestelmeyer, Canadian skater (b. 1926)
* December 24
** Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (b. 1908)
** Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach, co-founder of Nike, Inc., Nike (b. 1911)
** Maurice Couve de Murville, 152nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
** João Figueiredo, Brazilian military leader and politician, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
** Grete Stern, German-Argentine photographer (b. 1904)
* December 26
** Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer (b. 1942)
** Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
* December 27 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor (b. 1942)
* December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
* December 30
** Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
** Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (b. 1880)
* December 31 – Elliot Richardson, American politician and lawyer (b. 1920)
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 as of 2021, Amman is ...
; the 1999 İzmit earthquake
On the 17th of August, 1999 at 3:01 AM local time, a catastrophic magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey, causing monumental damage and 17,127–18,373 deaths. Named for the quakes proximity to the northeastern city of I ...
kills over 17,000 people in Turkey
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; the Columbine High School massacre
On April 20, 1999, a school shooting and attempted bombing occurred at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The perpetrators, 12th grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. ...
, one of the first major school shootings
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in the United States
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; the Year 2000 problem
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("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000
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; the Millennium Dome
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opens in London
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; online music downloading platform Napster
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is launched, soon a source of online piracy; NASA
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loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter
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and the Mars Polar Lander
The Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a 290-kilogram robotic spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999, to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars. It form ...
; a destroyed T-55
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tank
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near Prizren
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during the Kosovo War
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rect 0 0 200 200 Death and state funeral of King Hussein
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rect 200 0 400 200 1999 İzmit earthquake
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rect 400 0 600 200 Columbine High School massacre
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rect 300 200 600 400 Year 2000 problem
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rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Climate Orbiter
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rect 200 400 400 600 Napster
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rect 400 400 600 600 Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. As of 2022, it is the ni ...
International Year of Older Persons In its Proclamation on Aging, the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP). The proclamation was launched on 1 October 1998, the International Day of Older Persons, by United Nation ...
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Events
January
*January 1
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– The euro
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currency is established and the European Central Bank
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assumes its full powers.
* January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
– The Mars Polar Lander
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is launched by NASA
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* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– The 6.2 Armenia, Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia
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, killing at least 1,900.
February
*February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
*1301 &nda ...
– Abdullah II inherits the throne of Jordan, following the death of his father King Hussein.
* February 11
Events Pre-1600
*660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
– Pluto
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moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune
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. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
, and will become again in 2231.
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
* 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
* 1429 – English forces und ...
– U.S. President Bill Clinton
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is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate
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The composition and po ...
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* 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 ...
** In Uzbekistan
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, an apparent assassination
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attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
** Across Europe, Kurd ug:كۇردلار
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ish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey
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arrests one of their rebel leaders.
* February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of ...
** Kurd ug:كۇردلار
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ish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan
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Öcalan was based in Syria from ...
is charged with treason
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in Ankara
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, Turkey.
** 1999 Galtür avalanche
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: An avalanche
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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 ...
destroys the village of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantin ...
– While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon
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, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
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 ...
** One of four bombs detonated in Lusaka
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, Zambia
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, destroys the Angola
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** Rwanda
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n Hutu
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rebels kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda
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** The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
* March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
*1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...
– Former Warsaw Pact
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members Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic join NATO
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* 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 ...
– The Santer Commission of the EU resigns over allegations of corruption.
* March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
** Bertrand Piccard
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and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon
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.
** The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles
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with '' Shakespeare in Love'' winning Best Picture.
* March 24
** NATO
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launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign state.
** A fire
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At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames ...
in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
* March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...
– The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
* March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
– Kosovo War
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...
: A U.S. F-117 Nighthawk
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is shot down by Yugoslav forces.
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity inde ...
closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.
April
*April 1
Events Pre-1600
* 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
* 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
*1081 – Alexios I Ko ...
– Nunavut
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, an Inuit
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homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories
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to become Canada's third territory
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.
* 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 ...
** Two Libya
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ns suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103
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in 1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in the Netherlands. The United Nations
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suspends sanctions against Libya.
** In Laramie, Wyoming
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, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping
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and felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty
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conviction for the apparent hate crime
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killing of Matthew Shepard
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.
* April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– Kosovo War
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: Kosovo
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's main border crossings are closed by Yugoslav forces to prevent Kosovar Albanians from leaving.
* April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, su ...
– Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, president of Niger
)
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, languages_type = National languagesApril 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...
– Kosovo War
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: NATO warplanes repeatedly bomb ethnic Albanian refugee convoys for 2 hours over a 12-mile stretch of road, after mistaking them for Yugoslav military trucks, between Đakovica and Dečani in western Kosovo, killing at least 73 refugees.
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys ...
– Columbine High School massacre
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: Two Littleton, Colorado
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, teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
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, open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...
– Namibian Economic Society is founded.
* April 26
** Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor
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Early life
Born o ...
becomes the 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong
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of Malaysia
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.
** British TV presenter Jill Dando, 37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham
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, London.
* April 30
Events Pre-1600
*311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
*1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
*1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus hi ...
– Cambodia
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joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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(ASEAN), bringing the total members to 10.
May
*May 3
Events Pre-1600
* 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
* 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
...
– 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: a devastating tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale
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, hits southern and eastern Oklahoma City metropolitan area
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, killing 36 people (and 5 indirectly) and producing the highest winds recorded on Earth: .
* May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...
** Kosovo War
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: in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and twenty others wounded when a NATO
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B-2 aircraft bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
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.
** In Guinea-Bissau
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, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
* May 12 – David Steel
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becomes the first Presiding Officer (Speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament
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.
* May 13 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Ciampi was born ...
is elected President of Italy.
* May 17 – Ehud Barak
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is elected prime minister of Israel
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.
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empir ...
** The Indian Air Force
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launches an attack on intruding Pakistan
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Army troops and mujahideen
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militants in Kashmir
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.
** The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final
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takes place at the Camp Nou
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Stadium, Barcelona
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, in which the English side Manchester United
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defeats the German side Bayern Munich
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2–1.
* May 27
Events Pre-1600
*1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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in The Hague, Netherlands
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indicts Slobodan Milošević
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and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity
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committed in Kosovo
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.
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
** Two Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic firearms, and later executed with their own service pistols in Malexander
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, Sweden
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.
** After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci
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's ''The Last Supper
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'' is placed back on display in Milan
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, Italy.
* May 29
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
* 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under ...
– Nigeria
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terminates military rule, and the Fourth Nigerian Republic
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is established with Olusegun Obasanjo
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as president
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.
June
*June 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed ki ...
– Napster
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, a music downloading service, is created; it would later inspire other file-sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay
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, LimeWire, Gnutella, Kazaa, Morpheus, BearShare, and uTorrent 1999-2010 period which some called the "Second Golden Age of Piracy".
* June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601� ...
– The King of Bhutan allows television transmissions to commence in the Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee.
* June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 & ...
– The Islamic Salvation Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front
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, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria
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* June 8
Events Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
– The government of Colombia
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announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product
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.
* June 9 – Kosovo War
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: Yugoslavia
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and NATO
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sign a peace treaty
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to end their hostilities.
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
– Kosovo War: NATO
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suspends its air strike
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s after Slobodan Milošević
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agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces from Kosovo
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.
* June 12
Events Pre-1600
* 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
*1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
– Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian/''Operation Agricola'' begins: NATO
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-led United Nations
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peacekeeping forces KFOR KFOR may refer to:
* KFOR (AM), a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
* KFOR-TV, a television station (channel 4 analog/27 digital) licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
* KFOR-TV (Nebraska), a defun ...
enter Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
* June 16 – Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki KStJ (; born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who was the second president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC ...
is inaugurated as the second president of South Africa
The president of South Africa is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of South Africa. The president heads the executive branch of the Government of South Africa and is the commander-in-chief of the South African Nat ...
, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive power in the country's post-democratization history.
* June 18
Events Pre-1600
* 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
* 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
* 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about ...
– The J18 international anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.
* June 19 – Turin
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, Italy, is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...
.
* June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. ...
– Kosovo War: NATO marines shoot three gunmen in Kosovo, Yugoslavia after being attacked by the latter, killing one of them and injuring the other two.
* June 25 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
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gets a new national anthem.
* 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 ...
– Twenty-three people die in a fire at the Sealand Youth Training Center in South Korea.
July
*July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and th ...
– Europol (short for European Police Office) the European Union
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's criminal intelligence agency becomes fully operational.
*July 7
Events Pre-1600
* 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
* 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...
– In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj
Hicham El Guerrouj ( ar, هشام الݣروج, Hishām l-Garrūj; ber, ⵀⵉⵛⴰⵎ ⴻⵍ ⴳⴻⵔⵔⵓⵊ, Hisham El Gerruj; born 14 September 1974) is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner. El Guerrouj is the current world record h ...
runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13.
* 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 ...
– American soccer player Brandi Chastain
Brandi Denise Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is an American retired soccer player, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold-medalist, coach, and sports broadcaster. She played for the United States national team from 1988 ...
scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the final of the FIFA Women's World Cup.
* July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
– India recaptures Kargil
Kargil ( lbj, ) is a city and a joint capital of the union territory of Ladakh, India. It is also the headquarters of the Kargil district. It is the second-largest city in Ladakh after Leh. Kargil is located to the east of Srinagar in J ...
, forcing the Pakistan
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i army to retreat. India announces victory, ending the 2-month conflict.
* July 20
** Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 – piloted by Gus Grissom in 1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
– is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
** Falun Gong
Falun Gong (, ) or Falun Dafa (; literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a new religious movement.Junker, Andrew. 2019. ''Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora'', pp. 23–24, 33, 119 ...
is banned in the People's Republic of China under Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as p ...
.
* July 23
Events Pre-1600
* 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
*1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...
** NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Chandra is sensitive to X-ray sources ...
is launched.
** Mohammed VI of Morocco
Mohammed VI ( ar, محمد السادس; born 21 August 1963) is the King of Morocco. He belongs to the 'Alawi dynasty and acceded to the throne on 23 July 1999, upon the death of his father, King Hassan II.
Upon ascending to the throne, Moh ...
becomes king upon the death of his father Hassan II.
**Fourteen Kosovar Serb villagers are killed by ethnic Albanian gunmen in the village of Staro Gračko.
* July 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
* 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Ste ...
– Twenty-one people die in a canyoning disaster at the Saxetenbach Gorge near Interlaken
Interlaken (; lit.: ''between lakes'') is a Swiss town and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern. It is an important and well-known tourist destination in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss A ...
, Switzerland.
* July 31
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
* 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (T ...
– 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 ...
intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector
''Lunar Prospector'' was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. At a cost of $62.8 million, the 19-month mission was designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon ...
spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space. A type of artificial satellite, spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, ...
into the Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.
August
* August 7 – Hundreds of Chechen guerrillas invade the Russian republic ofDagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North Ca ...
, triggering a short war.
* August 10
Events Pre-1600
* 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
* 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Gro� ...
– The Atlantique incident occurs as an intruding Pakistan Navy
ur, ہمارے لیے اللّٰہ کافی ہے اور وہ بہترین کارساز ہے۔ English: Allah is Sufficient for us - and what an excellent (reliable) Trustee (of affairs) is He!(''Qur'an, 3:173'')
, type ...
plane is shot down in India, sparking tensions between the two nations, coming just a month after the end of the Kargil War
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC). In India, the conflict is also referre ...
.
* August 11
Events Pre-1600
* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
– A total solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia.
* 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 ...
– State Duma
The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper hous ...
approved Putin as Prime Minister
* August 17
Events Pre-1600
*309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle ...
– The 7.6 İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern 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 ...
with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving more than 17,000 dead and around 50,000 injured.
* August 19
Events Pre-1600
*295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
*43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known ...
– In Belgrade
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, tens of thousands of Yugoslavs rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslav President
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The Kingdom of Yugoslavi ...
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...
.
* August 26 – The Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War (russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, ) took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 ...
begins
* August 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
* 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
*1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake ...
– East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-w ...
votes for independence from Indonesia
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(which had invaded and occupied it since 1975) in a referendum.
September
*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 ...
– 1999 Ontario Highway 401 crash occurs, involving 87 vehicles and killing 8.
* September 7 – The 6.0 Athens earthquake hits with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
* September 8 – The first of a series of Russian apartment bombings occurs. Subsequent bombings occur on September 13 and 16, while a bombing on September 22 fails.
* September 12 – Under international pressure to allow an international peacekeeping force, Indonesian president BJ Habibie announces that he will do so.
* September 14 – Kiribati
Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...
, ''The Wor ...
Nauru
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and Tonga
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join the United Nations
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.
* September 21
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
*1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
*1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian lead ...
– The 921 earthquake, also known as the Jiji earthquake (magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale), kills about 2,400 people in 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 ...
.
October
* October ** Conacami, Peruvian indigenous rights organization is founded. **NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
loses one of its probes, the ''Mars Climate Orbiter
The ''Mars Climate Orbiter'' (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate, Martian atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications re ...
''.
* October 1 – Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is one of two international airports serving Shanghai and a major aviation hub of East Asia. Pudong Airport serves both international flights and a smaller number of domestic fights, while the city's oth ...
opens in China, taking over all international flights from Hongqiao.
* October 5
Events Pre-1600
* 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.
* 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
* 869 – The Fourth Coun ...
– Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington rail crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when two passenger trains collided almost head-on after one of them had passed a ...
, west of London, England.
* October 12 – Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
i Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pak ...
attempts to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf
General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of t ...
, who is out of the country. The generals lead a coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
, ousting Sharif's administration, and Musharraf takes control of the government.
* October 27 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenia
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n Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan
Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan ( hy, Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան, ; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from ...
, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.
* October 29 – A super cyclonic storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000 people.
* October 30 – : A pub catches fire in Inchon, South Korea, killing 56 people.
* October 31
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
* 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
* 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Co ...
** EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metr ...
, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket () is an island about south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government that is part of the U.S. state of Massachus ...
, killing all 217 on board.
** Roman Catholic Church
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and several Lutheran Church
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...
leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, attempting to resolve a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith
Faith, derived from Latin ''fides'' and Old French ''feid'', is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion".
Religious people ofte ...
and salvation
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.
November
* November 6 – Australians defeat areferendum
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proposing the replacement of the Queen and the Governor General with a President to make Australia a republic.
* November 12 – The 7.2 Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern 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 ...
with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.
* 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 ...
– China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft.
* November 23 – The National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the r ...
of Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Ku ...
revokes a 1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
law that granted women's suffrage.
* November 26 – The 7.5 Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of ...
and a destructive tsunami follows, killing 10 and injuring 40.
* November 27 – The centre-left Labour Party (New Zealand), Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government, with leader Helen Clark becoming the second female Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
December
* December 3 ** After rowing for 81 days and 5,486 kilometers (2,962 nautical miles), Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands. **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 ...
loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander
The Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a 290-kilogram robotic spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999, to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars. It form ...
, moments before the spacecraft enters the Mars, Martian atmosphere.
* December 5 – 1999 Bolivian municipal elections, Bolivian municipal elections, the first election contested by Evo Morales' Movement for Socialism (Bolivia), Movement for Socialism.
* December 18 – NASA launches the Terra platform into orbit, carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, ASTER, Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
* December 20 – The sovereignty of Macau is Transfer of the sovereignty of Macau, transferred from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China after 442 years of Portuguese settlement.
* December 26 – Cyclones Lothar and Martin kill 140 people as they cross France, southern Germany, and Switzerland.
* December 27 – Martin (storm), Storm Martin causes damage throughout France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, including an emergency due to 1999 Blayais Nuclear Power Plant flood, flooding at the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant.
* December 31 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as president of Russia, leaving Prime Minister of Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president.
Births
January–February
* January 1
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** Gianluca Scamacca, Italian football player
** Diamond White (singer), Diamond White, American actress, voice artist, and singer
* January 4
** Daniel Arzani, Australian footballer
** Nico Hischier, Swiss ice hockey player
** Collin Sexton, American basketball player
* January 6
** Polo G, American rapper
** Elena Radionova, Russian figure skater
* January 8 – Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter
* January 9 – Li Zhuhao, Chinese swimmer
* January 12
** Nicolás Schiappacasse, Uruguayan footballer
** Xavier Tillman, American basketball player
* January 18 – Karan Brar, American actor
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Jai Waetford, Australian singer
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
*1301 &nda ...
– Bea Miller, American actress, singer, and songwriter
* February 10 – Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress
* February 11
Events Pre-1600
*660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
– Andriy Lunin, Ukrainian footballer
* February 14 – Tyler Adams, American soccer player
* February 20 – Lea van Acken, German actress
* February 21 – Metawin Opas-iamkajorn, Thai actor and singer
* February 25 – Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer
* February 28 – Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player
March–April
* March 2 – Abdullah Al-Qwabani, Yemeni long-distance runner
* March 5
** Madison Beer, American singer
** Yeri (singer), Yeri, South Korean singer
* March 6 – Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Japanese athlete
* March 14 – Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player
* March 16 – Antonis Stergiakis, Greek footballer
* March 19 – Jack Higgins (Australian footballer), Jack Higgins, Australian rules footballer
* March 22 – Mick Schumacher, German racing driver
* March 24 – Arina Openysheva, Russian swimmer
* March 25 – Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
* April 4 – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, British cellist
* 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 ...
– Maria Astashkina, Russian swimmer
* April 8
** CiCi Bellis, American tennis player
** José Gomes (footballer, born 1999), José Gomes, Portuguese footballer
* April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, su ...
– Lil Nas X, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
* April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...
– Chase Young, American football player
* April 15 – Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
* April 16 – Wendell Carter Jr., American basketball player
* April 18 – Michael Andrew (swimmer), Michael Andrew, American swimmer
* April 19 – Corentin Moutet, French tennis player
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys ...
– Carly Rose Sonenclar, American actress and singer
* April 30
Events Pre-1600
*311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
*1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
*1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus hi ...
– Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster
May–June
* May 5
** Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
** Nathan Chen, American figure skater
* May 8
** Maykel Massó, Cuban long jumper
** Rebeca Andrade, Brazilian artistic gymnast
* May 11 – Sabrina Carpenter, American actress, singer, and songwriter
* May 18 – Teo Halm, American actor and singer
* May 22 – Camren Bicondova, American actress and dancer
* May 24 – Charlie Plummer, American actor
* May 25 – Ibrahima Konaté, French footballer
* May 27
Events Pre-1600
*1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
** Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model
** Maria Kameneva, Russian swimmer
* May 30 – Sean Giambrone, American actor
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed ki ...
– Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater
* June 11
** Kai Havertz, German footballer
** Saxon Sharbino, American actress
* June 14 – Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer
* June 17 – Elena Rybakina, Russian–Kazakh tennis player
* June 18
Events Pre-1600
* 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
* 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
* 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about ...
– Trippie Redd, American rapper
* June 21 – Natalie Alyn Lind, American actress
* June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. ...
– Mads Roerslev, Danish footballer
* June 27 – Chandler Riggs, American actor
* June 29 – Nikita Volodin, Russian pair skater
July–August
* July 2 – Nicolò Zaniolo, Italian footballer
* July 4 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer and dancer
* July 6 – Denis Khodykin, Russian pair skater
* 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 ...
** April Ivy, Portuguese singer and composer
** Matthew Real, Brazilian-American soccer player
* July 12 – Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Malaysian diver
* July 13 – Leong Jun Hao, Malaysian badminton player
* July 15 – Seda Tutkhalyan, Russian artistic gymnast
* July 17 – Lisandro Cuxi, Portuguese-French singer
* July 19 – Kim So-hye, South Korean actress and singer
* July 20
** Princess Alexandra of Hanover (born 1999), Princess Alexandra of Hanover
** Ellie Downie, British artistic gymnast
* July 30 – Joey King, American actress
* August 2 – Emma Bale, Belgian singer
* August 3 – Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer
* August 7 – Sydney McLaughlin, American hurdler and sprinter
* August 9 – Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater
* August 11
Events Pre-1600
* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
** Kevin Knox (basketball), Kevin Knox, American basketball player
** Mary-Sophie Harvey, Canadian swimmer
* August 12 – Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer
* 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 ...
– Karen Chen, American figure skater
* August 22 – Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
* August 26 – Leonie Kullmann, German swimmer
* August 27
** Mitchell van Bergen, Dutch footballer
** Mile Svilar, Belgian footballer
* August 28 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark
* August 31 – Miomir Kecmanović, Serbian tennis player
September–October
* 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 ...
– Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper
* September 4 – Ellie Darcey-Alden, English actress
* September 5 – Alexey Erokhov, Russian figure skater
* September 7 – Michelle Creber, Canadian actress and singer
* September 8 – Shubman Gill, Indian cricketer
* September 13 – Ekaterina Borisova, Russian pair skater
* September 16 – Mao Yi, Chinese gymnast
* September 17 – Daniel Huttlestone, English actor
* September 21
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
*1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
*1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian lead ...
** Alexander Isak, Swedish footballer
** Wang Junkai, Chinese singer
* September 22
** Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress
** Erin Pitt, Canadian actress
* September 30 – Flávia Saraiva, Brazilian artistic gymnast
* October 1 – Christopher Taylor (sprinter), Christopher Taylor, Jamaican sprinter
* October 14
** Wu Yibing, Chinese tennis player
** Laura Zeng, American rhythmic gymnast
* October 15
** Bailee Madison, American actress
** Alexei Sancov, Moldovan swimmer
** Ben Woodburn, British footballer
* October 17 – Gabrielle Fa'amausili, New Zealand swimmer
* October 19 – Carlotta Truman, German singer
* October 20 – YoungBoy Never Broke Again, American rapper
* October 27 – Amy Tinkler, British artistic gymnast
* October 30 – Wang Yan (gymnast), Wang Yan, Chinese gymnast
November–December
* November 9 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress and singer
* November 10
** Armand Duplantis, American-born Swedish pole vaulter
** João Félix, Portuguese footballer
** Kiernan Shipka, American actress
* November 11 – Fan Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast
* November 12 – Choi Yoo-jung (singer), Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer and songwriter
* November 13 – Lando Norris, British racing driver
* November 19 – Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater
* November 26 – Olivia O'Brien, American singer
* December 4
** Kang Mi-na, South Korean singer and actress
** Kim Do-yeon (singer), Kim Do-yeon, South Korean singer
* December 22 – Ameer Idreis, Canadian author
* December 29 – Nadine Joy Nathan, Singaporean artistic gymnast
Deaths
January
* January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, Italian-American actor (b. 1904)
* January 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist and composer (b. 1962)
* January 11
** Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1912)
** Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
** Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian writer (b. 1921)
* January 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914)
* January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
* January 21 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
* January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
* January 23 – Joe D'Amato, Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Robert Shaw (conductor), Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
February
* February 1 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943)
* February 2 - Deborah Makepeace, English actress (b. 1957).
* February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist (b. 1906)
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
*1301 &nda ...
** King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
** Bobby Troup, American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1918)
* February 8 – Dame Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1919)
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
* 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
* 1429 – English forces und ...
– Heinz Schubert (actor), Heinz Schubert, German actor and photographer (b. 1925)
* February 14
** Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
** John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925)
* February 15
** Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
** Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (b. 1926)
* 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 ...
– Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
* February 18 – Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (b. 1906)
* February 20
** Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
** Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
* February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist (b. 1918)
* February 25 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912)
* February 28
** Bing Xin, Chinese author and poet (b. 1900)
** Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918)
March
* March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (b. 1939)
* March 3
** Jackson C. Frank, American folk musician (b. 1943)
** Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist (b. 1904)
* March 4
** Harry Blackmun, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
** Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, 79th President of Switzerland (b. 1917)
* March 5 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
* March 6
** Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
** Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain (b. 1931)
* March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (b. 1928)
* March 8
** Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
** Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist (b. 1924)
** Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
* March 10
** Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
** Kusumagraj, Indian poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1912)
* March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
*1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...
– Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916)
* March 13 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
* March 14 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
* March 17
** Ernest Gold (composer), Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921)
** Humberto Fernández-Morán, Venezuelan research scientist (b. 1924)
** Hildegard Peplau, American nurse and theorist (b. 1909)
* March 19 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
* March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
** Jean Guitton, French philosopher (b. 1901)
** Ernie Wise, English comedian (b. 1925)
* March 22 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
* March 24 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– Joe Williams (jazz singer), Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
* March 30 – Igor Netto, Soviet–Russian footballer (b. 1930)
* March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922)
April
* April 4
** Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
** Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1944)
** Bob Peck, English actor (b. 1945)
* April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, su ...
– Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerese military officer, 5th President of Niger (b. 1949)
* April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American actress (b. 1919)
* April 13 – Willi Stoph, German politician, 2-time Prime Minister of East Germany, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1914)
* April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...
** Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
** Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
* April 15 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (b. 1944)
* April 16 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer and songwriter (b. 1946)
* April 19 – Hermine Braunsteiner, German Nazi prison guard (b. 1919)
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys ...
** Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
** 15 people (13 victims and Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, 2 perpetrators) who died in the Columbine High School massacre
On April 20, 1999, a school shooting and attempted bombing occurred at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The perpetrators, 12th grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. ...
* April 21 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
* April 22 – Bert Remsen, American actor (b. 1925)
* April 25
** Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Michael Morris, Irish journalist and 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914)
** Roger Troutman, American funk musician (b. 1951)
* April 26 – Jill Dando, British television journalist (b. 1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
)
* April 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
* April 28
** Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
** Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (b. 1921)
** Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
May
* May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
* May 8
** Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
** Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
* May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American author and poet (b. 1930)
* May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
* May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
* May 17 – Henry Jones (actor), Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
* May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
* May 19 – Candy Candido, American voice actor (b. 1913)
* May 21 – Vanessa Brown, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1928)
* May 23 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empir ...
– Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed ki ...
– Christopher Cockerell, English engineer (b. 1910)
* June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 & ...
– Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925)
* June 9 – Andrew L. Stone, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1902)
* June 11 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
* June 12
Events Pre-1600
* 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
*1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
– Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater (b. 1955)
* June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English politician (b. 1940)
* June 17
** Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)
** Paul-Émile de Souza, Beninese army officer and political figure (b. 1930)
* June 19
** Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), Henri, Count of Paris, French nobleman (b. 1908)
** Mario Soldati, Italian writer and film director (b. 1906)
* June 25
** Fred Trump, American real estate developer (b. 1905)
** Yevgeny Morgunov, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer (b. 1927)
* June 27
** Siegfried Lowitz, German actor (b. 1914)
** Georgios Papadopoulos, 69th Prime Minister of Greece and 4th President of Greece (b. 1919)
* June 28 – Vere Bird, 1st Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1910)
* 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 ...
– Édouard Boubat, French photojournalist and art photographer (b. 1923)
July
* July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and th ...
** Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1957)
** Edward Dmytryk, American film director (b. 1908)
** Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
** Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1917)
** Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
* July 2 – Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
* July 3 – Mark Sandman, American rock musician and artist (b. 1952)
* July 6 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
* July 8
** Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
** Frank Lubin, Lithuanian-American basketball player (b. 1910)
** Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1925)
* July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
– Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
* July 12
** Rajendra Kumar, Indian film actor, producer and director (b. 1929)
** Bill Owen (actor), Bill Owen, English actor (b. 1914)
* July 14
** Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor (b. 1928)
** Gar Samuelson, American drummer (b. 1958)
* July 16
** John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher (b. 1960)
** Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model (b. 1966)
* July 20 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
* July 21 – David Ogilvy (businessman), David Ogilvy, French Advertising executive (b. 1911)
* July 23
Events Pre-1600
* 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
*1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...
– King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
* July 26 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist (b. 1911)
* July 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
* 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Ste ...
** Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
** Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general, 5th President of Greece (b. 1917)
* July 29 – Anatoliy Solovianenko, Soviet operatic tenor (b. 1932)
August
* August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali writer (b. 1897)
* August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
* August 7 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
* August 10
Events Pre-1600
* 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
* 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Gro� ...
– Giuseppe Delfino, Italian fencer (b. 1921)
* August 11
Events Pre-1600
* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
– Henk Chin A Sen, 2nd Prime Minister of Suriname (b. 1934)
* August 13 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (b. 1960)
* August 14 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
* August 17
Events Pre-1600
*309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle ...
– Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (b. 1936)
* August 22 – Aleksandr Demyanenko, Russian film and theater actor (b. 1937)
* August 23 – James White (author), James White, Irish writer (b. 1928)
September
* September 6 – Lagumot Harris, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
* September 8 – Moondog, American musician and composer (b. 1916)
* September 9 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
* September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
* September 11 – Gonzalo Rodríguez (racing driver), Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (b. 1972)
* September 12 – Allen Stack, American swimmer (b. 1928)
* September 14 – Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
* September 20 – Raisa Gorbacheva, Soviet first lady (b. 1932)
* September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
* September 24 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist (b. 1910)
* September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
October
* October 2 – Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar (b. 1914)
* October 3 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
* October 4
** Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
** Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1928)
* October 6
** Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
** Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer and actress (b. 1920)
* October 9
** Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
** Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani businessman (b. 1914)
* October 11 – Galina Bystrova, Soviet athlete (b. 1934)
* October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American professional basketball player (b. 1936)
* October 14 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
* October 17 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American physicist (b. 1915)
* October 19 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (b. 1900)
* October 20 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
* October 21 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
* October 23 – András Hegedüs, Hungarian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1922)
* October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
* October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
* October 26
** Hoyt Axton, American singer and actor (b. 1938)
** Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
* October 27
** Frank De Vol, American arranger, composer, and actor (b. 1911)
** Karen Demirchyan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia (b. 1932)
** Robert Mills (physicist), Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
** Leonard Petrosyan, 3rd Prime Minister of Artsakh (b. 1953)
** Vazgen Sargsyan
Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan ( hy, Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան, ; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from ...
, Armenian military commander and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Armenia (assassinated) (b. 1959)
* October 28 – Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (b. 1902)
* October 31
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
* 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
* 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Co ...
– Greg Moore (racing driver), Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
November
* November 1
** Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1924)
** Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
** Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
* November 2 – Demetrio B. Lakas, 27th President of Panama (b. 1925)
* November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
* November 8 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (b. 1898)
* November 11
** Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
)
** Vivian Fuchs, English geologist (b. 1908)
** Jacobo Timerman, Argentine journalist and author (b. 1923)
* November 12 – Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
* November 16 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (b. 1928)
* November 18
** Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
** Horst P. Horst, American photographer (b. 1906)
** Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
* 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 ...
– Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
* November 21 – Quentin Crisp, English writer (b. 1908)
December
* December 1 – Fritz Fischer, German historian (b. 1908)
* December 2 – Charlie Byrd, American jazz musician and classical guitarist (b. 1925)
* December 3
** John Archer (actor), John Archer, American actor (b. 1915)
** Scatman John, American musician (b. 1942)
** Madeline Kahn, American actress, singer and comedian (b. 1942)
* December 4 – Nilde Iotti, Italian politician (b. 1920)
* December 5 – Nathan Jacobson, American mathematician (b. 1910)
* December 7 – Darling Légitimus, French actress (b. 1907)
* December 9 – Yakov Rylsky, Soviet sabre fencer (b. 1928)
* December 10
** Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
** Franjo Tuđman, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
* December 12
** Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
** Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923)
* December 13 – Stane Dolanc, Yugoslav politician (b. 1925)
* December 17
** Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
** Jürgen Moser, German-American mathematician (b. 1928)
** Grover Washington Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
* December 18 – Robert Bresson, French filmmaker (b. 1901)
* December 19 – Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914)
* December 20
** Irving Rapper, American film director (b. 1898)
** Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
** Hank Snow, Canadian-American country musician (b. 1914)
* December 23
** John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908)
** Wallace Diestelmeyer, Canadian skater (b. 1926)
* December 24
** Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (b. 1908)
** Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach, co-founder of Nike, Inc., Nike (b. 1911)
** Maurice Couve de Murville, 152nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
** João Figueiredo, Brazilian military leader and politician, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
** Grete Stern, German-Argentine photographer (b. 1904)
* December 26
** Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer (b. 1942)
** Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
* December 27 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor (b. 1942)
* December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
* December 30
** Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
** Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (b. 1880)
* December 31 – Elliot Richardson, American politician and lawyer (b. 1920)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Ahmed H. Zewail * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Günter Blobel * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Günter Grass * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Médecins Sans Frontières * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert MundellNew English words and terms
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