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* [[May 17]] – [[Malawi]] holds its first multiparty elections.
* [[May 17]] – [[Malawi]] holds its first multiparty elections.
* [[May 21]] – Italian former minister and [[Democrazia Cristian|Christian Democrat]] leader [[Giulio Andreotti]] is accused of [[Mafia]] allegiance by the court of [[Palermo]].
* [[May 21]] – Italian former minister and [[Democrazia Cristian|Christian Democrat]] leader [[Giulio Andreotti]] is accused of [[Mafia]] allegiance by the court of [[Palermo]].
* [[May28]] – Dessa Leah Reil was born.
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Calendar year
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1994 (
MCMXCIV ) was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994
Gregorian calendar ).
The year 1994 was designated as the "
International Year of the
Family " and the "International Year of Sport and the
Olympic Ideal " by the
United Nations .
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Events of 1994
January
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January 1 – The
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect.
January 1 – The
Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in
Chiapas , Mexico.
January 6 – In
Detroit, Michigan ,
Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant, under orders from figure skating rival
Tonya Harding 's ex-husband.
January 8 –
Soyuz TM-18 :
Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
January 11 – The
Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the
Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm
Sinn Féin .
January 11 –
The Superhighway Summit is held at
UCLA 's Royce Hall. It is the first conference to discuss the growing
information superhighway and is presided over by U.S. Vice President
Al Gore .
January 14 – U.S. President
Bill Clinton and
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of
nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the
nuclear arsenal in
Ukraine .
January 15 – The
SS American Star breaks tow in the
Atlantic Ocean and is beached at
Fuerteventura in the
Canary Islands a few days later.
January 17 – The
1994 Northridge earthquake ,
magnitude 6.7, hits
the San Fernando Valley of
Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m., killing 72 and leaving 26,029 homeless.
January 18 –
Cando event : Witnesses claim to have seen a
fireball in the sky lasting for almost 1 minute in
Cando, Spain (a possible
bolide
impact ).
January 19 –
Record cold temperatures hit the eastern
United States . The coldest temperature ever measured in
Indiana state history, −36°F (−38°C), is recorded in
New Whiteland, Indiana .
January 20 – In
South Carolina ,
Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend
The Citadel , but soon drops out.
January 21 –
Lorena Bobbitt is found
not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John.
January 25 – U.S. President
Bill Clinton delivers his first
State of the Union address, calling for
health care reform , a
ban on assault weapons , and
welfare reform .
January 26 – A man fires 2
blank shots at
Charles, Prince of Wales in
Sydney ,
Australia .
January 28 – The first trial of accused murderer
Lyle Menendez ends in a
mistrial . He and his brother
Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to
life in prison without
parole .
January 30 –
Super Bowl XXVIII : The
Dallas Cowboys hand the
Buffalo Bills their fourth consecutive
Super Bowl loss, 30-13.
February
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William Perry
March
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Mary Ellen Withrow
March 1 – A lone
terrorist kills
Ari Halberstam during an attack on 14
Jewish students on the
Brooklyn Bridge in
New York City .
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March 1 –
South Africa cedes
Walvis Bay to
Namibia .
March 1 –
Mary Ellen Withrow begins her term of office as
Treasurer of the United States , serving under President
Bill Clinton .
March 4 – Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the
World Trade Center bombing , which killed 6 and injured more than 1,000.
March 5 – A gunman takes 9 people hostage in the
Salt Lake City Public Library Hostage Incident .
March 6 – A referendum in
Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with
Romania .
March 7 –
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. : The
Supreme Court of the United States rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of
fair use .
March 12 – A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the
Loch Ness monster , is confirmed to be a hoax.
March 12 – The
Church of England ordains its first female priests.
March 14 – Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors. This is considered to be a major leap in personal computer, as well as Macintosh history.
March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from
Somalia .
March 16 – In
Portland, Oregon ,
Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to
cover-up an attack on
figure skating rival
Nancy Kerrigan . She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.
March 20 – Italian journalist
Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in
Somalia .
March 21 – The
66th Academy Awards , hosted by
Whoopi Goldberg , are held at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in
Los Angeles, California .
Steven Spielberg 's
Holocaust drama,
Schindler's List , wins 7 Oscars including
Best Picture and
Best Director (Spielberg).
March 23 –
Green Ramp disaster : Two military aircraft collide over
Pope Air Force Base ,
North Carolina causing dozens of fatalities.
March 27 – TV tycoon
Silvio Berlusconi 's right-wing coalition wins the
Italian general election .
March 27 – The biggest
tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the
southeastern United States ; 1 tornado hits a Goshen United Methodist Church in
Piedmont, Alabama , killing 22 people.
March 27 – The
Eurofighter takes its first flight in
Manching ,
Germany .
March 28 –
Shell House Massacre :
Inkatha Freedom Party and
ANC supporters battle in central
Johannesburg
South Africa .
March 31 – The journal
Nature reports the finding in
Ethiopia of the first complete
Australopithecus afarensis skull (see
Human evolution ).
April
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April 5 –
Kurt Cobain , lead singer and guitarist for
Nirvana , commits suicide with a
shotgun blast to the head.
April 6 –
Rwandan President
Juvénal Habyarimana and
Burundi President
Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near
Kigali ,
Rwanda . This is taken as a pretext to begin the
Rwandan Genocide .
April 7 – The
Rwandan Genocide begins in
Kigali ,
Rwanda .
April 8 –
Michelangelo 's
Universal Judgement is reopened to the public after 10 years of restorations.
April 8 – The body of
Kurt Cobain , songwriter and frontman for the band
Nirvana , is
found dead at his Lake Washington home.
April 16 – Voters in
Finland decide to join the
European Union in a referendum.
April 20 –
Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he served in the
Vichy France
Milice .
April 21 – The
Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of
Tutsi have been killed in
Rwanda .
April 25 –
Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia .
April 25 – The largest high school arson ever in the United States is started at
Burnsville High School , in
Burnsville, Minnesota , resulting in over 15 million dollars in damages. The same arsonist also goes on to set arsons at
Edina High School and
Minnetonka High School .
[3]
April 26 –
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman ,
Yang di-Pertuan Besar of
Negeri Sembilan , becomes the 10th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia .
April 26 –
China Airlines Flight 140 , an
Airbus A300 , crashes while landing at
Nagoya ,
Japan , killing 264 people.
April 27 –
South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of
apartheid .
April 29 –
Commodore International declares bankruptcy.
April 30 –
Formula 1 driver
Roland Ratzenberger is killed while qualifying for the
1994 San Marino Grand Prix .
May
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May 1 – Three-time
Formula One world champion
Ayrton Senna
is killed in an accident during the
San Marino Grand Prix in
Imola, Italy .
May 3 –
Japan signs the 200th treaty between itself and the African nation of
Chad , making this day known as JapaTreaty 200.
May 5 – The
Bishkek Protocol between
Armenia and
Azerbaijan was signed, effectivelly freezing the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict .
May 6 – The
Channel Tunnel , which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens between
England and
France , enabling passengers to travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes.
May 10 –
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as
South Africa 's first Black
president .
May 10 –
Illinois executes
serial killer
John Wayne Gacy by
lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
May 10 – An
annular eclipse of the
sun is visible across much of
North America .
May 12 –
Ice hockey becomes
Canada 's official
winter sport .
May 12 – U.K.
Labour Party leader
John Smith , 55, dies of a
heart attack . Deputy leader
Margaret Beckett stands in until an election can be held. Smith is succeeded by
Tony Blair , the 41-year-old
Scottish -born
Member of Parliament for
Sedgefield in
County Durham .
May 17 –
Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
May 21 – Italian former minister and
Christian Democrat leader
Giulio Andreotti is accused of
Mafia allegiance by the court of
Palermo .
May28 – Dessa Leah Reil was born.
June
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June 6 –
June 8 –
Ceasefire negotiations for the
Yugoslav War begin in
Geneva ; they agree to a 1-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
June 12 –
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in
Los Angeles, California .
O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a
civil suit .
June 14 –
Hacker
Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to 7 counts of
mail fraud , wire and computer fraud,
money laundering , and
obstruction of justice .
June 14 – The
New York Rangers defeat the
Vancouver Canucks at
Madison Square Garden ,
New York in Game 7 of the
1994 Stanley Cup Finals , winning their first
Stanley Cup Championship in 54 years and ending the
Curse of 1940 .
June 15 –
Israel and the
Vatican establish full
diplomatic relations .
June 17 – NFL star
O.J. Simpson and his friend
Al Cowlings flee from police in his white
Ford Bronco . The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's
Brentwood, Los Angeles, California mansion, where he surrenders.
June 17 – The
1994 FIFA World Cup begins in the
United States .
June 22 – The
Houston Rockets defeat the
New York Knicks at
The Summit in Texas in Game 7 of the
1993–94 NBA season , to win their first
NBA Championship.
June 23 – The
International Olympic Committee celebrates their first centennial.
June 24 –
U.S. Air Force pilot
Bud Holland crashes a
B-52 in
Fairchild Air Force Base ,
Washington as a result of pilot error.
June 28 – Members of the
Aum Shinrikyo cult release a
sarin gas attack at
Matsumoto ,
Japan , killing 7 and injuring 660.
July
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Brown spots mark impact sites of the
Shoemaker-Levy Comet on
Jupiter 's southern hemisphere.
August
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August –
Wollemia nobilis , a "fossil tree", is discovered by bushwalker David Noble, only 150 km from the largest city in
Australia .
August 1 – Fire destroys the
Norwich Central Library in the
United Kingdom , including most of its
historical records .
August 1 – The
University of London founds the
School of Advanced Study , a group of postgraduate
research institutes .
August 5 – Groups of protesters spread from
Havana ,
Cuba 's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against
Fidel Castro 's government since
1959 .
August 12 –
Woodstock '94 begins in
Saugerties, New York . It is the
25 -year anniversary of
Woodstock in
1969 .
August 12 –
Major League Baseball players go on
strike , eventually causing the cancellation of the
World Series .
August 20 – In
Honolulu, Hawaii , during a circus international performance, an elephant named
Tyke crushes her trainer
Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators, at the
Neal Blaisdell Arena.
August 23 –
Eugene Bullard is posthumously commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, 33 years after his death, and 77 years to the day after his rejection for U.S. military service in
1917 .
August 31 – The
Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of
military operations ."
August 31 – The
Russian army leaves
Estonia .
September
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October 1 – In
Slovakia , populist leader
Vladimir Meciar wins the general election.
October 4 – In
Switzerland , 23 members of the
Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in
Morin Heights ,
Quebec .
October 5 –
UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers' Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on
October 5 ,
1966 .
October 8 –
Iraq disarmament crisis : The President of the
United Nations Security Council says that
Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
October 12 –
NASA loses
radio contact with the
Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of
Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either
October 13 or
October 14 ).
October 15 – After 3 years of U.S. exile,
Haiti 's president Aristide returns to his country.
October 15 –
Iraq disarmament crisis : Following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
October 29 –
Francisco Martin Duran fires over 2 dozen shots at the
White House ; he is later convicted of trying to kill President
Bill Clinton .
October 31 – An
American Eagle
ATR 72 crashes in
Roselawn, Indiana , after circling in icy
weather , killing 64 passengers.
October 31 –
The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in
Israel , where his late mother,
Princess Alice of Battenberg , is honoured as "
Righteous among the Nations " for sheltering Jewish families from the
Nazis in
Athens , during
World War II .
November
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November 3 – A French magazine publishes photo of President
François Mitterrand 's secret daughter.
November 3 – The
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is enacted in the UK. The whole of Part V, which covers collective trespass and nuisance on land, includes sections against raves, including the "succession of repetitive beats" definition.
November 4 –
San Francisco : The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the
World Wide Web opens. Featured speakers include
Marc Andreessen of
Netscape ,
Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media.
November 4 –
Sydney 's third runway opens, ensuring protests about noise levels.
November 5 – A letter by former U.S. President
Ronald Reagan , announcing that he has
Alzheimer's disease , is released.
November 5 –
George Foreman wins the
WBA and
IBF World Heavyweight Championships by
KO 'ing
Michael Moorer becoming the oldest
heavyweight champion in history.
November 5 –
Johan Heyns , an influential
Afrikaner
theologian and critic of
apartheid , is assassinated.
November 6 – A flood in
Piedmont ,
Italy , kills dozens of people.
November 7 –
WXYC , the student radio station of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , provides the world's first
internet radio broadcast .
November 8 –
Georgia Representative
Newt Gingrich leads the
United States Republican Party in taking control of both the
House of Representatives and the
Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of
Congress .
George W. Bush is elected
Governor of Texas .
November 13 – Voters in
Sweden decide to join the
European Union in a
referendum .
November 13 – The first passengers travel through the
Channel Tunnel .
November 13 –
Michael Schumacher wins his first
Formula 1 World Championship.
November 16 – A
Federal judge issues a temporary
restraining order , prohibiting the State of
California from implementing
Proposition 187 , that would have denied most
public services to
illegal aliens .
November 20 – The
Angolan government and
UNITA rebels sign the
Lusaka Protocol .
November 28 – Voters in
Norway decide not to join the
European Union in a
referendum .
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December 1 –
Ernesto Zedillo takes office as
President of Mexico .
December 2 – The
Australian government agrees to pay reparations to
indigenous Australians who were displaced during the
nuclear tests at
Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
December 11 – Russian president
Boris Yeltsin orders troops into
Chechnya .
December 11 – A small bomb explodes on
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 , killing a
Japanese businessman. The bombing was a field test done by
Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in
Project Bojinka .
December 13 – The trial of former President
Mengistu begins in
Ethiopia .
December 13 –
Fred West , 53, a builder living in
Gloucester , is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife
Rose West , 41, is charged with 10 murders. Police believe that the murders took place between
1967 and
1987 , and suspect that they may have killed up to 30 people.
December 14 – A
Learjet piloted by Richard Anderson and Brad Sexton misses an
elementary school and crashes into an apartment complex in
Fresno, California , killing both pilots and injuring several apartment residents.
December 14 – A runaway
Santa Fe freight train rear ends a
Union Pacific train at the bottom of
Cajon Pass ,
California .
December 14 –
British
Home Secretary
Michael Howard announces that
Myra Hindley will serve a
whole life tariff for the
Moors Murders of the
1960s .
December 15 – The first version of
web browser
Netscape Navigator is released.
December 19 – A planned
exchange rate correction of the
Mexican Peso to the
US
Dollar , becomes a massive financial meltdown in
Mexico , unleashing the '
Tequila ' effect on global
financial markets . This prompts a
US$ 50 billion 'bailout' by the
Clinton Administration.
December 19 – The
Whitewater scandal investigation begins in
Washington, DC .
December 19 –
Civil unions between homosexuals are legalized in Sweden.
December 21 – A
homemade bomb explodes on the
# 4 train on
Fulton Street in
New York City .
December 26 – French
anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked jet at
Marseille and kill 4 Islamist terrorists.
December 31 is skipped by the
Phoenix Islands to switch from the
UTC−11
time zone to
UTC+13 , and by the
Line Islands to switch from
UTC−10 to
UTC+14 . The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of
Hawaii .
Undated
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1994 in fiction:
Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1982): According to the series' premise, a large asteroid passes between
Earth and the
Moon in 1994, causing the Moon to split into two large fragments. The event also causes major upheavals in Earth's climate and geography, as well as severe alterations in
tidal forces , due to the gravitational effects of both the asteroid and the shattered Moon.
Births
January–June
January 14 –
Samir Patel , American spelling prodigy
January 16 –
Qiu Cui Ling , Taiwanese singer
January 21 –
Marny Kennedy , Australian actress
February 5 –
Saki Nakajima , Japanese singer
February 10 –
Makenzie Vega , American actress
February 14 –
Paul Butcher Jr. , American actor
February 14 –
Allie Grant , American actress
February 23 –
Dakota Fanning , American actress
February 27 –
Hou Yifan , Chinese chess player
March 12 –
Tanveer K. Atwal , American actress
March 14 –
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp
March 14 –
Frankie Ryan Manriquez , American actor
March 31 –
Caden Waidyatilleka , American actor
April 4 –
Risako Sugaya , Japanese singer
April 11 –
Dakota Blue Richards , English actress
April 12 –
Moises Arias , American actor
April 12 –
Saoirse Ronan , Irish actress
April 12 –
Airi Suzuki , Japanese singer
April 16 –
Liliana Mumy , American actress
May 4 –
Alexander Gould , American actor
May 4 –
Pauline Ducruet , Monaco heir
May 12 –
Drew Mikuska , American actor
May 21 –
Tom Daley , British diver
May 24 –
Cayden Boyd , American actor
June 11 –
Ivana Baquero , Spanish actress
June 17 –
Jiordan Anna Tolli , Australian actress
June 21 –
Chisato Okai , Japanese singer
June 23 –
Jamie Borthwick , English actor
June 28 –
Sophia Lorentzen , British heiress
June 28 –
Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II , prince of
Jordan
June 28 –
Madeline Duggan , English actress
July–December
July 6 –
Camilla and Rebecca Rosso , English twin actresses
July 9 –
Akiane Kramarik ,
American poet and painter
July 13 –
Ridge Canipe , American actor
July 16 –
Mark Indelicato , American actor
July 27 –
Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
August 9 –
Forrest Landis , American actor
August 25 –
Jetseta Gage , American kidnapping victim (d.
2005 )
August 25 –
Josh Flitter , American actor
August 28 –
Jessie Flower , American actress
September 1 –
Bianca Ryan , American singer
September 13 –
Mitch Holleman , American actor
September 17 –
Taylor Ware , American singer and yodeler
September 19 –
Alexander Nathan Etel , British actor
September 22 –
Danielle Van Dam , American murder victim (d.
2002 )
September 25 –
Jansen Panettiere , American actor
October 2 –
Phil Kessel , Hockey player for the Boston Bruins
October 5 –
Zachary Isaiah Williams , American actor
October 9 –
Jodelle Ferland , Canadian actress
October 20 –
Morgan Featherstone , Australian model
November 11 –
Connor Price , Canadian actor
November 17 –
Raquel Castro , American actor
November 30 –
Nyjah Huston , American skateboarder
December 3 –
Jake T. Austin , American actor
December 15 –
Flora Ogilvy , British heiress
December 15 –
Toby Linz , American actor
December 15 –
Emma Lockhart , American actress
December 17 –
Nat Wolff , American actor, Singer-songwriter, and keyboardist
Deaths
January–June
January 1 –
Arthur Espie Porritt ,
New Zealand politician and athlete (b.
1900 )
January 1 –
Cesar Romero ,
Cuban-American actor (b.
1907 )
January 1 –
Edward Arthur Thompson , British historian (b.
1914 )
January 5 –
Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill ,
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b.
1912 )
January 5 –
Elmar Lipping , Estonian statesman and soldier (b.
1906 )
January 5 –
Brian Johnston , British cricket commentator (b.
1912 )
January 8 –
Pat Buttram , American actor (b.
1915 )
January 9 –
Johnny Temple , baseball player (b.
1927 )
January 15 –
Harry Nilsson , American musician (b.
1941 )
January 17 –
Helen Stephens , American runner (b.
1918 )
January 20 –
Matt Busby ,
Scottish football manager (
Manchester United ) (b.
1909 )
January 22 –
Telly Savalas , American actor (b.
1924 )
January 23 –
Brian Redhead , British journalist and broadcaster (b.
1929 )
January 25 –
Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician (b.
1909 )
January 27 –
Claude Akins , American actor (b.
1914 )
January 28 –
Hal Smith , American character actor and voice-over artist {b.
1916 )
January 29 –
Ulrike Maier , Austrian alpine skier (b.
1967 )
January 30 –
Pierre Boulle , French author (b.
1912 )
February 1 –
Olan Soule , Character actor (b.
1909 )
February 6 –
Joseph Cotten , American actor (b.
1905 )
February 6 –
Jack Kirby ,
American comic book writer and illustrator (b.
1917 )
February 7 –
Witold Lutosławski , Polish composer (b.
1913 )
February 9 –
Howard Martin Temin , American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1934 )
February 11 –
Sorrell Booke , American actor (b.
1930 )
February 11 –
William Conrad , American actor (b.
1920 )
February 11 –
Neil Bonnett , American
race car driver (b.
1946 )
February 14 –
Andrei Chikatilo , Russian serial killer (executed) (b.
1936 )
February 17 –
Randy Shilts , American author and activist (b.
1951 )
February 22 –
Papa John Creech , American fiddler (b.
1917 )
February 24 –
Jean Sablon ,
French singer (b.
1906 )
February 24 –
Dinah Shore , American actress and singer (b.
1916 )
February 25 –
Baruch Goldstein , American-born
mass murderer (b.
1956 )
February 25 –
Jersey Joe Walcott , American boxer (b.
1914 )
February 26 –
Bill Hicks , American comedian (b.
1961 )
March 4 –
John Candy , Canadian comedian and actor (b.
1950 )
March 6 –
Ray Arcel , American boxing trainer, was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (b.
1899 )
March 9 –
Charles Bukowski , American writer (b.
1920 )
March 21 –
MacDonald Carey , American actor (b.
1913 )
March 22 –
Walter Lantz , American cartoonist (b.
1899 )
March 23 –
Luis Donaldo Colosio , Mexican politician (b.
1950 )
March 25 –
Max Petitpierre ,
member of the Swiss Federal Council (b.
1899 )
March 28 –
Eugène Ionesco , Romanian-born playwright (b.
1909 )
March 29 –
Bill Travers , English actor and co-founder of the
Born Free Foundation (b.
1922 )
April 1 –
Léon Degrelle , Belgian Nazi (b.
1906 )
April 2 –
Betty Furness , American actress, author, and
consumer advocate (b.
1916 )
ca.
April 5 –
Kurt Cobain , American musician (
Nirvana ) (b.
1967 )
April 6 –
Juvénal Habyarimana ,
President of Rwanda (b.
1937 )
April 6 –
Cyprien Ntaryamira ,
President of Burundi (b.
1956 )
April 7 –
Albert Guðmundsson , Icelandic footballer and politician (b.
1923 )
April 7 –
Golo Mann , German historian (b.
1909 )
April 10 –
Sam B. Hall , American politician (b.
1924 )
April 15 –
John Curry , British ice skater (b.
1949 )
April 16 –
Ralph Ellison , American writer (b.
1914 )
April 17 –
Roger Wolcott Sperry , American neurobiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1913 )
April 22 –
Richard M. Nixon , 37th
President of the United States (b.
1913 )
April 24 –
Masutatsu Ōyama , Korean-Japanese Karate master (b.
1923 )
April 27 –
Lynne Frederick , actress (b.
1954 )
April 28 –
Berton Roueché , American medical writer,
The New Yorker magazine staff writer (b.
1910 )
April 29 –
Russell Kirk , American political philosopher (b.
1918 )
April 30 –
Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian
Formula One driver (b.
1960 )
Unknown date –
Francis Bell , Australian actor (b.
1944 )
May 1 –
Ayrton Senna , Brazilian
Formula One driver (b.
1960 )
May 7 –
Clement Greenberg ,
American art critic (b.
1909 )
May 8 –
George Peppard , American actor (b.
1928 )
May 10 –
John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer (executed) (b.
1942 )
May 12 –
John Smith , Scottish politician (b.
1938 )
May 15 –
Gilbert Roland , Mexican-born actor (b.
1905 )
May 19 –
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis ,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1929 )
May 21 –
Johan Hendrik Weidner , Belgian World War II resistance fighter (b.
1912 )
May 29 –
Erich Honecker , leader of
East Germany (b.
1912 )
June 2 –
David Stove , Australian philosopher (b.
1927 )
June 4 –
Peter Thorneycroft , British politician (b. 1909)
June 9 –
Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903 )
June 12 –
Menachem Mendel Schneerson , the
Lubavitcher Rebbe (b.
1902 )
June 12 –
Nicole Brown Simpson ,
ex-wife of
O.J. Simpson (b.
1959 )
June 12 –
Ronald Goldman , friend of
Nicole Brown Simpson (b.
1968 )
June 14 –
Henry Mancini , American composer and arranger (b.
1924 )
June 15 –
Kristen Pfaff , American bassist (
Hole ) (b.
1967 )
June 20 –
Jay Miner , American
computer pioneer (b.
1932 )
June 29 –
Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor (b.
1908 )
July–December
July 1 –
Dominic Lucero , American actor/dancer (b.
1967 )
July 7 –
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte , German Luftwaffe Officer (b.
1907 )
July 8 –
Dick Sargent , American actor (b.
1930 )
July 8 –
Kim Il-sung ,
President of North Korea (b.
1912 )
July 11 –
Gary Kildall , American computer inventor (b.
1942 )
July 14 –
César Tovar , Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player (b.
1940 )
July 29 –
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1910 )
August 6 –
Domenico Modugno , Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (b.
1928 )
August 7 –
Larry Martyn , comedy actor (b.
1934 )
August 13 –
Elias Canetti , Bulgarian-born writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905 )
August 18 –
Richard Laurence Millington Synge , English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1914 )
August 19 –
Linus Pauling , American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and
Peace (b.
1901 )
September 6 –
Nicky Hopkins , British musician (b.
1944 )
September 11 –
Jessica Tandy , English actress (b.
1909 )
September 12 –
Boris Yegorov , cosmonaut (b.
1937 )
September 15 –
Moana Pozzi , Italian
porn actress (b.
1961 )
September 17 –
Karl Popper , Austrian and British philosopher (b.
1902 )
September 20 –
Abioseh Nicol ,
Sierra Leonean diplomat, UN official and author (b.
1924 )
September 30 –
Andre Michael Lwoff , French microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1902 )
October 3 –
Tim Asch , Anthropologist, photographer and ethnographic filmmaker
October 3 –
Dub Taylor , American actor (b.
1907 )
October 7 –
Niels Kaj Jerne , English immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1911 )
October 14 –
Emil Gilels , Russian pianist (b.
1916 )
October 19 –
Martha Raye , American actress (b.
1916 )
October 20 –
Burt Lancaster , American actor (b.
1913 )
October 21 –
Benoît Régent , French actor (b.
1953 )
October 24 –
Raul Julia ,
Puerto Rican actor (b.
1940 )
November 4 –
Fred "Sonic" Smith , guitarist (b.
1949 )
November 5 –
Johan Heyns ,
Afrikaner theologian and critic of
Apartheid assassinated (b.
1928 )
November 10 –
Carmen McRae , American jazz singer (b.
1920 )
November 11 –
Pedro Zamora , Cuban-born AIDS activist, cast member of
MTV 's Real World 3 (b.
1972 )
November 12 –
Wilma Rudolph , American athlete (b.
1940 )
November 13 –
Motoo Kimura , Japanese geneticist (b.
1924 )
November 14 –
Tom Villard , American actor (b.
1953 )
November 16 –
Doris Speed , English actress (b.
1899 )
November 16 –
Dino Valente , American musician (b.
1943 )
November 18 –
Peter Ledger , Australian artist (b.
1945 )
November 18 –
Cab Calloway , American jazz singer and bandleader (b.
1908 )
November 20 –
John Lucarotti , TV writer (b.
1926 )
November 22 –
Charles Upham , New Zealand soldier, double
Victoria Cross winner (b.
1908 )
November 22 –
Forrest White , a key person in the beginning of
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation .
November 23 –
Art Barr , American
professional wrestler (b.
1966 )
November 28 –
Jeffrey Dahmer , American serial killer (murdered in prison) (b.
1960 )
November 28 –
Buster Edwards , Great train robber (suicide) (b.
1932 )
December 8 –
Antonio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian composer (b.
1927 )
December 10 –
Alexander Wilson , Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b.
1905 )
December 11 –
Philip Phillips , American archaeologist (b.
1900 )
December 11 –
Carl Marzani , American
political documentary filmmaker, author, editor and publisher (b.
1912 )
December 12 –
Stuart Roosa , astronaut (b.
1933 )
December 20 –
Hans Herlin , German novelist (b.
1925 )
December 23 –
Sebastian Shaw , English actor (b.
1905 )
December 24 –
John Boswell , American historian (b.
1947 )
December 27 –
Fanny Craddock , British TV chef and restaurant critic (b.
1909 )
December 27 –
J. B. L. Reyes , Filipino jurist (b.
1902 )
Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize medallion.
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Templeton Prize
Fields Medal
Right Livelihood Award
See also
Notes
External links
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