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January 21 – Laura Robson, British tennis player
February 14 – Paul Butcher, American actor
February 14 – Allie Grant, American actress
February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
March 5 – Aislinn Paul, Canadian actress
March 8 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
March 12 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter
March 13 – Mohammad Siraj, Indian cricketer
March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards, British actress
April 12 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
July 16 – Mark Indelicato, American actor
July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper
September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
November 17 – Raquel Castro, American singer and actress
December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
December 8 – Raheem Sterling, English footballer
December 14 – Kuldeep Yadav, Indian cricketer
Deaths

January 

 January 1 – Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907)
 January 2 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician and Governor of Washington (b. 1917)
 January 5 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
 January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
 January 17 – Chung Il-Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1917)
 January 20 – Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909)
 January 22 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)
 January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926)
 January 28 – Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)

February 

 February 6 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
 February 9 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
 February 11 – Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
 February 11 – William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
 February 14 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
 February 24 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)

March
March 

 March 2 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
 March 4 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
 March 6 – Melina Mercouri, Greek singer, actress and politician (b. 1920)
 March 13 – Danny Barker, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
 March 17 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
 March 23 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)

April 
 

 April 1 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
 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 15 – John Curry, British ice skater (b. 1949)
 April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)
 April 18 – Ruggero Orlando, Italian author (b. 1907)
 April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
 April 30 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)

May
May 

 May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
 May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
 May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
 May 12 – John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
 May 19 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
 May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German leader (b. 1912)

June 
 June 2 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
 June 5 - Mario Recordón, Chilean architect (b. 1922)
 June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
 June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
 June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
 June 29 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian murderer (b. 1950)

July
July  

 July 2 – Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
 July 2 – Maung Maung, President of Burma (b. 1925)
 July 7 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
 July 8 – Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
 July 16 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918)
 July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)

August 

 August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini, President of Italy (b. 1925)
 August 10 – Marie Dollinger, German field athlete (b. 1910)
 August 11 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
 August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (b. 1905)
 August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist (b. 1914)
 August 19 – Linus Pauling, American scientist (b. 1901)
 August 30 - Alfonso Oiterong, President of Palau (b. 1924)
 August 30 - Lindsay Anderson, British director (b. 1923)

September
September 

 September 7 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
 September 10 – Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1924)
 September 11 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (b. 1909)
 September 12 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1937)
 September 17 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
 September 17 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
 September 20 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonian diplomat (b. 1924)
 September 22 – Leonard Feather, British jazz pianist composer (b. 1914)
 September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)

October 

 October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
 October 3 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (b. 1920)
 October 7 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)
 October 19 – Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916)
 October 20 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
 October 24 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
 October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)

November
November 

 November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
 November 11 – Pedro Zamora, American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
 November 11 – John A. Volpe, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1908)
 November 12 – Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940)
 November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
 November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1908)
 November 28 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)

December 

 December 12 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
 December 20 – Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
 December 25 – Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
 December 27 – Fanny Craddock, British cookery writer and television presenter (b. 1909)
 December 31 – Bruno Pezzey, Austrian footballer (b. 1955)

Events
January 1 – North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
 January 6 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
 January 11 – Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin
 January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
 January 17 – 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 am.
 January 20 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
 January 26 – A man fires two 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 31 – German luxury car manufacturer BMW announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace
February 6 — American pop rock band Maroon 5 formed (as Kara'a Flowers)
 April 7 – The Rwandan Genocide begins.
 April 8 – Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. He had committed suicide three days earlier.
 April 19 – The Offspring releases their third album, Smash, which would be one of the band's top selling albums sold in the entire world. It contains their best known hit singles, "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" and "Self Esteem".
 April 27 – South Africa holds its first multiracial elections after the end of Apartheid.
 April 30 – Racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during practice for the San Marino Grand Prix.
May 1 – Racing driver Ayrton Senna is killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.
 May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, linking the United Kingdom and France, is opened.
 May 10 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
 June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found dead. O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of their murders the following year.
 July 3 – A replica Mona Lisa is smashed on the floor of the Louvre by an English tourist, prompting international outcry.
 mid-July – Jupiter is hit by fragments from the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
 August 12 – Woodstock '94 happens.
 August 31 – The Russian army leaves Estonia.
 September 28 – The Car Ferry Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea.
 October 1 – Palau becomes an independent state in association with the USA.
 October 14 – A popular Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction was released in theaters, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel and Bruce Willis.
November 5 – President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease in order to raise public awareness of the disease.
 November 13 – Swedish voters support entry into the EU.
 November 28 – Norwegian voters reject membership of the EU.
 December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo becomes President of Mexico.
 December 26 – French anti-terrorist police storm a jet plane in Marseille, freeing all the hostages and killing 4 terrorists.
 December 31 – This date is skipped in parts of Kiribati, as the International Date Line is shifted to the east of the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands, in order to integrate the whole country.
Nobel Prizes 
 Physics – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford Glenwood Shull
 Chemistry – George Andrew Olah
 Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
 Literature – Kenzaburo Oe
 Nobel Peace Prize – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
 Economics – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash, John Harsanyi

Movies released 
 Dumb and Dumber
 Disclosure
 Forrest Gump Junior Ed Wood The Lion King
 Pulp Fiction
 The Mask
 True Lies
 The Specialist
 The Seventh Brother
 The Shawshank Redemption
 Speed
 Reality Bites

Video games 
 Donkey Kong Country
 EarthBound (Japanese)
 Kirby's Dream Course (Japanese)
 Kirby's Avalanche
 Kirby's Dream Land 2
 Wario Blast
 Wario Woods
New books 
Accident  –  Danielle Steel
The Celestine Prophecy  –  James Redfield
The Chamber  –  John Grisham
Creatures of the Kingdom –  James A. Michener
Dark Rivers of the Heart – Dean R. Koontz
Daughter of Damascus – Shiham Turjuman
Dead Right – David Frum
The Debt of Honor  –  Tom Clancy
Disclosure  –  Michael Crichton
The Ghosts of Sleath – James Herbert
The Gift  –  Danielle Steel
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
The Informers – Bret Easton Ellis
In Search of CHURCHILL – Martin Gilbert
Interesting Times – Terry Pratchett
In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O'Brien
Insomnia  –  Stephen King
Just Like That – Lily Brett
Life After God – Douglas Coupland
Nothing Lasts Forever –  Sidney Sheldon
Point de côté  –  Judith Godrèche
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories – James Finn Garner
Recessional  –  James A. Michener
Songs of Earth and Power – Greg Bear
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
Troubling a Star – Madeleine L'Engle
La Virevolte – Nancy Huston
The Wind in the Wheat, by Reed Arvin
Wings  –  Danielle Steel
Hit songs 
"90's Girl" – BlackGirl
"All For Love" – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
"All I Wanna Do" – Sheryl Crow
"All That She Wants" – Ace of Base
"Always" – Erasure
"Another Night" – Real McCoy
"Any Time, Any Place" – Janet Jackson
"Backwater" – Meat Puppets
"Big Empty" – Stone Temple Pilots
"Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden
"Come Out and Play" – The Offspring
"Closer" – Nine Inch Nails
"Cut Your Hair" – Pavement
"Don't Turn Around" – Ace of Base
"Everyday" – Phil Collins
"Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms
"Gin & Juice" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
"I Alone" – Live
"I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
"Longview" – Green Day
"Loser" – Beck
"Love Is All Around" – Wet, Wet, Wet
"Love is Strong" – Rolling Stones
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows
"Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
"Seether" – Veruca Salt
"She Don't Use Jelly" – The Flaming Lips
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" – Prince
"The Sign" – Ace of Base
"Until I Fall Away" – Gin Blossoms
"Waterfalls" – TLC
"Waterfalls" – TLC
"Without You" – Mariah Carey
"You Want This" – Janet Jackson
1993 (MCMXCIII) was .

Events
January 
 January 1 – Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.
 January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
 January 5 –  Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
 January 9 – Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself with his home in France.
January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three-decades as a fugitive
 January 18 – For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
 January 19
 IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history.
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern No-fly Zone. US forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
 January 20 – Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as President of the United States of America.
 January 25
 Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, becoming the first woman to be elected a Premier (prime minister of a province) in Canada. (Rita Johnston was Canada's first female Premier)
 A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
 January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
February 

 February 11 – Janet Reno is selected as Attorney General of the United States.
 February 17 – A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing about 1, 200 out of the 1, 500 passengers on board.
 February 24 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil.
 February 26 – World Trade Center Bombing: In New York City, a van parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 people and injuring more than 1, 000.
 February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid, and a 51-day standoff begins.

March
March 

 March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 301 crashes after take-off in Skopje, killing 83 out of the 97 people on board.
 March 12 – Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 people.
 March 24 – The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizmann as President of Israel.
 March 27 – Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.

April 

 April 6 – A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
 April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
 April 16 – Bosnian War: Srebrenica falls.
 April 19 – A 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
 April 23 – Eritreans vote in favour of independence from Ethiopia.
 April 27 – All members of the Zambian national football team die in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
 April 30 – Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.

May
May 

 May 1 – Former French Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy commits suicide.
 May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes Paraguay's first democratically elected president in almost 40 years.
 May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
 May 28 – Eritrea and Monaco are admitted to the United Nations.

June 

 June 5 – 24 Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.

July 

 July 2 – An integrist mob sets fire to a hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides, in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37 people.
 July 26 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea, killing 68 people.
 July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium dies aged 62.

August 

 August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is officially sworn in.
 August 13 – Over 130 people die in the collapse of the Royal Plaza Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

September
September 

 September 6 – The first reference to the Year 2000 problem is made.
 September 13 – Gro Harlem Brundtland is reelected as Prime Minister of Norway.
 September 13 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign a peace accord.
 September 23 – Sydney, Australia is awarded the 2000 Summer Olympics.
 September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
 September 30 – An Earthquake centred in Killari, Maharashtra, India kills more than 10, 000 people.

October
October 

 October 2 – The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 culminates with the Russian Military and security forces clearing the White House of Russia parliament building, squashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.
 October 3 – A large scale battle erupts between US forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 18 Americans and over 1000 Somalis.
 October 10 – The ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea, killing 292 people.
 October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of President Melchior Ndadaye.
 October 25 – Jean Chretien of the Liberal Party is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
 October 31 – movie director Federico Fellini dies aged 73.

November 

 November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect formally establishing the EU.
 November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari most, or Old Bridge in the town of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina by tank fire.
 November 22 – The NAFTA is passed.

December
December 

 December 2 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.
 December 20 – The first corrected images from the Hubble Space Telescope are taken.
 December 30 – Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
 December 30 – The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India.
 December 31 – Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia dies aged 54.
Births 
January 25 - Kylie Padilla, Filipina actress 
January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
February 19 - Victoria Justice, American singer and actress
February 21 - Empress Shruck, Filipina actress 
February 26 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
March 4 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer and television personality (d. 2015)
May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
May 18 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
June 26 – Ariana Grande, American singer 
July 26 – Taylor Momsen, American actress
July 28 – Cher Lloyd, English singer 
August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and dancer
September 1 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
October 2 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress

Deaths

January
January 2 – Vladimir Makogonov, Azerbaijani chess player (b. 1904)
 January 5 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
 January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (b. 1917)
 January 6 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
 January 7 – Toshihiko Izutsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1914)
 January 8 – Hans Bertram, German Film director (b. 1906)
 January 9 - Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
 January 9 - Mario Genta, Italian footballer (b. 1912)
 January 10 - Luther Gulick, American academic (b. 1892)
 January 11 - Tommy Walker, Scottish footballer (b. 1915)
 January 12 - Józef Czapski, Polish artist (b. 1896)
 January 13 - René Pleven, Prime Minister of France (b. 1901)
 January 13 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
 January 13 - Charles Tillon, French politician (b. 1897)
 January 14 - Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat (b. 1914)
 January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
 January 16 – Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
January 16 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
 January 17 – Albert Hourani, British historian (b. 1915)
 January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (b. 1906)
 January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
 January 23 – Thomas Dorsey, American musician (b. 1899)
 January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist (b. 1908)
 January 24 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (b. 1942)
 January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (b. 1911)
 January 26 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (born 1905)
 January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (born 1922)
 January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
 January 28 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)
February 

 February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
 February 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
 February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
 February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
 February 25 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
 February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)

March 

 March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist (b. 1906)
 March 20 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist (b. 1911)
 March 27 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
 March 27 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
 March 31 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)

April 

 April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
 April 17 – Turgut Özal, 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
 April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
 April 19 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
 April 23 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader (b. 1927)

May
May 

 May 1 – Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
 May 1 – Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1924)
 May 2 - André Moynet, French Politician (b. 1921)
 May 8 – Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
 May 15 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet (b. 1933)
 May 25 - Buddhadasa, Thai Buddhist monk (b. 1906)

June 

 June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
 June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
 June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
 June 10 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
 June 16 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
 June 19 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
 June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 June 28 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
 June 30 – George 'Spanky' McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)

July
July 

 July 2 – Masuji Ibusi, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
 July 3 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 July 19 – Elmar Klos, Czech film director (b. 1910)
 July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)

August 
 August 20 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
 August 21 – Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (b. 1911)

September 

 September 5 - Baek Du-jin, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1908)
 September 5 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
 September 12 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
 September 22 – Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
 September 22 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
 September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)

October
October 
 

 October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
 October 12 – Tofik Bakhramov, Soviet linesman (b. 1926)
 October 21 – Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi (b. 1953)
 October 25 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
 October 31 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (b. 1920)
 October 31 – River Phoenix, Musician and American actor (b. 1970)

November 
 November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist (b. 1905)
 November 15 – Cvijetin Mijatović, President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1913)
 November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
 November 22 – Anthony Burgess, British writer (b. 1917)

December
December 

 December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (shot) (b. 1949)
 December 4 – Frank Zappa, American musician (b. 1940)
 December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
 December 7 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)
 December 7 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
 December 12 – József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
 December 16 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1918)
 December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
 December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
 December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (b. 1939)

Nobel Prizes
Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Philip Allen Sharp
Literature – Toni Morrison
Peace – Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
Economics Robert Fogel, Douglas North
Movies released 
 Alive
 Cool Runnings
 Cliffhanger
 Demolition Man
 Free Willy
 The Fugituve
 Groundhog Day
 Joshua Tree
 Jurassic Park
 Mrs. Doubtfire
 The Nightmare Before Christmas
 Philadelphia
 The Piano
 Sailor Moon R: The Movie
 Schindler's List
 Short Cuts
 Sleepless in Seattle
 The Three Musketeers
Hit songs
"Ain't Nothing But a G Thang" – Snoop Doggy Dogg / Dr Dre
"Award Tour" – A Tribe Called Quest
"Bombtrack" – Rage Against the Machine
"Both Sides Of The Story" – Phil Collins
"Bullet In The Head" – Rage Against the Machine
"Creep" – Radiohead
"Cryin'" – Aerosmith
"Deeper And Deeper" – Madonna
"Human Behavior" – Björk
"Heart Shaped Box" – Nirvana
"Hey Jealousy" – Gin Blossoms
"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" – Meat Loaf
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" – The Proclaimers
"It Was a Good Day" – Ice Cube
"Man On The Moon" – R.E.M.
"On the Sea" – Vertical Horizon
"Passin' Me By" – The Pharcyde
"Pets" – Porno for Pyros
"Plush" – Stone Temple Pilots
"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Digable Planets
"Return of the Crazy One" Digital Underground
"Rooster" – Alice in Chains
"Sober" – Tool
"Standing Outside The Fire" – Garth Brooks
"Two Princes" – The Spin Doctors
"The World Around Me" – King's X
New books
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years – Sue Townsend
Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
Barnyard Dance – Sandra Boynton
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays – Stephen Hawking
The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
The Client – John Grisham
Complicity – Iain Banks
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Honour Among Thieves – Jeffrey Archer
The Hope – Herman Wouk
In the Eye of the Sun – Ahdaf Soueif
Lasher – Anne Rice
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Losing Eddie – Deborah Joy Corey
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
Moving Mars – Greg Bear
The Night Manager – John le Carré
Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Stephen King
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale – Miranda Seymour
Pleading Guilty – Scott Turow
Le Rocher de Tanios – Amin Maalouf
The Scorpio Illusion – Robert Ludlum
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree – Tariq Ali
Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend – Robert James Waller
Too Big To Fail – Walter Stewart
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) – Esther Delisle
Vanished – Danielle Steel
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions – Martin Amis
The Wicca Spellbook – Gerina Dunwich
Without Remorse – Tom Clancy
1992 (MCMXCII) was .

Events

January 

 January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali becomes Secretary General of the UN.
 January 1 – George H. W. Bush becomes the first US President to address the Australian parliament.
 January 8 – George H. W. Bush is filmed falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan.
 January 11 – Paul Simon is the first major artist to play in South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
 January 16 – Mick Jagger attends the Hollywood opening of his new movie, Freejack, at Mann's Chinese Theatre.
 January 26 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting US cities with Nuclear Weapons.
February 
 February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, forming the EU.
 February 8 – The Winter Olympics open in Albertville, France.
 February 18 – Vince Neil leaves Mötley Crüe, after 11 years as the band's lead singer, to spend more time on his career as a race car driver.
 February 23 – The Winter Olympics close in Albertville, France.
 February 24 – Nirvana's Kurt Cobain marries Hole's Courtney Love.
 February 24 – The U.S. Postal Service unveils two possible designs for an Elvis Presley stamp for fans to vote on. One design is of a "young" 1950s Elvis, and the other is of a much "older" 1970s Elvis. The "young" Elvis wins the vote, and is issued the following January.
March 
 March 3 – Turkey's worst mine disaster kills 263 people in Zonguldak.
 March 10 – Prince wins the lifetime achievement award during the Soul Train Awards.
 March 12 – Mauritius becomes a Republic.
 March 13 – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake kills 500 people in Eastern Turkey.
 March 14 – Farm Aid Five takes place in Irving, Texas, hosted by Willie Nelson. Artists performing at the event include John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Paul Simon. About 40,000 people attend the event.
 March 18 – The Finnish parliament votes in favour of EU membership.
 March 24 – A Chicago, Illinois judge approves cash rebates of up to $3 to anyone proving they bought Milli Vanilli prior to when the lip synching scandal began on November 27, 1990.
April 
 April 1 – Billy Idol, on trial for punching a woman in the face, pleads no contest. Idol is fined and ordered to make public service announcements against alcohol and drug use.
 April 5 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares independence. Serb troops besiege Sarajevo.
 April 6 – The independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina is recognised by the EU and US.
 April 6 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.1.
 April 9 – Panama's former military leader Manuel Noriega is convicted of assisting Colombian cocaine cartels.
 April 9 – In the UK, the Conservative Party  of Prime Minister John Major, is reelected.
 April 22 – Fuel that has leaked into a sewer, explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 215 people.
 April 24 – David Bowie marries fashion model Iman.
 April 27 – The British House of Commons elects Betty Boothroyd as its first female speaker.
April 28 – The last remaining constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, form a new state, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
 April 29 – LAPD Police Officers are acquitted of using force in the beating of Rodney King, with subsequent riots leading to 53 deaths.
 April 29 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores 56 points in a playoff game against the Miami Heat in what is considered one of the greatest games of his career.
 April 30 – In Los Angeles, California, Madonna's bustier is stolen from a display in Fredrick's Of Hollywood. A $1,000 reward is offered for its return.
May 
 May – The 1st EJCF was held in Basel. It is a great success and will be held every three years (the next time was in 1995).
 May 10 – Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championship in Prague.
 May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.

June 
 June 1 – Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
 June 2 – A referendum in Denmark narrowly rejects the Maastricht Treaty.
 June 20 – The kroon replaces the Soviet ruble as Estonia's main monetary unit.
 June 26 – In Sweden, Denmark wins Football's European championship, defeating Germany 2-0 in the final.
 June 28 – Estonia holds a constitutional referendum.
 June 29 – Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf is killed by one of his bodyguards.
 June 30 – Fidel V. Ramos becomes President of the Philippines.
July 
 July – Launch of the "Budafest" Summer Opera & Ballet Festival in Budapest.
 July 10 – Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering offences.
 July 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
 July 23 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
 July 25 – The Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, are opened.
 July 28 – Mary J. Blige releases her first album What's the 411?. It is a pivotal album in the world of R&B.
 July 31 – The Republic of Georgia joins the UN.

August 

 August – Rozalla becomes the first artist from Zimbabwe to chart on Billboard.
 August 9 – The Summer Olympics in Barcelona close.
 August 10 – The UK Government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group.
 August 24 – Hurricane Andrew hits Florida.
 August 27 – John Lennon's original handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" are sold by auction for $87,000.
September 
 September 2 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
 September 11 – Hurricane Iniki hits Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawaii.

October 
 October 2 – A riot in Carandiru Penitentiary, São Paulo, Brazil, results in a massacre.
 October 3 – Sinéad O'Connor stirs up controversy when she rips up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live
 October 4 – An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, killing 43 people.
 October 6 – Lennart Meri becomes Estonia's President.
 October 15 – In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 murders.
 October 25 – Lithuania holds a constitutional referendum.
 October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the edict of Inquisition on Galileo Galilei.
 October 31 and November 7 – "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men posted its 12th and 13th consecutive weeks at #1, ending a 36-year record previously held by Elvis Presley. This record was ended on March 6 the next year by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".
November 
 November 3 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent George H. W. Bush.
 November 15 – Megan Jasper of Sub Pop creates the grunge speak hoax, tricking The New York Times into printing an article on a supposed slang used in the Seattle grunge scene.
 November 20 – A fire breaks out at Windsor Castle, causing £50 million in damage.
 November 24 – Queen Elizabeth II of the UK describes 1992 as an Annus Horribilis, due to scandals that have damaged the image of the Royal Family.
 November 24 – In China, a China Southern Airlines Flight crashes, killing 141 people.
 November 25 – Velvet Divorce: Czechoslovakia's Federal Assembly votes to split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1, 1993.
December 
 December 4 – US Military forces land in Somalia.
 December 6 – A 16th century Mosque, the Babri Masjid, is destroyed by Hindu extremists in Ayodhya, India.
 December 8 – The Copper mine in Falun, Sweden, closes after functioning for 1000 years.
 December 9 – In the UK, Prince Charles and Princess Diana publicly announce their separation.
 December 12 – An Earthquake hits Flores island, Indonesia, killing 2,500 people.
 December 21 – A plane on a Dutch DC-10 Martinair MP495 flight, crashes at Faro Airport in Portugal, killing 56 people.
 December 22 – In Tripoli, Libya a Boeing 727 Libyan Airlines plane and an MiG 23 aircraft collide, killing 157 people.
 December 22 – Dr. Martin Almada discovers the Archives of Terror, which detail tortures and killings committed by Latin American dictatorships.
 December 29 – Brazil's President Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges of stealing more than $32 million from the government, banning him from holding any elected office for 8 years.
Culture 
 Johnny Carson retires from his job as host of the "Tonight Show", Jay Leno takes his place.
 The first in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series published.

Births

January – March 

 January 1 – Oren Williams, American actor
 January 1 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
 January 19 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
 January 24 – Becky Downie, British artistic gymnast
 February 6 – Cara McCollum, American journalist (d. 2016)
 February 11 – Taylor Lautner, American actor
 February 11 – Georgia Groome, British actress
 February 21 – Phil Jones, British footballer
 March 4 – Jazmine Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
 March 7 - Bel Powley, British actress
 March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer

April – June 
 April 4 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
 April 7 – Alexis Jordan, American singer
 April 7 – Jessica Sara, American actress
April 15 – Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
 May 3 – Melissa Wu, Australian diver
 May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
 May 18 – Spencer Breslin, American actor
 May 22 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
 May 23 – Nick Julian III, American Science
 June 14 – Dary Sabara and Evan Sabara, American actors
 June 26 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress
 June 30 – Lynx and Lamb Gaede, American neo-nazi musicians

July – September 
 July 7 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress
 July 8 – Benjamin Grosvenor, pianist
 July 12 – Eoghan Quigg, Irish singer
 July 21 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
 July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
 August 4 – Cole and Dylan Sprouse, American actors
 August 4 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
 August 20 – Demi Lovato, American actress and singer
 August 21 – Brad Kavanagh, British actor and singer
 September 16 – Nick Jonas, American actor and singer
 September 28 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress

October – December
October 1 – Gauri Shankar, Indian chess player
 October 22 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
 November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor
 November 23 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
 November 28 – Adam Hicks, American actor, rapper, singer, and songwriter
 December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress and singer
 November 27 – Tola Slagowska, Polish singer
 December 23 – Spencer Daniels, American actor
 December 24 – Melissa Suffield, British actress

Deaths

January 

 January 1 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)
 January 2 – Virginia Field, British actress (b. 1917)
 January 3 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
 January 9 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
 January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1940)
 January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
 January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)

February
February 

 February 10 – Alex Haley, American writer (b. 1921)
 February 16 – Jânio Quadros, former President of Brazil (b. 1917)
 February 29 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (b. 1936)

March 

 March 9 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1913)
 March 21 – John Ireland, Canadian movie actor (b. 1914)
 March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist (b. 1899)
 March 31 – Alfredo De Angelis, Argentine musician (b. 1912)

April 

 April 5 – Sam Walton, American businessman (b. 1918)
 April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born writer (b. 1920)
 April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
 April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist (b. 1907)
 April 19 – Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
 April 21 – Vladimir Cyrillovich, Russian aristocrat (b. 1917)
 April 23 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (b. 1921)
 April 23 – Tanka Prasad Acharya, former Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912)
 April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b. 1909)

May
May 

 May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
 May 14 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
 May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
 May 23 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
 May 30 – Karl Carstens, former President of Germany (b. 1914)

June 

 June 2 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
 June 13 - Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai female singer (b. 1961)
 June 18 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
 June 21 – Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
 June 25 – James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
 June 28 – Mikhail Tal, former World chess champion (b. 1936)
 June 29 – Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)

July
July 

 July 4 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer (b. 1921)
 July 13 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1905)
 July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
 July 22 – John Meyendorff, Russian-born Orthodox scholar (b. 1926)
 July 23 - Suleiman Frangieh, former President of Lebanon (b. 1910)
 July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
 July 29 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
 July 30  Joe Shuster, Canadian comic artist (b. 1914)
 July 30  Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)

August 

 August 2 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
 August 5 – Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
 August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
 August 12 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
 August 29 – Teddy Turner, British comedian (b. 1917)

September
September 

 September 1 - Piotr Jaroszewicz, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
 September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
 September 12 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
 September 25 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian politician (b. 1947)

October  

 October 1 – Gert Bastian, German politician (b. 1923)
 October 1 – Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
 October 6 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
 October 7 – Tevfik Esenc, last-known speaker of the Ubykh language (b. 1904)
 October 8 – Willy Brandt, former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1913)
 October 16 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
 October 25 – Roger Miller, American singer (b. 1936)

November
November 

 November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
 November 7 – Alexander Dubček, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921)
 November 10 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921)
 November 19 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
 November 21 – Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (b. 1920)
 November 22 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
 November 23 – Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
 November 23 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)

December
December 

 December 3 – Nureddin al-Atassi, President of Syria (b. 1929)
 December 12 – Ali Amini, former Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1905)
 December 17 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
 December 21 – Stella Adler, American acting teacher (b. 1901)
 December 21 – Albert King, American musician (b. 1923)
 December 24 – Peyo, Belgian comic artist (b. 1928)
 December 26 – Eve Poole, New Zealand politician (b. 1924)
 December 28 – Elfie Mayerhofer, Austrian actress and singer (b. 1917)
 December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes 
 Physics: Georges Charpak
 Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus
 Medicine: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
 Literature: Derek Walcott
 Nobel Peace Prize: Rigoberta Menchu
 Economics: Gary Becker
Movies released 
 1991: The Year Punk Broke
 A Few Good Men
 A League of Their Own
 Aladdin
 Alien³
 Basic Instinct
 Batman Returns
 Bebe's Kids
 The Bodyguard
 The Crying Game
 Death Becomes Her
 Enchanted April
 Freejack
 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
 Hero starring Dustin Hoffman
 Honeymoon in Vegas
 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
 Honey, I Blew Up The Kid
 Howard's End
 The Last of the Mohicans
 The Lawnmower Man
 Lethal Weapon 3
 Malcolm X
 My Cousin Vinny starring Joe Pesci
 Of Mice and Men
 Patriot Games
 Pushing Hands
 Passenger 57
 The Player
 Radio Flyer
 Reservoir Dogs
 A River Runs Through It
 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
 Scent of a Woman
 Single White Female
 Sister Act
 Strictly Ballroom
 Universal Soldier
 Under Siege
 Unforgiven
 Wayne's World

TV Shows
November 28 – Gumby is aired "Dolly for Minga", "The Lost Arrow" and "Clay Trix".

Video Games 
August 3 – Kirby first appears in Kirby's Dreamland.
Hit songs 
 "Alive" – Pearl Jam
 "All 4 Love" – Color Me Badd
 "All I Want" – Toad the Wet Sprocket
 "Baby Got Back" – Sir Mix-A-Lot
 "Come As You Are" – Nirvana
 "End of the Road" – Boyz II Men
 "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?" – Def Leppard
 "How Do You Talk To An Angel" – Whitney Houston
 "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
 "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" – Spin Doctors
 "Jump" – Kris Kross
 "Layla" – Eric Clapton
 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" – Spin Doctors
 "Missing You Now" – Michael Bolton
 "Mrs. Robinson" – Lemonheads
 "Mysterious Ways" – U2
 "One" – U2
 "Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton
 "To Be With You" – Mr. Big
 "Two Princes" – Spin Doctors
 "Under The Bridge" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
 "We Shall Be Free" – Garth Brooks
 "No One Else On Earth" - Wynonna Judd
New books
All Around the Town  –  Mary Higgins Clark
Anvil of Stars – Greg Bear
The Bridges of Madison County – Robert James Waller
The Children of Men – P.D. James
The Crow Road  –  Iain Banks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural – Patricia McKissack
Dolores Claiborne  –  Stephen King
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Flour Babies – Anne Fine
Frog in Winter – Max Velthujis
Gerald's Game  – Stephen King
Hjärtans fröjd (Heart's Delight) – Per Nilsson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Jewels  –  Danielle Steel
Les derniers Géants (The Last Giants) – François Place
Leviathan (Auster novel)  – Paul Auster
Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
Lords and Ladies – Terry Pratchett
Maisy Goes to Playschool – Lucy Cousins
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus – John Gray
Missing May  – Cynthia Rylant
Mixed Blessings  –  Danielle Steel
Monster Blood – R.L. Stine
Only You Can Save Mankind – Terry Pratchett
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson
Paddy Clarke – Roddy Doyle
Pagan's Crusade – Catherine Jinks
The Pelican Brief  –  John Grisham
The Queen and I – Sue Townsend
Secrets of Love Magick – Gerina Dunwich
See Ya, Simon – David Hill
Shampoo Planet – Douglas Coupland
Silent Passage  –  Gail Sheehy
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Somewhere in the Darkness  – Walter Dean Myers
The Stars Shine Down  –  Sidney Sheldon
Stay Out of the Basement – R.L. Stine
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
The Tale of the Body Thief  –  Anne Rice
Tales from Firozsha Baag – Rohinton Mistry
T'choupi – Thierry Courtin
There Will Be Wolves – Karleen Bradford
The Thief of Always  –  Clive Barker
Transit – Ben Aaronovitch
The Trial of Madame Caillaux – Edward Berenson
The Valkyries – Paulo Coelho
Waiting to Exhale  –  Terry McMillan
Welcome to Dead House – R.L. Stine
What Hearts  – Bruce BrooksWhere's My Teddy?'' – Jez Alborough
1991 (MCMXCI) was .

Events
January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. This begins the 1991–92 South Ossetia War
 February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
 March 23 – The Sierra Leone Civil War begins.
 April 29 – A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.
 May 15 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
 June 12 – Boris Yeltsin, (a traitor) is elected President of Russia.
 June 25 – Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia.
 September 8 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
 September 26 – Brum – children's show.
 October 4 – Carl Bildt becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden, replacing Ingvar Carlsson.
 December 19 – Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the prime minister of Australia.
 December 25 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and the country itself is dissolved the following day
December 26 – Soviet Union collapsed after 74 years of existance and is succeeded by Russian Federation , ending 74 years of Communist rule in Russia as well as Russia's superpower status. 
 Persian Gulf War – America goes to war with Iraq after Iraq invades Kuwait.
Births

January–March