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November 

 November 11 – Mary McAleese is chosen to succeed Mary Robinson as President of the Republic of Ireland, marking the first-ever woman to woman Presidential transfer.
 November 17 – 62 people are killed by Islamist terrorists in Luxor, Egypt.

December 
 December 11 – The Kyoto protocol is approved by a UN committee.
 December 19 – Janet Jagan becomes President of Guyana, succeeding her deceased husband, Cheddi Jagan.
 December 19 – James Cameron's movie Titanic is released in the US.

Other significant events 
 Algerian Civil War: Hundreds of people are killed in massacres throughout the year.

Nobel Prizes 
Chemistry: Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
Economics: Robert C. Merton, Myron C. Scholes
Literature: Dario Fo
Nobel Peace Prize: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
Physics: Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
Medicine: Stanley B. Prusiner
Movies Released 
 Air Force One
 Amistad
 As Good as It Gets
 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
 Batman & Robin
 Breakdown
 Cop Land
 Con Air
 Contact
 Face/Off
 Fire Down Below
 Gattaca
 Good Will Hunting
 Hercules
 Home Alone 3 Into Thin Air L.A. Confidential Liar Liar
 Men in Black
 Mononoke Hime My Best Friend's Wedding Suicide Kings The Fifth Element The Full Monty The Ice Storm The Lost World: Jurassic Park
 The Rainmaker
 The Sweet Hereafter
 Titanic
 Tomorrow Never Dies
 U Turn
 Power Rangers Turbo: The Movie
 Volcano
New books 
 American Pastoral  –  Philip Roth
 Are You Experienced? – William Sutcliffe
 Barney's Version –  Mordecai Richler
 The Best Laid Plans  –  Sidney Sheldon
 The Bible Code  –  Michael Drosnin
 Budgie: The Little Helicopter – Sarah Ferguson
 Cat & Mouse  –  James Patterson
 Cold Mountain  –  Charles Frazier
 Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs  –  Dave Barry
 Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs
 Diana: Her True Story – Andrew Morton
 Everyday Wicca – Gerina Dunwich
 Fall On Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
 The Ghost  –  Danielle Steel
 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J. K. Rowling
 Hornet's Nest  –  Patricia Cornwell
 I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (translation) – Marie Bashkirtseff
 Instruments of Darkness – Nancy Huston
 Jingo – Terry Pratchett
 Larry's Party  –  Carol Shields
 Last Standing Woman – Winona LaDuke
 Moab Is My Washpot – Stephen Fry (autobiography)
 Morisson of Peking – Cyril Pearl
 Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet – Karen Armstrong
 Night Train – Martin Amis
The Partner  –  John Grisham
 Pretend You Don't See Her – Mary Higgins Clark
 The Ranch  –  Danielle Steel
 The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
 Special Delivery  –  Danielle Steel
 The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
 Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
 Toulouse-Lautrec: The Soul of Montmartre – Reinhold Heller
 Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
 Unnatural Exposure  –  Patricia Cornwell
 A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
 A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination – Gerina Dunwich
Hit songs 
 Candle in the Wind 1997 – Elton John
 "MMMBop" – Hanson
 "My Heart Will Go On" – Céline Dion
 "Wannabe" – The Spice Girls
 "A Long December" – Counting Crows
 "All By Myself" – Céline Dion
 "Bitch" – Meredith Brooks
 "Don't Speak" – No Doubt
 "Forty Six & 2" – Tool
 "Longneck Bottle" – Garth Brooks
 "Magdalene" – Lenny Kravitz
 "Silver Springs" – Fleetwood Mac
 "The Difference" – The Wallflowers
 "Volcano" – Presidents of the United States of America
 "You Were Meant For Me" – Jewel
1996 (MCMXCVI) was . It was also a common year starting on Tuesday of the obsolete Julian calendar.

The most important events
January 7 – The Eastern US is hit by a 1996. It was almost the same as the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002 blizzards. It killed more than 150 people.
 January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
 January 15 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho dies in a car crash.
 January 16 – Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured.
 January 18 – Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson.
 January 29 – Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for "Favorite Overall Artist". Brooks says that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did it.
 January 29 – Jacques Chirac announces the end of French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.
 February 4 – An earthquake of magnitude 7 in southwestern China kills more than 240 people.
February 4 – Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
 February 6 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near the Dominican Republic, killing 189 people.
 February 10 – The computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in a chess match.
 February 14 – The Artist Formerly Known As Prince marries backup singer Mayte Garcia.
 February 20 – Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard acquitted of first degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared.
 March 2 – John Howard is elected Prime Minister of Australia, taking office on March 11.
 March 4 – The Beatles' second reunion song is released, as part of their first reuinion since the band's breakup 26 years earlier. The song is simply a finished version of a John Lennon demo from 1980; a song called Real Love.
March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Thomas Hamilton kills 16 pupils and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland.
 March 13 – Ramones fans riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina after waiting all night for concert tickets only to find out that the show had been sold out.
 March 16 – Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men ends its 16th consecutive week at No. 1 with "One Sweet Day". It is the longest consecutive week stay at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history.
 March 17 – Sri Lanka wins the cricket World Cup.
 March 18 – The Sex Pistols announce that they are reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour.
 March 28 – Phil Collins announces that he is leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career.
 April 3 – M.C. Hammer files for bankruptcy.
 April 4 – The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia's widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the Ganges River in India. 1996 like a 1992 one.
 April 15 – The remaining part of Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
April 24 – This Train, Rick Elias, Jimmy A, Phil Keaggy, Carolyn Arends, Third Day & Ashley Cleveland perform a tribute concert for Rich Mullins at Nashville's Cafe Milano. Speakers included Reunion Records executive Terry Hemmings, record producer Reed Arvin, disc jockey Jon Rivers, & writer Brennan Manning.
 April 28 – Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
 May 8 – In Los Angeles, California, a judge rules against Tommy Lee and wife actress Pamela Anderson Lee in their attempt to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos taken from an X-rated home movie which was stolen from their home.
 May 11 – Everest disaster: A sudden storm kills 8 people on Mount Everest.
 May 31 – The hosting of the 2002 FIFA World Cup is given to Japan and South Korea, marking the time that Asia gets to host the FIFA World Cup. SUPERMARKET SWEEP for Louise Anderson
 June 1 – Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister of India.
 June 15 – An IRA bomb injures over 200 people in Manchester.
June 23 – The Nintendo 64 game system is released in Japan.
 June 30 – Germany defeats the Czech Republic 2–1 to win UEFA Euro 96.
 July – The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, is arrested for possession of a controlled substance. The other band members fire him because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
 July 5 – Dolly, a cloned sheep, is born.
 July 19 – August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, Georgia.
 July 27 – One person is killed and 111 are injured in the Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta.
 August 6 – The Ramones play their last ever show at Lollapalooza.
 August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the US presidential election.
 August 28 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.
September 7 – Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot 4 times in Las Vegas, Nevada while leaving the MGM Grand hotel, after seeing the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon boxing match, in what is apparently a drive-by shooting.
 September 12 – Controversy follows The Eagles when the band dedicates "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles.
 September 13 – Tupac Shakur died in hospital after his wounds from the Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand shooting.
 September 14 – Alija Izetbegovic is elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 September 27 – The Taliban capture Kabul, to take control of Afghanistan. Former President Mohammad Najibullah is killed.
 November 5 – A volcanic eruption under the Grimsvotn ice cap in Iceland causes a glacial flood.
 November 5 – Bill Clinton is reelected as President of the United States, defeating Bob Dole.
November 7 – A category 4 cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh, India. Over 2000 people were killed and 95% of the crops were destroyed.
 November 8 – After having first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the movie Hype!, a documentary on the Seattle grunge scene, opens to general audiences.
 November 12 – Saudi and Kazak airliners collide, killing 349 people.
 December 13 – Kofi Annan is chosen to become UN Secretary-General, a position he takes up on January 1, 1997.
 December 30 – A train is bombed by Bodo separatists in Assam, India, killing 26 people.
 Larry Ewing creates Tux, the Linux mascot.
 Sildenafil patented.
 Wasi Muhammad Qureshi appointed as president of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam by its founder Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi.
Births 

 February 25 – Hannah Graham, British murder victim (d. 2014).
 April 9 – Minseo, South Korean singer
 April 14 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
 May 8 – 6ix9ine, American rapper
 June 28 - Adam Dutschke, Australian basketball player
 July 5 – Dolly, cloned sheep (d. 2003)
 August 20 - Vlad Bușilă, Romanian guitarist (Trupa Muzicii Rock-Fecal Matter)
 September 1 – Zendaya, American actress
 September 6 – Lil Xan, American rapper
 September 13 - Joseph Boyce, American actor, director, producer, and writer
 October 7 - Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer
 December 11 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress

Deaths

January
January 1 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
 January 1 - Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
 January 1 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian author (b. 1930)
 January 2 - Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer (b. 1905)
 January 4 – Ramón Vinay, Chilean opera singer (b. 1911)
 January 5 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian military leader (b. 1966)
 January 6 – Duane Hanson, American sculptor (b. 1925)
 January 7 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
 January 7 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1911)
 January 8 – Paul Vialar, French author (b. 1898)
 January 8 – Francois Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
 January 9 - Fearless Nadia, Indian actress (b. 1908)
 January 9 – Abdullah al-Qasemi, Saudi Arabian writer (b. 1907)
 January 12 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (b. 1903)
 January 15 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
 January 17 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
 January 18 - Leonor Fini, Argentine painter (b. 1907)
January 18 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
 January 20 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
 January 20 – Jef Mermans, Belgian footballer (b. 1922)
 January 23 – Fatima Rushdi, Egyptian actress (b. 1908)
 January 25 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
 January 26 - Charles Jewtraw, American speed skater (b. 1900)
 January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian writer (b. 1940)
 January 28 - San Yu, President of Myanmar (b. 1918)
 January 28 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
February 1 – Sergey Aganov, Soviet Marshal (b. 1917)
 February 1 – Adel Adham, Egyptian actor (b. 1928)
 February 2 – Gene Kelly, American actor (b. 1912)
 February 3 – Edward Adamson, British artist (b. 1911)
 February 3 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922)
 February 4 – Manuel Fábregas, Spanish actor (b. 1921)
 February 6 – Guy Madison, American film actor (b. 1922)
 February 8 – Mercer Ellington, American musician (b. 1919)
 February 9 – Adolf Galland, German general (b. 1912)
 February 9 – Yun Chi-young, Korean politician (b. 1898)
 February 11 – Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
 February 13 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
 February 14 – Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
 February 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
 February 15 – Tommy Rettig, American child actor (b. 1941)
 February 16 – Pat Brown, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
 February 17 – Evelyn Laye, English actress (b. 1900)
February 20 – Audrey Munson, American artist's model  (b. 1891)
 February 21 – Priscilla Bonner, American film actress (b. 1899)
 February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)
 February 23 – William Bonin, American serial killer (b. 1947)
 February 23 – Helmut Schoen, German football coach (b. 1915)
 February 24 – Akram al-Hawrani, Syrian politician (b. 1912)
 February 25 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (b. 1940)
 February 27 – Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (b. 1912)
March 2 - Lyle Talbot, American actor (b. 1902)
 March 2 – Jacobo Majluta Azar, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1934)
 March 3 – Marguerite Duras, French novelist (b. 1914)
 March 4 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
 March 5 – Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, President of Bangladesh (b. 1918)
 March 9 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
 March 9 – Mohammed al-Ghazali, Egyptian author (b. 1917)
 March 10 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)
 March 11 – Vincent Edwards, American actor (b. 1928)
 March 13 – Lucio Fulci, Italian film director (b. 1927)
 March 13 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish movie director (b. 1941)
 March 17 - René Clément, French movie director (b. 1913)
 March 17 – Andre Melendez, American serial killer (b. 1971)
 March 17 – Anil Chatterjee, Indian actor (b. 1929)
 March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (b. 1911)
 March 18 – Niní Marshall, Argentine actress (b. 1903)
 March 19 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b. 1933)
March 26 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
 March 26 – Victor L. Brown, Mormon leader (b. 1914)
 March 28 - Mohamed Sedki Sulayman, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1919)
 March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer (b. 1958)
April 

 April 2 – Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1923)
 April 3 – Ron Brown, American politician (b. 1941)
 April 6 – Greer Garson, British actress (b. 1904)
 April 8 – Donald Adams, English opera singer (b. 1928)
 April 13 – Aung Khin, Burmese painter (b. 1921)
 April 15 – Beatriz Costa, Portuguese actress (b. 1907)
 April 16 – Lucille Bremer, American actress (b. 1927)
 April 16 – Irasema Dilián, Italian actress (b. 1924)
 January 19 – Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
 April 20 – Christopher Robin Milne, British writer and bookseller (b. 1920)
 April 21 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
 April 22 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
 April 23 – P. L. Travers, Australian writer (b. 1899)
 April 25 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (b. 1920)
 June 27 – Albert R. Broccoli, American movie producer (b. 1909)
 April 28 – Siti Hartinah, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)

May
May 

 May 1 – David M. Kennedy, American politician (b. 1905)
 May 1 – Herbert Brownell Jr., United States Attorney General (b. 1904)
 May 1 – François Chalais, French reporter (b. 1919)
 May 2 – Hamlet Mkhitaryan, Armenian football player (b. 1962)
 May 3 – Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 May 3 – Zouzou Nabil, Egyptian actress (b. 1920)
 May 6 – Wally Nightingale, English guitarist (b. 1956)
 May 7 - Narciso G. Reyes, Secretary-General of ASEAN (b. 1914)
 May 11 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
 May 11 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1921)
 May 19 – Johnny Berardino, American infielder in Major League Baseball (b. 1917)
 May 20 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (b. 1919)
 May 25 – Bradley Nowell, American musician (b. 1968)
 May 29 - Tamara Toumanova, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1919)
 May 31 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist (b. 1904)

June
June 

June 1 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (b. 1913)
 June 3 – Peter Bird, British ocean rower (b. 1947)
 June 5 - Hartono Rekso Dharsono, Secretary-General of ASEAN (b. 1925)
 June 5 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)
 June 6 – Kusuo Kitamura, Japanese swimmer (b. 1917)
 June 6 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (b. 1923)
 June 7 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
 June 10 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1915)
 June 11 – Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1906)
 June 15 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
 June 15 – Piet Bambergen, Dutch actor (b. 1931)
 June 16 – Élie Castor, French Politician (b. 1943)
 June 19 – Edvin Wide, Swedish long-distance runner (b. 1896)
 June 23 – Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian film director (b. 1915)
 June 23 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
 June 26 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)

July
July 

 July 1 – William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1912)
 July 1 – Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model (b. 1955)
 July 3 – Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1926)
 July 8 - Prince Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1905)
 July 9 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer (b. 1907)
 July 9 – Aurora Redondo, Spanish actress (b. 1900)
 July 13 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
 July 15 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
 July 16 - John Panozzo, American drummer (b. 1948)
 July 21 – Luana Anders, American film actress (b. 1938)
 July 29 – Bill Jackowski, American baseball umpire (b. 1914)
 July 30 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)

August
August 

 August 1 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
 August 1 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist (b. 1897)
 August 1 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician (b. 1929)
 August 1 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian military officer (b. 1934)
 August 2 – Michel Debré, Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
 August 2 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
 August 4 – Aldo Cucinelli, Italian politician (b. 1922)
 August 6 - King Muhammad al-Badr of Yemen (b. 1926)
 August 8 – Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (b. 1905)
 August 9 – Derek Smith, American basketball player (b. 1961)
 August 11 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (b. 1914)
 August 13 – David Tudor, American pianist (b. 1926).
 August 13 – António de Spínola, President of Portugal (b. 1910)
 August 24 – Saleh Morsi, Egyptian screenwriter (b. 1929)
 August 26 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, President of Argentina (b. 1918)
 August 27 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
 August 31 – Milt Larkin, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
September 1 – Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
 September 1 – Karl Kehrle, German benedictine monk (b. 1898)
 September 6 – Barney McCosky, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 September 10 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
 September 10 – Hans List, Austrian scientist (b. 1896)
 September 10 – Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian writer (b. 1923)
 September 12 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (b. 1907)
 September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rap singer (b. 1971)
 September 13 - Leni Wylliams, African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher (b. 1961)
 September 14 – Juliet Prowse, British actress (b. 1937)
 September 17 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
 September 18 – Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
 September 20 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
 September 20 – Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani Politician (b. 1954)
 September 20 – Reuben Kamenga, 1st Vice president of Zambia (b. 1929)
 September 21 – Ashoke Kumar Sen, Indian politician (b. 1913)
September 22 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
 September 22 – Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1927)
 September 26 – Pavel Sudoplatov, Soviet general (b. 1907)
 September 26 – Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
 September 26 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (b. 1921)
 September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
October 2 – Emiel van Lennep, Dutch diplomat (b. 1915)
 October 4 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b. 1913)
 October 4 – Joe Hoerner, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 October 4 – Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese movie director (b. 1916)
 October 5 – Judith Allen, American actress (b. 1911)
 October 5 – Seymour Cray, American electrical engineer (b. 1925)
 October 11 – Pierre Grimal, French historian (b. 1912)
 October 11 – Johnny Costa, American jazz pianist (b. 1922)
 October 12 – René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
 October 12 – Nina Alisova, Soviet actress (b. 1915)
 October 14 – Laura La Plante, American actress (b. 1904)
 October 16 – Huang Shao-ku, Taiwanese politician (b. 1901)
 October 24 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (b. 1911)
 October 26 – Arthur L. Andrews, Chief Master Sergeant of the United States (b. 1934)
 October 26 – Chito Zeballos, Argentinian guitarist (b. 1936)
 October 27 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
October 31 – Arthur Peterson, American actor (b. 1912)
November 

 November 1 – Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1927)
 November 1 – J. R. Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
 November 2 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
 November 3 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
 November 3 – Wim Hornman, Dutch writer (b. 1920)
 November 5 – Bunny Breckinridge, American actor (b. 1903)
 November 5 – Eddie Harris, American jazz musician (b. 1934)
 November 15 – Alger Hiss, US State Department official (b. 1904)
 November 17 – Fabrizio De Chiara, Italian boxer (b. 1971)
 November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist (b. 1926)
 November 30 – Tiny Tim, American musician (b. 1932)

December
December 

 December 3 – Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
 December 6 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman (b. 1926)
 December 6 – Abd al-Hamid Kishk, Egyptian preacher (b. 1933)
 December 8 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
 December 8 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1938)
 December 9 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1913)
 December 9 – Alain Poher, interim President of France (b. 1909)
 December 10 – Faron Young, American musician (b. 1932)
 December 11 – Masumi Esaki, Japanese Politician (b. 1915)
 December 13 – Cao Yu, Chinese playwright (b. 1910)
 December 15 – Tristan Keuris, Dutch composer (b. 1946)
 December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
 December 20 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)
 December 24 – Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Vietnamese politician (b. 1910)
 December 25 - JonBenét Ramsey, Child model (b. 1990)
 December 30 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
Nobel Prizes 
 Physics: David M. Lee, Douglas Orsheroff, Robert C. Richardson
 Chemistry: Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
 Medicine: Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
 Literature: Wislawa Szymborska
 Nobel Peace Prize: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos Horta
 Economics: James Mirrlees, William Vickrey

Movies released 
 101 Dalmatians
 12 Monkeys
 A Time to Kill
 Daylight
 Eraser
 Fargo
 Island of Dr. Moreau
 Independence Day
 Jerry Maguire
 Matilda
 Mission: Impossible
 Ransom
 Romeo and Juliet
 Sling Blade
 Space Jam
 The Birdcage
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 The Nutty Professor
 The Rock
 Trainspotting
 Twister
Hit songs 
 "Angry Johnny" – Poe
 "Macarena" – Los Del Rio
 "Professional Widow (Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)" – Tori Amos
 "Wonderwall" – Oasis
 "6th Avenue Heartache" – The Wallflowers
 "Aeroplane" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
 "All Mixed Up" – 311
 "California Love" – 2Pac
 "Can't Get You Off My Mind" – Lenny Kravitz
 "Change the World" – Eric Clapton
 "Down" – 311
 "Free As A Bird" – The Beatles
 "Give Me One Reason" – Tracy Chapman
 "Head Over Feet" – Alanis Morissette
 "How Do U Want It" – 2Pac
 "I Want To Come Over" – Melissa Etheridge
 "If It Makes You Happy" – Sheryl Crow
 "The Beautiful People" – Marilyn Manson
 "Wash Away" – Vertical Horizon
 "You Learn" – Alanis Morissette
New books 
 Absolute Power – David Baldacci
 Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
 Bandarshah – Al-Tayyib Salih
 By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee – Tama Janowitz
 Excession – Iain M. Banks
 Executive Orders – Tom Clancy
 Feet of Clay – Terry Pratchett
 Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
 Fighting for Canada (Maîtres Chanteurs Chez Nous!) – Diane Francis
 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
 The Fourth Estate – Jeffrey Archer
 Gods and Generals – Jeff Shaara
 The Goldberg Variations – Nancy Huston
 The Gun Seller – Hugh Laurie
 Hackers – short story collection
 Hogfather – Terry Pratchett
 How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Terry McMillan
 Intensity – Dean R. Koontz
 Kiki's Memoirs – Kiki, (translation by Samuel Putnam)
 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
 Moonlight Becomes You – Mary Higgins Clark
 Polaroids From The Dead – Douglas Coupland
 Primary Colors – Joe Klein as "Anonymous"
 The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
 Selected Stories – Mavis Gallant
 Sofia; The Sultan's Daughter – Ann Chamberlin
The Tailor of Panama – John le Carré
 The Tenth Insight – James Redfield
 Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose
 A Vicious Circle – Amanda Craig
1995 (MCMXCV) was .

Events
January 1 – Austria, Finland and Sweden joined the EU.
 January 2 – Former President of Somalia, Siyad Barre died. He had been ousted in 1991.
 January 6 to January 7 – A chemical fire happened in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators found a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, was arrested one month later
 January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completed 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station breaking a duration record.
 January 16 – An avalanche hit the village of Sudavik in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 14 people.
 January 17 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake" happened near Kōbe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people
 January 24 – The prosecution delivered its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
January 30 – John Howard became leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
 January 31 – United States President Bill Clinton used emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avoid financial collapse.
 February 21 – Steve Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, having set a record for a solo balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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March 20 – Tokyo subway sarin attack: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas on five subway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 people and injuring 5,510.
 March 22 – Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth after 438 days in space.
March 26 — Eazy-E, an American rapper, died of AIDS.
 March 31 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar.
 April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah building, killing 168 people.
 April 28 – A gas explosion on the subway construction site in Daegu, South Korea, killed 101 people, mainly teenage boys.
May 16 – Japanese police raided the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult near Mt. Fuji, arresting its leader, Shoko Asahara.
 May 17 – Jacques Chirac became President of France.
 May 28 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Neftegorsk, Russia, killing at least 2000 people.
 June 13 – Jacques Chirac announced the continuation of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
 June 16 – Salt Lake City announced as the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
 June 29 – The roof collapsed at the Sampoong shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea.
 July 11 – Srebrenica massacre: Bosniak Serbs killed more than 8,000 people-most men and boys, in Europe's worst post-World War II massacre.
 July 18 – The Soufriere Hills volcano began erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
 July 21 – The People's Liberation Army fired missiles into waters north of Taiwan.
 August 6 – The 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is commemorated.
 August 24 – Microsoft released Windows 95.
August 29 – President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze survived an assassination attempt.
 September 4 – eBay was founded.
 September 27 – Bob Denard's mercenaries captured President Said Mohammad Djohor of the Comoros.
 October – The stoner rock icon Kyuss announced they would take an indefinite hiatus. The group did not completely disband until 2 years later.
 October 1 – Ten people are convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
 October 3 – The britpop band Oasis released their breakthrough album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.
 October 3 – O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
 October 17 – At the age of 120 years, 238 days, Jeanne Calment was confirmed as the oldest human on record.
 October 26 – An avalanche hit the village of Flateyri in Iceland's West Fjords.
 October 28 – The Baku metro fire killed 289 people.
 October 30 – Voters in Quebec narrowly rejected independence from Canada in a referendum.
November 4 – Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
 November 10 – Nigerian human rights activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa were executed.
 November 21 – Dayton Peace Agreement, the end of the war in Bosnia and Croatia.
 November 30 – Javier Solana became NATO Secretary-General.
 December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashed in Colombia, killing 159 people.
 December 30 – The UK's coldest temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands of Scotland at -27.2 degrees Celsius.
 December 31 – After 10 years, Bill Watterson, ended his legendary Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Puzzle Bobble was created, a video game popular worldwide.
Births 

 June 30 - Petronela Costea, Romanian guitarist (Trupa Sportului)
 July 4 – Post Malone, American rapper
 July 9 – Georgie Henley, English actress
 August 15 – Chief Keef, American rapper
 August 22 – Dua Lipa, English singer
 October 21 – Doja Cat, American singer and rapper
 November 3 – Kendall Jenner, American model and television personality
 November 16 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist

Deaths

January
January 1 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (b. 1902)
 January 2 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
 January 2 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
 January 6 – Joe Slovo, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing (b. 1926)
 January 6 – Agustín Gaínza, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
 January 7 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
 January 8 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (b. 1942)
 January 9 – Gisela Mauermayer, German discus thrower (b. 1913)
 January 9 – Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937)
 January 9 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
 January 17 – Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (b. 1907)
 January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German physicist (b. 1903)
 January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1907)
 January 21 - Alex Groza, American basketball player (b. 1926)
 January 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (b. 1890)
 January 26 - Vic Buckingham, English football manager and footballer (b. 1915)
January 28 - Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1913)
 January 29 - Dickie Burnell, British rower (b. 1917)
 January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (b. 1925)
 January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (b. 1887)
February 

 February 1 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh singer and musician (b. 1967)
 February 2 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (b. 1909)
 February 2 – Donald Pleasence, British actor (b. 1919)
 February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
 February 5 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
 February 6 – James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
 February 9 – J. William Fulbright, American senator and congressman (b. 1905)
 February 9 – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
 February 13 – Alberto Burri, Italian artist (born 1915)
 February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
 February 19 – John Howard, American actor (b. 1913)
 February 21 - István Bárány, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1907)
 February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
 February 23 – Melvin Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)
 February 24 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (b. 1914)

March
March 

 March 1 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
 March 3 – Howard Hunter, American Mormon leader (b. 1907)
 March 4 - Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (b. 1908)
 March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, British writer, artist and broadcaster (b. 1943)
 March 9 – Scott Amedure, American murder victim (b. 1963)
 March 13 – Odette Hallowes, French intelligence officer (b. 1912)
 March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (b. 1911)
 March 17 - Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
 March 17 - Sunnyland Slim, American blues musician (b. 1907)
 March 17 – Ronald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
 March 20 – Big John Studd, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1948)
 March 20 – Werner Liebrich, German footballer (b. 1927)
 March 26 – Eazy-E (Eric Wright), American rapper and record producer, N.W.A. (b. 1963)
 March 27 - René Allio, French film director (b. 1924)
 March 31 – Selena, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1971)

April
April 1 - Francisco Moncion, Dominican dancer (b. 1918)
 April 2 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1915)
 April 2 - Julius Hemphill, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1938)
 April 4 – Kenny Everett, British comedian (b. 1944)
 April 4 – Priscilla Lane, American actress (b. 1915)
 April 6 - Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician (b. 1912)
 April 6 - V. J. Sukselainen, former Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1906)
 April 10 – Morarji Desai, former Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
 April 14 – Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
 April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, former President of Argentina (b. 1908)
 April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (b. 1911)
 April 23 – Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)
 April 23 – John C. Stennis, American politician (b. 1909)
 April 25 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (b. 1971)
 April 25 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
 April 25 - Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
 April 29 - Angier Biddle Duke, American diplomat (b. 1915)
 April 30 – Maung Maung Kha, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1920)
May 4 – Louis Krasner, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1903)
 May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
 May 6 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1907)
 May 7 – Ray McKinley, American jazz musician (b. 1910)
 May 8 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
 May 11 - David Avidan, Israeli poet (b. 1934)
 May 12 - Arthur Lubin, American film director (b. 1898)
 May 12 - Adolfo Pedernera, Argentinian footballer (b. 1918)
 May 12 - Mia Martini, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
 May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
 May 18 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
 May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
 May 18 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
 May 21 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer (b. 1911)
 May 21 - Les Aspin, former United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
 May 24 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
May 25 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
 May 28 - Daniela Rocca, Italian actress (b. 1937)
 May 29 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (b. 1897)
June 

 June 7 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist (b. 1918)
 June 8 – Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th President of Argentina (b. 1914)
 June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
 June 14 – Rory Gallagher, Irish blues and rock guitarist (b. 1948)
 June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
 June 22 – Yves Congar, French theologian (b. 1904)
 June 23 – Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
 June 23 - Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
 June 25 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
 June 25 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
 June 29 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
 June 29 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician (b. 1911)
 June 30 – Georgy Beregovoy, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921)
 June 30 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer and actress (b. 1949)

July
July 1 - Wolfman Jack, American DJ and actor (b. 1938)
 July 1 - Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (b. 1909)
 July 4 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
 July 4 - Bob Ross, American painter (b. 1942)
 July 5 - Bernice Ackerman, American meteorologist (b. 1925)
 July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (b. 1905)
 July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (b. 1915)
 July 8 - Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player (b. 1924)
 July 8 – Jean-Paul Harroy, Belgian colonial civil servant (b. 1909)
 July 10 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer (b. 1923)
 July 10 – Hugh Dundas, British pilot (b. 1920)
 July 15 – Khalid Bakdash, Syrian politician (b. 1912)
 July 16 – Mordechai Gur, Israeli Politician (b. 1930)
 July 16 - Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1904)
 July 16 - Stephen Spender, British poet (b. 1909)
 July 17 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver (b. 1911)
 July 17 - Harry Guardino, American actor (b. 1925)
 July 18 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian professional cyclist (b. 1970)
July 18 – Srinagarindra, Queen Mother of Thailand (b. 1900)
 July 19 – T. N. Balakrishna, Indian actor (b. 1913)
 July 20 - Ernest Mandel,   Belgian conomist (b. 1923)
 July 22 - Tami Ben Ami , Israeli model (b. 1955)
 July 22 - Percy Humphrey, American musician (b. 1905)
 July 24 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (b. 1922)
 July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (b. 1932)
 July 26 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
 July 27 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian composer (b. 1907)
 July 29 – Canray Fontenot, American musician (b. 1922)
 July 29 – Kurt Gudewill, German musicologist (b. 1911)
 July 31 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (b. 1899)
August 1 – Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (b. 1900)
 August 1 - Julián Berrendero, Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1912)
 August 3 – Ida Lupino, British actress (b. 1914)
 August 4 – Dick Bartell, American baseball player (b. 1907)
 August 5 – Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
 August 6 - Agha Hasan Abedi, Pakistani banker (b. 1922)
 August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American musician, The Grateful Dead (b. 1942)
 August 10 – Leo Apostel, Belgian philosopher (b. 1925)
 August 10 – Josseline Gaël, French actress (b. 1917)
 August 10 - Gijs van Aardenne, Dutch politician (b. 1930)
 August 11 - Phil Harris, American actor (b. 1904)
 August 12 – Bobby Burns, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
 August 13 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech psychologist (b. 1926)
 August 13 - Amina al-Said, Egyptian journalist (b. 1914)
 August 13 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
 August 15 - John Cameron Swayze, American news commentator (b. 1906)
 August 17 - Wild Bill Davis, American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
August 19 - Silvio Amadio, Italian movie director (b. 1926)
 August 19 – Danny Arnold, American author (b. 1925)
 August 20 – Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
 August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
 August 22 – José Antonio Girón, Spanish politician (b. 1911)
 August 24 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (b. 1898)
 August 25 – Mike Ragan, American actor (b. 1918)
 August 25 – Johannes Antonsson, Swedish farmer (b. 1921)
 August 28 – Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)
 August 29 – Harry Broadhurst, British Royal Air Force (b. 1905)
 August 29 – John Gilmore, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
 August 30 – Pattie Menzies, Wife of Robert Menzies (b. 1899)
 August 30 – Sterling Morrison, American musician (b. 1942)
September 1 - Benay Venuta, American actress (b. 1910)
 September 2 – Václav Neumann, Czech conductor (b. 1920)
 September 3 - Enrique Solares, Guatemalan composer (b. 1910)
 September 4 - Edmond Jouhaud, French general (b. 1905)
 September 7 - Al Papai, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920)
 September 8 - Olga Ivinskaya, Soviet author (b. 1912)
 September 8 - Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1907)
 September 10 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
 September 12 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
 September 12 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
 September 13 - Francesco Messina, Italian sculptor (b. 1900)
 September 13 - Antonio Zamorano, Chilean priest (b. 1908)
 September 14 - Eiji Okada, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
 September 14 – Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
 September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
 September 18 - George S. Howard, American conductor (b. 1902)
September 19 – Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
 September 20 - Emmy Albus, German athletics (b. 1911)
 September 21 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
 December 23 - Alberto Quijano Guerrero, Colombian author (b. 1919)
 September 25 - Dorothy Dickson, American actress (b. 1893)
 September 25 – Annie Elizabeth Delany, American physician and writer (born 1891)
 September 26 - Lenny Hambro, American jazz musician (b. 1923)
 September 29 - Seger Ellis, American musician (b. 1904)
 September 29 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (b. 1919)
October 1 - Margaret Gorman, American Model (b. 1905)
 October 2 – John Ayers, American football player (b. 1953)
 October 4 - Fabio Albarelli, Italian sailor (b. 1943)
 October 7 – Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-American mathematician (b. 1906)
 October 9 – Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, Brazilian actress, radio personality and councillor (b. 1921)
 October 9 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
 October 9 – Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
 October 14 – Edith Mary Pargeter, English author (b. 1913)
 October 19 – Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
 October 21 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (b. 1916)
 October 22 – Kingsley Amis, British writer (b. 1922)
 October 22 - Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)
 October 23 – Bert Bandstra, American politician (b. 1922)
 October 25 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
 October 25 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
October 26 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
 October 29 - Jean Heather, American actress (b. 1921)
 October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
 October 30 – Louis Abolafia, American politician (b. 1941)
 October 31 – Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
November 2 - June Brewster, American actress (b. 1913)
 November 2 – Gabriel Urgebadze, Georgian monk (b. 1929)
 November 2 - Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, Colombian politician (b. 1919)
 November 2 – Bill Blair, American racing driver (b. 1911)
 November 3 - Bojan Adamič, Slovenian composer (b. 1912)
 November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
 November 4 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
 November 5 – Ernest Gellner, British-Czech philosopher (b. 1925)
 November 6 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
 November 7 – Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama (b. 1942)
 November 7 - Slappy White, American comedian (b. 1921)
 November 8 – Country Dick Montana, American musician (b. 1955)
 November 9 – Morley Baer, American Photographer (b. 1916)
 November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
 November 11 – Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (b. 1914)
 November 20 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater (b. 1967)
November 21 – Leila Mourad, Egyptian singer (b. 1918)
 November 21 – Peter Grant, English music manager (b. 1935)
 November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
 November 29 - Adolfo Orrù, Italian engraver (b. 1909)
December 
 December 2 – Mária Telkes, Hungarian-American biophysicist (b. 1900)
 December 2 - Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
 December 4 - Leonidas Berry, American physician (b. 1902)
 December 6 – Luis Regueiro, Spanish footballer (b. 1908)
 December 11 - Miko Tripalo, Croatian Politician (b. 1926)
 December 12 – David Marshall, Singaporean politician (b. 1908)
 December 13 - Marti Barris, American actress (b. 1937)
 December 18 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910)
 December 20 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaica actress (b. 1938)
 December 22 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
 December 22 – James Meade, British economist (b. 1907)
 December 25 – Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (b. 1906)
 December 25 – Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
 December 27 – Al Barlick, American umpire (b. 1915)
 December 29 – Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
 December 30 – Heiner Müller, German poet (b. 1929)
Nobel Prizes
 Physics: Martin L. Prel, Frederick Reines
 Chemistry: Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
 Medicine: Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
 Literature: Seamus Heaney
 Economics: Robert Lucas, Jr.
 Nobel Peace Prize: Joseph Rotblat

Movies released
 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
 Assassins
 Apollo 13
 Bad Boys
 Babe
 Batman Forever
 Casino
 Casper
 Crimson Tide
 Congo
 Desperado
 Die Hard with a Vengeance
 GoldenEye
 Gumby: The Movie
 Judge Dredd
 Jumanji
 Major Payne
 Mallrats
 Mortal Kombat
 Pocahontas
 Se7en
 Toy Story

Video games
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (August 15) (first copy 1989)
Hit songs
 "Alright" – Supergrass
 "California Love" – Dr. Dre
 "Fantasy" – Mariah Carey
 "Hey Man, Nice Shot" – Filter
 "I'll Be There for You" – The Rembrandts
 "Waterfalls" – TLC
 "Wonderwall" – Oasis
 "You Oughta Know" – Alanis Morissette
 "All Over You" – Live
 "As I Lay Me Down" – Sophie B. Hawkins
 "Baby" – Brandy
 "Beautiful Life" – Ace of Base
 "Besame Mucho" – Dalida (remix)
 "Breakfast at Tiffany's" – Deep Blue Something
 "Buddy Holly" – Weezer
 "Carnival" – Natalie Merchant
 "Connection" – Elastica
 "Don't Take It Personal" – Monica
 "Good" – Better Than Ezra
 "Hand in My Pocket" – Alanis Morissette
 "Hook" – Blues Traveler
 "Independent Love Song" - Scarlet
 "It's Midnight Cinderella" – Garth Brooks
 "J.A.R." – Green Day
 "Jusqu'au boût du rêve" – Dalida (remix)
 "Laissez-moi danser" – Dalida (remix)
 "Life's a Bitch" – Nas
 "Misery" – Soul Asylum
 "Missing" – Everything But the Girl
 "One of Us" – Joan Osborne
 "Only Wanna Be with You" – Hootie & the Blowfish
"Rock and Roll Is Dead" – Lenny Kravitz
 "Roll to Me" – Del Amitri
 "Run-Around" – Blues Traveler
 "She's Every Woman" – Garth Brooks
 "Stutter" – Elastica
 "Take a Bow" – Madonna
 "Today" – The Smashing Pumpkins
 "Tomorrow" – Silverchair
 "When I Come Around" – Green Day
 "You Are Not Alone" – Michael Jackson
 "You Gotta Be" – Des'ree
 "You'll See" – Madonna
 "Dear Mama" – Tupac Shakur
New books
 The Apocalypse Watch – Robert Ludlum
 Blood Sport – James B. Stewart
 The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer – Neal Stephenson
 The First Man (Le premier homme) – Albert Camus
 Five Days In Paris – Danielle Steel
 GoldenEye – John Gardner
 The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
 Independence Day – Richard Ford
 The Information – Martin Amis
 The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco
 Landscape and Memory – Simon Schama
 The Lost World – Michael Crichton
 Man Ray, 1890-1976 – Man Ray, Andre Breton
 Maskerade – Terry Pratchett
 Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
 Miracle in Seville – James A. Michener
 Morning, Noon, & Night – Sidney Sheldon
 Northern Lights (published in the US as The Golden Compass) – Philip Pullman
 Our Game – John le Carré
 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze – Robert James Waller
 The Rainmaker – John Grisham
 Rose Madder – Stephen King
 Silent Night – Mary Higgins Clark
 The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle
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Births