1994

1994
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day.
Events
January
January 1
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
Beginning of the Zapatista uprising.
January 8 – Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.
January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
January 17 – The 6.7 Northridge earthquake strikes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
January 19 – Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.
February
February 3
In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the International Court of Justice rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad.
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February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
February 6 – Markale massacres: a Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
February 9 – The Vance–Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
February 12
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7).
The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer.
February 21 – Revealing of the first photo of Pluto and its moon Charon taken from the Hubble Space Telescope.
February 24 – In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
February 28 – Four United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.
March
March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the Internet.
March 1 – Walvis Bay is handed over to Namibia by South Africa.
March 6 – A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
March 8 – Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, The Downward Spiral, is released to critical acclaim.
March 12
A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the Loch Ness Monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
March 14
Apple Computer, Inc. releases the Power Macintosh, the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC microprocessors.
The Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development.
March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in Somalia.
March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg).
March 23
Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina causing 24 fatalities.
Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana.
March 27
TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election.
The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama.
March 28 – Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters battle in central Johannesburg, South Africa.
March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
April
April 2 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, commits suicide at age 27 at his home in Seattle. His body was found three days later.
April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.
April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.
April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
April 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the "Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during apartheid.
April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.
April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
April 26
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people.
April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.
May
May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy.
May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan is signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
May 10
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
The Pinkenba Six, including future political candidate Mark Ellis, kidnap 3 Indigenous children in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection in the Stateville Correctional Center.
A solar eclipse occurs in The United States
May 17 – Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
May 18 – The Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption.
May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people lined the streets, John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.
May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis from the Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".
May 26 – Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic.
June
June 1 – The Republic of South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth of Nations after the first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in 1961.
June 6–8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
June 15
Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
The Lion King, the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated film of all time, is released by Walt Disney Feature Animation.
June 17
NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
June 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
June 25 – Cold War: the last Russian troops leave Germany.
June 26 – Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows.
June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200.
June 30
An Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near Toulouse, France, where Airbus is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum angle of climb.
The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan regained power after spent 11 months of opposition, with the coalition with Japanese Socialist Party.
Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of Florida causing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.
July
July 2 – Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Medellín. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the 1994 FIFA World Cup against the United States soccer team.
July 4 – Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Kigali, a major breakthrough in the Rwandan Civil War.
July 5 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il Sung dies, but officially continues to hold office.
July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
July 16–22 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.
July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0).
July 18
AMIA bombing: In Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the Rwandan genocide.
July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
August
August 5 – Maleconazo: Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
August 11 – The formation of Hurricane John which would go one to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It would dissipate on September 13, lasting a little over 31 days.
August 12
Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
All Major League Baseball players go on strike, beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history.
August 16 – The release of the IBM Simon smartphone, being the first ever commercially available smartphone.
August 18 – 1994 Mascara earthquake. A 5.8 earthquake lefts 171 dead in Algeria.
August 20 – Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injured her groomer, and killed her trainer at the Neal Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then escaped the arena, and ran amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shot her 86 times. She eventually collapsed from her wounds and died.
August 31
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations" as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. This would temporarily end in 1996 with the Docklands bombing in England before a definite ceasefire in 1997. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed and the IRA decommissioned its weapons in 2005
The Russian Army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's Soviet occupation.
September
September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
September 5 – New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
September 8 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport killing all on board.
September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
September 14 – The 1994 World Series is officially cancelled due to the ongoing work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904.
September 16
Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.
Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.
September 17 – Heather Whitestone is crowned the first deaf Miss America; she is crowned Miss America 1995.
September 19
Operation Uphold Democracy: U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimately elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power.
Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem, solving the 357-year-old mathematical theorem first proposed by Pierre de Fermat in 1637. He would publish it in 1995.
September 28
The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari.
September – Mohammed Omar would found the Taliban movement in his home town of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.
October
October 1
In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the general election.
Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee, becoming the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
October 4 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin-Heights, Quebec.
October 7 – Ingvar Carlsson returns as Prime Minister of Sweden .
October 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the United Nations Security Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
October 12 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
October 15
After three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Aristide returns to his country.
Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
October 16 – In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) was robbed. The amount stolen: COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million) and came to be known as the "El Robo del Siglo" (The bank heist of the century).
November
November 5
A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.
George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified.
November 6
A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people.
Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties.
November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
November 8
"Republican Revolution": Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
November 11
Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, was established.
Iraq formally rescinds its claims over Kuwait, which it had claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the Persian Gulf War.
November 13
Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
Dale Earnhardt wins his 7th and final NASCAR championship.
November 15
1994 Nepalese general election The CPN (UML) is an elected with a minority government, becoming the first democratically elected Communist party in Asia.
1994 Mindoro earthquake A 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to high.
November 16 – A federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to illegal aliens.
November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
November 22 – Pyroclastic flows – clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, causing sixty deaths.
November 27 – According to Chinese government official confirmed report, a Fuxin Yiyuan dance hall caught fire in Liaoning Province, China, killing 233 persons, another 71 persons were rescued.
November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a referendum.
November 30 – The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro catches fire in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia with nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.
December
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
December 3
Sony releases the PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.
Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
December 11 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.
December 13
The trial of former President Mengistu begins in Ethiopia.
Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, UK, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.
December 15 – The initial release of Netscape Navigator, a web browser that will control the majority of the usage share for web browsers for the rest of the 1990s.
December 19
A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration.
Civil unions between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden.
December 31 – This date is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.
Date unknown
Fundación Arco Iris – a Catholic NGO is founded in Bolivia.
Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.
The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million, making it the first African state to have a population above 100 million.
Births
January
January 1 – Emilie Hegh Arntzen, Norwegian handball player
January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist
January 4 – Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player
January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
January 6 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and pageant titleholder won Miss Universe 2018
January 7 – Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer
January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
January 11 – Desirae Krawczyk, American tennis player
January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer
January 14
Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner
Kai, South Korean singer
January 17 – Lucy Boynton, American-British actress
January 18
Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress
January 19 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
January 20 – Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor
January 24 – Maisie Adam, English comedian
January 25 – Willow Nightingale, American professional wrestler
January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer
February 1
Julia Garner, American actress
Harry Styles, English singer
February 3 – Malaika Mihambo, German athlete
February
February 1 – Luke Saville, Australian tennis player
February 6 – Charlie Heaton, English actor
February 8 – Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
February 10 - Seulgi, South Korean singer
February 12 – Arman Hall, American sprinter
February 13 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
February 14
Becky Hill, British singer
Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer and former ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion
February 16
Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
Ava Max, American singer
February 18
J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter
Gabriela Schloesser, Mexican born-Dutch archer
February 20 – Brigid Kosgei, Kenyan marathon runner
February 21 – Wendy, South Korean singer
February 23
Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model
Lucas Pouille, French tennis player
Little Simz, English rapper
February 24 – Jessica Pegula, American tennis player
February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
February 26 - Jacob Trouba, American Ice Hockey Player
February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
February 28 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
March
March 1
Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
Tyreek Hill, American football player
March 2 – Nikkie de Jager, Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger
March 5 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
March 7
Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
Jordan Pickford, English footballer
March 10
Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer
Nikita Parris, English footballer
March 11 − Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer
March 12
Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
Jerami Grant, American basketball player
Christina Grimmie, American singer (d. 2016)
Carlos Ramírez, Colombian BMX cyclist
March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ
March 15 – Georgia Taylor-Brown, British triathlete
March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
March 18 – Megan Tapper, Jamaican hurdler
March 20 – R'Bonney Gabriel, American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss USA 2022, and as Miss Universe 2022.
March 22 – Douglas Santos, Brazilian footballer
March 24 – Giulia Steingruber, Swiss artistic gymnast
March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer
March 29 – Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d. 2019)
March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
April
April 3
Feng Bin, Chinese discus thrower
Srbuk, Armenian singer
April 5 – Nicolas Tournat, French handball player
April 6 – Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Filipina-Australian actress
April 9 – Rosamaria Montibeller, Brazilian volleyball player
April 11
Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer
Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
April 12
Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer
Oh Se-hun, South Korean singer
Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress
April 14
Pauline Ranvier, French fencer
Skyler Samuels, American actress
April 15 – Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian track and field sprinter
April 16 – Liliana Mumy, American actress
April 18 – Moisés Arias, actor
April 20 – Alexander Massialas, American fencer
April 21 – Gulnaz Khatuntseva, Russian cyclist
April 22 – Maria Verschoor, Dutch field hockey player
April 24 – Jordan Fisher, American actor
April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
April 29 – Valériane Vukosavljević, French basketball player
May
May 1
Khamzat Chimaev, Russian born-Swedish mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
Jóhan Hansen, Danish handball player
May 2 – Alexander Choupenitch, Czech fencer
May 4 – Zhu Yaming, Chinese triple jumper
May 6
Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer
Juan Musso, Argentine footballer
May 8 – Zach Tinker, American actor
May 14
Pernille Blume, Danish swimmer
Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer
May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter
May 19 – Gabriela Guimarães, Brazilian volleyball player
May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer
May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
May 22
Athena Manoukian, Greek born-Armenian singer
Miho Takagi, Japanese speed skater
May 24
Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
Jarell Martin, American basketball player
Emma McKeon, Australian swimmer
Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
May 25 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast and model
May 27
João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer
Aymeric Laporte, French born-Spanish footballer
May 28
Son Yeon-jae, South Korean rhythmic gymnast
John Stones, English footballer
June
June 8 – Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (d. 2021)
June 9 – Lee Hye-ri, South Korean singer and actress
June 10 – Cheung Ka Long, Hong Kong foil fencer
June 11
Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist
June 14 – Moon Taeil, South Korean singer
June 15
Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer
Lee Kiefer, American fencer
June 20 – Sarah Köhler, German swimmer
June 22 - Klaudia Breś, Polish olympic athlete
June 23 – HoYeon Jung, South Korean actress
June 24 – Lily Williams, American cyclist
June 25 – Lauren Price, Welsh boxer
June 26 – Jessica Parratto, American diver
June 28
Anish Giri, Russian born-Dutch chess grandmaster
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent of Jordan
June 29
Camila Mendes, American actress
Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer
June 30
Nate Hairston, American Football Player
Joshua Rojas, American baseball player
July
July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer
July 4 – Era Istrefi, Kosovar Albanian singer and songwriter
July 5
Robin Gosens, German footballer
Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player
Sơn Tùng M-TP, Vietnamese singer-songwriter and actor
July 7 – Ashton Irwin, Australian musician
July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet and painter
July 11
Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer
Jake Wightman, British middle-distance runner
July 12
Jamie Herrell, American born-Filipino actress and beauty queen
Molly Seidel, American marathon runner
July 14 – Jake Wightman, British middle-distance runner
July 16 – Torbjørn Bergerud, Norwegian handball player
July 17
Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer
Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
July 18 – Taylor Russell, Canadian actress
July 25 – Bianka Buša, Serbian volleyball player
July 27
Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
Boyan Slat, Dutch CEO of The Ocean Cleanup
Sándor Tótka, Hungarian canoeist
July 31 – Liang Xinping, Chinese synchronised swimmer
August
August 1 – Sayaka Hirota, Japanese badminton player
August 2 – Tang Yuanting, Chinese badminton player
August 8
Lauv, American singer-songwriter
Mirabai Chanu, Indian weightlifter
August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
August 11 – Song I-han, South Korean singer
August 13
Joaquín Correa, Argentine footballer
Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
Andrea Meza, Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2020
August 15
Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
Natalia Zabiiako, Estonian born-Russian pair skater
August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress
August 18 – Madelaine Petsch, American actress
August 19
Katja Salskov-Iversen, Danish sailor
Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete
August 23 – Dara Howell, Canadian freestyle skier
August 24
Kelsey Plum, American basketball player
Breanna Stewart, American basketball player
August 28 – Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer
September
September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter
September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
September 7
Elinor Barker, Welsh racing cyclist
Kento Yamazaki, Japanese actor
September 8 – Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
September 10 – Mehdi Torabi, Iranian footballer
September 12
Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter
Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
September 15 – Wout van Aert, Belgian road cyclist
September 16
Aleksandar Mitrović, Serbian footballer
Mina Popović, Serbian volleyball player
September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer
September 26 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian sprinter
September 28 – Simon Hald, Danish handball player
September 29
Halsey, American singer
Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Polish racing cyclist
September 30
Raphaël Coleman, English actor (d. 2020)
Aliya Mustafina, Russian artistic gymnast
October
October 1
Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer
Arthur Van Doren, Belgian field hockey player
October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
October 10
Jung Il-hoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor
Bae Suzy, South Korean singer and actress
October 12
Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
October 17 – Alejandra Valencia, Mexican archer
October 18 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian racing driver
October 22 – Alberta Santuccio, Italian fencer
October 24
Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer
Sean O'Malley, American mixed artist fighter
October 25 – Manzoor Pashteen, Pakistani human rights activist
October 26
Matthew Hudson-Smith, British sprinter
Daria Shmeleva, Russian track cyclist
November
November 8 – Wang Yilyu, Chinese badminton player
November 9 – Bence Penke, Hungarian voice actor
November 10
Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer
Zoey Deutch, American actress
Andre De Grasse, Canadian sprinter
November 13 – Laurien Leurink, Dutch field hockey player
November 16
Vilde Ingstad, Norwegian handball player
Elena Tsagrinou, Greek singer
November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
November 29
Julius Randle, American basketball player
Zhu Ting, Chinese volleyball player
December
December 3
Jake T. Austin, American actor
Lil Baby, American rapper
December 4 – Franco Morbidelli, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer
December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
December 8
Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner
Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English footballer
December 10 – Lily Owsley, British field hockey player
December 11 - Gabriel Basso, American Actor
December 13 – Laura Flippes, French handball player
December 16 – Christopher Bell, American racing car driver
December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor
December 18 – Vlada Chigireva, Russian synchronised swimmer
December 19
Katrina Lehis, Estonian fencer
M'Baye Niang, French-Senegalese footballer
December 21 – Daniel Amartey, Ghanaian footballer
December 24
Daphne Groeneveld, Dutch model
Jennifer Valente, American cyclist
December 26 – Georgia Hirst, English actress
December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer
December 30 – Hannah Martin, British field hockey player
December 31 – Max Bowden, English actor
Unknown date
Germania Poleo, Venezuelan journalist
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull
Chemistry – George Andrew Olah
Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
Literature – Kenzaburō Ōe
Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi
Templeton Prize
Michael Novak
Fields Medal
Efim Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Right Livelihood Award
Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra), Ken Saro-Wiwa / MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)
References