Title: 1995 Content: 1995 (MCMXCV) was . == Events == thumb|150px|right|January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake * 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. * march 10 m&m; is born 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 == * 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 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * 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 – 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 === * 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