1995

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 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 – 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 

 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