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.
 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 - March 

 January 1 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (born 1902)
 January 2 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (born 1919)
 January 2 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (born 1921)
 January 6 - Karl Guttmann, Austrian-Dutch theater director (born 1913)
 January 6 – Joe Slovo, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing (born 1926)
 January 7 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (born 1926)
 January 8 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (born 1942)
 January 9 – Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (born 1937)
 January 9 – Souphanouvong, Laotian politician (born 1909)
 January 11 – Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
 January 12 - Kay Aldridge, American actress and model (born 1917)
 January 12 - Marion Herbst, Dutch jewelery designer (born 1944)
 January 15 - Jef Bruyninckx, Belgian actor and director (born 1919)
 January 17 – Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (born 1907)
 January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German physicist (born 1903)
 January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan, Iranian politician (born 1907)
 January 21 - Russ Bauers, American baseball player (born 1914)
 January 21 - Edward Hidalgo, American politician (born 1912)
 January 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (born 1890)
 January 23 - Saul Rogovin, American baseball player (born 1922)
 January 25 – John Smith, American Actor (born 1931)
 January 26 - Vic Buckingham, English football manager and footballer (born 1915)
 January 28 - Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italian tenor and actor (born 1913)
 January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)
 February 2 - Tikvah Alper, South African scientist (born 1909)
 February 2 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (born 1909)
 February 2 – Donald Pleasence, British actor (born 1919)
 February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (born 1921)
 February 6 - James Merrill, American poet (born 1926)
 February 9 - J. William Fulbright, American senator and congressman (born 1905)
 February 13 – Alberto Burri, Italian artist (born 1915)
 February 14 – Ogdo Aksyonova, Russian poet (born 1936)
 February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician (born 1907)
 February 19 – John Howard, American actor (born 1913)
 February 21 - István Bárány, Hungarian swimmer (born 1907)
 February 23 – Melvin Franklin, American singer (born 1942)
 February 24 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (born 1914)
 February 26 - Willie Johnson, American guitarist (born 1923)
 February 27 - Ann Ayars, American soprano and actress (born 1918)
 March 13 – Odette Hallowes, French intelligence officer (born 1912)
 March 20 – Big John Studd, American professional wrestler and actor (born 1948)
 March 26 – Eazy-E (Eric Wright), American rapper and record producer, N.W.A. (born 1963)

April - June 

 April 1 - Francisco Moncion, Dominican dancer (born 1918)
 April 2 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (born 1915)
 April 2 - Julius Hemphill, American jazz saxophonist and composer (born 1938)
 April 4 – Priscilla Lane, American actress (born 1915)
 April 9 - Bob Allison, American baseball player (born 1934)
 April 10 – Morarji Desai, former Prime Minister of India (born 1896)
 April 14 – Burl Ives, American singer and actor (born 1909)
 April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, former President of Argentina (born 1908)
 April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (born 1911)
 April 21 - Amir Machmud, Indonesian military general (born 1923)
 April 23 – John C. Stennis, American politician (born 1909)
 April 25 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and singer (born 1911)
 April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born 1921)
 May 4 – Louis Krasner, Ukrainian-American violinist (born 1903)
 May 5 - Josef Bek, Czech film and television actor (born 1918)
 May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (born 1911)
 May 5 – Anthony Wagner, English officer (born 1908)
 May 6 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese writer and journalist (born 1907)
 May 11 - David Avidan, Israeli poet (born 1934)
 May 12 - Arthur Lubin, American film director (born 1898)
 May 12 - Adolfo Pedernera, Argentinian footballer (born 1918)
 May 12 - Mia Martini, Italian singer and songwriter (born 1947)
 May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (born 1933)
 May 24 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)
 May 29 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (born 1897)
 June 6 - Jim Barnes, New Zealand Politician (born 1908)
 June 7 - Sheikh Imam, Egyptian composer (born 1918)
 June 7 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist (born 1918)
 June 7 - Wijnie Jabaaij, Dutch politician (born 1939)
 June 8 – Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th President of Argentina (born 1914)
 June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (born 1920)
 June 14 – Rory Gallagher, Irish blues and rock guitarist (born 1948)
 June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911)
 June 21 - Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist (born 1896)
 June 25 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (born 1907)
 June 29 – Lana Turner, American actress (born 1921)
 June 29 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician (born 1911)
 June 30 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer and actress (born 1949)

July - September 

 July 4 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (born 1919)
 July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (born 1905)
 July 17 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver (born 1911)
 July 20 - Ernest Mandel,   Belgian conomist (born 1923)
 July 22 - Tami Ben Ami , Israeli model (born 1955)
 July 31 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (born 1899)
 August 3 – Ida Lupino, British actress (born 1914)
 August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American musician, The Grateful Dead (born 1942)
 August 13 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (born 1931)
 August 15 - John Cameron Swayze, American news commentator (born 1906)
 August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (born 1910)
 August 30 – Sterling Morrison, American musician (born 1942)
 September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (born 1921)
 September 29 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (born 1919)

October - December 

 October 9 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)
 October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)
 November 4 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1922)
 November 9 – Morley Baer , American Photographer (born 1916)
 December 18 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (born 1910)
 December 25 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (born 1917)

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