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 Kobe, 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 - Agustin Gainza, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
January 7 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
January 8 - Carlos Monzon, 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 - Istvan Barany, 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 - Rene 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 Alfven, 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 Dilas, 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 Braganca, 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 - Kresimir Cosic, 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 Ongania, 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 - Van 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 - Julian 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 Gael, 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 Kresadlo, 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 - Jose Antonio Giron, 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 - Vaclav 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 - Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician (b. 1919)
November 2 - Bill Blair, American racing driver (b. 1911)
November 3 - Bojan Adamic, 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 Orru, Italian engraver (b. 1909)
December
December 2 - Maria 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 Muller, 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.