the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
March 4 – Jazmine Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
March 7 - Bel Powley, British actress
March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
April 4 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
April 7 – Alexis Jordan, American singer
April 7 – Jessica Sara, American actress
April 15 – Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
May 3 – Melissa Wu, Australian diver
May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
May 18 – Spencer Breslin, American actor
May 22 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
May 23 – Nick Julian III, American Science
June 14 – Dary Sabara and Evan Sabara, American actors
June 26 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress
June 30 – Lynx and Lamb Gaede, American neo-nazi musicians
July 7 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress
July 8 – Benjamin Grosvenor, pianist
July 12 – Eoghan Quigg, Irish singer
July 21 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
August 4 – Cole and Dylan Sprouse, American actors
August 4 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
August 20 – Demi Lovato, American actress and singer
August 21 – Brad Kavanagh, British actor and singer
September 16 – Nick Jonas, American actor and singer
September 28 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
October 1 – Gauri Shankar, Indian chess player
October 22 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor
November 23 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
November 28 – Adam Hicks, American actor, rapper, singer, and songwriter
December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress and singer
November 27 – Tola Slagowska, Polish singer
December 23 – Spencer Daniels, American actor
December 24 – Melissa Suffield, British actress
January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali becomes Secretary General of the UN.
January 1 – George H. W. Bush becomes the first US President to address the Australian parliament.
January 8 – George H. W. Bush is filmed falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan.
January 11 – Paul Simon is the first major artist to play in South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
January 16 – Mick Jagger attends the Hollywood opening of his new movie, Freejack, at Mann's Chinese Theatre.
January 26 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting US cities with Nuclear Weapons.
February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, forming the EU.
February 8 – The Winter Olympics open in Albertville, France.
February 18 – Vince Neil leaves Mötley Crüe, after 11 years as the band's lead singer, to spend more time on his career as a race car driver.
February 23 – The Winter Olympics close in Albertville, France.
February 24 – Nirvana's Kurt Cobain marries Hole's Courtney Love.
February 24 – The U.S. Postal Service unveils two possible designs for an Elvis Presley stamp for fans to vote on.
One design is of a "young" 1950s Elvis, and the other is of a much "older" 1970s Elvis.
The "young" Elvis wins the vote, and is issued the following January.
March 3 – Turkey's worst mine disaster kills 263 people in Zonguldak.
March 10 – Prince wins the lifetime achievement award during the Soul Train Awards.
March 12 – Mauritius becomes a Republic.
March 13 – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake kills 500 people in Eastern Turkey.
March 14 – Farm Aid Five takes place in Irving, Texas, hosted by Willie Nelson.
Artists performing at the event include John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Paul Simon.
About 40,000 people attend the event.
March 18 – The Finnish parliament votes in favour of EU membership.
March 24 – A Chicago, Illinois judge approves cash rebates of up to $3 to anyone proving they bought Milli Vanilli prior to when the lip synching scandal began on November 27, 1990.
April 1 – Billy Idol, on trial for punching a woman in the face, pleads no contest.
Idol is fined and ordered to make public service announcements against alcohol and drug use.
April 5 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares independence.
Serb troops besiege Sarajevo.
April 6 – The independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina is recognised by the EU and US.
April 6 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.1.
April 9 – Panama's former military leader Manuel Noriega is convicted of assisting Colombian cocaine cartels.
April 9 – In the UK, the Conservative Party  of Prime Minister John Major, is reelected.
April 22 – Fuel that has leaked into a sewer, explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 215 people.
April 24 – David Bowie marries fashion model Iman.
April 27 – The British House of Commons elects Betty Boothroyd as its first female speaker.
April 28 – The last remaining constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, form a new state, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
It is renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
April 29 – LAPD Police Officers are acquitted of using force in the beating of Rodney King, with subsequent riots leading to 53 deaths.
April 29 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores 56 points in a playoff game against the Miami Heat in what is considered one of the greatest games of his career.
April 30 – In Los Angeles, California, Madonna's bustier is stolen from a display in Fredrick's Of Hollywood.
A $1,000 reward is offered for its return.
May – The 1st EJCF was held in Basel.
It is a great success and will be held every three years (the next time was in 1995).
May 10 – Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championship in Prague.
May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
June 1 – Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
June 2 – A referendum in Denmark narrowly rejects the Maastricht Treaty.
June 20 – The kroon replaces the Soviet ruble as Estonia's main monetary unit.
June 26 – In Sweden, Denmark wins Football's European championship, defeating Germany 2-0 in the final.
June 28 – Estonia holds a constitutional referendum.
June 29 – Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf is killed by one of his bodyguards.
June 30 – Fidel V. Ramos becomes President of the Philippines.
July – Launch of the "Budafest" Summer Opera & Ballet Festival in Budapest.
July 10 – Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering offences.
July 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
July 23 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
July 25 – The Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, are opened.
July 28 – Mary J. Blige releases her first album What's the 411?.
It is a pivotal album in the world of R&B.
July 31 – The Republic of Georgia joins the UN.
August – Rozalla becomes the first artist from Zimbabwe to chart on Billboard.
August 9 – The Summer Olympics in Barcelona close.
August 10 – The UK Government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group.
August 24 – Hurricane Andrew hits Florida.
August 27 – John Lennon's original handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" are sold by auction for $87,000.
September 2 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
September 11 – Hurricane Iniki hits Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawaii.
October 2 – A riot in Carandiru Penitentiary, São Paulo, Brazil, results in a massacre.
October 3 – Sinéad O'Connor stirs up controversy when she rips up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live
October 4 – An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, killing 43 people.
October 6 – Lennart Meri becomes Estonia's President.
October 15 – In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 murders.
October 25 – Lithuania holds a constitutional referendum.
October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the edict of Inquisition on Galileo Galilei.
October 31 and November 7 – "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men posted its 12th and 13th consecutive weeks at #1, ending a 36-year record previously held by Elvis Presley.
This record was ended on March 6 the next year by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".
November 3 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent George H. W. Bush.
November 15 – Megan Jasper of Sub Pop creates the grunge speak hoax, tricking The New York Times into printing an article on a supposed slang used in the Seattle grunge scene.
November 20 – A fire breaks out at Windsor Castle, causing £50 million in damage.
November 24 – Queen Elizabeth II of the UK describes 1992 as an Annus Horribilis, due to scandals that have damaged the image of the Royal Family.
November 24 – In China, a China Southern Airlines Flight crashes, killing 141 people.
November 25 – Velvet Divorce: Czechoslovakia's Federal Assembly votes to split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1, 1993.
December 4 – US Military forces land in Somalia.
December 6 – A 16th century Mosque, the Babri Masjid, is destroyed by Hindu extremists in Ayodhya, India.
December 8 – The Copper mine in Falun, Sweden, closes after functioning for 1000 years.
December 9 – In the UK, Prince Charles and Princess Diana publicly announce their separation.
December 12 – An Earthquake hits Flores island, Indonesia, killing 2,500 people.
December 21 – A plane on a Dutch DC-10 Martinair MP495 flight, crashes at Faro Airport in Portugal, killing 56 people.
December 22 – In Tripoli, Libya a Boeing 727 Libyan Airlines plane and an MiG 23 aircraft collide, killing 157 people.
December 22 – Dr. Martin Almada discovers the Archives of Terror, which detail tortures and killings committed by Latin American dictatorships.
December 29 – Brazil's President Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges of stealing more than $32 million from the government, banning him from holding any elected office for 8 years.
Johnny Carson retires from his job as host of the "Tonight Show", Jay Leno takes his place.
The first in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series published.
Physics: Georges Charpak
Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus
Medicine: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
Literature: Derek Walcott
Nobel Peace Prize: Rigoberta Menchu
Economics: Gary Becker
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Alien³
Bebe's Kids
Hero starring Dustin Hoffman
Honey, I Blew Up The Kid
Howard's End
My Cousin Vinny starring Joe Pesci
Passenger 57
Or My Mom Will Shoot
November 28 – Gumby is aired "Dolly for Minga", "The Lost Arrow" and "Clay Trix".
August 3 – Kirby first appears in Kirby's Dreamland.
"Alive" – Pearl Jam
"All 4 Love" – Color Me Badd
"All I Want" – Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Baby Got Back" – Sir Mix-A-Lot
"Come As You Are" – Nirvana
"End of the Road" – Boyz II Men
"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?" –
"How Do You Talk To An Angel" – Whitney Houston
"I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
"Jimmy Olsen's Blues" – Spin Doctors
"Jump" – Kris Kross
"Layla" – Eric Clapton
"Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" – Spin Doctors
"Missing You Now" – Michael Bolton
"Mrs. Robinson" – Lemonheads
"Mysterious Ways" – U2
"One" – U2
"Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton
"To Be With You" – Mr. Big
"Two Princes" – Spin Doctors
"Under The Bridge" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
"We Shall Be Free" – Garth Brooks
"No One Else On Earth" - Wynonna Judd
All Around the Town  –  Mary Higgins Clark
Anvil of Stars – Greg Bear
The Bridges of Madison County – Robert James Waller
The Children of Men – P.D. James
The Crow Road  –  Iain Banks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural – Patricia McKissack
Dolores Claiborne  –  Stephen King
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Flour Babies – Anne Fine
Frog in Winter – Max Velthujis
Gerald's Game  – Stephen King
Hjärtans fröjd (Heart's Delight) – Per Nilsson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Jewels  –  Danielle Steel
Les derniers Géants (The Last Giants) – François Place
Leviathan (Auster novel)  – Paul Auster
Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
Lords and Ladies – Terry Pratchett
Maisy Goes to Playschool – Lucy Cousins
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus – John Gray
Missing May  – Cynthia Rylant
Mixed Blessings  –  Danielle Steel
Monster Blood – R.L. Stine
Only You Can Save Mankind – Terry Pratchett
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson
Paddy Clarke – Roddy Doyle
Pagan's Crusade – Catherine Jinks
The Pelican Brief  –  John Grisham
The Queen and I – Sue Townsend
Secrets of Love Magick – Gerina Dunwich
See Ya, Simon – David Hill
Shampoo Planet – Douglas Coupland
Silent Passage  –  Gail Sheehy
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Somewhere in the Darkness  – Walter Dean Myers
The Stars Shine Down  –  Sidney Sheldon
Stay Out of the Basement – R.L. Stine
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
The Tale of the Body Thief  –  Anne Rice
Tales from Firozsha Baag – Rohinton Mistry
T'choupi – Thierry Courtin
There Will Be Wolves – Karleen Bradford
The Thief of Always  –  Clive Barker
Transit – Ben Aaronovitch
The Trial of Madame Caillaux – Edward Berenson
The Valkyries – Paulo Coelho
Waiting to Exhale  –  Terry McMillan
Welcome to Dead House – R.L. Stine
What Hearts  – Bruce BrooksWhere's My Teddy?'' –
Jez Alborough
January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
This begins the 1991–92 South Ossetia War
February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
March 23 – The Sierra Leone Civil War begins.
April 29 – A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.
May 15 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
June 12 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
June 25 – Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia.
September 8 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
September 26 – Brum – children's show.
October 4 – Carl Bildt becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden, replacing Ingvar Carlsson.
December 19 – Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the prime minister of Australia.
Communism in U.S.S.R. ends; the Cold War ends.
Persian Gulf War – America goes to war with Iraq after Iraq invades Kuwait.
January–March
January 2 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian Rules footballer
January 4 – Pascal Bodmer, German ski jumper
January 8 – Hinoi Asuka, Japanese singer
January 12 – Pixie Lott, British singer
January 15 – Rubab Raza, Pakistani swimmer
January 16 – Julie Dubela, American singer
January 19 – Erin Sanders, American actress
January 21 – Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
February 10 – Emma Roberts, American actress
February 10 – Ceng De Ping, Taiwanese singer
February 16 – Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
February 17 – Bonnie Wright, English actress
February 18 – Malese Jow, American actress
February 18 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2009)
February 25 – Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
February 28 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
March 4 – Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and model
March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor
March 11 – Qian Lin, Chinese singer
March 15 – Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
March 23 – George William Carnegie, British noble
March 24 – Nate Vanderveen, American musician
March 26 – Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress
March 26 – Jack Watts, Australian rules footballer
March 28 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
April–June
April 4 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
April 10 – Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress
April 10 – Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
April 11 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
April 15 – Daiki Arioka, Japanese singer (Hey!
JUMP)
April 18 – Joey Gaydos, American actor and guitarist
April 20 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
April 27 – Rebecca Ryan, British actress
April 28 – Aleisha Allen, American actress
May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
May 19 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
May 23 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
May 24 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
May 26 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American stage actress
May 29 – Kristen Alderson, American actress
June 4 – Jordan Hinson, American actress
June 4 – Megan Prescott and Kathryn Prescott, British actresses
June 18 – Willa Holland, American model and actress
June 19 – Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
June 27 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
June 30 – Kaho, Japanese actress
July–September
July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
July 6 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
July 7 – Devon Alan, American actor
July 9 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
July 10 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer
July 12 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
July 14 – Lewis McGibbon, British actor
July 20 – William Tomlin, British actor
July 28 – Rina Aizawa, Japanese actress
July 29 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
July 30 – Diana Vickers, Scottish singer
August 6 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
August 16 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
August 16 – Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
August 17 – Qory Sandioriva, Putri Indonesia 2009
August 21 – Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress
August 28 – Kyle Massey, American actor
September 4 – Carter Jenkins, American actor
September 5 – Skandar Keynes, British actor
September 6 – Ashli Adams, American actress
September 9 – Kelsey Chow, American actress
September 12 – Kristin Klabunde, American actress
September 17 – Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
September 20 – Spencer Locke, American actress
September 21 – Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
September 23 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
September 25 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
October–December
October 2 – Emma Maree Urquhart, Scottish novelist and artist
October 4 – Nicolai Kielstrup, Danish singer
October 14 – Shona McGarty, English actress
October 10 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter
October 19 – Christopher Gerse, American actor
October 23 – Sophie Tamiko Oda, Japanese American actress
October 31 – Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
November 6 – Camila Finn, Brazilian model
November 11 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
November 15 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
November 22 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer
December 3 – Masahiro Usui, Japanese actor
December 9 – Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince
December 12 – Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
December 13 – Jay Greenberg, American music composer
December 19 – Declan Galbraith, British singer
January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor and singer (b. 1927)
January 3 – Luke Appling, American baseball player (b. 1907)
January 5 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
January 8 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (b. 1960)
January 11 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
January 12 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b. 1904)
January 12 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
January 14 – Salah Khalaf (aka Abu Iyad), Palestinian officer (b. 1933)
January 17 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
January 22 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
January 28 – Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
January 29 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
January 30 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
January 30 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
February 1 – Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
February 2 – Pete Axthelm, sportswriter (b. 1943)
February 3 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
February 5 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
February 5 – Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Catholic priest, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1907)
February 6 – María Zambrano, Spanish essayist and philosopher (b. 1904)
February 6 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
February 6 – Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
February 7 – Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
February 13 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
February 14 – John A. McCone, American politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1902)
February 16 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contras leader (b. 1932)
February 21 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician (b. 1901)
February 21 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
February 24 – John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
February 24 – Héctor Rial, Argentinian footballer (b. 1928)
February 24 – George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
February 24 – Jean Rogers, American actress (b. 1916)
March 1 – Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant camera (b. 1909)
March 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
March 3 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
March 3 – William Penney, Baron Penney, British nuclear physicist (b. 1909)
March 7 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
March 12 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)
March 13 – Jimmy McPartland, American jazz musician (b. 1907)
March 14 – Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
March 14 – Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
March 15 – George Sherman, American movie director (b. 1908)
March 18 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1898)
March 21 – Leo Fender, Greek-American instrument maker (b. 1909)
March 25 – Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic bishop who fought for Catholic Tradition (b. 1905)
March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
March 29 – Lee Atwater, American presidential advisor (b. 1951)
April 1 – Paulo Muwanga, Ugandese military officer and statesman, former head of State and Prime Minister (b. 1924)
April 1 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
April 1 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing politician (b. 1946)
April 3 – Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
April 3 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
April 4 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (b. 1938)
April 4 – Louis Guglielmi, French composer (b. 1916)
April 4 – Forrest Towns, American runner (b. 1914)
April 4 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
April 5 – Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
April 5 – John Tower, American politician (b. 1929)
April 7 – Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1899)
April 8 – Per Yngve Ohlin, Swedish singer (b. 1969)
April 10 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
April 10 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
April 16 – David Lean, British movie director (b. 1908)
April 17 – Jack Yellen, American lyricist (b. 1892)
April 18 – Barry Rogers, American jazz and salsa trombonist (b. 1935)
April 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian movie producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
April 20 – Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian Communist leader, former Party General Secretary, Prime Minister and Head of State (b. 1916)
April 20 – Steve Marriott, English musician (b. 1947)
April 20 – Don Siegel, American movie director (b. 1912)
April 26 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist (b. 1909)
April 28 – Ken Curtis, American actor (b. 1916)
April 28 – Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (b. 1911)
April 29 – Gonzaguinha, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1945)
April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French editor
May 1 – Cesare Merzagora, Italian politician (b. 1898)
May 1 – Richard Thorpe, American movie director (b. 1896)
May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (b. 1933)
May 3 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
May 6 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (b. 1903)
May 7 – Dennis Crosby, American singer (b. 1934)
May 8 – Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907)
May 8 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary, widow of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
May 15 – Shintaro Abe, Japanese Politician (b. 1924)
May 15 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
May 18 – Edwina Booth, American actress (b. 1904)
May 21 – Lino Brocka, Filipino movie director (b. 1939)
May 21 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
May 22 – Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905)
May 23 – Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1907)
May 23 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895)
May 27 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
May 29 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (b. 1913)
May 30 – Manolo Gómez Bur, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
June 2 – Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, former Prime Minister
June 3 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
June 3 – Katia Krafft French volcanologist (b. 1942)
June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899)
June 5 – Larry Kert, American actor (b. 1930)
June 5 – Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
June 11 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
June 15 – Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
June 17 – Pierre Jamet, French harpist (b. 1893)
June 18 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922)
June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
June 27 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician, former leader of the VVD party (b. 1918)
June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)
June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1901)
July 1 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
July 2 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
July 4 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
July 5 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (b. 1901)
July 5 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
July 6 – Anton Yugov, Bulgarian Communist politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1904)
July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
July 15 – Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (b. 1933)
July 16 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
July 18 – André Cools, Belgian Socialist politician (b. 1927)
July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
July 25 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, former member of the CPSU Politburo and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1893)
July 29 – Christian de Castries, French general (b. 1902)
August 1 – Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937)
August 3 – Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
August 5 – Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
August 5 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist (b. 1917)
August 6 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist and newscaster (b. 1923)
August 6 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1915)
August 8 – James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
August 16 – Luigi Zampa, Italian movie-maker (b. 1905)
August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, American actress (b. 1924)
August 22 – Boris Pugo, Latvian communist politician, Soviet minister of the Interior (b. 1937)
August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Russian marshall, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1923)
August 25 – Niven Busch, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1903)
August 30 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
August 30 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
September 3 – Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
September 3 – Frank Capra, Italian-born movie director (b. 1897)
September 4 – Charles Barnet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1913)
September 4 – Tom Tryon, American actor (b. 1926)
September 6 - Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (executed by electrocution; b. 1933)
September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
September 8 – Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949)
September 8 – Alex North, American movie composer (b. 1910)
September 10 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908)
September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born movie director (b. 1901)
September 14 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, writer (b. 1910)
September 15 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1905)
September 17 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
September 24 – Dr. Seuss, American writer (b. 1904)
September 25 – Klaus Barbie, German Gestapo leader in Lyon (b. 1913)
September 25 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
September 28 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
October 6 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer (b. 1956)
October 11 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
October 12 – Aline MacMahon, American actress (b. 1899)
October 12 – Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
October 17 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer (b. 1919)
October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist (b. 1913)
October 31 – Joseph Papp, American theater producer (b. 1921)
November 2 – Irwin Allen, American movie and television producer (b. 1941)
November 5 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
November 5 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
November 6 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
November 9 – Yves Montand, French actor and singer (b. 1921)
November 14 – Tony Richardson, English movie and theater director (b. 1928)
November 18 – Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president (b. 1913)
November 21 – Daniel Mann, American movie director (b. 1912)
November 23 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
November 24 – Eric Carr, American drummer (b. 1950)
November 24 – Anton Furst, American art director (b. 1944)
November 24 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (b. 1946)
November 29 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
December 1 – George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
December 10 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
December 11 – Robert Q. Lewis, American radio and television personality (b. 1920)
December 12 – Eleanor Boardman, American actress (b. 1898)
December 15 – Vasily Zaytsev, Russian World War II hero (b. 1915)
December 15 – Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
December 18 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
December 28 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1941)
Nobel Prize in Physics won by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist
Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
Nobel Prize in Literature won by Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
Nobel Peace Prize won by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese diplomat
Nobel Prize in Economics won by Ronald Coase, British economist
Beauty and the Beast, an animated movie by Walt Disney Pictures
Bugsy, the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel
City Slickers, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jack Palance
The Fisher King, nominated for 9 Academy Awards
JFK, directed by Oliver Stone
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, winning a BAFTA Award for Alan Rickman
The Silence of the Lambs, based on the book by Thomas Harris
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the highest-grossing movie of 1991
"Black" - Pearl Jam
"American Music" – The Violent Femmes
"Baby Baby" – Amy Grant
"Black Or White" – Michael Jackson
"Bring The Noise" – Public Enemy and Anthrax
"Can't Stop This Thing We Started" – Bryan Adams
"Close My Eyes" – Marillion
"Do You Remember" – Phil Collins
"Don't Cry" – Guns N' Roses
"Enter Sandman" – Metallica
"Every Heartbeat" – Amy Grant
"Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" – Bryan Adams
"Get The Funk Out" – Extreme
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" – C&C Music Factory
"Good For Me" – Amy Grant
"Good Times" – INXS and Jimmy Barnes
"Higher + Higher" – Jimmy Barnes
"I Can't Make You Love Me" – Bonnie Raitt
"I Will Remember You" – Amy Grant
"Live And Let Die" – Guns N' Roses
"Live For Loving You" – Gloria Estefan
"Losing My Religion" – R.E.M.
"More Than Words" – Extreme
"Poundcake" – Van Halen
"Right Here, Right Now" – Jesus Jones
"Rush Rush" – Paula Abdul
"Shameless" – Garth Brooks
"Shiny Happy People" – R.E.M.
"Sing Your Life" – Morrissey
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana
"Something To Talk About" – Bonnie Raitt
"That's What Love Is For" – Amy Grant
"Radio Song" – R.E.M.
"There'll Never Be Another Tonight" – Bryan Adams
"Top Of The World" – Van Halen
"Train In Vain(Stand By Me)" – The Clash
"Twist And Shout" – Deacon Blue
"Unbelievable" – EMF
"When Something's Wrong With My Baby" – John Farnham + Jimmy Barnes
"Who Said I Would" – Phil Collins
"When A Man Loves A Woman" – Michael Bolton
"Wicked Game" – Chris Isaak
"Violent Blue" – Chagall Guevara
"You Could Be Mine" – Guns N' Roses
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
As the Crow Flies – Jeffrey Archer
Damage – Josephine Hart
Dead Certainties – Simon Schama
Den of Thieves – James B. Stewart
Dirty Weekend – Helen Zahavi
The Doomsday Conspiracy – Sidney Sheldon
Druids – Morgan Llywelyn
The Firm – John Grisham
For Love of the Game – Michael Shaara (posthumous)
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture – Douglas Coupland
Gojiro – Mark Jacobson
He, She and It – Marge Piercy
Heartbeat – Danielle Steel
Imajica – Clive Barker
Jernigan – David Gates
The Kitchen God's Wife – Amy Tan
A Life of Picasso – John Richardson
Loves Music, Loves to Dance – Mary Higgins Clark
The Man from Barbarossa – John Gardner
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Mexico – James A. Michener
Possession: A Romance – A. S. Byatt
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
Say It With Poison – Ann Granger
Scarlett – Alexandra Ripley
The Secret Pilgrim – John le Carré
SEX – Madonna
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
The Sum of All Fears – Tom Clancy
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
Through the Vast Halls of Memory – Haifa Zangana
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense – Martin Amis
The Van – Roddy Doyle
The Werewolf and the Wormlord – Hugh Cook
Wicca Craft – Gerina Dunwich
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
January 3 – Assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri.
January 9 -
The same storm which pounded the United States earlier in the month hits England and Scandinavia.
At least 13 are dead among hurricane force winds and the worst flooding in northwest England in 40 years.
Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.
January 12 – Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
January 14 – The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
January 16 – Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.
January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.
January 21 – In Belize's capital city Belmopan, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
January 23 – Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.
January 25 – A stampede during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
January 26 – A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
January 30 -
The first Parliamentary elections in Iraq since the overthrow of the Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein take place.
A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen.
Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.
March 28 – A strong Earthquake strikes off the coast of Sumatra.
April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies.
April 6 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco dies aged 81.
He is succeeded by his son, Albert II of Monaco.
April 8 – Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles.
April 19 – Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
May 8 – The 60th anniversary of VE Day is marked.
May 29 – French voters reject the proposed European Constitution.
June 1 – Dutch voters reject the proposed European Constitution.
July 1 – German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder loses a vote of confidence.
July 6 – July 9 – The G8 Summit takes place in Gleneagles, Scotland.
July 6 – London is awarded the 2012 Olympic Games.
July 7 – Four suicide bombers kill 56 people (including the bombers) on London's public transport system – three Tube trains and one bus.
The attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda.
July 21 – Four attempted suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's public transport system.
All four bombers escape, but are later captured.
July 22 – An innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes is shot dead by officers of the London Metropolitan Police.
July 23 – Terrorist attacks occur at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.
August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies.
He is succeeded by his half-brother, Abdullah.
August 29 – Hurricane Katrina devastates the southeastern United States.
September 30 – The controversial drawings of the Prophet Muhammad first appear in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten.
October 1 – Terrorist bombings occur on the island of Bali.
October 8 – A devastating earthquake hits Kashmir.
October 27 – Widespread rioting erupts across France.
October 30 - Having been destroyed in the Firebombing of Dresden in World War II, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), is reconsecrated.
November 8 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected as Liberia's, and Africa's first female President.
November 22 – Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female chancellor.
December 11 – An explosion occurs at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hertfordshire, England.
December 31 – An extra Leap Second is added onto the year.
January 23 – Johnny Carson, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1925)
February 2 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
February 18 - Bonar Bain, Canadian actor (b. 1923)
February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer (b. 1937)
March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer (b. 1928)
March 26 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the UK (b. 1912)
March 29 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
March 31 – Terri Schiavio, American patient in right-to-die case (b. 1963)
April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
April 6 – Rainier III of Monaco (b. 1923)
April 11 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
April 22 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish artist (b. 1924)
April 24 – Ezer Weizmann, Israeli President (b. 1924)
April 26 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)
June 6 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
July 1 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
July 6 – Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
July 17 – Edward Heath, former Prime Minister of the UK (b. 1916)
July 22 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (b. 1978).
July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist (b. 1935)
August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924).
August 6 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
August 13 – David Lange, New Zealand Prime Minister (b. 1942)
September 3 – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
October 10 – Milton Obote, Ugandan President (b. 1924)
October 24 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
November 25 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
December 10 – Richard Pryor, American actor (b. 1940)
December 25 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
December 26 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
Chemistry – Yves Chauvin
Chemistry – Robert H. Grubbs
Chemistry – Richard R. Schrock
Economics – Robert J. Aumann
Economics – Thomas C. Schelling
Literature – Harold Pinter
Medicine – Barry J. Marshall
Medicine – J. Robin Warren
Peace – International Atomic Energy Agency
Peace – Mohamed ElBaradei
Physics – Roy J. Glauber
Physics – John L. Hall
Physics – Theodor W. Hänsch
In the Chinese calendar, 2006 was the Year of the Dog.
Chinese New Year is January 29.
January 1 – Sydney, Australia, has its warmest day on record, when the city reaches 45 °C (113 °F).
January 1 – Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.
January 2 – The Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof in Germany collapses after heavy snowfall in the Bavarian Alps, killing 15.
January 4 – Powers are transferred from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, after Sharon suffers a massive hemorrhagic stroke.
January 5 – A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform hajj.
January 6 – The record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.
January 7 – Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to reassume his former post.
January 7 – UK Liberal Democratic leader Charles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.
January 8 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake, centered off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera, shakes much of Greece and is felt throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin.
January 9 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 (11,011.90) for the first time since June 7, 2001.
January 11 – The Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since 1986.
January 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 pilgrims.
January 14 – A natural gas explosion in a coal mine kills seven and injures five in Romania.
January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
January 19 – A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, Israel injures 20, seriously injuring one.
January 23 – Stephen Harper wins the federal election in Canada, forming a minority government.
January 25 – Hamas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
January 25 – Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est.
January 27 – Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
January 27 – Manuel Zelaya becomes President of Honduras.
January 28 – Trade hall roof collapses in Katowice, Poland, killing 66 people.
January 31 – Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 1 – UAL Corporation, United Airlines' parent company, emerges from bankruptcy after being in that position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.
February 3 – An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
February 4 – The Wowowee stampede at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City, Philippines kills 74 people and leaves 600 injured.
February 5 – Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks 21–10
February 6 – Stephen Harper is sworn in as Canada's 22nd Prime Minister.
He is the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
February 8 – 2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.
February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
February 19 – Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion in Nueva Rosita, Mexico.
February 22 – A bomb heavily damages the Al Askari Mosque, a Shiite holy site in Samarra, Iraq.
February 22 – Over £53.1 million is stolen during the Securitas depot robbery, the largest ever cash robbery in the United Kingdom.
February 23 – A roof collapses on a Moscow market, killing 56 people.
February 24 – A state of emergency is declared in the Philippines, after an alleged coup d'état against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.
February 25 – Police officers and protesters in Dublin, Ireland are injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot.
February 25 – Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wins his second re-election, sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters.
March 4 – The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response.
March 6–20 – The first World Baseball Classic is held in San Diego, California, U.S.A..
March 7 – 20 people die and many others are injured in 3 blasts throughout Varanasi, India.
March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
March 14 – Penumbral lunar eclipse
March 15–26 – The 2006 Commonwealth Games take place in Melbourne, Australia.
March 16 – The Blu-ray Disc format is released in the United States
March 17 – The United States strikes its 2 remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.
March 22 – ETA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain.
March 22 – The Federal Reserve stops the publishing of M3 money supply data.
March 25 – A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
March 25 – Seven die in the Capitol Hill Massacre in Seattle, Washington.
March 29 – Total solar eclipse
March 30 – The first Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes, goes into space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-8, at 2:29:00 CET.
March 30 – The al-Dana capsizes off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 56 people.
April 5 – A swan with Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom).
April 8 – The bodies of 8 murdered men are found in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario.
April 9 – Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months in a coma.
April 10 – The Brand India Fair Victoria Park fire at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, kills at least 100.
April 11 – The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.
April 11 – President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.
April 16 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco, reaches the North Pole, becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.
April 16 – Ireland commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising, for the first time since 1971.
April 17 – An Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Tel Aviv kills 9 people and injures dozens.
April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal.
April 22 – Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb (the worst one-day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War).
April 24 – Three explosions in a tourist section of Dahab, Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.
April 25 – The Beaconsfield mine collapse occurs in Tasmania, Australia.
April 29 – Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march down Broadway in New York City mark the third year of war in Iraq.
April 29 – The Global Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world, to promote the visibility of the Invisible Children in Uganda.
May 1 – Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.
May 1 – The Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for immigration rights.
May 5 – Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne announces that the Alfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in 2008, after a 13-year hiatus.
May 9 – Beaconsfield mine collapse: After 14 days trapped underground, miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.
May 20 – Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest, the first win for Finland and the first hard rock song to win the contest.
May 24 – East Timor's Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.
May 27 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.
May 27 – The first demonstration for gay rights in Moscow is broken up by the police.
June 3 – Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum.
The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved on June 5, leaving Serbia as the successor state.
June 3 – Seventeen men are arrested in the Greater Toronto Area for alleged ties to a terrorist plot to blow up targets in the region.