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June 30 – Germany defeats the Czech Republic 2–1 to win UEFA Euro 96.
July – The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, is arrested for possession of a controlled substance.
The other band members fire him because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
July 5 – Dolly, a cloned sheep, is born.
July 19 – August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, Georgia.
July 27 – One person is killed and 111 are injured in the Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta.
August 6 – The Ramones play their last ever show at Lollapalooza.
August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the US presidential election.
August 28 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.
September 7 – Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot 4 times in Las Vegas, Nevada while leaving the MGM Grand hotel, after seeing the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon boxing match, in what is apparently a drive-by shooting.
September 12 – Controversy follows The Eagles when the band dedicates "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles.
September 13 – Tupac Shakur died in hospital after his wounds from the Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand shooting.
September 14 – Alija Izetbegovic is elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
September 27 – The Taliban capture Kabul, to take control of Afghanistan.
Former President Mohammad Najibullah is killed.
November 5 – A volcanic eruption under the Grimsvotn ice cap in Iceland causes a glacial flood.
November 5 – Bill Clinton is reelected as President of the United States, defeating Bob Dole.
November 7 – A category 4 cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh, India.
Over 2000 people were killed and 95% of the crops were destroyed.
November 8 – After having first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the movie Hype!,
a documentary on the Seattle grunge scene, opens to general audiences.
November 12 – Saudi and Kazak airliners collide, killing 349 people.
December 13 – Kofi Annan is chosen to become UN Secretary-General, a position he takes up on January 1, 1997.
December 30 – A train is bombed by Bodo separatists in Assam, India, killing 26 people.
Larry Ewing creates Tux, the Linux mascot.
Sildenafil patented.
Wasi Muhammad Qureshi appointed as president of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam by its founder Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi.
April 14 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
May 8 – 6ix9ine, American rapper
June 28 - Adam Dutschke, Australian basketball player
July 5 – Dolly, cloned sheep (d. 2003)
September 1 – Zendaya, American actress
September 6 – Lil Xan, American rapper
September 13 - Joseph Boyce, American actor, director, producer, and writer
December 11 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress
January 8 – Francois Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
January 15 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
January 17 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
January 18 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director and politician (b. 1923)
January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian writer (b. 1940)
January 28 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
February 2 – Gene Kelly, American actor, dancer and singer (b. 1912)
February 11 – Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
February 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
February 16 – Pat Brown, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)
February 23 – Helmut Schoen, German football coach (b. 1915)
March 9 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (b. 1911)
March 26 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
April 6 – Greer Garson, British actress (b. 1904)
April 20 – Christopher Robin Milne, British writer and bookseller (b. 1920)
April 21 – Dzokhar Dudayov, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
April 22 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
April 23 – P. L. Travers, Australian writer (b. 1899)
May 11 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
May 20 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (b. 1919)
May 31 – Timothy Leary, American writer and psychologist (b. 1904)
June 6 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (b. 1923)
June 15 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
June 23 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
June 26 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
July 1 – Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (b. 1955)
July 15 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
July 16 - John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (b. 1948)
July 30 – Claudette Colbert, French-born American actress (b. 1903)
August 1 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist (b. 1897)
August 2 – Obdulio Varelia, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
August 8 – Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (b. 1905)
August 27 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rap singer/songwriter, actor (b. 1971)
September 17 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
October 4 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b. 1913)
October 4 – Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese movie director (b. 1916)
October 12 – Rene Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
October 24 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (b. 1911)
October 27 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
November 1 – Junius Richard Jayewardene, former President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
November 2 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
November 3 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
November 15 – Alger Hiss, US State Department official (b. 1904)
November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist (b. 1926)
November 30 – Tiny Tim, American musician and singer (b. 1932)
December 3 – Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
December 9 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1913)
December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
December 20 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)
December 30 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
Physics: David M. Lee, Douglas Orsheroff, Robert C. Richardson
Chemistry: Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
Medicine: Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Literature: Wislawa Szymborska
Nobel Peace Prize: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos Horta
Economics: James Mirrlees, William Vickrey
Island of Dr. Moreau
"Angry Johnny" – Poe
"Macarena" – Los Del Rio
"Professional Widow (Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)" – Tori Amos
"Wonderwall" – Oasis
"6th Avenue Heartache" – The Wallflowers
"Aeroplane" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
"All Mixed Up" – 311
"California Love" – 2Pac
"Can't Get You Off My Mind" – Lenny Kravitz
"Change the World" – Eric Clapton
"Down" – 311
"Free As A Bird" – The Beatles
"Give Me One Reason" – Tracy Chapman
"Head Over Feet" – Alanis Morissette
"How Do U Want It" – 2Pac
"I Want To Come Over" – Melissa Etheridge
"If It Makes You Happy" – Sheryl Crow
"The Beautiful People" – Marilyn Manson
"Wash Away" – Vertical Horizon
"You Learn" – Alanis Morissette
Absolute Power – David Baldacci
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Bandarshah – Al-Tayyib Salih
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee – Tama Janowitz
Excession – Iain M. Banks
Executive Orders – Tom Clancy
Feet of Clay – Terry Pratchett
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting for Canada (Maîtres Chanteurs Chez Nous!) –
Diane Francis
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Fourth Estate – Jeffrey Archer
Gods and Generals – Jeff Shaara
The Goldberg Variations – Nancy Huston
The Gun Seller – Hugh Laurie
Hackers – short story collection
Hogfather – Terry Pratchett
How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Terry McMillan
Intensity – Dean R. Koontz
Kiki's Memoirs – Kiki, (translation by Samuel Putnam)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
Moonlight Becomes You – Mary Higgins Clark
Polaroids From The Dead – Douglas Coupland
Primary Colors – Joe Klein as "Anonymous"
The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
Selected Stories – Mavis Gallant
Sofia; The Sultan's Daughter – Ann Chamberlin
The Tailor of Panama – John le Carré
The Tenth Insight – James Redfield
Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose
A Vicious Circle – Amanda Craig
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.
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
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)
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
Major Payne
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (August 15) (first copy 1989)
"Alright" – Supergrass
"California Love" – Dr. Dre
"Fantasy" – Mariah Carey
"Hey Man, Nice Shot" – Filter
"I'll Be There for You" – The Rembrandts
"Waterfalls" – TLC
"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
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
January 21 – Laura Robson, British tennis player
February 14 – Paul Butcher, American actor
February 14 – Allie Grant, American actress
February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
March 5 – Aislinn Paul, Canadian actress
March 8 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
March 12 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter
March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards, British actress
April 12 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
July 16 – Mark Indelicato, American actor
July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper
September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
November 17 – Raquel Castro, American singer and actress
December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
December 8 – Raheem Sterling, English footballer
January 1 – Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907)
January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
January 20 – Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909)
January 22 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)
January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926)
January 28 – Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
January 29 – Ulrike Meier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)
February 6 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
February 9 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
February 14 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
February 24 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
March 2 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
March 4 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
March 6 – Melina Mercouri, Greek singer, actress and politician (b. 1920)
March 13 – Danny Barker, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
March 17 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
March 23 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
April 1 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
April 6 – Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
April 6 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
April 15 – John Curry, British ice skater (b. 1949)
April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)
April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
April 30 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
May 12 – John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
May 19 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German leader (b. 1913)
June 2 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
June 29 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian murderer (b. 1950)
July 2 – Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
July 7 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
July 8 – Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
July 16 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918)
July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)
August 11 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (b. 1905)
August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist (b. 1914)
August 19 – Linus Pauling, American scientist (b. 1901)
August 30 - Lindsay Anderson, British director (b. 1923)
September 7 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
September 10 – Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1924)
September 11 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (b. 1909)
September 12 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1937)
September 17 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
September 17 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
September 20 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonian diplomat (b. 1924)
September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)
October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
October 7 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)
October 19 – Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916)
October 20 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
October 24 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
November 11 – Pedro Zamora, American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
November 12 – Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940)
November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1908)
November 28 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
December 12 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
December 20 – Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
December 27 – Fanny Craddock, British cookery writer and television presenter (b. 1909)
December 31 – Bruno Pezzey, Austrian footballer (b. 1955)
January 1 – North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
January 6 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
January 11 – Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin
January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
January 17 – 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 am.
January 20 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
January 26 – A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
January 28 – The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial.
He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
January 31 – German luxury car manufacturer BMW announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace
February 6 — American pop rock band Maroon 5 formed (as Kara'a Flowers)
April 7 – The Rwandan Genocide begins.
April 8 – Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington.
He had committed suicide three days earlier.
April 19 – The Offspring releases their third album, Smash, which would be one of the band's top selling albums sold in the entire world.
It contains their best known hit singles, "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" and "Self Esteem".
April 27 – South Africa holds its first multiracial elections after the end of Apartheid.
April 30 – Racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during practice for the San Marino Grand Prix.
May 1 – Racing driver Ayrton Senna is killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, linking the United Kingdom and France, is opened.
May 10 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found dead.
O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of their murders the following year.
mid-July – Jupiter is hit by fragments from the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
August 12 – Woodstock '94 happens.
August 31 – The Russian army leaves Estonia.
September 28 – The Car Ferry Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea.
October 1 – Palau becomes an independent state in association with the USA.
October 14 – A popular Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction was released in theaters, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel and Bruce Willis.
November 5 – President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease in order to raise public awareness of the disease.
November 13 – Swedish voters support entry into the EU.
November 28 – Norwegian voters reject membership of the EU.
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo becomes President of Mexico.
December 26 – French anti-terrorist police storm a jet plane in Marseille, freeing all the hostages and killing 4 terrorists.
December 31 – This date is skipped in parts of Kiribati, as the International Date Line is shifted to the east of the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands, in order to integrate the whole country.
Physics – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford Glenwood Shull
Chemistry – George Andrew Olah
Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
Literature – Kenzaburo Oe
Nobel Peace Prize – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
Economics – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash, John Harsanyi
Pulp Fiction The Mask True Lies The Specialist The Seventh Brother The Shawshank Redemption Surviving the Game Speed Reality Bites Video games
Donkey Kong Country EarthBound (Japanese)
Kirby's Dream Course (Japanese)
Kirby's Avalanche Kirby's Dream Land 2 Wario Blast Wario Woods New books Accident  –  Danielle SteelThe Celestine Prophecy  –  James RedfieldThe Chamber  –  John GrishamCreatures of the Kingdom –  James A. MichenerDark Rivers of the Heart – Dean R. KoontzDaughter of Damascus – Shiham TurjumanDead Right – David FrumThe Debt of Honor  –  Tom ClancyDisclosure  –  Michael CrichtonThe Ghosts of Sleath – James HerbertThe Gift  –  Danielle SteelHow Late It Was, How Late – James KelmanThe Ice Storm – Rick MoodyThe Informers – Bret Easton EllisIn Search of CHURCHILL – Martin GilbertInteresting Times – Terry PratchettIn the Lake of the Woods – Tim O'BrienInsomnia  –  Stephen KingJust Like That – Lily BrettLife After God – Douglas CouplandNothing Lasts Forever –  Sidney SheldonPoint de côté  –  Judith GodrèchePolitically Correct Bedtime Stories – James Finn GarnerRecessional  –  James A. MichenerSongs of Earth and Power – Greg BearSoul Music – Terry PratchettThe Stone Diaries – Carol ShieldsTroubling a Star – Madeleine L'EngleLa Virevolte – Nancy HustonThe Wind in the Wheat, by Reed ArvinWings''  –  Danielle Steel
"90's Girl" – BlackGirl
"All For Love" – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
"All I Wanna Do" – Sheryl Crow
"All That She Wants" – Ace of Base
"Always" – Erasure
"Another Night" – Real McCoy
"Any Time, Any Place" – Janet Jackson
"Backwater" – Meat Puppets
"Big Empty" – Stone Temple Pilots
"Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden
"Come Out and Play" – The Offspring
"Closer" – Nine Inch Nails
"Cut Your Hair" – Pavement
"Don't Turn Around" – Ace of Base
"Everyday" – Phil Collins
"Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms
"Gin & Juice" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
"I Alone" – Live
"I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
"Longview" – Green Day
"Loser" – Beck
"Love Is All Around" – Wet, Wet, Wet
"Love is Strong" – Rolling Stones
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows
"Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
"Seether" – Veruca Salt
"She Don't Use Jelly" – The Flaming Lips
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" – Prince
"The Sign" – Ace of Base
"Until I Fall Away" – Gin Blossoms
"Without You" – Mariah Carey
"You Want This" – Janet Jackson
January 1 – Czechoslovakia divides.
Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.
January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
January 5 –  Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
January 9 – Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself with his home in France.
January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three-decades as a fugitive
January 18 – For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history.
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern No-fly Zone.
US forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program.
Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
January 20 – Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as President of the United States of America.
Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, becoming the first woman to be elected a Premier (prime minister of a province) in Canada. (
Rita Johnston was Canada's first female Premier)
A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
February 11 – Janet Reno is selected as Attorney General of the United States.
February 17 – A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing about 1, 200 out of the 1, 500 passengers on board.
February 24 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil.
February 26 – World Trade Center Bombing: In New York City, a van parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 people and injuring more than 1, 000.
February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations.
Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid, and a 51-day standoff begins.
March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 301 crashes after take-off in Skopje, killing 83 out of the 97 people on board.
March 12 – Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 people.
March 24 – The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizmann as President of Israel.
March 27 – Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
April 6 – A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
April 16 – Bosnian War: Srebrenica falls.
April 19 – A 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
April 23 – Eritreans vote in favour of independence from Ethiopia.
April 27 – All members of the Zambian national football team die in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
April 30 – Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
May 1 – Former French Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy commits suicide.
May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes Paraguay's first democratically elected president in almost 40 years.
May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
May 28 – Eritrea and Monaco are admitted to the United Nations.
June 5 – 24 Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.
July 2 – An integrist mob sets fire to a hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides, in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37 people.
July 26 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea, killing 68 people.
July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium dies aged 62.
August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is officially sworn in.
August 13 – Over 130 people die in the collapse of the Royal Plaza Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
September 6 – The first reference to the Year 2000 problem is made.
September 13 – Gro Harlem Brundtland is reelected as Prime Minister of Norway.
September 13 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign a peace accord.
September 23 – Sydney, Australia is awarded the 2000 Summer Olympics.
September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
September 30 – An Earthquake centred in Killari, Maharashtra, India kills more than 10, 000 people.
October 2 – The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 culminates with the Russian Military and security forces clearing the White House of Russia parliament building, squashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.
October 3 – A large scale battle erupts between US forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 18 Americans and over 1000 Somalis.
October 10 – The ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea, killing 292 people.
October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of President Melchior Ndadaye.
October 25 – Jean Chretien of the Liberal Party is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
October 31 – movie director Federico Fellini dies aged 73.
November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect formally establishing the EU.
November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari most, or Old Bridge in the town of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina by tank fire.
November 22 – The NAFTA is passed.
December 2 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.
December 20 – The first corrected images from the Hubble Space Telescope are taken.
December 30 – Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
December 30 – The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India.
December 31 – Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia dies aged 54.
January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
February 19 - Victoria Justice, American singer and actress
February 26 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
March 4 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer and television personality (d. 2015)
May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
May 18 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
June 26 – Ariana Grande, American singer
July 26 – Taylor Momsen, American actress
July 28 – Cher Lloyd, English singer
August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and dancer
September 1 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
October 2 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (b. 1917)
January 6 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist (b. 1908)
February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist (b. 1906)
March 20 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist (b. 1911)
March 31 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
April 19 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
April 23 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader (b. 1927)
May 1 – Pierre Beregovoy, French Prime Minister (b. 1925)
June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
June 16 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
June 19 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
June 30 – George 'Spanky' McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July 2 – Masuji Ibusi, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
July 3 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
August 21 – Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (b. 1911)
September 12 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
September 22 – Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
October 12 – Tofik Bakhramov, Soviet linesman (b. 1926)
October 21 – Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi (b. 1953)
October 25 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
October 31 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (b. 1920)
October 31 – River Phoenix, Musician and American actor (b. 1970)
November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist (b. 1905)
November 22 – Anthony Burgess, British writer (b. 1917)
December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (shot) (b. 1949)
December 4 – Frank Zappa, American musician (b. 1940)
December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
December 7 – Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
December 7 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
December 16 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1918)
December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (b. 1939)
Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Philip Allen Sharp
Literature – Toni Morrison
Peace – Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
Economics Robert Fogel, Douglas North
The Fugituve
Sailor Moon R: The Movie
"Ain't Nothing But a G Thang" – Snoop Doggy Dogg / Dr Dre
"Award Tour" – A Tribe Called Quest
"Bombtrack" – Rage Against the Machine
"Both Sides Of The Story" – Phil Collins
"Bullet In The Head" – Rage Against the Machine
"Creep" – Radiohead
"Cryin'" – Aerosmith
"Deeper And Deeper" – Madonna
"Human Behavior" – Björk
"Heart Shaped Box" – Nirvana
"Hey Jealousy" – Gin Blossoms
"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" – Meat Loaf
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" – The Proclaimers
"It Was a Good Day" – Ice Cube
"Man On The Moon" – R.E.M.
"On the Sea" – Vertical Horizon
"Passin' Me By" – The Pharcyde
"Pets" – Porno for Pyros
"Plush" – Stone Temple Pilots
"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Digable Planets
"Return of the Crazy One" Digital Underground
"Rooster" – Alice in Chains
"Sober" – Tool
"Standing Outside The Fire" – Garth Brooks
"Two Princes" – The Spin Doctors
"The World Around Me" – King's X
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years – Sue Townsend
Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
Barnyard Dance – Sandra Boynton
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays – Stephen Hawking
The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
The Client – John Grisham
Complicity – Iain Banks
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Honour Among Thieves – Jeffrey Archer
The Hope – Herman Wouk
In the Eye of the Sun – Ahdaf Soueif
Lasher – Anne Rice
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Losing Eddie – Deborah Joy Corey
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
Moving Mars – Greg Bear
The Night Manager – John le Carré
Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Stephen King
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale – Miranda Seymour
Pleading Guilty – Scott Turow
Le Rocher de Tanios – Amin Maalouf
The Scorpio Illusion – Robert Ludlum
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree – Tariq Ali
Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend – Robert James Waller
Too Big To Fail – Walter Stewart
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) – Esther Delisle
Vanished – Danielle Steel
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions – Martin Amis
The Wicca Spellbook – Gerina Dunwich
Without Remorse – Tom Clancy
January 1 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (born 1906)
January 2 – Virginia Field, British actress (born 1917)
January 3 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (born 1897)
January 9 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (born 1910)
January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet ice hockey player (born 1940)
January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (born 1915)
February 10 – Alex Haley, American writer (born 1921)
February 16 – Janio Quadros, former President of Brazil (born 1917)
February 29 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (born 1936)
March 9 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1913)
March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist (born 1899)
March 31 – Alfredo De Angelis, Argentine musician (born 1912)
April 5 – Sam Walton, American businessman (born 1918)
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born writer (born 1920)
April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1903)
April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist (born 1907)
April 19 – Benny Hill, British comedian (born 1924)
April 21 – Vladimir Cyrillovich, Russian aristocrat (born 1917)
April 23 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (born 1921)
April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (born 1909)
May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (born 1901)
May 14 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (born 1899)
May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (born 1903)
May 23 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (born 1939)
May 30 – Karl Carstens, former President of Germany (born 1914)
June 2 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter and director (born 1908)
June 18 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (born 1896)
June 28 – Mikhail Tal, former World chess champion (born 1936)
June 29 – Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (born 1919)
July 13 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (born 1905)
July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (born 1922)
July 22 – John Meyendorff, Russian-born Orthodox scholar (born 1926)
July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (born 1898)
July 29 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1952)
August 5 – Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)
August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (born 1954)
August 12 – John Cage, American composer (born 1912)
August 29 – Teddy Turner, British comedian (born 1917)
September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (born 1902)
September 12 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (born 1932)
September 25 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian politician (born 1947)
October 1 – Gert Bastian, German politician (born 1923)
October 1 – Petra Kelly, German politician (born 1947)
October 7 – Tevfik Esenc, last-known speaker of the Ubykh language (born 1904)
October 8 – Willy Brandt, former Chancellor of Germany (born 1913)
October 25 – Roger Miller, American singer (born 1936)
November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (born 1892)
November 7 – Alexander Dubcek, Slovakian politician (born 1921)
November 19 – Diane Varsi, American actress (born 1938)
November 22 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (born 1905)
December 17 – Dana Andrews, American actor (born 1909)
December 21 – Stella Adler, American acting teacher (born 1901)
December 21 – Albert King, American musician (born 1923)
December 24 – Peyo, comic artist (born 1928)
December 26 – Eve Poole, New Zealand politician (born 1924)
December 28 – Elfie Mayerhofer, Austrian actress and singer (born 1917)
December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress (born 1897)
January 1 – Oren Williams, American actor
January 1 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
January 19 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
January 24 – Becky Downie, British artistic gymnast
February 6 – Cara McCollum, American journalist (d. 2016)
February 11 – Taylor Lautner, American actor
February 11 – Georgia Groome, British actress
February 21 – Phil Jones, British footballer