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2000 was designated as:
 * International Year for the Culture of Peace
 * World Mathematical Year

Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium due to a tendency of grouping the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian Calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with year AD 1. Since the calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (See more at Century  and Millennium.)

The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand"). The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which are fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification. As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.

January

 * January 2 – Massacre of twenty Copts by Muslim villagers in Kosheh, Egypt.
 * January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
 * January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
 * January 14
 * The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
 * A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
 * January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
 * January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
 * January 31
 * Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
 * Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde, Greater Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

February

 * February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
 * February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.
 * February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
 * February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.
 * February 29 – A rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Lilian rule was introduced in the late 16th century. The next such leap year will occur in 2400.

March

 * March 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan.
 * March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of two Tokyo Metro trains kills five people.
 * March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048. Two weeks later, the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that lasted over 17 years.
 * March 12
 * Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
 * A Zenit-3SL launch fails due to a software bug.
 * March 13 – The United States dollar becomes the official currency of Ecuador, replacing the Ecuadorian sucre.

April

 * April 3 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
 * April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, D.C., ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.
 * April 30 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

May

 * May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.
 * May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
 * May 4
 * After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
 * The 7.6 Central Sulawesi earthquake affects Banggai, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving 46 dead and 264 injured.
 * May 5 – A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.
 * May 11 – The billionth living person in India is born.
 * May 13
 * A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23.
 * Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
 * May 24 – Real Madrid C.F. defeats Valencia CF 3–0 in the UEFA Champions League Final at Stade de France to win their second title between 1998 and 2002, and their eighth overall.

June

 * June 4 – The 7.9 Enggano earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), killing 103 people and injuring 2,174–2,585.
 * June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
 * June 10 – July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France.
 * June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.
 * June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.
 * June 28 – Elián González returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González, ending a protracted custody battle.
 * June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, nine die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.

July

 * July 1 – The Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is officially opened for traffic.
 * July 2 – France defeats Italy 2–1 after extra time in the final of the European Championship, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
 * July 7 – The draft assembly of Human Genome Project announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton, Francis Collins, and Craig Venter.
 * July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
 * July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
 * July 25 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.

August

 * August 3 – Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, after more than 100 people besiege the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile. This is the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the tabloid newspaper News of the World.
 * August 7 – DeviantART is launched.
 * August 8 – The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
 * August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea during one of the largest Russian naval exercises since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
 * August 14
 * Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 * Dora the Explorer, one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows, debuts.
 * August 23 – John Anthony Kaiser, a Roman Catholic priest, is murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
 * August 24 – The Nintendo GameCube is revealed.

September

 * September 6 – The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.
 * September 6–8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at U.N. Headquarters.
 * September 7–14 – Fuel protests take place in the United Kingdom, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
 * September 10 – Operation Barras: A British military operation to free five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment that were held captive for over two weeks during the Sierra Leone Civil War, all of which were rescued.
 * September 13 – Steve Jobs introduces the public beta of Mac OS X for US$29.95.
 * September 15 – October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, is the last Olympic Games of the 20th century.
 * September 16 – Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
 * September 26 – The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
 * September 29 – The HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland is closed.

October

 * October 5 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milošević.
 * October 6 – The last Mini is produced in Longbridge.
 * October 11 – 250 e6USgal of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
 * October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
 * October 22 – The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
 * October 26
 * Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian Princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day fake on April 17, 2001.
 * The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets 4-2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1. The series win was the Yankees third in a row and 26th overall.
 * October 30 – This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space; on October 31, Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
 * October 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths.

November

 * November 2 – The first resident crew enters the International Space Station.
 * November 3 – Widespread flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain.
 * November 7 – In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
 * November 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
 * November 17 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

December

 * December 7 – Kadisoka temple is discovered in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
 * December 15 – The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely.
 * December 25 – The Luoyang Christmas fire at a shopping center in China kills 309 people.

January

 * January 1 – Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater
 * January 7 – Marcus Scribner, American actor
 * January 8 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
 * January 11
 * Shareef O'Neal, American basketball player
 * Marrit Steenbergen, Dutch swimmer
 * January 19 – Choi Da-bin, South Korean figure skater
 * January 27 – Morgan Gibbs-White, English footballer

February

 * February 1 – Paris Smith, American actress and singer
 * February 5 – Jordan Nagai, American actor
 * February 10 – Yara Shahidi, American actress
 * February 20 – Josh Sargent, American footballer
 * February 21
 * Cho I-hsuan, Taiwanese professional tennis player
 * Yuto Miyazawa, Japanese singer
 * February 28 – Moise Kean, Italian footballer

March

 * March 1 – Ava Allan, American actress
 * March 2
 * Nahida Akter, Bangladeshi cricketer
 * Julia Kedhammar, Swedish singer
 * Bianca Umali, Filipino actress
 * March 5 – Jack Aitchison, Scottish footballer
 * March 6 – Jacob Bertrand, American actor
 * March 10 – Norah Flatley, American artistic gymnast
 * March 15 – Kristian Kostov, Russian/Bulgarian singer-songwriter
 * March 21 – Jace Norman, American actor
 * March 25
 * Camden Pulkinen, American figure skater
 * Christian Traeumer, American actor
 * March 27 – Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress
 * March 30 – Regan Mizrahi, American child actor
 * March 31 – Anu Anand, Indian actress

April

 * April 1 – Barbora Seemanová, Czech swimmer
 * April 6 – Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
 * April 7 – Ivan Ivanov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
 * April 9 – Jackie Evancho, American soprano
 * April 11
 * Morgan Lily, American actress
 * Alexei Krasnozhon, Russian-American figure skater
 * April 13 – Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
 * April 28 – Ellie Carpenter, Australian footballer

May

 * May 7 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
 * May 15 – Jacob Bragg, Australian runner
 * May 18
 * Addison Holley, Canadian actress
 * Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
 * May 23 – Evan Bird, Canadian actor
 * May 24 – Anja Crevar, Serbian swimmer
 * May 28 – Taylor Ruck, Canadian swimmer
 * May 30 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

June

 * June 1 – Willow Shields, American actress and dancer
 * June 2 – Lilimar Hernandez, Venezuelan actress
 * June 5 – Eliias, Swedish singer
 * June 9 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast
 * June 13 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer
 * June 16 – Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
 * June 23
 * Kim Hyun-soo, South Korean actress
 * Caitlin Blackwood, English actress
 * June 29 – Kia Pegg, English actress

July

 * July 1 – Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter
 * July 4 – Rikako Ikee, Japanese swimmer
 * July 6 – Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * July 12 – Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian footballer
 * July 16 – Jonathan Morgan Heit, American actor
 * July 18 – Angelina Melnikova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 24 – Marko Čalasan, Macedonian computer systems prodigy
 * July 25 – Ellie Soutter, British snowboarder (d. 2018)
 * July 28
 * Kaitlin De Guzman, Filipino artistic gymnast
 * Emile Smith Rowe, English footballer

August

 * August 2 – Sandeep Lamichhane, Nepalese cricketer
 * August 3 – Landry Bender, American actress
 * August 8 – Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
 * August 11 – James Cartmell, British actor
 * August 17 – Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter
 * August 20 – Fátima Ptacek, American actress
 * August 21 – Kate Valdez, Filipino model and actress
 * August 24 – Griffin Gluck, American actor
 * August 25 – Vincenzo Cantiello, Italian singer
 * August 26 – Noah Ryan Scott, Canadian actor
 * August 27 – Tatsuomi Hamada, Japanese actor and model
 * August 29 – Julia Grosso, Canadian soccer player

September

 * September 1 – Jacob Ewaniuk, Canadian teen actor
 * September 5 – Ceren Akkaya, Turkish footballer
 * September 28
 * Frankie Jonas, American actor
 * Ahn Do-gyu, South Korean actor

October

 * October 6 – Isobelle Molloy, British actress
 * October 10 – Aedin Mincks, American actor
 * October 11 – Hayden Byerly, American actor
 * October 16 – David Rawle, Irish actor
 * October 25
 * Vincent Zhou, American figure skater
 * Mizuki Itagaki, Japanese actor, model, and singer
 * October 26 – Ellery Sprayberry, American actress
 * October 31 – Willow Smith, American actress and singer

November

 * November 2 – Alphonso Davies, Canadian football player
 * November 8
 * Jade Pettyjohn, American actress
 * Anastasia Skoptsova, Russian ice dancer
 * Jasmine Thompson, English singer and songwriter
 * November 10 – Mackenzie Foy, American model and actress
 * November 20 – Connie Talbot, British singer
 * November 21 – Megan Roberts, Canadian artistic gymnast
 * November 22 – Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress

December

 * December 12 – Lucas Jade Zumann, American actor
 * December 24 – Ethan Bortnick, American musician

January

 * January 2
 * Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
 * Patrick O'Brian, British writer (b. 1914)
 * Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, mother of King Juan Carlos I (b. 1910)
 * January 4
 * Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. (b. 1947)
 * Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1909)
 * January 7
 * Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
 * Makhmud Esambayev, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer (b. 1924)
 * January 8 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian and show jumper (b. 1918)
 * January 10 – Sam Jaffe, American film producer (b. 1901)
 * January 11
 * Dan Kemp, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
 * January 12 – Bobby Phills, American professional basketball player (b. 1969)
 * January 13 – Antti Hyvärinen, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (b. 1932)
 * January 15 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
 * January 18 – Frances Drake, American actress (b. 1912)
 * January 19
 * Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
 * Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1914)
 * Alan North, American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 20 – Izabella Yurieva, Russian singer (b. 1899)
 * January 21 – Saeb Salam, Lebanese politician, 20th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1905)
 * January 24 – Rex Nelon, American Southern gospel singer (b. 1932)
 * January 26 – Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)

February

 * February 5
 * Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
 * Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
 * February 7
 * Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
 * Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
 * February 8
 * Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
 * Bob Collins, American broadcaster (b. 1942)
 * Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian lawyer and politician, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1902)
 * Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
 * February 9
 * Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921)
 * Buck Young, American actor (b. 1920)
 * February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
 * February 11
 * Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator (b. 1917)
 * Roger Vadim, French film director and producer (b. 1928)
 * February 12
 * Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
 * Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (b. 1922)
 * Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
 * Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American rock singer and performer (b. 1929)
 * February 13 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
 * February 19
 * Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
 * Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 2nd Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1928)
 * February 23
 * Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
 * Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)

March

 * March 2 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian Olympic curler (b. 1963)
 * March 3 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
 * March 5
 * Lolo Ferrari, French actress and dancer (b. 1962)
 * Roma Mitchell, Australia lawyer and Governor of South Australia (b. 1913)
 * March 6
 * John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
 * Abraham Waligo, Ugandan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1928)
 * March 7
 * Charles Gray, English actor (b. 1928)
 * Masami Yoshida, Japanese athlete (b. 1958)
 * March 9 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1908)
 * March 11
 * Will Roberts, British painter (b. 1907)
 * Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (b. 1912)
 * March 20 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
 * March 27 – Ian Dury, British rock musician (b. 1942)
 * March 28 – Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905)
 * March 30 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian diplomat and 8th President of Austria (b. 1915)

April

 * April 2 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso informant (b. 1928)
 * April 3 – Terence McKenna, American writer, philosopher, writer and entheogen advocate (b. 1946)
 * April 4 – Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914)
 * April 5 – Lee Petty, American race-car driver (b. 1914)
 * April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
 * April 8
 * Bernie Grant, British politician (b. 1944)
 * Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
 * April 10
 * Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician and Interim President of Algeria (b. 1925)
 * Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
 * April 11 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
 * April 13 – Albert Turner, American civil rights activist (b. 1936)
 * April 14 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
 * April 15 – Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1925)
 * April 25 – David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
 * April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng, 2nd Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1906)
 * April 30 – Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)

May

 * May 1
 * Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
 * Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (b. 1961)
 * May 2 – Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (b. 1943)
 * May 3 – Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
 * May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
 * May 8 – Hubert Maga, 1st President of Dahomey (b. 1916)
 * May 10
 * Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (b. 1954)
 * Craig Stevens, American actor (b. 1918)
 * May 11 – René Muñoz, Cuban actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
 * May 12 – Adam Petty, American NASCAR driver (b. 1980)
 * May 13
 * Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and director (b. 1938)
 * Tomomi Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
 * May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
 * May 19 – Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (b. 1921)
 * May 20
 * Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
 * Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
 * May 21
 * Dame Barbara Cartland, British novelist (b. 1901)
 * Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
 * Mark R. Hughes, American MLM founder (b. 1956)
 * Erich Mielke, German secret police official (b. 1907)
 * May 25 – Francis Lederer, French film and stage actor (b. 1899)
 * May 27
 * Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
 * Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
 * May 30 – Doris Hare, British actress (b. 1905)
 * May 31
 * Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat and politician, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936)
 * Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)

June

 * June 3 – Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
 * June 10
 * Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician and general, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930)
 * Frank Patterson, Irish tenor (b. 1938)
 * June 12 – Logan Ramsey, American actor (b. 1921)
 * June 14 – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
 * June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
 * June 17 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (b. 1931)
 * June 18 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
 * June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924)
 * June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
 * June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
 * June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
 * June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)

July

 * July 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
 * July 2 – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1952)
 * July 6 – Lazar Koliševski, 2nd President of Yugoslavia (b. 1914)
 * July 7
 * Kenny Irwin Jr., NASCAR Driver (b. 1969)
 * James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
 * July 8 – FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930)
 * July 10
 * Vakkom Majeed, Indian freedom fighter and Legislative member (b. 1909)
 * Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept of Ireland (b. 1912)
 * July 11 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
 * July 12 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer (b. 1908)
 * July 15 – Kalle Svensson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
 * July 21 – Yosef Qafih, Israeli rabbi (b. 1917)
 * July 27 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (b. 1915)
 * July 28 – Abraham Pais, American physicist (b. 1918)
 * July 29 – René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist (b. 1923)

August

 * August 3 – Isolina Ferre, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (b. 1914)
 * August 5
 * Otto Buchsbaum, German writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
 * Sir Alec Guinness, British actor and writer (b. 1914)
 * August 6
 * Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923)
 * Don A. Jones, American admiral and civil engineer (b. 1912)
 * August 8 – K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (b. 1921)
 * August 9 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist (b. 1920)
 * August 12
 * Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941)
 * Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
 * August 13 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer (b. 1964)
 * August 19 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
 * August 20 – Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)
 * August 21 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
 * August 22 – Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani political figure, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938)
 * August 24 – Andy Hug, Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickboxer (b. 1964)
 * August 25
 * Carl Barks, American cartoonist and screenwriter (b. 1901)
 * Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1936)
 * August 30 – David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948)

September

 * September 2
 * Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
 * Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902)
 * Jean Speegle Howard, American actress (b. 1927)
 * September 5 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (b. 1918)
 * September 14 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
 * September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
 * September 17
 * Bakht Singh, Indian evangelist (b. 1903)
 * Paula Yates, British television presenter (b. 1959)
 * September 19
 * Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
 * September 22 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese fighter ace (b. 1916)
 * September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
 * September 26 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
 * September 27 – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916)
 * September 28
 * Peter Gennaro, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
 * Pote Sarasin, Thai diplomat and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
 * Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)

October

 * October 1 – Rosie Douglas, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1941)
 * October 3 – Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
 * October 4 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist (b. 1932)
 * October 6 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
 * October 7 – Walter Krupinski, German fighter ace and general (b. 1920)
 * October 8 – Sheila Holland, English writer (b. 1937)
 * October 9 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, British recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
 * October 10 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Ceylon and 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
 * October 11 – Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
 * October 13 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
 * October 14 – Tony Roper, American NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
 * October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist (b. 1912)
 * October 16
 * Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
 * Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)
 * October 18 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
 * October 19 – Charles Perkins, Australian aboriginal activist and soccer player (b. 1936)
 * October 21 – Reginald Kray, British criminal (b. 1933)
 * October 22
 * Fred Pratt Green, British Methodist minister and hymn writer (b. 1903)
 * Jean-Luc Mandaba, 11th Prime Minister of Central African Republic (b. 1943)
 * October 23
 * Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler (b. 1966)
 * Nils Tapp, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1917)
 * October 27 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * October 28 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
 * October 30 – Steve Allen, American comedian and author (b. 1921)
 * October 31 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)

November

 * November 5
 * David Brower, American environmental activist (b. 1912)
 * Jimmie Davis, American singer (b. 1899)
 * Roger Peyrefitte, French writer and diplomat (b. 1907)
 * November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
 * November 7
 * C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
 * Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
 * November 8 – Józef Pińkowski, Polish politician, 50th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1929)
 * November 10
 * Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
 * Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, 102nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
 * November 11 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
 * November 16
 * DJ Screw, American hip hop DJ (b. 1971)
 * Hosea Williams, American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician (b. 1926)
 * November 17 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 * November 19 – George Cosmas Adyebo, 6th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1947)
 * November 22
 * Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist (b. 1907)
 * Christian Marquand, French actor and director (b. 1927)
 * Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovakian Olympic athlete (b. 1922)
 * November 28 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)

December

 * December 2 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
 * December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American writer (b. 1917)
 * December 6 – Werner Klemperer, American actor (b. 1920)
 * December 8 – Ionatana Ionatana, 5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1938)
 * December 10
 * Paul Avery, American journalist (b. 1934)
 * Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
 * December 11 – Johannes Virolainen, Finnish politician, 30th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1914)
 * December 17 – Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy diplomat (b. 1932)
 * December 18 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (b. 1959)
 * December 19
 * John Lindsay, American politician and lawyer, Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
 * Roebuck "Pops" Staples, American musician (b. 1914)
 * Son Sann, Cambodian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1911)
 * December 23
 * Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Victor Borge, Danish-born American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
 * December 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
 * December 30 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
 * December 31 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b. 1966)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa
 * Economics – James Heckman and Daniel McFadden
 * Literature – Gao Xingjian
 * Peace – Kim Dae-jung
 * Physics – Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, and Jack Kilby
 * Physiology or Medicine – Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel

January

 * January 1 – The euro is established.
 * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
 * January 4 – Gunmen open fire on Shia Muslims worshiping in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring 25.
 * January 20 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.
 * January 25 – A 6.2 earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,900.

February

 * February 4 – Unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, sparking outrage in the city.
 * February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
 * February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231.
 * February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate.
 * February 16
 * In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
 * Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders.
 * February 21 – Sanna Sillanpää shoots four men, killing three at a shooting range in Finland.
 * February 22 – Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.
 * February 23
 * Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
 * White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and murdering African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).
 * An avalanche destroys the village of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
 * February 24 – LaGrand case: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery in 1982 that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.
 * February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.

March

 * March 1
 * One of four bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
 * Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.
 * The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
 * March 3 – Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber in Arizona.
 * March 4 – In a military court, United States Marine Corps Captain Richard J. Ashby is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler hit a gondola cable.
 * March 12 – Former Warsaw Pact members Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic join NATO.
 * March 15 – In Brussels, Belgium, the Santer Commission resigns over allegations of corruption.
 * March 21
 * Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
 * The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture.
 * March 23 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
 * March 24
 * NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign state.
 * A fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
 * March 25 – Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the town of Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200.
 * March 26 – The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
 * March 27 – Kosovo War: A U.S. F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Yugoslav forces.
 * March 29 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.

April

 * April 1 – Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become Canada's third territory.
 * April 5
 * Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in the Netherlands. The United Nations suspends sanctions against Libya.
 * In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.
 * April 7 – Kosovo War: Kosovo's main border crossings are closed by Yugoslav forces to prevent Kosovo Albanians from leaving.
 * April 8 – Bill Gates's personal fortune makes him the wealthiest individual in the world due to the increased value of Microsoft stock.
 * April 9 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, president of Niger, is assassinated.
 * April 14 – Kosovo War: NATO warplanes repeatedly bomb ethnic Albanian refugee convoys for 2 hours over a 12-mile stretch of road, after mistaking them for Yugoslav military trucks, between Đakovica and Dečani in western Kosovo, killing at least 73 refugees.
 * April 17 – A nail bomb, the first of three planted by David Copeland over a fortnight, explodes in the middle of a busy market in Brixton, South London.
 * April 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado, teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.
 * April 26
 * Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor becomes the 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
 * British TV presenter Jill Dando, 37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, London.
 * April 30
 * Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), bringing the total members to 10.
 * A third nail bomb planted by David Copeland explodes in The Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street, Soho, London, killing a pregnant woman and two friends and injuring 70 others.

May

 * May 3 – 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: a devastating tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale, hit southern and eastern Oklahoma City metropolitan area, killing 36 people (and 5 indirectly). It also produces the highest winds recorded on Earth: 301 ±.
 * May 6 – Elections are held in Scotland and Wales for the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales.
 * May 7
 * Kosovo War: in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and twenty others wounded when a NATO B-2 aircraft bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
 * In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
 * May 12 – David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (Speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
 * May 13 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President of Italy.
 * May 17 – Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.
 * May 26
 * The Indian Air Force launches an attack on intruding Pakistan Army troops and mujahideen militants in Kashmir.
 * The first Welsh Assembly in over 600 years opens in Cardiff.
 * The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final takes place at the Camp Nou Stadium, Barcelona, in which the English side Manchester United defeats the German side Bayern Munich 2–1.
 * May 27 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
 * May 28
 * Two Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic firearms, and later executed with their own service pistols in Malexander, Sweden.
 * After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.
 * May 29 – Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Fourth Nigerian Republic is established with Olusegun Obasanjo as president.

June

 * June 1 – Napster, a music downloading service, debuts.
 * June 2 – The King of Bhutan allows television transmissions to commence in the Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee.
 * June 5 – The Islamic Salvation Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.
 * June 8 – The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
 * June 9 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
 * June 10 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
 * June 12
 * Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian/Operation Agricola begins: NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping forces KFOR enter the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 * Texas Governor George W. Bush announces he will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States.
 * June 14 – Thabo Mbeki is elected President of South Africa.
 * June 18 – The J18 international anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.
 * June 19 – Turin, Italy, is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics.
 * June 30 – Twenty-three people die in a fire at the Sealand Youth Training Center in South Korea.

July

 * July 1
 * The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that devolved powers are officially transferred from the Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
 * Europol (short for European Police Office) the European Union's criminal intelligence agency becomes fully operational.
 * July 7 – In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13.
 * July 10 – American soccer player Brandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the final of the FIFA Women's World Cup.
 * July 11 – India recaptures Kargil, forcing the Pakistan Army to retreat. India announces victory, ending the 2-month conflict.
 * July 16 – Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane crashes piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., killing him, his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette.
 * July 20
 * Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 – piloted by Gus Grissom in 1961 – is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
 * Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China under Jiang Zemin.
 * July 23
 * NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is launched.
 * Mohammed VI of Morocco becomes king upon the death of his father Hassan II.
 * July 23 – Fourteen Kosovo Serb villagers are killed by ethnic Albanian gunmen in the village of Staro Gračko.
 * July 27 – Twenty-one people die in a canyoning disaster at the Saxetenbach Gorge near Interlaken, Switzerland.
 * July 31 – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.

August

 * August 7 – Hundreds of Chechen guerrillas invade the Russian republic of Dagestan, triggering a short war.
 * August 10 – The Atlantique incident occurs as an intruding Pakistan Navy plane is shot down in India, sparking tensions between the two nations, coming just a month after the end of the Kargil War.
 * August 11 – A total solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia.
 * August 17 – The 7.6 İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 17,000 dead and around 50,000 injured.
 * August 19 – In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Yugoslavs rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević.
 * August 26 – The Second Chechen War begins
 * August 30 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia (which had invaded and occupied it since 1975) in a referendum.

September

 * September 7 – The 6.0 Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
 * September 8 – The first of a series of Russian apartment bombings occurs. Subsequent bombings occur on September 13 and 16, while a bombing on September 22 fails.
 * September 12 – Under international pressure to allow an international peacekeeping force, Indonesian president BJ Habibie announces that he will do so.
 * September 14 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
 * September 21 – The 921 earthquake, also known as the Jiji earthquake (magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale), kills about 2,400 people in Taiwan.

October

 * October – NASA loses one of its probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter.
 * October 1 – Shanghai Pudong International Airport opens in China, taking over all international flights from Hongqiao.
 * October 5 – Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west of London, England.
 * October 12 – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, who is out of the country. The generals lead a coup d'état, ousting Sharif's administration, and Musharraf takes control of the government.
 * October 13 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
 * October 27 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.
 * October 29 – A super cyclonic storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000 people.
 * October 31
 * EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board.
 * Roman Catholic Church and several Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, attempting to resolve a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.

November

 * November 6 – Australians defeat a referendum proposing the replacement of the Queen and the Governor General with a President to make Australia a republic.
 * November 12 – The 7.2 Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.
 * November 20 – China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft.
 * November 23 – The National Assembly of Kuwait revokes a 1985 law that granted women's suffrage.
 * November 26 – The 7.5 Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
 * November 27 – The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government, with leader Helen Clark becoming the second female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
 * November 30 – The ExxonMobil merger is completed, forming the largest corporation in the world.

December

 * December 3
 * After rowing for 81 days and 5,486 kilometers (2,962 nautical miles), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
 * NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander, moments before the spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere.
 * December 5 – Bolivian municipal elections, the first election contested by Evo Morales' Movement for Socialism.
 * December 18 – NASA launched the Terra platform into orbit, carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
 * December 20 – The sovereignty of Macau is transferred from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China after 442 years of Portuguese settlement.
 * December 26 – Cyclones Lothar and Martin killed 140 people as they crossed France, southern Germany, and Switzerland.
 * December 27 – Storm Martin caused damage throughout France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, including an emergency due to flooding at the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant.
 * December 31
 * The U.S. turned over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian Government, as stipulated in the Torrijos–Carter Treaties of 1977.
 * Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
 * 3rd millennium celebrations.

January

 * January 1
 * Gianluca Scamacca, Italian footballer
 * Diamond White, American actress, voice artist, and singer
 * January 4
 * Daniel Arzani, Australian footballer
 * Nico Hischier, Swiss ice hockey player
 * Gage Munroe, Canadian actor
 * Collin Sexton, American basketball player
 * January 5 – Mattias Svanberg, Swedish footballer
 * January 6 – Elena Radionova, Russian figure skater
 * January 9
 * Li Zhuhao, Chinese swimmer
 * Maximiliano Romero, Argentinian footballer
 * January 12 – Nicolás Schiappacasse, Uruguayan footballer
 * January 15 – Miray Daner, Turkish actress
 * January 18 – Karan Brar, American actor
 * January 19
 * Valentino Müller, Austrian footballer
 * Jonathan Taylor, American football player
 * January 23
 * Alban Lafont, French footballer
 * Malang Sarr, French footballer
 * January 24 – Shan Huanhuan, Chinese footballer
 * January 25 – Jai Waetford, Australian singer

February

 * February 4 – Mohammad Soltani Mehr, Iranian footballer
 * February 7 – Bea Miller, American actress, singer, and songwriter
 * February 10 – Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress
 * February 11
 * Candace Hill, American track and field athlete
 * Andriy Lunin, Ukrainian footballer
 * February 14 – Tyler Adams, American footballer
 * February 17 – Oscar Krusnell, Swedish footballer
 * February 19
 * Georgia Coates, British swimmer
 * Quinn Lord, Canadian actor
 * Hugo Gonzalez, Spanish swimmer
 * February 20 – Lea van Acken, German actress
 * February 25 – Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer
 * February 28 – Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player

March

 * March 2 – Abdullah Al-Qwabani, Yemeni long-distance runner
 * March 5 – Colin Schooler, American football player
 * March 6 – Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Japanese athlete
 * March 14 – Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player
 * March 16
 * Bailie Key, American artistic gymnast
 * Antonis Stergiakis, Greek footballer
 * Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian-Dominican baseball player
 * March 22 – Mick Schumacher, German racing driver
 * March 24 – Arina Openysheva, Russian swimmer
 * March 25 – Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
 * March 29 – Ezequiel Barco, Argentinian footballer
 * March 31
 * Sawyer Fredericks, American singer-songwriter
 * Jens Odgaard, Danish footballer

April

 * April 1 – Jairus Aquino, Filipino actor
 * April 2 – Sophie Reynolds, American actress
 * April 5
 * Maria Astashkina, Russian swimmer
 * Sharlene San Pedro, Filipina actress
 * April 6 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor
 * April 8
 * CiCi Bellis, American tennis player.
 * José Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 * April 9 – Isaac Hempstead Wright, British actor
 * April 15 – Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
 * April 16 – Wendell Carter, American basketball player
 * April 18 – Michael Andrew, American swimmer
 * April 24 – Jonathan Leko, English footballer
 * April 27 – Joel Asoro, Swedish footballer
 * April 30 – Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster

May

 * May 2 – Andre Dozzell, English footballer
 * May 5
 * Jonny Gray, Canadian actor
 * Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
 * Nathan Chen, American figure skater
 * May 8
 * Maykel Massó, Cuban long jumper
 * Rebeca Andrade, Brazilian artistic gymnast
 * May 11 – Sabrina Carpenter, American actress, singer, and songwriter
 * May 13 – Francis Magundayao, Filipino actor
 * May 18 – Teo Halm, American actor
 * May 22 – Camren Bicondova, American actress and dancer
 * May 24 – Charlie Plummer, American actor
 * May 25 – Brec Bassinger, American actress
 * May 27 – Maria Kameneva, Russian swimmer
 * May 28 – Cameron Boyce, American actor
 * May 29 – Park Ji-hoon, South Korean singer and child actor

June

 * June 1 – Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater
 * June 2 – Madison Leisle, American actress
 * June 11 – Kai Havertz, German footballer
 * June 18 – Trippie Redd, American rapper
 * June 21 – Natalie Alyn Lind, American actress
 * June 22 – Cam Akers, American football player
 * June 23
 * Noah Marullo, British child actor
 * Semisi Otukolo, Tongan footballer
 * Linton Maina, German footballer
 * June 24 – Mads Roerslev, Danish footballer
 * June 26 – Harley Quinn Smith, American actress
 * June 27 – Chandler Riggs, American actor
 * June 29 – Nikita Volodin, Russian pair skater

July

 * July 1 – Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
 * July 4 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer and dancer
 * July 6 – Denis Khodykin, Russian pair skater
 * July 9 – Claire Corlett, American actress and singer
 * July 10 – April Ivy, Portuguese singer and composer
 * July 12 – Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Malaysian diver
 * July 13 – Leong Jun Hao, Malaysian badminton player
 * July 15 – Seda Tutkhalyan, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 17
 * Lisandro Cuxi, Portuguese-French singer
 * Stahl Gubag, Papua New Guinean footballer
 * July 20
 * Princess Alexandra of Hanover
 * Ellie Downie, British artistic gymnast
 * July 28 – Troy Brown Jr., American basketball player
 * July 30 – Joey King, American actress

August

 * August 2 – Emma Bale, Belgian singer
 * August 3 – Brahim Díaz, Spanish footballer
 * August 4 – Kelly Gould, American actress
 * August 7 – Sydney McLaughlin, American hurdler and sprinter
 * August 9
 * Ariana Guido, American actress and comedian
 * Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater
 * August 11
 * Kevin Knox, American basketball player
 * Mary-Sophie Harvey, Canadian swimmer
 * August 12 – Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer
 * August 16 – Karen Chen, American figure skater
 * August 19 – Ethan Cutkosky, American actor
 * August 21 – Maxim Knight, American actor
 * August 22
 * Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
 * Ricardo Hurtado, American actor and singer
 * August 26 – Leonie Kullmann, German swimmer
 * August 27
 * Mitchell van Bergen, Dutch footballer
 * Mile Svilar, Belgian footballer
 * August 28 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark
 * August 31 – Miomir Kecmanović, Serbian tennis player

September

 * September 3 – Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper
 * September 7
 * Michelle Creber, Canadian actress and singer
 * Cameron Ocasio, American actor
 * September 13 – Ekaterina Borisova, Russian pair skater
 * September 14 – Emma Kenney, American actress
 * September 15 – Jaren Jackson Jr., American basketball player
 * September 16 – Mao Yi, Chinese gymnast
 * September 17 – Daniel Huttlestone, English actor
 * September 21 – Alexander Isak, Swedish footballer
 * September 22
 * Kim Yoo Jung, South Korean actress
 * Erin Pitt, Canadian actress
 * September 28 – Kayla Day, American tennis player
 * September 30 – Flávia Saraiva, Brazilian artistic gymnast

October

 * October 1 – Christopher Taylor, Jamaican sprinter
 * October 3 – Aramis Knight, American actor
 * October 14
 * Daniel Roche, British actor
 * Wu Yibing, Chinese tennis player
 * Laura Zeng, American rhythmic gymnast
 * October 15
 * Bailee Madison, American actress
 * Alexei Sancov, Moldovan swimmer
 * Ben Woodburn, British footballer
 * October 17 – Gabrielle Fa'amausili, New Zealand swimmer
 * October 23 – Joseph Andre Garcia, Filipino actor
 * October 27 – Amy Tinkler, British artistic gymnast
 * October 30 – Wang Yan, Chinese gymnast

November

 * November 1 – Buddy Handleson, American actor
 * November 8 – Isaac Bonga, German basketball player
 * November 9 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress and singer
 * November 10
 * Armand Duplantis, Swedish pole vaulter
 * Kiernan Shipka, American actress
 * November 11
 * Emma Gonzalez, American gun control activist
 * Fan Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast
 * November 13 – Lando Norris, British racing driver
 * November 14 – Ellis Hollins, British actor
 * November 19 – Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater
 * November 26 – Olivia O'Brien, American singer

December

 * December 18 – YBN Nahmir, American rapper and songwriter
 * December 20 – Migo Adecer, Filipino dancer and actor
 * December 29 – Nadine Joy Nathan, Singaporean artistic gymnast

January

 * January 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist and composer (b. 1962)
 * January 10 – Gavin Relly, South African businessman. (b. 1926)
 * January 11
 * Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1912)
 * Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
 * Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian writer (b. 1921)
 * January 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914)
 * January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
 * January 21
 * Gerda Ring, Norwegian stage actress and stage producer (b. 1891)
 * Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
 * January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
 * January 23 – John Osteen, American televangelist (b. 1921)
 * January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
 * January 31 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)

February

 * February 1
 * Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943)
 * Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
 * February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist (b. 1906)
 * February 6
 * Don Dunstan, Australian politician (b. 1926)
 * Jimmy Roberts, American singer (b. 1924)
 * February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
 * February 8 – Dame Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1919)
 * February 9 – Bryan Mosley, English actor (b. 1931)
 * February 12 – Heinz Schubert, German actor and photographer (b. 1925)
 * February 14
 * Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
 * John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925)
 * February 15
 * Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
 * Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (b. 1926)
 * February 18
 * Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (b. 1906).
 * Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
 * February 20
 * Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
 * Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
 * February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist (b. 1918)
 * February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918)
 * February 24
 * Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (b. 1936)
 * Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (b. 1903)
 * Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
 * February 25 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912)
 * February 26 – José Quintero, Panamanian director (b. 1924)
 * February 28
 * Bing Xin, Chinese author and poet (b. 1900)
 * Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918)

March

 * March 1 – Ann Corio, American dancer and actress (b. 1914)
 * March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (b. 1939)
 * March 3 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist (b. 1904)
 * March 4
 * Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908)
 * Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)
 * Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, 79th President of Switzerland (b. 1917)
 * March 5
 * Alfred Denning, Baron Denning, British lawyer and judge (b. 1899)
 * John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (b. 1920)
 * Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
 * March 6
 * Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
 * Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain (b. 1933)
 * March 7
 * Sidney Gottlieb, American intelligence official (b. 1918)
 * Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (b. 1928)
 * March 8
 * Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
 * Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
 * March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916)
 * March 13
 * Lee Falk, American writer, theater director, and producer (b. 1911)
 * Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
 * March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921)
 * March 19 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
 * March 21 – Ernie Wise, English comedian (b. 1925)
 * March 22 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
 * March 26 – David Holliday, American actor (b. 1937)
 * March 29 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
 * March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922)

April

 * April 3 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
 * April 4
 * Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
 * Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1944)
 * April 9 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerese military officer, 5th President of Niger (b. 1949)
 * April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress (b. 1919)
 * April 12 – Boxcar Willie, American country music singer (b. 1931)
 * April 13 – Willi Stoph, German politician, 2-time Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1914)
 * April 14
 * Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
 * April 15 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (b. 1944)
 * April 20
 * Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (b. 1896)
 * April 21 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American silent film actor (b. 1904)
 * April 25
 * Herman Miller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919)
 * Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914)
 * Roger Troutman, American funk musician (b. 1951)
 * April 26
 * Adrian Borland, British musician and producer (b. 1957)
 * Jill Dando, British television journalist (b. 1961)
 * April 27
 * Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
 * Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
 * April 28
 * Rory Calhoun, American television and film actor (b. 1922)
 * Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (b. 1921)
 * Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)

May

 * May 1 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
 * May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
 * May 3 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
 * May 8
 * Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
 * Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
 * Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator (b. 1904)
 * May 10
 * Eric Willis, Australian politician (b. 1922)
 * Shel Silverstein, American author and poet (b. 1930)
 * May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
 * May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
 * May 17 – Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
 * May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
 * May 19
 * Candy Candido, American voice actor (b. 1913)
 * Alister Williamson, Australian actor (b. 1918)
 * May 23
 * Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
 * John T. Hayward, American admiral (b. 1908)
 * May 26
 * Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
 * Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)

June

 * June 3 – Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player (b. 1921)
 * June 5 – Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925)
 * June 6 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
 * June 8 – Francis Brian Shorland, New Zealand organic chemist (b. 1909)
 * June 9
 * Andrew L. Stone, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1902)
 * Maurice Journeau, French composer (b. 1898)
 * June 11 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
 * June 12 – Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater (b. 1955)
 * June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English politician (b. 1940)
 * June 23 – Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
 * June 25
 * Fred Trump, American real estate developer (b. 1905)
 * Yevgeny Morgunov, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer (b. 1927)
 * June 27
 * Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., American admiral (b. 1919)
 * Siegfried Lowitz, German television actor (b. 1914)
 * Georgios Papadopoulos, military ruler of Greece, 69th Prime Minister of Greece and 4th President of Greece (b. 1919)
 * June 29 – Allan Carr, American producer (b. 1937)

July

 * July 1
 * Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1957)
 * Edward Dmytryk, American film director (b. 1908)
 * Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
 * Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
 * July 2 – Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
 * July 3 – Mark Sandman, American rock musician and artist (b. 1952)
 * July 4 – Jack Watson, English actor (b. 1915)
 * July 6
 * Carl Gunter Jr., American politician (b. 1938)
 * Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
 * July 7 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American writer (b. 1908)
 * July 8
 * Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1925)
 * July 9 – James Farmer, American civil rights leader (b. 1920)
 * July 11 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
 * July 12 – Bill Owen, English actor (b. 1914)
 * July 16
 * John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher (b. 1960)
 * Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model (killed in plane crash) (b. 1966)
 * July 19 – Jerold Wells, English actor (b. 1908)
 * July 20 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
 * July 22 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (b. 1958)
 * July 23
 * King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
 * Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey (b. 1976)
 * July 25 – Raul Manglapus, Filipino politician (b. 1919)
 * July 27 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general, 5th President of Greece (b. 1917)
 * July 28 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist (b. 1911)
 * July 29
 * Anita Carter, American singer (b. 1933)
 * Rajendra Kumar, Indian film actor, producer and director (b. 1929)

August

 * August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali writer (b. 1897)
 * August 2 – Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)
 * August 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (b. 1928)
 * August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
 * August 10
 * Giuseppe Delfino, Italian fencer (b. 1921)
 * Jennifer Paterson, English chef, actress, and television personality (b. 1928)
 * Anthony Stanislas Radziwill, American television executive and filmmaker (b. 1959)
 * August 13 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (b. 1960)
 * August 14
 * Lane Kirkland, American union leader (b. 1922)
 * Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
 * August 17 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (b. 1936)
 * August 22 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist (b. 1908)
 * August 22 – Aleksandr Demyanenko, Russian film and theater actor (b. 1937)
 * August 23
 * Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * James White, Irish writer (b. 1928)
 * August 24 – Mary Jane Croft, American radio and television actress (b. 1916)
 * August 25 – Rob Fisher, British keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1956)

September

 * September 5 – Allen Funt, American television personality (b. 1914)
 * September 6 – Lagumot Harris, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
 * September 7 – Jim Keith, American author (b. 1949)
 * September 9
 * Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
 * Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
 * September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
 * September 11 – Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (b. 1972)
 * September 12 – Allen Stack, American swimmer (b. 1928)
 * September 14 – Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
 * September 17 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
 * September 20 – Raisa Gorbacheva, Soviet first lady (b. 1932)
 * September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
 * September 23 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
 * September 24 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist (b. 1910)
 * September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)

October

 * October 1 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (b. 1963)
 * October 3 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
 * October 4
 * Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
 * Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1928)
 * October 6
 * Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
 * Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer and actress (b. 1920)
 * October 7 – Helen Vinson, American actress (b. 1907)
 * October 8 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
 * October 9
 * Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
 * Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani businessman (b. 1914)
 * October 11 – Rafi Daham al-Tikriti, Iraqi intelligence director (b. 1937)
 * October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
 * October 14 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
 * October 19
 * Harry Bannink, Dutch composer and musician (b. 1929)
 * James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
 * Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (b. 1900)
 * October 20 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
 * October 21
 * Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (b. 1924)
 * John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
 * October 23 – András Hegedüs, Hungarian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1922)
 * October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
 * October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
 * October 26
 * Rex Gildo, German singer (b. 1936)
 * Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
 * October 27
 * Frank De Vol, American arranger, composer, and actor (b. 1911)
 * Karen Demirchyan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia (b. 1932)
 * Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
 * Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian military commander and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Armenia (assassinated) (b. 1959)
 * October 31 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)

November

 * November 1
 * Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1924)
 * Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
 * Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
 * November 2 – Demetrio B. Lakas, 27th President of Panama (b. 1925)
 * November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
 * November 8
 * Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (b. 1908)
 * Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (b. 1898)
 * November 9 – Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
 * November 11
 * Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
 * Vivian Fuchs, English geologist (b. 1908)
 * Jacobo Timerman, Argentine journalist and author (b. 1923)
 * November 12 – Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
 * November 15 – Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (b. 1920)
 * November 16 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (b. 1928)
 * November 18
 * Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
 * Horst P. Horst, American photographer (b. 1906)
 * Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
 * November 20 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
 * November 21
 * Quentin Crisp, English writer (b. 1908)
 * Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (b. 1930)
 * November 24 – Hilary Minster, English actor (b. 1944)
 * November 27 – Jim Wiggins, English actor (b. 1922)
 * November 29
 * Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1902)
 * Gene Rayburn, American television personality (b. 1917)

December

 * December 2
 * Joey Adams, American comedian (b. 1911)
 * Charlie Byrd, American jazz musician and classical guitarist (b. 1925)
 * December 3
 * Scatman John, American musician (b. 1942)
 * Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
 * December 4
 * Rose Bird, American activist and judge (b. 1936)
 * Nilde Iotti, Italian politician (b. 1920)
 * Sylvester Clarke, West Indian cricketer (b. 1954)
 * December 8
 * Rupert Hart-Davis, British publisher (b. 1907)
 * Péter Kuczka, Hungarian author (b. 1923)
 * Pupella Maggio, Italian actress (b. 1910)
 * December 10
 * Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
 * Franjo Tuđman, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
 * December 12
 * Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
 * Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923)
 * December 17
 * Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
 * Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
 * December 18 – Robert Bresson, French filmmaker (b. 1901)
 * December 19
 * Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914)
 * Robert Dougall, British newsreader (b. 1913)
 * December 20 – Irving Rapper, American film director (b. 1898)
 * December 23 – John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908)
 * December 24
 * Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
 * João Figueiredo, Brazilian military leader and politician, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
 * December 26
 * Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer (b. 1942)
 * Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
 * December 27 – Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (b. 1905)
 * December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
 * December 30
 * Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
 * Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (b. 1880)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman
 * Chemistry – Ahmed H. Zewail
 * Physiology or Medicine – Günter Blobel
 * Literature – Günter Grass
 * Peace – Médecins Sans Frontières
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Mundell

January

 * January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
 * January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
 * January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
 * January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
 * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
 * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
 * January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
 * January 22 – "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

February

 * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car.
 * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With up to 4,000 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
 * February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
 * February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).
 * February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.
 * February 28 – A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.

March

 * March 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion.
 * March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
 * March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
 * March 11 – Danish general election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
 * March 13 – The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
 * March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture.
 * March 26 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of two.

April

 * April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
 * April 6 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
 * April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
 * April 20 – The alleged date the German Red Army Faction (created 1970) is dissolved.
 * April 23 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 19.

May

 * May 11
 * India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including one thermonuclear device.
 * The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.
 * May 13–14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people.
 * May 19
 * The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.
 * The wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942, is found near Midway Atoll by a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard.
 * May 21 – Suharto (elected 1967) resigns, after 32 years as President of Indonesia and his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president.
 * May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
 * May 30
 * A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
 * A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

June

 * June 3 – Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
 * June 7
 * Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–99).
 * Peter Arnett publishes a false report of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970), claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers.
 * James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas.
 * June 9 – July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
 * June 10 - The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.
 * June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opened, which also became the new international gateway into Malaysia.
 * June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.

July

 * July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
 * July 6 – The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the old Kai Tak Airport closes.
 * July 17
 * At a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
 * In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in 1918.
 * The 7.0 Papua New Guinea earthquake shakes the region near Aitape with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This submarine earthquake triggered a landslide that caused a destructive tsunami, leaving more than 2,100 dead and thousands injured.
 * July 21 – September 5 – The 1998 Sydney water crisis involved the suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.

August

 * August 4 – The Second Congo War begins; 5.4 million people die before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II.
 * August 7
 * Yangtze River Floods: in China the Yangtze river breaks through the main bank; before this, from August 1–5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay. The death toll exceeds 12,000, with many thousands more injured.
 * 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: the bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
 * August 15 – The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican Army.

September

 * September 2
 * A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner (Swissair Flight 111) crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva; all 229 people on board are killed.
 * A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
 * September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
 * September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
 * September 9 – St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season, thus breaking the single season record of 61 which had been held by Roger Maris since 1961.
 * September 10 – At midnight, a shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern Russian port city of Severomorsk.
 * September 12 – The Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested in Miami, and convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
 * September 24 – Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie that was in force since 1989 stating that the Iranian government will "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie".

October

 * October 1 – Europol is established when the Europol Convention signed by all of its member states comes into force.
 * October 3 – Australian federal election, 1998: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
 * October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.
 * October 17 – 1998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.
 * October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.

November

 * November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU.
 * November 20 – A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21-ton Zarya Module.
 * November 24 – A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.

December

 * December 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 lb Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.
 * December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.
 * December 14 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
 * December 16–19 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
 * December 19 – The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in the nation.
 * December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
 * December 31
 * The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs.
 * In the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.

Date unknown

 * Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic, Mrs. Rahel Avraham, dies in Jerusalem.

January

 * January 1
 * Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
 * Carlo Kemp, American football player
 * January 2
 * Chen Xinyi, Chinese swimmer
 * Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
 * January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
 * January 4
 * Coco Jones, American actress and singer
 * Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
 * January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
 * January 6
 * Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer
 * Norman Grimes, American sprinter
 * Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer
 * January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
 * January 10 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player
 * January 11 – Salih Özcan, German footballer
 * January 12 – Rafik Zekhnini, Norwegian footballer
 * January 13
 * Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
 * Kamron Doyle, American ten-pin bowler
 * January 14 – Ai Moritaka, Japanese model and actress
 * January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
 * January 18
 * Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
 * Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
 * January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
 * January 21 – Amelia Hundley, American artistic gymnast
 * January 23
 * Rachel Crow, American singer and actress
 * Cole Custer, American stock car racing driver
 * XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
 * January 27 – Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer
 * January 28
 * Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer
 * Ariel Winter, American actress
 * January 29 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese singer and actress
 * January 31
 * Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
 * Bradie Tennell, American figure skater

February

 * February 1
 * Kipyegon Bett, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Stefan Kozlov, American tennis player
 * February 3
 * Michael McLeod, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
 * Yang Hao, Chinese diver
 * February 4
 * Scott Jones, English paralympic athlete
 * Malik Monk, American basketball player
 * February 10
 * Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
 * Gray Gaulding, American stock car racing driver
 * February 13 – Khalifa St. Fort, Trinbagonian sprinter
 * February 15
 * Dennis Cholowski Canadian hockey defenseman
 * Zachary Gordon, American actor
 * February 17 – Fernanda Urdapilleta, Mexican actress and singer
 * February 18
 * Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
 * Matthew Davidson, American guitarist
 * February 21 – Michaela Hrubá, Czech athlete
 * February 24 – Mariel Pamintuan, Filipino actress
 * February 27
 * Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
 * Felix Gall, Austrian cyclist
 * Theo Stevenson, English actor

March

 * March 2 – Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
 * March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
 * March 5
 * Sergio Díaz, Paraguayan footballer
 * Micah Fowler, American actor
 * March 9
 * Najee Harris, American football player
 * Kaylin Whitney, American sprinter
 * March 17 – Nathan O'Toole, Irish actor
 * March 19 – Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer
 * March 21 – Miles Bridges, American basketball player
 * March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
 * March 26
 * Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper
 * Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater
 * March 27 – Haji Wright, American footballer
 * March 28
 * Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
 * Ryan Simpkins, American actress
 * March 31
 * Oskar Buur, Danish footballer
 * Jakob Chychrun, American ice hockey player
 * Anna Seidel, German short track speed skater

April

 * April 3 – Paris Jackson, American actress and model
 * April 5 – Kaito Nakamura, Japanese actor and model
 * April 6
 * Peyton List, American actress
 * Spencer List, American actor
 * April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
 * April 10 – Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater
 * April 16
 * Maxime Rooney, American swimmer
 * Paul Salas, Filipino actor
 * April 19 – Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player
 * April 21 – Jarrett Allen, American basketball player
 * April 24 – Ryan Newman, American actress
 * April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
 * April 29 – Kimberly Birrell, German-born Australian tennis player

May

 * May 2
 * Ian Anderson, American baseball pitcher
 * Tremaine Edmunds, American football player
 * Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
 * May 4 – Frank Jackson, American basketball player
 * May 5
 * Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
 * Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 6
 * Sierra Schmidt, American swimmer
 * Kayden Troff, American chess champion
 * May 7
 * Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
 * Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
 * May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
 * May 12
 * Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
 * Tornado Alicia Black, American tennis player
 * May 13
 * Karen Iwata, Japanese singer and voice actress
 * Mickey Moniak, American baseball outfielder
 * May 16 – Adian Pitkeev, Russian figure skater
 * May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
 * May 20 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater
 * May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
 * May 29
 * Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
 * Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress
 * Oliver Stokes, English actor
 * Felix Passlack, German footballer

June

 * June 1
 * Aleksandra Soldatova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
 * June 5 – Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
 * June 7 – Graham Newberry, British-American figure skater
 * June 12 – Andrey Makolov, Russian artistic gymnast
 * June 14 – Jovane Cabral, Cape Verdean footballer
 * June 15 – Alexander Samarin, Russian figure skater
 * June 16
 * Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
 * Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
 * June 19
 * Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer
 * Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
 * Atticus Shaffer, American actor
 * Ömer Yurtseven, Turkish basketball player
 * June 21 – Gerben Thijssen, Belgian road and track cyclist
 * June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
 * June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
 * June 24
 * Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Coy Stewart, American actor
 * June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
 * June 26 – Edu Gueda, Brazilian singer
 * June 27 – Bor Pavlovčič, Slovenian ski jumper
 * June 29 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
 * June 30
 * Houssem Aouar, French footballer
 * Tom Davies, English footballer

July

 * July 2 – Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper
 * July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
 * July 8
 * Maya Hawke, American actress and model
 * Yann Karamoh, French footballer
 * Jaden Smith, American actor
 * Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
 * July 10
 * Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
 * Haley Pullos, American actress
 * July 16 – Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
 * July 21 – Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country skiier
 * July 22
 * Alicia Moffet, Canadian singer
 * Patrick Schmidt, Austrian footballer
 * Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
 * July 23 – DeAndre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
 * July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
 * July 30 – Jake Fromm, American football player
 * July 31 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor

August

 * August 1 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
 * August 2 – Giarnni Regini-Moran, British artistic gymnast
 * August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
 * August 4 – Lil Skies, American rapper
 * August 5
 * Mimi Keene, English actress
 * Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer
 * August 6 – Forrest Goodluck, American actor
 * August 7 – Jalen Hurts, American football player
 * August 8
 * Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Ronan Parke, English singer
 * August 9
 * Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
 * Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
 * August 10
 * Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster
 * Eythóra Thorsdóttir, Dutch gymnast
 * August 11 – Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist
 * August 13
 * Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
 * Carter Hart, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * August 14 – Amy Marren, English paralympic swimmer
 * August 25 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

September

 * September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
 * September 9 – Jesús Marimón, Colombian footballer
 * September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper
 * September 17 – Richard Wang, Canadian chess champion
 * September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
 * September 19
 * Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
 * Trae Young, American basketball player
 * September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor
 * September 26 – Ivan Pavlov, Ukrainian figure skater
 * September 28
 * Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
 * Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster

October

 * October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer
 * October 7 – Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
 * October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili, Georgian model
 * October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor
 * October 12 – Tyler Pierce, American figure skater
 * October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress
 * October 22
 * Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player
 * Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer
 * October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress
 * October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
 * October 28
 * Nolan Gould, American actor
 * Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
 * October 29
 * Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

November

 * November 2 – Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
 * November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
 * November 4
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress
 * Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
 * November 10 – Renz Valerio, Filipino actor
 * November 11 – Carlo Lacana, Filipino actor
 * November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
 * November 17 – Kara Hayward, American actress
 * November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
 * November 24 – Peyton Meyer, American actor
 * November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder

December

 * December 2
 * Annalise Basso, American actress
 * Amber Montana, American actress
 * Juice WRLD, American rapper and singer
 * December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver
 * December 8 – Anastasia Rizikov, Canadian classical pianist
 * December 11 – Dante Rigo, Belgian footballer
 * December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
 * December 15 – Chandler Canterbury, American actor
 * December 16
 * Kiara Muhammad, American actress and singer
 * Reece Oxford, English football player
 * December 17
 * Jasmine Armfield, English actress
 * Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
 * December 18 – Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
 * December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
 * December 20
 * Kylian Mbappé, French football player
 * Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater
 * December 22 – G Hannelius, American actress and singer
 * December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
 * December 26 – Kesz Váldez, Filipino humanitarian
 * December 28
 * Paris Berelc, American actress
 * Jared Gilman, American actor
 * December 31 – Gianina Ernst, German ski jumper

January

 * January 1 – Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
 * January 2
 * Feodor I. Kozhevnikov, Soviet legal expert (b. 1893)
 * Frank Muir, British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (b. 1920)
 * January 4
 * Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
 * Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
 * January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
 * January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
 * January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
 * January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
 * January 11
 * Ellis Rabb, American director and actor (b. 1930)
 * Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
 * January 15
 * Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
 * Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
 * Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
 * January 16
 * Emil Sitka, American actor (b. 1914)
 * Hermann Wedekind, artistic director (b. 1910)
 * January 18 – Monica Edwards, British writer (b. 1912)
 * January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
 * January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
 * January 26
 * Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
 * Ethelreda Leopold, American film actress (b. 1914)
 * January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)
 * January 29 – Joseph Alioto, 36th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)

February

 * February 2
 * Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
 * Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
 * February 6
 * Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
 * Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
 * February 7
 * Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
 * Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
 * February 8
 * Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
 * Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
 * Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
 * February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 16 – Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * February 17
 * Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
 * Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * February 18
 * Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1914)
 * Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (b. 1961)
 * February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913)
 * February 22
 * Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author (b. 1902)
 * Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
 * Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (b. 1921)
 * José María de Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
 * February 23
 * Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960)
 * February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
 * February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 * February 27
 * Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (b. 1901)
 * George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
 * February 28 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

March

 * March 2 – Darcy O'Brien, American author (b. 1939)
 * March 3 – Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (b. 1915)
 * March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, (b. 1914)
 * March 8 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
 * March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
 * March 10 – Milton Mallawarachchi, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1944)
 * March 12
 * Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
 * Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
 * Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
 * March 13
 * Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
 * Risen Star, American racehorse (b. 1985)
 * Hans von Ohain, German physicist (b. 1911)
 * March 15
 * Benjamin Spock, American rower, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
 * Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1960)
 * Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman (b. 1942)
 * March 16 – Derek Barton, British chemist (b. 1918)
 * March 20 – George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956)
 * March 25 – Daniel Massey, English actor (b. 1933)
 * March 27 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (b. 1909)
 * March 31 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer, feminist activist, and politician (b. 1920)

April

 * April 1 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
 * April 3 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
 * April 6
 * Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
 * Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
 * April 7 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1942)
 * April 11
 * Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional baseball player (b. 1921)
 * Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
 * April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
 * April 15
 * Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925)
 * Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
 * April 16
 * Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
 * Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
 * April 17
 * Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
 * Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911)
 * April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
 * April 21
 * Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922)
 * April 22 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
 * April 23
 * Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
 * James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
 * April 25
 * Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
 * Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
 * April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author (b. 1906)
 * April 27
 * Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
 * Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)

May

 * May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
 * May 2
 * Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
 * hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 * Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
 * May 7
 * Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
 * Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
 * May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 14
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
 * Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball player (b. 1944)
 * May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 * May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
 * May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1948)
 * May 29
 * Orlando Anderson, American criminal (b. 1974)
 * Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)

June

 * June 2
 * Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
 * Dorothy Stickney, American actress (b. 1896)
 * June 3 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
 * June 5
 * Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Sam Yorty, American politician, Los Angeles' 37th mayor (1961–1973) (b. 1909).
 * June 8
 * Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
 * Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
 * June 9 – Lois Mailou Jones, African-American artist (b. 1905)
 * June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
 * June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
 * June 12 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (b. 1924)
 * June 13
 * Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
 * Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
 * June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
 * June 22 – Benny Green, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927)
 * June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
 * June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber singer (b. 1956)
 * June 28 – Marion Eugene Carl, American fighter pilot (b. 1915)

July

 * July 2 – Kay Thompson, American author and actress (b. 1909)
 * July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
 * July 4 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (b. 1957)
 * July 5
 * Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
 * Johnny Speight, British television scriptwriter (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
 * July 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak baseball player (b. 1921)
 * July 21
 * Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 22
 * Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * Don Dunphy, American television and radio sports announcer (b. 1908)
 * July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * July 28 – Harvie Branscomb, American university president (b. 1894)
 * July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
 * July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)

August

 * August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
 * August 2
 * Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
 * Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
 * August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
 * August 4 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
 * August 5 – Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
 * August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 * August 8 – Nelly's, Greek female photographer (b. 1899)
 * August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * August 13
 * Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
 * Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934)
 * August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (b. 1948)
 * August 22 – Jack Briggs, American actor (b. 1920)
 * August 24
 * Jerry Clower, American country comedian (b. 1926)
 * E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914)
 * August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907)
 * August 26 – Frederick Reines, American physicist (b. 1918)
 * August 28 – George Büchi, American chemist (b. 1921)

September

 * September 1 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
 * September 2
 * Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
 * Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
 * Walter L. Morgan, American banker (b. 1898)
 * September 5
 * Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922)
 * Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
 * Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
 * September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
 * September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903)
 * September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
 * September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912)
 * September 13 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
 * September 14
 * Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)
 * Johnny Adams, American singer (b. 1932)
 * September 15 – Fred Alderman, American sprint runner (b. 1905)
 * September 17 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
 * September 19 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress and comedian (b. 1909)
 * September 20 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
 * September 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
 * September 23
 * Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
 * Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1914)
 * September 26
 * Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929)
 * Giovanni Barbini, Italian naval officer (b. 1901)
 * September 27 – Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
 * September 29 – Herbert V. Prochnow, U.S. banker and author (b. 1897)
 * September 30
 * Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
 * Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
 * Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (b. 1925)
 * Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)

October

 * October 2
 * Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
 * Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
 * October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
 * October 6
 * Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
 * Ambrose Burke, Roman Catholic priest and educator (b. 1895)
 * October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907)
 * October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
 * October 10
 * Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
 * Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (b. 1914)
 * October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
 * October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
 * October 13 – General Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff (b. 1932)
 * October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
 * October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
 * October 17
 * Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
 * Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
 * October 19 – Germán List Arzubide, Mexican poet and revolutionary (b. 1898)
 * October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
 * October 24
 * Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
 * Mary Calderone, American physician, public health advocate (b. 1904)
 * October 28
 * Ghulam Ahmed, Indian cricket captain (b. 1922)
 * James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
 * October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
 * October 31 – Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1926)

November

 * November 3
 * Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
 * Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (b. 1922)
 * November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
 * November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
 * November 10
 * Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
 * Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * November 13
 * Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
 * Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman (b. 1975)
 * Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
 * Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
 * November 15 – Stokely Carmichael, Civil Rights Movement organizer (b. 1941)
 * November 17
 * Kenneth McDuff, American serial killer (b. 1946)
 * Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
 * November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
 * November 22 – Stu Ungar, professional poker player (b. 1953)
 * November 23 – Don Ray, American basketball player (b. 1921)
 * November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * November 29
 * Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler (b. 1947)
 * Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
 * November 30 – Margaret Walker, American poet (b. 1915)

December

 * December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
 * December 2
 * Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
 * Brian Stonehouse, English painter and secret agent (b. 1918)
 * December 5 – Hazel Bishop, American chemist and inventor (b. 1906)
 * December 6
 * Michael Zaslow, American actor (b. 1942)
 * César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
 * December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
 * December 8 - Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
 * December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
 * December 13
 * Sir Lew Grade, British businessman (b. 1906)
 * Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (b. 1930)
 * December 14
 * Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (b. 1924)
 * December 15 – Brady Boone, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
 * December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (b. 1959)
 * December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * December 19
 * Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist (b. 1909)
 * Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
 * December 20
 * Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
 * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
 * December 21
 * Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
 * Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909)
 * December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
 * December 25
 * Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
 * John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
 * December 26
 * Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Robert Rosen, American biologist (b. 1934)
 * William Frankfather, American actor (b. 1944)
 * Ram Swarup, Indian author (b. 1920)
 * December 30
 * Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
 * George Webb, British actor (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
 * Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople
 * Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
 * Literature – José Saramago
 * Peace – John Hume and David Trimble
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen

Fields Medal

 * Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen

January

 * January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
 * January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill six Spanish aid workers, three soldiers, and seriously wound another.
 * January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
 * January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
 * January 22 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States Senate.

February

 * February 4
 * On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73.
 * After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
 * February 10 – Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
 * February 13 – STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
 * February 22 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.
 * February 27 – Divorce becomes legal in the Republic of Ireland.
 * February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers wearing kevlar body armor armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.

March

 * March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
 * March 7 – In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill at least 100.
 * March 13
 * India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
 * The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.
 * March 16 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
 * March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
 * March 21 – In Zaire, Étienne Tshisekedi is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
 * March 22 – The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
 * March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with The English Patient winning Best Picture.
 * March 24–26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
 * March 26 – Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.
 * March 30 – Channel 5 began broadcasting and was the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue network in the United Kingdom.

April

 * April 3 – The Thalit massacre in Algeria: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
 * April 14
 * Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 km from Mecca; 343 die.
 * Former S.S. Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to five years in prison.
 * April 18 – The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
 * April 21 – A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
 * April 22
 * Haouch Khemisti massacre: 93 villagers are killed in Algeria.
 * A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru.
 * April 23 – 42 villagers are killed in the Omaria massacre in Algeria.
 * April 29
 * The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), CWC treaty enters into force.
 * Two trains crash at Hunan, China; 126 are killed.

May

 * May 2 – The Labour Party of the United Kingdom returns to power for the first time in 18 years, with Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister, in a landslide majority in the 1997 general election.
 * May 3 – Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the UK with Love Shine a Light.
 * May 9 – The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.
 * May 10 – The 7.3 Qayen earthquake strikes eastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.
 * May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.
 * May 12
 * The Russian–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
 * An F1-rated tornado strikes downtown Miami, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
 * May 15 – The United States government acknowledges existence of the "Secret War" in Laos (1953–1975) during the Vietnam War, and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
 * May 16
 * President Mobutu Sese Seko is exiled from Zaire.
 * U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.
 * May 17 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
 * May 23 – Mohammad Khatami wins the 1997 Iranian presidential election and becomes the first Iranian Reformist president.
 * May 25 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
 * May 27 – The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
 * May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.

June

 * June 1
 * Socialist Party-led Centre-left coalition won the second-round in 1997 French legislative elections, began with the third Cohabitation (1997–2002).
 * Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
 * June 2 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
 * June 10 – Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
 * June 11 – In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
 * June 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
 * June 16 – About 50 people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
 * June 25
 * A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.
 * An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
 * June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.
 * June 26 – Bloomsbury Publishing publishes J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in London.

July

 * July – The 1997 Central European flood occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
 * July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
 * July 2 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis
 * July 4 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
 * July 5
 * In Cambodia, Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party overthrows Norodom Ranariddh in a coup.
 * The Egyptian Islamic Group announces a cessation-of-violence initiative.
 * July 8 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
 * July 10 – In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
 * July 11 – Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya kills 90.
 * July 13 – The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on 9 October 1967 in Bolivia.
 * July 15 – Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami residence.
 * July 17 – The F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
 * July 25 – K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
 * July 27 – About 50 are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
 * July 30 – 18 people are killed in the Thredbo landslide in the Snowy Mountains resort in Australia.

August

 * August 1 – Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.
 * August 3 – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria.
 * August 3–11 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the Comoros – Anjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.
 * August 4 – Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever, dies at age 122 years 164 days in Arles, France.
 * August 6 – Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
 * August 13 – In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cruzeiro defeats Sporting Cristal of Peru 1–0, becoming the Copa Libertadores champions for the second time.
 * August 20 – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the Souhane massacre in Algeria.
 * August 26
 * 60–100 are killed in the Beni Ali massacre in Algeria.
 * The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.
 * August 29 – Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the Rais massacre in Algeria.
 * August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.

September

 * September 1 – Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law first comes into force.
 * September 5
 * Over 87 are killed in the Beni Messous massacre in Algeria.
 * The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
 * September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over two billion people worldwide.
 * September 11 – Scotland votes in favour of a devolved Parliament forming the Scottish Parliament less than two years later
 * September 13 – Iraq disarmament crisis: An Iraqi military officer attacks an UNSCOM weapons inspector on board an UNSCOM helicopter, while the inspector attempts to take photographs of unauthorized movement of Iraqi vehicles inside a site designated for inspection.
 * September 15 – The Norwegian parliamentary election was held in Norway.
 * September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.
 * September 18
 * Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly for Wales.
 * Al-Qaeda carries out a terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * September 19 – 53 are killed in the Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria.
 * September 21 – The Islamic Salvation Army, the Islamic Salvation Fronts' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.
 * September 25 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
 * September 26
 * Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history.
 * An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

October

 * October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
 * October 4 – Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
 * October 12 – 43 are killed at a false roadblock, in the Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria.
 * October 15
 * Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
 * NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.
 * October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
 * October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.
 * October 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.

November

 * November 11 – Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.
 * November 12 – Mary McAleese is elected the eighth President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
 * November 13 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
 * November 17 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.
 * November 19 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.
 * November 27 – NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.

December

 * December 1 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
 * December 3 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not sign and/or ratify the treaty.
 * December 10 – The capital of Kazakhstan is moved from Almaty to Astana.
 * December 11 – The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by a United Nations committee.
 * December 19
 * Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes office in Guyana.
 * James Cameron's Titanic, the then highest-grossing film of all time, based on the 1912 disaster and the 1985 discovery, premieres in the U.S.
 * SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
 * December 21 – Brazil beats Australia 6–0 in the Confederations Cup final.
 * December 24 – 50–100 villagers are killed in the Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria.
 * December 27 – Ulster loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
 * December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
 * December 30 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 are killed from four villages in the wilaya of Relizane.

Date unknown

 * The Toyota Prius, the first hybrid vehicle to go into full production, is unveiled in Japan on October 24, and goes on sale in Japan on December 9. It comes to U.S. showrooms on July 11, 2000.

January

 * January 1
 * Quique Fornos, Spanish footballer
 * Chidozie Awaziem, Nigerian footballer
 * January 3
 * Joe Morrell, Welsh footballer
 * Jérémie Boga, French footballer
 * January 4 – Pauline Schäfer, German gymnast
 * January 5
 * Hilary Palma, Peruvian volleyball player
 * Jesús Vallejo, Spanish footballer
 * January 7
 * Izzy Brown, English footballer
 * January 8
 * Jack Andraka, American scientist
 * Fran Brodić, Croatian footballer
 * January 9
 * Issa Diop, French footballer
 * Elvira Herman, Belarusian athlete
 * January 11 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter
 * January 13
 * Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Natalia Dyer, American actress
 * Jimmy Wopo, American rapper (d. 2018)
 * January 14
 * Julius Nättinen, Finnish ice hockey player
 * Francesco Bagnaia, Italian motorcycle racer
 * January 15 – Valentina Zenere, Argentine actress, modeln and singer
 * January 17
 * Lamar Jackson, American football player
 * Shea Patterson, American football player
 * Jake Paul, American actor
 * Kyle Tucker, American baseball outfielder
 * January 20 – Rheed McCracken, Australian wheelchair racer
 * January 21
 * Jeremy Shada, American voice actor
 * Yang Yang, Chinese paralympic swimmer
 * January 23
 * Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
 * Sophie Hahn, English paralympic sprinter
 * Lexie Priessman, American artistic gymnast
 * January 25 – Noah Hanifin, American ice hockey player
 * January 26 – Gedion Zelalem, American footballer
 * January 29
 * Jack Roslovic, American hockey player
 * Joel Eriksson Ek, Swedish hockey player
 * January 30 – Shim Suk-hee, South Korean speed skater
 * January 31 – Anatoliy Ryapolov, Russian long jumper

February

 * February 2 – Jaheel Hyde, Jamaican sprinter
 * February 3 – Lewis Cook, English footballer
 * February 5 – Patrick Roberts, English footballer
 * February 6 – Mitch Hyatt, American football player
 * February 7
 * Saquon Barkley, American football player
 * Anhelina Kalinina, Ukrainian tennis player
 * February 8 – Kathryn Newton, American actress
 * February 9
 * Jaire Alexander, American football player
 * Leighton Vander Esch, American football player
 * February 10
 * Adam Armstrong, English footballer
 * Josh Jackson, American basketball player
 * Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
 * Rozaliya Nasretdinova, Russian swimmer
 * Josh Rosen, American football player
 * February 11
 * Damien Harris, American football player
 * Mike Hughes, American football player
 * Nasty C ,South African rapper
 * February 13 – Deondre Francois, American football player
 * February 14 – Breel Embolo, Swiss footballer
 * February 15
 * Myles Gaskin, American football player
 * Derrick Jones Jr., American basketball player
 * February 20 – Mitchie Brusco, American professional skateboarder
 * February 21 – Ben Rhodes, American racing driver
 * February 22 – Anton Chupkov, Russian swimmer
 * February 23
 * Érick Aguirre, Mexican footballer
 * Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player
 * February 24 – César Montes, Mexican footballer
 * February 25
 * Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
 * Brock Boeser, American ice hockey player
 * Santiago Ascacíbar, Argentinian footballer
 * Katsiaryna Halkina, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast

March

 * March 2
 * Becky G, American singer
 * Lizzy LeDuc, American-born Filipino artistic gymnast
 * March 3
 * Camila Cabello, Cuban singer
 * Jaime Carreño, Chilean footballer
 * Ty Walker, American snowboarder
 * March 6 – Daniel De Silva, Australian footballer
 * March 8
 * Iréne Ekelund, Swedish sprinter
 * Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer
 * March 9
 * Jessica Rogers, American wheelchair athlete
 * Niamh Wilson, Canadian actress
 * March 10
 * Julia Barretto, Filipina actress
 * Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
 * Travis Konecny, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Uriah Shelton, American actor and singer
 * March 11 – Lina Qostal, Moroccan tennis player
 * March 12 – Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
 * March 13
 * Ruben Neves, Portuguese footballer
 * Edidiong Odiong, Bahraini sprinter
 * March 14
 * Simone Biles, American gymnast
 * Dawid Kownacki, Polish footballer
 * Brad Taylor, English cricketer
 * March 16
 * Vladislav Kozlov, Russian swimmer
 * Tyrel Jackson Williams, American actor
 * March 17
 * Konrad Bukowiecki, Polish athlete
 * Katie Ledecky, American swimmer
 * March 18
 * Ciara Bravo, American actress, voice artist, singer, and comedian
 * Mario Burke, Barbadian sprinter
 * March 19 – Rūta Meilutytė, Lithuanian swimmer
 * March 20 – Bobby Cheng, Australian chess champion
 * March 21 – Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress, singer, dancer, and model
 * March 22 – Harry Wilson, Welsh footballer
 * March 26 – Cameron Smith, American football player
 * March 27 – A-Reece, South African hip hop artist
 * March 29
 * Ezequiel Ponce, Argentinian footballer
 * Josh Sweat, American football player

April

 * April 1
 * Asa Butterfield, English actor
 * Olivia Smart, English ice dancer
 * April 2 – Abdelhak Nouri, former Dutch footballer
 * April 5 – Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
 * April 6 – Pavel Zacha, Czech ice hockey player
 * April 7 – Laura van der Heijden, English cellist
 * April 8 – Roquan Smith, American football player
 * April 9 – Michael Špaček, Czech ice hockey player
 * April 10 – Alla Sosnitskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
 * April 11
 * Ethan Couch, American criminal
 * Max Clegg, English speedway racer
 * April 12 – Katelyn Ohashi, American artistic gymnast
 * April 13 – Mateo Cassierra, Colombian footballer
 * April 14 – D. J. Moore, American football player
 * April 15
 * Maisie Williams, English actress
 * Jesse Little, American stock car racing driver
 * April 17 – Jorge Meré, Spanish footballer
 * April 18
 * Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
 * Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster
 * April 20 – Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
 * April 21 – Mikel Oyarzabal, Spanish footballer
 * April 23 – Kim Hae-jin, South Korean figure skater
 * April 24
 * Kirill Aleshin, Russian ice dancer
 * Arturo Deliser, Panamanian sprinter
 * Lydia Ko, South Korean-born New Zealand golfer
 * Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
 * April 27
 * Livio Loi, Belgian motorcycle racer
 * Josh Onomah, English footballer
 * April 28 – Denzel Ward, American football player
 * April 29 – Ekaterina Baturina, Russian artistic gymnast

May

 * May 2
 * BamBam, Thai singer
 * Blake Rutherford, American baseball first baseman and outfielder
 * May 3
 * Desiigner, American hip hop artist
 * Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player
 * May 4 – Nicolas Prattes, Brazilian actor
 * May 5 – Mitchell Marner, Canadian ice hockey player
 * May 6 – Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer
 * May 7
 * Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
 * Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer
 * May 10 – Enes Ünal, Turkish footballer
 * May 11 – Lana Condor, American actress and dancer
 * May 12
 * Morgan Lake, English athlete
 * Odeya Rush, Israeli-born American actress
 * May 15 – Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
 * May 17
 * Andrea Favilli, Italian footballer
 * Ayron Verkindere, Belgian footballer
 * May 19
 * Oliver Kylington, Swedish ice hockey player
 * Victor Robles, Dominican baseball outfielder
 * May 22 – Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player
 * May 23 – Joe Gomez, English footballer
 * May 26
 * Mathew Barzal, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Julian Zhi Jie Yee, Malaysian figure skater
 * May 27 – Da'Ron Payne, American football player
 * May 30 – Jake Short, American actor
 * May 31 – Cupcakke, American rapper

June

 * June 5
 * Sam Darnold, American football player
 * Henry Onyekuru, Nigerian footballer
 * June 6 – Grant Shoults, American swimmer
 * June 8 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
 * June 9 – Shen Duo, Chinese swimmer
 * June 10 – Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Ukrainian basketball player
 * June 11
 * Julia Lavrentieva, Ukrainian pair skater
 * John Hunter Nemechek, American stock car racing driver
 * Kodak Black, American hip-hop artist
 * June 13 – Katie Lou Samuelson, American basketball player
 * June 15 – Madison Kocian, American artistic gymnast
 * June 17 – KJ Apa, New Zealand actor
 * June 21
 * Rebecca Black, American singer
 * Derrius Guice, American football player
 * June 22
 * Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Italian motorcycle racer
 * Gabriel Rojas, Argentine footballer
 * June 23 – Antoine-Olivier Pilon, French-Canadian actor
 * June 26 – Jacob Elordi, Australian actor
 * June 27
 * Shannon Purser, American actress
 * Ramadan Sobhi, Egyptian footballer
 * June 28 – Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
 * June 30
 * Avika Gor, Indian actress
 * Iryna Shymanovich, Russian tennis player

July

 * July 1 – Grigoriy Oparin, Russian chess grandmaster
 * July 2 – Marquese Chriss, American basketball player
 * July 3
 * Georgios Papagiannis, Greek basketball player
 * Filip Sachpekidis, Swedish footballer
 * July 4 – Daniela Nieves, Venezuelan-American actress
 * July 5
 * Park Ji-min, South Korean singer
 * Anna Styazhkina, Russian chess champion
 * July 7 – Gatlin Green, American actress and singer
 * July 8 – Bryce Love, American football player and sprinter
 * July 12 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist
 * July 13 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
 * July 17 – Amadou Diawara, Guinese footballer
 * July 18
 * Chiara Hölzl, Austrian ski jumper
 * Kwon Jin-ah, South Korean singer
 * Bam Adebayo, American basketball player
 * Noah Lyles, American sprinter
 * Fionn Whitehead, English actor
 * July 19
 * Kang Young-seo, South Korean alpine skier
 * Zach Werenski, American ice hockey player
 * July 22 – Field Cate, American actor
 * July 24
 * Emre Mor, Turkish footballer
 * Andreas Varady, Slovak jazz guitarist
 * July 25
 * Kayli Barker, American race car driver
 * Louis Reed, English footballer
 * July 26 – Ewa Swoboda, Polish track and field sprinter
 * July 27 – Craig Wighton, Scottish footballer
 * July 28 – Bilal Ould-Chikh, Dutch-Moroccan footballer

August

 * August 1 – Yomif Kejelcha, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 * August 2
 * Christina Robinson, American actress
 * Ivan Šaponjić, Serbian footballer
 * Ke Jie, Chinese professional go player
 * Triston McKenzie, American baseball pitcher
 * August 3
 * Adrian Lillebekk Ovlien, Norwegian footballer (d. 2018)
 * Daniel Crowley, English footballer
 * Ronald Jones, American football player
 * August 4 – Cinzia Zehnder, Swiss footballer
 * August 5
 * Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
 * Adam Irigoyen, American actor
 * Braxton Garrett, American baseball pitcher
 * Laura Waem, Belgian artistic gymnast
 * August 6 – Sander Svendsen, Norwegian footballer
 * August 7 – Kyler Murray, American football player
 * August 9
 * Matija Čupić, Serbian software engineer
 * Leon Bailey, Jamaican footballer
 * August 10 – Kylie Jenner, American reality television personality
 * August 11 – Kyle Guy, American basketball player
 * August 14 – Łukasz Pawlikowski, Polish cellist
 * August 16
 * Greyson Chance, American singer, songwriter and pianist
 * Piper Curda, American actress
 * August 18 – Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
 * August 19
 * Maria Titova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Bartłomiej Drągowski, Polish footballer
 * August 22 – Lautaro Martínez, Argentine footballer
 * August 24 – Alan Walker, British-Norwegian music producer
 * August 25
 * Bryana Salaz, American singer
 * Markus Thormeyer, Canadian swimmer
 * Mike Weber, American football player
 * August 28 – Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress
 * August 30 – Dana Gaier, American actress

September

 * September 1 – Jungkook, South Korean singer
 * September 1 – Maria Stavitskaia, Russian figure skater
 * September 2 – Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
 * September 3 – Salome Phajava, Georgian rhythmic gymnast
 * September 6 – Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
 * September 7 – Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor
 * September 9 – Shriya Sharma, Indian actress
 * September 12 – Sydney Sweeney, American actress
 * September 13 – Leah Keiser, American figure skater
 * September 15
 * Jeisson Vargas, Chilean footballer
 * Jonatan Christie, Indonesian badminton player
 * Forrest Whitley, American baseball pitcher
 * September 16
 * Zsanett Kaján, Hungarian footballer
 * Elena Kampouris, American actress
 * September 17
 * Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player
 * Luke Greenbank, British swimmer
 * September 18 – Alisson Perticheto, Filipina figure skater
 * September 20 – Aurélie Fanchette, Seychellois swimmer
 * September 23 – John Collins, American basketball player
 * September 24 – Malaya Watson, American singer and tuba player
 * September 30
 * Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Max Verstappen, Dutch racing driver

October

 * October 2 – Tammy Abraham, English footballer
 * October 3
 * Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater
 * Jo-Ane van Dyk, South African javelin thrower
 * October 4 – Seamus O'Connor, Irish snowboarder
 * October 6
 * Chih-I Tsao, Taiwanese figure skater
 * Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
 * October 7 – Kira Kosarin, American actress
 * October 8
 * Bella Thorne, American actress and singer
 * Steven Bergwijn, Dutch footballer
 * October 9 – Angelica Moser, Swiss athlete
 * October 10 – Grace Rolek, American actress and singer
 * October 16 – Charles Leclerc, Monégasque racing driver
 * October 17 – Václav Černý, Czech footballer
 * October 23
 * Daphne Blunt, American fashion blogger
 * Zach Callison, American actor and voice actor
 * Nick Bosa, American football player
 * October 24
 * Claudia Fragapane, British artistic gymnast
 * Park So-youn, South Korean figure skater
 * October 25
 * Tyler Alvarez, American actor
 * Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
 * October 27
 * Li Meiyi, Chinese pair skater
 * Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
 * October 28
 * Sierra McCormick, American actress
 * Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
 * October 29 – Ale Müller, Mexican actress and singer
 * October 31
 * Sydney Park, American actress and comedian
 * Marcus Rashford, English footballer

November

 * November 1
 * Alex Wolff, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
 * Max Burkholder, American actor
 * Nordi Mukiele French footballer
 * November 3 – Lázaro Martínez, Cuban triple jumper
 * November 4
 * Bea Binene, Filipino actress
 * Stratos Iordanoglou, Greek basketball player
 * November 6
 * Riley Pint, American baseball pitcher
 * Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor and model
 * November 9
 * Matthew Fisher, English cricketer
 * Alex Kirilloff, American baseball outfielder
 * November 12 – Dexter Lawrence, American football player
 * November 17
 * James Whitley, British paralympic skier
 * Jacob Eason, American football player
 * November 18 – Olivier Boscagli, French footballer
 * November 19 – Rachel Parsons, American ice dancer
 * November 23 – Akari Takeuchi, Japanese singer
 * November 25 – Dennis Smith Jr., American basketball player
 * November 26 – Aubrey Joseph, American rapper and actor
 * November 29
 * William Byron, American race car driver
 * Agata Kryger, Polish figure skater
 * Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player
 * November 30 – Liu Huixia, Chinese diver

December

 * December 3
 * Hayley Okines, English progeria activist (d. 2015)
 * Rashan Gary, American football player
 * December 5 – Khaleel Ahmed, Indian cricketer
 * December 8 – Ilaria Käslin, Swiss artistic gymnast
 * December 11
 * Ben Cook, American actor
 * Taylor Hickson, Canadian actress and singer
 * December 12 – Ed Oliver, American football player
 * December 15 – Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
 * December 16 – Zara Larsson, Swedish singer
 * December 17 – Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
 * December 18 – Ronald Acuña, Venezuelan baseball outfielder
 * December 20
 * Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer
 * De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
 * December 22 – Taylor Rapp, American football player
 * December 23 – Luka Jović, Serbian footballer
 * December 24 – Oreoluwa Cherebin, Grenadian swimmer
 * December 27
 * Ana Konjuh, Croatian tennis player
 * Zhao Ziquan, Chinese figure skater
 * December 30 – Anastasiya Malyavina, Ukrainian swimmer

January

 * January 1
 * Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
 * Townes Van Zandt, American folk singer (b. 1944)
 * January 4 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
 * January 5
 * Bertil, Swedish prince, Duke of Halland (b. 1912)
 * Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
 * January 6 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
 * January 8 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
 * January 9
 * Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Ellen Griffin Dunne, American actress and activist (b. 1932)
 * January 10
 * Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
 * Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist (b. 1907)
 * January 11 – Carol Habben, American baseball player (b. 1933)
 * January 12
 * Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher (b. 1901)
 * Jill Summers, English actress (b. 1910)
 * January 17 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
 * January 18
 * Darío Suro, Dominican painter and diplomat (b. 1917)
 * Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
 * January 19
 * James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b. 1923)
 * Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
 * January 20 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
 * January 21
 * Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (b. 1909)
 * Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican educator and historian (b. 1898)
 * January 22 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer (b. 1957)
 * January 23
 * Alois Hudec, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1908)
 * Richard Berry, American singer and composer (b. 1935)
 * January 25 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
 * January 26 – Laurence Stoddard, American rower (b. 1903)
 * January 27 – Cecil Arthur Lewis, British fighter pilot (b. 1898)
 * January 30 – Charles Hargens, American painter. (b. 1893)
 * January 31 – Johnny Klein, American drummer (b. 1918)

February

 * February 1
 * Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)
 * Marjorie Reynolds, American actress (b. 1917)
 * February 2
 * Chico Science, Brazilian musician (b. 1966)
 * Raúl de Anda, Mexican actor, screenwriter, film producer and director (b. 1908)
 * February 5 – Pamela Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1920)
 * February 7 – Owen Aspinall, 45th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1927)
 * February 8 – Corey Scott, American motorcycle stunt rider (b. 1968)
 * February 9
 * Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (b. 1945)
 * Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)
 * February 10 – Milton Cato, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1915)
 * February 11 – Don Porter, American actor (b. 1912)
 * February 12 – James Cossins, English actor (b. 1933)
 * February 13 – John Ries Bartels, American judge (b. 1897)
 * February 16 – Ethel Owen, American actress (b. 1893)
 * February 17
 * Henry Jacques Le Même, French architect (b. 1897)
 * Nic Roeser, Luxembourgian gymnast (b. 1896)
 * February 19 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary and statesman (b. 1904)
 * February 23 – Tony Williams, American musician (b. 1945)
 * February 24 – Isabelle Lucas, Canadian-born British actress (b. 1927)
 * February 25 – Arthur Hewlett, English actor (b. 1907)
 * February 26 – David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)

March

 * March 2 – Judi Bari, American environmental activist (b. 1949)
 * March 4 – Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b. 1916)
 * March 6
 * Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
 * Michael Manley, 2-Time Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
 * Ursula Torday, British writer (b. 1912)
 * March 7
 * Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
 * Martin Kippenberger, German artist (b. 1953)
 * March 8 – Gershon Liebman, French rabbi (b. 1905)
 * March 9
 * The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
 * Terry Nation, Welsh screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * March 10 – LaVern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
 * March 14 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
 * March 15 – Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
 * March 17 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
 * March 19 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
 * March 20 – Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
 * March 21
 * Wilbert Awdry, British children's writer (b. 1911)
 * John Nemechek, American race car driver (b. 1970)
 * March 31 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (b. 1896)

April

 * April 1 – Jolie Gabor, Hungarian socialite (b. 1896)
 * April 4 – Leo Picard, Israeli geologist (b. 1900)
 * April 5
 * Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
 * Ignazio Buttitta, Sicilian dialectal poet (b. 1899)
 * April 8 – Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
 * April 7 – Georgy Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 * April 10 – Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
 * April 12 – George Wald, American scientist (b. 1906)
 * April 13
 * Dorothy Frooks, American author, military figure and actress. (b. 1896)
 * Rodolfo Oroz, Chilean writer, professor, and philologist (b. 1895)
 * April 15
 * Don Bexley, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
 * Mildred Cleghorn, Chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe (b. 1910)
 * April 16
 * Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
 * Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
 * April 17 – Chaim Herzog, Israel politician, 6th President of Israel (b. 1918)
 * April 20
 * Jean Louis, American costume designer (b. 1907)
 * Henry Mucci, American army ranger (b. 1909)
 * April 21
 * Andrés Rodríguez, 47th President of Paraguay (b. 1923)
 * Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (b. 1910)
 * April 22
 * Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (b. 1894)
 * Baroness Seear, British politician (b. 1913)
 * April 23 – Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian (b. 1908)
 * April 24 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian (b. 1927)
 * April 26 – John Beal, American actor (b. 1909)
 * April 30 – Henry Picard, American golfer (b. 1906)

May

 * May 1 – Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director (b. 1930)
 * May 2
 * John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
 * Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
 * May 4
 * Alvy Moore, American actor (b. 1921)
 * Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 5th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1901)
 * May 5
 * Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
 * Egidio Armelloni, Italian gymnast (b. 1909)
 * May 9 – Marie-Thérèse Paquin, Canadian pianist (b. 1905)
 * May 11 – Howard Morton, American actor (b. 1925)
 * May 13 – Laurie Lee, English author (b. 1914)
 * May 14
 * Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
 * Thelma Carpenter, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
 * May 16 – Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director (b. 1917)
 * May 18 – Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
 * May 20 – Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (b. 1921)
 * May 22
 * Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
 * Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)
 * Stanisław Swianiewicz, Polish economist and historian (b. 1899)
 * May 23 – James Lee Byars, American artist (b. 1932)
 * May 24 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
 * May 25 – Chester Feldman, American television game show producer (b. 1926)
 * May 26
 * Manfred von Ardenne, German physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
 * Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
 * May 29
 * Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)
 * George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
 * May 31 – James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)

June

 * June 2 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
 * June 3 – Dennis James, American game show host (b. 1917)
 * June 4 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (b. 1946)
 * June 6 – Magda Gabor, American actress (b. 1915)
 * June 8 – Reid Shelton, American actor (b. 1924)
 * June 12 – Bulat Okudzhava, Soviet singer (b. 1924)
 * June 14
 * Helmut Fischer, German actor (b. 1926)
 * Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
 * June 15 – Son Sen, Cambodian politician and criminal (b. 1930)
 * June 22
 * Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
 * Don Henderson, British actor (b. 1931)
 * June 23
 * Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936)
 * William Slater Brown, American novelist, biographer and translator (b. 1896)
 * June 24
 * Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
 * Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
 * June 25 – Jacques Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
 * June 26 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)

July

 * July 1
 * Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Charles Werner, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
 * July 2 – James Stewart, American actor and soldier (b. 1908)
 * July 4
 * Charles Kuralt, American reporter and television journalist (b. 1934)
 * John Zachary Young, British biologist (b. 1907)
 * July 5 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
 * July 7 – Royston Tickner, English actor (b. 1922)
 * July 8 – Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 6th President of Bangladesh (b. 1916)
 * July 13 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and dance instructor (b. 1903)
 * July 14 – Sir Garfield Barwick, Australian Chief Justice (b. 1903)
 * July 15 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
 * July 18 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
 * July 20 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
 * July 23 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
 * July 24
 * William J. Brennan Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
 * Frank Parker, American tennis champion (b. 1916)
 * July 25 – Ben Hogan, American golf champion (b. 1912)
 * July 27 – K'tut Tantri, American broadcaster and hotelier, (b. 1899)
 * July 30 – Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)

August

 * August 1
 * Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th President of Palau (b. 1925)
 * Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
 * August 2
 * William S. Burroughs, American author (b. 1914)
 * Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (b. 1938)
 * August 4 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, oldest person ever (b. 1875)
 * August 6 – Lance Barnard, Australian politician (b. 1919)
 * August 10 – Conlon Nancarrow, American-born composer (b. 1912)
 * August 12 – Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
 * August 18
 * Harry R. Wellman, American university president (b. 1899)
 * Jimmy Witherspoon, American musician (b. 1920)
 * August 21 – Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (b. 1923)
 * August 23
 * Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
 * John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (b. 1917)
 * August 24 – Louis Essen, English physicist (b. 1908)
 * August 25 – Carl Richard Jacobi, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
 * August 27
 * Sally Blane, American actress (b. 1910)
 * Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (b. 1949)
 * August 28 – Masaru Takumi, Japanese yakuza lord (b. 1936)
 * August 31
 * Diana, Princess of Wales, (b. 1961)
 * Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (b. 1936)

September

 * September 2
 * Sir Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera manager (b. 1902)
 * Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
 * September 5
 * Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor (b. 1912)
 * Mother Teresa, Indian nun, missionary and saint (b. 1910)
 * September 7
 * Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (b. 1951)
 * Mobutu Sese Seko, 2nd President of Zaire (b. 1930)
 * September 8 – Helen Shaw, American actress (b. 1897)
 * September 9
 * Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1927)
 * Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
 * September 12 – Leonard Maguire, Scottish actor (b. 1924)
 * September 13 – Victor Szebehely, Hungarian-American astronomer (b. 1921)
 * September 17 – Red Skelton, American comedian (b. 1913)
 * September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920)
 * September 23
 * Shirley Clarke, American filmmaker (b. 1919)
 * Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr., American architect (b. 1923)
 * September 25 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
 * September 27 – Walter Trampler, German violist (b. 1915)
 * September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
 * September 30
 * Milner Gray, British industrial designer (b. 1899)
 * Nobuo Fujita, Japanese aviator (b. 1911)

October

 * October 1 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
 * October 4
 * Otto Ernst Remer, German Wehrmacht officer (b. 1912)
 * Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game franchise creator (b. 1941)
 * October 5
 * Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
 * Arthur Tracy, American singer (b. 1899)
 * October 6
 * Adrienne Hill, British actress (b. 1937)
 * Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
 * October 9 – Arch Johnson, American actor (b. 1922)
 * October 12 – John Denver, American musician (b. 1943)
 * October 13
 * Adil Çarçani, Albanian politician (b. 1922)
 * Richard Mason, British novelist (b. 1919)
 * October 14 – Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916)
 * October 16
 * Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
 * James A. Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
 * October 19 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
 * October 21 – Dolph Camilli, American baseball player (b. 1907)
 * October 22 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
 * October 23
 * Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
 * Claire Falkenstein, American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer and teacher (b. 1908)
 * October 24 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
 * October 25 – Tina Lattanzi, Italian actress (b. 1897)
 * October 28 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
 * October 29
 * Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, American astrophysicist (b. 1947)
 * Anton Szandor LaVey, American author and Satanist (b. 1930)
 * Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German Junker, soldier, and author (b. 1899)
 * October 30 – Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (b. 1912)

November

 * November 1
 * Gérard Légaré, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
 * Victor Mills, American chemical engineer (b. 1897)
 * November 2 – Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (b. 1907)
 * November 5
 * Isaiah Berlin, Russian-British social and political theorist (b. 1909)
 * George Philip Bradley Roberts, British general (b. 1906)
 * November 8 – Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian author (b. 1892)
 * November 11
 * Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, Malagasy writer and politician (b. 1929)
 * Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
 * November 12 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
 * November 18 – Un'ichi Hiratsuka, Japanese print-maker (b. 1895)
 * November 21 – Robert Simpson, English composer (b. 1921)
 * November 22
 * Joanna Moore, American actress (b. 1934)
 * Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
 * November 23 – Hulda Crooks, American mountaineer (b. 1896)
 * November 24 – Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
 * November 25 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
 * November 30 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)

December

 * December 1 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
 * December 2
 * Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
 * Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (b. 1953)
 * December 7 – Billy Bremner, British footballer (b. 1942)
 * December 14
 * Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
 * Owen Barfield, British philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
 * December 16
 * Lillian Disney, American artist (b. 1899)
 * Nicolette Larson, American pop singer (b. 1952)
 * Thomas J. Parmley, American academic (b. 1897)
 * December 18 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
 * December 19
 * Masaru Ibuka, Japanese electronics industrialist (b. 1908)
 * David Schramm, American astrophysicist (b. 1945)
 * December 20
 * Juzo Itami, Japanese film director (b. 1933)
 * Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (b. 1923)
 * December 21 – Amie Comeaux, American country singer (b. 1976)
 * December 23 – Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
 * December 24 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
 * December 25
 * Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
 * Anita Conti, French explorer and photographer (b. 1899)
 * December 27 – Billy Wright, Northern Irish paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
 * December 31
 * Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
 * Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, American socialite (b. 1958)

Date unknown

 * Laurence Henry Hicks, Australian composer (b. 1912)
 * Jean Horsley, New Zealand artist (b. 1913)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
 * Economics – Bank of Sweden – Robert C. Merton, Myron Scholes
 * Literature – Dario Fo
 * Peace – International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams
 * Physics – Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
 * Medicine – Stanley B. Prusiner

January

 * January 3 – Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone to date.
 * January 5 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is assassinated by an Israeli Shabak-planted, bomb-laden cell phone.
 * January 7 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia receives a record 30.7 in of snow, New York City's public schools close for the first time in eighteen years and the federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for days.
 * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city, Kinshasa, killing 300 people.
 * January 9–20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya.
 * January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
 * January 13 – Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government.
 * January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal.
 * January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February.
 * January 19
 * The North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The North Cape Barge is pulled along with it and leaks 820,000 gallons of home heating oil.
 * An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.
 * January 20 – Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority.
 * January 21 – France undertakes its last nuclear weapons test.
 * January 22 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, resigns due to health problems; a new government forms under Costas Simitis.
 * January 24 – Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow. He is replaced by Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.
 * January 27 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected President of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
 * January 31
 * Colombo Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
 * An explosion in Shaoyang, China kills 122 people and injures over 400 when 10 ST of dynamite in an illegal explosives warehouse underneath an apartment building detonate.
 * An amateur astronomer from southern Japan discovers Comet Hyakutake; it will pass very close to the Earth in March.

February

 * February 4 – The 6.6 earthquake near Lijiang in South-west China kills up to 322 people, injures 17,000, and leaves 300,000 homeless.
 * February 6 – Birgenair Flight 301, on an unauthorised charter flight from the Caribbean to Germany, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 passengers and crew.
 * February 7 – René Préval succeeds Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti in the first peaceful handover of power since the nation achieved independence 192 years earlier, in 1804.
 * February 9
 * The element copernicium is created by fusing a 208Pb nucleus with a 70Zn nucleus, forming 278Cn. Given the placeholder name "ununbium", the element is not named until 2010.
 * An IRA ceasefire ends with the Docklands bombing in London's Canary Wharf District, killing two people and causing over £85,000,000 worth of damage.
 * February 10 – Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.
 * February 14 – Violent clashes erupt between Filipino soldiers and Vietnamese boat people, as the Filipino government attempts to forcibly repatriate hundreds of Vietnamese asylum seekers.
 * February 15
 * The American Embassy in Athens, Greece, comes under mortar fire.
 * Begum Khaleda Zia is re-elected as Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The country's second democratic election is marred by low voter turnout, due to several boycotts and pre-election violence, which has resulted in at least thirteen deaths.
 * The UK government publishes the Scott Report.
 * February 16 – 1996 Maryland train collision: A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
 * February 17 – The 8.2 Biak earthquake strikes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving 166 people dead or missing and 423 injured.
 * February 24 – Cuban fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.
 * February 25 – Two suicide bombs in Israel kill 25 and injure 80; Hamas claims responsibility.
 * February 29
 * Faucett Flight 251 en route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa; all 123 people on board are killed.
 * At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala, Uganda.
 * The Bosnian government declares the end of the Siege of Sarajevo.

March

 * March 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces refuse UNSCOM inspection teams access to five sites designated for inspection. The teams enter the sites only after delays of up to seventeen hours.
 * March 2 – Australian federal election, 1996: The Liberal/National Coalition led by John Howard defeats the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating. Howard was sworn in on March 11.
 * March 3 – José María Aznar, leader of the Popular Party, is elected as Prime Minister of Spain, replacing Felipe González.
 * March 3–4 – Two suicide bombs explode in Israel, killing 32 people. The Yahya Ayyash Units admit responsibility, and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat condemns the killings in a televised address. Israel warns of retaliation.
 * March 6
 * Mesut Yılmaz of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (53rd government).
 * A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown harbour in Sierra Leone, killing at least 86 people.
 * Chechen rebels attack the Russian government headquarters in Grozny; 70 Russian soldiers and policemen and 130 Chechen fighters are killed.
 * March 8 – China begins surface-to-surface missile testing and military exercises off Taiwanese coastal areas. The United States government condemns the act as provocation, and the Taiwanese government warns of retaliation.
 * March 9 – Jorge Sampaio is the new Portuguese president.
 * March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing sixteen infant school pupils and one teacher before committing suicide.
 * March 14 – An international peace summit is held in Egypt in response to escalating terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
 * March 16 – Robert Mugabe is re-elected as President of Zimbabwe, although only 32% of the electorate actually voted.
 * March 17 – Sri Lanka wins the Cricket World Cup by beating Australia in the final.
 * March 18 – The Ozone Disco Club fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 163 people.
 * March 22 – Sweden's Finance Minister Göran Persson becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden.
 * March 23 – Taiwan (Republic of China) holds its first direct elections for President; Lee Teng-hui is re-elected.
 * March 24 – The Marcopper mining disaster on the island of Marinduque, Philippines takes place.
 * March 25 – The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Braveheart winning Best Picture.
 * March 26 – The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan to Russia for economic reform.

April

 * April 1 – The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
 * April 3
 * A Boeing 737 military jet crashes into a mountain north of Dubrovnik, Croatia. All 35 people on board are killed, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
 * Massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.
 * April 6
 * Fighting breaks out in Monrovia, Liberia, between various rebel factions struggling for power in the country's interrupted civil war. Several foreign nationals leave the nation.
 * Turkish authorities begin Operation Hawk, a military offensive against rebels from the Kurdish Workers' Party in south-east Turkey.
 * April 9 – In a common statement, the European Union officially recognises the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 * April 11 – The Israeli government launches Operation Grapes of Wrath, consisting of massive attacks on Lebanon, in retaliation for prior terrorist attacks, and sparking off a violent series of retaliations.
 * April 18
 * Qana Massacre: Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed after Israel shells the United Nations compound in Qana.
 * In reaction to the Qana Massacre, an Islamist group in Egypt open fire on a hotel, killing eighteen Greek tourists and injuring seventeen others.
 * April 21 – A general election in Italy proclaims a new center-left government headed by Romano Prodi, replacing Silvio Berlusconi.
 * April 24 – At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization drops its clause calling for the removal of Israel. The Israeli government responds by dropping a similar clause concerning the existence of Palestine.
 * April 28
 * Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in Tasmania, Australia.
 * A bomb explodes in Bhaiperu, Pakistan, killing more than 60 people.

May

 * May – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents.
 * May 9
 * South Africa's National Party pulls out of the coalition government formed two years earlier, and the African National Congress assumes full political control.
 * Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75% of the vote.
 * May 10
 * 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving eight people dead. By the end of the month, at least four other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.
 * The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on the private possession of both automatic and semi-automatic rifles, in response to the Port Arthur massacre.
 * May 11 – After takeoff from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
 * May 13 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
 * May 17–28 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected as Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress. However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns thirteen days later rather than face a no confidence vote and is replaced by the United Front leader, Deve Gowda.
 * May 18 – The X Prize Foundation launches the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize.
 * May 21
 * The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000 people in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.
 * The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
 * May 23 – Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill seven French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.
 * May 27 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a ceasefire for the dispute.
 * May 28 – Albania's general election of May 26 is declared unfair by international monitors, and the ruling Democratic Party under President Sali Berisha is charged by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with rigging the elections. Several hundred protestors gather in Tirana to demonstrate against the election result.
 * May 30 – The Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, wins a narrow victory in the Israeli general election.

June

 * June – Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the United States fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
 * June 1–3 – The Czech Republic's first general election ends inconclusively. Prime Minister Václav Klaus and his incumbent Civic Democratic Party emerge as the winners, but are unable to form a majority government. President Václav Havel refuses to invite Klaus to form a coalition.
 * June 4 – The space rocket Ariane 5 explodes forty seconds after takeoff in French Guiana. The project costs European governments $7,500,000,000 over eleven years.
 * June 6 – Leighton W. Smith, Jr. resigns as NATO commander in the face of increasing criticism.
 * June 8–30 – England hosts the UEFA Euro 1996 football tournament, which is won by Germany.
 * June 11
 * An explosion in a São Paulo suburban shopping centre kills 44 people and injures more than 100.
 * A peace convoy carrying Chechen separatist leaders and international diplomats is targeted by a series of remotely controlled land mines; eight people are killed.
 * June 15 – In Manchester, UK, a massive IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
 * June 28
 * A new government is formed in Turkey, with Necmettin Erbakan of Refah Partisi becoming Prime Minister of the coalition government, and Deputy/Foreign Minister Tansu Çiller of the True Path Party succeeding him after two years.
 * The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
 * June 29
 * The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
 * An explosion in a firecrackers factory in Sichuan Province, China kills at least 36 people and injures 52 others.
 * June 30
 * Costas Simitis is elected president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece.
 * Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić relinquishes power to his deputy, Biljana Plavšić.

July

 * July
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector Scott Ritter attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport but is blocked by Iraqi officials.
 * The Indian government officially renames the city of Madras, restoring the name Chennai.
 * July 1
 * The Northern Territory in Australia legalises voluntary euthanasia.
 * German orthography reform of 1996 agreed internationally.
 * July 3 – Boris Yeltsin is re-elected as President of Russia after the second round of elections.
 * July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
 * July 11 – Arrest warrants are issued for Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić by the Russell Tribunal in The Hague.
 * July 12 – Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage ($ in present-day terms) to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
 * July 16 – An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in Japan results in 6,000 children being ill, including two deaths, after a group of school children eat contaminated lunches.
 * July 17
 * The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is constituted.
 * Paris- and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board.
 * July 19
 * The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, begin.
 * Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes.
 * July 21 – The Saguenay Flood, one of Canada's most costly natural disasters, is caused by flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec.
 * July 24 – The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo.
 * July 25 – The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
 * July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills one person and injures 111.

August

 * August
 * The first three-parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through mitochondrial donation.
 * The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York City.
 * August 1
 * Sarah Balabagan returns to the Philippines.
 * A pro-democracy demonstration supporting Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia is broken up by riot police.
 * August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.
 * August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms.
 * August 7 – Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near Huesca, Spain.
 * August 9 – Boris Yeltsin is sworn in at the Kremlin for a second term as President of Russia.
 * August 13 – Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons.
 * August 14 – A rocket ignited during a fireworks display in Arequipa, Peru knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people.
 * August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.
 * August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the 20 ft deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue.
 * August 21
 * Former State President of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, makes an official apology for crimes committed under Apartheid to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town.
 * In the UK, Queen Elizabeth II issues letters patent on divorced former wives of British princes, taking away from the ex-wives the attribute and style of Royal Highness. With that Sarah, Duchess of York as well as Diana, Princess of Wales legally cease to be Royals, but they remain as non-royal Duchess and Princess.
 * August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
 * August 28 – Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess of Wales, due to the Queen's letters patent issued a week earlier.
 * August 29
 * U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
 * A Russian Tupolev 154 jetliner crashes into a mountain as it approaches the airport at Spitsbergen, Norway, killing all 141 people on board.
 * August 31 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces launch an offensive into the northern No-Fly Zone and capture Arbil.

September

 * September 2 – A permanent peace agreement is signed at the Malacañan Palace between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front.
 * September 3 – The United States launches Operation Desert Strike against Iraq in reaction to the attack on Arbil.
 * September 4 – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
 * September 5 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damages ($ in present-day terms) and killed 27 people, mainly in North Carolina.  The name "Fran" was retired due to the extensive damage.
 * September 10 – Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed (it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries).
 * September 13 – Alija Izetbegović is elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country's first election since the Bosnian War.
 * September 18 – A North Korean Sang-O class submarine runs aground in South Korea. The crew are described as spies by the South Korean government and killed by the South Korean military.
 * September 20 – Leader of Pakistani opposition party Pakistan Peoples Party Murtaza Bhutto is killed during a gunfight with police.
 * September 22 – The Panhellenic Socialist Movement under the leadership of Costas Simitis succeeds in the 1996 Greek legislative election.
 * September 24 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
 * September 27 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.

October

 * October 2
 * The former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Andrey Lukanov, is assassinated.
 * Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 people on board.
 * October 6 – The government of New Zealand agrees to pay $130 million worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864.
 * October 22 – A fire at La Planta prison in southwest Caracas, Venezuela, kills thirty prisoners.
 * October 30 – Fighting erupts when Banyamulenga Tutsis of Laurent Kabila in Zaire seize Uvira and proceed to kill Hutu refugees.
 * October 31 – TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into a densely populated area of São Paulo, killing all 96 people on board.

November

 * November – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country.
 * November 5
 * Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed by President Farooq Leghari after widespread allegations of corruption.
 * United States presidential election, 1996: Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican challenger, Bob Dole.
 * November 7
 * A category 4 cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India, killing more than 2,000 people.
 * NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
 * November 8 – All 141 people on board a Nigerian-owned Boeing 727 die when the aircraft crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while approaching Lagos airport.
 * November 12 – Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76 in New Delhi, India, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.
 * November 17
 * A bomb exploded in Kaspiysk, Russia, killing 32 people.
 * Emil Constantinescu is elected as President of Romania.
 * November 18 – Frederick Chiluba is re-elected as President of Zambia.
 * November 19
 * Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1,035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree in Tasmania earlier this year.
 * Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization (CTBTO) established.
 * STS-80: Space Shuttle Columbia conducts the longest mission of the Space Shuttle program.
 * November 20 – The 1996 Garley Building fire occurred in Hong Kong, resulting in 41 deaths and 81 injuries.
 * November 21 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33 people.
 * November 23
 * The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization as Angola.
 * Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
 * Tamagotchi is released in Japan by Bandai.
 * November 25 – An ice storm strikes the U.S., killing 26 directly and hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts Florida with winds gusts up to 90 mph.

December

 * December 9 – Jerry Rawlings is re-elected as President of Ghana.
 * December 11 – Tung Chee-hwa is appointed to become the new leader of Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997 at the end a 99-year lease to the United Kingdom.
 * December 13 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is elected by the United Nations Security Council the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.
 * December 17 – The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru.
 * December 25 – At least 283 migrants drown in the sinking of F174 near Capo Passero (Sicily).
 * December 26
 * The largest strike in South Korean history begins.
 * Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
 * December 27 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Air Base, solidifying their buffer zone around Kabul.
 * December 29 – Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord that ends the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War.
 * December 30 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.

Undated

 * Economy of Venezuela: Inflation in the country peaks at 99.87%.

January

 * January 1
 * Mahmoud Dahoud, German footballer
 * Andreas Pereira, Brazilian footballer
 * January 2
 * Dior Hall, American hurdler
 * Xiaoyu Yu, Chinese figure skater
 * January 5
 * Maxim Baldry, English actor
 * Tyler Ulis, American basketball player
 * January 6
 * Courtney Eaton, Australian actress
 * Kishan Shrikanth, Indian actor and director
 * Harmanpreet Singh, Indian hockey player
 * January 7
 * Fu Yuanhui, Chinese swimmer
 * Helly Shah, Indian actress
 * Isaac Success, Nigerian footballer
 * January 8 – Khylin Rhambo, American actor
 * January 9 – Oana Gregory, Romanian American actress
 * January 10 – Anna Sztankovics, Hungarian swimmer
 * January 11 – Leroy Sané, German footballer
 * January 12 – Ella Henderson, English singer
 * January 13
 * Aníta Hinriksdóttir, Icelandic middle-distance runner
 * Kamil Majchrzak, Polish tennis player
 * January 15 – Dove Cameron, American actress
 * January 16
 * Anastasia Grishina, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Jennie Kim - South Korean singer
 * January 17
 * Caitlin Sanchez, American actress
 * Nile Wilson, British artistic gymnast
 * January 18 – Sarah Gilman, American actress
 * January 21 – Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer
 * January 22
 * Sami Gayle, American actress
 * Joshua Ho-Sang, Canadian ice hockey player
 * January 23
 * Chachi Gonzales, American dancer
 * Ruben Loftus-Cheek, English footballer
 * January 24 – Patrik Schick, Czech footballer
 * January 26 – Zakaria Bakkali, Belgian footballer
 * January 31 – Joel Courtney, American actor

February

 * February 1
 * Dionne Bromfield, English singer-songwriter and television personality
 * Gianluigi Quinzi, Italian tennis player
 * February 2 – Harry Winks, English footballer
 * February 5 – Zeng Siqi, Chinese artistic gymnast
 * February 7
 * Aaron Ekblad, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Pierre Gasly, French racing driver
 * Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
 * February 8 – Kenedy, Brazilian footballer
 * February 9
 * Jimmy Bennett, American actor
 * Kelli Berglund, American actress
 * February 11
 * Jonathan Tah, German footballer
 * Lucas Torreira, Uruguayan footballer
 * February 13 – Muhammad Rian Ardianto, Indonesian badminton player
 * February 14
 * Lucas Hernandez, French footballer
 * Viktor Kovalenko, Ukrainian footballer
 * February 17
 * Erika Fasana, Italian artistic gymnast
 * Sasha Pieterse, South African-born American actress
 * February 18 – Ikumi Hisamatsu, Japanese fashion model and actress
 * February 21 – Sophie Turner, English actress
 * February 23
 * Michael Johnston, American actor
 * D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
 * February 24 – Cristian Imparato, Italian singer
 * February 25 – Emel Dereli, Turkish shot putter
 * February 28 – Danilo Barbosa, Brazilian footballer

March

 * March 1
 * Sage Northcutt, American mixed martial artist
 * Ye Shiwen, Chinese swimmer
 * March 4
 * Timo Baumgartl, German footballer
 * Antonio Sanabria, Paraguayan footballer
 * March 6
 * Timo Werner, German footballer
 * Yan Han, Chinese figure skater
 * March 8
 * Matthew Hammelmann, Australian rules footballer
 * Emil Imre, Hungarian short track speed skater
 * March 9 – Giorgio Minisini, Italian synchronized swimmer
 * March 14 – Janai Haupapa, Canadian rugby league player
 * March 15 – Levin Öztunalı, German footballer
 * March 16 – Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
 * March 17 – Saeed Blacknall, American wide receiver
 * March 18 – Madeline Carroll, American actress
 * March 19 – Feodosiy Efremenkov, Russian figure skater
 * March 22 – Gig Morton, Canadian actor
 * March 23 – Lauri Kivari, Finnish freestyle skier
 * March 24
 * Valentino Lazaro, Austrian footballer
 * Myles Turner, American basketball player
 * March 26 – Kathryn Bernardo, Filipina actress
 * March 27 – Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Italian-American actress
 * March 28 – Xie Siyi, Chinese diver
 * March 29 – Wade Baldwin IV, American basketball player

April

 * April 2
 * Polina Agafonova, Russian figure skater
 * Matheus Santana, Brazilian swimmer
 * April 3 – Sarah Jeffery, American actress
 * April 4 – Austin Mahone, American singer
 * April 8 – Lorna Fitzgerald, English actress
 * April 9 – Giovani Lo Celso, Argentinian footballer
 * April 10
 * Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer
 * Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australian tennis player
 * Loïc Nottet, Belgian singer
 * Audrey Whitby, American teen actress
 * April 11
 * Dele Alli, English footballer
 * Jake Browning, American football player
 * April 12
 * Polina Korobeynikova, Russian figure skater
 * Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
 * April 14 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
 * April 16 – Anya Taylor-Joy, American actress
 * April 21 – Tavi Gevinson, American fashion blogger
 * April 22 – Wendy Sulca, Peruvian singer
 * April 23
 * Álex Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
 * Charlie Rowe, British actor
 * April 24
 * Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
 * D'Onta Foreman, American football player
 * April 25 – Mack Horton, Australian swimmer
 * April 29
 * Gustav Engvall, Swedish footballer
 * Katherine Langford, Australian actress

May



 * May 1 – Christopher J. Alexis Jr., Grenadian road cyclist
 * May 2 – Julian Brandt, German footballer
 * May 3
 * Mary Cain, American middle-distance runner
 * Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
 * Arden Key, American football player
 * Noah Munck, American actor
 * May 4
 * Arielle Gold, American snowboarder
 * Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist.
 * May 5
 * Matheus Pereira, Brazilian footballer
 * Britney Simpson, American figure skater
 * May 8 – 6ix9ine, American rapper
 * May 10 – Tyus Jones, American basketball player
 * May 11 – Adrián Cubas, Argentinian footballer
 * May 14
 * Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
 * McKaley Miller, American actress
 * May 15 – Birdy, English singer and songwriter
 * May 17 – Ryan Ochoa, American actor
 * May 18 – Violett Beane, American actress
 * May 19 – Lakshmi Menon, Indian film actress
 * May 18 – Yuki Kadono, Japanese snowboarder
 * May 23 – Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper
 * May 26 – Tyler Hilinski, American football player (d. 2018)
 * May 30
 * Aleksandr Golovin, Russian footballer
 * Erik Jones, American race car driver
 * Kendall Sheffield, American football player

June

 * June 1 – Tom Holland, British actor
 * June 3 – Han Tianyu, Chinese short track speed skater
 * June 4 – Ruby Harrold, British artistic gymnast
 * June 7 – Christian McCaffrey, American football player
 * June 11 – Hakeeb Adelakun, English footballer
 * June 12
 * Anna Margaret Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * Davinson Sánchez, Colombian footballer
 * June 13
 * Kingsley Coman, French footballer
 * Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
 * June 15 – Aurora, Norwegian singer
 * June 16 – Lily Zhang, American table tennis player
 * June 17 – Godfred Donsah, Ghanese footballer
 * June 18 – Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
 * June 19 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * June 20
 * Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Michael Dal Colle, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 22
 * Yusupha Bobb, Gambian footballer
 * Kong Sangjeong, South Korean short track speed skater
 * Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer
 * June 24 – Harris Dickinson, English actor, writer, and director
 * June 28
 * Milot Rashica, Kosovar footballer
 * Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player
 * June 29 – Bart Ramselaar, Dutch footballer

July

 * July 1 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
 * July 3
 * Kendji Girac, French singer
 * Kumaahran Sathasivam, Malaysian footballer
 * July 5 – Risa Shoji, Japanese figure skater
 * July 6 – Robert Naylor, Canadian actor
 * July 8 – Marlon Humphrey, American football player
 * July 9 – Shanice Williams, American actress and singer
 * July 10 – Moon Ga-young, South Korean actress
 * July 11
 * Alessia Cara, Canadian singer and songwriter
 * Andrija Živković, Serbian footballer
 * July 12 – Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
 * July 16
 * Nicky Jones, American voice actor
 * Daniel Pearson, English actor and presenter
 * July 18
 * Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov, Russian footballer
 * Yung Lean, Swedish rapper and record producer
 * Siebe Schrijvers, Belgian footballer
 * July 20 – Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player
 * July 21 – Joey Bragg, American actor
 * July 22
 * Skyler Gisondo, American actor
 * Indy Groothuizen, Dutch football player
 * Jane Oineza, Filipina actress
 * July 23
 * Danielle Bradbery, American singer
 * Rachel G. Fox, American actress
 * July 24 – Joe Mixon, American football player
 * July 27 – Trenton Thompson, American football player
 * July 30 – Dylan Larkin, American hockey player
 * July 31 – Blake Michael, American actor

August

 * August 1 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
 * August 2 – Simone Manuel, American swimmer
 * August 3 – Derwin James, American football player
 * August 5
 * Francesca Deagostini, Italian artistic gymnast
 * Mai Murakami, Japanese artistic gymnast
 * August 7
 * Dani Ceballos, Spanish footballer
 * Liam James, Canadian actor
 * August 10 – Jacob Latimore, American singer, actor and dancer
 * August 12 – Torri Webster, Canadian actress
 * August 13 – Antonia Lottner, German tennis player
 * August 14
 * Brianna Hildebrand, American actress
 * Neal Maupay, French footballer
 * August 19 – Laura Tesoro, Belgian singer and actress
 * August 21 – Jamia Simone Nash, American actress and singer
 * August 22
 * Jessica-Jane Applegate, British Paralympic swimmer
 * Michael Graue, American actor
 * August 24 – Kenzō Shirai, Japanese gymnast
 * August 25 – Naelee Rae, American actress and singer
 * August 27
 * Ebru Topçu, Turkish footballer
 * Wang Jianan, Chinese long jumper
 * August 30
 * Gabriel Barbosa, Brazilian footballer
 * Chen Dequan, Chinese short track speed skater

September

 * September 1 – Zendaya, American actress and singer
 * September 3 – Joy, South Korean singer
 * September 5
 * Sigrid (singer), Norwegian singer
 * Richairo Živković, Dutch footballer
 * September 9 – Jaïro Riedewald, Dutch footballer
 * September 12 – Colin Ford, American actor
 * September 13
 * Playboi Carti, American rapper
 * Lili Reinhart, American actress
 * September 16 – Alexis Blin, French footballer
 * September 17
 * Esteban Ocon, French racing driver
 * Ella Purnell, English actress
 * September 19 – Pia Mia, Guamanian singer-songwriter and model
 * September 20 – Jerome Sinclair, English footballer
 * September 23
 * Lee Hi, Korean singer
 * Evgeny Rylov, Russian swimmer
 * September 25
 * Max Christiansen, German footballer
 * Mie Nielsen, Danish swimmer
 * September 27 – Maxwel Cornet, French footballer
 * September 28 – Michael Ronda, Mexican actor and singer

October

 * October 3 – Kelechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
 * October 4 – Ryan Lee, American actor
 * October 8 – Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
 * October 9 – Bella Hadid, American model
 * October 10 – Oscar Zia, Swedish singer
 * October 12 – Riechedly Bazoer, Dutch footballer
 * October 15
 * Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
 * Zelo, Korean singer
 * October 22
 * B.I, Korean singer
 * Harley Windsor, Australian pair skater
 * October 24
 * Jaylen Brown, American basketball player
 * Kyla Ross, American gymnast
 * October 26 – Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
 * October 27 – Nadiem Amiri, German footballer
 * October 28
 * Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
 * Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
 * Vincent Koziello, French footballer
 * Lee June-hyoung, South Korean figure skater
 * October 30
 * Devin Booker, American basketball player
 * Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer

November

 * November 1
 * Sean Gelael, Indonesian racing driver
 * Lil Peep, American rapper (d. 2017)
 * November 4
 * Kaitlin Hawayek, American ice dancer
 * Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater
 * November 7
 * André Horta, Portuguese footballer
 * Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
 * November 9 – Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên, Vietnamese swimmer
 * November 11
 * Gianluca Gaudino, German footballer
 * Adam Ounas, French footballer
 * Tye Sheridan, American actor
 * November 15 – Malik Jefferson, American football player
 * November 14 – Borna Ćorić, Croatian tennis player
 * November 16 – Brendan Murray, Irish singer
 * November 17 – Ruth Jebet, Bahraini long-distance runner
 * November 18
 * Christian Kirk, American football player
 * Noah Ringer, American actor
 * Sorn, South Korean based singer
 * November 19 – Liliána Szilágyi, Hungarian swimmer
 * November 22
 * Hailey Baldwin, American model and socialite
 * Madison Davenport, American actress and singer
 * Mackenzie Lintz, American actress
 * Juju Smith-Schuster, American football player
 * November 23
 * Lia Marie Johnson, American actress and Internet personality
 * Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
 * November 26 – Louane Emera, French singer and actress
 * November 27 – Andy Truong, Australian fashion designer
 * November 29 – Gonçalo Guedes, Portuguese footballer

December

 * December 4
 * Diogo Jota, Portuguese footballer
 * Daria Svatkovskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
 * December 6 – Stefanie Scott, American actress
 * December 8 – Teala Dunn, American actress
 * December 10
 * Jérémy Gabriel, French Canadian singer
 * Kang Daniel, South Korean singer
 * December 11
 * Jack Griffo, American actor
 * Eliza McCartney, New Zealand track and field athlete
 * Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, model and singer
 * December 12 – Lucas Hedges, American actor
 * December 14 – Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater
 * December 17 – Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
 * December 21
 * Kaitlyn Dever, American actress
 * Atanas Kolev, Bulgarian basketball player and rapper
 * December 28 – Alfred Kipketer, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * December 29 – Dylan Minnette, American actor

January

 * January 1
 * Arleigh Burke, American naval officer (b. 1901)
 * Moshe Aryeh Freund, Israeli rabbi (b. 1894)
 * Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji, Indian yogi (b. 1890)
 * Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (b. 1906)
 * January 2 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
 * January 5
 * Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian shaheed (b. 1966)
 * Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (b. 1907)
 * Richard Versalle, American operatic tenor (b. 1932)
 * January 6 – Kim Kwang-seok, South Korean singer (b. 1964)
 * January 7
 * Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)
 * Tarō Okamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1911)
 * January 8 – François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
 * January 11
 * Harold Walter Bailey, English scholar (b. 1899)
 * Eric Hebborn, British art forger (b. 1934)
 * January 15
 * Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
 * Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (b. 1938)
 * January 17 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
 * January 18
 * Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
 * Endel Puusepp, Estonian pilot (b. 1909)
 * Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian film actor (b. 1923)
 * Rudolf Wanderone, American billiards player (b. 1913)
 * January 19
 * A. G. Gaston, American businessman (b. 1892)
 * Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
 * January 20 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
 * January 25 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)
 * January 26 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1921)
 * January 28
 * Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American Nobel poet (b. 1940)
 * Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
 * January 31 – Gustave Solomon, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1930)

February



 * February 2
 * Fred S. Keller, American psychologist (b. 1899)
 * Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (b. 1912)
 * February 3 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922)
 * February 6 – Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
 * February 7 – Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)
 * February 9
 * Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer and social activist (b. 1889)
 * Adolf Galland, German general (b. 1912)
 * February 11
 * Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
 * Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)
 * Phil Regan, American actor (b. 1906)
 * Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)
 * February 12
 * Bob Shaw, Irish science fiction writer (b. 1931)
 * Ryōtarō Shiba, Japanese novelist (b. 1923)
 * February 13 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
 * February 14
 * Eva Hart, British Titanic survivor (b. 1905)
 * Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
 * Mark Venturini, American actor (b. 1961)
 * February 15
 * Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
 * McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
 * February 16
 * Roger Bowen, American actor (b. 1932)
 * Pat Brown, American politician (b. 1905)
 * Brownie McGhee, American musician (b. 1915)
 * February 17 – Evelyn Laye, British actress (b. 1900)
 * February 20
 * Audrey Munson, American model and actress (b. 1891)
 * Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
 * February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)
 * February 23 – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (b. 1915)
 * February 25 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian activist (b. 1940)
 * February 26 – Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer (b. 1919)
 * February 27
 * Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (b. 1912)
 * Pat Smythe, British showjumper and author (b. 1928)

March

 * March 2 – Lyle Talbot, American actor (b. 1902)
 * March 3 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)
 * March 4 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
 * March 5
 * Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh (b. 1918)
 * Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
 * March 6 – Simon Cadell, English actor (b. 1950)
 * March 9 – George Burns, American comedian (b. 1896)
 * March 10
 * Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)
 * Butch Laswell, American motorcycle stunt rider (b. 1958)
 * March 11 – Vince Edwards, American actor (b. 1928)
 * March 12 – Gyula Kállai, 48th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1910)
 * March 13 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
 * March 14
 * Dewi Bebb, Welsh rugby union player (b. 1938)
 * Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer (b. 1914)
 * March 15 – Olga Rudge, American violinist (b. 1895)
 * March 17
 * René Clément, French film director (b. 1913)
 * Elsa Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1894)
 * March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (b. 1911)
 * March 19
 * Virginia Henderson, American nurse and theorist (b. 1897)
 * Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b. 1933)
 * March 25 – Lola Beltrán, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (b. 1932)
 * March 25 – John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
 * March 26
 * Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
 * David Packard, American engineer (b. 1912)
 * March 29 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director and producer (b. 1926)
 * March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (b. 1958)

April

 * April 3
 * Herk Harvey, American film director (b. 1924)
 * Carl Stokes, American politician (b. 1927)
 * April 4 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
 * April 6
 * John D. Bulkeley, American naval officer (b. 1911)
 * Greer Garson, British-American actress (b. 1904)
 * April 7 – Colleen Clifford, Australian actress (b. 1898)
 * April 8
 * Donald Adams, British actor and opera singer (b. 1928)
 * George W. Jenkins, American businessman (b. 1907)
 * April 12 – Fred Alexander, Australian historian (b. 1899)
 * April 16 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917)
 * April 18 – Ronald Davies, American judge (b. 1904)
 * April 20 – Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (b. 1920)
 * April 21 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician and President of Ichkeria (b. 1944)
 * April 22
 * Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
 * Jug McSpaden, American professional golfer (b. 1908)
 * April 23 – P. L. Travers, British actress, journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1899)
 * April 25 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (b. 1920)
 * April 26
 * Milt Gaston, American baseball player (b. 1896)
 * Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
 * April 28
 * T. H. Clark, Canadian geologist (b. 1893)
 * Siti Hartinah, 2nd First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Suharto (b. 1923)

May

 * May 1 – David M. Kennedy, American politician, businessman (b. 1905)
 * May 2 – Queen Mother Moore, American civil rights leader (b. 1898)
 * May 3 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
 * May 11
 * Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
 * Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
 * May 15
 * Charles B. Fulton, American judge (b. 1910)
 * Virgil Ross, American animator (b. 1907)
 * May 17 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)
 * May 19 – John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)
 * May 20 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
 * May 21
 * Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957)
 * Lash LaRue, American actor (b. 1917)
 * May 22 – Seymour H. Knox III, American businessman (b. 1926)
 * May 23 – Sim Iness, American Olympic athlete (b. 1930)
 * May 24
 * Jacob Druckman, American composer (b. 1928)
 * Joseph Mitchell, American writer (b. 1908)
 * Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
 * May 25 – Bradley Nowell, American musician (b. 1968)
 * May 29 – Tamara Toumanova, Russian dancer and actress (b. 1919)
 * May 31 – Timothy Leary, American writer and social activist (b. 1920)

June

 * June 1 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
 * June 2
 * John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
 * Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
 * Leon Garfield, English author (b. 1921)
 * Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (b. 1928)
 * June 3 – Peter Glenville, English film director (b. 1913)
 * June 6
 * Merle Curti, American historian (b. 1897)
 * Kusuo Kitamura, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1917)
 * George Davis Snell, American Nobel geneticist (b. 1903)
 * June 9 – Salme Reek, Estonian actress (b. 1907)
 * June 10
 * Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
 * Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b. 1906)
 * June 11 – Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
 * June 12 – Mary Field, American film actress (b. 1909)
 * June 15 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
 * June 16 – Mel Allen, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
 * June 19
 * Vivian Ellis, English composer (b. 1903)
 * Hillevi Rombin, Swedish actress and beauty queen (b. 1933)
 * G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
 * Edvin Wide, Swedish middle- and long-distance runner (b. 1896)
 * June 23
 * Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer (b. 1921)
 * Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
 * June 26 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
 * June 27 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
 * June 28 – Kwan Tak-hing, Hong Kong actor (b. 1905)

July

 * July 1
 * William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1912)
 * Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (b. 1954)
 * July 3 – Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1926)
 * July 5 – Erik Wickberg, Swedish Salvation Army general (b. 1904)
 * July 9
 * Eno Raud, Estonian writer (b. 1928)
 * Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (b. 1954)
 * July 12
 * John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
 * Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (b. 1961)
 * July 13 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
 * July 14 – Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver (b. 1964)
 * July 15 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
 * July 16 – John Panozzo, American drummer (b. 1948)
 * July 17
 * Paul Touvier, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1915)
 * Victims of TWA Flight 800
 * Michel Breistroff, NHL ice hockey player (b. 1971)
 * Marcel Dadi, French guitarist (b. 1951)
 * David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949)
 * Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)
 * July 20
 * Stuart Clarence Graham, Australian army general (b. 1920)
 * František Plánička, Czech footballer (b. 1904)
 * July 21
 * Luana Anders, American actress (b. 1938)
 * Herb Edelman, American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 22 – Jessica Mitford, British-American author, journalist and political campaigner (b. 1917)
 * July 23 – Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)
 * July 28 – Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist (b. 1908)
 * July 30 – Claudette Colbert, French-born American Academy Award-winning actress (b. 1903)

August

 * August 1
 * Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somali military commander and politician (b. 1934)
 * Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss Nobel chemist (b. 1897)
 * August 2
 * Michel Debré, 99th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
 * Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
 * August 8 – Nevill Francis Mott, English Nobel physicist (b. 1905)
 * August 11
 * Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born Swiss conductor (b. 1914)
 * Baba Vanga, Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)
 * August 12 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Armenian scientist (b. 1908)
 * August 13
 * António de Spínola, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
 * David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
 * August 14 – Camilla Horn, German actress (b. 1903)
 * August 18 – Geoffrey Dearmer, British poet (b. 1893)
 * August 20 – Rio Reiser, German musician and singer (b. 1950)
 * August 26 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 37th President of Argentina (b. 1918)
 * August 27
 * Abram Games, British graphic designer (b. 1914)
 * Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
 * August 30 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (b. 1953)

September

 * September 1
 * Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
 * Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk and beekeeper (b. 1898)
 * September 7
 * Bibi Besch, American actress (b. 1940)
 * Arda Bowser, professional football player (b. 1899)
 * September 8 – Eyre de Lanux, American artist, writer and art deco designer (b. 1894)
 * September 9 – Bill Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
 * September 10
 * Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Hans List, Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1896)
 * Juanita Wright, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
 * September 11 – Deane Waldo Malott, American academic and administrator (b. 1898)
 * September 12 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
 * September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper (b. 1971)
 * September 14
 * Helen Cohan, American dancer and actress (b. 1910)
 * Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress (b. 1936)
 * September 16 – Gene Nelson, American dancer and actor (b. 1920)
 * September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician (b. 1918)
 * September 18 – Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
 * September 20
 * Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
 * Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1914)
 * September 21
 * Henri Nouwen, Dutch priest and author (b. 1932)
 * Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born French resistance fighter (b. 1907)
 * September 22 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
 * September 23 – Fujiko Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
 * September 24 – Mark Frankel, British actor (b. 1962)
 * September 26
 * Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
 * Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel chemist (b. 1921)
 * September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
 * September 29 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian and game show host (b. 1933)

October

 * October 1 – Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (b. 1956)
 * October 4 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b. 1913)
 * October 5 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
 * October 6 – Ted Bessell, American actor (b. 1935)
 * October 8 – Mignon G. Eberhart, American author (b. 1899)
 * October 11
 * Renato Russo, Brazilian singer (b. 1960)
 * William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
 * October 12
 * René Lacoste, French tennis champion (b. 1904)
 * Roger Lapébie, French racing cyclist (b. 1911)
 * October 13 – Henri Nannen, German journalist (b. 1913)
 * October 13 – Beryl Reid, British actress (b. 1919)
 * October 14 – Laura La Plante, American actress (b. 1904)
 * October 15 – Robert F. Williams, American civil rights leader, author (b. 1925)
 * October 16 – Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
 * October 20 – J. Bracken Lee, American politician (b. 1899)
 * October 24
 * Artur Axmann, German Nazi leader (b. 1913)
 * George P. Oslin, American businessman (b. 1899)
 * October 28 – Morey Amsterdam, American comedian (b. 1908)
 * October 31 – Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1909)

November

 * November 1 – J. R. Jayewardene, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
 * November 2 – Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (b. 1963)
 * November 3
 * Jean-Bédel Bokassa/Bokassa I, 2nd President of the Central African Republic and Emperor of Central Africa (b. 1921)
 * Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist (b. 1956)
 * November 5 – Eddie Harris, American jazz musician (b. 1934)
 * November 8 – Bosh Pritchard, American football player (b. 1919)
 * November 15 – Alger Hiss, American diplomat (b. 1904)
 * November 16 – Loretta Alvarez, Pascua Yaqui midwife (b. 1892)
 * November 17 – Sven Hörstadius, Swedish embryologist (b. 1898)
 * November 18 – Zinovy Gerdt, Russian actor (b. 1916)
 * November 20 – Franciszek Strynkiewicz, Polish sculptor (b. 1893)
 * November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel physicist (b. 1926)
 * November 22
 * María Casares, French-Spanish actress (b. 1922)
 * Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
 * November 26 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
 * November 27 – Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician (b. 1897)
 * November 28 – Don McNeill, American tennis champion (b. 1918)
 * November 30 – Tiny Tim, American musician (b. 1932)

December

 * December 3 – Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
 * December 6 – Pete Rozelle, American football official (b. 1926)
 * December 8 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
 * December 9
 * Mary Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1913)
 * Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * James Basil Wilkie Roberton, New Zealand soldier, doctor, historian and writer (b. 1896)
 * December 10
 * John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (b. 1934)
 * Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
 * December 11 – Willie Rushton, English comedian, actor and cartoonist (b. 1937)
 * December 13
 * Edward Blishen, English author (b. 1920)
 * Clarence Wijewardena, Sri Lankan musician (b. 1943)
 * December 16
 * Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b. 1910)
 * Laurens van der Post, South African author (b. 1906)
 * December 17
 * Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer and actress (b. 1935)
 * Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist politician (b. 1920)
 * December 18 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist (b. 1895)
 * December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
 * December 20
 * Amata Kabua, 1st President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1928)
 * Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)
 * December 21 – Margret Rey, American author and illustrator (b. 1906)
 * December 27 – Kourkène Medzadourian, Armenian activist (b. 1908)
 * December 28 – Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (b. 1908)
 * December 30
 * Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
 * Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)

Date Unknown

 * Aliou Mahamidou, 3rd Prime Minister of Niger (b. 1936)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson
 * Chemistry – Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
 * Medicine – Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
 * Literature – Wisława Szymborska
 * Peace – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – James Mirrlees, William Vickrey

Right Livelihood Award

 * Herman Daly, The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad and George Vithoulkas

January

 * January 1
 * The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
 * The Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico.
 * January 8 – Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
 * January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army 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 toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
 * January 17 – The 6.7 Northridge earthquake strikes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
 * January 19 – Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.
 * January 25 – U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.
 * January 26 – Student David Kang fires two blank shots from a starting pistol at Prince Charles in Sydney, Australia.

February

 * February 3 – In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the International Court of Justice rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad.
 * February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
 * February 6 – Markale massacres: a Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
 * February 9 – The Vance–Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
 * February 12
 * Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7).
 * The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer.
 * February 24 – In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
 * February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
 * February 28
 * Four United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.
 * At midnight Walvis Bay is officially handed over to Namibia by South Africa.

March

 * March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the Internet.
 * March 6 – A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
 * March 12
 * A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the Loch Ness Monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
 * The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
 * March 14 – Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors.
 * March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
 * March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in Somalia.
 * March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama, Schindler's List, wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg).
 * March 23
 * Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina causing 24 fatalities.
 * Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana
 * March 27
 * TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election.
 * The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama.
 * March 28 – Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters battle in central Johannesburg, South Africa.
 * March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.

April

 * April 2 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
 * April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.
 * April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.
 * April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
 * April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.
 * April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
 * April 26
 * Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
 * China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people.
 * April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratic president.

May

 * May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy.
 * May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan is signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
 * May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
 * May 10
 * Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
 * May 17 – Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
 * May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people lined the streets, John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.
 * May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis from the Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".

June

 * June 1 – The Republic of South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth after the first democratic election. South Africa left the then British Commonwealth in 1961.
 * June 6–8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
 * June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
 * June 15 – Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
 * June 17
 * NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
 * The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
 * June 23 – The International Olympic Committee celebrates its first centennial.
 * June 25 – Cold War: the last Russian troops leave Germany.
 * June 26 – Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows. This had been its mainstay since 1980.
 * June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200.
 * June 30 – An Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near Toulouse, France, where Airbus is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum angle of climb.
 * June 30 – The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan regained power after spent 11 months of opposition, with the coalition with Japanese Socialist Party.
 * Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of Florida causing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.

July

 * July 2 – Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Medellín. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the 1994 FIFA World Cup against the United States soccer team.
 * July 4 – Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Kigali, a major breakthrough in the Rwandan Civil War.
 * July 5 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
 * July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
 * July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il-sung dies, but officially continues to hold office.
 * July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
 * July 16–22 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.
 * July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0).
 * July 18
 * AMIA bombing: In Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
 * Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the Rwandan genocide.
 * July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.

August

 * August 5 – Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
 * August 12
 * Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
 * All Major League Baseball players go on strike, beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history.
 * August 31
 * The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations".
 * The Russian army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's Soviet occupation.

September

 * September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
 * September 5 – New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
 * September 8 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport killing all on board.
 * September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
 * September 14 – The 1994 World Series is officially cancelled due to the ongoing work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904.
 * September 16
 * Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.
 * Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.
 * September 19 – American troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimate elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power.
 * September 28
 * The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
 * José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari.
 * September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.

October

 * October 1
 * In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the general election.
 * Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
 * October 4 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin-Heights, Quebec.
 * October 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the United Nations Security Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
 * October 12 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
 * October 15
 * After three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Aristide returns to his country.
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.

November

 * November 5
 * A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.
 * George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
 * Johan Heyns, an influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid, is assassinated.
 * November 6 – A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people.
 * November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
 * November 8 – Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
 * Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
 * November 13
 * Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
 * The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
 * November 16 – A federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to illegal aliens.
 * November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
 * November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a referendum.

December

 * December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
 * December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
 * December 3 – Taiwan held the first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only direct elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directed Mayor of Kaohsiung.
 * December 11 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.
 * December 13
 * The trial of former President Mengistu begins in Ethiopia.
 * Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rose West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
 * December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.
 * December 19
 * A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton Administration.
 * Civil unions between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden.
 * December 31 is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.

Date unknown

 * Pyroclastic flows – clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, causing sixty deaths.
 * Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average American.
 * The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million, making the republic the first African nation to have a population above 100 million.

January

 * January 4 – Derrick Henry, American football player
 * January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
 * January 6
 * Catriona Gray, beauty pageant winner
 * Denis Suárez, Spanish footballer
 * Jameis Winston, American football player
 * January 10
 * Justin Basson, South African rugby union player
 * Landon Collins, American football player
 * Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * January 11 – Mathieu Marquet, Mauritian swimmer
 * January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer
 * January 14
 * Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 * Kai, South Korean singer
 * January 15 – Eric Dier, English footballer
 * January 17 – Sajal Ali, Pakistani actress and model
 * January 18
 * Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
 * Sam Strike, English actor
 * January 19 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
 * January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor
 * January 23
 * Addison Russell, American baseball player
 * Kwak Min-jeong, South Korean figure skater
 * January 24 – Juanpi, Venezuelan footballer
 * January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer
 * January 29 – Ayane Sakura, Japanese voice actress

February

 * February 1 – Harry Styles, English singer
 * February 5 – Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer
 * February 6 – Charlie Heaton, English actor
 * February 8 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer
 * February 10
 * Seulgi, South Korean singer
 * Makenzie Vega, American actress
 * February 11 – Dansby Swanson, American baseball player
 * February 13
 * Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
 * Axel Reymond, French Marathon swimmer
 * February 15 – Eric Dier, English footballer
 * February 16 – Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
 * February 18 – J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * February 21
 * Hayley Orrantia, American actress
 * Wendy, South Korean-Canadian singer
 * February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model
 * February 24 – Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper
 * February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
 * February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
 * February 28 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer

March

 * March 1
 * Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
 * Tyreek Hill, American football player
 * March 5 – Aislinn Paul, Canadian actress
 * March 7
 * Christina Gao, American figure skater
 * Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
 * Jordan Pickford, English footballer
 * March 8 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
 * March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer
 * March 12 – Christina Grimmie, American singer (d. 2016)
 * March 13
 * Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
 * Yannick Gerhardt, German footballer
 * March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ
 * March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
 * March 25 – Justin Prentice, American actor
 * March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer
 * March 27 – Yoan Cardinale, French footballer
 * March 28 – Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper
 * March 30
 * Alex Bregman, American baseball player
 * Haruka Shimazaki, Japanese singer

April

 * April 3 – Dylann Roof, American mass murderer
 * April 4 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer
 * April 6 – Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Filipina actress
 * April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
 * April 12
 * Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer
 * Oh Sehun, South Korean singer
 * Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress
 * April 14 – Skyler Samuels, American actress
 * April 16 – Will Fuller, American football player
 * April 18 – Moisés Arias, American actor
 * April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
 * April 27 – Corey Seager, American baseball player

May

 * May 4 – Alexander Gould, American actor
 * May 5 – Marco Benassi, Italian footballer
 * May 6 – Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer
 * May 14 – Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer
 * May 16 – Miles Heizer, American actor
 * May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer
 * May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
 * May 24 — Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
 * May 25
 * Kylee, Japanese-American singer
 * Aly Raisman, American gymnast
 * May 27
 * Maximilian Arnold, German footballer
 * Aymeric Laporte, French footballer
 * May 28
 * Son Yeon-jae South Korean rhythmic gymnast
 * John Stones, English footballer

June

 * June 11
 * Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
 * Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist
 * June 15
 * Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer
 * Iñaki Williams, Spanish footballer
 * June 17
 * Amari Cooper, American football player
 * Shaq Lawson, American football player
 * June 18 – Takeoff, American rapper
 * June 20 – Leonard Williams, American football player
 * June 29
 * Camila Mendes, American actress
 * Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer

July

 * July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer
 * July 6 – Corey Coleman,[American football player
 * July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet
 * July 10 – Iuri Medeiros, Portuguese footballer
 * July 16 – Mark Indelicato, American actor
 * July 17
 * Derrick Henry, American football player
 * Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer
 * Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
 * July 22 – Jaz Sinclair, American actress
 * July 27 – Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
 * July 29 – Daniele Rugani, Italian footballer
 * July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper

August

 * August 3
 * Todd Gurley, American football player
 * Corentin Tolisso, French footballer
 * August 4
 * Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
 * Bobby Shmurda, American rapper
 * August 8 − Lauv, American singer
 * August 9 – Kelli Hubly, American soccer player
 * August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
 * August 13 – Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
 * August 16 – Tippy Dos Santos, Filipino-American singer and actress
 * August 17
 * Tiémoué Bakayoko, French footballer
 * Jack Conklin, American football player
 * Taissa Farmiga, American actress
 * August 18
 * Madelaine Petsch, American actress
 * Morgan Sanson, French footballer
 * August 22 – Israel Broussard, American actor
 * August 27 – Ellar Coltrane, American actor
 * August 30 - Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer
 * August 31 — Can Aktav, Turkish football player

September

 * September 8
 * Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
 * Cameron Dallas, American internet personality and actor
 * September 11 – Jordi El Niño Polla, Spanish adult film actor
 * September 12
 * Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
 * RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * September 21 – Ben Proud, English swimmer
 * September 22 – Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
 * September 29 – Halsey, American singer

October

 * October 2 – Shekhinah, South African singer-songwriter
 * October 3 – Seth Jones, American ice hockey player
 * October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
 * October 10
 * Ilhoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor
 * Suzy, South Korean singer and actress
 * October 12
 * Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
 * October 14 – Jared Goff, American football player
 * October 15
 * Lil' Kleine, Dutch musician
 * Sebastián Yatra, Colombian singer
 * October 24
 * Bruma, Portuguese footballer
 * Krystal Jung, South Korean singer
 * Jalen Ramsey, American football player
 * October 25 – Manzoor Pashteen, Pakistani human rights activist
 * October 26 – Allie DeBerry, American actress and model
 * October 27 – Kurt Zouma, French footballer
 * October 30 – Miyū Tsuzurahara, Japanese actress

November

 * November 1 – James Ward-Prowse, English footballer
 * November 2 – Jordan Howard, American football player
 * November 3 − Ella Mai, British singer
 * November 4 – Deion Jones, American football player
 * November 10
 * Zoey Deutch, American actress
 * Óliver Torres, Spanish footballer
 * November 15
 * Tyler Boyd, American football player
 * Emma Dumont, American actress, model, and dancer
 * November 21 – Saúl Ñíguez, Spanish footballer
 * November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
 * November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
 * November 28 – Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer
 * November 29 – Julius Randle, American basketball player
 * November 30 – Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder

December

 * December 3 – Jake T. Austin, American actor
 * December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
 * December 7
 * Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
 * Hunter Henry, American football player
 * December 8
 * Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle distance runner
 * Raheem Sterling, English footballer
 * December 9 - Zach Veach, American race car driver
 * December 10 – Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
 * December 16 - Christopher Bell, American race car driver
 * December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor
 * December 19 – Michele Bravi, Italian singer
 * December 23 – Tajae Sharpe, American football player
 * December 26 – Dalyn Dawkins, American football player
 * December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer

January

 * January 1
 * Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900)
 * Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907)
 * Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (b. 1914)
 * January 2 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of the IMF (b. 1912)
 * January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American writer (b. 1901)
 * January 5
 * Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (b. 1912)
 * Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (b. 1906)
 * Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
 * January 7 – Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (b. 1909)
 * January 8
 * Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
 * Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian sage (b. 1894)
 * January 9
 * Madge Ryan, Australian actress (b. 1919)
 * Johnny Temple, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 * January 11 – John Bradley, American Navy sailor (b. 1923)
 * January 12 – Samuel Bronston, American film producer and director (b. 1908)
 * January 13 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1937)
 * January 14
 * Esther Ralston, American actress (b. 1902)
 * Delio Rodríguez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1916)
 * Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian businessman (b. 1906)
 * Federica Montseny, Spanish politician (b. 1905)
 * January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
 * January 17
 * Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
 * Chung Il-kwon, South Korean politician (b. 1917)
 * January 20
 * Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909)
 * Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan politician (b. 1911)
 * January 22
 * Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
 * Frances Gifford, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)
 * January 23
 * Brian Redhead, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
 * Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet marshal (b. 1917)
 * January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
 * January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926)
 * January 28 – Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
 * January 29
 * Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
 * Nick Cravat, American actor and acrobat (b. 1912)
 * January 30
 * Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
 * Rudolf Schwarz, Austrian-born British conductor (b. 1902)
 * Bahjat Talhouni, Jordanian politician (b. 1913)

February

 * February 1 – Olan Soule, American actor (b. 1909)
 * February 2 – Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921)
 * February 3 – Walter Havighurst, American critic, novelist, and historian (b. 1901)
 * February 4 – Jane Arbor, British writer (b. 1903)
 * February 6
 * Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
 * Jack Kirby, American comic book writer and illustrator (b. 1917)
 * February 7
 * Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
 * Arnold Smith, Canadian diplomat (b. 1915)
 * February 9 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
 * February 11
 * Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)
 * Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
 * William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
 * Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (b. 1924)
 * Antonio Martín, Spanish cyclist (b. 1970)
 * February 12 – Donald Judd, American artist (b. 1928)
 * February 14
 * Christopher Lasch, American historian, moralist, and social critic (b. 1932)
 * Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
 * February 17 – Randy Shilts, American author and activist (b. 1951)
 * February 19 – Derek Jarman, English film director (b. 1942)
 * February 22 – Papa John Creach, American fiddler (b. 1917)
 * February 24
 * Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906)
 * Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
 * Henry Milton Taylor, 3rd Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1903)
 * February 25 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
 * February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
 * February 28 – Josephat Karanja, Kenyan politician (b. 1931)

March

 * March 2
 * Peter Cureton, Canadian actor and playwright
 * Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
 * March 4 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
 * March 5 – Abdullah al-Sallal, 1st President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1917)
 * March 6
 * Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer (b. 1899)
 * Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)
 * March 9
 * Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
 * Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
 * Lawrence E. Spivak, American journalist (b. 1900)
 * March 10 – D. J. M. Mackenzie, New Zealand-born British medical officer (b. 1905)
 * March 11 – Kaku Takashina, Japanese actor (b. 1919)
 * March 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (b. 1909)
 * March 17
 * Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (b. 1911)
 * Mai Zetterling, Swedish actor and director (b. 1925)
 * March 20
 * Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
 * March 21
 * Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
 * Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
 * March 22 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
 * March 23
 * Álvaro del Portillo, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1914)
 * Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
 * Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
 * March 25 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (b. 1899)
 * March 28
 * Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909)
 * Ira Murchison, American athlete (b. 1933)
 * March 29 – Bill Travers, English actor (b. 1922)

April

 * April 1
 * Léon Degrelle, Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator (b. 1906)
 * Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
 * April 2 – Betty Furness, American actress, author, and consumer advocate (b. 1916)
 * April 3 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (b. 1926)
 * April 5 – Kurt Cobain, American singer and songwriter (b. 1967)
 * April 6
 * Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
 * Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (b. 1956)
 * April 7
 * Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
 * Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
 * Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
 * April 10
 * Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
 * Viktor Afanasyev, Soviet journalist (b. 1922)
 * April 11 – Hal Lawrence, Canadian naval officer (b. 1920)
 * April 14
 * Manuel Andújar, Spanish writer (b. 1913)
 * Hugh Springer, Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1913)
 * April 15 – John Curry, British figure skater (b. 1949)
 * April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
 * April 17 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (b. 1913)
 * April 18 – Ken Oosterbroek, South African photojournalist (b. 1962)
 * April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
 * April 24 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Korean-Japanese Karate master (b. 1923)
 * April 27 – Lynne Frederick, English actress (b. 1954)
 * April 28 – Berton Roueché, American writer (b. 1910)
 * April 29
 * Russell Kirk, American political philosopher (b. 1918)
 * Sak Sutsakhan, Cambodian politician (b. 1928)
 * April 30
 * Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
 * Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)
 * Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1930)

May

 * May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
 * May 2
 * William Albertini, English cricketer (b. 1913)
 * Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet (b. 1908)
 * May 5 – Joe Layton, American director and choreographer (b. 1931)
 * May 7 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
 * May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
 * May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
 * May 12
 * Erik Erikson, Danish-American developmental psychologist (b. 1902)
 * John Smith, Scottish politician (b. 1938)
 * Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910)
 * May 14 – W. Graham Claytor, Jr., American businessman and naval officer (b. 1914)
 * May 15
 * Royal Dano, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)
 * May 16 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
 * May 17 – Étienne Hirsch, French engineer and administrator (b. 1901)
 * May 19
 * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, and First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
 * Henry Morgan, American comedian (b. 1915)
 * Luis Ocaña, Spanish bicycle racer (b. 1945)
 * May 21
 * Giovanni Goria, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1943)
 * Masayoshi Ito, Japanese politician (b. 1913)
 * Ralph Miliband, Polish-born British academic (b. 1924)
 * Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (b. 1912)
 * May 26 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz musician (b. 1940)
 * May 27 – Red Rodney, American trumpeter (b. 1927)
 * May 28 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
 * May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (b. 1912)
 * May 30
 * Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist (b. 1909)
 * Marcel Bich, French businessman (b. 1914)
 * Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader (b. 1899)
 * May 31 – Sidney Gilliat, British film director (b. 1908)

June

 * June 2 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
 * June 3 – Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1912)
 * June 4
 * Benedict J. Semmes Jr., American admiral (b. 1913)
 * Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (b. 1909)
 * June 6 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
 * June 7 – Dennis Potter, English dramatist (b. 1935)
 * June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
 * June 10 – Edward Kienholz, American artist and sculptor (b. 1927)
 * June 12
 * Ron Goldman, American model, waiter (b. 1968)
 * Menachem Mendel Schneerson, American Hasidic rabbinical leader (b. 1902)
 * Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American actress, waitress (b. 1959)
 * June 13 – K. T. Stevens, American actress (b. 1919)
 * June 14
 * Lionel Grigson, British jazz pianist, composer and educator (b. 1942)
 * Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
 * June 15
 * Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
 * Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
 * June 20 – Jay Miner, American computer pioneer (b. 1932)
 * June 21 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
 * June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)

July

 * July 2
 * Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (b. 1969)
 * Maung Maung, President of Myanmar (b. 1925)
 * Marion Williams, American gospel singer (b. 1927)
 * July 3 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
 * July 6 – Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist (b. 1932)
 * July 7
 * Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (b. 1907)
 * Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
 * Anita Garvin, American actress (b. 1907)
 * July 8
 * Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
 * Christian-Jaque, French film director (b. 1904)
 * July 11 – Gary Kildall, American computer inventor (b. 1942)
 * July 14 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
 * July 16
 * Patricio Carvajal, Chilean admiral, minister and diplomat (b. 1916)
 * Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918)
 * July 17 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
 * July 19 – Ray Flaherty, American football coach (b. 1903)
 * July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
 * July 21
 * Marijac, French cartoonist (b. 1908)
 * Pere Calders, Spanish writer and cartoonist (b. 1912)
 * July 22 – Alexandre Hogue, American painter (b. 1898)
 * July 27 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (b. 1960)
 * July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)

August

 * August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1925)
 * August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and actor turned politician (b. 1928)
 * August 11 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
 * August 13 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
 * August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
 * August 17 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
 * August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist (b. 1914)
 * August 19 – Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901)
 * August 21
 * Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (b. 1915)
 * Michael Peters, American choreographer (b. 1948)
 * August 23 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian film director (b. 1917)
 * August 28 – David Wright, South African poet (b. 1920)
 * August 30
 * Lindsay Anderson, British film director (b. 1923)
 * Hubert Zemke, American fighter ace (b. 1914)

September

 * September 2 – Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
 * September 3 – Billy Wright, English footballer (b. 1924)
 * September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (b. 1921)
 * September 6
 * Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
 * Duccio Tessari, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * Paul Xuereb, Maltese politician (b. 1923)
 * September 7
 * James Clavell, British writer (b. 1921)
 * Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
 * Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
 * September 8 – János Szentágothai, Hungarian anatomist (b. 1912)
 * September 9 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
 * September 11 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (b. 1909)
 * September 12
 * Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
 * Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
 * September 15 – Mark Stevens, American actor (b. 1916)
 * September 16 – Jack Dodson, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 17
 * Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
 * Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (b. 1902)
 * September 18 – Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer (b. 1950)
 * September 19 – Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921)
 * September 20
 * Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (b. 1924)
 * Jule Styne, English-born American songwriter (b. 1905)
 * September 22 – Bud Sagendorf, American cartoonist (b. 1915)
 * September 23 – Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917)
 * September 24 – Sir David Napley, British solicitor (b. 1915)
 * September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)
 * September 27 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (b. 1908)
 * September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (b. 1946)
 * September 30
 * André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
 * Roberto Eduardo Viola, military president of Argentina (b. 1924)

October

 * October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
 * October 3
 * Tim Asch, American anthropologist (b. 1932)
 * Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
 * October 7
 * Niels Kaj Jerne, English immunologist (b. 1911)
 * James Hill, British film and television director (b. 1919)
 * October 15 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934)
 * October 19 – Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916)
 * October 18 – Conchita Montes, Spanish actress (b. 1914)
 * October 19 – Oldřich Černík, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921)
 * October 20
 * Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian film director (b. 1920)
 * Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
 * October 21 – Benoît Régent, French actor (b. 1953)
 * October 22 – Fabio Grobart, Cuban politician (b. 1905)
 * October 23 – Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
 * October 24
 * Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1942)
 * Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
 * October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
 * October 28 – Calvin S. Fuller, American physical chemist (b. 1902)
 * October 29 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi (b. 1918)

November

 * November 1 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
 * November 5 – Johan Heyns, South African theologian and apartheid critic (b. 1928)
 * November 9 – Priscilla Morrill, American actress (b. 1927)
 * November 10 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (b. 1920)
 * November 11
 * Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, British composer (b. 1907)
 * Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
 * November 12
 * Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940)
 * J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish novelist (b. 1906)
 * November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
 * November 14 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
 * November 16
 * Doris Speed, English actress (b. 1899)
 * Dino Valente, American musician (b. 1937)
 * November 18
 * Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1907)
 * Peter Ledger, Australian artist (b. 1945)
 * November 20 – John Lucarotti, British screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * November 21 — Pino Locchi, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1925)
 * November 22 – Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (b. 1908)
 * November 23 – Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
 * November 28
 * Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
 * Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Spanish cardinal (b. 1907)
 * November 29 – Sir James Crane, British police officer (b. 1921)
 * November 30
 * Guy Debord, French theorist, writer, and filmmaker (b. 1931)
 * Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)

December

 * December 4 – Sir Geoffrey Elton, British historian (b. 1921)
 * December 6 – Gian Maria Volontè, Italian actor (b. 1933)
 * December 8 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b. 1927)
 * December 10 – Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
 * December 11
 * Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
 * Carl Marzani, American filmmaker, author, editor and publisher (b. 1912)
 * December 12
 * Donna J. Stone, American poet and philanthropist (b. 1933)
 * Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
 * December 13 – Hu Lanqi, Chinese revolutionary, general, and writer (b. 1901)
 * December 18 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1896)
 * December 20
 * Hans Herlin, German novelist (b. 1925)
 * Dean Rusk, American diplomat (b. 1909)
 * December 23 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
 * December 24
 * John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
 * Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916)
 * John Osborne, English playwright (b. 1929)
 * December 25 – Zail Singh, 7th President of India (b. 1916)
 * December 26
 * Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, British businessman and life peer (b. 1912)
 * Allie Reynolds, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 * December 27
 * Fanny Cradock, British television chef and restaurant critic (b. 1909)
 * Peter May, English cricketer (b. 1929)
 * J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford Glenwood Shull
 * Chemistry – George Andrew Olah
 * Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
 * Literature – Kenzaburō Ōe
 * Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
 * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash, John Harsanyi

Templeton Prize

 * Michael Novak

Fields Medal

 * Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

Right Livelihood Award

 * Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra), Ken Saro-Wiwa / MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)