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Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika. Yugoslavia's communist regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and multiparty elections held within its constituent republics result in separatist governments being elected in most of the republics marking the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraq invasion and the largely internationally unrecognized annexation of Kuwait resulting in a crisis in the Persian Gulf involving the issue of the sovereignty of Kuwait and fears by Saudi Arabia over Iraqi aggression against their oil fields near Kuwait, this resulted in Operation Desert Shield being enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after over 11 years.

1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In the fall of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server and the foundation for the World Wide Web. Test operations began around December 20 and it was released outside CERN the following year. 1990 also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet system and the introduction of the first content search engine, Archie on September 10.

September 14, 1990 saw the first case of successful somatic gene therapy on a patient.

Due to the early 1990s recession that began that year and uncertainty due to the collapse of the socialist governments in Eastern Europe, birth rates in many countries stopped rising or fell steeply in 1990. In most western countries the Echo Boom peaked in 1990; fertility rates declined thereafter.

Encyclopædia Britannica, which ceased printing in 2012, saw its highest all time sales in 1990; 120,000 volumes were sold that year. The number of librarians in the United States also peaked around 1990.

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January

 * January 1
 * Poland becomes the first country in Eastern Europe to begin abolishing its state socialist economy. Poland also withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.
 * Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture.
 * The first Internet companies catering to commercial users, PSINet and EUnet begin selling Internet access to commercial customers in the United States and Netherlands respectively.
 * January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega is deposed as leader of Panama and surrenders to the American forces.
 * January 4 – Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others.
 * January 7 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
 * January 9 – Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
 * January 11 – Singing Revolution: In the Lithuania SSR, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
 * January 12–19 – Most of the remaining 50,000 Armenians are driven out of Baku in the Azerbaijan SSR during the Baku pogrom.
 * January 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
 * January 15
 * The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.
 * Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
 * Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.
 * January 17 – Smith & Wesson introduce the .40 S&W cartridge.
 * January 20
 * Cold War: Black January – Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and kill over 130 protesters who were demonstrating for independence. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic declares its independence from the USSR.
 * Clashes break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir.
 * The government of Haiti declares a state of emergency, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29.
 * January 22
 * The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on power.
 * Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
 * January 25
 * Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, New York after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
 * Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office.
 * Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad.
 * January 25–26 – The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe.
 * January 27 – The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.
 * January 28 – Four months after their exit from power, the Polish United Workers' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
 * January 29
 * The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to date.
 * January 31
 * Globalization – The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens 8 months after construction began on 3 May 1989. 8 months later the first McDonald's in Mainland China is opened in Shenzhen.
 * President of the United States George H. W. Bush gives his first State of the Union address and proposes that the U.S. and the Soviet Union make deep cuts to their military forces in Europe.

February

 * February/March – 100,000 Kashmiri Pandits leave their homeland in Jammu and Kashmir's Valley after being targeted by Islamist extremists.
 * February – Smoking is banned on all cross-country flights in the United States.
 * February 2 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
 * February 7
 * The Communist Party of the Soviet Union votes to end its monopoly of power, clearing the way for multiparty elections.
 * In the Tajik SSR, rioting breaks out against the settlement of Armenian refugees there.
 * February 10
 * President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released the next day.
 * Las Cruces Bowling Alley massacre: 2 people walked into the 10 Pin Alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico, (known then as the Las Cruces Bowl) and shot seven people, four of whom were killed. The case is currently unsolved.
 * February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.
 * February 12 – Representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact meet in Ottawa for an "Open Skies" conference. The conference results in agreements about superpower troop levels in Europe and on German reunification.
 * February 13
 * German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
 * Drexel Burnham Lambert files for bankruptcy protection, Chapter 11.
 * February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, from around 5.6 billion kilometers (3.5 billion mi) away.
 * February 15
 * The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British Dependent Territory, in 1982.
 * In Cartagena, Colombia, a summit is held between President of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora, President of Colombia Virgilio Barco Vargas, and President of Peru Alan García. The leaders pledge additional cooperation in fighting international drug trafficking.
 * February 25 – The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections, with Violeta Chamorro elected as the new president of Nicaragua (the first elected woman president in the Americas), replacing Daniel Ortega.
 * February 26 – The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.
 * February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.
 * February 28 – President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega announces a cease-fire with the U.S.-backed contras.

March

 * March 1
 * The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.
 * A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
 * Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
 * The Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues its daily rum ration.
 * Luis Alberto Lacalle, a grandson of the late politician and diplomat Luis Alberto de Herrera, is sworn in as President of Uruguay.
 * March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica.
 * March 8 – The Nintendo World Championships were held within the Fair Park's Automobile Building, kickstarting an almost year long gaming competition across 29 American cities.
 * March 9
 * Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
 * Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.
 * March 10 – Prosper Avril is ousted in a coup in Haiti, eighteen months after seizing power.
 * March 11
 * Singing Revolution: The Lithuanian SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
 * March 11–13 – The March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak produces 64 tornadoes across six US states, including four violent F4/F5 tornadoes. The outbreak leaves 2 dead, 89 injured, and causes over $500 million in damages.
 * March 12 – Cold War: Soviet soldiers begin leaving Hungary under terms of an agreement to withdraw all Soviet troops by June 1.
 * March 13 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approves changes to the Constitution of the Soviet Union to create a strong U.S.-style presidency. Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to a five-year term as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union on March 15.
 * March 15
 * Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
 * Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
 * Singing Revolution: The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
 * Fernando Collor de Mello takes office as President of Brazil, Brazil's first democratically elected president since Jânio Quadros in 1961. The next day, he announces a currency freeze and freezes large bank accounts for 18 months.
 * March 18
 * Twelve paintings and a Shang dynasty vase, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by two thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings have not been recovered.
 * Cold War: East Germany holds its first free elections.
 * March 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
 * March 21 – After 75 years of South African rule since World War I, Namibia becomes independent.
 * March 24 – Australian federal election, 1990: Bob Hawke's Labor Government is re-elected with a reduced majority, narrowly defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by Andrew Peacock.
 * March 25
 * In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
 * Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.
 * In the Hungarian parliamentary election, Hungary's first multiparty election since 1948, the Hungarian Democratic Forum wins the most seats.
 * March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.
 * March 27 – The United States begins broadcasting Radio y Televisión Martí to Cuba.
 * March 28 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
 * March 30 – Singing Revolution: After its first free elections on March 18, the Estonian SSR declares the Soviet rule to have been illegal since 1940 and declares a transition period for full independence.
 * March 31 – "The Second Battle of Trafalgar": A massive anti-poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 are arrested.

April

 * April 1
 * The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests
 * Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.
 * The 1990 United States Census begins. There are 248,709,873 residents in the U.S.
 * April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
 * April 7
 * Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
 * Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.
 * April 8
 * In Nepal, Birendra of Nepal lifts a ban on political parties following violent protests.
 * In the Greek legislative election, the conservative New Democracy wins the most seats in the Hellenic Parliament; its leader, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, becomes Prime Minister of Greece on April 11.
 * In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first multiparty election since 1938. After the election, a center-right coalition led by Lojze Peterle forms Yugoslavia's first non-Communist government since 1945.
 * April 9 – Comet Austin, the brightest comet visible from Earth since 1975, makes its closest approach to the sun.
 * April 12 – Lothar de Maizière becomes prime minister of East Germany, heading a conservative coalition that favors German reunification.
 * April 13 – Cold War: The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn massacre.
 * April 14 – Junk bond financier Michael Milken pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges. He agreed to pay US$500 million in restitution and was sentenced on November 21 to 10 years in jail.
 * April 22
 * Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987.
 * Earth Day 20 is celebrated by millions worldwide.
 * April 24
 * Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
 * STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
 * President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko lifts a 20-year ban on opposition parties.
 * April 25 – Violeta Chamorro is elected President of Nicaragua, the first woman elected in her own right as a head of state in the Americas.
 * April 28 – Liverpool F.C. win their 18th and as to date last English Football League Title when they beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Anfield thanks to goals from Ian Rush and John Barnes. Their nearest challengers Aston Villa can only draw 3-3 at home to Norwich City.
 * April 30 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H. Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986.

May

 * May 1 – The former Episcopal Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the state of an Autocephalous Anglican province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
 * May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest mugging to date).
 * May 2–4 – First talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress.
 * May 4 – Singing Revolution: The Latvian SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 * May 6–13 – Pope John Paul II visits Mexico.
 * May 6 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest mugging to date).
 * May 8
 * Singing Revolution: The Estonian SSR restores the formal name of the country, the Republic of Estonia, as well as other national emblems (the coat of arms, the flag and the anthem).
 * Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier assumes office as President of Costa Rica.
 * May 9 – In South Korea, police battle anti-government protesters in Seoul and two other cities.
 * May 13
 * In the Philippines, gunmen kill two United States Air Force airmen near Clark Air Base on the eve of talks between the Philippines and the United States over the future of American military bases in the Philippines.
 * The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
 * May 15
 * Singing Revolution: The pro-Soviet Intermovement attempts to take power in Tallinn, Estonia, but are forced down by local Estonians.
 * Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
 * May 17 – The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
 * May 18 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany sign a treaty to merge their economic and social systems, effective July 1.
 * May 19 – The US and the USSR agree to end production of chemical weapons and to destroy most of their stockpiles of chemical weapons.
 * May 20 – Cold War: The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
 * May 21 – In Kashmir, a Kashmiri Islamic leader is assassinated and Indian security forces open fire on mourners carrying his body, killing at least 47 people.
 * May 22
 * Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.
 * May 27
 * In the Burmese general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30 years, the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election results.
 * In the Colombian presidential election, César Gaviria is elected President of Colombia; he takes office on August 7.
 * May 29
 * Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.
 * Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first ever elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
 * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) founded.
 * May 30 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev begin a four-day summit meeting in Washington, D.C.

June

 * June – Joanne Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London Euston railway station. She begins writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which will be completed in 1995 and published in 1997.
 * June 1
 * Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
 * Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.
 * June 2 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.
 * June 4 – Violence breaks out in the Kirghiz SSR between the majority Kyrgyz people and minority Uzbeks over the distribution of homestead land.
 * June 7
 * Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.
 * Nickelodeon Studios opens
 * Universal Studios Orlando opens
 * June 8
 * The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins in Italy. This was the first broadcast of digital HDTV in history; Europe would not begin HDTV broadcasting en masse until 2004.
 * Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir ends 88 days with only an acting government by forming a coalition of right-wing and religious parties led by Shamir's Likud party.
 * June 8–9 – In the Czechoslovakian parliamentary election, Czechoslovakia's first free election since 1946, the Civic Forum wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority.
 * June 9 – Mega Borg oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas.
 * June 10
 * Alberto Fujimori is elected President of Peru; he takes office on July 28.
 * First round of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election sees the Bulgarian Socialist Party win a majority. The second round of voting is held June 17.
 * June 11 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre over 600 unarmed police officers in the Eastern Province.
 * June 12
 * Cold War: The Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
 * In the Algerian local elections, Algeria's first multiparty election since 1962, the Islamic Salvation Front wins control of more than half of municipalities and 32 of Algeria's 48 provinces.
 * June 13 – Cold War – The destruction of the Berlin Wall by East Germany officially starts, 7 months after it was opened the previous November.
 * June 13–15 – June 1990 Mineriad: Clashes break out in Bucharest between supporters and opponents of the ruling National Salvation Front.
 * June 15 – Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law agreed (comes into force 1997).
 * June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.
 * June 19 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
 * June 21 – The 7.4 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
 * June 22 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled.
 * June 23 – In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord of 1987 dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.
 * June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.

July

 * July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge their economies, the West German Deutsche Mark becoming the official currency of the East also. The Inner German border (constructed 1945) also ceases to function.
 * July 2
 * 1990 Hajj stampede: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426.
 * A U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.
 * July 5 – In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.
 * July 6
 * President of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov resigns over accusations that he ordered tanks to disperse anti-government protests in December 1989.
 * Somali President Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre anti-government demonstrators during a soccer match; 65 people are killed, more than 300 seriously injured.
 * July 7–8 – In tennis, Martina Navratilova of the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles.
 * July 8 – 1990 FIFA World Cup Final (Association football): West Germany defeats Argentina 1–0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
 * July 9–11 – The 16th G7 summit is held in Houston, Texas.
 * July 11 – Terrorists blow up a passenger bus travelling from Kalbajar to Tartar in Azerbaijan. 14 people are killed, 35 wounded.
 * July 12 – Foster v British Gas plc decided in the European Court of Justice, a leading case on the definition of the "state" under European law.
 * July 16 – 1990 Luzon earthquake: An earthquake measuring kills more than 1,600 in the Philippines.
 * July 22 – First round of the Mongolian legislative election, the first multiparty ever held in Mongolia; the Mongolian People's Party wins by a wide margin after the second round of voting on July 29.
 * July 25
 * George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.
 * The Serb Democratic Party (Croatia) declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.
 * July 26 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
 * July 27
 * The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état attempt which lasts five days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several are wounded (including the Prime Minister, A. N. R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
 * Cold War: Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the Soviet Union.
 * July 28 – Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
 * July 30 – British politician and former Member of Parliament Ian Gow is assassinated by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb outside his home in England.

August

 * August 1
 * The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Zhelyu Zhelev as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria in 40 years.
 * RELCOM is created in the Soviet Union by combining several computer networks. Later in August, the Soviet Union got its first connection to the Internet.
 * August 2
 * Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
 * The first ban of smoking in bars in the US (and possibly the world) is passed in San Luis Obispo, California.
 * August 6
 * Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
 * President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, accusing her of corruption and abuse of power.
 * The South African government and ANC begin talks on ending Apartheid in South Africa.
 * August 7
 * U.S. President Bush orders U.S. combat planes and troops to Saudi Arabia to prevent a possible attack by Iraq.
 * Prime Minister of India V. P. Singh announces plan to reserve 49% of civil service jobs for lower-caste Hindus. The plan triggers riots, leaving at least 70 dead by September.
 * August 8
 * Iraq announces its formal annexation of Kuwait.
 * The government of Peru announces an austerity plan that results in huge increases in the price of food and gasoline. The plan sets off days of rioting and a national strike on August 21.
 * August 10
 * Egypt, Syria, and 10 other Arab states vote to send military forces to Saudi Arabia to discourage an invasion from Iraq.
 * A passenger bus, traveling along the route "Tbilisi-Agdam", is blown up; 20 people died and 30 were injured. The organizers of the crime were Armenians A. Avanesian and M. Tatevosian who were brought to criminal trial.
 * August 12
 * In South Africa, fighting breaks out between the Xhosa people and the Zulu people; more than 500 people are killed by the end of August.
 * "Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson.
 * August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
 * August 21 – Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.
 * August 22 – U.S. President Bush calls up U.S. military reservists for service in the Persian Gulf Crisis.
 * August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.
 * August 24
 * The Armenian SSR declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
 * August 26 – In Sofia, protesters set fire to the headquarters of the governing Bulgarian Socialist Party.
 * August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago metropolitan area).

September

 * September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.
 * September 2 – Cold War: Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
 * September 4 – Geoffrey Palmer resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Mike Moore.
 * September 4–6 – Premier of North Korea Yon Hyong-muk meets with President of South Korea Roh Tae-woo, the highest level contact between leaders of the two Koreas since 1945.
 * September 5 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers massacre 158 civilians.
 * September 6 – In Myanmar, the State Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other political dissidents.
 * September 9
 * U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev meet in Helsinki to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis.
 * First Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.
 * Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers massacre 184 civilians in Batticaloa.
 * September 10 – The first Pizza Hut opens up in the Soviet Union.
 * September 11
 * Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
 * First Pizza Hut opens in the People's Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first KFC opened there in 1987.
 * September 12
 * Cold War: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
 * A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase, former owner of the Seven Network, after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.
 * September 17 – In what is now regarded as a landmark event in regards to women in journalism, reporter Lisa Olson was sexually harassed by multiple New England Patriots players while trying to conduct a locker room interview.
 * September 18
 * The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.
 * Provisional Irish Republican Army assassination attempt on the life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives, as does his wife, Lady Betty Terry, who is also shot (most likely by accident).
 * September 24 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union grants Gorbachev special powers for 18 months to secure the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy.
 * September 27 – David Souter is confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice William Brennan.
 * September 29 – Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral is finished.
 * September 29–30 – The United Nations World Summit for Children draws more than 70 world leaders to United Nations Headquarters.

October

 * October – Tim Berners-Lee begins his work on the World Wide Web, 19 months after his seminal 1989 outline of what would become the Web concept.
 * October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.
 * October 3 – Cold War: East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
 * October 4 – Moro conflict: Rebel forces seize two military posts on the island of Mindanao, Philippines before surrendering on October 6.
 * October 8
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
 * Globalization: The first McDonald's restaurant is opened in Mainland China in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a Special economic zone.
 * October 13 – Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
 * October 14 – Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein dies of a heart attack at his home in New York City at the age of 72.
 * October 15
 * Cold War: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.
 * South Africa ends segregation of libraries, trains, buses, toilets, swimming pools, and other public facilities.
 * October 17 – A peace agreement which formally ended 28 years of Sarawak Communist insurgency in Malaysia was signed by North Kalimantan Communist Party insurgents.
 * October 22 – Nizhny Novgorod restores its official name from Gorky, Volga Federal District, Russia.
 * October 24
 * In the Pakistani general election, Prime Minister Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party loses power to a center-right coalition government led by the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad party.
 * Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti revealed the existence of the Operation Gladio, a clandestine NATO "stay-behind" operation in Italy during the Cold War.
 * October 27
 * Cold War: The Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR selects Askar Akayev as the republic's first president.
 * The New Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister.
 * October 29 – In Norway, the government headed by Prime Minister of Norway Jan P. Syse collapses.
 * October 30 – The first transatlantic fiber optic cable TAT-8 fails, causing a slowdown of Internet traffic between the United States and Europe.

November

 * November – The earliest known portable digital camera sold in the United States ships.
 * November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favorite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
 * November 2 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
 * November 3 – Gro Harlem Brundtland assumes office as Prime Minister of Norway.
 * November 5 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
 * November 6 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
 * November 7
 * Indian Prime Minister Singh resigns over losing a confidence vote in the Parliament of India, having lost the support of Hindus who want a Muslim mosque in Ayodhya torn down to build a Hindu temple.
 * The final military parade to mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution takes place in the USSR.
 * November 9
 * A new constitution comes into effect in the Kingdom of Nepal, establishing multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy; this is the culmination of the 1990 People's Movement.
 * The Parliament of Singapore enacts the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.
 * November 10 – Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister of India as head of a minority government.
 * November 12
 * Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan following the death of his father on January 7, 1989.
 * Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web.


 * November 13
 * The first known web page is written.
 * In New Zealand, David Gray kills 13 people in what will become known as the Aramoana massacre.
 * November 14 – Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder–Neisse line.
 * November 15
 * STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S. military mission.
 * President Bush signed new Clean Air Act, focused on urban pollution and cancer-causing emissions from industrial sources.
 * November 17 – Soviet President Gorbachev proposes a radical restructuring of the Soviet government, including the creation of a Federal Council to be made up of the heads of the 15 Soviet republics.
 * November 19–21 – The leaders of Canada, the United States, and 32 European states meet in Paris to formally mark the end of the Cold War.
 * November 21
 * Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed.
 * Agreement for decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in Queensland, Australia.
 * November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative Party.
 * November 25 – Lech Wałęsa and Stanisław Tymiński win the first round of the first Polish presidential election.
 * November 27 – Women's suffrage is introduced in the last Swiss half-canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
 * November 28
 * Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew resigns and is replaced by Goh Chok Tong.
 * The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, resigns after 11 years and is replaced by John Major.
 * November 29
 * Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that state does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
 * Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov and his government of former communists resign under pressure from strikes and street protests.

December

 * December 1
 * Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.
 * President of Chad Hissène Habré is deposed by the Patriotic Salvation Movement and replaced as president by its leader Idriss Déby.
 * December 2 – The German federal election (the first election held since German reunification) is won by Helmut Kohl, who becomes Chancellor of Germany.
 * December 3
 * At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members on Flight 1482.
 * Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.
 * December 6
 * Saddam Hussein releases a group of Western hostages he captured.
 * President Hussain Muhammad Ershad of Bangladesh is forced to resign following massive protests; he is replaced by Shahabuddin Ahmed, who becomes interim president.
 * December 7
 * In Brussels, trade talks fail because of a dispute between the U.S. and the European Union over farm export subsidies.
 * The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Dimitar Iliev Popov as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
 * December 9
 * Slobodan Milošević elected President of Serbia in first round, general elections won by his Socialist Party.
 * Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.
 * December 16 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending 3 decades of military rule.
 * December 20
 * Eduard Shevardnadze announces his resignation as Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Tim Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at CERN.
 * December 22
 * The first constitution of the Republic of Croatia is adopted.
 * The Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia become independent, after the termination of their trusteeship.
 * The Polish government-in-exile is dissolved in London after being in exile since 1939.
 * December 23 – In the Slovenian independence referendum, 88.5% of the overall electorate (94.8% of votes), with the turnout of 93.3%, supported independence of the country.
 * December 24 – Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup.
 * December 25 – Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is commissioned.
 * December 31 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.

January

 * January 2 – Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer
 * January 4
 * Toni Kroos, German footballer
 * Alberto Paloschi, Italian footballer
 * January 5 – Yoseob, Korean pop singer
 * January 6
 * Sandro Cortese, German motorcycle racer
 * Abhinav Mukund, Indian cricketer
 * Natalie Palamides, American actress
 * Alex Teixeira, Brazilian footballer
 * January 7
 * Liam Aiken, American actor
 * Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
 * Camryn Grimes, American actress
 * Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
 * January 8 – Sascha Bigalke, German footballer
 * January 9
 * Justin Blackmon, American football player
 * Oteng Oteng, Batswana boxer
 * Melissa Ricks, Filipino-American actress
 * Son Ji-hyun, South Korean actress and singer
 * January 10
 * Facundo Gambandé, Argentine actor and singer
 * Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer
 * January 12 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
 * January 13 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
 * January 14
 * Grant Gustin, American actor and singer
 * Áron Szilágyi, Hungarian fencer
 * January 15
 * Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
 * Luke Willson, American football player
 * January 17 – Tom Bosworth, British race walker
 * January 21
 * George Finn, Georgian actor
 * Kelly Rohrbach, American model and actress
 * January 22
 * Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
 * Logic, American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer
 * January 23 – Artsem Mikhalenka, Belarusian singer
 * January 24 – Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter
 * January 26
 * Christopher Massey, American actor
 * Peter Sagan, Slovakian road bicycle racer
 * January 27 – Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (d. 2018)
 * January 28 – Luce, French actress/singer
 * January 29 – MacKenzie Porter, Canadian actress and singer

February

 * February 1
 * Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter
 * Hersi Matmuja, Albanian singer
 * February 2 – Clara Alonso, Argentine actress, singer, and television hostess
 * February 3 – Sean Kingston, American singer
 * February 4
 * Zach King, American videos maker
 * Nairo Quintana, Colombian road bicycle racer
 * Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress
 * February 6
 * Jermaine Kearse, American football player
 * Dominic Sherwood, English actor and model
 * February 7
 * Anna Abreu, Finnish pop singer
 * Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
 * February 8
 * Christian Madsen, American actor
 * Ben Schnetzer, American actor
 * Klay Thompson, American basketball player
 * February 9
 * Facundo Affranchino, Argentine footballer
 * Camille Winbush, American actress
 * February 10 – Sooyoung, Korean singer
 * February 11 – Q'orianka Kilcher, German-born American actress and activist
 * February 12 – Robert Griffin III, American football player
 * February 13 – Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism according to some sources
 * February 14
 * Brett Dier, Canadian actor
 * Jake Weary, American actor
 * February 15 – Masashi Ebinuma, Japanese judoka
 * February 16 – The Weeknd, Canadian musician
 * February 17 – Bea Rose Santiago, Filipino model
 * February 18 – Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress
 * February 19 – Luke Pasqualino, English actor
 * February 20 – Anjli Mohindra, English actress
 * February 21
 * David Addy, Ghanaian footballer
 * Thabiso Baholo, Lesotho swimmer
 * Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player
 * February 23
 * Kevin Cheung, Mauritian swimmer
 * Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
 * February 28
 * Georgina Leonidas, English actress
 * Anna Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess player

March

 * March 1 – James Lomas, British actor
 * March 2
 * Adderly Fong, Hong Kong Chinese race car driver
 * Tiger Shroff, Indian actor
 * March 3
 * Sebastian Gregory, Australian actor and musician
 * Celina Ree, Danish singer
 * March 4 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
 * March 6 – Esti Ginzburg, Israeli model
 * March 7
 * Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
 * Daniel Samonas, Canadian actor
 * March 8
 * Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter
 * Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
 * March 13 – Sasha Clements, Canadian actress
 * March 14
 * Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
 * Thali García, Mexican actress
 * March 17 – Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter
 * March 18 – Luke Tarsitano, American actor
 * March 19
 * Maddy Hill, English actress
 * Anthony Skorich, Australian soccer player
 * March 20 – Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
 * March 21
 * Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter, dancer and model
 * March 23
 * Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish Formula One driver
 * Princess Eugenie of York, British princess
 * March 24
 * Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
 * Starlin Castro, American baseball player
 * March 26
 * James Buescher, American stock car driver
 * Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2016)
 * Carly Chaikin, American actress
 * Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor
 * Xiumin, South Korean singer
 * March 27 – Hubert Wu, Hong Kong singer and actor
 * March 28 – Laura Harrier, American actress and model
 * March 30
 * Thomas Rhett, American singer and songwriter
 * Cassie Scerbo, American actress
 * March 31 – Bang Yong-guk, South Korean rapper

April

 * April 2
 * Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast
 * Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer
 * April 5 – Patrick Dangerfield, Australian rules footballer
 * April 6 – Charlie McDermott, American television and film actor
 * April 7 – Trent Cotchin, Australian rules footballer
 * April 8
 * Freddie, Hungarian singer
 * Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017)
 * April 9 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
 * April 10
 * Ben Amos, English footballer
 * Maren Morris, American country singer
 * Alex Pettyfer, English actor
 * April 15 – Emma Watson, English actress
 * April 16
 * Lily Loveless, British actress
 * Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
 * April 17 – Astrit Ajdarević, Swedish professional football player
 * April 18
 * Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist
 * Britt Robertson, American actress
 * Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish football player
 * Fiona Themann, Australian netball player
 * April 19
 * Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
 * Kim Himchan, South Korean singer
 * April 20 – Lu Han, South Korean singer
 * April 22 – Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper
 * April 23 – Dev Patel, British actor
 * April 24
 * Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress
 * Carly Pearce, American country singer
 * April 25 – Jean-Éric Vergne, French former Formula 1 driver
 * April 27 – Austin Dillon, American stock car driver

May

 * May 1 – Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
 * May 2
 * Daria Joura, Australian artistic gymnast
 * Kay Panabaker, American actress
 * Paul George, American basketball player
 * May 3
 * Miranda Chartrand, Canadian singer
 * Brooks Koepka, American professional golfer
 * May 4
 * David Hasler, Liechtenstein footballer
 * Nic Naitanui, Australian rules footballer
 * Andrea Torres, Filipino actress
 * May 5
 * Hannah Davis, American model
 * Saad Al Sheebi, Qatari footballer
 * May 8
 * Kemba Walker, American basketball player
 * Anastasia Zuyeva, Russian swimmer
 * May 9 – Jose Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player
 * May 10
 * Brandun DeShay, American rapper and record producer
 * Maxine Medina, Filipino actress and model
 * May 12 – Florent Amodio, French figure skater
 * May 16
 * Thomas Brodie-Sangster, British actor
 * Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter
 * May 18 – Gayoon, South Korean singer and actress
 * May 24
 * Joey Logano, American race car driver
 * Yuya Matsushita, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
 * May 26 &ndsah; Umar Akmal, Pakistani cricketer
 * May 27 – Chris Colfer, American actor
 * May 28 – Kyle Walker, English footballer
 * May 30
 * Dean Collins, American actor
 * Matías Nocedal, Argentine basketball player
 * Yoona, Korean singer
 * May 31 – Phillipa Soo, American actress and singer

June

 * June 2
 * Kristiina Brask, Finnish pop singer
 * Brittany Curran, American actress and singer
 * Jack Lowden, Scottish actor
 * June 3 – Jason Akeson, Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * June 4 – Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.
 * June 6 – Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
 * June 7
 * Iggy Azalea, Australian recording artist
 * Daniel Rich, Australian rules footballer
 * June 9
 * Matthias Mayer, Austrian Olympic alpine skier
 * Lauren Socha, English actress
 * June 10
 * Tristin Mays, American actress
 * Niamh Perry, Irish actress and singer
 * June 11 – Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
 * June 12
 * Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
 * KevJumba, American blogger, activist, and humanitarian
 * June 13 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
 * June 15 – Denzel Whitaker, American actor
 * June 16 – John Newman, English singer
 * June 17
 * Alan Dzagoev, Russian footballer
 * Jordan Henderson, English international footballer
 * Laura Wright, English singer
 * June 18 – Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
 * June 19
 * Ashly Burch, American actress and voice actress
 * Jason Dy, Filipino singer
 * June 20 – Jacob Wysocki, American actor and comedian
 * June 21
 * Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player
 * Nicolás Maduro Guerra, Venezuelan politician
 * Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian football player
 * June 22
 * T. J. DiLeo, American-German professional basketball player
 * Kei Inoo, Japanese singer and actor
 * Kyrylo Petrov, Ukrainian football defender
 * June 23
 * Lim Ji-yeon, South Korean actress
 * Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player
 * June 25 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress and model
 * June 26 – Filip Novák, Czech football player
 * June 27
 * Angelia Ong, Filipino–Chinese model
 * Bobby Wagner, American football player
 * June 28
 * Nick Purcell, American actor
 * Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
 * Malhar Thakar, Indian actor
 * June 29
 * Subaru Kimura, German-Japanese voice actor
 * Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
 * Harish Kalyan, Indian actor
 * June 30
 * Bryan Nickson Lomas, Malaysian diver
 * N, South Korean singer and actor

July

 * July 1
 * Jeremy Irvine, English actor
 * Ángelo Balanta, Colombian footballer
 * Dan Mayo, Israeli drummer, composer. and educator
 * July 2
 * Roman Lob, German recording artist
 * Grey Henson, American actor, dancer, and singer
 * Kayla Harrison, American judoka
 * Margot Robbie, Australian actress
 * July 3 – Lucas Mendes, Brazilian professional footballer
 * July 4 – David Kross, German actor
 * July 5
 * Carlotta Giovannini, Italian artistic gymnast
 * David Manoyan, Armenian football player
 * Arron Villaflor, Filipino actor and dancer
 * July 6 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor
 * July 7 – Amadeus Serafini, American actor
 * July 9
 * Fabio, Brazilian footballer
 * Sosuke Ikematsu, Japanese actor
 * Rafael, Brazilian footballer
 * Sung Joon, South Korean actor and model
 * July 10
 * Portia Clark, Zambian pop singer, songwriter, and philanthropist
 * Elliot Knight, British actor
 * Sung Joon, South Korean actor and model
 * July 11
 * Feroze Khan, Pakistani actor and model
 * Connor Paolo, American actor
 * Patrick Peterson, American football player
 * Kelsey Sanders, American actress
 * Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
 * July 14 – Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russian chess grandmaster
 * July 15
 * Olly Alexander, English actor and singer
 * Alexander Calvert, Canadian actor
 * Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 * Damian Lillard, American basketball player
 * July 16
 * James Maslow, American actor and singer
 * Wizkid, Nigerian recording artist, songwriter, and performer
 * July 17 – Jonty Usborne, British radio engineer
 * July 18
 * Saúl Álvarez, Mexican boxer
 * Anders Konradsen, Norwegian footballer
 * July 19
 * Rosie Jones, English glamour model
 * Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor
 * July 20 – Dominic Roque, Filipino actor and model
 * July 21
 * Satyajeet Dubey, Indian actor
 * Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
 * Fabrice N'Sakala, Congolese-democratic footballer
 * July 22 – Anaqi Sufi Omar Baki, Bruneian footballer
 * July 23 – Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
 * July 24
 * Daveigh Chase, American actress
 * Jay McGuiness, British singer
 * July 27 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
 * July 28 – Soulja Boy, American rapper
 * July 29
 * Penny Bae Bridges, American actress
 * Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
 * Anna Selezneva, Russian model
 * Oleg Shatov, Russian footballer
 * Shin Se-kyung, Korean actor
 * July 30 – Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

August

 * August 1
 * Jean Hugues Gregoire, Mauritian swimmer
 * Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
 * Jack O'Connell, English actor
 * August 2 – Eddie Generazio, American author and musician
 * August 3
 * James Baxter, British actor
 * Jourdan Dunn, British model
 * August 7 – Tom Beugelsdijk, Dutch footballer
 * August 8
 * Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress
 * Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricketer
 * August 9
 * Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor
 * Emily Tennant, Canadian actress
 * August 10
 * Lucas Till, American actor
 * Tai Woffinden, English speedway rider
 * August 12 – Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
 * August 13
 * Shila Amzah, Malaysian singer-songwriter
 * DeMarcus Cousins, American basketball player
 * August 15 – Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
 * August 17 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
 * August 20 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
 * August 21 – Bo Burnham, American comedian
 * August 22 – Adam Thielen, American Football player
 * August 24
 * Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (d. 2019)
 * Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress
 * August 27
 * Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer (d. 2009)
 * Madison Welch, English glamour model
 * August 28
 * Katie Findlay, Canadian actress
 * Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
 * August 29 – Nicole Gale Anderson, American actress

September

 * September 2 – Merritt Patterson, Canadian actress
 * September 3 – Abbas Ali, Pakistani footballer
 * September 4
 * Olha Kharlan, Ukrainian fencer
 * Danny Worsnop, British musician
 * September 5 – Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater
 * September 6
 * Matt McAndrew, American singer-songwriter
 * John Wall, American basketball player
 * September 8
 * Matt Barkley, American football player
 * Dianne Doan, Canadian actress
 * Ella Rae Peck, American actress
 * September 9
 * Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
 * Klaudia Tiitsmaa, Estonian actress
 * September 10
 * Eddy Martin, American actor
 * Chandler Massey, American actor
 * September 12 – Wayne Dalglish, American actor
 * September 13 – Jamie Anderson, American snowboarder
 * September 14 – Alex and Sam Lowes, English twin brother motorcycle racers
 * September 15 – Matt Shively, American actor
 * September 19
 * Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
 * Kieran Trippier, English footballer
 * September 20
 * Erich Gonzales, Filipina actor and dancer
 * Phillip Phillips, American singer
 * John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
 * September 21
 * Laurent Alvarez, Swiss figure skater
 * Allison Scagliotti, American actress
 * Christian Serratos, American actress
 * September 23
 * Marigona Dragusha, Kosovan model
 * Agustín Sierra, Argentine actor
 * September 25
 * Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
 * Edie Campbell, English model
 * September 27 – Dion Lewis, American football player
 * September 28 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
 * September 30 – Dominique Aegerter, Swiss Grand prix motorcycle racer

October

 * October 2 – Samantha Barks, Manx singer and actress
 * October 3
 * Johan Le Bon, French cyclist
 * Rhian Ramos, Filipino actress
 * October 5 – Myles Jeffrey, American actor
 * October 7
 * Ayla Kell, American actress
 * Thunder, South Korean pop singer
 * October 11 – Sebastian Rode, German footballer
 * October 12
 * Brock Coyle, American football player
 * Henri Lansbury, English footballer
 * October 13 – Bailey Noble, American actress
 * October 14 – Raquel Diaz, American singer, model, and professional wrestler
 * October 15 – Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actress
 * October 16 – Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (Yohanna), Icelandic singer
 * October 18 – Carly Schroeder, American actress
 * October 19
 * Samantha Munro, American actress
 * Samuel Nascimento, Brazilian actor, singer, and dancer
 * Ciara Renée, American actress
 * October 20 – Galadriel Stineman, American actress
 * October 21 – Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player
 * October 22 – Ashley Fiolek, American champion motocross racer
 * October 23 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer-songwriter
 * October 24
 * Kirby Bliss Blanton, American actress
 * İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer
 * October 25
 * Austin Peralta, American jazz musician and composer (d. 2012)
 * Ryan Preece, American Race Car Driver
 * October 28 – Kianna Underwood, American actress
 * October 29 – Eric Saade, Swedish pop singer
 * October 31 – Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (d. 2019)

November

 * November 2 – Kendall Schmidt, American actor and singer
 * November 4 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor
 * November 6
 * Dorothea Barth Jörgensen, Swedish model
 * Kris, South Korean singer
 * André Schürrle, German footballer
 * November 7
 * Joy Burke, Taiwanese basketball player
 * Matt Corby, Australian singer
 * David de Gea, Spanish footballer
 * Marisa Siketa, Australian actress
 * November 8 – SZA, American R&B-singer
 * November 9
 * Hodgy Beats, American rapper and record producer
 * Christine Michael, American football player
 * November 10
 * Vanessa Ferrari, Italian gymnast
 * Leo, South Korean singer-songwriter
 * November 11 – Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer
 * November 13 – Kathleen Herles, American voice actress
 * November 14 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
 * November 15 – Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
 * November 16 – Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor
 * November 17 – Shanica Knowles, American actress and singer
 * November 20 – Zack Martin, American football player
 * November 22
 * Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer and dancer
 * Seo Eunkwang, South Korean singer
 * November 23 – Nick Williams, American football player
 * November 24 – Sarah Hyland, American actress
 * November 26
 * Rita Ora, English singer
 * Danny Welbeck, English footballer
 * November 27 – Josh James, British singer
 * November 28
 * Sena Acolatse, American professional ice hockey player
 * Holly Hale, Welsh model
 * November 29
 * Diego González, Mexican actor and singer-songwriter
 * Lee Min-hyuk, South Korean singer
 * Sheldon Richardson, American football player
 * November 30 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess grandmaster

December

 * December 1 – Chanel Iman, American model
 * December 2
 * Jamille Matt, Jamaican footballer
 * Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese idol
 * December 3 – Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player
 * December 10
 * Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
 * Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle rider (d. 2010)
 * December 11 – Adrienne Murphy, Irish model
 * December 12 – Seungri, South Korean singer
 * December 13 – Corey Anderson, New Zealand cricketer
 * December 15 – Rachel Brosnahan, American actress
 * December 17
 * Folashade Abugan, Nigerian sprinter
 * John Rooney, English footballer
 * December 18 – Lara Scandar, Egyptian singer
 * December 20
 * JoJo, American singer and actress
 * Bugzy Malone, English grime rapper
 * December 22 – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor
 * December 24 – Marcus Jordan, American college basketball player
 * December 26
 * Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
 * Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
 * December 27 – Milos Raonic, Canadian tennis player
 * December 28 – David Archuleta, American singer
 * December 30 – Joe Root, English cricketer
 * December 31
 * Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater
 * Zhao Jing, Chinese swimmer

January

 * January 2
 * Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician (b. 1910)
 * Alan Hale Jr, American actor (b. 1921)
 * January 4
 * Sir Henry Bolte, Australian politician (b. 1908)
 * Alberto Lleras Camargo, Colombian politician, 20th President of Colombia (b. 1906)
 * Harold Eugene Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
 * January 5 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
 * January 6
 * Ian Charleson, British actor (b. 1949)
 * Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 * January 7
 * Avraham Abba Leifer, American Hassidic rabbi (b. 1918)
 * Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player (b. 1908)
 * January 8
 * Jaime Gil de Biedma, Spanish poet (b. 1929)
 * Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911)
 * January 9
 * Northern Calloway, American actor (b. 1948)
 * Spud Chandler, American baseball player (b. 1907)
 * Bazilio Olara-Okello, Ugandan military officer and statesman (b. 1929)
 * January 10 – Lyle R. Wheeler, American art director (b. 1905)
 * January 15 – Gordon Jackson, British actor (b. 1923)
 * January 17 – Charles Hernu, French politician (b. 1923)
 * January 18
 * Melanie Appleby, British musician (b. 1966)
 * Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
 * Edouard Izac, American naval officer (b. 1891)
 * January 19
 * Arthur Goldberg, American Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
 * Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic (b. 1931)
 * Herbert Wehner, German Social Democratic politician (b. 1906)
 * January 20
 * Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)
 * Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
 * January 22
 * Mariano Rumor, Italian politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1915)
 * Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (b. 1897)
 * January 23 – Allen Collins, American musician (b. 1952)
 * January 24
 * Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
 * Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1902)
 * January 25
 * Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet (b. 1898)
 * Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
 * January 26 – Lewis Mumford, American historian of science (b. 1895)
 * January 27 – Helen Jerome Eddy, American actress (b. 1897)
 * January 28 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet and author (b. 1918)
 * January 29
 * Elise Blumann, German-born Australian artist (b. 1897)
 * Sir Edward Pochin, British physician (b. 1909)
 * January 30 – John Rogers Cox, American painter (b. 1915)

February

 * February 2
 * Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist (b. 1905)
 * Joe Erskine, British boxer (b. 1934)
 * Mel Lewis, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
 * February 3 – Jane Novak, American silent film era actress (b. 1896)
 * February 5 – Joseph J. Nazzaro, American United States Air Force general (b. 1913)
 * February 6 – Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, German-born Australian physicist and philosopher (b. 1891)
 * February 7
 * Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (b. 1905)
 * Nazarena of Jesus, American Roman Catholic nun and missionary (b. 1907)
 * Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (b. 1913)
 * February 8 – Del Shannon, American musician and singer (b. 1934)
 * February 9 – Una Hanbury, British-born, American bronze sculptress (b. 1904)
 * February 10 – Bill Sherwood, American film director (b. 1952)
 * February 11 – Fred Jones, English footballer (b. 1898)
 * February 14
 * José Luis Panizo, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
 * Jean Wallace, American actress (b. 1923)
 * February 15
 * Henry Brandon, German-American actor (b. 1912)
 * Ulf Johansson, Swedish actor (b. 1922)
 * February 16
 * Keith Haring, American pop artist (b. 1958)
 * Robert Ouko, Kenyan politician (b. 1931)
 * February 17
 * Erik Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906)
 * Brendan Corish, Irish labour politician (b. 1918)
 * February 19
 * Otto E. Neugebauer, Austrian-born American mathematician and historian of science (b. 1899)
 * Michael Powell, British director (b. 1905)
 * Edris Rice-Wray Carson, medical doctor and researcher (b. 1904)
 * February 22 – Stephen W. Burns, American actor (b. 1954)
 * February 23
 * José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
 * James M. Gavin, American general (b. 1907)
 * February 24
 * Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (b. 1945)
 * Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1919)
 * Sandro Pertini, Italian Socialist politician, 7th President of Italy (b. 1896)
 * Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927)
 * February 27
 * Torchy Atkinson, New Zealand scientist (b. 1909)
 * Nahum Norbert Glatzer, American scholar (b. 1903)

March

 * March 4 – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
 * March 5 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
 * March 6
 * William Raborn, United States Navy officer (b. 1905)
 * Joe Sewell, American baseball player (b. 1898)
 * March 7 – Shuddhananda Bharati, Indian philosopher (b. 1897)
 * March 12
 * Gene Klein, American businessman (b. 1921)
 * Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist and translator (b. 1901)
 * Philippe Soupault, French poet (b. 1897)
 * March 13
 * Bruno Bettelheim, American child psychologist (b. 1903)
 * Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
 * Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, British politician (b. 1906)
 * March 14 – Harold Medina, American lawyer, teacher, and judge (b. 1888)
 * March 15 – Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
 * March 17
 * Capucine, French actress and fashion model (b. 1928)
 * Ric Grech, British musician (b. 1946)
 * March 18 – Robin Harris, American actor, comedian and voice artist (b. 1953)
 * March 19
 * Oyinkansola Abayomi, Nigerian nationalist and feminist (b. 1897)
 * Neta Lohnes Frazier, American children's author (b. 1890)
 * Andrew Wood, American musician (b. 1966)
 * March 20 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
 * March 22
 * Gerald Bull, Canadian scientist (b. 1928)
 * Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Colombian politician (b. 1956)
 * March 23 – John Dexter, English theatre director (b. 1925)
 * March 24 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
 * March 26 – Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)

April

 * April 1 – Émile Roche, French economist, radical politician, and journalist (b. 1893)
 * April 2 – Aldo Fabrizi, Italian actor (b. 1905)
 * April 3
 * Edna Reindel, Surrealist and American Regionalist painter and sculptor (b. 1894)
 * Sarah Vaughan, American jazz vocalist (b. 1924)
 * April 6
 * James MacNabb, British Olympic rower (b. 1901)
 * Alfred Sohn-Rethel, German economist and philosopher (b. 1899)
 * April 7 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
 * April 8
 * Doreen Sloane, British actress (b. 1934)
 * Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
 * April 10 – Fortune Gordien, American Olympic athlete (b. 1922)
 * April 13 – Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, and architect (b. 1892)
 * April 14
 * Ahmed Balafrej, Moroccan politician, Foreign Minister and 2nd Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1908)
 * Sabicas, Spanish guitarist (b. 1912)
 * April 15 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
 * April 17 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (b. 1926)
 * April 18
 * Gory Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1921)
 * Frédéric Rossif, French film and television director (b. 1922)
 * Robert D. Webb, American film director (b. 1903)
 * April 19 – Marco Aurelio Robles, Panamanian politician, 20th President of Panama (b. 1905)
 * April 20 – Horst Sindermann, East German politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (b. 1915)
 * April 21 – Erté (Romain de Tirtoff), French Art Deco artist (b. 1892)
 * April 22 – Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
 * April 23 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)
 * April 25 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1923)
 * April 26 – Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez, Colombian politician (b. 1951)
 * April 27 – Bella Spewack, American songwriter (b. 1899)
 * April 30 – Joseph E. Johnson, American government official (b. 1895)

May

 * May 1 – Sunset Carson, American actor (b. 1920)
 * May 2
 * William L. Dawson, American composer, choir director, and professor (b. 1899)
 * David Rappaport, American actor (b. 1951)
 * May 3 – Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (b. 1910)
 * May 5 – Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (b. 1908)
 * May 6 – Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1900)
 * May 7 – Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (b. 1929)
 * May 8
 * Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924)
 * Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1923)
 * May 10
 * Susan Oliver, American actress (b. 1932)
 * Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916)
 * May 12
 * Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (b. 1906)
 * Albert Öberg, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
 * May 14 – Franklyn Seales, American actor (b. 1952)
 * May 16
 * Sammy Davis Jr., American actor, dancer, and singer (b. 1925)
 * Jim Henson, Muppets creator, American puppeteer, and filmmaker (b. 1936)
 * May 18 – Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
 * May 21
 * The Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce, British racing motorist, speedboat racer, and aviator (b. 1895)
 * Max Wall, English actor (b. 1908)
 * May 22
 * Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1919)
 * Pat Reid, British soldier and author (b. 1910)
 * May 24 – José Del Vecchio, Venezuelan physician and youth baseball promoter (b. 1917)
 * May 25 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)
 * May 29 – Hussein bin Onn, Malay politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
 * May 31 – Willy Spühler, Swiss politician (b. 1902)

June

 * June 2 – Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
 * June 3 – Robert Noyce, American businessman and inventor (b. 1927)
 * June 4
 * Stiv Bators, American singer (b. 1949)
 * Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
 * June 5 – Vasili Kuznetsov, Soviet politician, provisional head of the State (b. 1901)
 * June 7
 * Barbara Baxley, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Alfredo Poveda, Ecuadorean military officer and statesman, interim President of Ecuador (b. 1926)
 * June 8 – José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician, 32nd President of Costa Rica (b. 1906)
 * June 9 – Angus McBean, Welsh photographer (b. 1904)
 * June 11 – Vaso Čubrilović, Yugoslav politician (b. 1897)
 * June 12
 * Lord O'Neill, Northern Irish politician, Prime Minister (b. 1914)
 * Laura Scales, American educator (b. 1879)
 * June 13 – Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistani stateswoman, First Lady of Pakistan (b. 1905)
 * June 14 – Philip Henry Bridenbaugh, American football player and coach (b. 1890)
 * June 15
 * Prince Ernst August of Lippe (b. 1917)
 * Leonard Sachs, British actor (b. 1909)
 * June 16 – Dame Eva Turner, British soprano (b. 1892)
 * June 19 – Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Danish architect and urban planner (b. 1898)
 * June 20 – Ina Balin, American actress (b. 1937)
 * June 22
 * Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
 * Mollie Moon, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
 * Joseph Murumbi, Kenyan politician, Vice-President of the Republic (b. 1911)
 * June 23 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (b. 1898)
 * June 24 – Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 50th President of Venezuela (b. 1907)
 * June 27 – William Edward Davies, American geologist and speleologist (b. 1917)
 * June 29 – Irving Wallace, American writer (b. 1916)

July

 * July 1 – Willem Winkelman, Dutch track and field athlete (b. 1887)
 * July 4 – Phil Boggs, American Olympic diver (b. 1949)
 * July 7
 * Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
 * Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
 * July 8 – Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
 * July 13 – Lois Moran, American actress (b. 1909)
 * July 15
 * Margaret Lockwood, English actress (b. 1916)
 * Enn Roos, Estonian Soviet sculptor (b. 1908)
 * Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav-Bosnian writer (b. 1920)
 * July 16
 * Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
 * Tomás Blanco, Spanish actor (b. 1910)
 * July 18
 * Gerry Boulet, Canadian musician (b. 1946)
 * Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (b. 1957)
 * Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1893)
 * Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (b. 1918)
 * Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (b. 1897)
 * July 19
 * Egil Aarvik, Norwegian politician, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (b. 1912)
 * Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 21 – Joe Turner, American jazz pianist (b. 1907)
 * July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
 * July 23 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese television engineer (b. 1899)
 * July 26 – Brent Mydland, American keyboard player (b. 1952)
 * July 27 – René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (b. 1912)
 * July 29 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Social Democratic politician, 17th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
 * July 30 – Ian Gow, British politician (b. 1937)
 * July 31 – Fernando Sancho, Spanish actor (b. 1916)

August

 * August 1
 * Willard L. Beaulac, American diplomat (b. 1899)
 * Norbert Elias, German Jewish sociologist (b. 1897)
 * Robert Krieps, Luxembourgian Social Democratic politician (b. 1922)
 * August 2 – Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
 * August 3 – Nella Maria Bonora, Italian actress (b. 1904)
 * August 4
 * Mathias Goeritz, Mexican-born German artist (b. 1915)
 * Ettore Maserati, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1894)
 * August 6
 * Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., 4-star general of the American Marine Corps (b. 1896)
 * Jacques Soustelle, French politician and anthropologist (b. 1912)
 * August 9
 * Dorothy Appleby, American film actress (b. 1906)
 * Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
 * August 12 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * August 15 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer, actor, and poet (b. 1962)
 * August 17 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
 * August 18 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (b. 1904)
 * August 22 – Luigi Dadaglio, Italian cardinal (b. 1914)
 * August 23 – David Rose, British-born American songwriter, composer, and arranger (b. 1910)
 * August 24 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian author (b. 1941)
 * August 26 – Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan politician and poet (b. 1928)
 * August 27
 * Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete (b. 1907)
 * Raymond St. Jacques, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
 * August 31 – Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov, Soviet figure skater (b. 1949)

September

 * September 1 – Geir Hallgrímsson, Icelandic politician, 16th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1925)
 * September 2 – John Bowlby, British psychologist and psychiatrist (b. 1907)
 * September 4 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898)
 * September 6
 * Tom Fogerty, American musician (b. 1941)
 * Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
 * September 7
 * Ahti Karjalainen, Finnish politician, 28th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1923)
 * A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (b. 1906)
 * September 8 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British author (b. 1905)
 * September 9
 * Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
 * Samuel Doe, Liberian military officer and statesman, 21st President of Liberia (b. 1951)
 * September 11 – Cai Chang, Chinese politician, women's rights activist (b. 1900)
 * September 13 – Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1909)
 * September 14 – Lotus Long, American actress (b. 1909)
 * September 17 – Lilí Martínez, Cuban pianist and arranger (b. 1917)
 * September 19
 * Hermes Pan, American choreographer (b. 1910)
 * Walter Tucker, Canadian politician (b. 1899)
 * September 21 – Xu Xiangqian, Communist military leader in the People's Republic of China, former Defense minister (b. 1901)
 * September 23 – Betty Warfel, American professional baseball player (b. 1928)
 * September 25
 * Togyu Okumura, Japanese modern painter (b. 1889)
 * Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician (b. 1897)
 * September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (b. 1907)
 * September 27 – Mary Rotolo, American writer and political activist (b. 1910)
 * September 28 – Prince Karl of Leiningen (b. 1928)
 * September 30 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

October

 * October 1 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general (b. 1906)
 * October 3 – André Grabar, historian of Romanesque art and the art of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 1896)
 * October 4
 * Jill Bennett, British actress (b. 1931)
 * Avis Bunnage, British actress (b. 1923)
 * October 5 – Peter Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1928)
 * October 7
 * Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
 * Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum, Vice-President and 2nd Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates and Emir (Ruler) of Dubai (b. 1912)
 * Grim Natwick, American animator (b. 1890)
 * October 8
 * Juan José Arévalo, Guatemalan politician, 24th President of Guatemala (b. 1904)
 * William H. Harrison, American politician (b. 1896)
 * October 12 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Speaker of the Egyptian Assembly (b. 1926)
 * October 13
 * Douglas Edwards, American television news anchor (b. 1917)
 * Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
 * October 14 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
 * October 15
 * Helen Bray, American actress (b. 1889)
 * Delphine Seyrig, French actress (b. 1932)
 * October 16 – Art Blakey, American jazz musician (b. 1919)
 * October 20 – Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
 * October 21 – Dany Chamoun, Lebanese politician (b. 1934)
 * October 22 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
 * October 23 – Zephania Mothopeng, South African politician (b. 1913)
 * October 26 – William S. Paley, American media executive (b. 1901)
 * October 27
 * Xavier Cugat, American band leader (b. 1900)
 * Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
 * Helmut Maandi, Estonian statesman (b. 1906)
 * Elliott Roosevelt, American writer (b. 1910)
 * Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
 * October 29 – William French Smith, American lawyer and former Attorney General of the United States (b. 1917)

November

 * November 3 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
 * November 4
 * Henry Cravatte, Luxembourgian Social Democratic politician, former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1911)
 * Sir David Stirling, British army officer, founder of the SAS (b. 1915)
 * November 5 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and political figure (b. 1932)
 * November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (b. 1912)
 * November 11
 * Sadi Irmak, Turkish politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1904)
 * Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
 * November 12 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
 * November 13 – Don Chaffey, British film director (b. 1917)
 * November 17 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * November 19 – Georgy Flyorov, Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
 * November 20 – Herbert Kegel, German conductor (b. 1920)
 * November 23
 * Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (b. 1916)
 * Nguyễn Văn Tâm, South Vietnamese politician, 4th Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1893)
 * November 24
 * Helga Feddersen, German actress (b. 1930)
 * Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
 * November 26 – Feng Youlan, Chinese philosopher (b. 1895)
 * November 27
 * Frank Edward Figgures, British civil servant (b. 1910)
 * David White, American actor (b. 1916)

December

 * December 1
 * Octavio Beras Rojas, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1906)
 * Sergio Corbucci, Italian film director (b. 1927)
 * Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician (b. 1900)
 * December 2
 * Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
 * Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1910)
 * December 4 – Naoto Tajima, Japanese Olympic athlete (b. 1912)
 * December 6
 * Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)
 * Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
 * December 7
 * Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (b. 1943)
 * Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
 * Dee Clark, American soul singer (b. 1938)
 * December 8
 * Enrico Coveri, Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur (b. 1952)
 * Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage designer and theatre director (b. 1915)
 * Boris Kochno, Russian poet, dancer, and librettist (b. 1906)
 * Martin Ritt, American film director (b. 1914)
 * December 9 – Mike Mazurki, American actor and wrestler (b. 1909)
 * December 10 – Armand Hammer, American business tycoon (b. 1898)
 * December 11 – Concha Piquer, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1908)
 * December 13 – Alice Marble, American tennis champion (b. 1913)
 * December 14
 * Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
 * Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer (b. 1907)
 * Edmund Franklin Ward, illustrator (b. 1892)
 * December 15 – Ed Parker, American Kenpo founder (b. 1931)
 * December 16
 * Douglas Campbell, American World War I pilot (b. 1896)
 * Jackie Mittoo, Jamaican musician (b. 1948)
 * December 18 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
 * December 20 – Elmo Tanner, American singer and whistler (b. 1910)
 * December 24 – Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1912)
 * December 28
 * Kiel Martin, American actor (b. 1944)
 * Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1946)
 * December 31
 * George Allen, American football coach (b. 1918)
 * Vasily Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, and Richard Edward Taylor
 * Chemistry – Elias James Corey
 * Physiology or Medicine – Joseph Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
 * Literature – Octavio Paz
 * Peace – Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, William F. Sharpe

Fields Medal

 * Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Jones, Shigefumi Mori, Edward Witten

January

 * January 1 – Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro.
 * January 14 – At 19:04:39 UTC, the unmanned MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury.
 * January 21 – Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.


 * January 24 – A peace deal is signed in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ending the Kivu conflict.

February

 * February 4 – Iran opens its first space center and launches a rocket into space.
 * February 13 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivers a formal apology to the Stolen Generations.
 * February 17 – Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia, with a mixed response from the international community.

March

 * March–April – Rising food and fuel prices trigger riots and unrest in the Third World.
 * March 2 – Venezuela and Ecuador move troops to the Colombian border, following a Colombian raid against FARC guerrillas inside Ecuadorian territory, in which senior commander Raúl Reyes is killed.
 * March 9 – The first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, a cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station, launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
 * March 24 – Bhutan holds its first-ever general elections following the adoption of a new Constitution which changed the country from an absolute monarchy to a multiparty democracy.
 * March 25 – African Union and Comoros forces invade the rebel-held island of Anjouan, returning the island to Comorian control.

April

 * April 22 – Surgeons at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first successful operations using bionic eyes, implanting them into two blind patients.

May

 * May 2 – The Chaitén volcano in Chile enters a new eruptive phase for the first time since around 1640.
 * May 3 – Cyclone Nargis passes through Myanmar, killing more than 138,000 people.
 * May 12 – An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people.
 * May 23
 * The Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental organization between states in South America, is founded.
 * The International Court of Justice awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
 * May 25 – NASA's unmanned Phoenix spacecraft becomes the first to land on the northern polar region of Mars.
 * May 28 – The Legislature Parliament of Nepal votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country's 240-year-old monarchy, turning the country into a republic.
 * May 30 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted in Dublin.

June

 * June 7–29 – Austria and Switzerland jointly host the UEFA Euro 2008 football tournament, which is won by Spain.
 * June 11
 * The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched.
 * Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologizes, on behalf of the Canadian government, to the country's First Nations for the Canadian Indian residential school system.
 * June 14 – Expo 2008 opens in Zaragoza, Spain, lasting to September 14, with the topic "Water and sustainable development".

July

 * July 2 – Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are rescued from FARC rebels by Colombian security forces.
 * July 21 – Radovan Karadžić, the first president of the Republika Srpska, is arrested in Belgrade, Serbia, on allegations of war crimes, following a 12-year-long manhunt.

August

 * August 1 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions die on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
 * August 6 – President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état.
 * August 7 – Georgia invades the breakaway state of South Ossetia, sparking a war with Russia as the latter intervenes in support of the separatists in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
 * August 20 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashes at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 154 people on board.
 * August 8–24 – The 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing, China.

September

 * September 10 – The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.
 * September 20 – A suicide truck bomb explosion destroys the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 54 and injuring 266.
 * September 13 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Galveston, Texas
 * September 28 – SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit.
 * September 29 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, hitherto the largest single-day point loss in its history.

October

 * October 3 – Global financial crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.
 * October 7 – Spotify music streaming service is launched in Sweden.
 * October 21 – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially inaugurated at Geneva.
 * October 22 – The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on a lunar exploration mission.

November

 * November 1 – Satoshi Nakamoto publishes "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".
 * November 4 – Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first black President of the United States.
 * November 19 – Claudia Castillo of Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ.
 * November 26–29 – Members of Lashkar-e-Taiba carry out four days of coordinated bombing and shooting attacks across Mumbai, killing 164 people.

December

 * December 5 – Human remains found in 1991 are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, using DNA analysis.
 * December 10 – The Channel Island of Sark, a British Crown dependency, holds its first fully democratic elections under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism.
 * December 18 – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Théoneste Bagosora and two other senior Rwandan army officers guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentences them to life imprisonment for their role in the Rwandan genocide.
 * December 23 – A military coup d'état deposes the government of Guinea shortly after the death of longtime President Lansana Conté.
 * December 27 – Israel invades the Gaza Strip in response to rockets being fired into Israeli territory by Hamas and due to weapons being smuggled into the area.
 * December 31 – An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005.

Births

 * April 16 – Princess Eléonore of Belgium
 * June 3 – Harshaali Malhotra, Indian actress
 * July 15 – Iain Armitage, American actor
 * August 18 – Gordey Kolesov, Russian-Chinese chess player

January

 * January 2 – Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas, Princess of Thailand (b. 1923)
 * January 3 – Choi Yo-sam, Korean boxer (b. 1972)
 * January 10 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1922)
 * January 11 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919)
 * January 15 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
 * January 16 – Nikola Kljusev, 1st Prime Minister of Macedonia (b. 1927)
 * January 17 – Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion (b. 1943)
 * January 19 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
 * January 22
 * Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
 * Claude Piron, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931)
 * January 25 – Aziz Sedky, 36th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
 * January 26 – George Habash, Palestinian politician (b. 1926)
 * January 27
 * Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910)
 * Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
 * January 28 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
 * January 29 – Margaret Truman, American singer and writer (b. 1924)

February

 * February 2 – Joshua Lederberg, American Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1925)
 * February 5 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1917)
 * February 7 – Andrew Bertie, 78th Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1929)
 * February 9 – Baba Amte, Indian social activist (b. 1914)
 * February 10 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
 * February 11
 * Tom Lantos, American politician (b. 1928)
 * Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel (b. 1967)
 * February 12
 * Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962)
 * Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955)
 * February 13
 * Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director (b. 1915)
 * Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
 * February 16 – James Orange, American pastor and civil rights activist (b. 1942)
 * February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922)
 * February 19
 * Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941)
 * Yegor Letov, Russian singer (b. 1964)
 * February 23
 * Janez Drnovšek, 2-Time Prime Minister and 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
 * Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917)
 * February 27
 * William F. Buckley Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)
 * Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
 * February 29 – Tommy Glencross, Scottish boxer (b. 1947)

March

 * March 1 – Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948)
 * March 2 – Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
 * March 3
 * Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921)
 * Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923)
 * March 4 – Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938)
 * March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923)
 * March 6 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
 * March 12 – Howard Metzenbaum, American politician (b. 1917)
 * March 14 – Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920)
 * March 18 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
 * March 19
 * Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917)
 * Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter and film director (b. 1929)
 * Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
 * March 22 – Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1927)
 * March 24
 * Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942)
 * Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
 * March 26 – Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
 * March 27 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921)
 * March 30 – Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942)
 * March 31 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)

April

 * April 3 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
 * April 5 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
 * April 8 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
 * April 10 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919)
 * April 12 – Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
 * April 13 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
 * April 14 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
 * April 15 – Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer-director (b. 1945)
 * April 16 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
 * April 17 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
 * April 29 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and writer (b. 1906)

May

 * May 1 – Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (b. 1909)
 * May 2 – Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer (b. 1917)
 * May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish Prime Minister (b. 1926)
 * May 8 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982)
 * May 10
 * Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
 * Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (b. 1990)
 * May 12
 * Robert Rauschenberg, American pop artist (b. 1925)
 * Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910)
 * May 13
 * Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 4th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
 * Bernardin Gantin, Beninese cardinal (b. 1922)
 * May 15 – Willis Lamb, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913)
 * May 17 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)
 * May 23 – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1918)
 * May 26
 * Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (b. 1934)
 * Koloa Talake, 7th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1934)
 * May 28 – Sven Davidson, Swedish tennis player (b. 1928)
 * May 29 – Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (b. 1927)

June

 * June 1
 * Tommy Lapid, Israeli television presenter, journalist, and politician (b. 1931)
 * Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
 * June 2
 * Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
 * Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
 * June 5 – Jameson Mbilini Dlamini, 7th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1921)
 * June 4 – Agata Mróz-Olszewska, Polish volleyball player (b. 1982)
 * June 7
 * Mustafa Khalil, 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
 * Dino Risi, Italian director (b. 1916)
 * June 8 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian musician (b. 1936)
 * June 9
 * Karen Asrian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1980)
 * Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer (b. 1931)
 * June 10 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (b. 1928)
 * June 11
 * Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939)
 * Võ Văn Kiệt, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
 * June 13 – Tim Russert, American journalist (b. 1950)
 * June 15 – Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist (b. 1946)
 * June 17 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)
 * June 18 – Jean Delannoy, French film director (b. 1908)
 * June 22 – George Carlin, American author, actor, and comedian (b. 1937)
 * June 23 – Arthur Chung, 1st President of Guyana (b. 1918)
 * June 24 – Leonid Hurwicz, American Nobel economist and mathematician (b. 1917)
 * June 27 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
 * June 28 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
 * June 29 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)

July

 * July 4
 * Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
 * Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
 * July 5 – René Harris, 4-Time President of Nauru (b. 1947)
 * July 11 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
 * July 12 – Tony Snow, American political commentator (b. 1955)
 * July 13 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
 * July 15 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972)
 * July 16 – Jo Stafford, American singer (b. 1917)
 * July 22 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
 * July 25
 * Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
 * Randy Pausch, American author and computer scientist (b. 1960)
 * July 27 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
 * July 29 – Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer (b. 1948)

August

 * August 1 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
 * August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Nobel writer (b. 1918)
 * August 4 – Anita Farra, Italian actress (b. 1905)
 * August 9
 * Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941)
 * Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957)
 * August 10 – Isaac Hayes, American musician (b. 1942)
 * August 11 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (b. 1929)
 * August 13 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904)
 * August 15 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917)
 * August 16
 * Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (b. 1934)
 * Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913)
 * August 19
 * Levy Mwanawasa, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
 * LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (b. 1961)
 * August 20 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party and Chinese premier (b. 1921)
 * August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American Nobel virologist (b. 1915)
 * August 28 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927)

September

 * September 1
 * Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
 * Jerry Reed, American country singer (b. 1937)
 * September 2 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer (b. 1916)
 * September 6
 * Antonio Innocenti, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
 * Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
 * September 9 – Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 3rd President of Laos (b. 1910)
 * September 12 – David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962)
 * September 15 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (b. 1943)
 * September 18 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (b. 1931)
 * September 21 – Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 9th Prime Minister and 4th President of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
 * September 26 – Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)

October

 * October 1 – Boris Yefimov, Russian political cartoonist (b. 1900)
 * October 6 – Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet (b. 1931)
 * October 8 – George Emil Palade, Romanian Nobel cell biologist (b. 1912)
 * October 10 – Alexey Prokurorov, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1964)
 * October 11 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
 * October 13
 * Alexei Cherepanov, Russian Hockey Player (b. 1989)
 * Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971)
 * Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ecuadorian cardinal (b. 1925)
 * October 20 – Sœur Emmanuelle, Belgian-born French nun (b. 1908)
 * October 25 – Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer (b. 1942)
 * October 26 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
 * October 29 – William Wharton, American author (b. 1925)
 * October 31 – Studs Terkel, American author and liberal commentator (b. 1912)

November

 * November 1
 * Jacques Piccard, Swiss explorer and engineer (b. 1922)
 * Yma Sumac, Peruvian soprano (b. 1923)
 * November 2 – Joseph Alliluyev, Russian cardiologist (b. 1945)
 * November 4
 * Michael Crichton, American author and producer (b. 1942)
 * Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (b. 1971)
 * November 9 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (b. 1932)
 * November 10 – Kiyoshi Itō, Japanese mathematician (b. 1915)
 * November 12 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1946)
 * November 14 – Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete (b. 1962)
 * November 22 – Ibrahim Nasir, 2nd President of the Maldives (b. 1926)
 * November 27 – V. P. Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
 * November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)

December

 * December 1 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
 * December 2
 * Frank Crean, Australian politician (b. 1916)
 * Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)
 * December 4 – Forrest J Ackerman, American magazine editor, science fiction writer, and literary agent (b. 1916)
 * December 5
 * Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1928)
 * Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
 * December 8
 * Marky Cielo, Filipino actor and dancer (b. 1988)
 * Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930)
 * December 9
 * Yury Glazkov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
 * Dražan Jerković, Croatian football player and manager (b. 1936)
 * December 11
 * Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American Nobel physician (b. 1923)
 * Bettie Page, American pin-up model (b. 1923)
 * December 12
 * Avery Dulles, American cardinal (b. 1918)
 * Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916)
 * Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th President of Cyprus (b. 1934)
 * December 13 – Horst Tappert, German actor (b. 1923)
 * December 15 – León Febres Cordero, 35th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
 * December 18
 * Majel Barrett, American actress (b. 1932)
 * Mark Felt, American FBI agent (b. 1913)
 * December 19 – James Bevel, American minister and civil rights activist (b. 1936)
 * December 20
 * Joseph Conombo, 3rd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1917)
 * Olga Lepeshinskaya, Russian ballerina (b. 1916)
 * Robert Mulligan, American director (b. 1925)
 * December 22 – Lansana Conté, 2nd President of Guinea (b. 1934)
 * December 24
 * Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (b. 1927)
 * Harold Pinter, English playwright (b. 1930)
 * December 25 – Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
 * December 29 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1938)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Y. Tsien
 * Economics – Paul Krugman
 * Literature – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
 * Peace – Martti Ahtisaari
 * Physics – Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu
 * Physiology or Medicine – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Harald zur Hausen, and Luc Montagnier

New English words

 * Bitcoin
 * burner phone
 * dumpster fire
 * exome
 * hate-watch
 * mansplain
 * photobomb

January

 * January 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
 * January 7 – Crevalcore train crash in Italy: 17 dead and dozens injured.
 * January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.
 * January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
 * January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

February

 * February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it says it perceives from the United States.
 * February 14 – Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.
 * February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect.

March

 * March 14 – The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
 * March 24 – The President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev is overthrown following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country.
 * March 28 – The 8.6 Nias–Simeulue earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.

April

 * April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.  Pope Benedict XVI succeeds him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope.
 * April 9 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.
 * April 23 – The first ever YouTube video is uploaded, titled Me at the zoo.
 * April 26 – Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.
 * April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.

May

 * May 13 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the city of Andijan.

June

 * June 21 – A Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.

July

 * July 2 – Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
 * July 6
 * The European Parliament rejects the Proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.
 * The International Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.
 * July 7 – Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.
 * July 23 – A series of bombings hit the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing over 80 people.
 * July 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969, and orders all its units to drop their arms.

August

 * August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.
 * August 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
 * August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.
 * August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula.
 * August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage and killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.
 * August 31 – A stampede at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.

September

 * September 7 – Egypt holds its first ever multi-party presidential election, which is marred with allegations of fraud.
 * September 12 – Israel demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from the Gaza Strip.
 * September 19 – North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
 * September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.

October

 * October 8 – The 7.6 Kashmir earthquake strikes Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and nearby areas with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing more than 86,000 people and displacing several million more.
 * October 12 – The second manned Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.
 * October 15 – The 2005 Iraqi Constitution is approved by Iraqi voters.
 * October 19 – The trial of Saddam Hussein begins.
 * October 24 – Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano.

November

 * November 9 – At least 60 people are killed and 115 more are wounded in a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.
 * November 11 – In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is found dead at his family compound.
 * November 13 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
 * November 22 – Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.
 * November 23 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
 * November 28 – The United Nations Climate Change conference is held in Montreal.
 * November 30 – Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first person to undergo it.

December

 * December 12 – Scientists announce that they have created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
 * December 18 – Chad descends into civil war after various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital, N'Djamena.
 * December 31 – Another second is added, 23:59:60, to end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.

Births

 * January 11 – Roksana Węgiel, Polish singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
 * February – Alma Deutscher, English composer, violinist, pianist and child prodigy
 * February 10 – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and tarento
 * February 21 – Hong Hwa-ri, South Korean actress
 * February 25 – Noah Jupe, English actor
 * March 26 – Ella Anderson, American actress
 * April 29 – Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand, son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand and his wife Srirasmi Suwadee
 * June 26 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
 * July 25 – Pierce Gagnon, American actor
 * October 4 – Rina Endō, Japanese actress
 * October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
 * October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias, daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Letizia
 * December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway

January

 * January 1
 * Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
 * Eugene J. Martin, American artist (b. 1938)
 * January 4 – Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
 * January 10
 * Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
 * James Forman, American civil rights activist (b. 1928)
 * January 12 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
 * January 15 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
 * January 17
 * Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Zhao Ziyang, 3rd Premier of China (b. 1919)
 * January 20 – Per Borten, 14th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
 * January 23 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
 * January 25 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)

February

 * February 2 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (b. 1904)
 * Zurab Zhvania, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
 * February 4 – Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917)
 * February 5 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 3rd President of Togo (b. 1935)
 * February 7 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1932)
 * February 10
 * Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1924)
 * Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
 * February 12 – Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan swimmer and sports commentator (b. 1964)
 * February 13 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (b. 1907)
 * February 14 – Rafic Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944)
 * February 17
 * Narriman Sadek, Queen of Egypt (b. 1933)
 * Omar Sívori, Argentinian footballer (b. 1935)
 * February 20
 * Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
 * Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (b. 1937)
 * February 22 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
 * February 25
 * Peter Benenson, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
 * Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1930)

March

 * March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch soccer player and coach (b. 1928)
 * March 6
 * Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906)
 * Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
 * March 15 – Audrey Callaghan, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1915)
 * March 17 – George F. Kennan, American diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904)
 * March 19 – John Z. DeLorean, American car maker (b.1925)
 * March 22
 * Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946)
 * Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
 * March 26 – James Callaghan, 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
 * March 29 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
 * March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)

April

 * April 1 – Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican architect and painter (b. 1964)
 * April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
 * April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915)
 * April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
 * April 13 – Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (b. 1916)
 * April 23 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
 * April 24 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
 * April 26 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)

May

 * May 2 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
 * May 13 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
 * May 17 – Frank Gorshin, American actor, impressionist, and comedian (b. 1933)
 * May 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (b. 1936)
 * May 26
 * Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
 * Sangoulé Lamizana, 2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)

June

 * June 6
 * Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
 * Bolívar Urrutia Parrilla, 21st President of Panama (b. 1918)
 * June 11 – Vasco Gonçalves, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1921)
 * June 13 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913)
 * June 20 – Jack Kilby, American engineer (b. 1923)
 * June 21 – Jaime Sin, 30th Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
 * June 25 – Domino Harvey, British-American bounty hunter (b. 1969)

July

 * July 1 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
 * July 4 – June Haver, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
 * July 6
 * Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
 * Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * July 17 – Edward Heath, 68th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
 * July 18 – William Westmoreland, American army general (b. 1914)
 * July 20 – James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
 * July 21 – Long John Baldry, British musician (b. 1941)
 * July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch politician (b. 1935)

August



 * August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921)
 * August 6 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
 * August 7 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
 * August 8
 * Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist, and children's author (b. 1922)
 * Ahmed Deedat, South African preacher (b. 1918)
 * August 9 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
 * August 12 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1932)
 * August 13 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
 * August 16 – Brother Roger, Swiss monastic and founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915)
 * August 19
 * Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1940)
 * Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
 * August 31 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist (b. 1908)

September

 * September 3 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and 16th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
 * September 6 – Eugenia Charles, 3rd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
 * September 13 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)
 * September 14 – Robert Wise, American film director (b. 1914)
 * September 18 – Michael Park, English Rally driver (b. 1966)
 * September 20 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
 * September 23 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
 * September 25 – Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)

October

 * October 10 – Milton Obote, 2nd President of Uganda (b. 1925)
 * October 17 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
 * October 22 – Arman, French-American artist (b. 1928)
 * October 24
 * José Azcona del Hoyo, 61st President of Honduras (b. 1926)
 * Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
 * October 28 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and physicist (b. 1943)

November

 * November 1 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
 * November 2 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and manager (b. 1919)
 * November 5 – John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
 * November 9 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (b. 1920)
 * November 11 –
 * Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer (b. 1930)
 * Zamanbek Nurkadilov, Kazakh politician (b. 1944)
 * November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 * November 16 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * November 19 – Erik Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924)
 * November 24 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
 * November 25
 * George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
 * Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)
 * November 28 – Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (b. 1943)

December

 * December 2 – Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, 59th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1938)
 * December 6 – Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
 * December 10 – Richard Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940)
 * December 13 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader (b. 1953)
 * December 16 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
 * December 23 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b. 1931)
 * December 25 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
 * December 26 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, and Yves Chauvin
 * Economics – Robert J. Aumann, and Thomas Schelling
 * Literature – Harold Pinter
 * Peace – Mohamed ElBaradei
 * Physics – Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hänsch
 * Physiology or Medicine – Robin Warren, and Barry Marshall

New English words and terms

 * didymo
 * functional calculus
 * glamping
 * locavore
 * microblogging
 * pre-exposure prophylaxis
 * ransomware
 * rock snot
 * sexting
 * truther
 * vodcast

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 – 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
 * After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
 * 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 and dancer
 * 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
 * Jadon Sancho, English footballer
 * 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 World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
 * Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
 * January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
 * January 16 – An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.
 * January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
 * January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
 * January 31 – Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.

February

 * February 13 – 21 Bosnian Serb commanders are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a tribunal on human rights violations during the Wars in the Balkans.
 * February 21
 * Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: 4 guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
 * Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
 * February 25 – The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica [OTCA]) is formed.
 * February 26 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

March

 * March 1
 * Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as President of Uruguay for his second term.
 * Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
 * March 2 – Nick Leeson is arrested in Singapore for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.
 * March 3 – United Nations Operation in Somalia II, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia, ends.
 * March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 * March 20 – Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway: members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo, killing 13 and injuring 5,510. 11 of the principal activists are hanged in 2018.
 * March 22 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
 * March 26 – The Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
 * March 31 – TAROM Flight 371 from Bucharest to Brussels crashes shortly after take off killing all 60 people on board.

April

 * April 7 – First Chechen War – Samashki massacre: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
 * April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols.
 * April 28 – In Daegu, South Korea, a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 people, mostly teenage schoolboys.
 * April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatised system.

May

 * May 1 – Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
 * May 10 – At Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney, a runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1500 ft to the bottom of the 6900 ft deep shaft, killing 104.
 * May 11 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
 * May 13 – The 6.6 Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.
 * May 14 – The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
 * May 16 – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.
 * May 24 – AFC Ajax wins the UEFA Champions League at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating A.C. Milan 1–0.
 * May 28 – The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.

June

 * June 2
 * Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later.
 * Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.
 * June 6
 * U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.
 * The Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes capital punishment in South Africa in the case of S v Makwanyane and Another.
 * June 13 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
 * June 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.
 * June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.
 * June 24 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup.
 * June 29
 * Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
 * STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
 * The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.

July

 * July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
 * July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
 * July 4 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major is re-elected as leader of the Conservative Party.
 * July 9 – Sri Lankan Civil War: 125 civilians are killed in Navaly as result of bombing by the Sri Lanka Air Force.
 * July 10 – Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.
 * July 11
 * Srebrenica massacre: Units of the Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, enter Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutch peacekeepers of the United Nations Protection Force, going on to kill thousands of Bosniak men and boys and rape many women.
 * President Clinton announces the restoration of United States–Vietnam relations twenty years after the Vietnam War.
 * A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
 * July 21–26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.

August

 * August 4 – Croatian forces, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, launch Operation Storm against rebel Republic of Serbian Krajina forces, which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity.
 * August 16 – Bermudans reject independence in a referendum.
 * August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.
 * August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.
 * August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and Bosnian Krajina.

September

 * September – The European Parliament elects the first European Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.
 * September 4–15 The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
 * September 6 – NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail.
 * September 19 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
 * September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.
 * September 27–28 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.

October

 * October 3 – O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
 * October 5 – Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
 * October 6 – Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.
 * October 16 – The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
 * October 17 – French woman Jeanne Calment reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days, making her the oldest person ever recorded.
 * October 24 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.
 * October 28 – A fire in Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, kills 289 passengers (the world's worst subway disaster).
 * October 30
 * Quebec independentists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
 * Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey.

November

 * November – The Indian government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name Mumbai.
 * November 1
 * The last signal is received from NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
 * Participants in the Yugoslav Wars begin negotiations at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
 * November 2 – The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of Erich Priebke, ex-S.S. captain.
 * November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
 * November 7 – Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and US$315 million in damage. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mi/h and gusts of 180 mi/h.
 * November 12 – The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the Harare Declaration, is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
 * November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War.
 * November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio (signed December 14).
 * November 22
 * The 7.3 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
 * The first-ever full-length computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, is released by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures.
 * November 28 – 27 nations sign the Barcelona Treaty, creating the Union for the Mediterranean.
 * November 30 – Operation Desert Storm officially ends.

December

 * December 3 – Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
 * December 7 – NASA's Galileo Probe enters Jupiter's atmosphere.
 * December 8 – 5-year-old Gyaincain Norbu is enthroned as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery.
 * December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War.
 * December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission, dredge the Tigris near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
 * December 20
 * American Airlines Flight 965 (Boeing 757) crashes into a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, after veering off its course en route to Cali, Colombia. Of the 164 people on board, 4 passengers survive.
 * NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
 * December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 °C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982.

Date unknown

 * Sudden oak death, the tree disease caused by the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, is first observed, in California.

January

 * January 1 – Sardar Azmoun, Iranian footballer
 * January 3 – Muhammed Demirci, Turkish footballer
 * January 4
 * Maddie Hasson, American actress
 * María Isabel, Spanish singer
 * Adam Webster, English footballer
 * January 11 – Corey Davis, American football player
 * January 12 – Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer
 * January 13
 * Qaasim Middleton, American actor, singer and musician
 * Eros Vlahos, English-Greek actor and comedian
 * January 15 – Sinan Bytyqi, Albanian professional footballer
 * January 18 – Leonard Fournette, American football player
 * January 20
 * Joey Badass, American rapper
 * Calum Chambers, English footballer
 * José Giménez, Uruguayan footballer
 * January 22 – Davis Webb, American football player
 * January 24
 * Dylan Everett, Canadian actor
 * Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
 * January 28 – Calvin Hemery, French tennis player
 * January 30
 * Danielle Campbell, American actress
 * Viktoria Komova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Thia Megia, American singer
 * January 31 – Nina Sublatti, Georgian singer and model

February

 * February 3 – Kim Domingo, Filipino actress
 * February 4 – Brandon Thomas Llamas, Spanish footballer
 * February 5
 * Rouguy Diallo, French triple jumper
 * Adnan Januzaj, Belgian footballer
 * February 6
 * Leon Goretzka, German footballer
 * Nyck de Vries, Dutch kart racer
 * February 7 – Tom Glynn-Carney, English actor
 * February 8
 * Ghilherme Lobo, Brazilian actor
 * Zakarie Labidi, French footballer
 * February 13
 * Marsel Efroimski, Israeli chess player
 * Ayame Koike, Japanese actress
 * Leona Vaughan, Welsh actress
 * February 14 – Diego Fagúndez, American footballer
 * February 16 – Vladimir Fedoseev, Russian chess grandmaster
 * February 18 – Mikhail Kolyada, Russian figure skater
 * February 21 – Lee Tae-hwan, South Korean actor and model
 * February 23 – Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
 * February 26 – Liam Fairhurst, British charity fundraiser (d. 2009)

March

 * March 2
 * Mats Møller Dæhli, Norwegian footballer
 * Taywan Taylor, American football player
 * March 3 – Zahra Lari, Emirati figure skater
 * March 7 – Fajar Alfian, Indonesian badminton player
 * March 8 – Luca Brecel, Belgian snooker player
 * March 9 – Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer
 * March 10 – Zach LaVine, American basketball player
 * March 12 – Kanon Fukuda, Japanese pop singer and voice actress
 * March 13 – Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier
 * March 15 – Jabari Parker, American basketball player
 * March 16 – Shy Carlos, Filipino actress
 * March 19
 * Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer
 * Julia Montes, Filipino actress
 * March 21 – Diggy Simmons, American rapper
 * March 22 – Nick Robinson, American actor
 * March 23 – Ester Ledecká, Czech winter athlete
 * March 25 – Nataniel de Jesus Reis, East Timorese football player

April

 * April 1 – Logan Paul, American actor and YouTube personality
 * April 3 – Adrien Rabiot, French footballer
 * April 14 – Yukiko Fujisawa, Japanese figure skater
 * April 15
 * Cody Christian, American actor
 * Kiri Baga, American figure skater
 * April 16 – Poppy Lee Friar, British actress
 * April 17 – Kirk Knight, American rapper and record producer
 * April 18 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
 * April 23 – Gigi Hadid, American model
 * April 24
 * Axel Chapelle, French pole vaulter
 * Kehlani, American singer
 * April 26
 * Lorenzo Fragola, Italian singer
 * Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor
 * April 28
 * Yulia Gurska, Ukrainian singer-songwriter
 * Melanie Martinez, American singer

May

 * May 1 – Radhika Madan, Indian actress and dancer
 * May 2 – Yook Sung-jae, South Korean singer and actor
 * May 3 – Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
 * May 4 – Alex Lawther, English actor
 * May 5 – Devon Gearhart, American actor
 * May 10
 * Missy Franklin, American swimmer
 * Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
 * May 12 – Luke Benward, American actor and singer
 * May 14 – Kelly Gale, Swedish model
 * May 15 – Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer
 * May 23 – Tyus Bowser, American football player

June

 * June 2 – Sterling Beaumon, American actor
 * June 3 – Vernon Hargreaves, American football player
 * June 4 – Willie Rioli, Australian football player
 * June 5
 * Beckii Cruel, British pop dancer
 * Trentavis Friday, American sprinter
 * Troye Sivan, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
 * June 9 – Jimmy Duquennoy, Belgian cyclist (d. 2018)
 * June 13 – Petra Vlhová, Slovak alpine skier
 * June 14 – Laquon Treadwell, American football player
 * June 16 – Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer
 * June 20 – Serayah, American actress, model and singer
 * June 21
 * Jessica Ahlquist, American activist and public speaker
 * Darko Velkovski, Macedonian footballer
 * Jesper Karlström, Swedish footballer
 * June 22
 * Aleksandr Maltsev, Russian artistic (synchronized) swimmer
 * Ádám Borbély, Hungarian handball player
 * June 23
 * Eva Lazzaro, Australian actress
 * Jorge Mateo, Dominican baseball shortstop
 * Danna Paola, Mexican singer and actress
 * Kristopher Vida, Hungarian footballer
 * Freddie Woodward, British diver
 * June 24 – Abdel Fadel Suanon, Beninese footballer
 * June 25
 * Wilhem Belocian, French sprinter
 * Laura Jung, German rhythmic gymnast
 * Juan Córdova, Chilean footballer
 * Kamil Dragun, Polish chess grandmaster
 * Andriy Markovych, Canadian rhythmic gymnast
 * June 26 – Natsuhiko Watanabe, Japanese footballer
 * June 27 – Eirik Gjen, Norwegian artist
 * June 28
 * Syafiq Ahmad, Malaysian footballer
 * Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
 * Adama Traoré, Malian footballer
 * June 29 – João Paulo Silva Martins, Brazilian footballer
 * June 30
 * Marina Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian actress
 * Declan John, Welsh footballer
 * Kristoffer Olsson, Swedish footballer

July

 * July 1
 * Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Congolese-Belgian footballer
 * James Hamon, Guernsey-born footballer
 * Hoài Lâm, Vietnamese male pop singer and actor
 * July 2
 * Ito Ohno, Japanese fashion model and actress
 * Shirley Setia, Indian singer
 * Ryan Murphy, American competitive swimmer
 * James Davis Borikó, Equatoguinean-Spanish footballer
 * July 4
 * Ruth B, Canadian singer and songwriter
 * Álex Berenguer, Spanish footballer
 * Post Malone, American rapper
 * July 5
 * Baily Cargill, English footballer
 * Hyuk, South Korean singer and actor
 * Phataimas Muenwong, Thai badminton player
 * July 6
 * Robert Obst, Polish footballer
 * Mario López Quintana, Paraguayan footballer
 * July 7
 * Su'a Cravens, American football player
 * Cameron Dawson, English footballer
 * July 8 – Renzo Tjon-A-Joe, Surinamese swimmer
 * July 9 – Georgie Henley, English actress
 * July 10
 * Trayvon Bromell, American sprinter
 * Edymar Martínez, Venezuelan model
 * Lu Shanglei, Chinese chess grandmaster
 * July 11
 * Joey Bosa, American football player
 * Vitali Lystsov, Russian footballer
 * Nikita Khaykin, Israeli footballer
 * July 12
 * Yohio, Swedish singer and songwriter
 * Bernard Donovan, Zimbabwean international footballer
 * Luke Shaw, English footballer
 * July 13 – Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
 * July 14 – Serge Gnabry, German footballer
 * July 15 – Elyar Fox, British singer
 * July 16 – Torstein Træen, Norwegian racing cyclist
 * July 18 – Sovijja Pou, Cambodian swimmer
 * July 19
 * María José Alvarado, Honduran model (d. 2014)
 * Maria Paseka, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 20
 * Shaquem Griffin, American football player
 * Shaquill Griffin, American football player
 * July 22
 * Ezekiel Elliott, American football player
 * Armaan Malik, Indian Bollywood playback singer
 * July 24 – Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player
 * July 25 – Alvin Kamara, American football player
 * July 26 – Holly Bodimeade, British actress
 * July 30 – Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer

August

 * August 1 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor, dancer and singer
 * August 2
 * Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, Indonesian badminton player
 * Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
 * August 4
 * Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
 * Jessica Sanchez, American singer
 * August 5 – Aisha Toussaint, Seychelloise-Scottish actress and TV presenter
 * August 9
 * Eli Apple, American football player
 * Hwang Min-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
 * August 10 – Dalvin Cook, American football player
 * August 15 – Chief Keef, American rapper
 * August 17 – Gracie Gold, American figure skater
 * August 22
 * Huang Wenpan, Chinese swimmer (d. 2018)
 * Dua Lipa, English singer
 * Jonnu Smith, American football player
 * August 24 – Lady Amelia Windsor, member of the British royal family
 * August 23 – Tommy Batchelor, American dancer
 * August 26 – Solomon Thomas, American football player
 * August 27 – Sergey Sirotkin, Russian racing driver
 * August 28 – Andreas Wellinger, German ski jumper
 * August 29 – Gud, Swedish DJ and producer

September

 * September 1 – Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian hockey player
 * September 3 – Myles Jack, American football player
 * September 6 – Bertrand Traoré, Burkinabé footballer
 * September 8 – Julian Weigl, German footballer
 * September 12 – Ryan Potter, American actor
 * September 13 – Robbie Kay, English actor
 * September 14 – Deshaun Watson, American football player
 * September 16 – Aaron Gordon, American basketball player
 * September 17 – Patrick Mahomes II, American football player
 * September 18 – Megan Lee, Korean-American singer-songwriter and actress
 * September 20 – Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
 * September 23 – Eli Dershwitz, American fencer

October

 * October 4 – Jabrill Peppers, American football player
 * October 8 – G Herbo, American rapper
 * October 13 – Jimin, South Korean singer
 * October 15 – Billy Unger, American actor and martial artist
 * October 17 – Jamal Adams, American football player
 * October 21 – Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
 * October 25 – Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress

November

 * November 1
 * Nick D'Aloisio, British computer programmer
 * Nour El Sherbini, Egyptian squash player
 * November 2 – Rafael Vitti, Brazilian actor, musician and poet
 * November 3 – Kendall Jenner, American model and television personality
 * November 7 – Michael Dameski, Australian dancer and actor
 * November 13 – Oliver Stummvoll, Austrian model
 * November 15 – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
 * November 18 – Ihsan Maulana Mustofa, Indonesian badminton player
 * November 19
 * Vanessa Axente, Hungarian fashion model
 * Asuka Teramoto, Japanese artistic gymnast
 * November 28
 * Emily Benham, British athlete
 * Thomas Didillon, French footballer
 * Chase Elliott, American race car driver
 * Mark Lapidus, Estonian chess player
 * November 29 – Laura Marano, American actress and singer

December

 * December 4 – Dina Asher-Smith, British sprinter
 * December 5
 * Anthony Martial, French footballer
 * Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater
 * December 6 – Joy Gruttmann, German singer
 * December 7 – Santi Mina, Spanish footballer
 * December 8 – Jordon Ibe, English footballer
 * December 9 – McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
 * December 14 – Yulia Belokobylskaya, Russian gymnast
 * December 15 – Yoshihide Kiryū, Japanese sprinter
 * December 19
 * Elliot Evans, English singer
 * Sebastian Montero, Costarrican Entrepreneur
 * December 22 – Hennessy Carolina, American social media and television personality
 * December 27 – Timothée Chalamet, French-American actor
 * December 29
 * Myles Garrett, American football player
 * Ross Lynch, American actor
 * December 30
 * V, South Korean singer
 * Sakura Fujiwara, Japanese actress
 * December 31 – Gabby Douglas, American gymnast

Date unknown

 * Chanira Bajracharya, former Kumari or Living Goddess of Patan in Nepal

January

 * January 1
 * Fred West, English serial killer (b. 1941)
 * Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (b. 1902)
 * January 2
 * Ephraim Amu, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher (b. 1899)
 * Siad Barre, Military dictator of Somalia, 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
 * Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
 * January 4 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
 * January 6 – Joe Slovo, ANC activist and South African minister of housing. (b. 1926)
 * January 7
 * Larry Grayson, British comedian and game show host (b. 1923)
 * Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
 * January 8
 * Cao Tianqin, Chinese biochemist (b. 1920)
 * Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (b. 1942)
 * January 9
 * Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937)
 * Souphanouvong, 1st President of Laos (b. 1909)
 * January 11 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish writer and poet (b. 1936)
 * January 15 – Frederick J. Schlink, American activist (b. 1891)
 * January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (b. 1903)
 * January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan, 46th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1907)
 * January 22
 * Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
 * Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
 * January 24 – David Cole, American record producer and songwriter (b. 1962)
 * January 26 – Geoffrey Parsons, Australian pianist (b. 1929)
 * January 28 – James P. Grant, American statesman, Executive Director of UNICEF (b. 1922)
 * January 29 – Song Sung-il, South Korean wrestler (b. 1969)
 * January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
 * January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b. 1887)

February

 * February 2
 * Tikvah Alper, South African scientist (b. 1909)
 * Fred Perry, English tennis champion (b. 1909)
 * Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
 * February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
 * February 5 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
 * February 6 – James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
 * February 8 – Rachel Thomas, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
 * February 9 – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
 * February 12
 * Robert Bolt, English writer (b. 1924)
 * Jacob Rader Marcus, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1896)
 * February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1907)
 * February 19
 * Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, British politician (b. 1933)
 * John Howard, American actor (b. 1913)
 * Nigel Findley, American game designer (b. 1959)
 * February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
 * February 23
 * Melvin Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)
 * James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
 * February 24
 * Tatsumi Kumashiro, Japanese film director (b. 1927)
 * Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (b. 1914)
 * February 26 – Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)

March

 * March 1 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
 * March 2 – Sasha Krasny, Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1882)
 * March 3 – Howard W. Hunter, American Mormon leader (b. 1907)
 * March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. 1943)
 * March 7 – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist (b. 1946)
 * March 8 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
 * March 9 – Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American propagandist (b. 1891)
 * March 11
 * Alf Goullet, Australian cyclist (b. 1891)
 * Isabel Letham, Australian surfboard rider (b. 1899)
 * March 12 – Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
 * March 13
 * Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
 * Odette Hallowes, French intelligence officer (b. 1912)
 * March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (b. 1911)
 * March 16 – Albert Hackett, American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900)
 * March 17
 * Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
 * Ronald Kray, British organised crime leader (b. 1933)
 * March 18 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)
 * March 20
 * Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (b. 1906)
 * John William Minton, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
 * March 21 – Connie Kreski, American model (b. 1946)
 * March 22 – Peter Woods, British journalist, reporter and newsreader (b. 1930)
 * March 23 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
 * March 25 – James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
 * March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer (b. 1964)
 * March 27 – Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (b. 1948)
 * March 28
 * Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
 * Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (b. 1927)
 * March 29
 * Charles Fern, American aviator and newspaper pioneer (b. 1892)
 * Tony Lock, English cricketer (b. 1929)
 * Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish dancer (b. 1957)
 * March 31 – Selena, Mexican-born American singer (b. 1971)

April

 * April 1 – Francisco Moncion, Dominican-American ballet dancer (b. 1918)
 * April 2
 * Hannes Alfvén, Swedish chemist (b.1908)
 * Harvey Penick, American golfer (b. 1904)
 * April 4
 * Kenny Everett, British comedian (b. 1944)
 * Priscilla Lane, American actress (b. 1915)
 * Wang Baosen, Chinese politician (b. 1935)
 * April 10
 * Morarji Desai, 4th Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
 * Glyn Jones, Welsh writer (b. 1905)
 * April 13 – Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (b. 1892)
 * April 14 – Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
 * April 15
 * Jock Robson, Scottish football goalkeeper (b. 1899)
 * Harry Shoulberg, American painter and serigrapher (b. 1903)
 * April 16
 * Cy Endfield, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * Arthur English, British actor and comedian (b. 1919)
 * April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
 * April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (b. 1911)
 * April 22 – Jane Kenyon, American author (b. 1947)
 * April 23
 * Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian politician (b. 1895)
 * Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)
 * April 24
 * Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (b. 1903)
 * Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (b. 1924)
 * April 25
 * Andrea Fortunato, Italian football player (b. 1971)
 * Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and novelist (b. 1907)
 * Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
 * Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (b. 1903)

May

 * May 1 – Antonio Salemme, Italian-born American artist (b. 1895)
 * May 2
 * Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
 * Werner Veigel, German journalist and news presenter (b. 1928)
 * May 5
 * Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
 * Al Sanders, American news anchorman (b. 1941)
 * Anthony Wagner, British herald, Clarenceux King of Arms (b. 1908)
 * Ye Qianyu, Chinese painter and manhua artist (b. 1907)
 * May 9 – Marguerite Jones, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
 * May 12
 * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, British political adviser (b. 1915)
 * Arthur Lubin, American film director (b. 1898)
 * May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
 * May 15
 * Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
 * Woldeab Woldemariam, Eritrean politician (b. 1905)
 * May 18
 * Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
 * Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
 * Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
 * May 21 – Les Aspin, U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1938)
 * May 24
 * Dan Fortmann, American football player (b. 1916)
 * Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
 * May 25 – Jack Allen, English actor (b. 1907)
 * May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1906)
 * May 28 – Irfan Ljubijankić, Bosnian diplomat (b. 1952)
 * May 29 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (b. 1897)
 * May 30 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)

June

 * June 3
 * Adolph Lowe, German sociologist and economist (b. 1893)
 * Frank Waters, American writer (b. 1902)
 * June 7 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist master (b. 1918)
 * June 8 – Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th President of Argentina (b. 1914)
 * June 10 – Lindsey Nelson, American sportscaster (b.1919)
 * June 12 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
 * June 14 – Rory Gallagher, Irish blues and rock guitarist (b. 1948)
 * June 15 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (b. 1899)
 * June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
 * June 23 – Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
 * June 24 – Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney (b. 1903)
 * June 25
 * Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
 * Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1903)
 * June 29 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
 * June 30
 * Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921)
 * Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)

July

 * July 1 – Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (b. 1938)
 * July 2 – George Seldes, American journalist and media critic (b. 1890)
 * July 3 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis champion (b. 1928)
 * July 4
 * Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, businesswoman, and socialite (b. 1919)
 * Bob Ross, American television painter (b. 1942)
 * July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1905)
 * July 16
 * Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1904)
 * Stephen Spender, English poet and writer (b. 1909)
 * July 17
 * Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b. 1911)
 * Harry Guardino, American actor (b. 1925)
 * July 18 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
 * July 19 – Tomas Mendez, Mexican composer (b. 1921)
 * July 20 – Genevieve Tobin, American actress (b. 1899)
 * July 22 – Otakar Borůvka, Czech mathematician (b. 1899)
 * July 24
 * Marjorie Cameron, American artist, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
 * George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
 * July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (b. 1932)
 * July 26 – Doris Akers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
 * July 27
 * Rick Ferrell, American baseball player (b. 1905)
 * Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian composer (b. 1907)
 * July 29 – Philippe De Lacy, American actor (b. 1917)

August

 * August 1 – Esther Muir, American actress (b. 1903)
 * August 3
 * Ida Lupino, British-born American actress and film director (b. 1918)
 * Edward Whittemore, American author and intelligence agent (b. 1933)
 * August 4 – J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (b. 1905)
 * August 7 – Brigid Brophy, English author (b. 1929)
 * August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
 * August 11 – Phil Harris, American comedian and actor (b. 1904)
 * August 12 – Felipe Tromp, 1st Governor of Aruba (b. 1917)
 * August 13 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
 * August 15 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
 * August 17 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1901)
 * August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
 * August 20 – Hugo Pratt, Italian comics creator (b. 1927)
 * August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
 * August 22 – Johnny Carey, Irish football player and manager (b. 1919)
 * August 24
 * Gary Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1933)
 * Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (b. 1898)
 * August 25 – Cesare Gianturco, American physician (b. 1905)
 * August 29
 * Michael Ende, German author (b. 1929)
 * Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
 * August 30
 * Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
 * Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian chess Grandmaster (b. 1934)

September

 * September 4 – William Kunstler, American radical lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1919)
 * September 5 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor, comedian and singer (b. 1939)
 * September 7 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (b. 1893)
 * September 12
 * Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
 * Lubomír Beneš, Czech animator and director (b. 1935)
 * September 15
 * Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
 * Dietrich Hrabak, German fighter pilot (b. 1914)
 * Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
 * September 17 – Grady Sutton, American actor (b. 1906)
 * September 19 – Orville Redenbacher, American entrepreneur and businessman (b. 1907)
 * September 20 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920)
 * September 22 – John Whitney, American animator, composer, and pioneer in computer animation (b. 1917)
 * September 25
 * Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist (b. 1891)
 * Kei Tomiyama, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator (b. 1938)
 * September 29
 * Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (b. 1919)
 * Pedro Nolasco, Dominican boxer (b. 1963)

October

 * October 1 – Margaret Gorman, American beauty queen (b. 1905)
 * October 5 – Mom Luang Pin Malakul, Thai educator and writer (b. 1903)
 * October 9
 * Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
 * M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
 * October 21
 * Maxene Andrews, American singer (b. 1916)
 * Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
 * October 22
 * Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
 * Li Shouheng, Chinese educator (b. 1898)
 * Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)
 * October 25
 * Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
 * Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
 * October 26
 * Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909)
 * Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
 * October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
 * October 31
 * Alan Bush, British composer, pianist, and conductor (b. 1900)
 * Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1927)

November

 * November 1 – W. E. D. Ross, Canadian writer (b. 1912)
 * November 4
 * Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
 * Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
 * Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
 * November 6 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
 * November 7 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b. 1942)
 * November 12 – Robert Stephens, English actor (b. 1931)
 * November 13 – Ralph Blane, American composer (b. 1914)
 * November 14 – Les Horvath, American football player (b. 1921)
 * November 20
 * Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
 * Robie Macauley, American writer and literary critic (b. 1919)
 * November 21 – Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
 * November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
 * November 24 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b. 1909)

December

 * December 2
 * Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
 * Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
 * December 3 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
 * December 7 – Kathleen Harrison, British actress (b. 1892)
 * December 8 – Ernest L. Boyer, American educator (b. 1928)
 * December 9 – Vivian Blaine, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
 * December 10 – Darren Robinson, American rapper and actor (b. 1967)
 * December 11 – Abolhassan Sadighi, Iranian sculptors and painters (b. 1894)
 * December 12 – Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Danish princess (b. 1912)
 * December 16
 * Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
 * Charles Sauriol, Canadian naturalist (b. 1904)
 * December 18 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910)
 * December 20 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
 * December 22
 * Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
 * James Meade, English economist (b. 1907)
 * December 23 – Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
 * December 25
 * Dean Martin, American actor, singer, comedian, and entertainer (b. 1917)
 * Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American musicologist (b. 1894)
 * December 28 – Virginius Dabney, American teacher, writer, journalist and editor (b. 1901)
 * December 30 – Heiner Müller, German poet and playwright (b. 1929)
 * December 31 – Eduardo Hernández Moncada, Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor (b. 1899)

Date unknown

 * Richey Edwards, Welsh musician (b. 1967)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
 * Chemistry – Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
 * Medicine – Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
 * Literature – Seamus Heaney
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Lucas, Jr.
 * Peace – Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

January

 * January 1
 * Czechoslovakia ceases to exist as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
 * The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
 * Euronews, a multilingual television news channels in Europe, officially launched.
 * January 2 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kills 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
 * January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
 * January 5
 * US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
 * MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.
 * January 6
 * Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
 * January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.
 * January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
 * January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
 * January 13 – The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
 * January 14 – The Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
 * January 19
 * IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
 * January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
 * January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
 * January 25 – Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds Conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
 * January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

February

 * February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party of Austria split to form the Liberal Forum in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
 * February 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy rather than a unitary kingdom.
 * February 10
 * Lien Chan is named by Lee Teng-hui to succeed Hau Pei-tsun as Premier of the Republic of China.
 * Mani pulite scandal: Italian legislator Claudio Martelli resigns, followed by various politicians over the next two weeks.
 * February 14
 * Glafcos Clerides defeats incumbent George Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election.
 * Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the Madagascar presidential election.
 * February 22 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal is established on May 25 by Resolution 827.
 * February 24 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.
 * February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over one thousand.
 * February 28 – The Waco siege begins in Texas.

March

 * March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 301, an F-100 on a flight to Zürich, crashes shortly after take-off from Skopje, killing 83 of the 97 on board.
 * March 8 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided will be 2008.
 * March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
 * March 12
 * 1993 Bombay bombings: Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
 * North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
 * March 13–15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
 * March 13 – Australian federal election, 1993: Paul Keating's Labor Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by John Hewson.
 * March 17 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a unilateral ceasefire in Iraq.
 * March 24
 * The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as President of Israel.
 * South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1989.
 * March 27
 * Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
 * Following a rash of integrist murders (including those of foreigners), Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
 * Mahamane Ousmane is elected president of Niger.
 * March 28 – French legislative election, 1993: Rally for the Republic (Gaullist party) wins a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
 * March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.

April

 * April–May – 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak: A dozen people are killed by the newly-recognised Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, mainly in the Southwestern United States.
 * April–October – Great Flood of 1993: The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
 * April 1 – The Vatican orders the moving of the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz.
 * April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
 * April 10 – African National Congress activist Chris Hani is assassinated in South Africa.
 * April 16 – Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area".
 * April 19 – Waco siege: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
 * April 20 – The Council for National Academic Awards in the United Kingdom is wound up.
 * April 21 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
 * April 23
 * The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a global emergency.
 * Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum, the Eritrean independence referendum.
 * April 26 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as Prime Minister of Italy.
 * April 27
 * Eritrea: Eritrean independence is declared as a result of a referendum held with United Nations verification.
 * Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.
 * All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal.
 * April 30 – Tennis player Monica Seles – at this time World No. 1 in women's tennis – is stabbed during a match in Hamburg.

May

 * May 1
 * A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.
 * Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became the third executive president of Sri Lanka.
 * May 4 – UNOSOM II assumes the Somalian duties of the dissolved UNITAF.
 * May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected President of Paraguay in nearly 40 years.
 * May 15 – Niamh Kavanagh wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with In Your Eyes.
 * May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel as President of Turkey. After Demirel becomes president, the acting Prime Minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of Social Democratic Populist Party for 40 days.
 * May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
 * May 25 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is created in The Hague.
 * May 28 – Eritrea and Monaco gain entry to the United Nations.

June

 * June 1
 * Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.
 * President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.
 * Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi. The next day's legislative election sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.
 * June 5
 * The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
 * Twenty-four Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 * June 6
 * Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.
 * Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
 * June 8 – The PKK-declared ceasefire ends in Iraq.
 * June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
 * June 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
 * June 22 – Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.
 * June 24
 * Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
 * Following a campaign by the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Dáil Éireann in the Republic of Ireland passes the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, reforming the country's sodomy law to decriminalise consensual homosexual acts.
 * June 25
 * Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.
 * Tansu Çiller of True Path Party forms the new government of Turkey.
 * Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Yugoslavia.
 * The litas is introduced as the new currency of Lithuania.
 * Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
 * June 26–28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau.
 * June 27 – U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.

July

 * July 2
 * An Islamist mob sets fire to the hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37.
 * A floating chapel sinks in Bocaue, Bulacan, killing 266 people.
 * July 5
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return.
 * Electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi is appointed rector (president) of Kuwait University, the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
 * July 7–9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan.
 * July 7 – Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July and kills 34.
 * July 12 – The 7.7 Hokkaidō earthquake affected northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and triggers a devastating tsunami that kills 230 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
 * July 15 – 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson: Evan Chandler institutes legal accusations against singer Michael Jackson of sexually molesting Jordan Chandler, Evan's 13-year-old son in the United States.
 * July 19 – Japanese general election, 1993: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.
 * July 25 – In a terrorist attack members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army open fire on a congregation inside St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing eleven and injuring fifty.
 * July 26
 * Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.
 * Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea; 68 are killed.
 * July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.
 * July 29 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

August

 * August – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism margin was expanded to 15% to accommodate speculation against the French franc and other currencies.
 * August 4 – The Japanese government issues the Kono Statement, acknowledging the comfort women's (sex slaves) deportation.
 * August 5 – The discovery of the Tel Dan Stele, the first archaeological confirmation of the existence of the Davidic line, is announced.
 * August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin I.
 * August 13 – More than 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand's worst hotel disaster.
 * August 18 – The 14th century Kapellbrücke covered wooden truss bridge in Lucerne (Switzerland) is largely destroyed by fire.
 * August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
 * August 28 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population.
 * August 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.

September

 * September 13
 * Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.
 * Oslo I Accord: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
 * September 15–21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
 * September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland.
 * September 19 – Polish parliamentary election, 1993: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power.
 * September 22 – Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A bridge collapses as the Sunset Limited crosses it, killing 47.
 * September 23 – The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia, to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.
 * September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
 * September 26
 * The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after two years.
 * PoSAT-1 (the first Portuguese satellite) is launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.
 * September 27 – War in Abkhazia: Fall of Sukhumi – Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity.
 * September 30 – The 6.2 Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

October

 * October 3 – Battle of Mogadishu: The U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia, using Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured.
 * October 4 – The Russian constitutional crisis culminates with Russian military and security forces clearing the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.
 * October 5 – China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide de facto moratorium.
 * October 10 – The South Korean ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea; 292 are killed.
 * October 11–28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti by its military-led regime. On October 18, United Nations economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.
 * October 13
 * Greek legislative election, 1993: Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
 * The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.
 * October 19 – Benazir Bhutto becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
 * October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.
 * October 25 – Canadian federal election, 1993: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party, which falls to a historic low of two seats.

November

 * November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
 * November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.
 * November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari Most, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.
 * November 11
 * Microsoft releases Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to manufacturing.
 * Sri Lankan Civil War – Battle of Pooneryn: Over 400 Sri Lankan military are killed.
 * November 12 – London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.
 * November 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
 * November 17 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
 * November 18
 * In a status referendum, Puerto Rico residents vote with a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth status.
 * The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle.
 * November 20 – An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Macedonia. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.
 * November 28 – The Observer reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.
 * November 30
 * An agreement establishing the Permanent Commission for East African Co-operation is signed.
 * U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

December

 * December 2
 * STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
 * Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.
 * December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.
 * December 7
 * In Garden City, New York, six people are murdered and 19 injured in the Long Island Rail Road massacre, a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.
 * The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
 * President of Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 88, the oldest African head of state. He is succeeded three days later by Henri Konan Bédié.
 * December 8 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 * December 11
 * Chilean presidential election, 1993: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58% of the vote.
 * One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia collapses, killing 48.
 * December 12 – Péter Boross becomes Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall.
 * December 13
 * Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and is succeeded as leader by Jean Charest.
 * The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.
 * December 15 – The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reach a successful conclusion after seven years.
 * December 16 – Brazil's Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.
 * December 18 – Omar Bongo is re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections.
 * December 20
 * The United Nations General Assembly votes unanimously to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
 * The first corrected images from the Hubble Telescope are taken.
 * December 22 – The interim South African constitution is approved by Parliament 237–45.
 * December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term. It also shortens presidential terms to 4 years and removes the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.
 * December 30
 * Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
 * The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.

Date unknown

 * 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak occurs in the United States when 732 people, mostly children, are infected with the Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium originating from undercooked beef patties in hamburgers; 4 die.
 * Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
 * Wildfires in California destroy over 16000 acre and 700 homes.
 * The extinct European mammalian carnivore genus Prosansanosmilus is discovered and classified with its type species, Prosansanosmilus peregrinus.
 * Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times ever.

January

 * January 1
 * Jon Flanagan, English footballer
 * Alengot Oromait, Ugandan politician
 * January 2 – Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
 * January 4
 * Aaryn Doyle, Canadian actress and singer
 * Vladyslav Kalitvintsev, Ukrainian footballer
 * Scott Redding, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer
 * January 5 – Franz Drameh, English actor
 * January 7 – Jan Oblak, Slovenian footballer
 * January 9
 * Ashley Argota, American actress
 * Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English heptathlete
 * Marcus Peters, American football player
 * Aminata Savadogo, Latvian singer-songwriter
 * January 12 – Zayn Malik, British singer
 * January 13
 * Sachika Misawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast
 * January 14 – Daniel Bessa, Italian-Brazilian footballer
 * January 15 – Paulina Vega, Colombian model and television presenter
 * January 18
 * Sean Keenan, Australian actor
 * Morgan York, American actress
 * January 19 – Bence Biczó, Hungarian swimmer
 * January 22
 * Netta Barzilai, Israeli singer
 * Rio Haryanto, Indonesian racing driver
 * Tommy Knight, English actor
 * January 28
 * Iris Mittenaere, French model and television presenter
 * Will Poulter, English actor
 * January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger, and recording artist
 * January 30 – Katy Marchant, English track cyclist

February

 * February 5 – Gerard Bieszczad, Polish footballer
 * February 6 – Tinashe, American actress and singer
 * February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
 * February 9 – Parimarjan Negi, Indian chess prodigy
 * February 12
 * Benik Afobe, English footballer
 * Rafinha, Brazilian football player
 * Jennifer Stone, American actress
 * February 13 – Sophie Evans, Welsh actress
 * February 14
 * Shane Harper, American actor and singer
 * Alberto Rosende, American actor
 * February 15 – Ravi, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * February 17
 * Marc Márquez, Spanish four time MotoGP world champion
 * AJ Perez, Filipino actor (d. 2011)
 * February 19
 * Mauro Icardi, Argentine footballer
 * Patrick Johnson, American actor
 * Victoria Justice, American actress and singer
 * February 23 – Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis player
 * February 27 – Jessica Korda, American golfer
 * February 28 – Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer

March

 * March 1 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
 * March 2
 * Pandelela Rinong, Malaysian diver
 * Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
 * March 4
 * Jenna Boyd, American actress
 * Abigail Mavity, American actress
 * March 5
 * Harry Maguire, English footballer
 * Anna Orlik, Belarusian tennis player
 * March 9 – Suga, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * March 10
 * Jack Butland, English footballer
 * Peniel, South Korean based rapper
 * Jeffrey Scaperrotta, American actor
 * March 11
 * Anthony Davis, American basketball player
 * Demi Harman, Australian actress
 * Daisuke Ssegwanyi, Ugandan swimmer
 * March 14
 * Anna Ewers, German model
 * Demetrius Joyette, Canadian actor
 * March 15
 * Alia Bhatt, British-born Indian actress and singer
 * Paul Pogba, French footballer
 * Alyssa Reid, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Mark Scheifele, Canadian ice hockey player
 * March 17 – Julia Winter, Swedish-born English actress
 * March 19 – Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer
 * March 23 – Lee Hyun-woo, South Korean actor
 * March 24
 * Grace Cassidy, English actress
 * Ryo Ryusei, Japanese actor
 * March 30 – Anitta, Brazilian singer and dancer
 * March 31 – Connor Wickham, English footballer

April

 * April 1 – Keito Okamoto, Japanese idol (Hey! Say! JUMP)
 * April 7 – Yell Htwe Aung, Burmese comedian, actor, and model (d. 2018)
 * April 9 – Will Merrick, English actor
 * April 10 – Sofia Carson, American actress and singer
 * April 11 – Yuji Takahashi, Japanese footballer
 * April 12
 * Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Katelyn Pippy, American actress
 * April 13 – Hannah Marks, American actress
 * April 14
 * Vivien Cardone, American actress
 * Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
 * Ellington Ratliff, American drummer and actor
 * Josephine Skriver, Danish model
 * April 15 – Madeleine Martin, American television and voice actress
 * April 16
 * Chance the Rapper, American rapper
 * Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
 * April 18 – Nathan Sykes, British singer
 * April 19 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
 * April 22
 * Ryu Hwayoung, Korean rapper, dancer, model, and actress
 * Ryu Hyoyoung, Korean model, actress, and singer
 * April 23 – Brooke Palsson, Canadian actress
 * April 24 – Ben Davies, Welsh footballer
 * April 25
 * Alex Bowman, American race car driver
 * Shiloh, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Raphaël Varane, French footballer

May

 * May 2 – Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer and songwriter
 * May 6 – Naomi Scott, English actress, singer and musician
 * May 8 – Kayla Williams, American gymnast
 * May 9 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese idol
 * May 10
 * Spencer Fox, American actor, musician, and singer
 * Halston Sage, American actress
 * May 11
 * Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
 * James Reid, Filipino actor
 * May 13
 * Finn Harries, English vlogger, designer, and entrepreneur
 * Romelu Lukaku, Belgian football player
 * Stefan Kraft, Austrian ski jumper
 * Debby Ryan, American actress
 * May 14
 * Albie Casiño, Filipino actor
 * Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
 * May 16
 * Josephine Gordon, British jockey
 * IU, South Korean singer and actress
 * Atticus Mitchell, Canadian actor and musician
 * May 17 – Ayaka Sayama, Japanese gravure idol
 * May 18
 * Kyle, American rapper
 * Stuart Percy, Canadian hockey player
 * Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
 * May 19 – Daisy Mallory, American country singer
 * May 20
 * Kevin Roy, Canadian hockey player
 * Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
 * May 27 – Mikel Agu, Nigerian football player
 * May 28 – Jonnie Peacock, English sprint runner

June

 * June 6
 * Jesse Carere, Canadian actor
 * Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model
 * June 7
 * Miro Aaltonen, Finnish professional ice hockey player
 * George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
 * Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress
 * Jordan Fry, American actor
 * Amanda Leighton, American actress
 * June 9 – Danielle Chuchran, American actress
 * June 10 – Scott McLaughlin, New Zealander race car driver
 * June 12 – Robbie Henshaw, Irish rugby union player
 * June 13 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
 * June 15
 * Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer
 * Boone Jenner, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 16 – Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor
 * June 17 – Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer
 * June 19 – KSI, British YouTube personality
 * June 21
 * Caroline Brasch Nielsen, Danish model
 * Matej Palčič, Slovenian footballer
 * Reni Takagi, Japanese idol
 * June 22
 * Caydee Denney, American pair skater
 * Izzy Miller, American musician
 * Loris Karius, German footballer
 * June 25 – Barney Clark, British actor
 * June 26 – Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
 * June 27
 * Adair Cardoso, Brazilian singer and composer
 * Camila Queiroz, Brazilian actress
 * June 28
 * Beanie Feldstein, American actress
 * Bradley Beal, American basketball player
 * Jung Dae-hyun, South Korean singer
 * June 29
 * Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor
 * Fran Kirby, English footballer
 * George Sampson, English street dancer, presenter, dancer, singer, and actor
 * James Sanderson, Gibraltarian swimmer
 * Alyssa Valdez, Filipino Volleyball player
 * June 30 – Alexander Evtushenko, Russian racing cyclist

July

 * July 1
 * Brett Ritchie, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Raini Rodriguez, American actress
 * July 2
 * Yosuke Kishi, Japanese singer and actor
 * Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Lithuanian singer
 * July 3
 * Mathias Anderle, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * Roy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter
 * Vincent Lacoste, French actor
 * PartyNextDoor, Canadian rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer
 * July 6 – Melissa Steel, English singer
 * July 7 – Shakhram Giyasov, Uzbekistani boxer
 * July 8 – Shahrul Saad, Malaysian footballer
 * July 9
 * Emily Hirst, Canadian actress
 * Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
 * Bret Loehr, American actor
 * DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player
 * July 10 – Carlon Jeffery, American actor
 * July 11 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast
 * July 16 – Alexander Ipatov, Ukrainian-Turkish chess grandmaster
 * July 17 – Yahaya Adamu, Nigerian footballer
 * July 18
 * Alex Esmail, British actor and wrestler
 * Nabil Fekir, French footballer
 * Lee Tae-min, Korean singer
 * Casey Veggies, American rapper and songwriter
 * July 20
 * Alycia Debnam-Carey, Australian actress
 * Lucas Digne, French footballer
 * July 21 – Haziq Kamaruddin, Malaysian archer
 * July 22
 * Amber Beattie, English actress
 * Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
 * July 26
 * Elizabeth Gillies, American actress
 * Taylor Momsen, American singer, songwriter, and model
 * July 27
 * Max Power, English footballer
 * George Shelley, English actor
 * Jordan Spieth, American golfer
 * July 28
 * Harry Kane, English footballer
 * Cher Lloyd, English singer
 * July 29 – Dak Prescott, American football player
 * July 30 – Andre Gomes, Portuguese footballer

August

 * August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
 * August 2 – Manika, American singer-songwriter
 * August 3
 * Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
 * Thomas Rawls, American football player
 * August 4
 * Saido Berahino, English footballer
 * Alan Shirahama, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
 * August 5 – Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese child actress
 * August 6 – Kaori Ishihara, Japanese voice actress
 * August 7 – Francesca Eastwood, American actress, model, and socialite
 * August 9 – Rydel Lynch, American actress, singer, and musician
 * August 10
 * Andre Drummond, American basketball player
 * Yuto Nakajima, Japanese idol
 * August 11
 * Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Iranian footballer
 * Alyson Stoner, American actress and singer
 * August 12
 * Ewa Farna, Polish singer
 * Luna, South Korean singer and actress
 * August 13 – Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player
 * August 14 – Cassi Thomson, Australian actress and singer
 * August 15 – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
 * August 16 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
 * August 17
 * Ederson Moraes, Brazilian football goalkeeper
 * Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
 * Yoo Seung-ho, South Korean actor
 * August 18
 * Jung Eun-ji, South Korean singer and actress
 * Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer
 * August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and singer
 * August 28
 * Sora Amamiya, Japanese voice actress
 * Shira Naor, Israeli actress
 * August 29
 * Lucas Cruikshank, American actor
 * Liam Payne, British singer-songwriter
 * August 30 – Paco Alcácer, Spanish footballer
 * August 31 – Haruka Imai, Japanese figure skater

September

 * September 1
 * Alexander Conti, Canadian actor
 * Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
 * Megan Nicole, American singer-songwriter
 * Silje Norendal, Norwegian snowboarder
 * September 2 – Montana Cox, Australian model
 * September 3 – Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player
 * September 5 – Gage Golightly, American actress
 * September 7 – Taylor Gray, American actor
 * September 10 – Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian singer and actor
 * September 11 – Farrah Moan, American drag queen and entertainer
 * September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini, American singer
 * September 13
 * Aisha Dee, Australian actress
 * Niall Horan, Irish singer-songwriter
 * September 15 – Dennis Schröder, German basketball player
 * September 16 – Metro Boomin, American record producer, songwriter, and DJ
 * September 17 – Alfie Deyes, British vlogger
 * September 18 – Patrick Schwarzenegger, American actor and model
 * September 20 – Julian Draxler, German footballer
 * September 23 – Pontus Åberg, Swedish ice hockey player
 * September 24 – Ben Platt, American actor and singer
 * September 25 – Zach Tyler Eisen, American voice actor
 * September 26
 * Joe Bunney, English footballer
 * Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player
 * September 27
 * Lisandro Magallán, Argentine professional footballer
 * Patrick Mölleken, German actor, dubber, and voice-over artist
 * Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
 * Vinnie Sunseri, American football player
 * September 28 – Jodie Williams, British sprint runner
 * September 29 – Hongbin, South Korean singer and actor

October

 * October 1 – Christian Bravo, Chilean footballer
 * October 6
 * Jourdan Miller, American actress
 * Joe Rafferty, English-born Irish footballer
 * October 8
 * Angus T. Jones, American actor
 * Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish professional tennis player
 * Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model
 * October 9 – Scotty McCreery, American singer
 * October 16 – Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer
 * October 19
 * Hunter King, American actress
 * Youna Dufournet, French artistic gymnast
 * October 20 – David Bolarinwa, British sprinter
 * October 23 – Taylor Spreitler, American actress
 * October 27 – Troy Gentile, American actor
 * October 30 – Marcus Mariota, American football player
 * October 31 – Nadine Lustre, Filipino actress

November

 * November 4 – Elisabeth Seitz, German artistic gymnast
 * November 12 – Mackensie Alexander, American football player
 * November 13 – Julia Michaels, American singer and songwriter
 * November 14
 * Luis Gil, American soccer player
 * Francisco Lindor, Puerto Rican baseball player
 * Samuel Umtiti, French footballer
 * November 15 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
 * November 16
 * Pete Davidson, American actor
 * Dakota Earnest, American gymnast
 * Nelson Semedo, Portuguese footballer
 * November 17 – Taylor Gold, American Olympian snowboarder
 * November 19 – Cleo Massey, Australian actress
 * November 21 – Elena Myers, American racer
 * November 25 – Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer
 * November 26 – Erena Ono, Japanese singer
 * November 27
 * Hannah Brandt, American ice hockey player
 * Aubrey Peeples, American actress and singer
 * November 28
 * Shiann Darkangelo, American ice hockey player
 * Bryshere Y. Gray, American actor and rapper
 * David Nofoaluma, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
 * Stephanie Park, Canadian paralympic wheelchair basketball player
 * November 29
 * Stefon Diggs, American football player
 * David Lambert, American actor
 * November 30
 * Yuri Chinen, Japanese idol
 * Mia Goth, English actress and model
 * Kevon Seymour, American football player

December

 * December 2 – Dylan McLaughlin, American actor
 * December 5 – Ross Barkley, English footballer
 * December 6 – Wesley Stromberg, American musician
 * December 7 – Jasmine Villegas, American singer
 * December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
 * December 17 – Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer
 * December 18
 * Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * Riria, Japanese actress
 * December 19 – Corey Snide, American actor and dancer
 * December 20
 * Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer
 * Isabel Durant, Australian actress
 * December 21 – Jinger Vuolo, American author
 * December 22
 * Aliana Lohan, American actress, model, and singer
 * Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 * December 25
 * Ariadna Gutiérrez, Colombian actress, television host, and model
 * December 27 – Olivia Cooke, English actress
 * December 31 – Ryan Blaney, American race car driver

January

 * January 1
 * William Ricketts, Australian potter and sculptor (b. 1898)
 * Eddie Arning, American farming community (b. 1898)
 * January 5 – Juan Benet, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 * January 6
 * Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (b. 1917)
 * Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
 * Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
 * January 9
 * Paul Hasluck, Australian politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
 * Anton Crihan, Bessarabian politician (b. 1893)
 * January 10
 * Diana Adams, American ballet dancer (b. 1926)
 * Luther Gulick, expert on public administration (b. 1892)
 * January 13 – René Pleven, French politician, 88th Prime Minister of France (b. 1901)
 * January 15
 * Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
 * Maxwell Eley, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1902)
 * January 16
 * Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Rafik Khachatryan, Armenian artist and sculptor (b. 1937)
 * January 18 – Eleanor Burford (akas: Jean Plaidy, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr), English writer (b. 1906)
 * January 19 – Reginald Lewis, American businessman (b. 1942)
 * January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (b. 1929)
 * January 21
 * Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
 * Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist (b. 1900)
 * January 22 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese author (b. 1924)
 * January 23 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician (b. 1899)
 * January 24
 * Henry Abel Smith, 17th Governor of Queensland (b. 1900)
 * Archduchess Assunta of Austria (b. 1902)
 * Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor (b. 1908)
 * Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
 * January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1911)
 * January 26
 * Baron Axel von dem Bussche, German military officer, member of the anti-Hitler Resistance (b. 1919)
 * Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912)
 * Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (b. 1922)
 * January 27 – André the Giant, French WWF professional wrestler (b. 1946)
 * January 28 – Erik Herseth, Norwegian sailor (b. 1892)
 * January 29 – Sir Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian Chief Justice (b. 1906)
 * January 30 – Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
 * January 31 – Claude de Cambronne, French aircraft manufacturer (b. 1905)

February

 * February 2 – Alexander Schneider, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1908)
 * February 3
 * Karel Goeyvaerts, Belgian composer (b. 1923)
 * Tan Shaowen, Chinese politician (b. 1929)
 * February 5
 * Hans Jonas, German philosopher (b. 1903)
 * Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (b. 1958)
 * Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
 * February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and civil activist (b. 1943)
 * February 8 – Roland Mousnier, French historian (b. 1907)
 * February 7 – Buddy Pepper, American songwriter and accompanist (b. 1922)
 * February 9
 * Saburo Okita, Japanese politician, Foreign Minister of Japan (b. 1914)
 * Elwood "Pete" Quesada, American air force general (b. 1904)
 * Kate Wilkinson, American stage and television actress (b. 1916)
 * February 10
 * Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (b. 1914)
 * Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
 * February 11
 * Kamal Amrohi, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1918)
 * Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * February 14 – Pedro Cortina y Mauri, Spanish politician, Foreign Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
 * February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
 * February 19 – Alexander Davydov, Ukrainian physicist (b. 1912)
 * February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
 * February 21
 * Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888)
 * Dick White, British intelligence officer (b. 1906)
 * February 22 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician (b. 1920)
 * February 23
 * Phillip Terry, American actor (b. 1909)
 * Robert Triffin, Belgian economist (b. 1911)
 * February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
 * February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born French actor and singer (b. 1917)
 * February 26 – Beaumont Newhall, American curator (b. 1908)
 * February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
 * February 28
 * Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
 * Joyce Carey, English actress (b. 1898)
 * Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)

March



 * March 1 – Terry Frost, American actor (b. 1906)
 * March 3
 * Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906)
 * Carlos Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)
 * March 4 – Izaak Kolthoff, American chemist (b. 1894)
 * March 5
 * Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (b. 1957)
 * Norman F. Douty, Christian author and pastor (b. 1899)
 * March 8
 * Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
 * Ria Bancroft, British-New Zealand artist (b. 1907)
 * March 10 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian pro wrestler (b. 1949)
 * March 12 – Wang Zhen, Chinese politician, Vice President of the PRC (b. 1908)
 * March 13 – Ann Way, English actress (b. 1915)
 * March 15 – Ricardo Arias, Panamanian politician, 29th President of Panama (b. 1912)
 * March 16
 * Ralph Fults America outlaw (b. 1910)
 * Muhammad Khan Junejo, Pakistani politician, 10th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1932)
 * March 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
 * March 18 – Sir Edward Warburton Jones, Northern Irish politician and jurist (b. 1912)
 * March 20
 * Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * Paul László, Hungarian-born architect (b. 1900)
 * March 22 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
 * March 23 – Tim Crews, American baseball player (b. 1961)
 * March 24 – John Hersey, American writer and journalist (b. 1914)
 * March 26 – Louis Falco, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1942)
 * March 27
 * Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (b. 1893)
 * Kate Reid, Canadian actress (b. 1930)
 * Kamal Hassan Aly, Egyptian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
 * March 30
 * Andrée Brunet, French pair skater (b. 1901)
 * Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b. 1922)
 * March 31
 * Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
 * Muriel Morley, English speech therapist (b. 1899)
 * Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
 * Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)

April

 * April 1
 * Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, Spanish royal, Count of Barcelona (b. 1913)
 * Alan Kulwicki, U.S. race car driver (b. 1954)
 * José María Lemus, Salvadorian politician and military officer, 33rd President of El Salvador (b. 1911)
 * April 2 – Masaichi Niimi, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (b. 1887)
 * April 3
 * Peter J. De Muth, American politician (b. 1892)
 * Pinky Lee, American comedian (b. 1907)
 * April 4 – Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy, British air chief marshal (b. 1911)
 * April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
 * April 6 – Patriarch George of Evdokia (b. 1930)
 * April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
 * April 10
 * Chris Hani, South African politician (b. 1942)
 * Donald Broadbent, British psychologist (b. 1926)
 * April 11 – Rahmon Nabiyev, Tajik politician and Communist leader, 2nd President of Tajikistan (b. 1930)
 * April 12 – George Frederick Ives, English soldier (b. 1881)
 * April 13
 * Isaac Rojas, Argentinian admiral and statesman (b. 1906)
 * Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
 * April 15
 * Leslie Charteris, British author (b. 1907)
 * Robert Westall, British author (b. 1929)
 * John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
 * April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish statesman, 19th Prime Minister and 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
 * April 19 – David Koresh, American spiritualist, leader of the Branch Davidian religious cult (b. 1959)
 * April 20 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian (b. 1911)
 * April 22 – Andries Treurnicht, South African politician (b. 1921)
 * April 23
 * Guido Carli, Italian politician and economist (b. 1914)
 * Cesar Chavez, Mexican American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
 * April 24 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and former president of the ANC (b. 1917)
 * April 25 – Rosita Moreno, Spanish film actress (b. 1907)
 * April 26
 * Darussalam, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
 * Julia Davis, American educator (b. 1891)
 * April 28 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player (b. 1946)
 * April 29 – Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist (b. 1946)

May

 * May 1
 * Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
 * Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lankan statesman, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
 * Joshua Sieger, British engineer and scientist (b. 1907)
 * May 5 – Sir Dermot Boyle, British air force commander (b. 1904)
 * May 6
 * Ian Mikardo, British politician (b. 1908)
 * Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
 * May 7 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1902)
 * May 8
 * Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
 * Alwin Nikolais, American choreographer (b. 1912)
 * May 9 – Dame Freya Stark, British explorer and travel writer (b. 1893)
 * May 12 – Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b. 1920)
 * May 14 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1908)
 * May 22
 * Alfred Vaucher, French theologian, church historian and bibliographer (b. 1887)
 * Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (b. 1892)
 * May 26 – Catherine Caradja, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist (b. 1893)
 * May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)

June

 * June 1 – Austin Robinson, University of Cambridge economist (b. 1897)
 * June 2
 * Tahar Djaout, Algerian writer (b. 1954)
 * Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
 * June 3 – Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (b. 1918)
 * June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
 * June 6 – James Bridges, American screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
 * June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
 * June 8
 * René Bousquet, head of the Vichy France Police (b. 1909)
 * Severo Sarduy, Cuban poet (b. 1937)
 * Nolan Bailey Harmon, bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church (b. 1892)
 * June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (b. 1921)
 * June 10
 * Arleen Auger, American soprano singer (b. 1939)
 * Milward L. Simpson, American politician (b. 1897)
 * June 12
 * Manuel Summers, Spanish film director (b. 1935)
 * Binay Ranjan Sen, Indian diplomat, 4th Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (b. 1898)
 * June 13
 * Deke Slayton, American astronaut (b. 1924)
 * Gérard Côté, Canadian marathon runner (b. 1913)
 * June 15
 * John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
 * James Hunt, British race car driver (b. 1947)
 * June 19
 * William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist (b. 1909)
 * June 21 – Elisabeth Johansen Greenlandic midwife and politician (b. 1907)
 * June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 * June 24 – Archie Williams, American Olympic athlete (b. 1915)
 * June 26 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * June 27 – Layla Al-Attar, Iraqi painter (b. 1944)
 * June 28 – GG Allin, American punk singer (b. 1956)
 * June 29 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1946)
 * June 30 – Spanky McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)

July

 * July 2
 * Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
 * Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Guatemalan politician (b. 1932)
 * Edward Dunlop, Australian surgeon (b. 1907)
 * Elizabeth M. Ramsey, American research physician (b. 1906)
 * July 3
 * Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 * Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
 * July 4
 * Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918)
 * Lola Gaos, Spanish actress (b. 1921)
 * July 6 – Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, British courtier (b. 1908)
 * July 7
 * William McElwee Miller, American missionary to Persia and author (b. 1892)
 * Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b. 1965)
 * July 10 – Masuji Ibuse, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
 * July 11 – Mario Bauzá, Cuban musician (b. 1911)
 * July 12
 * Li Da, Chinese general (b. 1905)
 * James Peck, American civil rights activist (b. 1914)
 * July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b. 1961)
 * July 14
 * Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter (b. 1916)
 * Harold Willmott, South African military commander (b. 1899)
 * July 15
 * Hugo Ballivián, Bolivian general, 51st President of Bolivia (b. 1901)
 * David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
 * July 16 – Michel Hollard, French Resistance hero (b. 1898)
 * July 18 – Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born film director (b. 1900)
 * July 19 – Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (b. 1910)
 * July 21 – E. J. G. Pitman, Australian mathematician (b. 1897)
 * July 24
 * Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
 * Abram L. Sachar, American historian and educator (b.1899)
 * July 25
 * Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, Scottish aristocrat (b. 1912)
 * Nan Grey, American actress (b. 1918)
 * Cecilia Parker, American actress (b. 1914)
 * July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, American army general (b. 1895)
 * July 27 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
 * July 30
 * William Guglielmo Niederland, German-born American psychoanalyst (b. 1904)
 * Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish aristocrat, diplomat, writer, and politician, 8th President of Poland (b. 1891)
 * Bob Wright, American baseball player (b. 1891)
 * July 31
 * Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (b. 1903)
 * King Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)
 * Paul B. Henry, American politician (b. 1942)

August

 * August 1 – Claire Du Brey, American actress (b. 1892)
 * August 3
 * James Donald, Scottish actor (b. 1917)
 * Theodore A. Parker III, American ornithologist (b. 1953)
 * August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (b. 1908)
 * August 6
 * Genkei Masamune, Japanese botanist (b. 1899)
 * Esad Mekuli, Albanian poet and scholar (b. 1916)
 * August 7 – Christopher Gillis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
 * August 10
 * Hendrik G. Stoker, Calvinist philosopher (b. 1899)
 * Irene Sharaff, American costume designer (b. 1910)
 * August 16
 * Tom Fuccello, American actor (b. 1936)
 * René Dreyfus, French Grand Prix racing driver (b. 1905)
 * Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (b. 1913)
 * August 19 – Salah Jadid, Syrian general and Ba'athist politician (b. 1926)
 * August 20 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
 * August 21
 * Ichirō Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (b. 1911)
 * Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1938)
 * August 22 – Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Kazakh Soviet communist politician (b. 1912)
 * August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and activist (b. 1924)
 * August 29 – Carlos Santiago Nino, Argentine philosopher and jurist (b. 1943)
 * August 30 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1937)

September

 * September 1
 * Hasan Abdullayev, Azerbaijani physicist and scientist (b. 1918)
 * Sir Michael Sobell, British businessman, a major philanthropist, and owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses (b. 1892)
 * September 2 – Eric Berry, British actor (b. 1913)
 * September 3 – Wesley Englehorn, American football player (b. 1890)
 * September 4 – Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (b. 1943)
 * September 5 – Baek Du-jin, Korean politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (b. 1908)
 * September 7 – Christian Metz, French film theorist (b. 1931)
 * September 9 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
 * September 11 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
 * September 12
 * Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (b. 1917)
 * Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director (b. 1895)
 * September 13 – Steve Jordan, American jazz guitarist (b. 1919)
 * September 15
 * Pino Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1937)
 * Maurice Yaméogo, Burkinabé statesman, 1st President of Upper Volta, current Burkina Faso (b. 1921)
 * September 20 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring fighter ace in world history (b. 1922)
 * September 22
 * Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born American conductor (b. 1903)
 * Regina Fryxell, American composer (b. 1899)
 * Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
 * September 24
 * Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
 * Ian Stuart Donaldson, singer (b. 1957)
 * September 25 – Sir John Moores, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1896)
 * September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896)
 * September 28
 * Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
 * Galina Makarova, Belarusian actress (b. 1919)
 * September 29 – Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)

October

 * October 4 – Patelisio Punou-Ki-Hihifo Finau, Tongan Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1934)
 * October 5 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
 * October 7 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
 * October 11 – Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)
 * October 12
 * Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
 * Patrick Holt, English actor (b. 1912)
 * October 13
 * Ruth Gilbert, American actress (b. 1912)
 * Otmar Gutmann, German television director (b. 1937)
 * October 17 – Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (b. 1963)
 * October 20 – Milan Konjović, Serbian painter (b. 1898)
 * October 21
 * James Leo Herlihy, American novelist and playwright (b. 1927)
 * Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician, 4th President of Burundi (b. 1953)
 * October 22
 * Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat (b. 1913)
 * Said Mohamed Jaffar, former head of State of Comoros (b. 1918)
 * October 24 – Jo Grimond, British politician, former leader of the Liberal Party (b. 1913)
 * October 25
 * Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer (b. 1958)
 * Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
 * October 26
 * František Filipovský, Czech actor (b. 1907)
 * Harold Rome, American composer (b. 1908)
 * October 27 – István Rosztóczy, Hungarian microbiologist (b. 1942)
 * October 28 – Yuri Lotman, Russian formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist (b. 1922)
 * October 29 – Masahiro Makino, Japanese film director (b. 1908)
 * October 31
 * Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b. 1920)
 * Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
 * River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)

November

 * November 1
 * Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
 * A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
 * November 3 – Léon Theremin, inventor of the theremin (b. 1896)
 * November 6
 * Ralph Randles Stewart, American botanist (b. 1890)
 * Torsten Fenslau, German DJ and record producer (b. 1964)
 * November 9 – Stanley Myers, British film composer (b. 1930)
 * November 10
 * Alberto Breccia, Argentine comics artist and writer (b. 1919)
 * Wensley Pithey, South African actor (b. 1914)
 * November 12
 * Bill Dickey, American baseball player (b. 1907)
 * H. R. Haldeman, American political aide and businessman (b. 1926)
 * Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born American actress (b. 1908)
 * November 14 – Sanzo Nosaka, Japanese Communist politician (b. 1892)
 * November 15
 * Luciano Leggio, Italian mobster (b. 1925)
 * Jimmy McAlinden, Irish footballer (b. 1917)
 * Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. 1913)
 * November 16
 * Achille Zavatta, French circus artist (b. 1915)
 * Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (b. 1939)
 * November 18 – Fritz Feld, German actor (b. 1900)
 * November 19 – Leonid Gaidai, Soviet comedy director (b. 1923)
 * November 20 – Emile Ardolino, American film director (b. 1943)
 * November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
 * November 22
 * Anthony Burgess, English author (b. 1917)
 * Joseph Yodoyman, Chadian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
 * November 28
 * Kenneth Connor English comedian (b. 1916)
 * Garry Moore, American television host and comedian (b. 1915)
 * November 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian aviator and businessman (b. 1904)

December

 * December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
 * December 3 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
 * December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1940)
 * December 5
 * Doug Hopkins, American musician (b. 1961)
 * Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer (b. 1906)
 * December 6
 * Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
 * Joe Fowler, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (b. 1894)
 * December 7
 * Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
 * December 9
 * Danny Blanchflower, Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager (b. 1926)
 * Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, Iranian Shia cleric (b. 1898)
 * December 12
 * József Antall, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 * Fritz Bock, Austrian politician (b. 1911)
 * December 13
 * Florence Davidson, Canadian First Nations artist (b. 1896)
 * George Bellew, genealogist and armorist (b. 1899)
 * Tommy Sexton, Canadian comedian (b. 1957)
 * December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
 * December 15 – Penaia Ganilau, 1st President of Fiji (b. 1918)
 * December 16
 * Charles Willard Moore, American architect (b. 1926)
 * Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
 * Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
 * Billy Morgan, English professional footballer (b. 1896)
 * December 17 – Janet Margolin, American actress (b. 1943)
 * December 18
 * Charizma, American hip hop artist (b. 1973)
 * Sam Wanamaker, American film director and actor (b. 1919)
 * December 20 – Iichirō Hatoyama, Japanese politician and diplomat (b. 1918)
 * December 22
 * Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film director (b. 1912)
 * December 23 – James Ellison, American actor (b. 1910)
 * December 24
 * Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer (b. 1898)
 * Yen Chia-kan, Taiwanese politician and 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1905)
 * Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
 * December 25 – Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1895)
 * December 26 – Dave Beck, American labor leader (b. 1894)
 * December 28
 * William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
 * Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
 * December 29 – Abdul Jabbar Khan, Bangladeshi filmmaker (b. 1916)
 * December 30 – Ira Stanphill, American gospel songwriter (b. 1914)
 * December 31
 * İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1908)
 * Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
 * Economics – Robert W. Fogel, Douglass North
 * Literature – Toni Morrison
 * Peace – Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk
 * Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
 * Physiology or Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Phillip Allen Sharp

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 24 – Daya, American singer
 * 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 1
 * The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
 * Greenland is withdrawn from the European Economic Community.
 * First UK cellular mobile phone network launched by Vodafone
 * January 7
 * Cellnet launches 2nd UK cellular network.
 * Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
 * January 13 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
 * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
 * January 17 – British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.
 * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
 * January 21 – President Ronald Reagan is publicly sworn in.
 * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed.
 * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February

 * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.
 * February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
 * February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered March 5)
 * February 10 – Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government.
 * February 12 – Rafael Addiego Bruno is sworn in as interim President of Uruguay.
 * February 14 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
 * February 16
 * Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
 * The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a "program" issued in Beirut.
 * February 19
 * William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital.
 * China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are 22 minor injuries and 2 serious injuries, no one is killed.
 * The first episode of the long-running British soap opera EastEnders is broadcast on BBC One television.
 * February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
 * February 28 – 1985 Newry mortar attack: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March
UNKNOWN DATE: The GNU Manifesto, written by Richard Stallman, is first published.
 * March 1 – After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay.
 * March 3 – The 8.0 Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and about a million people homeless.
 * March 4 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
 * March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people, injuring 200.
 * March 11
 * Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
 * Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.
 * March 15 – Vice-President José Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill the day before. Sarney would later become Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death on April 21.
 * March 16 – Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is released on December 4, 1991.
 * March 17 – Expo '85, a World's Fair, is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.
 * March 18 – Australia's longest-running soap opera, Neighbours, debuts on Seven Network.
 * March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40,000 km, 26-month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
 * March 23 – OCAM is dissolved.
 * March 24 – United States Army military intelligence officer Arthur D. Nicholson is shot by Soviet military sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev at a Soviet military base in Ludwigslust, East Germany.
 * March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.

April

 * April 1
 * Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.
 * Eighth seeded Villanova defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66–64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
 * April 10
 * Madonna launches her Virgin Tour, her first concert tour, in New York City.
 * April 11
 * The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.
 * First Secretary Enver Hoxha, leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania dies.
 * April 12 – El Descanso bombing: A terrorist bombing attributed to the Islamic Jihad Organization in the El Descanso restaurant near Madrid, Spain, mostly attended by U.S. personnel of the Torrejón Air Base, causes 18 deaths (all Spaniards) and 82 injuries.
 * April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
 * April 19
 * The Soviet Union performs a nuclear test in eastern Kazakhstan.
 * The FBI and ATF raid and confiscate guns at the CSA compound in Fort Smith, Arkansas.


 * April 21 – Brazilian President Tancredo Neves dies, he is succeeded by Vice President José Sarney. The Vice President post is left vacant until 1990.
 * April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke (the response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months).
 * April 28 – The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.

May

 * May 1 – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport officially opened, which also became the new international gateway into Indonesia.
 * May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway.
 * May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
 * May 11
 * The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.
 * Fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during a football match, killing 56 people.
 * May 13
 * Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire.
 * The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to vote. The right is revoked in 1999 and re-instated in 2005.
 * May 15
 * An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at University of California, Berkeley.
 * Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentinian administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish Argentina's claim to the islands.
 * May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.
 * May 19 – John Anthony Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for passing classified naval communications to the Soviet Union.
 * May 23 – Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
 * May 25 – Approximately 10,000 people are killed when Bangladesh is affected by the storm surge from Tropical Storm One (1B).
 * May 26 – A new guard in auto racing took place as young gun Danny Sullivan beat the old guard Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500 and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
 * May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-eight spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
 * May 30 – The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Philadelphia Flyers four games to one for their second straight Stanley Cup.
 * May 31 – Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, killing 77.

June

 * June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
 * June 13 – In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
 * June 14
 * TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.
 * The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at this time) 5 states with no internal border controls.
 * June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.
 * June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
 * June 20 – A series of bomb blasts occur in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.
 * June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.
 * June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
 * June 25 – Irish police foil a Provisional Irish Republican Army–sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacation resorts.
 * June 27 – U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

July

 * July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.
 * July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.
 * July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
 * July 10 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
 * July 13
 * Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
 * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush serves as Acting President for eight hours, while President Ronald Reagan undergoes colon cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
 * July 19
 * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
 * The Val di Stava Dam in Italy collapses.
 * July 20 – State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.
 * July 23 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.

August

 * August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
 * August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
 * August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people (the worst single-aircraft disaster in history).
 * August 14 – The Accomarca massacre takes place in Ayacucho, Peru.
 * August 15 – Three miners die in an accident at a coal mine in southeastern Kentucky.
 * August 20 – Iran–Contra affair: The first arms, 96 BGM-71 TOWs, are sent to Iran in exchange for hostages in Lebanon and profits for the Nicaraguan Contras. The public does not know about the arms sale.
 * August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its take off roll and 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
 * August 25 – Samantha Smith, 13, "Goodwill Ambassador" between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.
 * August 28 – The first smoking ban banning smoking in restaurants in the United States is passed in Aspen, Colorado.
 * August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.

September

 * September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
 * September 2 – Hurricane Elena makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast after reaching a Category 3 status
 * September 4 – Catcher Gary Carter of the New York Mets ties a record with five home runs in two games.
 * September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31.
 * September 11 – Pete Rose becomes the all-time hit leader in Major League Baseball, with his 4,192nd hit at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
 * September 13
 * Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
 * Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in order to found NeXT.
 * September 19 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing 5,000–45,000 and injuring 30,000.
 * September 20 – The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.
 * September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.
 * September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.
 * September 28 – Brixton riots are sparked with the shooting of Dorothy "Cherry" Groce by the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, South London.

October

 * October 1 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters near Tunis.
 * October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
 * October 4 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
 * October 7 – The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.
 * October 18 – The first Nintendo home video game console in the United States is released as the Nintendo Entertainment System.
 * October 25 – Emirates Airlines, establishes in Dubai and performs its first flight to Karachi.

November

 * November 5 – In an all English match, Mark Kaylor defeats Errol Christie to become the middleweight boxing champion, after the two brawl in front of the cameras at the weigh-in.
 * November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.
 * November 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.
 * November 13
 * Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars in the town of Armero, Colombia.
 * Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
 * November 18
 * The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers in the United States.
 * Elmo is first introduced by name on the children's TV show Sesame Street.
 * November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
 * November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
 * November 23 – EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
 * November 25 – 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.
 * November 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
 * November 29 – Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.

December

 * December 1
 * The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura) (OEI) is created.
 * The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.
 * December 8 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is established.
 * December 11 – Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento, California computer rental store by a Unabomber explosive, becoming the first fatality of the bombing campaign
 * December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 people – 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula.
 * December 16 – In New York City, American Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino crime family.
 * December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.
 * December 24 – Extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. Rice suspects the family of being Jewish and Communist and claims his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.
 * December 27
 * Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
 * American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
 * December 31 – American singer, songwriter and actor Ricky Nelson dies in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.

Date unknown

 * The Australian state of Victoria celebrates its 150th anniversary.
 * Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discover C60, a type of fullerene.
 * Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest.
 * Solarquest, the space age real estate game, is first published by Golden.
 * ATI Technologies is founded.
 * The Tommy Hilfiger brand is established.
 * DNA is first used in a criminal case.
 * Multiple cases of espionage in the United States prompt the media to label this "The Year of the Spy".
 * Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.
 * The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.
 * The Famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa (We Are the World) and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.
 * The Fall of Communism begins with resistance gaining victory in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Over the next six years, other countries begin renouncing Communism, ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

January

 * January 1
 * Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
 * Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
 * January 2
 * Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
 * Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player
 * Damien Bodie, Australian actor
 * January 3
 * John David Booty, American football quarterback, USC
 * Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
 * January 4
 * Danielle Campo, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
 * Al Jefferson, American basketball player
 * Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
 * January 5
 * Michael Cuccione, Canadian child actor and activist (d. 2001)
 * Lopez Lomong, Sudan-born American Olympic runner
 * Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
 * January 7
 * Lewis Hamilton, British 5-Time Formula One world champion
 * Tiger Kirchharz, German dancer
 * Wayne Routledge, English footballer
 * January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American Christian singer
 * January 9 – Bobô, Brazilian footballer
 * January 10 – Martiño Rivas, Spanish actor
 * January 11
 * Newton Faulkner, British rock musician
 * Rie fu, Japanese pop and rock musician
 * Lucy Knisley, American comic artist and musician
 * January 15 – Brandon Mebane, American football player
 * January 16
 * Joe Flacco, American football player
 * Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist
 * Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
 * Renée Felice Smith, American actress
 * January 17
 * Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior)
 * Simone Simons, Lead singer of Dutch rock group Epica
 * January 19
 * Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter
 * Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs
 * January 20 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
 * January 21
 * Aura Dione, Danish pop musician
 * Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
 * January 22
 * Akira Nagata, Japanese singer (Run&Gun), actor and voice actor
 * Orianthi, Australian rock musician
 * January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
 * January 25 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
 * January 26
 * Edwin Hodge, American actor
 * Rusko, British musician
 * Michael Trevino, American actor
 * January 28
 * J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer
 * Tom Hopper, British actor
 * András Kállay-Saunders, Hungarian American recording artist, songwriter and record producer
 * January 29
 * Bosh Berlin, American drummer (Living Things)
 * Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
 * Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
 * Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
 * January 30 – Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist (Tasmanian)

February

 * February 2 – Fontel Mines, American football player
 * February 4
 * Bashy, English recording artist and actor
 * Bug Hall, American actor
 * February 5
 * Vicki Chase, American porn actress
 * Laurence Maroney, American football player
 * Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
 * February 6
 * Kris Humphries, American basketball player
 * Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
 * Crystal Reed, American actress
 * February 7
 * Donald Moatshe, South African musician
 * Tegan Moss, Canadian actress
 * Tina Majorino, American actress
 * Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
 * February 8
 * Seo Min-woo, South Korean idol singer and actor (d. 2018)
 * Jeremy Davis, American bassist (Paramore)
 * Bob Morris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hush Sound)
 * Trevor Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
 * February 9
 * David Gallagher, American actor
 * Rachel Melvin, American actress
 * February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
 * February 11
 * William Beckett, American singer and songwriter
 * Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player
 * February 12 – Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
 * February 15 – Natalie Morales, American actress
 * February 17 – Zelda Harris, American actress
 * February 18
 * Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress and singer
 * Todd Lasance, Australian actor
 * Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican serial killer
 * Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist
 * February 19
 * Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
 * Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
 * February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer
 * February 21 – Larisa Bakurova, Ukrainian actress and model based in Taiwan
 * February 22
 * Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
 * Zach Roerig, American actor
 * February 25
 * Benji Marshall, Australian rugby league player
 * Joakim Noah, American basketball player
 * February 26
 * Shiloh Fernandez, American actor
 * Miki Fujimoto, Japanese actor and pop singer
 * February 28
 * Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer
 * Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
 * Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player

March

 * March 1 – Cole Sanchez, American voice actor and artist
 * March 2
 * Reggie Bush, American football player
 * Robert Iler, American actor
 * Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner
 * March 3
 * Alena and Ninel Karpovich, Belarusian twin sister musical duo, members of 3+2
 * Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
 * March 7 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
 * March 8 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model
 * March 9
 * Brent Burns, Canadian hockey player
 * Rachel Nabors, American cartoonist
 * March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
 * March 11
 * Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
 * Hakuhō Shō, 69th Yokozuna
 * March 12
 * Lolene, British recording artist and songwriter
 * Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
 * Stromae, Belgian musical artist
 * March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
 * March 14
 * Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
 * March 15
 * Eva Amurri, American actress
 * Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
 * Curtis Davies, English football player
 * Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor
 * March 17 – Dominic Adams, British actor and model
 * March 18
 * Krisztián Berki, Hungarian artistic gymnast
 * Bianca King, Filipina actress and model
 * March 19 – E. J. Viso, Venezuelan race car driver
 * March 21
 * Ryan Callahan, American hockey player
 * Adrian Peterson, American football player
 * March 22
 * Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
 * Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
 * Mike Jenkins, American football player
 * Justin Masterson, American baseball player
 * Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
 * March 23 – Maryana Spivak, Russian actress
 * March 24
 * Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
 * Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
 * March 26
 * Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer
 * Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer, and dancer
 * Keira Knightley, English actress
 * March 27
 * Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player
 * Caroline Winberg, Swedish model
 * March 29 – William Chak, Hong Kong actor
 * March 31 – Jessica Szohr, American actress

April

 * April 1
 * Danilo Caçador, Brazilian footballer (d. 2018)
 * Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
 * Beth Tweddle, British artistic gymnast
 * April 2
 * Barry Corr, Irish footballer
 * Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player
 * Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
 * April 3
 * Leona Lewis, British pop musician
 * Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
 * April 4
 * Lance Dos Ramos, Venezuelan actor, model and animator
 * Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player
 * Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
 * April 5
 * Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor (d. 2008)
 * Lastings Milledge, American baseball player
 * April 6
 * Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director, and producer
 * Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
 * Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor
 * April 7
 * Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress
 * KC Concepcion, Filipina actress and singer
 * April 8
 * Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player
 * Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
 * April 9
 * Tim Bendzko, German singer-songwriter
 * David Robertson, American baseball player
 * Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
 * April 10
 * Christie Laing, Canadian actress
 * Dion Phaneuf, Canadian NHL hockey player
 * Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
 * April 12
 * Brennan Boesch, American baseball player
 * Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician
 * Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actor
 * April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model
 * April 16
 * Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
 * Benjamín Rojas, Argentine singer
 * April 17
 * Rooney Mara, American film and television actress
 * Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
 * Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
 * April 18
 * Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
 * Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer
 * April 19
 * Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer, actress, presenter, and writer
 * Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player
 * April 20 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
 * April 22
 * Kristin Fairlie, Canadian actress
 * Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
 * April 23
 * Taio Cruz, British hip-hop musician
 * Angel Locsin, Filipino actress
 * April 24
 * Courtnee Draper, American actress, singer and voice actress
 * Joséphine Jobert, French actress and singer
 * Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * April 26 – Nam Gyu-ri, Korean actress and pop singer
 * April 28 – Brandon Baker, American actor
 * April 30 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

May

 * May 1 – Drew Sidora, American actress and singer
 * May 2
 * Lily Allen, British pop musician
 * Kyle Busch, American race car driver
 * Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
 * Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (d. 2011)
 * May 3 – Meagan Tandy, American actress and model
 * May 4 – Bo McCalebb, American/Macedonian basketball player
 * May 5
 * Clark Duke, American actor
 * Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
 * May 6
 * Chris Paul, American basketball player
 * Dent May, American pop musician
 * May 7 – Andrew Carroll, American ice hockey player (d. 2018)
 * May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * May 9 – Chris Zylka, American actor and model
 * May 10 – Odette Annable, American actress
 * May 11 – Jadyn Wong, Canadian actress
 * May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
 * May 13 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor, singer and musician
 * May 14
 * Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
 * Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist
 * Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
 * May 15
 * Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer, musician, and six-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars
 * Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
 * Tyrone Savage, Canadian voice actor and theatre, film and television actor
 * Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
 * May 17
 * Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
 * Matt Ryan, American football player
 * May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
 * May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist
 * May 21
 * Mutya Buena, British urban singer and was member of Sugababes
 * Alison Carroll, British artistic gymnast, actress and model
 * May 22
 * Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model
 * May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer
 * May 24 – John Vigilante, American ice hockey (d. 2018)
 * May 25
 * Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress
 * Lauren Frost, American actress and singer
 * Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler
 * May 26 – Ashley Vincent, English footballer
 * May 27
 * Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
 * Andrew Francis, Canadian voice actor and actor
 * May 28
 * Colbie Caillat, American surburbian musician
 * Carey Mulligan, British actress
 * Emily Wilson, American actress
 * May 29 – Blake Foster, American actor and martial artist
 * May 30
 * Sam Gifaldi, American actor
 * Turk McBride, American National Football League player
 * May 31
 * Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress
 * Navene Koperweis, American progressive metal musician

June

 * June 1 – Ari Herstand, American singer-songwriter
 * June 2 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress
 * June 4
 * Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
 * Lukas Podolski, German footballer
 * Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
 * Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress
 * June 6 – Abbie Cobb, American actress and author
 * June 7 – Marie Miyake, Japanese voice actress
 * June 9
 * Eusebio Henrique de Almeida, East Timorese footballer
 * Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model
 * Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
 * June 10
 * Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist
 * Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier
 * Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
 * Celina Jade, American actress
 * Kristina Apgar, American actress
 * June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer
 * June 12
 * Dave Franco, American television and film actor
 * Blake Ross, American software developer
 * June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer
 * June 17
 * Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
 * Andrea Demirović, Montenegrin pop singer
 * Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
 * June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor
 * June 19 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
 * June 20
 * Mark Saul, American actor
 * Matt Flynn, American football player
 * Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
 * June 21
 * Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, rock musician
 * Sharna Burgess, Australian ballroom dancer
 * Lana Del Rey, American pop musician
 * June 22
 * Aaron Lim, Malaysian racing driver
 * Douglas Smith, American actor
 * Lindsay Ridgeway, American actress
 * Rosa Kato, Japanese actress and model
 * June 23
 * Marcel Reece, American football player
 * Kavka Shishido, Japanese drummer and vocalist
 * June 24
 * Tom Kennedy, English footballer
 * Aste, Finnish rapper
 * Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player
 * June 25
 * Ehra Madrigal, Filipino actress
 * Mohd Fitri Omar, Malaysian footballer
 * Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
 * Maria Kristin Yulianti, Indonesian badminton player
 * Annaleigh Ashford, American actress, singer and dancer
 * Ethan Klein, American YouTuber
 * June 26
 * Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
 * Bobo Sollander, Swedish footballer
 * Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
 * Cameron Tovey, Malaysian-Australian basketball player
 * June 27
 * Martin Sensmeier, Alaska Native actor
 * James Hook, Welsh rugby union player
 * Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
 * Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion
 * June 28
 * Phil Bardsley, English footballer
 * Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan footballer
 * June 29 – Steven Hauschka, American football player
 * June 30
 * Michael Phelps, American swimmer
 * Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler

July

 * July 1
 * Spose, American hip-hop musician
 * Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player
 * Léa Seydoux, French actress
 * Ocean Mushure, Zimbabwean footballer
 * Zohre Esmaeli, Afghan-born fashion model
 * July 2
 * Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis
 * Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
 * Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor (d. 2018)
 * July 3
 * Dean Cook, British actor
 * Keisuke Minami, Japanese singer and actor
 * July 4
 * Mariana Rios, Brazilian actress and singer
 * Pei Yuwen, Chinese footballer
 * Lartiste, Moroccan-French singer and rapper
 * July 5
 * Judith Chemla, French actress
 * Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress
 * Nick O'Malley, British musician
 * François Arnaud, French-Canadian stage and film actor
 * July 6
 * Matt Overton, American football player
 * Killian Scott, Irish actor
 * Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
 * D. Woods, American pop musician
 * July 7
 * Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player
 * Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire
 * Zulkifli Che Ros, Malaysian male weightlifter
 * Seo Woo, Korean actress
 * July 8
 * Emanuele Abate, Italian athlete
 * Jason Day, Peruvian actor
 * July 9
 * Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
 * Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
 * Ashley Young, English footballer
 * July 10
 * Mario Gómez, German footballer
 * Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
 * July 11
 * Lilian Marijnissen, Dutch politician
 * Ele Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter
 * Robert Adamson, American actor
 * July 12
 * Adam Gregory, Canadian singer
 * Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
 * Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
 * Natasha Poly, Russian model
 * July 13
 * Charlotte Dujardin, English dressage rider
 * Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
 * Andrew Wolff, Filipino-British Rugby Player
 * July 14 – Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower
 * July 15
 * Pedro Carvalho, Portuguese actor
 * Agniya Kuznetsova, Russian actress
 * Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician
 * Crowd Lu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
 * Tomer Kapon,
 * Pushkar Jog, Indian actor
 * July 16
 * Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress
 * Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer
 * Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
 * Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
 * July 17
 * Tom Fletcher, British musician
 * Tom Cullen, Welsh actor, writer and director
 * Caitlin Van Zandt, American actress
 * July 18
 * José Carlos Júnior, Brazilian footballer
 * Hopsin, American rapper and record producer
 * James Norton, British actor
 * Chace Crawford, American actor
 * July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
 * July 20 – John Francis Daley, American television and film actor
 * July 22
 * Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
 * Blake Harrison, English actor
 * Ryan Dolan, Irish singer
 * Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
 * Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
 * July 23
 * William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2018)
 * Scott Chandler, American football player
 * July 24 – Teagan Presley, American porn star
 * July 25
 * James Lafferty, American actor and athlete
 * Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
 * Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver
 * July 27
 * Aljin Abella, Australian actor
 * Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
 * July 28
 * Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
 * Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
 * July 30
 * Aml Ameen, British actor
 * Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer

August

 * August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr., British-Canadian professional wrestler
 * August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand Rugby League player
 * August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter
 * August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
 * August 7 – Rick Genest, Canadian artist, actor, and fashion model (d. 2018)
 * August 8 – Toby Flood, English rugby union player
 * August 9
 * Anna Kendrick, American actress
 * Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
 * August 10 – Jared Nathan, American child actor (d. 2006)
 * August 11
 * Asher Roth, American rapper
 * Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan-born Indian Bollywood actress
 * August 14
 * Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic actress
 * Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
 * August 15
 * Emily Kinney, American actress
 * Nipsey Hussle, American rapper
 * August 16
 * Agnes Bruckner, American actress
 * Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
 * Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer
 * August 19 – David A. Gregory, American actor
 * August 20 – Brant Daugherty, American actor
 * August 21
 * Melissa M, French singer
 * Jake Pitts, American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides)
 * Laura Haddock, English actress
 * August 23 – Juss Haasma, Estonian actor
 * August 25 – Wynter Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter
 * August 27
 * Alexandra Nechita, American artist
 * Kayla Ewell, American actress
 * Sean Foreman, American singer, songwriter and performer; member of electro hop group 3OH!3
 * August 28 – Ashlyne Huff, American singer-songwriter and dancer
 * August 29 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
 * August 30
 * Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
 * Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
 * Richard Duffy, Wales international footballer
 * Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer
 * August 31 – Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

September

 * September 1
 * Lilan Bowden, American actress
 * Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress
 * September 2
 * Allison Miller, American actress
 * Yani Gellman, Canadian/Australian film and television actor
 * September 3 – Yūki Kaji, Japanese voice actor
 * September 4
 * Morgan Garrett, American voice actress
 * Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
 * Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer
 * Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer
 * September 5 – Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
 * Oleksandr Akymenko, Ukrainian football striker
 * Jan Mazoch, Czech former ski jumper.
 * Dario Jertec, Croatian football midfielder
 * Weronika Deresz, Polish rower
 * September 6
 * Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian
 * Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
 * September 7
 * Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre actress
 * Alyssa Diaz, American actress
 * Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
 * Rafinha, Brazilian football player
 * September 8
 * Justin Bradley, Canadian actor
 * Vanessa Baden, American actress
 * Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
 * September 9
 * Amy Manson, British actress
 * Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
 * J. R. Smith, American basketball player
 * September 10 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian film and television actress
 * September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model
 * September 14
 * Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
 * Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
 * September 15
 * Kayden Kross, American porn actress
 * Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model
 * September 16
 * Madeline Zima, American actress
 * Max Minghella, English actor
 * Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer
 * September 17
 * Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
 * Jon Walker, American musician
 * September 19 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor, model and host
 * September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
 * September 23
 * Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice season 5
 * Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
 * Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
 * September 24
 * Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
 * Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress
 * Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
 * September 26
 * Talulah Riley, English actress
 * Marcin Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter
 * September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer
 * September 29
 * Calvin Johnson, retired American football player and contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 23
 * Michelle Payne, Australian jockey
 * Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
 * September 30 – T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor

October

 * October 1
 * Sicily, American actress
 * Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long distance runner
 * Porcelain Black, American industrial pop singer-songwriter
 * Matt Healy, lead singer and guitarist of the band Rock Incorporated
 * October 3
 * Courtney Lee, American basketball player
 * Megumi Takamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * October 5
 * Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian actress
 * Nicola Roberts, British singer
 * Brooke Valentine, American singer
 * October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player
 * October 8
 * Jesse MacDonald, Leader of new-wave band "The Fruit Patrol", Lazy Rights Activist
 * Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer
 * Kimberly Kevon Williams, American actress
 * Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
 * October 9 – Frankmusik, English electropop musician
 * October 10
 * Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor
 * Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
 * Aaron Himelstein, American actor
 * October 11
 * Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist (d. 2018)
 * Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter
 * Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
 * October 14
 * Daniel Clark, American-Canadian actor
 * Justin Forsett, American football player
 * Sherlyn, Mexican actress
 * October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
 * October 18 – Iori Nomizu, Japanese voice actress, actress and singer
 * October 19 – RR Enriquez, Filipino model, television host and actress
 * October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
 * October 22
 * Manpei Takagi, Japanese actor
 * Shinpei Takagi, Japanese actor
 * October 23
 * Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
 * Chris Neal, English footballer
 * October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
 * October 25
 * Ciara, African-American singer
 * Christopher Sean, American actor
 * John Robinson, American actor
 * October 26
 * Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player
 * Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
 * October 27 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
 * October 28 – Anthony Fantano, American music critic
 * October 29 – Janet Montgomery, English film and television actress
 * October 31 – Kether Donohue, American actress

November

 * November 2 – Josh Grelle, American voice actor
 * November 3
 * Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
 * Philipp Tschauner, German footballer
 * November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (d. 2012)
 * November 5 – Elizabeth Rice, American actress
 * November 7 – Paul Terry, English actor
 * November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
 * November 10
 * Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
 * Ricki-Lee Coulter, former Australian Idol contestant and singer
 * November 11
 * Remona Fransen, Dutch athlete
 * Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
 * Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
 * Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
 * November 12 – Daria Bijak, German artistic gymnast
 * November 13
 * Rahul Kohli, English actor
 * Michael Bennett, American football player
 * Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
 * Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
 * November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
 * November 15
 * Lily Aldridge, American model
 * Casnel Bushay, Vincentian sprinter
 * Nick Fradiani, American singer
 * Jeffree Star, American musician and Youtuber
 * November 17 – Bea Saw, Filipino actress
 * November 20 – Dan Byrd, American actor
 * November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player
 * November 23
 * Katie Crown, American actress
 * Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
 * November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier
 * November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
 * November 28
 * Nathan Keyes, American actor
 * Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer
 * Ryan Sampson, British actor
 * November 30
 * Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
 * Kaley Cuoco, American actress
 * Chrissy Teigen, American model

December

 * December 1
 * John Coughlin, American pair skater (d. 2019)
 * Philip DeFranco, American YouTube star and video blogger
 * Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician
 * Chanel Preston, American porn actress
 * December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
 * December 3
 * László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
 * Amanda Seyfried, American actress
 * December 4
 * Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer
 * Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
 * December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver
 * December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican singer and actress
 * December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler
 * December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
 * December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
 * December 10
 * Raven-Symoné, African-American actress and singer
 * Edmund Entin, American actor
 * Gary Entin, American actor
 * Meghan Linsey, American singer-songwriter
 * Matt Forté, American football player
 * December 11 – Samantha Steele, American sportscaster
 * December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer
 * December 14 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
 * December 17 – Greg James, British radio DJ
 * December 18 – Hana Soukupová, Czech model
 * December 19
 * Christina Loukas, American diver
 * Lady Sovereign, British rapper
 * David Reale, Canadian actor
 * Gary Cahill, English footballer
 * December 21
 * James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
 * Tom Sturridge, English actor
 * December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter
 * December 23
 * Harry Judd, English drummer
 * Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
 * December 26
 * Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
 * Beth Behrs, American actress
 * December 27
 * Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
 * Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress
 * December 28 – Taryn Terrell, American professional wrestler
 * December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist
 * December 30 – Anna Wood, American actress
 * December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast

January

 * January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
 * January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
 * January 5 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
 * January 7
 * Ruth Godfrey, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Mary Hardy, Australian actress and comedian (b. 1931)
 * January 11 – Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
 * January 13 – Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942)
 * January 14
 * Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress (b. 1891)
 * Anagarika Govinda, German buddhist lama (b. 1898)
 * January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909)
 * January 20 – Gillis W. Long, American politician (b. 1923)
 * January 22
 * Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
 * Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator (b. 1899)
 * January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)
 * January 29
 * Georges Portmann, French physician (b. 1890)
 * Billy Cook, Australian jockey (b. 1910)
 * January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1905)

February

 * February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director (b. 1906)
 * February 6 – Neil McCarthy, British actor (b. 1932)
 * February 8
 * William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer (b. 1901)
 * Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
 * February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898)
 * February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
 * February 18 – Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher (b. 1902)
 * February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 21
 * Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893)
 * Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
 * John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (b. 1907)
 * February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist (b. 1889)
 * February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * February 27
 * Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (b. 1902)
 * Iain Moncreiffe, Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms (b. 1919)
 * J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)

March

 * March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)
 * March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908)
 * March 8 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
 * March 10
 * Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
 * Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 * March 11 – Tom Adams, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
 * March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1899)
 * March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)
 * March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921)
 * March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896)
 * March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908)
 * March 23
 * Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)
 * Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
 * March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
 * March 29
 * Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
 * Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
 * March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)
 * March 31 – Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883)

April

 * April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh-language author (b. 1891)
 * April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
 * April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1901)
 * April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b. 1888)
 * April 8 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
 * April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean politician (b. 1898)
 * April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
 * April 14 – Noele Gordon, British actress (b. 1919)
 * April 15 – Jack Medica, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914)
 * April 16 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
 * April 17 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)
 * April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888)
 * April 19 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev, Russian ethnologist (b. 1899)
 * April 21
 * John Welsh, English actor (b. 1904)
 * Tancredo Neves, Brazilian elected president (b. 1910)
 * April 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
 * April 23 – Kent Smith, American actor (b. 1907)
 * April 25 – Richard Haydn, English actor (b. 1905)
 * April 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908)

May

 * May 1 – Denise Robins, (akas: Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)
 * May 4 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
 * May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
 * May 6
 * Pete Desjardins, American Olympic diver (b. 1907)
 * Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
 * May 7 – Dawn Addams, British actress (b. 1930)
 * May 8
 * Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (b. 1918)
 * Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
 * May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
 * May 10
 * Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1889)
 * Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer (b. 1890)
 * May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)
 * May 13
 * Selma Diamond, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
 * May 15 – Rama Devi, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889)
 * May 16
 * Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
 * Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell, American artist (b. 1886)
 * May 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter (b. 1886)
 * May 19 – W. H. Diddle, American amateur golfer (b. 1882)
 * May 20 – Ben Hall, American actor (b. 1899)
 * May 22
 * Charles Murphy, American architect. (b. 1890)
 * Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
 * May 28 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist (b. 1914)
 * May 30 – George K. Arthur, English actor and producer (b. 1899)

June

 * June 1 – Eugène Séguy, French entomologist (b. 1890)
 * June 5 – Lord George-Brown, British politician (b. 1914)
 * June 6
 * Norman W. Walker, British businessman (b. 1886)
 * Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher and musicologist (b. 1903)
 * June 7
 * Georgia Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
 * Gordon Rollings, British actor (b. 1926)
 * June 9
 * Clifford Evans, British actor (b. 1912)
 * Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
 * June 10 – George Chandler, American actor (b. 1898)
 * June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
 * June 12 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1891)
 * June 15
 * Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)
 * Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1927)
 * June 17 – George Jackson, English footballer (b. 1893)
 * June 21 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
 * June 27 – Elias Sarkis, Lebanese lawyet, 11th President of Lebanon (b. 1924)
 * June 28 – James Craig, American actor (b. 1912)
 * June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)

July

 * July 2
 * David Purley, British race car driver (b. 1945)
 * Hector Nicol, Scottish entertainer (b. 1920)
 * July 4 – Jan de Quay, Dutch politician and psychologist, 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
 * July 8
 * Phil Foster, American actor (b. 1913)
 * Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
 * July 9
 * Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
 * Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
 * July 14 – Lluís Solé, Spanish geographer and academic (b. 1908)
 * July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 * July 17 – Margo, Mexican-born American actress (b. 1917)
 * July 19
 * Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
 * Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters (b. 1902)
 * July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
 * July 22 – Matti Järvinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
 * July 23
 * Kay Kyser, American bandleader (b. 1905)
 * Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor (b. 1920)
 * July 25 – Grant Williams, American actor (b. 1931)
 * July 26 – Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver. (b. 1890)
 * July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (b. 1903)

August

 * August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and museum curator (b. 1931)
 * August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)
 * August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898)
 * August 6
 * Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
 * John Harmon, American actor (b. 1905)
 * August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
 * August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
 * August 12
 * Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
 * Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
 * August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
 * August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
 * August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)
 * August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895)
 * August 25
 * Paul Harris, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972)
 * August 28 – Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1896)
 * August 29
 * Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)
 * Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)
 * August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900)
 * August 31 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

September

 * September 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957)
 * September 4
 * Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891)
 * George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
 * September 6
 * Little Brother Montgomery, American musician (b. 1906)
 * Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)
 * September 7
 * Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1914)
 * José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
 * George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887)
 * September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)
 * September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * September 10
 * Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
 * Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
 * September 11
 * William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
 * Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957)
 * September 14
 * Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925)
 * John Holt, American writer and educator (b. 1923)
 * September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
 * September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
 * September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912)
 * September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
 * September 30
 * Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
 * Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale (b. 1900)
 * Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

October



 * October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
 * October 2
 * Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
 * George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
 * October 4 – Franklin Merrell-Wolff, American philosopher (b. 1887)
 * October 5 – Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906)
 * October 6 – John W. Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary (b. 1895)
 * October 8 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
 * October 10
 * Alexander Buchanan, Australian politician (b. 1910)
 * Yul Brynner, Russian actor and performer (b. 1920)
 * Orson Welles, American actor and director (b. 1915)
 * October 12
 * Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
 * Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)
 * October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)
 * October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917)
 * October 21
 * Masuiyama Daishirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1919)
 * Dan White, American politician and murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations) (b. 1946)
 * October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor (b. 1905)
 * October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen (b. 1899)
 * October 25 – Morton Downey, American singer (b. 1901)
 * October 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)
 * October 31 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)

November

 * November 1
 * Quick Draw Rick McGraw, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 * Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
 * Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)
 * November 2 – William Lummis, British military historian (b. 1886)
 * November 4
 * Cus D'Amato legendary boxing trainer who was a mentor to hall of famer boxers Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and José Torres.
 * November 5
 * Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
 * Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
 * November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)
 * November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
 * November 11
 * James Hanley, British novelist, playwright and writer (b. 1897)
 * Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender (b. 1959)
 * November 13
 * William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
 * George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
 * November 16
 * Stuart Chase, American economist (b. 1888)
 * John Sparkman, American politician (b. 1899)
 * November 17
 * Lon Nol, Cambodian general and statesman, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia and 7th President of Khmer Republic (b. 1913)
 * Jimmy Ritz, American actor (b. 1904)
 * November 19
 * Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
 * Stepin Fetchit, American actor (b. 1902)
 * November 24 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911)
 * November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet, writer, critic (b. 1905)
 * November 27
 * Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
 * Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
 * November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

December



 * December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist (b. 1922)
 * December 6
 * Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)
 * Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
 * December 7
 * Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)
 * Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
 * December 8 – Bill Wambsganss, second baseman in Major League Baseball (b. 1894)
 * December 12
 * Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)
 * December 13 – Paul Caraway, American general and High Commissioner (b. 1905)
 * December 14
 * Catherine Doherty, American social worker (b. 1896)
 * Roger Maris, American baseball player (New York Yankees) (b. 1934)
 * December 15
 * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
 * Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (b. 1899)
 * December 16 – William H. Pettit, Christian missionary to Bangladesh (b. 1885)
 * December 21 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
 * December 23
 * Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899)
 * Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914)
 * December 24
 * Kouzou Sasaki, Japanese politician (b. 1900)
 * Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)
 * December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
 * December 27
 * Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)
 * Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
 * December 28 – Renato Castellani, Italian director (b. 1913)
 * December 30 – Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (b. 1907)
 * December 31
 * Ricky Nelson, American actor and musician (b. 1940)
 * Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer (b. 1903)

Date Unknown

 * Nazem Akkari, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902)
 * Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886)
 * Kaare Bratung, Norwegian cartoonist (b. 1906)
 * Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer (b. 1928)

Works of fiction taking place in 1985

 * The 1998 romantic comedy, The Wedding Singer takes place in 1985.
 * The introduction of the 1998 romantic comedy There's Something About Mary is set in 1985. The main character lands a prom date with his crush in High School but is cut short after an embarrassing zipper incident.
 * The present day in the 1985 science fiction comedy Back to the Future and its sequels Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III is October 1985.

Nobel Prizes



 * Physics – Klaus von Klitzing
 * Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
 * Literature – Claude Simon
 * Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
 * Economics – Franco Modigliani
 * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein