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2004 was designated as:
 * International Year of Rice (by the United Nations)
 * International Year to Commem

1989 was a turning point in political history because a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power sharing, coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, embracing the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December, and ending in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989.

It was the year of the first Brazilian presidential elections in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 which commanded the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point.

F. W. de Klerk was elected in South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the Apartheid system over the next five years, culminating with the 1994 election that brought jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela to power.

In contrast, the year saw the violent suppression of mass political protest in China, in June. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 ended with a military crackdown resulting in the deaths of a number of protesters.

The first commercial Internet service providers surfaced in this year, as well as the first written proposal for the World Wide Web and New Zealand, Japan and Australia's first Internet connections. The first babies born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis were conceived in late 1989, starting the era of designer babies.

1989 marked the beginning of the current Heisei period in Japan. It is also the latest year, when written in Roman numerals, to have an L.

January

 * January 2 – Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa takes office as the third President of Sri Lanka.
 * January 4 – Gulf of Sidra incident (1989): Two Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are engaged and shot down by 2 US Navy F-14 Tomcats.
 * January 7 – Hirohito dies, and Akihito is enthroned as the 125th Emperor of Japan immediately, followed by the change in the era name from Showa to Heisei on the following day.
 * January 8 – Kegworth air disaster: A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport, leaving 47 dead.
 * January 10 – In accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 626 and the New York Accords, Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
 * January 11
 * Outgoing U.S. President Ronald Reagan delivers his farewell address to the nation after eight years in office.
 * The Lexus and Infiniti luxury car brands are launched at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit with the unveiling of the 1990 Lexus LS and Infiniti Q45 sedans.
 * January 15
 * Thirty-five European nations, meeting in Vienna, agree to strengthen human rights and improve East-West trade.
 * "Palach Week": A pro-democracy demonstration in Prague is attacked by the police.
 * January 17 – Stockton schoolyard shooting: Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children, wounds thirty and then shoots himself in Stockton, California.
 * January 18
 * The Polish United Workers' Party votes to legalise Solidarity.
 * Ante Marković succeeds Branko Mikulić as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
 * January 20 – George H. W. Bush is sworn in as the 41st President of the United States.
 * January 23 – A powerful earthquake in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic kills around 275 people.
 * January 23–24 – Armed civilian leftists briefly attack and occupy an Argentinian army base near Buenos Aires.
 * January 24 – Florida executes Ted Bundy by electric chair for the murders of young women.
 * January 29 – The British children's television show, Thomas & Friends, begins airing in the United States with the series premiere of Shining Time Station on PBS.
 * January 30 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet, appointing six new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of nineteen others.

February

 * February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC (Victorian Economic Development Co-operation) Crisis.
 * February 2
 * Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet Union armoured column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation since 1979.
 * Carlos Andrés Pérez takes office as President of Venezuela.
 * Satellite television service Sky Television plc is launched in Europe.
 * February 3
 * A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
 * After a stroke, State President of South Africa P. W. Botha resigns as Leader of the National Party.
 * February 5 – Eurosport, a multiple-language sports broadcasting station in Europe, a first broadcasts service to start in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ile de France, France.
 * February 6 – The Government of the People's Republic of Poland holds formal talks with representatives of Solidarity movement for the first time since 1981.
 * February 7
 * The People's National Party, led by Michael Manley, wins the 1989 Jamaican general election.
 * The Los Angeles City Council bans the sale or possession of semi-automatic firearms.
 * February 10
 * Ron Brown is elected as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.
 * U.S. President Bush meets Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991.
 * February 11 – Barbara Harris is the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (and also the first woman to become a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion).
 * February 14
 * Union Carbide agrees to pay $470,000,000 to the Indian government for damages in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
 * The Satanic Verses controversy: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (d. June 3), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel The Satanic Verses (1988).
 * The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
 * February 15
 * Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
 * Following a campaign that saw over 1,000 people killed in massive campaign-related violence, the United National Party wins the Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
 * February 16 – Pan Am Flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
 * February 17
 * The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) is formed.
 * South African police raid the home of Winnie Mandela and arrest four of her bodyguards.
 * February 20 – In Canada's Yukon Territory, the ruling New Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, winning 9 seats vs. the Progressive Conservative Party's 7.
 * February 23 – After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11–9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
 * February 23–27 – U.S. President Bush visits Japan, China, and South Korea, attending the funeral of Hirohito and then meeting with China's Deng Xiaoping and South Korea's Roh Tae-woo.
 * February 24
 * The funeral of Hirohito is attended by representatives of 160 nations.
 * The Satanic Verses controversy: Iran places a $3,000,000 bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
 * Singing Revolution: After 44 years, the Estonian flag is raised at the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn.
 * United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747, suffers uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport; nine passengers are sucked out of the cabin to their deaths.
 * February 27 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo, a wave of protests and looting.

March

 * March – Poland begins to liberalise its currency exchange in a move towards capitalism.
 * March 1
 * The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.
 * A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.
 * The Politieke Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij, Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelical People's Party amalgamate to form the Dutch political party GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft).
 * After 74 years, Iceland ends its prohibition on beer; celebrated since as bjórdagur or beer day.
 * March 2 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
 * March 3 – Jammu Siltavuori abducts and murders two eight-year-old girls in the Myllypuro suburb of Helsinki, Finland.
 * March 4
 * Time Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner. (Now WarnerMedia)
 * The Purley station rail crash in London leaves five people dead and 94 injured.
 * The first ACT (Australian Capital Territory) elections are held.
 * March 7 – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
 * March 9 – Revolutions of 1989: The Soviet Union submits to the jurisdiction of the World Court.
 * March 13
 * A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. 6,000,000 people are left without power for nine hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lose power, and aurorae are seen as far as Texas.
 * Tim Berners-Lee produces the proposal document that will become the blueprint for the World Wide Web.
 * March 14
 * Gun control: U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed to be classed as assault weapons into the United States.
 * Christian General Michel Aoun declares a "War of Liberation" to rid Lebanon of Syrian forces and their allies.
 * March 15
 * Israel hands over Taba to Egypt, ending a seven-year territorial dispute.
 * Mass demonstrations in Hungary, demanding democracy.
 * March 16 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approves agricultural reforms allowing farmers the right to lease state-owned farms for life.
 * March 17
 * The Civic Tower of Pavia, built in the eleventh century, collapses.
 * Alfredo Cristiani is elected as President of El Salvador.
 * March 20 – Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity.
 * March 22
 * Clint Malarchuk of the NHL Buffalo Sabres suffers an almost fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
 * Asteroid 4581 Asclepius approaches the Earth at a distance of 700,000 km.
 * March 23 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah.
 * March 23–28 – The Socialist Republic of Serbia passes constitutional changes revoking the autonomy of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, triggering six days of rioting by the Albanian majority, during which at least 29 people are killed.
 * March 24 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 oilbbl of oil after running aground.
 * March 26 – The first contested elections for the Soviet parliament, Congress of People's Deputies, result in losses for the Communist Party.
 * March 29 – The 61st Academy Awards are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Rain Man winning Best Picture.

April

 * April 1 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Poll tax, is introduced in Scotland. It would be introduced in England & Wales the following year.
 * April 2
 * In South-West Africa, fighting erupts between SWAPO insurgents and the South West African Police on the day that a ceasefire was supposed to end the South African Border War according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 435. By April 6, nearly 300 people are killed.
 * April 4
 * A failed coup attempt against Prosper Avril, President of Haiti, leads to a standoff between mutinous troops and the government which ends on April 10, with the government regaining control of the country.
 * In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its fortieth anniversary.
 * April 5 – The Polish Government and the Solidarity trade union sign an agreement restoring Solidarity to legal status, and agreeing to hold democratic elections on June 1.
 * April 6 – National Safety Council of Australia chief executive John Friedrich is arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235,000,000.
 * April 7 – The Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 41.
 * April 9
 * Tbilisi massacre: Georgian demonstrators are massacred by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful rally; 20 citizens are killed, many injured.
 * A dispute over grazing rights leads to the beginning of the Mauritania–Senegal Border War.
 * April 14 – The U.S. government seizes the Irvine, California, Lincoln Savings and Loan Association; Charles Keating (for whom the Keating Five were named) eventually goes to jail, as part of the massive 1980s savings and loan crisis which cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $200,000,000 in bailouts, and many people their life savings.
 * April 15
 * The death of Hu Yaobang sparks the beginning of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
 * The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool F.C. supporters.
 * April 17 – Poland, Solidarity is once again legalised and allowed to participate in semi-free elections on June 4.
 * April 19
 * Trisha Meili is attacked whilst jogging in New York City's Central Park; as her identity remains secret for years, she is referred to as the "Central Park Jogger."
 * A gun turret explodes on the U.S. battleship Iowa, killing 47 crew members.
 * April 20 – NATO debates modernising short range missiles; although the US and UK are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.
 * April 21 – Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square.
 * April 23
 * Zaid al-Rifai resigns as Prime Minister of Jordan in the wake of riots over government-imposed price hikes that began on April 18.
 * April 25
 * Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of Japan in the wake of a stock-trading scandal.
 * The term of Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail as the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
 * Motorola introduces the Motorola MicroTAC Personal Cellular Telephone, then the world's smallest mobile phone.
 * April 26
 * Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
 * Zaid ibn Shaker succeeds Zaid al-Rifai as Prime Minister of Jordan.
 * The Daulatpur–Saturia tornado, the deadliest tornado ever recorded, kills an estimated 1,300 people in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh.
 * April 27 – A major demonstration occurs in Beijing, as part of the Tiananmen Square protests.

May

 * May
 * Transhumanism – Genetic modification of adult human beings is tried for the first time, a gene tagging trial.
 * The Soviet Union issues its first Visa card in a step to digitalise their banking system.
 * May 1
 * Andrés Rodríguez, who had seized power and declared himself President of Paraguay during a military coup in February, wins a landslide victory at a general election marked by charges of fraud.
 * Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
 * May 2
 * The first crack in the Iron Curtain: Hungary dismantles 240 km of barbed wire fencing along the border with Austria.
 * The coalition government of Prime Minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers collapses in a dispute about a pollution cleanup plan.
 * May 3 – Cold War – Perestroika – The first McDonald's restaurant in the USSR begins construction in Moscow. It will open on 31 January 1990.
 * May 4 – Oliver North convicted on charges related to the Iran–Contra affair. His conviction was thrown out on appeal in 1991 because of his immunised testimony.
 * May 9 – Andrew Peacock deposes John Howard as Federal Opposition Leader of Australia.
 * May 10 – The government of President of Panama Manuel Noriega declares void the result of the May 7 presidential election, which Noriega had lost to Guillermo Endara.
 * May 11
 * President Bush orders 1,900 U.S. troops to Panama to protect Americans there.
 * The ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Legislative Assembly meets for the first time.
 * May 12–25 – San Bernardino train disaster: Southern Pacific freight locomotive SP 7551 East derails in a residential area of San Bernardino, California, killing four and destroying seven houses. On May 25, 1989, as a direct result of the derailment, the Calnev Pipeline exploded, killing an additional two people and destroying eleven more houses and 21 cars.
 * May 14
 * Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s.
 * Carlos Menem wins the Argentine presidential election.
 * May 15 – Australia's first private tertiary institution, Bond University, opens on the Gold Coast.
 * May 16 – Ethiopia Coup Attempt: Senior military officers stage a coup attempt in Ethiopia hours after President Mengistu Haile Mariam leaves on a visit to East Germany.
 * May 17 – More than 1,000,000 Chinese protestors march through Beijing demanding greater democracy.
 * May 19
 * 1989 Ürümqi unrest: Uyghur and Hui Muslim protesters riot in front of the government building in Ürümqi, China.
 * Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
 * Ciriaco De Mita resigns as Prime Minister of Italy.
 * May 20 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing.
 * May 22 – The Nordland Days in Leningrad region (Leningrad Oblast) open.
 * May 25 – The Calgary Flames defeat the Montreal Canadiens four games to two to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup.
 * May 29
 * Amid food riots and looting set off by inflation, the Government of Argentina declares a nationwide state of siege.
 * Boris Yeltsin gains a seat on the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
 * Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
 * NATO agrees to talks with the Soviet Union on reducing the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
 * An attempted assassination of Miguel Maza Marquez, director of the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) in Bogotá, Colombia is committed by members of the Medellín Cartel, who kill four and injure 37.
 * May 31 – Six members of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Movement Tupac Amaru (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.

June

 * June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden.
 * June 2 – Sōsuke Uno succeeds Noboru Takeshita as Prime Minister of Japan.
 * June 3 – June 4
 * Fighting breaks out in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic between ethnic Uzbeks and the Turkish minority; more than 100 people are killed by June 15.
 * The world's first HDTV broadcasts commence in Japan, in analogue.
 * The Tiananmen Square crackdown takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
 * Solidarity's victory in Polish elections is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989.
 * Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
 * June 5 – An unknown Chinese protestor, "Tank Man", stands in front of a column of military tanks on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, temporarily halting them, an incident which achieves iconic status internationally through images taken by Western photographers.
 * June 6 – The Ayatollah Khomeini's first funeral is aborted by officials after a large crowd storms the funeral procession, nearly destroying Khomeini's wooden casket in order to get a last glimpse of his body. At one point, Khomeini's body almost falls to the ground, as the crowd attempt to grab pieces of the death shroud.
 * June 7 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes in Paramaribo, Suriname; killing 176.
 * June 12 – The Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's gay photography exhibition.
 * June 13 – The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941, is located 960 km west of Brest, France.
 * June 15 – At the 1989 Irish general election, Fianna Fáil, led by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, fails to win a majority.
 * June 16 – A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister who had been executed in 1958.
 * June 18 – In the first Greek legislative election of the year, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led by Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou, loses control of the Hellenic Parliament, leading to Papandreou's resignation on July 2.
 * June 21 – British police arrest 250 people for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge.
 * June 22 – Ireland's first universities established since independence in 1922, Dublin City University and the University of Limerick, open.
 * June 24 – Jiang Zemin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
 * June 30 – A military coup led by Omar al-Bashir ousts the civilian government of Prime Minister of Sudan Sadiq al-Mahdi.

July

 * July 2 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece resigns; a new government is formed under Tzannis Tzannetakis.
 * July 5
 * State President of South Africa P. W. Botha meets the imprisoned 70-year-old Nelson Mandela face-to-face for the first time.
 * The television sitcom Seinfeld premieres.
 * July 6 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, the first Palestinian suicide attack on Israel, takes place.
 * July 9–12 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush travels to Poland and Hungary, pushing for U.S. economic aid and investment.
 * July 10 – Approximately 300,000 Siberian coal miners go on strike, demanding better living conditions and less bureaucracy; it is the largest Soviet labour strike since the 1920s.
 * July 12 – In the Republic of Ireland, the Taoiseach Charles Haughey returns to power after Fianna Fáil forms a coalition with the Progressive Democrats.
 * July 14 – France celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the French Revolution.
 * July 14–16 – At the 15th G7 summit, leaders call for restrictions on gas emissions.
 * July 17
 * The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber makes its first flight.
 * Poland and the Vatican re-establish diplomatic relations after approximately fifty years.
 * July 18 – Actress Rebecca Schaeffer is murdered by an obsessed fan, leading to stricter stalking laws in California.
 * July 19
 * The National Assembly of the Republic of Poland elects Wojciech Jaruzelski to the new and powerful post of President of Poland.
 * United Airlines Flight 232 (Douglas DC-10) crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112; 184 on board survive.
 * July 20 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest. She is released in 2010.
 * July 21 – A total blockade of Armenia and NKAO by Azerbaijan begins.
 * July 23
 * Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses control of the House of Councillors, the LDP's worst electoral showing in 34 years, leading to Prime Minister Uno announcing he will resign to take responsibility for the result.
 * Giulio Andreotti takes office as Prime Minister of Italy.
 * July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
 * July 27 – In what was the largest prison sentence to date, Thai financial scammer Mae Chamoy Thipyaso and her accomplices are each sentenced to 141,078 years in prison.
 * July 28 – At the Iranian presidential election, electors overwhelmingly elect Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as President of Iran and endorse changes to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, increasing the powers of the president.
 * July 31
 * In Lebanon, Hezbollah announces that it has hanged U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins in retaliation for Israel's July 28 kidnapping of Hezbollah leader Abdel Karim Obeid. The same day, the United Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 638, condemning the taking of hostages by both sides in the conflict.
 * Nintendo releases the Game Boy portable video game system in North America.

August

 * August 2 – Pakistan is readmitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after leaving it in 1972.
 * August 5 – Jaime Paz Zamora is elected President of Bolivia, taking office the next day.
 * August 7
 * U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and fifteen others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
 * The presidents of five Central American countries agree that the U.S.-backed contras fighting the government of Nicaragua should be disbanded and evicted from their bases in Honduras by December 5.
 * August 8
 * Prime Minister of New Zealand David Lange resigns for health reasons and is replaced by Geoffrey Palmer.
 * STS-28: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
 * August 9
 * Toshiki Kaifu becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
 * The asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged by radar from Arecibo Observatory.
 * A measure to rescue the savings and loan industry is signed into law by President Bush, launching the largest federal rescue to date.
 * August 10 – Army General Colin Powell became the first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after being nominated by President Bush.
 * August 13 – A hot air balloon accident near Alice Springs, Australia kills thirteen people.
 * August 15
 * P.W. Botha resigns as State President of South Africa.
 * F. W. de Klerk becomes the seventh and final State President of South Africa.
 * August 18 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá, Colombia.
 * August 19
 * Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, the first non-Communist in power in 42 years.
 * The Pan-European Picnic, a peace demonstration, is held at the Austro-Hungarian border.
 * August 19–21 – In response to the murder of a judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the authorities of Colombia arrest 11,000 suspected Colombian drug traffickers.
 * August 20
 * In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's den.
 * Fifty-one people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge.
 * August 21 – The 21st anniversary of the crushing of the Prague Spring is commemorated by a demonstration in the city.
 * August 23
 * Singing Revolution: Two million indigenous people of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs join hands to demand freedom and independence from Soviet occupation, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way.
 * Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria.
 * All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute.
 * August 23 – Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.
 * August 24
 * Colombia's cocaine traffickers declare "total and absolute war" against the government and begin a series of bombings and arson attacks.
 * Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune.
 * Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity is elected Prime Minister of Poland.
 * August 25 – Voyager 2 passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton.
 * August 31 – In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict of 1978–87, representatives of Libya and Chad agree to let the International Court of Justice determine ownership of the Aouzou Strip, which had been occupied by Libya since 1973.

September

 * September 6
 * South African general election, 1989, the last held under the apartheid system, returns the National Party to power with a much-reduced majority.
 * At the 1989 Dutch general election, the Christian Democratic Appeal, led by Ruud Lubbers wins 54 seats, and is ultimately able to form a government on November 7 after entering into coalition with the Labour Party.
 * September 7 – Representatives of the government of Ethiopia and Eritrean separatists meet in Atlanta, with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attempting to broker a peace settlement.
 * September 8 – Partnair Flight 394 flies past an F-16 Fighting Falcon on its way home, then the Convair 580 rolls upside down and falls in the North Sea.
 * September 10 – The Hungarian government opens the country's western borders to refugees from East Germany.
 * September 10–11 – Norway's ruling Labour Party loses eight seats in the parliamentary elections, its worst showing since 1945.
 * September 14
 * An agreement of co-operation between Leningrad Oblast (Russia) and Nordland County (Norway) is signed in Leningrad, by Chairmen Lev Kojkolainen and Sigbjørn Eriksen.
 * Standard Gravure shooting: Joseph T. Wesbecker, a pressman on disability for mental illness, entered his former workplace and killed eight people and injured twelve before committing suicide after a history of suicidal ideation.
 * September 17–22 – Hurricane Hugo devastates the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, causing at least 71 deaths and $8,000,000,000 in damages.
 * September 18 – Alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso foiled.
 * September 19
 * The Catholic Church calls for removal of the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, whose presence had offended some Jewish leaders.
 * UTA Flight 772 explodes over Niger, killing all 171 people on board (the Islamic Jihad Organization claims responsibility).
 * Burkinabé ministers Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani and Henri Zongo executed following their arrest the previous day.
 * September 20 – F. W. de Klerk is sworn in as the seventh and last State President of South Africa.
 * September 22
 * 1989 Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent, United Kingdom, leaving 11 people dead and 22 injured.
 * Doe v. University of Michigan: A Michigan court rules against the hate speech law at the University of Michigan, claiming it unconstitutional.
 * September 23 – A cease-fire in the Lebanese Civil War stops the violence that had killed 900 people since March.
 * September 26 – Vietnam announces that it has withdrawn the last of its troops from the State of Cambodia, ending an eleven-year occupation.
 * September 30
 * Nearly 7,000 East Germans who had come to Prague on special refugee trains are allowed to leave for the West.
 * The Senegambia Confederation is dissolved over border disagreements.

October

 * October – Cold War – Perestroika – Nathan's Famous opens a hot dog stand in Moscow.
 * October 1 – Civil union between partners in a same-sex relationship becomes legal in Denmark under a law enacted on June 7, the world's first such legislation.
 * October 3
 * A coup attempt is foiled by Manuel Noriega, military leader of Panama.
 * The government of East Germany closes the country's border with Czechoslovakia to prevent further emigration to the West.
 * October 5 – The Dalai Lama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 * October 7
 * The communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party votes to reorganise itself as a socialist party, to be named the Hungarian Socialist Party.
 * The first mass demonstration against the Communist regime in the GDR began in Plauen, East Germany, at 7 October 1989 and it was the beginning of a series of mass demonstrations in the whole GDR which ultimately led to the reunification of Germany in 1990.
 * October 9
 * An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
 * In Leipzig, East Germany, protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
 * October 13
 * Friday the 13th mini-crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.
 * Gro Harlem Brundtland, leader of the Labour Party, resigns as Prime Minister of Norway. She is succeeded by Jan P. Syse, Leader of the Conservative Party, on October 16.
 * October 15 – Walter Sisulu is released from prison in South Africa.
 * October 17 – The 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed and the 1989 World Series is postponed for ten days as a result of the earthquake.
 * October 18
 * The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems, and is succeeded by Egon Krenz.
 * The National Assembly of Hungary votes to restore multi-party democracy.
 * NASA launches the unmanned Galileo orbiter on a mission to study the planet Jupiter, via Atlantis mission STS-34.
 * October 19
 * The Guildford Four are freed after fourteen years.
 * The Wonders of Life pavilion opens at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida.
 * October 21 – The Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations issue the Langkawi Declaration on the Environment, making environmental sustainability one of the Commonwealth's main priorities.
 * October 23
 * The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by President Mátyás Szűrös (replacing the Hungarian People's Republic), exactly 33 years after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
 * The Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314 others.
 * October 28 – United States Flag Protection Act takes effect. Mass protests in Seattle and New York City
 * October 30 – Shawn Eichman, Dave Blalock, Dread Scott, and Joey Johnson burn American flags on steps of U.S. Capitol Building to protest Flag Protection Act
 * October 31
 * The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Turgut Özal as the eighth President of Turkey.
 * Half a million people demonstrate in the East German city of Leipzig.

November

 * November – First commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America is made, by The World STD.
 * November 1
 * The President of Nicaragua ends a ceasefire with U.S.-backed contras that had been in effect since April 1988.
 * The border between East Germany and Czechoslovakia is reopened.
 * November 3 – East German refugees arrive at the West German town of Hof after being allowed through Czechoslovakia.
 * November 4 – Typhoon Gay devastates Thailand's Chumphon Province.
 * November 6 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is founded.
 * November 7
 * Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia gubernatorial race, becoming the first elected African-American Governor in the United States.
 * David Dinkins becomes the first African-American mayor of New York City.
 * Cold War: The Communist government of East Germany resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains as head of state.
 * November 9
 * Cold War and Fall of the Berlin Wall: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for travelling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect "immediately". East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades (November 17 celebrates Germans tearing the wall down).
 * Yıldırım Akbulut of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (47th government).
 * November 10
 * After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
 * Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly solo around the world.
 * CKO (a Canadian national all-news radio network) suddenly terminates all broadcasting during the newscast at noon (Eastern time), due to financial losses (the station began broadcasting on July 1, 1977).
 * November 12 – Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960. This marks the first time that all Ibero-American nations, except Cuba, have elected constitutional governments simultaneously.
 * November 13 – Hans-Adam II becomes Prince of Liechtenstein on the death of his father, Prince Franz Joseph II.
 * November 14 – Elections are held in Namibia, leading to a victory for the South West Africa People's Organisation.
 * November 15
 * Lech Wałęsa, leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, addresses a Joint session of the United States Congress.
 * Brazil holds the first round of its first free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor de Mello and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva advance to the second round, to be held the following month.
 * November 16
 * Six Jesuit priests are murdered by U.S. trained Salvadoran soldiers.
 * The first American cosmetics shop, an Estée Lauder outlet, opens in Moscow.
 * South African President F. W. de Klerk announces the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act.
 * UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the 25th session of its General Conference.
 * November 17 – Cold War – Velvet Revolution: A peaceful student demonstration in Prague, Czechoslovakia, is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
 * November 20 – Cold War – Velvet Revolution: The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
 * November 21 – The Members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia begin to draft the Constitution of Namibia, which will be the constitution of the newly independent Namibia.
 * November 22 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
 * November 24 – Following a week of demonstrations demanding free elections and other reforms, General Secretary Miloš Jakeš and other leaders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia resign. Jakeš is replaced by Karel Urbánek.
 * November 26 – Uruguayan general election, 1989: Luis Alberto Lacalle is elected President of Uruguay.
 * November 27 – Colombian domestic passenger flight Avianca Flight 203 is bombed by the Medellín drug cartel in an (unsuccessful) attempt to kill presidential candidate for the 1990 elections César Gaviria Trujillo.
 * November 28 – Cold War – Velvet Revolution: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-Communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than forty years).
 * November 29 – Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after his party, the Indian National Congress, loses about half of its seats at the 1989 Indian general election.
 * November 30 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a bomb (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder).

December

 * December 1
 * In a meeting with Pope John Paul II, General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev pledges greater religious freedom for citizens of the Soviet Union.
 * Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist-dominated SED its monopoly on power. Egon Krenz, the Politburo and the Central Committee resign two days later.
 * A military coup attempt begins in the Philippines against the government of Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino. It is crushed by United States intervention ending by December 9.
 * December 2
 * The Solar Maximum Mission scientific research satellite, launched in 1980, crashes back to earth.
 * V. P. Singh takes office as Prime Minister of India.
 * In the Republic of China legislative election, the Kuomintang suffers its worst election setback in forty years, winning only 53% of the popular vote.
 * The Second Malayan Emergency concludes with a peace agreement. The Malayan Communist Party disbands and Chin Peng remains in exile in Thailand until his death in 2013.
 * December 3
 * The entire leadership of the ruling Socialist Unity Party in East Germany, including Egon Krenz, resigns.
 * Cold War: Malta Summit – In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
 * December 4 – Prime Minister of Jordan Zaid ibn Shaker resigns and is replaced by Mudar Badran.
 * December 6
 * The DAS Building bombing occurs in Bogotá, killing 52 people and injuring about 1,000.
 * Egon Krenz resigns as Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic, and is replaced by Manfred Gerlach, the first non-Communist to hold that post.
 * École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders fourteen young women at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.
 * December 7
 * Ladislav Adamec resigns as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia. He is succeeded by Marián Čalfa on December 10.
 * Singing Revolution: The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic becomes the first of the republics of the Soviet Union to abolish the Communist Party's monopoly on power.
 * December 9 – The Socialist Unity Party of Germany elects the reformist Gregor Gysi as party leader.
 * December 10
 * President of Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák swears in a new cabinet with a non-Communist and then immediately resigns as president.
 * Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement, that peacefully changes the second-oldest Communist country into a democracy.
 * December 11 – The International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, reaches the South Pole.
 * December 14 – Chile holds its first free election in sixteen years, electing Patricio Aylwin as president.
 * December 15 – Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police.
 * December 17
 * The Romanian Revolution begins in Timișoara when rioters break into the building housing the District Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and cause extensive damage. Their attempts to set the buildings on fire are foiled by military units.
 * Brazil holds the second round of its first free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor de Mello is elected to serve as President from 1990.
 * December 19 – Workers in Romanian cities go on strike in protest against the Communist regime.
 * December 20 – The United States invasion of Panama ("Operation Just Cause") is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
 * December 21 – Nicolae Ceaușescu addresses an assembly of some 110,000 people outside the Romanian Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest. The crowd begin to protest against Ceaușescu and he addresses protesters to calm down.
 * December 22
 * After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as President of Romania, ending the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, who flees his palace in a helicopter after the palace is invaded by rioters.
 * Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey, Australia, killing 35 people.
 * December 23 – Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu are captured in Târgoviște.
 * December 25
 * Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena are executed.
 * Bank of Japan governors announce a major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of the bubble economy.
 * December 28 – A magnitude earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
 * December 29
 * Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-Communist President of Czechoslovakia.
 * Riots break out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
 * Nikkei 225 for Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87.
 * Spümcø, the company that produces Ren and Stimpy, is incorporated in California.
 * December 31 – Poland's president signs the Balcerowicz Plan, ending the state socialist system in Poland in favor of a capitalist system and Polish involvement in the Warsaw Pact.

Date unknown

 * The first Al-Qaeda-related cell in the United States begins operation in New York City.
 * Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history.
 * The United States leaves its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, it does not return until late-2001.
 * Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalised in Western Australia.
 * Kamchatka opens to Russian civilian visitors.
 * The Breguet Alizé propeller-driven anti-submarine planes are retired from active carrier service in the French Navy.
 * The first national park in the Netherlands is established in Schiermonnikoog.
 * Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water slides in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois closes after an incident on one of the slides.
 * Soviet submarine K-173 (Chelyabinsk) is commissioned.
 * Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai theory, about the collapse of industrial civilization.
 * The NIOS board is established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India.
 * The Museum of Jurassic Technology is founded in Culver City, California, by David and Diana Wilson.
 * The last golden toad is seen; the species is now classified as extinct.
 * A major incident of religious violence rocks Bhagalpur, Bihar killing nearly 1,000 people.
 * The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established.
 * The global concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reaches 350 parts per million by volume.
 * Walmart posts revenues and profits triple its 1986 figures and rivals Kmart and Sears in importance in the American market.
 * N.W.A are the first gangsta rap group to sell 1,000,000 copies of an album with their controversial 1988 debut album Straight Outta Compton.
 * The South African military dismantles its last nuclear weapons.

January

 * January 1
 * Adèle Haenel, French actress
 * Edita Vilkevičiūtė, Lithuanian model
 * January 2 – Kaitlin Howell, Canadian actress
 * January 3
 * Alex D. Linz, American actor
 * Anya Kop, American fashion model
 * Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
 * January 4
 * Kariem Hussein, Swiss 400 metres hurdler
 * Labrinth, British urban and hip-hop musician
 * Sessilee Lopez, American model
 * Julius Yego, Kenian javelin thrower
 * January 6
 * Andy Carroll, English footballer
 * James Durbin, American Idol contestant
 * Nicky Romero, Dutch DJ
 * January 7
 * Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
 * Khairul Fahmi Che Mat, Malaysian footballer
 * January 8 – Steven Christopher Parker, American actor
 * January 9
 * Michael Beasley, American basketball player
 * Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-born Canadian actress
 * January 10
 * Conor Dwyer, American Olympic swmmer
 * Emily Meade, American actress
 * Heo Sol-ji, South Korean singer (EXID)
 * January 11
 * Chris Perry-Metcalf, British actor
 * Naif Hazazi, Saudi footballer
 * January 12 – Arci Muñoz, Filipina actress and model
 * January 13 – Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actress
 * January 14 – Frankie Sandford, British singer
 * January 15
 * Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
 * Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer
 * Tasha Reign, American pornographic actress, nude model, stripper, producer and sex columnist
 * Ronny Vencatachellum, Mauritian swimmer
 * Ryan Corr, Australian actor
 * January 16 – Yvonne Zima, American actress
 * January 19
 * Yani Tseng, Taiwanese golfer
 * Kelly Marie Tran, American actress
 * January 20
 * Kim Bùi, German artistic gymnast
 * Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress
 * January 21
 * Murilo de Almeida, Brazilian-East Timorese footballer
 * Katie Griffiths, British actress
 * Doğuş Balbay, American basketball player
 * Sergey Fesikov, Russian swimmer
 * Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenian footballer
 * January 24
 * Calvin Goldspink, British actor
 * Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
 * January 25 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese stage and film actress
 * January 26
 * Emily Hughes, American figure skater
 * Hannah Arterton, English actress
 * January 27
 * Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer
 * Daisy Lowe, British fashion model
 * January 28 – Bruno Massot, French-born German pair skater
 * January 30
 * Jahvid Best, American NFL player
 * Lee Gun-woo, South Korean singer
 * Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper

February

 * February 3 – Ryne Sanborn, American actor
 * February 4 – Larissa Ramos, Brazilian Miss Earth 2009 winner
 * February 5
 * Cristine Reyes, Filipina actress
 * Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
 * February 7
 * Louisa Lytton, British actress
 * Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer
 * Isaiah Thomas, American basketball player
 * February 8 – Dani Harmer, British actress
 * February 9
 * Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
 * Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian freestyle skier
 * February 11
 * Jesse Rath, Canadian actor
 * Lovi Poe, Filipina actress
 * February 13
 * Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
 * Katie Volding, American actress
 * Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
 * February 15 – Bonnie Dennison, American actress
 * February 16
 * Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
 * Zivanna Letisha Siregar, Indonesian model
 * February 17
 * Rebecca Adlington, British swimmer
 * Chord Overstreet, American actor, singer and musician
 * February 20
 * Jack Falahee, American actor
 * Mayu Kuroda, Japanese artistic gymnast
 * February 21
 * Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
 * Kristin Herrera, American actress
 * Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
 * February 23 – Chris Conte, American NFL player
 * February 24
 * Trace Cyrus, American musician
 * Daniel Kaluuya, English actor
 * Kosta Koufos, Greek-born American basketball player
 * February 25
 * Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * Lee Sang-hwa, South Korean speed skater
 * February 26 – Anastassiya Bannova, Kazakh archer
 * February 27
 * Kelly Breeding, American singer
 * Stephen Kiprotich, Ugandan marathoner
 * Stefano Langone, American singer
 * Lloyd Rigby, English footballer
 * February 28 – Zhang Liyin, Chinese singer

March

 * March 1
 * Emma, Australian professional wrestler
 * Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
 * Daniella Monet, American actress
 * March 2
 * Nathalie Emmanuel, English actress
 * Jean-Frédéric Chapuis, French Olympic freestyle skier
 * March 3 – Andrea Brooks, Canadian actress
 * March 4 – Erin Heatherton, American fashion model
 * March 5
 * Jake Lloyd, American actor
 * Sterling Knight, American actor
 * March 6 – Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
 * March 7 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor
 * March 9 – Kim Tae-yeon, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
 * March 10 – Đỗ Thị Ngân Thương, Vietnamese artistic gymnast
 * March 11
 * Daniella Kertesz, Israeli actress
 * Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (d. 2016)
 * March 12 – Tyler Clary, American Olympic swimmer
 * March 13
 * Peaches Geldof, British performer (d. 2014)
 * Pierre Niney, French actor
 * March 14 – Colby O'Donis, American singer
 * March 15 – Caitlin Wachs, American actress
 * March 16
 * Blake Griffin, American basketball player
 * Theo Walcott, English footballer
 * March 17
 * Mason Musso, American singer
 * Shinji Kagawa, Japanese football player
 * March 18
 * Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
 * Lily Collins, British-born American actress, daughter of Phil Collins, lead singer of British rock group Genesis
 * Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
 * March 19 – Craig Lamar Traylor, American actor
 * March 20 – Fei Fei Sun, Chinese model
 * March 21
 * Rochelle Wiseman, British singer (S Club Juniors & The Saturdays)
 * Takeru Satoh, Japanese actor (Rurouni Kenshin)
 * Jordi Alba, Spanish professional footballer
 * March 22
 * Eva Pereira, Cape Verdean middle distance runner
 * Karen Rodriguez, American singer
 * J. J. Watt, American football player
 * Aline Weber, Brazilian model
 * March 24 – Aziz Shavershian, Australian bodybuilder (d. 2011)
 * March 25
 * Scott Sinclair, English footballer
 * Aly Michalka, American actress and singer
 * March 27 – Stuart Edge, American YouTube personality
 * March 29 – Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (d. 2015)
 * March 31 – Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer

April

 * April 2
 * Liis Lass, Estonian actress
 * Midhun Jith, Martial artist, Guinness World Records breaker & World Kickboxing Champion
 * April 3 – Ankit Narang, Indian actor
 * April 4 – Chris Herd, Australian footballer who currently plays for Premier League team Aston Villa
 * April 5 – Lily James, British actress
 * April 6 – Gabrielle Scollay, Australian actress
 * April 8
 * Gabriella Wilde, English actress and model
 * Nicholas Megalis, American singer-songwriter
 * Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
 * April 9 – Danielle Kahle, American figure skater
 * April 11 – Eka Darville, Australian actor
 * April 12 – Lim Heem Wei, Singaporean artistic gymnast
 * April 13 – Vladislav Yegin, Russian ice hockey player
 * April 17
 * Beau Knapp, American actor
 * Javed Mohammed, Trinidadian footballer
 * April 18
 * Jessica Jung, American-born Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
 * Alia Shawkat, American actress
 * April 20
 * Alex Black, American actor
 * Carlos Valdes, Colombian actor and singer
 * April 22
 * Catherine Banner, British author
 * Louis Smith, British gymnast
 * April 23
 * Anastasia Baranova, Russian-born American actress
 * Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
 * April 25
 * Raquel Donatelli, American reality television star
 * Emanuela de Paula, Brazilian model
 * Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
 * Aysel Teymurzadeh, Azerbaijani pop singer
 * April 26
 * Daesung, South Korean singer
 * Luke Bracey, Australian actor
 * April 27
 * Lars Bender, German footballer
 * Sven Bender, German footballer
 * Martha Hunt, American model
 * April 28 – Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer and dancer (Infinite)
 * April 29 – Foxes, British singer-songwriter

May



 * May 3 – Katinka Hosszú, Hungarian swimmer
 * May 4
 * Dániel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
 * Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
 * James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player
 * May 5 – Chris Brown, American singer and actor
 * May 6
 * Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player
 * Otto Knows, Swedish DJ and producer
 * May 7
 * Arlenis Sosa, Dominican model
 * Earl Thomas, American football player
 * May 8
 * Katy B, British singer
 * Nyle DiMarco, American model and activist
 * Nora Arnezeder, French actress
 * May 9 – Shane van Gisbergen, New Zealander race car driver
 * May 10 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
 * May 11
 * Cam Newton, American football player, Quarterback and #1 on the Carolina Panthers
 * Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
 * Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter
 * May 12 – Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek-Cypriot singer and actress
 * May 14
 * Melinda Bam, South African beauty pageant contestant and model
 * Rob Gronkowski, American football player
 * Alina Talay, Belarusian 100 metres hurdler
 * Alexandra Park, Australian actress
 * May 15 – Sunny Lee, American-born Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
 * May 16
 * Pääru Oja, Estonian actor
 * Behati Prinsloo, Namibian fashion model
 * May 17
 * Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
 * Olivia Luccardi, American actress and producer
 * May 18 – Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer
 * May 19
 * Gaelan Connell, American actor and musician
 * Katie Moffatt, British journalist and presenter for That's Manchester
 * May 21
 * Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
 * Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer
 * May 23
 * Patrick Hougaard, Danish motorcycle speedway rider
 * Ezequiel Schelotto, Italian football player
 * Jeffery Taylor, Swedish basketball player
 * May 24
 * G-Eazy, American hip-hop rapper and producer
 * Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (d. 2005)
 * May 25
 * Guillaume Boivin, Canadian racing cyclist
 * Aliona Moon, Moldovan pop singer
 * May 26 – Park Yeeun, Korean Singer
 * May 27 – Afgan Syahreza, Indonesian pop singer and actor
 * May 28 – Alexey Negodaylo, Russian Olympic bobsledder
 * May 29
 * Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson, Icelandic singer
 * Riley Keough, American model
 * Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor
 * May 30
 * Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter
 * Park Hyomin, South Korean singer
 * May 31
 * Pablo Alborán, Spanish singer
 * Bas Dost, Dutch football player
 * Sean Johnson, American football player
 * Daul Kim, South Korean model (d. 2009)
 * Marco Reus, German football player
 * Chase Stanley, Australian rugby player
 * Sean Thornley, British tennis player

June

 * June 2
 * Freddy Adu, American soccer player
 * Austin Davis, American football player
 * Cooper Helfet, American football player
 * Steve Smith, Australian cricketer
 * Shane Yarran, Australian rules footballer (d. 2018)
 * June 3
 * Imogen Poots, British actress
 * Jillette Johnson, American singer
 * June 4
 * Pawel Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower
 * Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer
 * June 5
 * Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player
 * Monica Castaño, Colombian beauty queen and model
 * June 6 – Bryn McAuley, Canadian actress
 * June 8
 * Richard Fleeshman, British actor
 * Amaury Vassili, French operatic tenor
 * Minami Tsuda, Japanese voice actress
 * June 9 – Chloë Agnew, Irish singer
 * June 10
 * David Miller, South African cricketer
 * Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer
 * June 12 – Krista Kleiner, Filipina-American beauty queen, singer, model, actress and martial artist
 * June 13
 * Lisa Tucker, American singer, musical theater and television actress
 * Tommy Searle, British motocross racer
 * June 14
 * Lucy Hale, American actress and singer
 * Jubin Nautiyal, Indian playback singer
 * June 17 – Simone Battle, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
 * June 18
 * Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer
 * Anna Fenninger, Austrian alpine ski racer
 * Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
 * June 19 – Giacomo Gianniotti, Italian-Canadian actor
 * June 20 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
 * June 22
 * Jeffrey Earnhardt, American race car driver
 * Jung Yong Hwa South Korean musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the leader of the rock band CNBlue.
 * June 23 – Lauren Bennett, British singer, dancer, painter, photographer and model
 * June 25 – Chris Brochu, American actor and singer-songwriter
 * June 27
 * Matthew Lewis, British actor
 * Bruna Tenório, Brazilian supermodel
 * June 28
 * Andrew Fifita and his twin brother David Fifita, Tongans rugby league footballers
 * Mark Fischbach, American YouTube personality
 * Joe Kovacs, American shot putter
 * June 29 – Maciej Cieśla, Polish graphics designer
 * June 30
 * Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Ginta Lapiņa, Latvian model

July

 * July 1 – Daniel Ricciardo, Formula 1 driver. Drives for Red Bull F1
 * July 2 – Dev, American singer
 * July 3 – Elle King, American singer, songwriter and actress
 * July 7
 * Kim Bum, South Korean actor
 * Jamie Johnston, Canadian actor and singer-songwriter
 * July 8
 * Ahmad Fakri Saarani, Malaysian footballer
 * Dmitry Abakumov, Russian football player
 * Yarden Gerbi, Israeli world champion judoka
 * July 10 – Fazrul Hazli, Malaysian footballer
 * July 11
 * David Henrie, American actor
 * Shareeka Epps, American actress
 * July 12
 * Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress
 * Xian Lim, American-born Filipino actor, model and singer
 * Rakep Patel, Kenyan cricketer
 * July 13 – Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer
 * July 14 – Cyril Rioli, Australian rules footballer
 * July 15 – Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer
 * July 16
 * Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
 * Carlito Olivero, American singer
 * Kim Woo-bin, South Korean model and actor
 * July 18
 * Yohan Mollo, French footballer
 * Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
 * July 20 – Rayver Cruz, Filipino actor
 * July 21
 * Narcissa Wright, speedrunner
 * Jasmine Cephas Jones, American actress
 * Rory Culkin, American actor
 * Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
 * Jamie Waylett, British actor
 * Juno Temple, British actress
 * July 22
 * Keegan Allen, American actor
 * Kamal G, Indian film director, film editor and film producer
 * Baltasar Breki Samper, Icelandic actor
 * Trent Boult, New Zealand cricketer
 * July 23
 * Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
 * KJ Wright, American football player
 * Zhong An Qi, Taiwanese singer
 * July 25
 * Andrew Caldwell, American actor
 * Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
 * July 27 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
 * July 28
 * Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian Olympic medalist judoka
 * Amy Yang, South Korean golfer
 * July 29
 * Jake Smollett, American actor
 * Hona Costello, American singer
 * July 30 – Aleix Espargaró, Spanish Grand prix motorcycle racer
 * July 31
 * Alexis Knapp, American actress and singer
 * Marshall Williams, Canadian actor
 * Jessica Williams, American actress
 * Zelda Williams, American actress
 * Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player

August

 * August 1
 * Tiffany Hwang, American-born Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
 * Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
 * Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
 * Sean T. Krishnan, Canadian-American actor
 * August 2
 * Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
 * Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player
 * August 3
 * Jules Bianchi, French Formula One driver (d. 2015)
 * Sam Hutchinson, English footballer
 * August 4
 * Jessica Mauboy, Australian actress and singer-songwriter (Young Divas)
 * Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
 * August 5
 * Nina Radojčić, Serbian singer
 * Mathieu Manset, French footballer
 * Jessica Nigri, American model and actress
 * Shanshan Feng, Chinese golfer
 * August 7 – DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
 * August 8
 * Ken Baumann, American actor and author
 * Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
 * Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player
 * Hannah Miley, British swimmer
 * August 9
 * Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
 * Lucy Dixon, British actress
 * Meredith Deane, American actress
 * Jason Heyward, American baseball player
 * August 10
 * Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
 * Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
 * August 11
 * Emma Wu, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl)
 * Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)
 * Sebastian Huke, German footballer
 * August 14
 * Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Ander Herrera, Spanish professional footballer
 * August 15
 * Belinda, Mexican singer and actress
 * Joe Jonas, American musician, actor, and singer
 * Carlos Pena Jr., American actor, dancer and singer
 * Denise Oliver, Canadian voice actress
 * August 19 – Romeo Miller, American rapper and actor
 * August 20 – Kirko Bangz, American rapper
 * August 21
 * Rob Knox, English actor (d. 2008)
 * Hayden Panettiere, American actress and singer
 * August 23 – Breanna Conrad, American reality television star
 * August 24 – Andrés Mercado, Colombian actor and singer
 * August 26 – James Harden, American basketball player
 * August 27
 * Daniel Tovar, Mexican actor
 * Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater
 * August 28
 * Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
 * Valtteri Bottas, Formula One driver
 * August 30 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter

September

 * September 1
 * Bill Kaulitz, German singer (Tokio Hotel)
 * Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
 * Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
 * September 2
 * Zedd, record producer, DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
 * Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
 * September 5 – Kat Graham, Swiss-born American actress, model, singer and dancer
 * September 7 – Hugh Mitchell, British actor
 * September 8
 * Avicii, Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer (d. 2018)
 * Sebastián Francini, Argentine actor
 * September 9 – Sean Malto, American professional skateboarder
 * September 12
 * Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
 * Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, Canadian artistic gymnast
 * Andrew Luck, American football player
 * September 13
 * Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (d. 2013)
 * Thomas Müller, German football player
 * September 14
 * Kazumi Evans, Canadian voice actress and singer
 * Logan Henderson, American actor, dancer, and singer
 * September 15 – Steliana Nistor, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * September 19 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player, 2010 NBA Rookie of the Year
 * September 21
 * Jason Derulo, American urban singer, actor
 * Emma Watkins, Australian entertainer, singer and actress, first female lead member of The Wiggles since 2013
 * September 22
 * Hyoyeon Kim, Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
 * Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
 * September 23
 * Mara Scherzinger, German actress
 * Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
 * Kevin Norwood, American football player
 * Sui He, Chinese model
 * A.J. Applegate, American pornographic actress
 * Dani Daniels, American pornographic actress
 * September 24 – Pia Wurtzbach, German-Filipina actress, model, and Miss Universe 2015 beauty pageant titleholder
 * September 25 – Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor
 * September 26
 * Emma Rigby, British actress
 * Kieran Gibbs, English footballer
 * September 27
 * Robi Domingo, Filipino actor
 * Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer
 * Rumi Ōkubo, Japanese voice actress
 * September 29 – Theo Adams, British performance artist

October

 * October 1 – Brie Larson, American actress
 * October 2
 * Janine Gutierrez, Filipino actress
 * Brad Peltz, American ex-professional ice hockey defenceman
 * October 4
 * Dakota Johnson, American actress
 * Lil Mama, American rapper
 * Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
 * Viktoria Rebensburg, German alpine skier
 * Rich Homie Quan, American rapper
 * October 10 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress
 * October 11
 * Michelle Wie, American golf player
 * Tomoyuki Sugano, Japanese baseball pitcher
 * October 12 – Paulo Henrique Ganso, Brazilian football player
 * October 13 – Skyler Page, American animator and voice actor
 * October 14 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
 * October 16
 * Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby union player
 * Jack Salvatore Jr., American actor
 * October 17 – Sophie Luck, Australian actress
 * October 19
 * Janine Tugonon, Filipina beauty queen
 * Nikolija Jovanović, Serbian singer and dancer
 * October 20 – Jess Glynne, British singer
 * October 22 – JPEGMAFIA, American rapper
 * October 23 – Jonita Gandhi, Indo-Canadian sing
 * October 24
 * Armin Bačinović, Slovenian football midfielder
 * T'erea Brown, American track and field athlete
 * Jack Colback, English footballer
 * B. J. Daniels, American football quarterback
 * Cristian Gamboa, Costa Rican footballer
 * Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
 * Eric Hosmer, American professional baseball player
 * PewDiePie, Swedish YouTube celebrity
 * Igor Pisanjuk, Norwegian footballer
 * Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
 * October 25 – Marina Keegan, American author and journalist
 * October 28 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015)
 * October 30 – Nastia Liukin, American artistic gymnast and Olympic gold medalist

November

 * November 2 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer, songwriter and actress
 * November 3
 * Paula DeAnda, Mexican-born American singer
 * Kim Taek-yong, South Korean professional gamer (StarCraft, Starcraft II)
 * Elliott Tittensor, British actor
 * Luke Tittensor, British actor
 * Joyce Jonathan, French singer
 * November 5 – Andrew Boyce, English footballer
 * November 6
 * Jozy Altidore, American soccer player
 * Aaron Hernandez, American football player (d. 2017)
 * November 8 – Giancarlo Stanton, American baseball player.
 * November 9 – Gianluca Bezzina, Maltese doctor and singer
 * November 10
 * Taron Egerton, British actor
 * Adeele Sepp, Estonian actress
 * November 11
 * Adam Rippon, American figure skater
 * Reina Tanaka, Japanese rock singer, lead singer of Japanese rock group, Lovendor and former member of pop group Morning Musume
 * November 14
 * Emis Killa, Italian rapper
 * Jake Livermore, English footballer
 * November 15 – Jona Viray, Filipina singer
 * November 19
 * Tyga, American rapper
 * Caitlynne Medrek, Canadian actress and voice actress
 * November 20
 * Cody Linley, American actor
 * Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
 * November 21 – Fabian Delph, English footballer
 * November 22
 * Candice Glover, American Idol Season 12 winner
 * Alden Ehrenreich, American actor
 * November 24 – Jordan Witzigreuter, American singer-songwriter (The Ready Set)
 * November 25 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter
 * November 26 – Angeline Quinto, Filipina singer and actress
 * November 27
 * Freddie Sears, English footballer
 * Loveli, Japanese model
 * November 28
 * Ayesha Gwilt, British actress
 * Claire Brookin, British darts player
 * Martin Hare, British handball player

December

 * December 2
 * Cassie Steele, Canadian actress and singer
 * Robert Turbin, American football player
 * December 3 – Bette Franke, Dutch model
 * December 4
 * Garron DuPree, American musician
 * Nafessa Williams, American actress
 * December 5
 * Gregory Tyree Boyce, American actor
 * Katy Kung, Hong Kong actress
 * Kwon Yuri, South Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
 * December 7 – Nicholas Hoult, British actor
 * December 9 – Eric Bledsoe, American basketball player
 * December 10 – Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician
 * December 12 – Janelle Arthur, American Idol contestant
 * December 13
 * Katherine Schwarzenegger, American author
 * Taylor Swift, American pop and country singer
 * December 14 – Onew, Korean singer, member of Korean group (SHINee)
 * December 15 – Nichole Bloom, American actress and model
 * December 18 – Ashley Benson, American actress
 * December 19 – Valdimar Bergstað, Icelandic horse rider
 * December 21 – Tamannaah, Indian model and actress
 * December 22
 * Jordin Sparks, American singer
 * Logan Huffman, American actor
 * December 26
 * Yohan Blake, Jamaican athlete
 * Sora Tokui, Japanese voice actress, singer, and manga artist
 * December 27 – Kateryna Lagno, Ukrainian chess player
 * December 28
 * Jessie Buckley, Irish actress and singer
 * Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
 * Salvador Sobral, Portuguese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2017 winner
 * December 29
 * Jane Levy, American actress
 * Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
 * Left Brain, American rapper and music producer (Odd Future)
 * December 30 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder

January

 * January 3 – Robert Banks, American chemist (b. 1921)
 * January 4
 * D. R. Nanayakkara, Sri Lanka actor (b. 1915)
 * Dvora Netzer, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
 * January 6
 * Jim Hurtubise, American racecar driver (b. 1932)
 * Sir Edmund Leach, British anthropologist (b. 1910)
 * January 7
 * Frank Adams, British mathematician (b. 1930)
 * Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, one of the leaders of World War II (b. 1901)
 * January 8 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (b. 1932)
 * January 9 – Bill Terry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
 * January 10
 * Hai Deng, abbot of Shaolin Temple (b. 1902)
 * Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
 * Donald Voorhees, American composer and musician (b. 1903)
 * January 11
 * Einar Andersson, Swedish opera singer (b. 1909)
 * August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (b. 1900)
 * José Bustamante y Rivero, Peruvian politician, diplomat and jurist, 33rd President of Peru (b. 1894)
 * January 13 – Joe Spinell, American actor (Maniac, The Last Horror Film) (b. 1936)
 * January 14
 * Robert B. Anderson, American administrator and businessman (b. 1910)
 * Robert Lembke, German television presenter and game show host (b. 1913)
 * January 16
 * Prem Nazir, Indian actor (b. 1926)
 * Trey Wilson, American actor (b. 1948)
 * January 17 – Óscar Vargas Prieto, Peruvian soldier and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1917)
 * January 18 – Bruce Chatwin, British author (b. 1940)
 * January 19 – Norma Varden, English actress (b. 1898)
 * January 20
 * Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (b. 1894)
 * Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish communist politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1911)
 * January 21
 * Muharrem Bajraktari, Albanian Muslim tribal leader, political and military figure (b. 1896)
 * Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)
 * Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
 * January 23 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904)
 * January 24 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1946)
 * January 27
 * Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
 * Sir Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman (b. 1888)
 * January 28
 * Mikhail Chulaki, Soviet composer (b. 1908)
 * Halina Konopacka, Polish Olympic athlete (b. 1900)
 * January 30 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (b. 1936)
 * January 31 – Fernando Gonçalves Namora, Portuguese writer and doctor (b. 1919)

February

 * February 1 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1919)
 * February 2
 * Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (b. 1947)
 * Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (b. 1951)
 * February 3
 * Betty Farrington, American actress (b. 1898)
 * John Cassavetes, American actor and author (b. 1929)
 * Glenna Collett-Vare, American golfer (b. 1903)
 * February 6
 * Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
 * Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (b. 1930)
 * Ron Field, American choreographer (b. 1934)
 * February 7 – Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia (b. 1919)
 * February 8 – Lael Rodrigues, Brazilian filmmaker (b. 1951)
 * February 9 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (b. 1928)
 * February 11
 * Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh ruler of Abu Dhabi (b. 1905)
 * T. E. B. Clarke, British screenwriter (b. 1907)
 * George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)
 * February 13
 * Claude Dupuy, French Roman Catholic priest and bishop (b. 1901)
 * Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (b. 1910)
 * February 14
 * James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
 * Vincent Crane, British musician (Atomic Rooster) (b. 1943)
 * February 16 – Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1899)
 * February 17
 * Lefty Gomez, Mexican-born American baseball player (New York Yankees) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1908)
 * Joe Raposo, American musician, composer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company) (b. 1937)
 * February 18 – John Bailey, British actor (b. 1912)
 * February 20 – Robert Dorning, British actor (b. 1913)
 * February 21
 * Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer and journalist (b. 1900)
 * Moshe Unna, Israeli politician (b. 1902)
 * February 22 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timor politician (b. 1938)
 * February 23 – José Romão Martenetz, Soviet Roman Catholic monk and servant of God (b. 1903)
 * February 24 – Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
 * February 26 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
 * February 27
 * Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
 * Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

March

 * March 2 – Liviu Cornel Babeș, Romanian electrician and painter (b. 1943)
 * March 3 – Kenneth Hegan, English amateur footballer, professional soldier (b. 1901)
 * March 4 – Salvatore Dell'Isola, Italian conductor (b. 1901)
 * March 6 – Harry Andrews, British actor (b. 1911)
 * March 8
 * Robert Lacoste, French politician (b. 1898)
 * Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician (b. 1908)
 * March 9 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American activist, artist and photographer (b. 1946)
 * March 10 – Maurizio Merli, Italian actor (b. 1940)
 * March 11 – James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
 * March 12
 * Maurice Evans, British actor (b. 1901)
 * Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect and historian (b. 1903)
 * March 14
 * Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (b. 1927)
 * Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman (b. 1900)
 * Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Queen consort of Hungary and Empress consort of Austria (b. 1892)
 * March 16
 * Jesús María de Leizaola, Spanish politician (b. 1896)
 * George Lynn, American composer and conductor (b. 1915)
 * March 17 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959)
 * March 19
 * Abe Akira, Japanese author (b. 1934)
 * Alan Civil, English-born French horn player (b. 1929)
 * March 20 – Dina Sfat, Brazilian actress (b. 1938)
 * March 21 – Milton Frome, American actor (b. 1909)
 * March 25 – Sa`id Al-Mufti, Jordanian political figure, 9th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1898)
 * March 27
 * May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
 * Malcolm Cowley, American author (b. 1898)
 * Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
 * March 29
 * Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
 * Aleksandr Prokopenko, Soviet footballer (b. 1953)
 * March 31 – Piotr Belousov, Soviet painter (b. 1912)

April

 * April 1
 * Richard Austin, American conductor (b. 1903)
 * George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (b. 1926)
 * April 3
 * Mustafa Çağatay, Turkish-Cypriot politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (Turkish) (b. 1937)
 * Vishnu Sahay, Indian politician and civil servant (b. 1901)
 * April 6 – Zofia Batycka, Polish actress and model (b. 1907)
 * April 7 – Cheng Nan-jung, supporter of Taiwan independence movement (b. 1947)
 * April 8 – Maria Prilezhayeva, Russian author (b. 1903)
 * April 9
 * Moshe Ziffer, Israeli sculptor (b. 1902)
 * Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
 * Sugar Ray Robinson, American professional boxer (b. 1921)
 * April 12
 * Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (b. 1936)
 * Charles Joy, British engineer and designer (b. 1911)
 * April 13
 * Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1906)
 * António Ferreira Gomes, Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1906)
 * April 15
 * Carol Graham, British Anglican missionary (b. 1898)
 * Bernard-Marie Koltès, French playwright (b. 1948)
 * Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
 * April 16 – Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
 * April 19
 * Dame Daphne du Maurier, British writer (b. 1907)
 * Harold Isherwood, British Anglican bishop (b. 1907)
 * April 21
 * Princess Deokhye of Korea (b. 1912)
 * James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright (b. 1924)
 * April 22 – Emilio Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 * April 23
 * Hamani Diori, Nigerien politician, 1st President of Niger (b. 1916)
 * Hu Die, Chinese actress (b. 1907)
 * April 24
 * Charles Grant, British Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1906)
 * Edgar Sanabria, Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat, and politician, Interim President of Venezuela (b. 1911)
 * April 25 – George Coulouris, British actor (b. 1903)
 * April 26 – Lucille Ball, American actress, comedian and entertainer (b. 1911)
 * April 27
 * Eriberto Arroyo Mío, Peruvian politician (b. 1943)
 * Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
 * April 30
 * Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929)
 * Guy Williams, Italian-born American actor (b. 1924)

May

 * May 1
 * Francisco do Borja Pereira do Amaral, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1898)
 * Edward Ochab, Polish activist and politician, 13th President of Poland (b. 1906)
 * May 2 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
 * May 3
 * Zdeněk Frolík, Czechoslovak mathematician (b. 1933)
 * Christine Jorgensen, Norwegian actress, singer and writer (b. 1926)
 * May 4 – Chalam, Indian actor (b. 1929)
 * May 6 – Adolfo Constanzo, Cuban-born American serial killer (b. 1962)
 * May 9 – Keith Whitley, American singer (b. 1955)
 * May 10 – Woody Shaw, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1944)
 * May 11 – Xiao Wangdong, Chinese general and Minister of Culture (b. 1910)
 * May 15 – Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
 * May 16 – Leila Kasra, Iranian-born American poet (b. 1939)
 * May 17 – Walter Gross, German actor (b. 1904)
 * May 19
 * Anton Diffring, German actor (b. 1916)
 * Abel Herzberg, Dutch-born Israeli lawyer and writer (b. 1893)
 * Robert Webber, American actor (b. 1924)
 * May 20
 * Peter Evans, American actor (b. 1950)
 * John Hicks, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 * Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
 * May 26
 * Eugene James Keogh, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1907)
 * Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 * May 29
 * John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
 * Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (b. 1932)
 * May 30 – James Harry Lacey, British World War II RAF Fighter pilot (b. 1917)
 * May 31
 * Edward Hubbard, British architectural historian, collaborator of the Buildings of England (b. 1937)
 * C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and writer (b. 1901)
 * Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1913)

June

 * June 3
 * Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian philosopher, politician, revolutionary and Shia Muslim religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1902)
 * John McCauley, RAAF Senior Commander (b. 1899)
 * June 4
 * Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
 * Václav Kašlík, Czech composer (b. 1917)
 * June 7 – Don the Beachcomber, American restaurateur (b. 1907)
 * June 8 – Albert Spaggiari, French criminal (b. 1932)
 * June 9
 * George Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
 * Karl Skytte, Danish politician (b. 1908)
 * José López Rega, Argentine politician (b. 1916)
 * June 10 – Richard Quine, American actor (b. 1920)
 * June 12 – Princess Niloufer (b. 1916)
 * June 13 – Fran Allison, Australian actress (b. 1907)
 * June 14 – Joseph Malula, Congolese Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1917)
 * June 15
 * Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
 * Victor French, American actor and director (b. 1934)
 * Judy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1899)
 * Lưu Hữu Phước, Vietnamese composer (b. 1921)
 * June 17 – John Matuszak, American football player and actor (b. 1950)
 * June 20 – Dieter Aderhold, German cathedratic and politician (b. 1939)
 * June 22
 * Lee Calhoun, American Olympic athlete (b. 1933)
 * Menahem Stern, Israeli historian (b. 1925)
 * June 23
 * Werner Best, German Nazi official (b. 1903)
 * Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1907)
 * June 24
 * Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (b. 1937)
 * Albennie Jones, American urban and jazz musician (b. 1914)
 * June 26
 * Howard Charles Green, Canadian politician, former Foreign secretary (b. 1895)
 * Walter Ralston Martin, American minister (b. 1928)
 * June 27
 * Sir Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
 * Jack Buetel, American actor (b. 1915)
 * Michele Lupo, Italian film director (b. 1932)
 * June 28 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
 * June 30 – Hilmar Baunsgaard, Danish politician and 34th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1920)

July

 * July 2
 * Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician and diplomat, former Foreign Minister (b. 1909)
 * Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
 * Ben Wright, British actor in radio, film and television (b. 1915)
 * July 3 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
 * July 4
 * Jack Haig, British actor (b. 1913)
 * Vic Perrin, American voice actor (b. 1916)
 * Win Maung, 3rd President of Myanmar (b. 1916)
 * Nelson Sullivan American videographer (b. 1948)
 * July 5 – Berthold Wolpe, German-born British calligrapher, typographer and illustrator (b. 1905)
 * July 6 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician and communist leader, 46th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1912)
 * July 9 – Andrex, French actor (b. 1907)
 * July 10 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
 * July 11 – Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor and director (b. 1907)
 * July 12
 * Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1897)
 * Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (b. 1896)
 * July 14 – José María García Lahiguera, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1903)
 * July 15 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
 * July 16 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
 * July 17 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
 * July 18
 * Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
 * Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
 * July 19 – Kazimierz Sabbat, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1913)
 * July 20
 * Juan Carlos Altavista, Argentine actor (b. 1929)
 * Forrest H. Anderson, American politician (b. 1913)
 * Mary Treen, American film actress (b. 1907)
 * July 22 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
 * July 23
 * Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931)
 * Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (b. 1921)
 * Michael Sundin, English television presenter (b. 1961)
 * July 24 – Ernie Morrison, American actor (b. 1912)
 * July 29 – Nancy Andrews, American actress (b. 1920)
 * July 30 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)

August

 * August 1 – John Ogdon, British pianist (b. 1937)
 * August 4
 * Maurice Colbourne, British actor (b. 1939)
 * Franziska Liebing, Swedish actress (b. 1901)
 * August 7
 * Mickey Leland, U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (b. 1944)
 * Gunnar Mattsson, Swedish-born Finnish writer and journalist (b. 1937)
 * August 8 – Bobby Oxspring, British flying ace, one of The Few (b. 1919)
 * August 9
 * Richard Alexander, American actor (b. 1902)
 * Karl Kvaran, Icelandic painter (b. 1924)
 * August 11 – George Andreasen, American orthodonist and inventor (b. 1934)
 * August 12 – William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * August 13
 * Hugo del Carril, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer (b. 1912)
 * Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
 * August 14 – Robert Bernard Anderson, American political figure (b. 1910)
 * August 15
 * Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician (b. 1904)
 * Dorothea Leighton, American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology (b. 1908)
 * August 16
 * Jean-Hilaire Aubame, French-born Gabonese politician (b. 1912)
 * Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
 * August 17 – Lin Tie, Chinese politician, head of Hebei province (b. 1904)
 * August 18 – Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian politician (b. 1943)
 * August 20
 * George Adamson, Indian-born American conservationist (b. 1906)
 * Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer (b. 1900)
 * August 21 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian rock singer (b. 1945)
 * August 22
 * John Clyne, Canadian jurist (b. 1902)
 * Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (b. 1929)
 * Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
 * August 23 – R. D. Laing, British psychiatrist (b. 1927)
 * August 26 – Irving Stone, American writer (b. 1903)
 * August 27 – Luiz Luz, Brazilian footballer (b. 1909)
 * August 29
 * Pua Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902)
 * Sir Peter Scott, British naturalist, artist and explorer (b. 1909)
 * August 30
 * Joe Collins, American baseball player (b. 1922)
 * Joe De Santis, American actor and sculptor (b. 1909)

September



 * September 1 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and MLB Commissioner (b. 1938)
 * September 4
 * Edmund Peiris, Sri Lanka Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1897)
 * Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (b. 1903)
 * Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
 * September 5
 * Les Allen, Australian footballer (b. 1911)
 * William Mann, British music critic (b. 1924)
 * September 8
 * John Joseph Cassata, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1908)
 * Ann George, British actress (b. 1903)
 * Paul Alfred Weiss, Austrian biologist (b. 1898)
 * September 13 – Charles H. Russell, American politician, 20th Governor of Nevada (b. 1903)
 * September 14 – Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
 * September 15 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
 * September 17
 * Hugh Quincy Alexander, American politician (b. 1911)
 * Sir Richard Hull, British field marshal (b. 1907)
 * Steven Stayner, American kidnapping victim (b. 1965)
 * September 22 – Irving Berlin, American composer (b. 1888)
 * September 23 – Bradley Kincaid, American singer (b. 1894)
 * September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
 * September 30
 * Horace Alexander, British writer, pacifist and ornithologist (b. 1889)
 * Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)
 * Huỳnh Tấn Phát, Vietnamese politician, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1913)

October



 * October 2
 * Paola Barbara, Italian actress (b. 1912)
 * Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate and blessed (assassinated) (b. 1916)
 * October 4 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
 * October 6 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
 * October 9 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
 * October 11
 * M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1903)
 * Paul Shenar, American actor (b. 1936)
 * October 12 – Jay Ward, American animator, creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, etc. (b. 1920)
 * October 16
 * Scott O'Dell, American children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards (b. 1898)
 * Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
 * October 20
 * Dahn Ben-Amotz, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1924)
 * Sir Anthony Quayle, British actor (b. 1913)
 * Manuel Gregorio Acosta, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1921)
 * October 22
 * Ewan MacColl, British actor, musician and political activist (b. 1915)
 * Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (b. 1978)
 * Roland Winters, American actor (b. 1904)
 * October 24 – Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, Indian military officer (b. 1916)
 * October 25 – Mary McCarthy, American writer (b. 1912)
 * October 26 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 * October 28
 * Henry Hall, British bandleader (b. 1898)
 * Yuliya Solntseva, Soviet actress (b. 1901)
 * October 30 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1904)
 * October 31
 * Georgi Partsalev, Bulgarian theatre and film actor (b. 1925)
 * Roger Scott, British radio disk jockey (b. 1943)

November

 * November 1
 * Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (b. 1898)
 * Louis Barron, Americian electronic music pioneer (b. 1920)
 * November 2 – Andrée Brabant, French actress (b. 1901)
 * November 3 – Timoci Bavadra, Fijian physician and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1934)
 * November 5
 * Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
 * Barry Sadler, American soldier and singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
 * November 6 – Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, French Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary (b. 1898)
 * November 11 – Kenneth MacLean Glazier Sr., Canadian minister and librarian (b. 1912)
 * November 12 – Édouard Candeveau, Swiss Olympic rower (b. 1898)
 * November 13
 * Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1964)
 * Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
 * November 16
 * Jean-Claude Malepart, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
 * Murder of Three Salvadorian Jesuit priests:
 * Ignacio Ellacuría, Jesuit priest, theologian and saint (b. 1930)
 * Segundo Montes, Jesuit priest, theologian and saint (b. 1933)
 * Ignacio Martín-Baró, Jesuit priest, theologian and saint (b. 1942)
 * November 19
 * Nancy Drexel, American actress (b. 1910)
 * Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
 * November 20
 * Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1913)
 * Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer (b. 1921)
 * November 22
 * C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
 * René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (assassinated) (b. 1925)
 * November 23 – Mariko Shiga, Japanese voice actress (b. 1969)
 * November 24 – Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Palestine Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian (b. 1941)
 * November 25 – George Cakobau, Governor-General of Fiji (b. 1912)
 * November 26 – Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician, 1st President of Comoros (assassinated) (b. 1919)
 * November 27 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, 71st Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
 * November 28 – Ernesto Civardi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
 * November 29
 * A. Maruthakasi, Indian poet and lyricist (b. 1920)
 * Gubby Allen, English cricketer (b. 1902)
 * Giuseppe Antonini, Italian football player (b. 1914)
 * Mario Colli, Italian actor (b. 1915)
 * November 30
 * Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cameroon and President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
 * Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (b. 1900)

December

 * December 1 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
 * December 2 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (b. 1899)
 * December 3
 * Sourou-Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure, 2nd President of Dahomey (b. 1913)
 * Boris Stepanovich Lukoshkov, Soviet painter (b. 1922)
 * Fernando Martín, Spanish basketball player (car accident) (b. 1962)
 * December 4 – Frederick Elwyn Jones, British barrister and Labour politician (b. 1909)
 * December 5 – John Pritchard, British conductor (b. 1921)
 * December 6
 * Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
 * Sammy Fain, American composer (b. 1902)
 * Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer (b. 1964)
 * John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
 * December 7 – Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
 * December 8 – Hans Hartung, German-born French painter (b. 1904)
 * December 11
 * Carlos Almaraz, Mexican-born American artist (b. 1941)
 * Lindsay Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1938)
 * December 14
 * Jock Mahoney, American actor (b. 1919)
 * Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (b. 1921)
 * December 15
 * José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord and criminal (b. 1947)
 * Edward Underdown, British stage and film veteran (b. 1908)
 * December 16
 * Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
 * Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
 * December 16 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
 * December 17 – Albert C. Wedemeyer, American general (b. 1897)
 * December 19
 * María Teresa Babín Cortés, Puerto Rican educator, critic and essayist (b. 1910)
 * Kirill Mazurov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
 * Herbert Blaize, Grenadian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1918)
 * December 20 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
 * December 21
 * Ján Cikker, Slovak composer (b. 1911)
 * Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer, co-founder Autograph ABP (b. 1955)
 * December 22
 * Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
 * Vasile Milea, Romanian military officer and politician, minister of Defense (suicide) (b. 1927)
 * December 23 – Peter Bennett, British actor (b. 1917)
 * December 25
 * Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, dictator and Communist Party head, 1st President of Romania (executed) (b. 1918)
 * Elena Ceaușescu, wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania (executed) (b. 1919)
 * Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928)
 * December 26 – Lennox Berkeley, English composer (b. 1903)
 * December 28
 * Brian Coburn, British actor (b. 1936)
 * Hermann Oberth, Austro-Hungarian-born German engineer, physicist and scientist (b. 1894)
 * December 30
 * Yasuji Miyazaki, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1916)
 * Madoline Thomas, Welsh actress (b. 1890)
 * December 31
 * Gerhard Schröder, German politician (b. 1910)
 * Sir Ignatius Kilage, 4th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1941)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
 * Chemistry – Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
 * Medicine – J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
 * Literature – Camilo José Cela
 * Peace – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
 * Cage of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Trygve Haavelmo

January

 * January – The cargo ship Khian Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months.
 * January 2 – The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
 * January 7–8 – In the Afghan War, 39 men of the Soviet Airborne Troops from the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment fight off an attack by 200 to 250 Mujahideen in the Battle for Hill 3234, later dramatized in the Russian film The 9th Company
 * January 13 – President of the Republic of China, Chiang Ching-kuo passed away; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui became president.
 * January 15 – In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
 * January 17 – Australian soap opera Home and Away premieres with a pilot episode.
 * January 26 – The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway play ever, opens.

February

 * February 3 – The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
 * February 12 – The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy intentionally rams USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
 * February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
 * February 17
 * 1988 Oshakati bomb blast: A bomb explodes outside the First National Bank in Oshakati, Namibia, killing 27 and injuring 70.
 * U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (and later killed by his captors).
 * February 20 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
 * February 25 – The constitution of the Sixth Republic of Korea comes into effect.
 * February 27–29 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Sumgait pogrom of Armenians occurs in Sumqayit.
 * February 29 – A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in World War II deportations.

March

 * March 6 – Operation Flavius: A Special Air Service team of the British Army shoots dead 3 unarmed members of a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) Active service unit in Gibraltar.
 * March 13
 * Opening to rail traffic of the Seikan Tunnel beneath the Tsugaru Strait connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido (53.85 km (33.49 mi)), the world's longest (until 2016) and deepest.
 * Gallaudet University, a university for the deaf in Washington, D.C., elects Dr. I. King Jordan as the first deaf president in its history. This conclusion of the Deaf President Now campaign is a turning point in the deaf civil rights movement.
 * March 16
 * The Halabja chemical attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
 * Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
 * Milltown Cemetery attack: Three men are killed and 70 wounded in a gun and grenade attack by loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone on mourners at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the funerals of the 3 IRA members killed in Gibraltar.
 * First Republic Bank of Texas fails and enters FDIC receivership, the largest FDIC assisted bank failure in history.
 * March 17
 * A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143.
 * Eritrean War of Independence – Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF).
 * March 19 – Corporals killings in Belfast: Two British Army corporals are abducted, beaten and shot dead by Irish republicans after driving into the funeral cortege of IRA members killed in the Milltown Cemetery attack.
 * March 20 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
 * March 24
 * An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
 * The first McDonald's restaurant in a country run by a Communist party opens in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 1989 it will be followed by one in Budapest, and in 1990 in Moscow and Shenzhen, China.
 * March 25 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the socialist government in Czechoslovakia.
 * March 29 – African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.

April

 * April 5 – Kuwait Airways Flight 422 is hijacked while en route from Bangkok, Thailand to Kuwait. The hijackers demand the release of 17 Shiite Muslim prisoners held by Kuwait. Kuwait refuses to release the prisoners, leading to a 16-day siege across 3 continents. Two passengers are killed before the siege ends.
 * April 10
 * The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
 * The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
 * April 14
 * In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
 * The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.
 * April 16
 * Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.
 * In Forlì, Italy, the Red Brigades kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
 * April 18 – The United States Navy retaliates for the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
 * April 20 – The world's longest skyjacking comes to an end when the remaining passengers of Kuwait Airways Flight 422 are released by their captors.
 * April 22 – The Ouvéa cave hostage taking begins in Ouvéa, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
 * April 25 – In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He is accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
 * April 30 – World Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.

May

 * May 4 – PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 16 km away, including Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport.
 * May 5 – The Ouvéa cave hostage taking ends in Ouvéa, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
 * May 8 – Re-election of François Mitterrand, for 7 years, in France.
 * May 15 – Soviet–Afghan War: After more than 8 years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
 * May 16–18 – 1988 Gilgit massacre: In 1988 a revolt by the Shias of Gilgit (in northern Pakistan) was ruthlessly suppressed by the Zia-ul Haq regime.
 * May 26 – The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Boston Bruins in a four-game sweep to win their fourth Stanley Cup.
 * May 31 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.

June

 * June 10–14 – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.
 * June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands.
 * June 11 – Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
 * June 14 – A small wildfire starts in Montana just north of the boundary for Yellowstone National Park. The Storm Creek fire expands into the park, then merges with dozens of other drought-inspired fires. Eventually, over 750,000 acre of Yellowstone – 36% of the park's area – burns before firefighters gain control in late September.
 * June 22 – The Critically Acclaimed Film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is released winning 3 Competitive Academy Award and One Special Achievement Academy Award
 * June 23 – NASA scientist James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate that man-made global warming has begun.
 * June 27 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident occurs in Paris, France as a commuter train headed inbound to the terminal crashes into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57.
 * June 30 – Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Écône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.

July

 * July 1 – The Soviet Union votes to end the CPSU's monopoly on economic and other non-political power and to further economic changes towards a less rigidly Marxist-Leninist economy.
 * July 3
 * The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
 * Iran Air Flight 655 is accidentally shot down by a missile launched from the USS Vincennes (CG-49), killing a total of 290 people on board.
 * July 6
 * The Piper Alpha production platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners. 61 workers survive.
 * Syringe Tide: the first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island, Brooklyn and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York–area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in the American Northeast.
 * July 31 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.

August

 * August 5
 * Arif Hussain Hussaini, leader of Pakistani Shia Muslims, is shot in Peshawar.
 * The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
 * August 6–7 – Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action that takes place during the night of August 6 and early into August 7.
 * August 8 – 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
 * August 11 – Al-Qaeda is formed by Osama bin Laden.
 * August 17 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Lewis Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bahawalpur.
 * August 19 – A truce begins in the Iran–Iraq War.
 * August 20 – The Iran–Iraq War ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
 * August 21 – The 6.9 Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
 * August 28 – Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst air show disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.
 * August 31 – Dr. Sanket Bapat was born, his work in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning in India is considered the benchmark in Science.

September

 * September 5 – With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States' largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
 * September 11 – Singing Revolution: In Estonian SSR, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
 * September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
 * September 17 – October 2 – The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.
 * September 22 – The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea (see also July 6).
 * September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

October

 * October 5
 * Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has tortured and killed about 500 people in crushing the riots.
 * Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet loses a national plebiscite on his rule; he relinquishes power in 1990.
 * October 12
 * Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
 * The Birchandra Manu massacre occurs in Tripura, India.
 * October 19 – The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
 * October 27 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
 * October 28 – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the drug.
 * October 29 – Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had accumulated.
 * October 30 – Jericho bus firebombing: 5 Israelis are killed and 5 wounded in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank.

November

 * November 2 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet, written by Robert Tappan Morris, is launched from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.
 * November 3 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
 * November 8 – United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected.
 * November 10 – The United States Air Force acknowledges the existence of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk in a Pentagon press conference.
 * November 15
 * In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253–46.
 * The very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
 * November 16
 * Singing Revolution: The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR adopts the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration in which the laws of the Estonian SSR are declared supreme over those of the Soviet Union. The USSR declares it unconstitutional on 26 November. It is the first declaration of sovereignty from Moscow of any Soviet or Eastern Block entity.
 * In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections are held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
 * November 22 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
 * November 23 – Former Korean president Chun Doo Hwan publicly apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.

December

 * December 1
 * Carlos Salinas de Gortari takes office as President of Mexico.
 * The first World AIDS Day is held.
 * December 2
 * Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
 * A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.
 * December 6
 * The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government by the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988.
 * Famous American vocalist Roy Orbison dies of a heart attack in Hendersonville, Tennessee aged 52.
 * December 7
 * In Soviet Armenia, the 6.8 Spitak earthquake kills nearly 25,000, injures 31,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
 * Singing Revolution: Estonian language replaces Russian as the official language of the Estonian SSR.
 * December 9 – The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory in the U.S.
 * December 12 – The Clapham Junction rail crash in London kills 35 and injures 132.
 * December 16 – Perennial U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is convicted of mail fraud.
 * December 20 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
 * December 21
 * Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be Libyans.
 * Drexel Burnham Lambert agreed to plead guilty to insider trading and other violations and pay penalties of US$650 million.
 * December 22 – Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.

Date unknown

 * TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed. This led to more robust connections between the American and European Internet.
 * Near the end of the year, the first proper and official Internet connection to Europe is made between Princeton, New Jersey and Stockholm, Sweden.
 * Tim Berners-Lee begins openly to discuss his plans for what would become the World Wide Web at CERN.
 * The U.S. Drought of 1988 causes big crop damage in many states, impacts many portions of the United States and causes around $60 billion in damage. Multiple regions suffer in the conditions. Heat waves cause 4,800 to 17,000 excess deaths while scorching many areas of the United States during 1988.
 * Zebra mussels are found in the Great Lakes.
 * The Russian Mafia begins to expand with the decay of the Soviet Union.
 * The Communist Party of Britain is founded by a Marxist–Leninist faction of the Communist Party of Great Britain, after its leadership embraces Eurocommunism.
 * BlackRock founded as a global asset management company in New York City by Larry Fink and others; it will become the world's largest.

January

 * January 2 – Mandy Harvey, Deaf Jazz Musician, Singer, Songwriter
 * January 3 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
 * January 5
 * Pauline, French composer, songwriter and singer
 * Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian professional track cyclist
 * January 7
 * Hardwell, Dutch progressive and electro house DJ and music producer
 * Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
 * Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
 * January 8
 * Adrián López, Spanish footballer
 * Allison Harvard, American model
 * Lily Nicksay, American actress
 * January 12
 * Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Andrew Lawrence, American actor
 * January 14
 * Kacey Barnfield, English actress
 * Hakeem Nicks, American football player
 * Tom Rosenthal, English actor and comedian
 * January 15
 * Jun. K, Korean vocalist (2PM)
 * Skrillex, American musician and DJ
 * Charlotte Sometimes, American singer-songwriter
 * January 16 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
 * January 17 – Will Genia, Australian professional rugby union
 * January 18
 * Ironik, British musician, DJ and rapper
 * Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
 * Ashleigh Murray, American actress and singer
 * January 19
 * JaVale McGee, American basketball player
 * Alexey Vorobyov (aka Alex Sparrow), Russian singer and actor
 * January 20
 * Colin Bensadon, Gibraltarian swimmer
 * Benjamin Ulrich, German international rugby union player
 * January 21
 * Ashton Eaton, American decathlete
 * Vanessa Hessler, American-Italian model and actress
 * Glaiza de Castro, Filipino actress
 * January 22 – Nick Palatas, American actor
 * January 24 – Jade Ewen, English singer, songwriter, actress and former member of the Sugababes
 * January 26 – Mia Rose, Portuguese and British singer-songwriter
 * January 27
 * Liu Wen, Chinese model
 * Alice Burdeu, Australian fashion model
 * January 28 – Alexandra Krosney, American film and television actress
 * January 29
 * Jessica Iskandar, Indonesian actress and comedian
 * Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete
 * Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
 * Catrin Stewart, Welsh actress
 * Raffaella Fico, Italian showgirl, singer and model
 * January 30 – Rob Pinkston, American actor
 * January 31 – Kyle Kulinski, American radio host and political commentator

February

 * February 2
 * Meghan Collison, Canadian model
 * Zosia Mamet, American actress
 * February 3
 * Cho Kyuhyun, Korean singer (Super Junior)
 * Gregory van der Wiel, Dutch footballer
 * Kamil Glik, Polish footballer
 * February 4
 * Charlie Barnett, American actor
 * Carly Patterson, American gymnast
 * February 5 – Karin Ontiveros, Mexican beauty queen
 * February 6
 * Anna Diop, American actress
 * Bailey Hanks, American singer, actress and dancer
 * February 7
 * Ai Kago, Japanese singer
 * Lee Joon, South Korean idol singer (MBLAQ), dancer, actor, model
 * Matthew Stafford, American football player
 * February 8 – Ryan Pinkston, American actor
 * February 9 – Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
 * February 10 – Seth Gamble, American porn actor
 * February 11
 * Li Chun, Chinese singer
 * Jessica De Gouw, American actress
 * February 12
 * Mike Posner, American singer, songwriter, and producer
 * Greta Salpeter, American singer-songwriter, pianist (The Hush Sound, Gold Motel)
 * DeMarco Murray, American football player
 * Nicolás Otamendi, Argentinian footballer
 * February 13 – Aston Merrygold, English singer
 * February 14
 * Ángel Di María, Argentine footballer
 * Katie Boland, Canadian actress
 * Olga Álava, Ecuadorian Miss Earth 2011 winner
 * February 15 – Jessica De Gouw, Australian actress
 * February 16
 * Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
 * Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor
 * February 17
 * Natascha Kampusch, Austrian television hostess and kidnapping victim
 * Adil Rashid, English cricketer
 * February 18
 * Maiara Walsh, Brazilian-American actress
 * The Blossom Twins, English twin professional wrestlers
 * Changmin, Korean singer, songwriter and occasional actor
 * Sarah Sutherland, American actress
 * February 19 – Stacie Chan, American actress and voice actress
 * February 20
 * Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
 * Jiah Khan, British Indian actress and singer (d. 2013)
 * Tracy Spiridakos, Canadian actress
 * February 21 – Matthias de Zordo, German javelin thrower
 * February 22
 * Ximena Navarrete, Miss Universe 2010
 * Efraín Juárez, Mexican footballer
 * Kevin Borlée, Belgian sprinter
 * February 22 – Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer
 * February 23 – Byron Maxwell, American football player
 * February 24 – Alexander Koch, American actor
 * February 25 – Gerald McCoy, American football player
 * February 24 – Rodrigue Beaubois, French basketball player
 * February 28 – Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter
 * February 29
 * Lena Gercke, German fashion model
 * Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer

March



 * March 1
 * Katija Pevec, American actress
 * Trevor Cahill, American baseball player
 * March 2
 * Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
 * Nadine Samonte, Filipina actress and commercial model
 * James Arthur, British singer and songwriter
 * March 3
 * Josh Duggar, American television personality
 * Rafael Muñoz, Spanish swimmer
 * March 4
 * Gal Mekel, Israeli basketball player
 * Josh Bowman, English film and television actor
 * March 6
 * Agnes Carlsson, Swedish recording artist
 * Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
 * Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean speed skater
 * Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
 * March 8 – Johnny Ruffo, Australian singer-songwriter and dancer
 * March 10
 * Kang In-soo, South Korean singer
 * Ivan Rakitić, Croatian and Swiss footballer
 * March 11
 * Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer
 * Katsuhiko Nakajima, Japanese professional wrestler
 * March 12 – Elly Jackson, English singer-songwriter
 * March 13 – Tiffany Two, World's oldest cat (d. 2015)
 * March 14
 * Stephen Curry, American professional basketball player
 * Sasha Grey, American actress, model, author, musician, and former pornographic actress
 * Ma Sichun, Chinese actress
 * March 15
 * James Reimer, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
 * Lil Dicky, is an American rapper and comedian
 * March 16 – Jhené Aiko, American singer-songwriter
 * March 17 – Grimes, Canadian artist musician and music video director
 * March 18 – Soukaina Boukries, Moroccan singer
 * March 19
 * Freddie Smith, American actor
 * Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player
 * Zhou Lulu, Chinese weightlifter
 * March 21 – Erik Johnson, American ice hockey player
 * March 22 – Tania Raymonde, American actress
 * March 23 – Jason Kenny, British cyclist
 * March 24
 * Finn Jones, English actor
 * Nick Lashaway, American actor (d. 2016)
 * March 25
 * Big Sean, American rapper
 * Ryan Lewis, American musician
 * March 27
 * Holliday Grainger, English screen and stage actress
 * Jessie J, English singer and songwriter
 * Brenda Song, American actress
 * Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
 * March 28
 * Ryan Kalish, American baseball player
 * Lacey Turner, English actress
 * Geno Atkins, American football player
 * March 29 – Kelly Sweet, American singer
 * March 30 – Richard Sherman, American football player
 * March 31
 * Conrad Sewell, Australian singer-songwriter
 * DeAndre Liggins, American basketball player
 * Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricker

April

 * April 1
 * Alexander Bychkov, Russian serial killer
 * Ed Drewett, English pop singer-songwriter
 * Brook Lopez, American basketball player
 * April 2
 * Jesse Plemons, American film and television actor
 * April 3
 * Kam Chancellor, American football player
 * Brandon Graham, American football player
 * Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
 * April 5 – Daniela Luján, Mexican pop singer and actress
 * April 6 – Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
 * April 7 – Ed Speleers, British actor
 * April 8
 * Saqib Saleem, Indian model and actor
 * Stephanie Cayo, Peruvian actress, singer, songwriter and model
 * April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
 * April 11 – Pete Kozma, American baseball player
 * April 12
 * Jessie James, American country pop singer and songwriter
 * Tone Damli, Norwegian singer
 * April Rose Pengilly, Australian model and actress
 * April 13 – Allison Williams, American actress
 * April 14
 * Roberto Bautista Agut, Spanish tennis player
 * Ben Lloyd-Hughes, British actor
 * Chris Wood, American actor
 * April 15 – Eliza Sophie Caird, English singer–songwriter
 * April 15 – Kyle Okposo, American ice hockey player
 * April 19 – Haruna Kojima, Japanese singer, actress and idol (AKB48)
 * April 21
 * Robbie Amell, Canadian actor
 * Ricky Berens, American Olympic swimmer
 * Sophie Rundle, English actress
 * Christoph Sanders, American actor
 * April 23
 * Alistair Brownlee, English triathlete
 * Carla Quevedo, Argentine actress
 * April 25
 * Laura Lepisto, Finnish figure skater
 * Sara Paxton, American actress
 * April 26 – S. E. Lister, British novelist
 * April 27 – Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
 * April 28 – Juan Mata, Spanish footballer
 * April 29
 * Alfred Hui, Hong Kong singer
 * Jonathan Toews, Canadian hockey player
 * April 30 – Ana de Armas, Cuban actress

May

 * May 1
 * Anushka Sharma, Indian actress
 * Nicholas Braun, American actor
 * May 4 – Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer
 * May 5
 * Adele, British pop singer
 * Brooke Hogan, American reality star and singer
 * Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer
 * Jessica Dubroff, American aviation accident victim (d. 1996)
 * May 6 – Ryan Anderson, American basketball player
 * May 7 – Brandon Jones, American actor, musician, and producer
 * May 8 – Trisha Paytas, American Internet personality, actress, singer, and songwriter
 * May 11
 * Ace Hood, American rapper
 * Blac Chyna. American model and entrepreneur
 * Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
 * May 12 – Marcelo Vieira, Brazilian footballer
 * May 13
 * Tim Maypray, American football player (d. 2019)
 * Matt McLean, American Olympic swimmer
 * May 15
 * Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (d. 2018)
 * Marcus Collins, English singer
 * May 17
 * Nikki Reed, American actress
 * Freddie Hogan, British actor
 * Karrueche Tran, American actress and model
 * May 18
 * Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
 * Taeyang, South Korean recording artist and model
 * Hirooki Arai, Japanese racewalker
 * May 19 – Lily Cole, English supermodel
 * May 21 – Park Gyu-ri, South Korean idol singer
 * May 23
 * Gavin Free, English cinematographer
 * Angelo Ogbonna, Italian footballer
 * Morgan Pressel, American professional golfer
 * Zachary "Kid Yamaka" Wohlman, American boxer
 * May 24
 * Billy Gilman, American singer
 * Monica Lin Brown, U.S. Army medic, Silver Star recipient
 * May 25
 * Adrián González Morales, Spanish footballer
 * Cameron van der Burgh, South African Olympic swimmer
 * May 26
 * Dani Samuels, Australian discus thrower
 * Juan Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
 * Joel Selwood, Australian rules footballer
 * May 27
 * Alicia Sixtos, American actress
 * Yam Concepcion, Filipino actress, film and television
 * May 28
 * Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
 * NaVorro Bowman, American football player
 * May 29 – Tobin Heath, American women's soccer player

June

 * June 1
 * Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
 * Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer
 * June 2
 * Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
 * Amber Marshall, Canadian actress
 * June 4 – Li Man, Chinese actress
 * June 5 – Nuh Omar, Pakistani writer and director
 * June 6 – Arianna Errigo, Italian fencer
 * June 7
 * Michael Cera, Canadian actor
 * Ekaterina Makarova, Russian tennis player
 * Milan Lucic, Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * Marlos, Brazilian footballer
 * June 8 – Reinaldo Zavarce, Venezuelan actor and singer
 * June 9
 * Mae Whitman, American actress
 * Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
 * Lauren Landa, American voice actress
 * June 11
 * Yui Aragaki, Japanese model, actress and singer
 * Claire Holt, Australian actress
 * June 12
 * Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
 * Cody Horn, American actress and model
 * June 13 – Cody Walker, American actor
 * June 14
 * Kara Killmer, American actress
 * Kevin McHale, American actor, dancer and singer
 * June 15 – Cristopher Toselli, Chilean footballer
 * June 16
 * Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer-songwriter, model and actress
 * Jermaine Gresham, American football player
 * Banks, American singer and songwriter
 * June 17 – Stephanie Rice, retired Australian swimmer
 * June 18
 * Josh Dun, American drummer
 * Yannick Riendeau, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 20 – Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
 * June 21 – Alejandro Ramírez, Costa Rican chess Grandmaster
 * June 22
 * Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player
 * Portia Doubleday, American actress
 * Miliyah Kato, Japanese pop and urban singer-songwriter
 * June 23
 * Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
 * Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
 * Jasmine Kara, Swedish singer and songwriter
 * June 24
 * Micah Richards, English footballer
 * Nichkhun Horvejkul, Thai singer
 * Candice Patton, American actress
 * Stassi Schroeder, American television personality
 * June 25
 * Therese Johaug, Norwegian cross-country skier
 * Mark Haskins, English professional wrestler
 * Rose Schlossberg, American actress and daughter of Caroline Kennedy
 * June 26
 * Samanda (Amanda and Samantha Marchant), British acting duo
 * Remy LaCroix, American pornographic actress
 * King Bach, Canadian and American actor
 * June 27
 * Stefani Bismpikou, Greek artistic gymnast
 * Alanna Masterson, American actress
 * June 28
 * Kanon Wakeshima, Japanese singer and cellist
 * Gaku Hamada, Japanese actor
 * June 29
 * Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
 * Adrian Mannarino, French tennis player
 * June 30
 * Sean Marquette, American actor and voice actor
 * Jack Douglass, American Internet/YouTube personality, musician, and comedian

July

 * July 1
 * Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete
 * Sun So-eun, South Korean swimmer
 * Dawid Botha, Namibian cricketer
 * July 2
 * Abderahmane Hachoud, Algerian football player
 * Lee Chung-yong, Korean footballer
 * Edward Randell, English musician and actor
 * July 4
 * Jada Stevens, American porn actress
 * Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress and singer
 * Conor MacNeill, Northern-Irish actor
 * July 5
 * Joe Lycett, British comedian
 * Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer
 * July 6
 * Mok Ying Ren, Singaporean long-distance runner
 * Gustavo Mencia, Paraguayan footballer
 * July 7
 * Venus Raj, Filipina beauty queen and host
 * Chase Williamson, American actor and film producer
 * Natalie Mejia, American singer and songwriter
 * Jack Whitehall, English comedian
 * July 8
 * Rachael Finch, Australian beauty pageant titleholder and television reporter
 * Reinaldo Zavarce, Venezuelan actor and singer
 * Shazad Latif, British actor
 * July 10
 * Sarkodie, Ghanaian hip hop artist
 * Antonio Brown, American football player
 * Manjari Phadnis, Indian film actress
 * Heather Hemmens, American actress
 * July 11
 * Joan Smalls, Puerto Rican model
 * Toria Nichole Penn, Bahamian model
 * July 12
 * LeSean McCoy, American football player
 * Christine Marie Cabanos, American voice actress
 * July 13
 * Chris Sheffield, American actor
 * Colton Haynes, American actor and model
 * Steven R. McQueen, American actor
 * Tulisa Contostavlos, British singer-songwriter
 * July 14
 * Chase Williamson, American actor and film producer
 * Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist
 * July 15
 * Aimee Carrero, American actress
 * Sanjeev, Indian actor
 * July 16 – Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
 * July 17
 * Summer Bishil, American actress
 * Anderson East, American musician
 * Jason Pagara, Filipino boxer
 * Luke Stocker, American football player
 * July 18 – Ambyr Childers, American actress
 * July 19
 * Azrul Azmi, Malaysian footballer
 * Shane Dawson, American YouTube comedian and actor
 * Cherami Leigh, American actress and voice actress
 * Trent Williams, American football player
 * July 20
 * Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress
 * Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player
 * July 21 – DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
 * July 22 – Noriko Senge, Japanese princess
 * July 23
 * Paul Anderson, English footballer
 * Kevin Tway, American golfer
 * July 24 – Han Seung-yeon, South Korean idol singer dancer and actress
 * July 25
 * Linsey Godfrey, American actress
 * Heather Marks, Canadian model
 * Sarah Geronimo, Filipina singer and actress
 * July 26
 * Francia Raisa, American actress
 * Caitlin Gerard, American actress
 * July 28
 * Ayla Brown, American recording artist and former NCAA basketball player
 * Gunnar Nelson, Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
 * July 30
 * Nico Tortorella, American actor and model
 * Alexander Vlahos, Welsh actor
 * July 31
 * A. J. Green, American football player
 * Charlie Carver, American actor
 * Krystal Meyers, American singer-songwriter/musician

August

 * August 1 – Max Carver, American actor
 * August 2
 * Nayer, American pop singer
 * Golden Tate, American football player
 * August 3
 * DRAM, American rapper, singer and songwriter
 * Weyes Blood, American DJ, producer, singer, and songwriter
 * August 4 – Tom Parker, English singer
 * August 5
 * Eddie Nolan, Irish footballer
 * Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
 * August 6 – Aleska Diamond, Hungarian porn actress
 * August 7 – Anikka Albrite, American porn actress
 * August 8
 * Princess Beatrice of York, British princess
 * Laura Slade Wiggins, American actress, singer and musician
 * August 9 – Willian, Brazilian footballer
 * August 12
 * Leah Pipes, American actress
 * Justin Gaston, American singer-songwriter, model and actor
 * August 13 – MØ, Danish singer
 * August 15 – Zaira Nara, Argentine model
 * August 16
 * Tara Teng, Canadian model, activist, and television presenter
 * Rumer Willis, American actress and singer
 * Ryan Kerrigan, American football player
 * August 17 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress
 * August 18 – G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and fashion icon
 * August 19
 * Hoodie Allen, American hip-hop artist
 * Veronica Roth, American novelist and short story writer
 * August 21
 * Kacey Musgraves, American country music artist
 * Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
 * August 22
 * Dávid Verrasztó, Hungarian swimmer
 * Mitchell Langerak, Australian football player
 * August 23
 * Alice Glass, Canadian singer
 * Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
 * Kim Matula, American actress
 * August 24 – Rupert Grint, English actor
 * August 25
 * Alexandra Burke, English singer
 * Ray Quinn, English actor, singer, and dancer
 * August 26
 * Tori Black, American pornographic actress
 * Evan Ross, American actor and musician
 * Erik Hassle, Swedish pop singer-songwriter
 * Danielle Savre, American actress and singer
 * August 27 – Alexa Vega, American actress
 * August 28
 * Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
 * Shalita Grant, American actress
 * Rosannagh MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast
 * August 29 – Bartosz Kurek, Polish volleyball player
 * August 30 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
 * August 31 – Tanaya Henry, American model and actress

September

 * September 1
 * Simona de Silvestro, Swiss race car driver
 * Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
 * September 2
 * Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer
 * Javi Martínez, Spanish footballer
 * Keisuke Kato, Japanese Actor
 * September 3 – Jérôme Boateng, German footballer
 * September 4 – Anna Li, American artistic gymnast
 * September 5
 * Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
 * Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian association footballer
 * September 6
 * Sargun Mehta, Indian model, comedian, dancer, presenter and actress.
 * Max George, British singer
 * September 7
 * Kevin Love, American basketball player
 * Paul Iacono, American actor
 * September 9
 * McKey Sullivan, American fashion model
 * JM de Guzman, Filipino actor
 * September 10
 * Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
 * Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
 * September 11 – Lee Yong-dae, South Korean male badminton player
 * September 12
 * Prachi Desai, Indian film and television actress
 * Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer
 * Matt Martians, American record producer
 * September 13 – John Park, American singer
 * September 14 – Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
 * September 15
 * Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer
 * Chloe Dykstra, American actress
 * Nuno Roque, Portuguese actor
 * John Bradley West, American actor
 * September 16 – Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter
 * September 17 – Pavel Mamayev, Russian footballer
 * September 18
 * Arizona Muse, American model
 * Lukas Graham, Danish singer
 * Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
 * September 19 – Katrina Bowden, American actress
 * September 21
 * Doug Baldwin, American football player
 * Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party
 * September 22 – Bethany Dillon, contemporary Christian music artist
 * September 23 – Juan Martín del Potro, Argentine tennis player
 * September 24 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
 * September 25
 * Ragasya, Indian actress and model
 * Mariya Ise, Japanese voice actress
 * September 26
 * Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
 * Sandhya, Indian film actress
 * James Blake, English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter
 * September 27 – Alma, French singer and songwrite
 * September 28 – Hana Mae Lee, American actress
 * September 29
 * Kevin Durant, American basketball player
 * Justin Nozuka, American-Canadian singer-songwriter

October

 * October 1
 * Cariba Heine, Australian actress and performer
 * Nemanja Matić, Serbian footballer
 * October 2
 * Andreas Moe, Swedish singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist
 * Brittany Howard, American musician
 * Corrin Campbell, is a vocalist, bassist, songwriter, and pianist
 * October 3
 * ASAP Rocky, American rapper and music video director
 * Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
 * October 4
 * Ashley Banjo, British choreographer
 * Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
 * Derrick Rose, American basketball player
 * Joseph Marco, Filipino actor
 * October 5
 * Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter
 * Maja Salvador, Filipina actress
 * Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby union player
 * October 6 – Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
 * October 7 – Diego Costa, Spanish footballer
 * October 8 – Hanne Gaby Odiele, Belgian model
 * October 10
 * Rose McIver, New Zealand actress
 * Linval Joseph, American football player
 * October 11 – Rika Izumi, Japanese actress
 * October 12 – Calum Scott, is a British singer and songwriter
 * October 14
 * Max Thieriot, American actor
 * MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
 * Pia Toscano, American singer; American Idol contestant
 * October 15
 * Trent Dalzell, Australian actor
 * Mesut Özil, German football player
 * October 17
 * Yuko Oshima, Japanese idol, singer and actress (AKB48)
 * Dee Jay Daniels, American actor
 * Cristine Rotenberg, Canadian crime statistics analyst and YouTube personality
 * October 19 – Markiyan Kamysh, Ukrainian writer
 * October 20
 * Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
 * Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel
 * October 21
 * Mark Rendall, Canadian actor
 * Blanca Suárez, Spanish actress
 * Glen Powell, American actor
 * Hope Hicks, is an American public relations consultant who served as the White House Communications Director for U.S
 * October 22
 * Parineeti Chopra, Bollywood actress
 * Corey Hawkins, American actor
 * October 26 – Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player
 * October 27 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
 * October 28
 * ASAP Ferg, American hip hop musician
 * Edd Gould, British flash animator, creator of Eddsworld (d. 2012)
 * Devon Murray, Irish actor
 * October 30 – Janel Parrish, American actress and singer-songwriter
 * October 31 – Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver

November

 * November 1
 * Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
 * Scott Arfield, Scottish footballer
 * November 2
 * Elgiazar Farashyan, Belarusian singer
 * Julia Görges, German professional tennis player
 * Lindze Letherman, American actress
 * November 3 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor
 * November 4 – Dez Bryant, American football player
 * November 5
 * Virat Kohli, Indian international cricketer
 * Enchong Dee, Filipino actor
 * November 6
 * Robert Ellis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * Emma Stone, American actress
 * Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2014 winner
 * November 7
 * Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
 * Elsa Hosk, Swedish model
 * Reid Ewing, American actor
 * Tinie Tempah, English rapper
 * November 8
 * Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer
 * Jared Kusnitz, American film and television actor
 * November 9
 * Nikki Blonsky, American actress and singer
 * Analeigh Tipton, American figure skater and actress
 * November 11 – Alexandra Kyle, American actress
 * November 12 – Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
 * November 15 – B.o.B, American rapper, singer, record producer, and conspiracy theorist
 * November 18
 * Jeffrey Jordan, American basketball player
 * Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Ivorian athlete
 * November 19 – Patrick Kane, American hockey player
 * November 20
 * Liis Lindmaa, Estonian actress
 * Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
 * Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer
 * Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player
 * November 21 – Len Väljas, Canadian cross-country skier
 * November 22
 * Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor
 * Matt Bruenig, American lawyer, blogger, policy analyst, and commentator
 * November 24 – Sabi, American pop singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
 * November 25
 * Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
 * Rochelle Rao, Indian model and anchor
 * November 26
 * Tamsin Egerton, English actress and model
 * Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Icelandic professional strongman and actor
 * November 28 – Scarlett Pomers, American actress
 * November 29 – Russell Wilson, American football player
 * November 30
 * Rebecca Rittenhouse American actress
 * Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
 * Eir Aoi, Japanese singer

December

 * December 1
 * Zoë Kravitz, American actress
 * Tyler Joseph, American singer
 * Ashley Monique Clark, American actress
 * December 2
 * Alfred Enoch, British actor
 * Athena, Filipina singer, stage actress
 * December 4
 * Mario Maurer, Thai model and actor
 * Yeng Constantino, Filipina singer
 * December 6 – Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian musician
 * December 7
 * Nathan Adrian, American Olympic swimmer
 * Emily Browning, Australian actress
 * December 9 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
 * December 10 – Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
 * December 11 – Ashley Hinshaw, American actress and model
 * December 12
 * Ashley Hinshaw, American actress and model
 * Hahm Eun-jung, South Korean singer
 * December 13 – Paul Johnston, English cricketer
 * December 14
 * Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
 * Nate Ebner, American football player
 * Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
 * December 15 – Emily Head, English actress
 * December 16
 * Anna Popplewell, English actress
 * Mats Hummels, German footballer
 * December 17
 * David Rudisha, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Rin Takanashi, Japanese film and television actress
 * December 19 – Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
 * December 20 – Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian singer and model
 * December 23
 * Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
 * Mallory Hagan, American beauty pageant titleholder
 * December 25
 * Eric Gordon, American basketball player
 * Marco Mengoni, Italian singer-songwriter
 * December 27 – Hayley Williams, American singer
 * December 28
 * Ched Evans, Welsh footballer
 * Florrie, English pop singer
 * December 29
 * Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
 * Eric Berry, American football player
 * December 30
 * Kirsty-Leigh Porter, English actress
 * Leon Jackson, Scottish singer

Date unknown

 * Ricky Norwood, English actor
 * Amna Suleiman, teacher and advocate for women's cycling in Gaza

January

 * January 1 – Margot Bryant, British actress (b. 1897)
 * January 2 – E. B. Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
 * January 3
 * William Cagney, American actor (b. 1905)
 * Gaston Eyskens, Belgian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1905)
 * Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
 * January 5 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
 * January 6 – L. P. Davies, British novelist (b. 1914)
 * January 7 – Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
 * January 9 – Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and folk music composer (b. 1909)
 * January 11
 * Pappy Boyington, American pilot, United States Marine Corps fighter ace (b. 1912)
 * Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
 * January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat (b. 1903)
 * January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
 * January 14 – Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1902)
 * January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
 * January 16 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
 * January 18
 * Jeff Burton, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Cataldo Agostinelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1894)
 * January 20 – Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902)
 * January 21 – Vincent Lingiari, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (b. 1908)
 * January 22 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
 * January 25 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
 * January 27 – Kemal Faruki, Turkish football player (b. 1910)
 * January 28 – Klaus Fuchs, German-British physicist and spy (b. 1911)

February

 * February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (b. 1975)
 * February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
 * February 5 – Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British film producer (b. 1902)
 * February 6 – Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, widow of Francisco Franco (b. 1900)
 * February 11 – Marion Crawford, Scottish nanny of Elizabeth II (b. 1909)
 * February 12 – S. Nadarajah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician
 * February 13
 * Ron Embleton, British comics artist and illustrator (b. 1930)
 * Léon Goossens. British oboist (b. 1897)
 * February 14 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
 * February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
 * February 16
 * Karp Osipovich Lykov, Soviet Old Believer and survivalist
 * Vijaya Kumaranatunga, Sri Lankan actor and politician (b. 1945)
 * February 17 – Alexander Bashlachev, Soviet poet and rock musician (b. 1960)
 * February 19
 * René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
 * André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
 * February 25
 * Kurt Mahler, German-Australian mathematician (b. 1903)
 * Ramiro Prialé, Peruvian politician (b. 1904)

March



 * March 1 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
 * March 3 – Lois Wilson, American actress (b. 1894)
 * March 5
 * Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
 * Margaret Irving, American actress (b. 1898)
 * March 7
 * Divine, American singer and actor (b. 1945)
 * Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (b. 1909)
 * Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1904)
 * March 8
 * Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
 * Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
 * March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician, 28th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1904)
 * March 10
 * Andy Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
 * Phạm Hùng, 3rd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1912)
 * Glenn Cunningham, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
 * March 11
 * Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1930)
 * Abdullahi Issa, Somalian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1922)
 * March 12 – Karen Steele, American actress (b. 1931)
 * March 13
 * Olive Carey, American actress (b. 1896)
 * John Holmes, American pornographic actor (b. 1944)
 * March 16
 * Erich Probst, Austrian football player (b. 1927)
 * Dorothy Adams, American character actress (b. 1900)
 * March 18
 * Joan Field, American violinist (b. 1915)
 * Frank Wayne, American game show producer and host (b. 1917)
 * March 20 – Gil Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
 * March 21 – Edd Roush, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)
 * March 22 – Lester Rawlins, American stage and screen director (b. 1924)
 * March 25 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
 * March 30 – Edgar Faure, French politician, 69th Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
 * March 31 – William McMahon, Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

April

 * April 1 – Jim Jordan, American actor (b. 1896)
 * April 3 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
 * April 5 – Anthony Emery, British Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1918)
 * April 6 – John Clements, British actor (b. 1910)
 * April 9 – Dave Prater, American rhythm and blues singer (b. 1937)
 * April 11
 * Hermann Graf, German fighter ace (b. 1912)
 * Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1910)
 * April 12
 * Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b. 1891)
 * Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
 * April 15 – Kenneth Williams, British actor and raconteur (b. 1926)
 * April 17
 * Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor (b. 1900)
 * Eva Novak, American actress (b. 1898)
 * April 18 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
 * April 21
 * I. A. L. Diamond, American screenwriter (b. 1920)
 * Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia (b. 1898)
 * April 22 – Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
 * April 23 – Michael Ramsey, British Anglican bishop, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
 * April 25 – Carolyn Franklin, American singer (b. 1944)
 * April 26
 * James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
 * Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
 * April 27 – David Scarboro, English actor (b. 1968)
 * April 28 – Fenner Brockway, British politician and anti-war activist (b. 1888)

May



 * May 3 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
 * May 5 – George Rose, English actor (b. 1920)
 * May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b. 1907)
 * May 10
 * Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
 * Ciarán Bourke, Irish musician (b. 1935)
 * May 11 – Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
 * May 12 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
 * May 14
 * Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1914)
 * Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, 30th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
 * May 15
 * Andrew Duggan, American actor (b. 1923)
 * Fulvia Franco, Italian actor (b. 1931)
 * Greta Nissen, Norwegian-born actress (b. 1905)
 * May 16
 * Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (b. 1945)
 * Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)
 * May 18 – Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
 * May 21
 * Dino Grandi, Italian politician (b. 1895)
 * Sammy Davis Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
 * May 23 – Aya Kitō, Japanese diarist (b. 1962)
 * May 24 – Gustav Åkerman, Swedish army officer (b. 1901)
 * May 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
 * May 27 – Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
 * May 29
 * Siaka Stevens, 3rd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone and 1st President of Sierra Leone (b. 1905)
 * Vladimír Menšík, Czech actor (b. 1929)
 * May 30 – Ella Raines, American actress (b. 1920)
 * May 31 – Arthur Olliver, Australian footballer (b. 1916)

June

 * June 2 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer and director (b. 1924)
 * June 5 – Michael Barrington, British actor (b. 1924)
 * June 6 – Chandra Fernando, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and venerable (assassinated) (b. 1942)
 * June 8
 * Philippe Nguyên-Kim-Diên, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1921)
 * Eli Mintz, American actor (b. 1904)
 * June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American writer (b. 1908)
 * June 11
 * Nathan Cook, American actor (b. 1950)
 * Giuseppe Saragat, Italian politician, 5th President of Italy (b. 1898)
 * June 16 – Kim Milford, American actor and singer (b. 1951)
 * June 18 – Wilford Leach, American theater director (b. 1929)
 * June 22
 * Dennis Day, American singer and radio and television personality (b. 1916)
 * Stuart Randall, American actor (b. 1909)
 * June 24 – Marta Abba, Italian actress (b. 1900)
 * June 25 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
 * June 27 – Aparicio Méndez, Uruguay political figure and dictator, Leader of Uruguay (b. 1904)

July

 * July 3 – Gabriel Dell, American actor (b. 1919)
 * July 4 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
 * July 8 – Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
 * July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film director (b. 1908)
 * July 17 – Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
 * July 18 – Nico, German rock musician, fashion model, actress and Warhol socialite (b. 1938)
 * July 21 – Jack Clark, American television personality and game show host (b. 1921)
 * July 25
 * Douglas Hickox, English film director (b. 1929)
 * Judith Barsi, American child actress and murder victim (b. 1978)
 * July 27 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
 * July 31 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)

August

 * August 1 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (b. 1901)
 * August 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet (b. 1938)
 * August 5
 * Colin Higgins, American film director (b. 1941)
 * Ralph Meeker, American actor (b. 1920)
 * August 8
 * Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
 * Félix Leclerc, French-Canadian poet and singer (b. 1914)
 * August 9
 * Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
 * Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
 * August 10
 * Arnulfo Arias, Panamanian politician, 3-time President of Panama (b. 1901)
 * Adela Rogers St. Johns, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1893)
 * August 11 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
 * August 12 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American musician/graffiti painter (b. 1960)
 * August 14
 * Robert Calvert, American writer, poet, and musician (b. 1944)
 * Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
 * August 17
 * Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
 * Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
 * August 18 – Felix Maria Davídek, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1921)
 * August 20 – Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (b. 1936)
 * August 21 – Ray Eames, American artist, designer and filmmaker (b. 1912)
 * August 24 – Leonard Frey, American actor (b. 1938)
 * August 27
 * William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
 * Kerry Lloyd, American role-playing game designer (b. 1941)
 * Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
 * August 28
 * Hazel Dawn, American actress (b. 1890)
 * Max Shulman, American comedic writer (b. 1919)
 * August 30 – Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
 * August 31 – Edgar Elbakyan, Soviet actor (b. 1928)

September

 * September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * September 5 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
 * September 6 – Harold Rosson, American cinematographer (b. 1895)
 * September 7 – Abdul Haq, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1912)
 * September 11 – John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
 * September 12
 * Roger Hargreaves, English author (b. 1935)
 * Mars Ravelo, Filipino novelist (b. 1916)
 * September 16 – Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1893)
 * September 18
 * Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian Azari poet (b. 1906)
 * Alan Watt, Australian public servant (b. 1901)
 * September 20 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (b. 1934)
 * September 21
 * Glenn Robert Davis American politician (b. 1914)
 * Henry Koster, German-born film director (b. 1905)
 * September 27 – Teofilo Camomot, Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop and servant of God (b. 1914)
 * September 28
 * Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
 * Ethel Grandin, American actress (b. 1894)
 * September 30
 * Trường Chinh, Vietnamese political leader, 3rd President of Vietnam (b. 1907)
 * Joachim Prinz, German-born American rabbi (b. 1902)

October

 * October 1
 * Lucien Ballard, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
 * Anatoly Blatov, Soviet diplomat (b. 1914)
 * Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
 * Pavle Vuisić, Yugoslav actor (b. 1926)
 * October 2 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-British engineer (b. 1906)
 * October 3 – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (b. 1915)
 * October 7 – Billy Daniels, American singer (b. 1915)
 * October 9
 * Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
 * Felix Wankel, German mechanical engineer (b. 1902)
 * October 10 – Bhabani Bhattacharya, Indian writer (b. 1906)
 * October 11
 * Morgan Farley, American actor (b. 1898)
 * Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Wayland Flowers, American puppeteer (b. 1939)
 * October 12
 * Ken Murray, American actor (b. 1903)
 * Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (b. 1895)
 * October 13 – Melvin Frank, American screenwriter and director (b. 1913)
 * October 15 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer (b. 1892)
 * October 18 – Frederick Ashton, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
 * October 19 – Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
 * October 22 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
 * October 23 – Asashio Tarō III, Sumo wrestler (b. 1929)
 * October 27 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor (b. 1914)
 * October 28 – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910)
 * October 29 – Thomas Cooray, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop and servant of God (b. 1901)
 * October 31 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (b. 1902)

November

 * November 1 – George J. Folsey, American cinematographer (b. 1898)
 * November 7
 * Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (b. 1926)
 * Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (b. 1926)
 * November 9
 * David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
 * Clarke Hinkle, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1909)
 * John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
 * Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
 * Rosemary Timperley, British author (b. 1920)
 * November 11 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
 * November 12
 * Vet Boswell, American singer (b. 1911)
 * Lyman Lemnitzer, American Army General (b. 1899)
 * November 13 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
 * November 14 – Takeo Miki, Japanese politician, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1907)
 * November 15
 * Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek Orthodox monk, theologian, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1905)
 * Mona Washbourne, British actress (b. 1903)
 * November 17 – Sheilah Graham, English-born gossip columnist (b. 1904)
 * November 19 – Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
 * November 20 – Irene Bianucci, Italian-born American painter (b. 1903)
 * November 21
 * Howard Belton, American politician and farmer (b. 1893)
 * Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (New York Giants) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
 * November 22
 * Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1902)
 * Raymond Dart, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (b. 1893)
 * November 23 – Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Egyptian composer (b. 1924)
 * November 25 – Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (b. 1910)
 * November 26 – Antonio Estévez, Venezuelan composer (b. 1916)
 * November 27
 * John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
 * Takieddin el-Solh, Lebanese politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1908)
 * November 28 – Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover (b. 1955)
 * November 29 – Donald Keyhoe, American ufologist (b. 1897)

December

 * December 2
 * Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
 * Paul, Finnish Orthodox archbishop and servant of God (b. 1914)
 * December 4 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
 * December 6
 * Roy Orbison, American rock musician (b. 1936)
 * Timothy Patrick Murphy, American actor (b. 1959)
 * December 7 – Dorothy Jordan, American actress (b. 1906)
 * December 10
 * Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
 * Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (b. 1895)
 * December 13 – Roy Urquhart, British general (b. 1901)
 * December 14 – Stuart Symington, American politician (b. 1901)
 * December 17 – Jerry Hopper, American film and television director (b. 1907)
 * December 20 – Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist, and ABC News World News Tonight co-anchor (b. 1939)
 * December 21
 * Bob Steele, American actor (b. 1907)
 * Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
 * December 22 – Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, Brazilian environmental activist (murdered) (b. 1944)
 * December 23 – Carlo Scorza, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1897)
 * December 26
 * John Loder, English actor (b. 1898)
 * Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
 * Pablo Sorozábal, Spanish composer (b. 1897)
 * December 27
 * Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
 * Jess Oppenheimer, American radio and television producer (b. 1913)
 * December 29 – Sir Ieuan Maddock, British nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
 * December 30 – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American artist (b. 1904)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
 * Chemistry – Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
 * Medicine – Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
 * Literature – Naguib Mahfouz
 * Peace – The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
 * The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Maurice Allais

January

 * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history at the time.
 * January 8 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by its namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

February

 * February 4 - Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site Facebook.
 * February 26 – Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * February 29 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is overthrown in a coup d'état.

March

 * March 2 – A series of bombings occur in Karbala, Iraq, killing over 140 Shia Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura.
 * March 11 – Coordinated bombings at a Cercanías train station in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.
 * March 28 – Hurricane Catarina, the first ever recorded South Atlantic tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
 * March 29 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are admitted to NATO, the largest expansion of the organization.

April

 * April 8 – The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups, in order to put a pause on the War in Darfur.
 * April 17 – Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.
 * April 24 – Referendums on the Annan Plan for Cyprus, which proposes to reunite the island, take place in both the Greek-controlled and the Turkish-controlled parts. Although the Turkish Cypriots vote in favour, the Greek Cypriots reject the proposal.

May

 * May 1 – The European Union expands by 10 member states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.

June

 * June 12 – July 4 – Portugal hosts the UEFA Euro 2004 football tournament, which is won by Greece.
 * June 21 – In Mojave, California, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
 * June 28 – The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), transfers sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government.
 * June 30 – Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

July

 * July 1
 * The unmanned Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
 * The Russian Federation stops recognizing Soviet Union passports as legal identification.

August

 * August 3 – NASA's unmanned MESSENGER spacecraft is launched, with its primary mission being the study of Mercury.
 * August 13–29 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.
 * August 22 – Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
 * August 24 – After departing Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303, a Tupolev Tu-134, explodes over Russia's Tula Oblast and crashes, killing all 43 people on board; minutes later, Siberia Airlines Flight 1047, a Tupolev Tu-154 departing the same airport, explodes over Rostov Oblast and crashes, killing all 46 on board. The Government of Russia declares the explosions to have been caused by female Chechen suicide bombers.

September

 * September 1 – Chechen rebels take 1,128 people hostage, mostly children, at a school in Beslan, Russia. The crisis ends when Russian security forces storm the building, resulting in more than 330 people being killed.

October

 * October 8 – Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people and injuring 171, mostly Israeli tourists.
 * October 9 – Australian federal election, 2004: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Mark Latham.
 * October 19 – A team of explorers reach the bottom of Krubera Cave, the world's deepest cave, with a depth of 2,080 meters (6,824 feet).
 * October 29 – European heads of state sign in Rome the Treaty and Final Act, establishing the first European Constitution.

November

 * November 2 – George W. Bush is reelected President of the United States
 * November 13 – The European Space Agency unmanned probe SMART-1 arrives at the Moon, becoming the first European satellite to fly to the Moon and orbit it.
 * November 16 – NASA's hypersonic Scramjet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph (Mach 9.6) in an unmanned experimental flight.
 * November 22 – The Orange Revolution begins following a disputed presidential election in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych won against Viktor Yushchenko amid accusations of electoral fraud. A revote results in Yushchenko being declared the winner.

December

 * December 14 – The world's tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct over the Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is officially opened.
 * December 21 – Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city of Mosul, killing 22 people.
 * December 26 – The 9.1–9.3 Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, killing over 200,000 people.
 * December 27 – Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT Earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux of high-energetic gamma radiation measured so far.
 * December 30 – A fire in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
 * December 31 – Taipei 101, at the time the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 ft, officially opens.

January



 * January 4 – Peyton Kennedy, Canadian actress
 * January 15 – Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter
 * January 21 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

February

 * February 1 – Ashley Gerasimovich, American actress
 * February 19 – Millie Bobby Brown, British actress

March

 * March 5 – Choi Soo-in, South Korean child actress
 * March 27 – Amira Willighagen, Dutch singer

April

 * April 14 – Anastasia Tarakanova, Russian figure skater
 * April 16 – Elha Nympha, Filipino singer
 * April 22 – Teagan Croft, Australian actress

May

 * May 4 – Kanon Tani, Japanese actress
 * May 22 – Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress
 * May 27 – You Young, South Korean figure skater

June

 * June 1 – Miyu Honda, Japanese actress
 * June 4 – Mackenzie Ziegler, American dancer
 * June 8 – Francesca Capaldi, American actress
 * June 15 – Sterling Jerins, American actress
 * June 17 – Fuku Suzuki, Japanese actor and singer
 * June 23
 * Alexandra Trusova, Russian figure skater
 * Mana Ashida, Japanese actress

August

 * August 14 – Marsai Martin, American actress

September

 * September 23 – Anthony Gonzalez, American actor
 * September 25 – Seiran Kobayashi, Japanese actress

October

 * October 3 – Noah Schnapp, American actor
 * October 5 – Choi Kwon-soo, South Korean actor
 * October 6 – LeBron James Jr., American basketball player
 * October 12 – Darci Lynne Farmer, American ventriloquist

November

 * November 11 – Oakes Fegley, American actor

December

 * December 6 – Lala Kramarenko, Russian gymnast

January

 * January 6 – Pierre Charles, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
 * January 7 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
 * January 9 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
 * January 13 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
 * January 14 – Terje Bakken, Norwegian musician (b. 1978)
 * January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician, 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
 * January 17 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
 * January 22 – Ann Miller, American dancer and actress (b. 1923)
 * January 23 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)
 * January 25
 * Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
 * Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

February

 * February 14 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
 * February 17 – José López Portillo, 51st President of Mexico (b. 1920)
 * February 21 – John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
 * February 26
 * Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
 * Boris Trajkovski, 2nd president of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
 * February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
 * February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
 * February 29 – Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)

March

 * March 2 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)
 * March 4 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
 * March 5 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 31st President of Ecuador (b. 1919)
 * March 7 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1939)
 * March 8
 * Muhammad Zaidan, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
 * Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (b. 1926)
 * March 15 – John Pople, English Nobel chemist (b. 1925)
 * March 18 – Abdujalil Samadov, 4th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1949)
 * March 20 – Juliana, Queen regnant of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
 * March 22 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1937)
 * March 28 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (b. 1921)

April

 * April 1 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1945)
 * April 13 – Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
 * April 18 – Kamisese Mara, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd president of Fiji (b. 1920)
 * April 19
 * John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
 * Jim Cantalupo, American businessman. (b. 1943)
 * April 22 – Pat Tillman, American football player, (b. 1976)
 * April 24 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
 * April 26 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American writer (b. 1928)

May

 * May 5 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1959)
 * May 7 – Nicholas Berg, American businessman (b. 1978)
 * May 9 – Alan King, American actor and comedian (b. 1927)
 * May 17
 * Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
 * Ezzedine Salim, 45th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1943)

June

 * June 1 – William Manchester, American historian (b. 1922)
 * June 2
 * Mujeeb Aalam, Pakistani playback singer (b. 1948)
 * Dom Moraes, Indian poet and writer (b. 1938)
 * Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Ethiopian general, defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia (b. c. 1935)
 * June 3
 * Joe Carr, Irish golfer (b. 1922)
 * Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)
 * June 4 – Steve Lacy, American jazz soprano saxophonist (b. 1934)
 * June 5 – Ronald Reagan, American politician and actor, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
 * June 10
 * Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930)
 * Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, interim Prime Minister (b. 1904)
 * June 16 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai military general, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
 * June 26 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli songwriter (b. 1931)

July

 * July 1 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
 * July 5
 * Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
 * Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
 * July 6
 * Eric Douglas, American actor (b. 1958)
 * Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)
 * July 10 – Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 108th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1930)
 * July 13 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
 * July 16 – Charles Sweeney, American WWII pilot (b. 1919)
 * July 19 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
 * July 21
 * Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
 * Edward B. Lewis, American Nobel geneticist (b. 1918)
 * July 22 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
 * July 28 – Francis Crick, English Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1916)

August

 * August 1 – Philip Abelson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913)
 * August 3 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
 * August 6 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
 * August 8 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
 * August 12 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English Nobel electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1919)
 * August 13 – Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912)
 * August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born Nobel writer (b. 1911)
 * August 15 – Sune Bergström, Swedish Nobel biochemist (b. 1916)
 * August 17 – Frank Cotroni, Canadian mobster (b. 1931)
 * August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
 * August 24 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
 * August 26 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1952)
 * August 30 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)

September

 * September 2 – Vonda Phelps, American child actress (b. 1915)
 * September 11 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
 * September 13 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925)
 * September 15
 * Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (b. 1948)
 * Daouda Malam Wanké, 6th President of Niger (b. 1946)
 * September 18 – Russ Meyer, American director and photographer (b. 1922)
 * September 20 – Brian Clough, British football manager of Nottingham Forest and Derby County (b. 1935)
 * September 22
 * Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
 * Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
 * September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)

October

 * October 1 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
 * October 3 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
 * October 4 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
 * October 5
 * Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921)
 * Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born Nobel physicist (b. 1916)
 * October 8 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (b. 1930)
 * October 10 – Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (b. 1952)
 * October 25 – John Peel, British radio disc jockey (b. 1939)
 * October 29 – Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (b. 1901)

November

 * November 2
 * Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957)
 * Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st president of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
 * November 3 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
 * November 7 – Howard Keel, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
 * November 9
 * Iris Chang, American journalist (b. 1968)
 * Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
 * Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
 * November 11 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Nobel leader (b. 1929)
 * November 13 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
 * November 19 – John Vane, British Nobel pharmacologist (b. 1927)
 * November 23 – Rafael Eitan, Israeli politician (b. 1929)
 * November 29 – Yvonne Aitken, Australian botanist (b. 1911)

December

 * December 1 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince consort of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
 * December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (b. 1966)
 * December 18 – Srully Blotnick, American author and journalist (b. 1941)
 * December 19
 * Herbert C. Brown, English-born Nobel chemist (b. 1912)
 * Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
 * December 23 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
 * December 28
 * Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
 * Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933)
 * December 29 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
 * December 30 – Artie Shaw, American musician (b. 1910)
 * December 31 – Gérard Debreu, French-born Nobel economist (b. 1921)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
 * Economics – Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott
 * Literature – Elfriede Jelinek
 * Peace – Wangari Maathai
 * Physics – David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
 * Physiology or Medicine – Linda B. Buck, Richard Axel

New English words and terms

 * e-waste
 * life hack
 * paywall
 * podcast
 * roentgenium
 * Silver Alert
 * social media
 * waterboarding