Talk:Barney's Birthday (2005 home video) (battybarney2014's version)/@comment-2604:2000:1343:C444:8066:DBFB:3225:DF74-20190208080822

It was the final year of the Cold War that had begun in the late 1940s. During the year, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell, leaving fifteen sovereign republics in its place. India also abandoned its policies of socialism and autarky and began extensive neoliberal changes to its economy in July 1991 which would increase the GDP but also economic inequality over the next two decades. A U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations fought against Iraq, which had invaded and annexed Kuwait in the previous year, 1990. The conflict would be called the Gulf War and would mark the beginning of a since-constant American military presence in the Middle East. The clash between Serbia and the other Yugoslav republics would lead into the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, which ran through the rest of the decade.

The Japanese asset price bubble burst this year, leading to the Lost Years and a permanently stagnated (though still prosperous) Japanese economy.

January

 * January 1
 * Czechoslovakia becomes the second Eastern European country to abandon its command economy.
 * The first anti-stalking law, passed in 1990, goes into effect in California.
 * Dublin begins its year as the European Capital of Culture.
 * January 2 – In eastern El Salvador, Salvadoran rebels shoot down a United States Army helicopter and execute the two surviving members of its 3-man crew.
 * January 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
 * January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.
 * January 6
 * The runoff for the Guatemalan presidential election is won by Jorge Serrano Elías.
 * The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded in Udaipur.
 * January 7 – In Haiti, an attempted coup by an associate of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is thwarted by Loyalist troops.
 * January 9
 * United States Secretary of State James Baker meets with the Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz, but fails to produce a plan for Iraq to withdraw its troops from Kuwait.
 * In Sebokeng, South Africa, gunmen fire on mourners attending the funeral of a leader of the African National Congress, killing 13 people.
 * January 12 – Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
 * January 13 – Singing Revolution: Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. January Events (Lithuania) and the Time of Barricades in Latvia.
 * January 15
 * The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
 * Prime Minister of Cape Verde Pedro Pires resigns following his party's loss in the January 13 Cape Verdean parliamentary election, the first ever multiparty election in an African nation.
 * January 16
 * U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
 * Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
 * January 17
 * Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel.
 * Harald V of Norway becomes king on the death of his father, Olav V.
 * The volcano Hekla erupts on Iceland.
 * January 18 – Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems.
 * January 19
 * An Iraqi Scud attack on Tel Aviv in Israel injures 15 people.
 * The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.
 * January 21 – Harald V's investiture ceremony as King of Norway.
 * January 22
 * Three Iraqi Scuds and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people; three elderly people die of heart attacks.
 * The British Army SAS patrol, Bravo Two Zero, is deployed in Iraq during the Gulf War.
 * January 24 – The government of Papua New Guinea signs a peace agreement with separatist leaders from Bougainville Island, ending fighting that had gone on since 1988.
 * January 26 – Siad Barre is overthrown; Somalia enters civil war.
 * January 29
 * Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.
 * In South Africa, Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party agree to end the violence that had plagued relations between the two organizations.
 * Gulf War: the Battle of Khafji occurs, the battle lasts until February 1.

February

 * February 1
 * A USAir Boeing 737-300, USAir Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
 * The 6.4 Hindu Kush earthquake affected northeast Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing extreme damage, leaving 848 dead and 200 injured.
 * February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
 * February 7
 * Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
 * The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
 * Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
 * February 9 – Singing Revolution: Voters in Lithuania support independence.
 * February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
 * February 13 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. United States military intelligence claims it was a military facility but Iraqi officials identify it as a bomb shelter.
 * February 15 – The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
 * February 17 – The Cape Verdean presidential election, Cape Verde's first multiparty presidential election since 1975, is won by António Mascarenhas Monteiro.
 * February 18 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
 * February 20 – President of Albania Ramiz Alia dismisses the government headed by Prime Minister of Albania Adil Çarçani in an effort to stem pro-democracy protests. Fatos Nano is sworn in as Prime Minister on February 22.
 * February 22 – Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Soviet-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but says that retreating Iraqi forces will not be attacked if they leave Kuwait within 24 hours.
 * February 23
 * The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, kills three firefighters and destroys eight floors of the building.
 * In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état.
 * February 25 – Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single-most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
 * February 26 – Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
 * February 27
 * President Bush declares victory over Iraq and orders a cease-fire.
 * In the Bangladeshi general election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins 139 of 300 seats in the Jatiyo Sangshad. BNP leader Khaleda Zia becomes President of Bangladesh on March 19.

March

 * March 1
 * The ballistic missile submarine USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609) is deactivated.
 * Clayton Keith Yeutter ends his term as United States Secretary of Agriculture.
 * March 3
 * An amateur video captures the beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
 * Singing Revolution: In the Estonian restoration of independence referendum and the Latvian independence and democracy poll, voters vote more than 3-to-1 in favor of independence from the Soviet Union.
 * United Airlines Flight 585 crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing all 25 people on board.
 * The São Tomé and Príncipe presidential election, the first contested presidential election in the history of São Tomé and Príncipe, is won by Miguel Trovoada.
 * March 6 – Prime Minister of India Chandra Shekhar resigns because of a dispute with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose support had kept him in power.
 * March 9 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
 * March 10
 * Gulf War – Operation Phase Echo: 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
 * In the Salvadoran legislative election, the Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of 48 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
 * March 11 – A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa, after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
 * March 13
 * The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
 * The Acid Rain Treaty of 1991 is signed between the American and Canadian governments.
 * March 14
 * The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, returns to Kuwait after seven months of exile in Saudi Arabia while his country was occupied by Iraq.
 * After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a public house in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
 * March 15
 * Four Los Angeles, California, police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3 beating of Rodney King during an arrest.
 * Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
 * The United States and Albania resume diplomatic relations for the first time since 1939.
 * March 17
 * In a national referendum, the people of the Soviet Union vote in favor of keeping the 15 Soviet republics together, with the pro-unity position gaining 77% of the vote. Six Union Republics effectively boycott the referendum.
 * In the Finnish parliamentary election, the Centre Party wins 55 of 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland, ending 25 years of dominance by the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
 * March 19–26 – President of Poland Lech Wałęsa becomes the first Polish president to ever visit the U.S.
 * March 23 – The Sierra Leone Civil War begins when the Revolutionary United Front attempts a coup against the Sierra Leone government.
 * March 24 – The Beninese presidential election, Benin's first presidential election since 1970, is won by Nicéphore Soglo.
 * March 26
 * In Mali, military officers led by Amadou Toumani Touré arrest President Moussa Traoré and suspend the constitution.
 * Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing the South Common Market (Mercosur is its acronym in Spanish).
 * In Daegu, South Korea, the remains of five boys are found eleven years after their disappearance (Frog Boys; 개구리소년 실종사건).
 * March 31
 * Albania holds its first multi-party elections.
 * Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Georgia votes for independence from the Soviet Union.

April

 * April 1 – Comedy Central is launched on cable television in its current format.
 * April 2 – Government-imposed price increases double or triple the prices of consumer goods in the Soviet Union.
 * April 3 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The Resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.
 * April 4
 * Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
 * William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida, sexual assault.
 * Forty people are taken hostage in the 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis. Three gunmen and three hostages were killed in the process.
 * April 5
 * Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.
 * STS-37: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shuttle launches an observatory to study gamma rays before returning to Earth on April 11.
 * April 9
 * The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 * The first Soviet troops leave Poland.
 * April 10
 * A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites).
 * The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
 * April 12 – Globalization – The Warsaw Stock Exchange opens in Poland.
 * April 14 – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
 * April 15
 * The EBRD is inaugurated.
 * The European Economic Community lifts economic sanctions on South Africa in response to moves to end the apartheid system.
 * April 16–18 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev begins the first ever visit of a Soviet leader to Japan, but fails to resolve the two countries' dispute over ownership of the Kuril Islands.
 * April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
 * April 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.
 * April 19 – George Carey is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
 * April 21 – French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovers the wreckage of the Spanish Galleon San Diego off the coast of Fortune Island (Philippines).
 * April 22
 * The Social Democratic Party of Albania is founded.
 * The 7.7 Limon earthquake affected Costa Rica and Panama with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing 47–87 deaths and 109–759 injuries.
 * April 23 – Prime Minister of Iceland Steingrímur Hermannsson resigns following an inconclusive parliamentary election on April 20. On April 30, he is succeeded as prime minister by Davíð Oddsson.
 * April 26
 * 55 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 21. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas.
 * Esko Aho, age 36, becomes the youngest-ever Prime Minister of Finland.
 * April 29
 * A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.
 * STS-39: Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Cape Canaveral to study instruments related to the Strategic Defense Initiative. The mission ends on May 6.
 * The 7.0 Racha earthquake affected Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
 * April 29–30 – In Lesotho, a bloodless coup ousts military ruler Justin Lekhanya. On May 2, he is replaced as Chairman of the Military Council by Elias Phisoana Ramaema.

May

 * May – The first Starbucks Coffee outlet is opened in California.
 * May 1
 * In Taiwan, the Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion are abolished, having been in effect for 43 years.
 * Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May 31 in Lisbon.
 * May 4
 * Carola Søgaard's song Fångad av en stormvind wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Rome, Italy for Sweden.
 * U.S. President Bush is hospitalized after experiencing irregular heartbeat. He is released from the hospital the next day.
 * May 12 – Nepal holds its first multiparty legislative election since 1959.
 * May 14
 * Elizabeth II arrives in Washington, D.C. for a 13-day royal visit to the U.S.
 * Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, dubbed the "Mugger of the Nation", is found guilty and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for her involvement in the death of 14-year-old Stompie Moeketsi. The sentence is never carried out.
 * May 15 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
 * May 18 – Somaliland withdraws from Somalia.
 * May 19 – In the Croatian independence referendum, voters in the Socialist Republic of Croatia vote to secede from Yugoslavia.
 * May 21
 * In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated at a public meeting in Sriperumbudur, by suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam; many others are killed in the explosion.
 * Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia to Zimbabwe, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
 * May 22 – Acting Prime Minister of South Korea Ro Jai-bong resigns in the wake of rioting following a beating death of a student by police on April 26. On May 24, he is succeeded by Chung Won-shik.
 * May 24 – Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences.
 * May 25 – The Surinamese general election is won by the military-backed New Front for Democracy and Development.
 * May 26 – In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on board.
 * May 28 – In the Ethiopian Civil War, the forces of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front seize Addis Ababa.
 * May 31 – The Dwyer decision in the Cascadian part of the United States about logging in old-growth forests with spotted owls protects large areas of forest and changes the economy of the region.

June

 * June 3
 * Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
 * Ethiopian Civil War: Derg insurgents explode an ammunition dump in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia held by the new pro-US anti-communist Ethiopian government.
 * June 4
 * Fatos Nano resigns as Prime Minister of Albania following a nationwide strike. President of Albania Ramiz Alia appoints Ylli Bufi as his successor.
 * The largest solar flare ever recorded triggers an anomalously large aurora as far south as Pennsylvania.
 * June 5
 * President of Algeria Chadli Bendjedid dismisses Prime Minister of Algeria Mouloud Hamrouche following 11 days of antigovernment demonstrations, replacing him with Sid Ahmed Ghozali.
 * South Africa repeals the last legal foundations of apartheid, the laws that segregated places of residence and employment.
 * STS-40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.
 * June 7 – About 200,000 people attend a parade of 8,800 returning Persian Gulf War troops in Washington, D.C.
 * June 9 – A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted.
 * June 10 – 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard of California, is kidnapped and held captive.
 * June 12
 * Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the 15 Soviet republics.
 * Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 152 civilians in Kokkadichcholai.
 * Party of Labour of Albania is dissolved and succeeded by the Socialist Party of Albania which signals the end of communist rule in Albania.
 * June 15
 * In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
 * End of voting in the Indian general election. The Indian National Congress wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority.  On June 21, Congress leader P. V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India
 * June 17
 * Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
 * U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
 * In Northern Ireland, the four main political parties begin talks on restoring self-government.
 * President of Turkey Turgut Özal appoints Mesut Yılmaz as Prime Minister of Turkey, replacing Yıldırım Akbulut, who had resigned.
 * Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced plans to retire.
 * June 20 – In Germany, the Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin.
 * June 21 – P. V. Narasimha Rao sworn in as the Prime Minister of India in a Congress party-led coalition government.
 * June 23
 * Mesut Yılmaz, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (48th government).
 * The first Sonic the Hedgehog game is published by Sega. The series will soon become extremely popular, and is still being produced.
 * June 23–28 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles.
 * June 25 – Collapse of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
 * June 28 – Comecon is dissolved in Moscow.

July

 * July 1
 * The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
 * Telephone service goes down in the cities of Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and San Francisco due to a software bug. About twelve million customers are affected.
 * World's first GSM telephone call made in Finland.
 * Clarence Thomas is nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall as the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
 * July 2 – Ten-Day War: Fighting breaks out when the Yugoslav People's Army attacks secessionists in Slovenia.
 * July 4 – President of Colombia César Gaviria lifts a 7-year-long state of siege.
 * July 6–7 – Steffi Graf and Michael Stich win the 1991 Wimbledon Championships.
 * July 7 – The Brioni Agreement ends the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
 * July 9
 * In response to the end of apartheid, the International Olympic Committee readmits South Africa to the Olympics.
 * Iran–Contra affair: Alan Fiers agrees to plead guilty to two charges of having lied to the U.S. Congress.
 * July 10
 * Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
 * President Bush announces the U.S. is ending its 1986-enacted sanctions on South Africa.
 * July 11
 * A solar eclipse of record totality occurs, seen first in Hawaii, then enters Mexico where the path directly crosses Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City, seen by 20 million inhabitants, and finally ends in Colombia in South America.
 * Nigeria Airways Flight 2120, a Douglas DC-8 operated by Canadian airline Nolisair, catches fire and crashes soon after takeoff from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 people on board.
 * July 15 – Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover Corporation announce that they are merging, the largest bank merger in history.
 * July 16
 * President Gorbachev arrives in London to ask for western aid from the leaders of the G7.
 * Ukraine celebrates its first Independence Day.
 * July 17 – President Bush and President Gorbachev reach an agreement on START II, which is formally signed on July 31.
 * July 18
 * In Israel, a judge investigating a 1990 incident outside a mosque in Jerusalem in which at least 17 Palestinians were killed rules that Israeli police provoked the incident.
 * The governments of Mauritania and Senegal sign a treaty to stop the Mauritania–Senegal Border War which had been going on since 1989.
 * July 22
 * Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape of Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington three days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
 * Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin, apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in six more murders.
 * July 24 – Finance Minister of India Manmohan Singh announces a New Industrial Policy, marking the start of economic liberalisation in India.
 * July 25 – British astronomers announce they have found what appears to be an extrasolar planet.
 * July 27 – An oil spill begins fouling beaches in Olympic National Park.
 * July 29 – In New York City, a grand jury indicts Bank of Credit and Commerce International of the largest bank fraud in history, accusing the bank of defrauding depositors of $5 billion.
 * July 30 – In Haiti, a jury convicts the Tonton Macoute of attempting to overthrow Haiti's first democratically-elected government.
 * July 31
 * The Warsaw Treaty Organization is officially dissolved in accordance with a protocol calling for a "transition to all-European structures."
 * The United States and the Soviet Union sign the START I treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons.
 * Singing Revolution: Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit (OMON) forces kill seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious of the Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts.

August

 * August 1 – Israel agrees to participate in the Madrid Conference of 1991, which is held in October.
 * August 4 – The cruise liner MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa and all 571 passengers on board are safely evacuated by SAAF helicopters.
 * August 5 – Sergey Bubka breaks the world record for men's pole vault.
 * August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The first website, "info.cern.ch" is created.
 * August 7 – Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
 * August 8 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time, collapses.
 * August 13 – The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
 * August 17
 * Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
 * The remains of the Prussian King Frederick (II) the Great is re-interred in Potsdam.
 * August 17–20: Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina and New England. The storm kills 17 people and causes $1½ billion in damage.
 * August 19 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and seven hard-liners attempting to usurp control, collapses in less than 72 hours.
 * August 20
 * Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Estonia restores its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * Dissolution of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
 * August 21 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Latvia restores its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * August 22 – Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
 * August 24 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
 * August 25
 * Serbian aggression (Yugoslav People's Army and Chetniks) starts on Croatian town Vukovar.
 * Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
 * Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
 * August 27 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 * August 29
 * Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile.
 * Boris Yeltsin bans and dissolves the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
 * August 30 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
 * August 31 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.

September

 * September 2 – The United States re-recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and the US government reopens the embassies there.
 * September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
 * September 4 – The Russian city Yekaterinburg regains its name from the communist–era name of Sverdlovsk, Russia (former Soviet Union).
 * September 5–7 – At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and 7 men are assaulted.
 * September 5 – The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union self-dissolves, replaced by Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and State Council of the Soviet Union
 * September 6
 * Singing Revolution: The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
 * The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
 * September 8 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. A naming dispute with Greece immediately erupts.
 * September 9 – Tajikistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * September 11
 * Israel releases 51 Arab prisoners and the bodies of nine guerillas, raising hopes that the last Western hostages in Lebanon will soon be released.
 * The Soviet Union announces plans to withdraw Soviet military and economic aid to Cuba.
 * September 15 – In the Swedish general election, the Social Democrats suffer their worst election results in 60 years, leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson.
 * September 16 – Judge Gerhard Gesell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issues a ruling clearing Col. Oliver North of all charges brought against him in the Iran–Contra affair.
 * September 17 – North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
 * September 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
 * September 20–21 – In Sandy, Utah, several patients are held hostage and a nurse is killed in the Alta View Hospital hostage incident.
 * September 21
 * Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 * The Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of German tongue (Orden der Schwestern der Perpetuellen Indulgenz deutscher Zunge, "O.S.P.I.") is founded in Heidelberg by Erzmutter (Archmother) Johanna Indulgentia Tara Maria Benedicta O.S.P.I.
 * September 21–30 – Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials confiscate documents from U.N. weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the U.N. Security Council threatens enforcement actions.
 * September 22 – The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
 * September 23 – United Nations Special Commission inspectors discover secret Iraqi documents in Baghdad detailing plans to make nuclear weapons, but the Iraqi Army forcibly remove the documents from the inspectors.
 * September 24 – Lebanese kidnappers release Jackie Mann, 77, after more than two years of captivity.
 * September 25 – In the Salvadoran Civil War, representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front reach an agreement with President of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani, setting the stage for ending over 11 years of civil war.
 * September 27 – President Bush announces unilateral reductions in short-range nuclear weapons and calls off 24-hour alerts for long-range bombers. The Soviet Union responds with similar unilateral reductions on October 5.
 * September 29 – In El Salvador, an army colonel of the Atlacatl Battalion is found guilty of the 1989 murders of six Jesuits.
 * September 30
 * Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power. He is reinstated in 1994.
 * A tornado destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

October

 * October 1 – Croatian War of Independence: Forces of the Yugoslav People's Army invade the area surrounding Dubrovnik in Croatia, beginning the Siege of Dubrovnik, which lasts until May 31, 1992.
 * October 3
 * Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
 * Nadine Gordimer, whose work was once suppressed because of its scathing criticism of Apartheid in South Africa, is awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 * House banking scandal: Tom Foley, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, announces closure of the House Bank by the end of the year after revelations that House members have written numerous bad checks.
 * October 4 – Carl Bildt becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden, replacing Ingvar Carlsson.
 * October 6 – President Gorbachev condemns Antisemitism in the Soviet Union in a statement read on the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres, which saw the death of 35,000 Jews in Ukraine.
 * October 7 – The Yugoslav Air Force bombs the office of President of Croatia Franjo Tuđman, who narrowly escapes with his life.
 * October 8 – The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia.
 * October 11
 * In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR.
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful."
 * October 11–13 – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
 * October 12 – Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
 * October 13 – In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, the Union of Democratic Forces defeats the Bulgarian Socialist Party, leaving no remaining Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
 * October 14 – Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese opposition politician, won the Nobel Peace prize.
 * October 15 – The United States Senate votes 52–48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
 * October 16 – George Hennard murders 23 people in Killeen, Texas, before killing himself.
 * October 18 – The Soviet Union restores diplomatic relations with Israel, which had been suspended since the 1967 Six-Day War.
 * October 20
 * The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
 * The Harare Declaration lays down the membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations.
 * Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke wins a spot in the runoff election for governor of Louisiana, ultimately losing to Edwin Edwards.
 * October 21 – Lebanese kidnappers release Jesse Turner, a mathematics professor who had been held hostage for more than four years.
 * October 23 – In Paris, the Vietnam-backed government of the state of Cambodia signs an agreement with the Khmer Rouge to end the civil war and bring the Khmer Rouge into government in spite of its role in the Cambodian genocide which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. The deal results in the creation of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia.
 * October 27
 * The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland.
 * Turkmenistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * October 28–November 4 – The 1991 Perfect Storm strikes the northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada, causing over $200 million of damage and resulting in 12 direct fatalities.
 * October 29
 * The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
 * The U.S. expands trade sanctions on Haiti to include all goods except food and medicine, in an effort to encourage the leaders of the 1991 Haitian coup d'état to restore democracy.
 * October 30 – In Madrid, the Middle East Peace Conference opens, the first direct negotiations between Israel and nearly all its Arab adversaries.
 * October 31–November 3 – The Halloween Blizzard hits the Upper Midwest of the United States, causing around $100 million of damage and killing 22.

November

 * November 4–5 – In South Africa, the African National Congress leads a general strike, demanding a role in governing and an end to a value-added tax.
 * November 5
 * The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.
 * In a special election for the U.S. Senate, Harris Wofford scores an electoral upset against Dick Thornburgh, who had led him by 44 points in an August opinion poll.
 * The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence.
 * China–Vietnam relations: China and Vietnam restore diplomatic relations after a 13-year rift which followed the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War.
 * November 6
 * The KGB officially stops operations.
 * The CPSU and its republic-level division, the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR, are banned in the Russian SFSR by Presidential decree N 169.
 * November 7
 * Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
 * The last oil well fire in Kuwait is extinguished.
 * The first report on carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature.
 * November 8 – Hong Kong begins the forcible repatriation of Vietnamese boat people, starting with a group of 59 who were flown to Hanoi.
 * November 9
 * The British JET fusion reactor generates 1.5 MW output power.
 * On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, tens of thousands of protestors demonstrate against attacks on immigrant workers.
 * November 12 – June Rowlands is elected the first female Mayor of Toronto.
 * November 14
 * American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
 * Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.
 * Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
 * November 18
 * The forces of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitaries take the Croatian town of Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and kill more than 260 Croatian prisoners of war.
 * An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying a 19-member peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.
 * Süleyman Demirel of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (49th government, coalition partner CHP).
 * November 21 – The United Nations Security Council recommends Egypt's deputy prime minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.
 * November 23 – Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain vote to dissolve the party and found the think-tank Democratic Left in its place.
 * November 24 – Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies from pneumonia induced by AIDS.
 * November 26 – The National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities according to their Azeri names.
 * November 27 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.

December

 * December 1 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.
 * December 4
 * Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
 * Pan American World Airways ends operations.
 * John Leonard Orr, one of the most prolific serial arsonists of the 20th century, is arrested in California. In the ensuing years, Orr is convicted in both Federal and state court.
 * December 8
 * Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus.
 * A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid.
 * December 11 – Croatian forces kill 18 Serbs and one Hungarian in the village of Paulin Dvor, Croatia.
 * December 12
 * The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR denounces the Union Treaty of 1922 and ratifies the Belavezha Accords instead.
 * The government of Nigeria changes the capital of the nation from Lagos to Abuja.
 * Ukraine becomes the first post-Soviet republic to decriminalize homosexuality.
 * December 15 – The Egyptian ferry MV Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450.
 * December 16
 * Kazakhstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: The United Nations General Assembly adopts United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/86 which states that Zionism is not racism, repealing United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (adopted 1975). The resolution is favoured by 111 nations and opposed by 25.
 * December 19
 * Paul Keating defeats Bob Hawke in a Labor Party leadership ballot. Consequently, Keating becomes Prime Minister of Australia, being sworn in the following day.
 * Skarnsund Bridge opens in Norway. With a span of 530 m, it will be the world's longest cable-stayed bridge for two years.
 * December 20 – A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
 * December 21
 * The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NAC-C) meets for the first time, the day on which the Soviet Union ceases to exist. source
 * Charilaos Florakis is elected honorary president of the Communist Party of Greece. source
 * December 22 – Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
 * December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, stating that Russia should be a successor to the collapsing Soviet Union within the United Nations Organization.
 * December 25
 * Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already seceded, anticipating the dissolution of the 74-year-old state.
 * The Russian SFSR officially renames itself the Russian Federation.
 * December 26 – The Supreme Soviet meets for a final time, formally dissolves the Soviet Union, and adjourns sine die, ending the Cold War. All remaining Soviet institutions eventually cease operation on December 31.

Date unknown

 * The University of South Australia is founded.
 * Impostor James Hogue is exposed at Princeton University.
 * Ames crater astrobleme discovered in Major County, Oklahoma.

January

 * January 1 – Hamse Abdouh, Palestinian swimmer
 * January 2
 * Sergei Petrov, Russian football player
 * Ben Hardy, English actor
 * Danny Miller, English actor
 * Davide Santon, Italian footballer
 * Steele Sidebottom, Australian Rules footballer
 * January 3 – Sébastien Faure, French footballer
 * January 4
 * Pascal Bodmer, German ski jumper
 * Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress and dancer
 * January 5 – Rahel Kiwic, Swiss footballer
 * January 6 – Anabel Barnston, English actress
 * January 7 – Eden Hazard, Belgian football player
 * January 8 – Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
 * January 9 – Álvaro Soler, Spanish-German singer
 * January 11 – Hyolyn, South Korean singer and actress
 * January 12 – Pixie Lott, British singer
 * January 13
 * Kyle Clifford, Canadian hockey player
 * Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer and actress
 * January 14
 * Ryan Coleman, American actor
 * Jeanine Mason, American actress and dancer
 * January 15
 * Darya Klishina, Russian athlete and model
 * Rubab Raza, Pakistani swimmer
 * January 18
 * Britt McKillip, Canadian actress and musician
 * Matthew Kane, British actor
 * January 19
 * Erin Sanders, American actress
 * Yu Takahashi, Japanese actress and model
 * January 20
 * Ciara Hanna, American actress and model
 * Jolyon Palmer, British racing driver
 * January 21
 * Craig Roberts, Welsh actor
 * Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
 * January 22
 * Marcus Canty, American singer and dancer
 * Anais Mali, French model
 * January 24 – Ali Kireş, Turkish footballer
 * January 27 – Daniel Hemric, American race car driver
 * January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
 * January 31 – Amy Jackson, English actress and model

February

 * February 1 – Jasmine Tookes, American model
 * February 3 – Glenn McCuen, American actor, model and gymnast
 * February 5 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model
 * February 8 – Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
 * February 10
 * Emma Roberts, American actress and singer
 * C. J. Anderson, American football player
 * February 11
 * Christofer Drew, American singer
 * Georgia May Foote, British actress
 * Shanina Shaik, Australian model
 * February 12 – Casey Abrams, American singer
 * February 14
 * Charlie G. Hawkins, English actor
 * Raquel Calderón Argandoña, Chilean actress, singer and lawyer
 * February 16
 * Micah Stephen Williams, American actor
 * Sergio Canales, Spanish football player
 * February 17
 * Ed Sheeran, English singer
 * Bonnie Wright, British actress
 * February 18
 * Malese Jow, American actress, singer and songwriter
 * Henry Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2009)
 * February 19
 * Trevor Bayne, American race car driver
 * Ariel Alexandria Davis, American actress
 * February 21 – Joe Alwyn, British actor and model
 * February 22
 * Robin Stjernberg, Swedish pop singer
 * Khalil Mack, American football player
 * February 24
 * Emily DiDonato, American model
 * O'Shea Jackson Jr., American rapper and actor
 * February 25
 * Kristie Mewis, American soccer player
 * Tony Oller, American actor and singer
 * February 26
 * CL, South Korean singer and dancer
 * Lee Chang-sub, South Korean singer
 * February 28 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress

March

 * March 3 – Park Cho-rong, South Korean singer
 * March 4
 * Aoi Nakamura, Japanese actor
 * Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and fashion model
 * March 5 – Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Australian actress
 * March 6
 * Nicole Fox, American fashion model and actress
 * Lex Luger, American record producer
 * March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor and musician
 * March 11
 * Qian Lin, Chinese singer
 * Drew Osborne, American actor
 * Jack Rodwell, English footballer
 * Poonam Pandey, Indian Bollywood actress
 * March 13
 * Luan Santana, Brazilian singer-songwriter
 * Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player
 * March 14
 * Jake Ball, English cricketer
 * Rhiannon Fish, Australian actress
 * March 15 – Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
 * March 16 – Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician
 * March 17 – Daisy Head, English actress
 * March 18 – Travis Frederick, American football player
 * March 19 – Garrett Clayton, American actor and singer
 * March 21 – Antoine Griezmann, French footballer
 * March 22 – Ashley Eastham, English footballer
 * March 25 – Liang Bo, Chinese singer-songwriter
 * March 26 – Jack Watts, Australian rules footballer
 * March 27 – Chloe Marshall, English model
 * March 28
 * Amy Bruckner, American actress and singer
 * Derek Carr, American quarterback
 * Hoya, South Korean singer and actor
 * March 29
 * Hayley McFarland, American actress
 * Irene, South Korean singer
 * March 30 – Mia Carruthers, American singer and songwriter

April

 * April 3 – Hayley Kiyoko, American singer and actress
 * April 4
 * Jamie Lynn Spears, American singer and actress
 * Yui Koike, Japanese actress and singer
 * April 7 – Michelle Monkhouse, Canadian fashion model (d. 2011)
 * April 8 – Minami Takahashi, Japanese singer
 * April 9 – Sancler Frantz, Brazilian model and journalist
 * April 10
 * AJ Michalka, American singer and actress
 * Conor Leslie, American actress and model
 * April 11
 * Thiago Alcântara, Spanish footballer
 * Niall Canavan, English-born Irish footballer
 * James Magnussen, Australian swimmer
 * Telvin Smith, American football player
 * April 13 – Dylan Penn, American model and actress
 * April 14 – James Frecheville, Australian actor
 * April 15
 * Daiki Arioka, Japanese idol
 * Anastasia Vinnikova, Belarusian singer
 * Javier Fernandez, Spanish figure skater
 * April 17 – Tessa James, Australian actress
 * April 19 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
 * April 20
 * Ondřej Kraják, Czech footballer
 * Luke Kuechly, American football player
 * Yuko Shintake, Japanese artistic gymnast
 * April 21
 * Frank Dillane, English actor
 * Kenza Zouiten, Swedish fashion model
 * April 23 – Caleb Johnson, American singer
 * April 25 – Alex Shibutani, American ice dancer
 * April 27 – Rebecca Ryan, English actress
 * April 28
 * Patricia Ashley, American actress

May

 * May 1 – Creagen Dow, American actor
 * May 3 – Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
 * May 7 – Rueben Randle, American football player
 * May 9 – Christy Mack, American pornographic actress and model
 * May 10
 * Ray Dalton, American singer-songwriter
 * Jordan Francis, Canadian actor
 * May 12 – Jennifer Damiano, American actress and singer
 * May 15 – Jennifer Hof, German fashion model
 * May 16 – Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
 * May 17
 * Johanna Konta, Australian-born tennis player
 * Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor and rapper
 * Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and producer
 * May 19
 * Brittani Kline, American model
 * Jordan Pruitt, American recording artist
 * May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
 * May 22
 * Sophia Abrahão, Brazilian actress
 * Suho, South Korean singer
 * May 23
 * Nadine Ames, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder
 * Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
 * Aaron Donald, American football player
 * Sam Masters, Australian Speedway Rider
 * May 24 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
 * May 25 – Derrick Williams, American basketball player
 * May 26
 * Takumi Abe, Japanese football player
 * Amber Bondin, Maltese singer
 * Marie-Sophie Hindermann, German artistic gymnast
 * May 27
 * Zeke Upshaw, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 * Beauden Barrett, New Zealand rugby union player
 * May 28 – Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer

June

 * June 3 – Natasha Dupeyrón, Mexican actress and singer
 * June 4
 * Jordan Hinson, American actress
 * Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer
 * June 6 – Son Dong-woon, Korean pop singer
 * June 7
 * Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
 * Fetty Wap, American rapper
 * June 10 – Pol Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer
 * June 11
 * Daniel Howell, British YouTuber and former Radio 1 DJ
 * Kärt Tammjärv, Estonian actress
 * June 12 – Louisa Gummer, American model
 * June 15 – Rina Takeda, Japanese actress and black belt
 * June 16 – Joe McElderry, British singer and model
 * June 18 – Willa Holland, American model and actress
 * June 19 – Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
 * June 20 – Alexis Neiers, American television personality and model
 * June 21
 * Gaël Kakuta, Congolese professional footballer
 * César Taján, Colombian footballer
 * Bruno Aquino, Brazilian footballer
 * JC Greyling, Namibian rugby union player
 * Sachin Mylavarapu, Singaporean cricketer
 * Georgina Hagen, English actress and singer
 * Min, South Korean singer, actress and model
 * June 22 – Katie Jarvis, English actress
 * June 23
 * Katie Armiger, American singer
 * Fakhreddine Ben Youssef, Tunisian footballer
 * June 24
 * Max Ehrich, American actor, singer and dancer
 * Yasmin Paige, English actress
 * Dexter Darden, American actor
 * June 25
 * Christa Theret, French actress
 * Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer
 * Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer, and model
 * June 26 – Jesuíta Barbosa, Brazilian actor
 * June 27
 * Dan Osborne, British television personality
 * Oliver Stark, British actor
 * June 28
 * Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean drummer, actor and singer
 * Seohyun, South Korean singer
 * George Webster, English actor
 * June 29
 * Tajja Isen, Canadian actress
 * Addison Timlin, American actress
 * Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
 * Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer
 * June 30
 * MC Davo, Mexican rapper, singer and composer
 * David Witts, British actor

July

 * July 1
 * Michael Wacha, American baseball player
 * Sanah Moidutty, Indian singer songwriter
 * Kev Adams, French comedian, actor, humorist, screenwriter and film producer
 * Serenay Sarıkaya, Turkish actress and model
 * July 2 – Kim Go-eun, South Korean actress
 * July 3
 * Tomomi Itano, Japanese singer and actress
 * Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
 * Grant Rosenmeyer, American film and television actor
 * July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
 * July 6
 * Victoire Thivisol, French actress
 * Ashley Lloyd, British actor and dancer
 * July 7
 * Alesso, Swedish DJ and music producer
 * Cody Garbrandt, American mixed martial artist
 * Eve Hewson, Irish actress
 * Choi Tae-joon, South Korean actor
 * July 8
 * Jamie Blackley, Manx-born British actor
 * Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer
 * July 9
 * Gioia Barbieri, Italian tennis player
 * Clara Hagman, Swedish singer
 * Mitchel Musso, American actor, singer
 * Riley Reid, American pornographic actress
 * July 10
 * María Chacón, Mexican actress and singer
 * Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer and actress
 * July 11
 * Natalie Evans, American actress
 * Kentaro Sakaguchi, Japanese model and actor
 * July 12
 * Dexter Roberts, American Idol contestant
 * James Rodríguez, Colombian football player
 * July 13
 * Seppe Smits, Belgian snowboarder
 * Khairu Azrin Khazali, Malaysian footballer
 * Martin Joseph Ward, English professional boxer
 * Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, Canadian ski jumper
 * July 14
 * Cihan Özkara, German-Turkish-Azerbaijani footballer
 * July 15
 * Emily Roeske, American actress
 * Erik J. Berg, Canadian actor
 * Derrick Favors, American basketball player
 * Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress
 * July 16
 * Alexandra Shipp, American actress
 * Andros Townsend, English footballer
 * July 18 – Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
 * July 20
 * Merxat, Chinese actor
 * Alec Burks, American basketball player
 * Tawan Vihokratana, Thai actor, model and travel vlogger
 * July 21
 * Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
 * Tuan Muhamad Faim, Malaysian footballer
 * July 23
 * BiBi Jones, American pornographic actress
 * Terron Armstead, American football player
 * Lauren Mitchell, Australian artistic gymnast
 * July 24 – Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
 * July 26 – Nathan Hartono, Singaporean singer and actor
 * July 27
 * Matt DiBenedetto, American race car driver
 * Rena Matsui, Japanese singer and idol
 * July 28 – Rina Aizawa, Japanese actress and gravure idol
 * July 29 – Maestro Harrell, American actor
 * July 30
 * David Carreira, Portuguese singer, model and actor
 * Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter, stage actress and fashion designer
 * July 31
 * Filipa Azevedo, Portuguese singer
 * Abhay Jodhpurkar, Indian singer

August

 * August 2
 * Skyler Day, American actress and singer
 * Zuleyka Silver, American fashion model and actress
 * August 3 – Ismail Juma, Tanzanian long-distance runner (d. 2017)
 * August 4 – Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
 * August 5 – Brooke Marie Bridges, American actress
 * August 6
 * Kacey Rohl, Canadian actress
 * Irina Kulikova, Russian fashion model
 * Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
 * August 7 – Mike Trout, American baseball player
 * August 9
 * Alice Barlow, English actress and singer
 * Alexa Bliss, American professional wrestler
 * Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
 * Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress, singer and model
 * August 12
 * Jesinta Franklin, Australian beauty pageant titleholder
 * Lakeith Stanfield, American actor and rapper
 * August 16
 * Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
 * Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (d. 2014)
 * Young Thug, American hip hop artist
 * Hayley Chase, American actress
 * August 17 – Austin Butler, American actor, singer, and model
 * August 18 – Richard Harmon, Canadian actor
 * August 20 – Cory Joseph, Canadian basketball player
 * August 21 – Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress
 * August 22 – Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
 * August 23 – Jennifer Abel, Canadian diver
 * August 25 – Gershon Koffie, Ghanaian soccer player
 * August 26
 * Tommy Bastow, English actor and musician
 * Dylan O'Brien, American actor
 * August 28
 * Humberto Carrão, Brazilian actor
 * Kyle Massey, American actor
 * Samuel Larsen, American actor and singer
 * August 30 – Gaia Weiss, French model and actress

September

 * September 1 – Rhys Bennett, English footballer
 * September 3 – Maurício Destri, Brazilian actor
 * September 4 – Carter Jenkins, American actor
 * September 5 – Skandar Keynes, British actor
 * September 7
 * Joe Harris, American basketball player
 * Jennifer Veal, English actress
 * September 9
 * Kelsey Chow, American actress
 * Hunter Hayes, American country musician
 * Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior, Brazilian footballer
 * September 10
 * Hannah Hodson, American actress
 * Adam Nichols, British musician
 * September 11 – Kygo, Norwegian DJ and record producer
 * September 13 – Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian artistic gymnast
 * September 14 – Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model
 * September 16 – Marlon Teixeira, Brazilian model
 * September 17
 * An Byeong-hun, Korean golfer
 * Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
 * Jordan McCoy, American singer and guitarist
 * Sanne Wevers, Dutch gymnast
 * September 20 – Spencer Locke, American actress
 * September 22
 * Khairul Anuar Mohamad, Malaysian archer
 * Chelsea Tavares, American actress and singer
 * September 23
 * Key, Korean singer
 * Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
 * September 25 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
 * September 27 – Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player

October

 * October 2 – Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer
 * October 4
 * Cole Hawkins, American actor
 * Nicolai Kielstrup, Danish singer
 * October 5 – Jackson Rogow, American actor
 * October 6 – Roshon Fegan, American actor
 * October 7 – Nicole Jung, Korean-American singer
 * October 10
 * Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter
 * Lali Espósito, Argentine actress, singer, dancer and model
 * Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist
 * Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
 * October 13 – Diego Domínguez, Spanish actor and singer
 * October 14 – Shona McGarty, English actress
 * October 16
 * Phan Thi Ha Thanh, Vietnamese artistic gymnast
 * Miori Takimoto, Japanese actress
 * Jedward, Irish pop duo
 * October 17 – Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress and singer
 * October 18 – Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
 * October 19 – Christopher Gerse, American actor
 * October 20
 * Kirsten Olson, American figure skater and actress
 * Zulfahmi Khairuddin, Malaysian motocycle racer
 * October 22 – Tatiana Martínez, Mexican actress
 * October 23
 * Sophie Oda, Japanese American actress
 * Princess Mako of Akishino, Japanese princess
 * October 24 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian football striker
 * October 25 – Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player
 * October 26 – Amala Paul, Indian film actress
 * October 27 – Bryan Craig, American actor
 * October 28 – Mart Müürisepp, Estonian actor
 * October 29 – Marcus Lattimore, American football player
 * October 30
 * Paulina Olszynski, American actress
 * Aliza Vellani, Canadian television actress
 * Artemi Panarin, Russian ice hockey player
 * October 31 – Jordan-Claire Green, American actress musician and singer

November

 * November 1
 * Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast
 * Anthony Ramos, American actor
 * November 4
 * Olta Boka, Albanian singer
 * Bee Vang, American actor
 * Adriana Chechik, American pornographic actress
 * November 6
 * Camila Finn, Brazilian model
 * Pierson Fodé, American actor and model
 * November 7, Felix Rosenqvist, Swedish Race car driver
 * November 8 – Riker Lynch, American actor, singer and bassist
 * November 10 – Genevieve Buechner, Canadian actress
 * November 11
 * Christa B. Allen, American actress
 * Emma Blackery, British singer
 * Tanvi Hegde, Indian actress
 * November 12
 * Takatoshi Abe, Japanese track and field athlete
 * Gijs Van Hoecke, Belgian cyclist
 * November 13
 * Matt Bennett, American actor, singer and screenwriter
 * Devon Bostick, Canadian actor
 * November 14
 * Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Graham Patrick Martin, American film and television actor
 * November 15 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
 * November 16 – Tomomi Kasai, Japanese singer
 * November 20 – Irene Esser, Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder
 * November 21 – Dmitriy Martynov, Russian actor
 * November 22
 * Diana Danielle, American actress
 * Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer
 * November 24
 * Lacey Baker, American skateboarder
 * Richie Stanaway, New Zealander race car driver
 * November 25
 * Jamie Grace, American musician and actress
 * Martin del Rosario, Filipino actor
 * November 28 – Ian Beharry, Canadian pair skater

December

 * December 1 – Sun Yang, Chinese Olympic swimmer
 * December 2
 * Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian freestyle skier
 * Brandon Knight, American basketball player
 * Charlie Puth, American singer
 * December 3
 * Dominique Jackson, British actress
 * Masahiro Usui, Japanese actor
 * December 4 – Aiden Grimshaw, English singer
 * December 7 – Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor and singer
 * December 9
 * Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince
 * Choi Minho, South Korean rapper and TV host
 * December 10 – Kiki Bertens, Dutch tennis player
 * December 12
 * Dyllan Christopher, American actor
 * Wallis Currie-Wood, American actress
 * Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
 * December 11
 * Anna Bergendahl, Swedish singer
 * Gastón Soffritti, Argentine actress
 * December 13 – Jay Greenberg, American music composer
 * December 15 – Eunice Cho, Korean-American actress
 * December 19
 * Jorge Blanco, Mexican musician, singer, dancer, and actor
 * Declan Galbraith, English singer
 * Keiynan Lonsdale, Australian actor
 * Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * December 20
 * Hunter Gomez, American actor
 * Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
 * December 24
 * Vincent Caso, American actor and entrepreneur
 * Louis Tomlinson, British singer and songwriter
 * December 26 – Eden Sher, American actress
 * December 27 – Chloe Bridges, American actress
 * December 28 – Belime, Lebanon singer-songwriter, pop musician, and music producer
 * December 30 – Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player

January

 * January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor and singer (b. 1912)
 * January 3
 * Luke Appling, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907)
 * Doris Zinkeisen, Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist and writer (b. 1898)
 * January 5 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
 * January 7
 * Everett Bidwell, American politician (b. 1899)
 * Maurice Deloraine, French engineer, executive and technical director of International Telephone and Telegraph (b. 1898)
 * January 8 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (b. 1960)
 * January 11
 * Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 * Charles Mozley, British artist (b. 1914)
 * January 12
 * Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b. 1904)
 * Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
 * Mary Francis Shura, American writer (b. 1923)
 * January 14 – Salah Khalaf (a.k.a. Abu Iyad), Palestinian officer (b. 1933)
 * January 15
 * Ralph Tambs-Lyche, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1890)
 * Frederick J. Pohl, prolific playwright, literary critic, editor, and book writer (b. 1889)
 * January 17 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
 * January 18 – Hamilton Fish III, American soldier and politician (b. 1888)
 * January 19 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
 * January 22 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
 * January 25 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
 * January 28 – Red Grange, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
 * January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
 * January 30
 * John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
 * Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
 * John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)

February

 * February 1 – Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
 * February 2
 * Pete Axthelm, American sportswriter (b. 1943)
 * Sir Monty Finniston, British industrialist (b. 1912)
 * Franco Latini, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1927)
 * February 3
 * Arnold Armitage, British-born American artist and illustrator, (b. 1899)
 * Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
 * Ed Russenholt, first weather person (b. 1890)
 * February 5
 * Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest (b. 1907)
 * Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
 * February 6
 * Salvador Luria, Italian-born American Nobel biologist (b. 1912)
 * Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1912)
 * María Zambrano, Spanish essayist and philosopher (b. 1904)
 * February 7 – Amos Yarkoni, Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
 * February 10 – Bernard Lee, American civil rights activist (b. 1935)
 * February 13 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
 * February 14
 * John A. McCone, American politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1902)
 * Neta Snook, American aviator (b. 1896)
 * February 16 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contras leader (b. 1932)
 * February 21
 * John Sherman Cooper, American politician (b. 1901)
 * Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
 * February 24
 * John Charles Daly, South African-American journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
 * George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
 * Héctor Rial, Argentinian footballer (b. 1928)
 * Jean Rogers, American actress (b. 1916)
 * February 25 – Sverre Hansen, Norwegian long jumper (b. 1899)
 * February 28 – Koesbini, Indonesian composer (b. 1910)

March

 * March 1
 * Katherine Blake, South African-born British actress (b. 1921)
 * Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant camera (b. 1909)
 * March 2
 * Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
 * Mary Howard (a.k.a. Josephine Edgar), British romance novelist (b. 1907)
 * March 3
 * Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
 * William Penney, Baron Penney, British nuclear physicist (b. 1909)
 * March 7 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
 * March 12 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)
 * March 13 – Sigurd Aalefjær, Norwegian engineer and civil servant (b. 1917)
 * March 14
 * Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
 * Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
 * March 15
 * G. Aravindan, Indian film firector and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 * Evelyn Boucher, British film actress (b. 1892)
 * Robin Hill, British plant biochemist (b. 1899)
 * George Sherman, American film director (b. 1908)
 * March 16
 * Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, British central banker and diplomat (b. 1918)
 * Latasha Harlins, American murder victim (b. 1975)
 * March 18 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1901)
 * March 21 – Leo Fender, American instrument maker (b. 1909)
 * March 23 – Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1893)
 * March 24 – Sir John Kerr, former Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
 * March 25 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman Catholic bishop who fought for Catholic Tradition (b. 1905)
 * March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
 * March 29 – Lee Atwater, American political activist, campaign strategist, and presidential advisor (b. 1951)

April

 * April 1
 * Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
 * Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing senator (assassinated) (b. 1946)
 * Paulo Muwanga, Ugandan military officer and statesman, 3rd Prime Minister of Uganda and 6th President of Uganda (b. 1921)
 * April 3
 * Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
 * Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
 * April 4
 * Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
 * Louis Guglielmi, French composer (b. 1916)
 * John Heinz, American politician (b. 1938)
 * Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
 * April 5
 * Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
 * John Tower, American politician (b. 1925)
 * William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, former Governor-General of Australia (b. 1909)
 * April 7
 * Oleg Babak, Soviet army officer (b. 1967)
 * Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer (b. 1899)
 * April 8 – Per "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish singer (b. 1969)
 * April 9 – Forrest Towns, American Olympic athlete (b. 1914)
 * April 10
 * Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
 * Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
 * April 16 – David Lean, English film director (b. 1908)
 * April 18 – Austin Bradford Hill, English epidemiologist and statistician (b. 1897)
 * April 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director, and administrator (b. 1905)
 * April 20
 * Steve Marriott, English musician (b. 1947)
 * Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
 * Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian Communist leader, former Party General Secretary, Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1916)
 * April 23 – Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
 * April 26
 * Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
 * William Andrew Paton, founder of the American Accounting Association in 1916, (b. 1889)
 * April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist (b. 1909)
 * April 28
 * Paul E. Klopsteg, American physicist (b. 1889)
 * Floyd McKissick, American lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1922)
 * Lee Wulff, American conservationist and fisherman (b. 1905)
 * April 29
 * Claude Gallimard, French editor (b. 1914)
 * Gonzaguinha, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1945)

May

 * May 1
 * Cesare Merzagora, Italian politician (b. 1898)
 * Richard Thorpe, American film director (b. 1896)
 * May 3
 * Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American writer (b. 1933)
 * James C. Tison Jr., American admiral and civil engineer, sixth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, first director of the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps (b. 1908)
 * May 4 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1902)
 * May 6 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (b. 1903)
 * May 7 – Dennis Crosby, American singer (b. 1934)
 * May 8
 * Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907)
 * Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
 * May 13 – Myron Brinig, Jewish-American author (b. 1896)
 * May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary, widow of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
 * May 15
 * Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (b. 1924)
 * Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
 * Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935)
 * May 18
 * Gerd Achgelis, German aviator, test pilot, and pioneer in the development of helicopters (b. 1908)
 * Betty Alberge, English actress (b. 1922)
 * Edwina Booth, American actress (b. 1904)
 * May 20 – Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and poet (b. 1899)
 * May 21
 * Lino Brocka, Filipino film director (b. 1939)
 * Rajiv Gandhi, 6th Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
 * May 22 – Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905)
 * May 23
 * Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907)
 * Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895)
 * Will Sinnott, Scottish bassist and keyboardist (The Shamen) (b. 1960)
 * May 24 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
 * May 27 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
 * May 29 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (b. 1913)
 * May 30 – Manolo Gómez Bur, Spanish actor (b. 1917)

June

 * June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
 * June 2 – Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia
 * June 3
 * Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (b. 1924)
 * Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899)
 * June 4 – MC Trouble, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * June 5
 * Evelyn Boucher, British silent film actress (b. 1892)
 * Min Chueh Chang, Chinese-born American reproductive biologist (b. 1908)
 * Larry Kert, American actor (b. 1930)
 * June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
 * June 8 – Bertice Reading, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
 * June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
 * June 11 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
 * June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
 * June 15
 * Happy Chandler, 2nd commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1898)
 * W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * Ricardo Wolf, Jewish-German-Cuban-Israeli inventor, diplomat, and philanthropist (b. 1887)
 * June 17 – Pierre Jamet, French harpist (b. 1893)
 * June 18
 * Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922)
 * István Schweitzer, Hungarian military officer (b. 1887)
 * June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
 * June 24
 * Czesław Białas, Polish Olympic weightlifter (b. 1931)
 * Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
 * June 25 – Michael Heidelberger, American immunologist (b. 1888)
 * June 27
 * Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician, former leader of the VVD party (b. 1918)
 * George MacLeod, Scottish soldier and clergyman (b. 1895)
 * June 28
 * Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)
 * Nikolas Vogel, German actor and news camera operator (b. 1967)
 * June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1901)

July

 * July 1 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
 * July 2 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
 * July 4
 * Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
 * Henry Koerner, Austrian-born American painter and graphic designer (b. 1915)
 * July 5
 * Mildred Dunnock, American actress (b. 1901)
 * Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Anton Yugov, Bulgarian Communist politician, 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1904)
 * July 7 – André Busch, French Olympic water polo player (b. 1913)
 * July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
 * July 11 – Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (b. 1953)
 * July 15
 * Bert Convy, American actor, singer, game show host, and television personality (b. 1933)
 * Roger Revelle, American scientist and scholar (b. 1909)
 * July 16 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
 * July 18
 * André Cools, Belgian Socialist politician (b. 1927)
 * Ambrus Nagy, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (1956) (b. 1927)
 * July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
 * July 25
 * Henry Holst, Danish violinist (b. 1899)
 * Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, former member of the CPSU Politburo and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1893)
 * July 27 – John Friedrich, German-born Australian engineer and conman (b. 1950)
 * July 29
 * María Antinea, Spanish actress (b. 1915)
 * Christian de Castries, French general (b. 1902)
 * July 31
 * Miro Barešić, Croatian assassin (b. 1950)
 * Regina Kapeller-Adler, Austrian biochemist (b. 1900)
 * Doris Zinkeisen, Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer (b. 1898)

August

 * August 1 – Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937)
 * August 3 – Ali Sabri, Egyptian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
 * August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
 * August 5
 * Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
 * Sam Goodman, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
 * Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist (b. 1917)
 * August 6
 * Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, Prime Minister (b. 1915)
 * Arthur Pentelow, English actor (b. 1924)
 * Harry Reasoner, American journalist and newscaster (b. 1923)
 * August 7 – Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian (b. 1948)
 * August 8
 * James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
 * August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
 * August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
 * August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, American politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
 * August 16 – Luigi Zampa, Italian film-maker (b. 1905)
 * August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (b. 1922)
 * August 21 – Oswald von Nell-Breuning, Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist (b. 1890)
 * August 22
 * Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1924)
 * Boris Pugo, Latvian communist politician, Soviet minister of the Interior (b. 1937)
 * Jane Stafford, American medical writer and chemist (b. 1899)
 * August 23
 * Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist (b. 1897)
 * Mildred Trotter, American forensic anthropologist (b. 1899)
 * August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Marshall of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1923)
 * August 25 – Niven Busch, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1903)
 * August 28 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and director (b. 1913)
 * August 30
 * Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
 * Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)

September

 * September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
 * September 3 – Frank Capra, Italian-born American film director (b. 1897)
 * September 4
 * Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1913)
 * Tom Tryon, American actor and writer (b. 1926)
 * Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
 * September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
 * September 8
 * Alex North, American film composer (b. 1910)
 * Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949)
 * Gordon Gunson, English football player (b. 1904)
 * Nell Donnelly Reed, American fashion designer and businesswoman (b. 1889)
 * September 10
 * Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908)
 * Jan Józef Lipski, Polish critic, historian, and politician (b. 1926)
 * September 12 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian Army officer and businessman (b. 1909)
 * September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1901)
 * September 14 – Lisa Michelson, American voice actress (b. 1958)
 * September 14 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, and author (b. 1910)
 * September 15 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1905)
 * September 17
 * Henry Angus, Canadian lawyer and academic (b. 1891)
 * Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
 * Frank H. Netter, American artist, physician, and medical illustrator (b. 1906)
 * September 19 – Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and poet (b. 1899)
 * September 22 – Tino Casal, Spanish pop singer (b. 1950)
 * September 24 – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American author (b. 1904)
 * September 25
 * Klaus Barbie, German Gestapo leader in Lyon (b. 1913)
 * Barbara Rose Johns, American civil rights activist (b. 1935)
 * Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
 * September 28
 * Clifford Campbell, Jamaican educator and politician (b. 1892)
 * Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
 * Ellic Howe, British writer (b. 1910)
 * September 29 – Grace Zaring Stone, American writer (b. 1891)

October

 * October 2 – Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
 * October 5 – Martin Ennals, British human rights activist (b. 1927)
 * October 6
 * Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet, and composer (b. 1956)
 * Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist (b. 1897)
 * October 7 – Darren Millane, Australian rules football player (b. 1965)
 * October 9 – Thalmus Rasulala, American actor (b. 1939)
 * October 11 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
 * October 12
 * Aline MacMahon, American actress (b. 1899)
 * Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
 * October 13
 * Daniel Oduber Quirós, Costa Rican politician, 37th President of Costa Rica (b. 1921)
 * Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish politician, former Defense Minister and mayor of Madrid (b. 1932)
 * October 17 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer (b. 1919)
 * October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
 * October 25
 * Bill Graham, American promoter (b. 1931)
 * John Stratton, English actor (b. 1925)
 * October 27
 * Howard Kingsbury, American Olympic rower – Men's eights (b. 1904)
 * Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b. 1901)
 * Andrzej Panufnik, Polish musician and composer (b. 1914)
 * October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist (b. 1913)
 * October 29 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Parliament (b. 1901)
 * October 31 – Joseph Papp, American theater director and producer (b. 1921)

November

 * November 2
 * Irwin Allen, American film and television producer (b. 1916)
 * Cynthia Felgate, British TV producer (b. 1935)
 * November 3 – Chris Bender, American musician (b. 1972)
 * November 5
 * Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
 * Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
 * November 6 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
 * November 9 – Yves Montand, French actor and singer (b. 1921)
 * November 10
 * Eva Bosáková, Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (b. 1931)
 * Curt Weibull, Swedish historian, educator, and author (b. 1886)
 * November 12 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese civil servant and military official (b. 1907)
 * November 14 – Tony Richardson, English film and theater director (b. 1928)
 * November 18 – Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
 * November 19 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (b. 1907)
 * November 21 – Daniel Mann, American film director (b. 1912)
 * November 23 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
 * November 24
 * Eric Carr, American drummer (b. 1950)
 * Anton Furst, American art director (b. 1944)
 * Freddie Mercury, British lead singer and pianist (b. 1946)
 * November 25
 * Eleanor Audley, American actress (b. 1905)
 * Nimeño II, French bullfighter (b. 1954)
 * November 26
 * Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (b. 1908)
 * Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (b. 1931)
 * November 29
 * Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
 * Nasirdin Isanov, 1st Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1943)
 * Frank Yerby, American novelist (b. 1916)

December

 * December 1 – George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * December 5 – Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
 * December 6 – Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * December 7 – Gordon Pirie, English athlete (b. 1931)
 * December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
 * December 10
 * Franco Maria Malfatti, Italian politician (b. 1927)
 * Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
 * December 11
 * Robert Q. Lewis, American radio and television personality (b. 1920)
 * Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author (b. 1906)
 * December 12
 * Eleanor Boardman, American actress (b. 1898)
 * Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (b. 1906)
 * December 14 – John Arlott, British journalist, author, and cricket commentator (b. 1914)
 * December 15
 * Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
 * Vasily Zaytsev, Russian World War II hero (b. 1915)
 * December 18 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
 * December 19
 * Howie Dallmar, American basketball player (b. 1922)
 * Paul Maxwell, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
 * December 24 – Marguerite Williams, African American geologist (b. 1895)
 * December 27 – Hervé Guibert, French writer and photographer (b. 1955)
 * December 28 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1941)
 * December 31 – Yuri Belov, Soviet actor (b. 1930)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
 * Chemistry – Richard R. Ernst
 * Medicine – Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
 * Literature – Nadine Gordimer
 * Peace – Aung San Suu Kyi
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Ronald Coase

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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


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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

 * March 1 – James Lomas, British actor
 * March 2
 * Adderly Fong, Hong Kong Chinese race car driver
 * Tiger Shroff, Indian actor
 * March 3
 * Sebastian Gregory, Australian actor and musician
 * Celina Ree, Danish singer
 * March 4 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
 * March 6 – Esti Ginzburg, Israeli model
 * March 7
 * Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
 * Daniel Samonas, Canadian actor
 * March 8
 * Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter
 * Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
 * March 13 – Sasha Clements, Canadian actress
 * March 14
 * Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
 * Thali García, Mexican actress
 * March 16 – Madison Riley, American actress
 * March 17 – Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter
 * March 18 – Luke Tarsitano, American actor
 * March 19
 * Maddy Hill, English actress
 * Anthony Skorich, Australian soccer player
 * March 20 – Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
 * March 21
 * Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter, dancer and model
 * March 23
 * Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish Formula One driver
 * Princess Eugenie of York, British princess
 * March 24
 * Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
 * Starlin Castro, American baseball player
 * March 26
 * James Buescher, American stock car driver
 * Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2016)
 * Carly Chaikin, American actress
 * Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor
 * Xiumin, South Korean singer
 * March 27 – Hubert Wu, Hong Kong singer and actor
 * March 28 – Laura Harrier, American actress and model
 * March 30
 * Thomas Rhett, American singer and songwriter
 * Cassie Scerbo, American actress
 * March 31 – Bang Yong-guk, South Korean rapper

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

Fields Medal

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

January

 * January 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. 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 23 – Jonita Gandhi, Indo-Canadian singer.
 * 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.

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 * 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 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
 * January 2 – President of Russia Boris Yeltsin ends price controls.
 * January 6
 * The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is proclaimed by the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
 * President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
 * January 7 – The Yugoslav Air Force downs a helicopter, killing five military observers from the European Communities.
 * January 9
 * Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia and Herzegovina, in protest of the decision by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats to seek recognition by the European Communities.
 * First confirmed detection of exoplanets with announcement of the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 by radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail working in the United States.
 * January 11
 * Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
 * Albanian referendum for territorial and political autonomy in FYR Macedonia.
 * January 13 – Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
 * January 15 – The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
 * January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
 * January 18 – In Nairobi, Kenya, more than 100,000 attend protests demanding an end to one-party rule by the Kenya African National Union.
 * January 19
 * The Bulgarian presidential election is won by Zhelyu Zhelev, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces.
 * Paramount Leader of China Deng Xiaoping speaks in Shenzhen during his southern tour, a move that would return China on its right-wing march towards free market economics.
 * January 22 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
 * January 24 – China and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
 * January 26
 * Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and her allies with nuclear weapons. In return President George H. W. Bush announces that the United States and her allies will stop targeting Russia and the remaining communist states with nuclear weapons.
 * In Mauritania, security forces open fire on opponents of President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, killing at least five people.
 * January 27 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, fighting between Armenians and Azeris leaves at least 60 people dead.
 * January 30 – North Korea signs an accord with the International Atomic Energy Agency allowing for international inspections of North Korea's nuclear power plants.

February

 * February 1
 * President of the United States George H. W. Bush meets with President of Russia Boris Yeltsin at Camp David, where they formally declare that the Cold War is over.
 * The United States Coast Guard begins deporting the first of some 14,000 refugees from Haiti.
 * February 3 – South African State President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, African National Congress leader, are jointly awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
 * February 4 – In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez leads an unsuccessful coup attempt against President of Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez
 * February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
 * February 8 – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.
 * February 9 – Algerian Civil War: The government of Algeria declares a state of emergency and begins a crackdown on the Islamic Salvation Front.
 * February 14 – Ukraine and four other nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States reject Russia's proposal to maintain unified armed forces. Ukraine, Moldova, and Azerbaijan announce they will go ahead with plans to create their own armed forces.
 * February 16 – In Lebanon, Israeli helicopter gunships assassinate Abbas al-Musawi, the leader of Hezbollah, and his son, in retaliation for a February 14 raid that killed three Israeli soldiers.
 * February 17 – A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
 * February 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
 * February 21 – The United Nations Security Council approves Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia.
 * February 25–26 – 613 Azerbaijani civilians are massacred in Khojaly.
 * February 26 – The Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.
 * February 28 – Ownership of the port town of Walvis Bay is transferred from South Africa to Namibia.

March

 * March 1 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb groom's father and an Orthodox priest in a Sarajevo shooting. The Bosnian independence referendum was held from February 29 – March 1, in which the majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities, but boycotted by Bosnian Serbs, voted for Bosnia-Herzegovina's independence.
 * March 2 – In Dubăsari, Moldova, escalating tensions turn into open hostilities and the beginning of the Transnistria War.
 * March 3 – Turkey's worst coal mine disaster leaves 263 dead near Zonguldak.
 * March 4 – The Supreme Court of Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front, which is poised to win control of the Parliament of Algeria in runoff elections.
 * March 9 – The People's Republic of China ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
 * March 12 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
 * March 13 – The 6.7 Erzincan earthquake affects eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 498–652 and injuring around 2,000.
 * March 16 – President Boris Yeltsin announces the creation of a separate Russian army, leading to questions about the viability of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
 * March 18 – White South Africans vote in favour of political reforms which will end the apartheid regime and create a power-sharing multi-racial government.
 * March 22
 * In French regional elections, the conservative Rally for the Republic and the centre-right Union for French Democracy win in a landslide, capturing 20 of 22 metropolitan regional presidencies.
 * STS-45: Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments designed to study global warming.
 * March 24 – The Open Skies Treaty is signed in Helsinki, Finland to establish a program of unarmed survelliance flights over the 34 member states. It went into effect on January 1, 2002.
 * March 25
 * The International Atomic Energy Agency orders Iraq to destroy an industrial complex at Al Atheer that is being used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
 * Pakistan beats England in the final to win the Cricket World Cup for the very first time.
 * March 31 – The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act of Singapore comes into force.

April

 * April 5
 * The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serb political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 * Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
 * Approximately 500,000 people march on Washington, D.C. in support of abortion rights in advance of oral arguments in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
 * President of Peru Alberto Fujimori issues Decree Law 25418, dissolving the Congress of the Republic of Peru, imposing censorship and having opposition politicians arrested, setting off the 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis.
 * April 6 – Republic of Ilirida, was proclaimed by Albanian Macedonian activists in Struga, Republic of Macedonia.
 * April 7 – The United States recognizes the independence of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The European Communities also recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * April 9
 * A Miami jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.
 * The United Kingdom general election is narrowly won by the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major.
 * April 10
 * Nagorno-Karabakh War: Maraga massacre – At least 43 Armenian civilians are killed as their village of Maraga, Azerbaijan, is captured and destroyed by Azerbaijani Armed Forces.
 * A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; three are killed, 91 injured.
 * April 13 – The 5.3 Roermond earthquake affects the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong).
 * April 15 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
 * April 16 – President of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is ousted and detained by Muslim rebels moving towards Kabul, setting the stage for the civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96).
 * April 20 – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, London, is televised live to over one billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
 * April 21 – The death of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia results in a succession dispute between Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter Maria for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.
 * April 22 – Fuel that leaked into a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1,500 injured.
 * April 27 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman elected Speaker of the British House of Commons.
 * April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II).
 * April 29
 * Los Angeles riots: The acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 53 deaths and over a $1 billion in damages before order is restored.
 * In Sierra Leone, a group of young soldiers launch a military coup that sends president Joseph Saidu Momoh into exile in Guinea, and the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) is established with 25-year-old Captain Valentine Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

May

 * May 1 – Lithuania introduces its new currency, the talonas.
 * May 5
 * Russian leaders in Crimea declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10.
 * Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): 18 people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between SC Bastia and Olympique de Marseille.
 * May 7
 * STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger.
 * The Sydney River McDonald's murders in Nova Scotia, Canada got international attention as three employees where killed and a fourth was left permanently disabled during a botched robbery. It was the first fast food restaurant murders in Canada.
 * May 9
 * The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted in New York.
 * The Westray Mine Disaster occurs in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, when the mine explodes, killing all 26 miners working the night shift.
 * May 10 – Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Czechoslovakia defeating Finland, 5-2, in the final game in Prague.
 * May 13 – Falun Gong is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China.
 * May 15 – The Commonwealth of Independent States Collective Security Treaty (CST) is signed (effective 20 April 1994).
 * May 16–17 – Bosnian War: U.N. peacekeepers withdraw from Sarajevo.
 * May 17 – Protests begin in Bangkok, Thailand, against the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon, sparking a bloody crackdown.
 * May 18 – The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted.
 * May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
 * May 24
 * In Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon agrees to resign.
 * Parliamentary election held in Burkina Faso, for the first time since 1978.
 * May 30 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 imposes economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia and Hercegovina.

June

 * June 2 – In a national referendum Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a narrow margin.
 * June 8 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 * June 10–26 – Sweden hosts the UEFA Euro 1992 football tournament, which is won by Denmark.
 * June 16
 * A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II).
 * A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran–Contra affair.
 * June 17
 * Two German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig, are released (they are the last Western hostages in Lebanon).
 * Violence breaks out between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Boipatong, South Africa, leaving 46 dead.
 * June 18 – Ireland votes to accept the Maastricht Treaty with a popular vote of over 69%.
 * June 20 – Estonia adopts the kroon and becomes the first former Soviet Republic to replace the Soviet ruble.
 * June 21 – Nelson Mandela announces that the African National Congress will halt negotiations with the government of South Africa following the Boipatong massacre of June 17.
 * June 22 – Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.
 * June 23 – The Israeli legislative election is won by the Israeli Labor Party under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin, ousting a Likud government.
 * June 25 – The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is founded.
 * June 26 – Denmark beats Germany 2–0 in the final to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
 * June 28 – Estonia holds a referendum on its constitution, which will come into effect on July 3.
 * June 29 – President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria is assassinated by one of his bodyguards.

July

 * July 6–8 – The 18th G7 summit is held in Munich.
 * July 6–29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
 * July 9 – Bill Clinton announces his selection of Al Gore as his running mate in the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
 * July 10
 * In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
 * The Giotto spacecraft flies past Comet 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup, gathering measurements about the comet.
 * July 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.
 * July 16 – At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the "forgotten middle class".
 * July 17 – The Slovak National Council declares Slovakia an independent country, signaling the breakup of Czechoslovakia.
 * July 19
 * A car bomb placed by the Mafia (with the collaboration of Italian intelligence) kills judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
 * The Cabinet of Israel approves a freeze on new settlements in the occupied territories, a move expected to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process.
 * July 20 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
 * July 21 – Transnistria War ends with a ceasefire.
 * July 22 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.
 * July 23 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
 * July 25 – August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
 * July 26 – Iraq agrees to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to search the Iraqi Agricultural Ministry building in Baghdad. When inspectors arrive on July 28 and 29, they find nothing and voice suspicions that Iraqi records had been removed.
 * July 31
 * The ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia becomes the 179th member of the United Nations.
 * Thai Airways International Flight 311, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
 * China General Aviation Flight 7552 bound for Xiamen crashes soon after taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.

August

 * August 3–4 – Millions of black South Africans participate in a general strike called by the African National Congress to protest the lack of progress in negotiations with the government of State President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk.
 * August 12 – Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce that a deal has been reached on the North American Free Trade Agreement; the deal will be formally signed on December 17, 1992.
 * August 18 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major announces the creation of the Iraqi no-fly zones.
 * August 20 – Kristiansund's connection to the mainland of Norway, Krifast, opens.
 * August 23 – Hurricane Andrew attains Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale and, at 2100 UTC, hits Eleuthera and the Bahama Banks.
 * August 24
 * Concordia University massacre – Valery Fabrikant murders four colleagues and seriously wounds another in a shooting at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec.
 * China and South Korea establish diplomatic relations.
 * August 24–28 – Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and Louisiana and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.
 * August 29 – In Rostock, Germany, tens of thousands rally to protest neo-Nazi attacks on refugees and immigrants begun on August 22.

September

 * September 1 – In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
 * September 2 – The 7.7 Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a – disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Average runup heights were 3 - 8 m.
 * September 7
 * In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal to dictator Oupa Gqozo open fire into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.
 * President of Tajikistan Rahmon Nabiyev is forced to resign following weeks of clan and religious warfare that left nearly 2,000 people dead.
 * September 11 – Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu.
 * September 12 – In Peru, police arrest Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the Shining Path guerilla movement, who had evaded capture for 12 years.
 * September 16 – Black Wednesday: The pound sterling and the Italian lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
 * September 17 – Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
 * September 20 – French voters narrowly approve the Maastricht Treaty in the French Maastricht Treaty referendum.
 * September 21 – Mexico establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City, ending a break that lasted over 130 years.
 * September 23 – Operation Julin is the last nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nevada Test Site.
 * September 28 – Law enforcement officials in the United States, Colombia, and Italy announce that they have arrested more than 165 people on money laundering charges related to cocaine trafficking.
 * September 29 – The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil votes to impeach President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello, the country's first democratically elected leader in 29 years. Vice President Itamar Franco becomes acting president.

October

 * October 1 – Turner Broadcasting System launches Cartoon Network, the first all-animation television channel.
 * October 2 – A riot breaks out in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru massacre.
 * October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.
 * October 4
 * The government of Mozambique signs a truce with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War.
 * Israeli cargo plane El Al Flight 1862 crashes into residential buildings in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer, Netherlands, after taking off from Schiphol Airport and losing two engines, killing all 4 people on board and 39 on the ground.
 * October 6 – Lennart Meri becomes the first President of Estonia after regaining independence. The Estonian Government in Exile resigns on the next day.
 * October 7 – In Peru, Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán is convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.
 * October 11 – The Catechism of the Catholic Church is promulgated by Pope John Paul II with his apostolic constitution, Fidei depositum.
 * October 12
 * In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of two cultures.
 * The 5.8 Cairo earthquake affects the city with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 545 dead and 6,512 injured.
 * October 14 – In Japan, Shin Kanemaru of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party resigns over receiving illegal payments from Sagawa Express.
 * October 19 – The Communist Party of China promotes several market-oriented reformers to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues.
 * October 21 – 150,000 coal miners march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce the number of coal miners.
 * October 23 – Emperor of Japan Akihito begins the first imperial visit of China, telling a Beijing audience he felt deep sorrow for the suffering of the Chinese people during World War II.
 * October 25 – Lithuania holds a referendum on its first constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
 * October 26 – In a national referendum, voters in Canada reject the Charlottetown Accord.
 * October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.

November

 * November 3 – Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot in the 1992 Presidential Election.
 * November 8 – More than 350,000 people rally in Berlin to protest right-wing violence against immigrants; radicals throw stones and eggs at President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker and Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl.
 * November 11 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
 * November 13
 * The government of Peru announces it has arrested a small group of army officers who were plotting the assassination of President Alberto Fujimori.
 * A report by the World Meteorological Organization reports an unprecedented level of ozone depletion in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
 * November 15 – The Lithuanian parliamentary election sees the Communists of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, led by Algirdas Brazauskas, return to power.
 * November 18 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin releases the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets in 1983.
 * November 24 – In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on board.
 * November 25
 * The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993.
 * In a national referendum related to abortion, voters in Ireland reject the proposed Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1992 but approve the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
 * November 27 – The government of Venezuela announces that it has put down a coup attempt by a group of army officers who bombed the presidential palace.

December

 * December 3
 * UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
 * A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
 * December 4 – U.S. military forces land in Somalia.
 * December 6 – Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjid – a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya, India, which had been used as a temple since 1949, leading to widespread communal violence, including the Bombay riots, in all killing over 1,500 people.
 * December 9 – The Prince and Princess of Wales publicly announce their separation.
 * December 12 – The 7.8 Flores earthquake affected the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) leaving at least 2,500 dead. A destructive tsunami with wave heights of 25 m followed.
 * December 16 – The Czech National Council adopts the Constitution of the Czech Republic.
 * December 18 – The South Korean presidential election is won by Kim Young-sam, the first non-military candidate elected since 1961.
 * December 21 – President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević defeats Milan Panić in the Serbian presidential election.
 * December 22 – The Archives of Terror are discovered by Dr. Martín Almada, detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in what became known as Operation Condor.
 * December 24 – President George H. W. Bush pardons six national security officials implicated in the Iran–Contra affair, including Caspar Weinberger.
 * December 29 – Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for eight years.

Date unknown

 * Deng Xiaoping accelerates market reforms to establish a socialist market economy in the People's Republic of China.
 * Queensland introduces Freedom Of Information Laws.
 * In terms of units sold, compact discs outsell audiocassettes for the first time in the United States.

January

 * January 1
 * He Kexin, Chinese artistic gymnast
 * Jack Wilshere, English footballer
 * January 3 – Daniel McLay, British racing cyclist
 * January 4 – Sajjad Ganjzadeh, Iranian karateka
 * January 8 – Koke, Spanish footballer
 * January 11 – Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer
 * January 12 – Georgia May Jagger, English model
 * January 14
 * Robbie Brady, Irish footballer
 * Nimue Smit, Dutch model
 * January 15 – Valerie Abou Chacra, Lebanese actress, radio announcer. and model
 * January 17 – Nate Hartley, American actor
 * January 19
 * Shawn Johnson East, American Olympic gymnast
 * Logan Lerman, American actor
 * Mac Miller, American rapper, singer, and record producer (d. 2018)
 * January 20 – Maria Harfanti, Indonesian social activist, pianist, and beauty pageant titleholder
 * January 24 – Becky Downie, British artistic gymnast
 * January 26
 * Sasha Banks, American professional wrestler
 * Cassidy Lehrman, American actress
 * January 27
 * Sam Barry, Irish tennis player
 * Connor Widdows, Canadian actor
 * January 28
 * Grace Dunham, American writer and activist
 * Hunter Renfroe, American baseball player
 * Simone Egeriis, Danish singer
 * January 29 – David Fluellen, American football player
 * January 30
 * Tom Ince, English footballer
 * Matthew Werkmeister, Australian stage and television actor
 * January 31
 * Christopher Nissen, Danish singer
 * Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player

February

 * February 1 – Kelli Goss, American actress
 * February 5
 * Neymar, Brazilian footballer
 * Kejsi Tola, Albanian singer
 * February 6 – Cara McCollum, American journalist (d. 2016)
 * February 7 – Sergi Roberto, Spanish footballer
 * February 8 – Karle Warren, American actress
 * February 9
 * Valentina Barron, Australian actress
 * Ana Yorkira Binet, Dominican volleyball player
 * Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
 * February 11
 * Georgia Groome, English actress
 * Taylor Lautner, American actor and martial artist
 * February 14 – Freddie Highmore, English actor
 * February 15 – Greer Grammer, American actress
 * February 18
 * Le'Veon Bell, American football player
 * Logan Miller, American actor and musician
 * Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress
 * February 19 – Paulina Gaitán, Mexican actress
 * February 20
 * Nastassja Burnett, Italian tennis player
 * Jarred Tinordi, American ice hockey player
 * February 23 – Samara Weaving, Australian actress
 * February 25
 * Max Aaron, American figure skater
 * Zahia Dehar, French lingerie designer
 * Rose Matafeo, New Zealand comedian
 * February 26
 * Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer
 * Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice-hockey player
 * Ai Shinozaki, Japanese gravure idol and singer
 * February 27 – Ty Dillon, American race car driver
 * February 29
 * Caitlin EJ Meyer, American actress
 * Jessie Usher, American actor

March

 * March 2
 * Charlie Coyle, American hockey player
 * Maisie Richardson-Sellers, English actress
 * March 4
 * Érik Lamela, Argentine footballer
 * Jared Sullinger, American basketball player
 * March 6 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
 * March 7 – Im Hyun-sik (singer), South Korean singer-songwriter
 * March 9 – María Eugenia Suárez, Argentine actress and model
 * March 10
 * Pablo Espinosa, Spanish actor, singer, and musician
 * Emily Osment, American actress, singer, and songwriter
 * March 13
 * Lucy Fry, Australian actress
 * George MacKay, English actor
 * Antoni Sarcevic, English footballer
 * Kaya Scodelario, English actress and model
 * March 14 – Jasmine Murray, American singer
 * March 15
 * Sosie Bacon, American actress
 * Anna Shaffer, English actress
 * March 17
 * Eliza Bennett, British actress
 * John Boyega, British actor
 * March 21 – Karolína Plíšková, Czech tennis player
 * March 23
 * Morgan Evans, Welsh rugby league player
 * Kyrie Irving, American-Australian basketball player
 * Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress and singer
 * March 24 – MyCole Pruitt, American football player
 * March 26 – Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgian racing driver
 * March 27 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese actress and singer
 * March 28
 * Elena Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
 * Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
 * March 30 – Mino, South Korean rapper

April

 * April 1
 * Alex Gilbert, New Zealand adoption advocate
 * Sui Lu, Chinese artistic gymnast
 * April 3 – Young M.A., American rapper
 * April 4
 * Lucy May Barker, British actress
 * Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter
 * Alexa Nikolas, American actress
 * April 6 – Ken, South Korean singer and actor
 * April 7 – Alexis Jordan, American singer and actress
 * April 8 – Shelby Young, American actress
 * April 10
 * Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer
 * Chaz Mostert, Australian race car driver
 * Daisy Ridley, British actress
 * April 11 – Naya, Lebanese singer
 * April 12
 * Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor
 * Chad le Clos, South African Olympic swimmer
 * April 13
 * Péter Bernek, Hungarian swimmer
 * George North, Welsh rugby player
 * Paul Richardson, American football player
 * April 14 – Oliver Bohm, Swedish ice hockey player
 * April 15
 * Amy Deasismont, Swedish pop musician
 * John Guidetti, Swedish footballer
 * Richard Sandrak, Ukrainian bodybuilder
 * April 16 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg
 * April 17 – Shkodran Mustafi, German footballer
 * April 18 – Chloe Bennet, American actress and singer
 * April 21
 * Isco, Spanish footballer
 * Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast
 * April 22
 * Thomas James Longley, British actor
 * Joc Pederson, American baseball player
 * April 23 – Syd tha Kyd, American singer, producer and DJ
 * April 24
 * Laura Kenny, British cyclist
 * Doc Shaw, American actor and rapper
 * April 26 – Aaron Judge, American baseball player
 * April 27 – Keenan Allen, American football player
 * April 30
 * Kenny Agostino, American ice hockey player
 * Travis Scott, American recording artist and music producer
 * Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer

May

 * May 1
 * Lacey Banghard, English model
 * Hani, South Korean singer and entertainer
 * May 6
 * Baekhyun, South Korean singer, songwriter, actor and model
 * Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Vanesa Gabriela Leiro, Argentine actress and singer
 * Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian basketball player
 * May 7 – Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
 * May 10 – Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer
 * May 11 – Christina McHale, American tennis player
 * May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
 * May 13 – Tyrann Mathieu, American football player
 * May 17 – Eric Jagielo, American baseball player
 * May 18
 * Spencer Breslin, American actor
 * Brian Idowu, Russian athlete
 * Laurie Kingsbury, Canadian athlete
 * Kevin Mendy, French athlete
 * John Persson, Swedish athlete
 * Nina Petushkova, Russian figure skater
 * May 19
 * Sam Smith, British soul singer
 * Eleanor Tomlinson, English actress
 * Heather Watson, British tennis player
 * May 20 – Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
 * May 21
 * Hutch Dano, American actor
 * Olivia Olson, American actress and singer-songwriter
 * May 22
 * Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
 * Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
 * May 24 – Agustín Velotti, Argentine tennis player
 * May 28 – Mira Gonzalez, American poet
 * May 29
 * Erica Lindbeck, American actress
 * Gregg Sulkin, British actor
 * May 30 – Harrison Barnes, American basketball player
 * May 31 – VanossGaming, Canadian game commentator and music producer

June

 * June 1 – Amanda Ware, Australian model
 * June 3 – Mario Götze, German footballer
 * June 6
 * DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
 * Hyuna, South Korean singer
 * June 9
 * Yannick Agnel, French Olympic swimmer
 * Lucien Laviscount, British actor and recording artist
 * June 10 – Kate Upton, American model and actress
 * June 12
 * Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
 * Allie DiMeco, American actress and instrumentalist
 * Ryan Malgarini, American actor
 * June 14 – Daryl Sabara, American actor
 * June 15 – Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer
 * June 19 – Oscar Taveras, baseball player (d. 2014)
 * June 20 – Sage the Gemini, American rapper
 * June 21
 * Carly Booth, Scottish golfer
 * Max Schneider, American actor
 * June 22 – Darius Jennings, American football player
 * June 23
 * Kate Melton, American actress
 * Harry Reid, British actor
 * Bridget Sloan, American artistic gymnast
 * Nyambayaryn Tögstsogt, Mongolian boxer
 * June 24
 * David Alaba, Austrian football player
 * Raven Goodwin, American actress
 * Germán Sánchez, Mexican diver
 * June 25 – Jaden Schwartz, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 26
 * Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
 * Austin Voth, American baseball player
 * June 27
 * Michał Daszek, Polish handball player
 * Ahn So-hee, South Korean actress and singer
 * June 28 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer
 * June 29 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
 * June 30
 * Alfred Labatos, Filipino actor and singer
 * Chay Suede, Brazilian actor, singer. and composer

July

 * July 3
 * Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer
 * Santiago Segura, American actor
 * Maasa Sudo, Japanese singer
 * July 4
 * Ángel Romero, Paraguayan footballer
 * Óscar Romero, Paraguayan footballer
 * July 5
 * Flash, South Korean StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II player
 * Mirna Radulović, Serbian singer-songwriter
 * July 6 – Seedy Bah, Gambian footballer
 * July 7 – Manjot Singh, Indian actor
 * July 8
 * Kelsey-Beth Crossley, British actress
 * Sky Ferreira, American singer, songwriter, model, and actress
 * Son Heung-min, South Korean footballer
 * July 9 – Douglas Booth, English actor
 * July 10
 * Ahn Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
 * Kristin Allen, American acrobatic gymnast
 * Eva Lim, Dutch figure skater
 * July 11
 * Karise Eden, Australian singer and songwriter
 * Mohamed Elneny, Egyptian footballer
 * July 12
 * Jang Dong-yoon, South Korean actor
 * Larrissa Miller, Australian gymnast
 * Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish pop singer
 * Woo Do-hwan, South Korean actor
 * July 13
 * Dylan Patton, American actor
 * Bryan Parry, Welsh actor
 * Rich the Kid, American rapper
 * July 14 – Brytiago, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter
 * July 15 – Wayde van Niekerk, South African athlete
 * July 16 – Sam Naismith, Australian rules footballer
 * July 17
 * Tom Eisenhuth, Australian rugby league footballer
 * Denis Prychynenko, Ukrainian-German footballer
 * July 18 – Timothy Dolensky, American figure skater
 * July 19 – Ellie Rowsell, English singer-songwriter and musician
 * July 20
 * Paige Hurd, American actress
 * Jordan Rodrigues, Australian actor
 * July 21
 * Jessica Barden, English actress
 * Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
 * July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
 * July 23
 * Danny Ings, English footballer
 * Diwakar Vaish, Indian roboticist
 * July 24 – Dionatan Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2017)
 * July 27 – Tory Lanez, Canadian rapper
 * July 28
 * Stephone Anthony, American football player
 * George Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland
 * July 31
 * José Fernández, Cuban-born American baseball pitcher (d. 2016)
 * Kyle Larson, American racing driver

August

 * August 1 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
 * August 2 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress
 * August 3 – Karlie Kloss, American model
 * August 4 – Tiffany Evans, American singer
 * August 6 – Victor Silayan, Filipino actor and commercial model
 * August 7 – Bobby Lynn Bryant, American boxer
 * August 11 – Tomi Lahren, American television host
 * August 12 – Cara Delevingne, British model
 * August 16 – Diego Schwartzman, Argentine tennis player
 * August 17 – Paige, English professional wrestler
 * August 18
 * Rebecca Brown, American actress and musician
 * Frances Bean Cobain, American visual artist
 * Amy Willerton, British model
 * August 20
 * Demi Lovato, American singer and actress
 * Alex Newell, American actor and singer
 * August 21 – Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
 * August 24 – Johnny Rapid, American gay pornographic film actor
 * August 25 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
 * August 26
 * Jesse Delgado, American wrestler
 * Yang Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast
 * August 28 – Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
 * August 31 – Holly Earl, English actress

September

 * September 1 – Hyelim, Korean singer and rapper
 * September 2
 * Konrad Abeltshauser, German ice hockey player
 * Madilyn Bailey, American singer
 * September 4 – Layvin Kurzawa, French footballer
 * September 7 – Gizem Karaca, Turkish model
 * September 9
 * Frencheska Farr, Filipina singer, model. and dancer
 * Damian McGinty, Irish singer and actor
 * September 11
 * Desireé Bassett, American guitarist and recording artist
 * María Gabriela de Faría, Venezuelan actress and singer
 * September 12 – Connor Franta, American YouTuber and entrepreneur
 * September 14 – Zico, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and producer
 * September 15 – Camélia Jordana, French singer
 * September 16
 * Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * Jake Roche, British actor and singer
 * September 18 – Amber Liu, American singer
 * September 19 – Palmer Luckey, American entrepreneur
 * September 20 – Safura Alizadeh, Azerbaijani singer, actress, and saxophonist
 * September 21
 * Chen, South Korean singer
 * Mariya Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess player
 * September 22 – Philip Hindes, British cyclist
 * September 24 – Jack Sock, American tennis player
 * September 27
 * Jake Burbage, American actor
 * Sam Lerner, American actor
 * September 28
 * Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (d. 2014)
 * Mawra Hocane, Pakistani actress and model
 * Tyler Lockett, American football player
 * Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese artistic gymnast
 * September 29 – Marina Antipova, Russian ice dancer
 * September 30 – Ezra Miller, American actor

October

 * October 1 – Drew Chadwick, American musician
 * October 2 – Alisson Becker, Brazilian footballer
 * October 3 – Aina Hashimoto, Japanese singer and actress
 * October 4 – Shun Miyazato, Japanese actor
 * October 5
 * Eric Cabral, Canadian actor
 * Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress, singer, dancer, and model
 * Lais Ribeiro, Brazilian model
 * Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
 * October 7 – Grace Bawden, Australian singer
 * October 9 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
 * October 10 – Gabrielle Aplin, English singer and songwriter
 * October 11 – Cardi B, American hip hop artist
 * October 12 – Josh Hutcherson, American actor
 * October 15 – Vincent Martella, American actor and singer
 * October 16 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player
 * October 17
 * Jacob Artist, American actor, singer, and dancer
 * Sam Concepcion, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
 * October 20 – Ksenia Semyonova, Russian Olympic gymnast
 * October 22
 * 21 Savage, American rapper
 * Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
 * October 23 – Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
 * October 24 – Thelma Fardin, Argentine actress
 * October 27
 * Emily Hagins, American film director
 * Taiko Katono, Japanese actor and model
 * Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
 * Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
 * October 28 – Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
 * October 31 – Vanessa Marano, American actress

November

 * November 2 – Chelsea Davis, American artistic gymnast
 * November 5
 * Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
 * Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
 * November 10
 * Teddy Bridgewater, American football player
 * Wilfried Zaha, English footballer
 * November 12 – Macey Cruthird, American actress
 * November 15
 * Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer and actress
 * Trevor Story, American baseball player
 * November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor
 * November 20
 * Lara Custance, New Zealand actress
 * Yen Santos, Filipino television actress
 * November 21
 * Mireia Lalaguna, Spanish actress and model
 * Conor Maynard, British singer
 * November 23
 * Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
 * Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish hockey player
 * November 25
 * Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
 * Haru Nomura, Japanese golfer
 * Zack Shada, American actor
 * November 26 – Paul Dunne, Irish golfer
 * November 27
 * Chanyeol, South Korean singer
 * Tola Szlagowska, Polish singer
 * November 28
 * Cameron Ansell, Canadian voice actor
 * Adam Hicks, American rapper, actor and dancer
 * Jarvis Landry, American football player
 * Jake Miller, American rapper and songwriter
 * Sophie Moulds, Welsh television host, model, and beauty queen
 * November 30 – Samson Lee, Welsh rugby union player

December

 * December 3 – Jessy Mendiola, Filipina actress
 * December 4 – Jin, South Korean singer
 * December 6
 * Syed Saddiq, Malaysian politician and activist
 * TooSmooth, American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and entrepreneur
 * December 8 – Katie Stevens, American singer
 * December 12 – Chen Ruolin, Chinese diver
 * December 14
 * Tori Kelly, American singer and songwriter
 * Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer
 * December 15 – Jesse Lingard, English footballer
 * December 17 – Thomas Law, British actor
 * December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress, singer-songwriter, and musician
 * December 21
 * Andrew Chalmers, Canadian teen actor
 * Isobel Pooley, British track and field athlete
 * Haylee Wanstall, Canadian actress
 * December 22 – Shiori Kutsuna, Australian-Japanese actress
 * December 23
 * Spencer Daniels, American film and television actor
 * Dylan Sahara, Indonesian television actress and presenter (d. 2018)

January

 * January 1
 * Kenneth Emory, American anthropologist (b. 1897)
 * George M. Ferris, American investment banker and philanthropist (b. 1893)
 * Francis J. Field, American philatelist and stamp dealer (b. 1895)
 * Edward Leslie Gray, politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1895)
 * Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)
 * Josef R. Sheetz, American World War II military commander (b. 1895)
 * January 2 – Virginia Field, British actress (b. 1917)
 * January 3
 * Dame Judith Anderson, Australian-born British actress (b. 1897)
 * Gábor Szarvas, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1943)
 * January 7 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (b. 1951)
 * January 9
 * Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
 * Hans Jenny, soil scientist and expert on pedology (b. 1899)
 * Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic and civil engineer and aircraft designer (b. 1900)
 * January 11 – Juan Gilberto Funes, Argentine footballer (b. 1963)
 * January 14 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (b. 1909)
 * January 17 – Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
 * January 18
 * Alexander Almetov, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player (b. 1940)
 * Theodore Leslie Futch, United States Army officer with the rank of Brigadier General (b. 1895)
 * January 20 – Abdul Khalek Hassouna, Egyptian diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the Arab League (b. 1898)
 * January 21 – Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights activist (b. 1936)
 * January 22
 * A. J. Antoon, American theater director (b. 1944)
 * Mark Hopkinson, American murderer (b. 1949)
 * January 23
 * Freddie Bartholomew, British actor (b. 1924)
 * Ian Wolfe, American actor (b. 1896)
 * January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor (b. 1912)
 * January 27
 * Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (b. 1891)
 * Sally Hayfron, First Lady of Zimbabwe (b. 1933)
 * January 28 – Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1905)
 * January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
 * January 31 – Mel Hein, American football player (b. 1909)

February

 * February 2 – Bert Parks, American game show host (b. 1914)
 * February 3
 * Junior Cook, American musician (b. 1934)
 * Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (b. 1955)
 * February 4 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
 * February 8 – Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b 1924)
 * February 10 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
 * February 11 – Ray Danton, American actor (b. 1931)
 * February 12 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
 * February 13
 * Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
 * Dorothy Tree, American actress (b. 1906)
 * February 15 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)
 * February 16
 * Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (b. 1940)
 * Jules Gros, Breton linguist specializing in popular language (b. 1890)
 * Abbas al-Musawi, Lebanese Shia cleric and Secretary General of Hezbollah (b. 1952)
 * Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)
 * February 20
 * Eugene R. Black Sr., American banker, former president of the World Bank (b. 1898)
 * A. J. Casson, member of the Canadian group of artists known as the Group of Seven (b. 1898)
 * Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing political leader (b. 1944)
 * Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
 * February 22 – Sudirman Arshad, Malaysian singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
 * February 23 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek Communist leader (b. 1906)
 * February 27 – Algirdas Julien Greimas, French-Lithuanian literary scientist (b. 1917)
 * February 29 – Buddy O'Grady, American basketball player and coach (b. 1920)

March

 * March 2 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)
 * March 3 – Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (b. 1909)
 * March 4
 * Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)
 * Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
 * March 5 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)
 * March 9 – Menachem Begin, Israel politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
 * March 11
 * László Benedek, Hungarian film director (b. 1905)
 * Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912)
 * Liu Geping, Chinese politician (b. 1904)
 * March 13 – Joseph Anderson, secretary to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1889)
 * March 14
 * Jean Poiret, French actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1926)
 * Elfrida Vipont, British writer (b. 1902)
 * March 16 – Yves Rocard, French nuclear physicist (b. 1903)
 * March 17 – Jack Arnold, American television and film director (b. 1912)
 * March 18 – Antonio Molina, Spanish singer (b. 1928)
 * March 19 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (b. 1926)
 * March 20 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
 * March 21
 * John Ireland, Canadian actor (b. 1914)
 * Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
 * March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
 * March 25 – Nancy Walker, American actress and comedian (b. 1922)
 * March 26 – Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
 * March 28 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909)
 * March 29 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-born American actor (b. 1908)
 * March 30 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1919)

April

 * April 2
 * Juan Gómez González, Juanito, Spanish footballer (b. 1954)
 * Jan van Aartsen, Dutch politician (b. 1909)
 * April 4
 * Vintilă Horia, Romanian writer (b. 1915)
 * Samuel Reshevsky, seven-time U.S. Chess Champion (b. 1911)
 * April 5
 * Suada Dilberović, Bosnian medical student. First casualty of the Siege of Sarajevo (b. 1968)
 * Nawab Zulfikar Ali Khan,Indian politician and army major; Royal- Titular Nawab of Rampur; (b. 1933)
 * Molly Picon, American Yiddish-language actress (b. 1898)
 * Sam Walton, American businessman, founder of Wal-Mart (b. 1918)
 * April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
 * April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)
 * April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
 * April 10
 * Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
 * Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1920)
 * April 11 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
 * April 13 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
 * April 14
 * David Miller, American film director (b. 1909)
 * Sammy Price, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1908)
 * April 16 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
 * April 18 – Abdul Kadir Yusuf, Malyasian politician (b. 1915)
 * April 19 – Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor (b. 1917)
 * April 20 – Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924)
 * April 23
 * Tanka Prasad Acharya, Nepalese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912)
 * Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
 * Czesław Zbierański, Polish engineer, pioneer of Polish aviation, and major of Polish Army (b. 1885)
 * April 25
 * Ernesto Balducci, Italian priest (b. 1922)
 * Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965)
 * April 27
 * Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, naturalist, author and nurse (b. 1894)
 * Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
 * April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British painter (b. 1909)
 * April 29 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)

May

 * May 3 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (b. 1902)
 * May 4 – Gregor Mackenzie, British Labour Party politician (b. 1927)
 * May 5 – Adriana Admiraal-Meijerink, Dutch olympic fencer (b. 1893)
 * May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
 * May 8 – Otto Šimánek, Czech actor (b. 1925)
 * May 10 – John Lund, American actor (b. 1911)
 * May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
 * May 13
 * Gisela Elsner, German writer (b. 1937)
 * F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
 * May 14
 * Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
 * Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
 * May 16
 * Chalino Sánchez, Mexican musician (b. 1960)
 * Sir Robert Thompson, British military officer and counter-insurgency expert (b. 1916)
 * May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
 * May 18
 * Janusz Kruk, Polish musician (b. 1946)
 * Jake Leicht, American athlete (b. 1919)
 * May 19 – James Bate, American actor (b. 1945)
 * May 21 – T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor, and politician (b. 1913)
 * May 22
 * Abraham Moles, French sociologist and psychologist (b. 1920)
 * Tony Accardo, American gangster (b. 1906)
 * May 23
 * Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
 * William Keene, American actor (b. 1915)
 * Francis McFadzean, Baron McFadzean of Kelvinside, British industrialist (b. 1915)
 * Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1908)
 * May 25
 * Tulio Demicheli, Argentine film director (b. 1914)
 * Philip Habib, Lebanese-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
 * May 30 – Karl Carstens, German politician and statesman, 7th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1914)

June

 * June 2 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
 * June 3
 * Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
 * Patrick Peyton, American priest (b. 1909)
 * June 4 – Carl Stotz, American founder of Little League Baseball (b. 1910)
 * June 7 – Bill France, Sr., American founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
 * June 8 – Alfred Uhl, Austrian composer (b. 1909)
 * June 10 – Sir Glyn Jones, British colonial administrator (b. 1908)
 * June 11 – Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (b. 1930)
 * June 15 – Warren Prall Watters, Founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch (b. 1890)
 * June 18
 * Peter Allen, Australian singer, songwriter (b. 1944)
 * Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
 * Carlos Humberto Perette, Argentinian politician and Vice President of Argentina (b. 1915)
 * June 19 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, British tennis player (b. 1896)
 * June 21
 * Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (b. 1922)
 * Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor (b. 1922)
 * Li Xiannian, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China and one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China (b. 1909)
 * June 21 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1956)
 * June 22 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
 * June 24 – Vera Griner, Russian rhythmitician (b. 1890)
 * June 25
 * Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
 * Sir James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
 * June 26 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
 * June 27 – Allan Jones, American actor (b. 1907)
 * June 28
 * Guy Nève, racing driver (b. 1955)
 * Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion (b. 1936)
 * June 29
 * Pierre Billotte, French Army officer and politician (b. 1906)
 * Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
 * May Farquharson, Jamaican social worker, birth control advocate, philanthropist, and reformer (b. 1894)

July
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 * July 2 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
 * July 4
 * Francis Perrin, French nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
 * Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer (b. 1921)
 * July 5 – Paul Hackman, Canadian musician (b. 1953)
 * July 7 – Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish Olympic athlete (b. 1927)
 * July 9 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
 * July 10
 * Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1905)
 * Doris Tate, American campaigner for the rights of crime victims (b. 1924)
 * July 11 – Deng Yingchao, Chinese Communist politician, widow of Zhou Enlai (b. 1904)
 * July 12 – Florence McClung, American painter, printmaker, and art teacher (b. 1894)
 * July 13
 * Cicely Williams, Jamaican physician (b. 1893)
 * Alex Wojciechowicz, American football player (b. 1915)
 * July 14 – Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italian literary critic, journalist, editor, and writer (b. 1882)
 * July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
 * July 16 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
 * July 18
 * Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
 * Rudolph Ising, American cartoon animator (b. 1903)
 * July 19
 * Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (b. 1940)
 * Heinz Galinski, German President of the Central Council of Jews (b. 1912)
 * Allen Newell, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
 * July 22
 * Suleiman Frangieh, Lebanese politician, 5th President of Lebanon (b. 1910)
 * Alexander McKee, British journalist, military historian, and diver (born 1918)
 * John Meyendorff, Russian scholar (b. 1926)
 * July 23 – Rosemary Sutcliff, British author (b. 1920)
 * July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
 * July 25 – Alfred Drake, American actor (b. 1914)
 * July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
 * July 27 – Anthony Salerno, American mobster (b.1911)
 * July 29 – Ed Ocampo, Filipino basketball player and coach (b. 1938)
 * July 30
 * Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
 * Irene Silva de Santolalla, Peruvian politician (b. 1902)
 * Joe Shuster, Canadian-American comic book artist (b. 1914)
 * July 31 – Leonard Cheshire, British war hero, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1917)

August

 * August 2 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
 * August 3
 * Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist politician (b. 1935)
 * Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician (b. 1899)
 * August 4
 * Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
 * František Tomášek, Czech Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1899)
 * August 5
 * Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
 * Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
 * August 6 – Simcha Bunim Alter, the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger (b. 1898)
 * August 7
 * Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (b. 1938)
 * Lilo Milchsack, German promoter of Anglo-German relations (b. 1905)
 * Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, Spanish politician, former Foreign minister (b. 1930)
 * August 8
 * Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist (b. 1966)
 * Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian-Iraqi Shia ayatollah and scholar (b. 1899)
 * August 10 – Annisteen Allen, American blues singer (b. 1920)
 * August 12 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
 * August 16 – Mark Heard, American singer (b. 1951)
 * August 18
 * Keith Henderson, Scottish painter (b. 1911)
 * John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
 * August 19 – Curtis M. Scott, American role-playing game designer (b. c. 1960)
 * August 22 – Hallowell Davis, American physiologist, otolaryngologist and researcher (b. 1896)
 * August 23 – Charles August Nichols, American animator and film director (b. 1910)
 * August 28 – Tan Qixiang, Chinese historian (b. 1911)

September

 * September 1
 * Morris Carnovsky, American actor (b. 1897)
 * Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
 * September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
 * September 4 – John van Dreelen, Dutch actor (b. 1922)
 * September 5
 * Billy Herman, American baseball player (b. 1909)
 * Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
 * September 6 – Mervyn Johns, Welsh actor (b. 1899)
 * September 12
 * Hans F. Koenekamp, American special effects artist and cinematographer (b. 1891)
 * Ruth Nelson, American actress (b. 1905)
 * Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
 * September 18
 * Dario Cabanelas, Spanish orientalist (b. 1916)
 * Princess Margaret of Denmark (b. 1895)
 * September 19 – Wu Zhonghua, Chinese physicist (b. 1917)
 * September 21
 * William Penn Mott Jr., American director of Oakland Zoo, East Bay Regional Park District, California State Parks, and U.S. National Park Service (b. 1909)
 * Bill Williams, American actor (b. 1915)
 * September 22 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
 * September 25 – César Manrique, Spanish artist (b. 1919)
 * September 29 – Paul Jabara, American actor and singer-songwriter (b. 1948)

October

 * October 4 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
 * October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939)
 * October 6 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
 * October 7
 * Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author (b. 1930)
 * Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
 * October 8 – Willy Brandt, German politician and statesman, 29th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
 * October 11 – Choi Sae-hwang, South Korean lawyer and Vice-Minister of Defense (b. 1919)
 * October 12 – Ulysses Guimarães, Brazilian politician (b. 1916)
 * October 14 – Willie Waddell, Scottish footballer (b. 1921)
 * October 15 – Oliver Franks, Baron Franks, British civil servant, diplomat, and philosopher (b. 1905)
 * October 16 – Shirley Booth, American actress in film, radio, stage, and television (b. 1898)
 * October 17 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist, and politician (b. 1912)
 * October 19
 * Gert Bastian, German politician (b. 1923)
 * Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
 * Arthur Wint, Jamaican Olympic runner (b. 1920)
 * October 21 – Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
 * October 22
 * Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)
 * Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
 * October 24 – Laurie Colwin, American author (b. 1944)
 * October 25
 * Adelino da Palma Carlos, Portuguese politician, 102nd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1905)
 * Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (b. 1936)
 * October 27 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
 * October 29 – Sir Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (b. 1929)
 * October 31 – Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player (b. 1974)

November

 * November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
 * November 4
 * José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, Spanish film director (b. 1911)
 * George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
 * November 5 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (b. 1900)
 * November 7
 * Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921)
 * Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Richard Yates, American writer (b. 1926)
 * November 10 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921)
 * November 11 – Earle Meadows, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
 * November 19
 * René Tavernier, Belgian geologist (b. 1914)
 * Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
 * November 21 – Kaysone Phomvihane, Laotian statesman and Communist Party leader, 11th Prime Minister of Laos and 2nd President of Laos (b. 1920)
 * November 22 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
 * November 23
 * Roy Acuff, American singer (b. 1903)
 * Mohamed Benhima, 5th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1924)
 * November 25 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, 2nd President of Ghana (b. 1903)
 * November 26 – John Sharp, English actor (b. 1920)
 * November 27 – George M. Ferris, American investment banker and philanthropist (b. 1893)
 * November 29
 * Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 * Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (b. 1914)
 * November 30 – Peter Blume, American painter and sculptor (b. 1906)

December

 * December 1 – Esau Khamati Oriedo, Kenyan of African ancestry; an anti-colonialism activist and crusader (b. 1888)
 * December 2 – Michael Gothard, British actor (b. 1939)
 * December 3
 * Luis Alcoriza, Mexican film director (b. 1918)
 * Nureddin al-Atassi, Syrian Baathist, 54th Prime Minister of Syria and 17th President of Syria (b. 1929)
 * December 6 – Percy Herbert, English actor (b. 1920)
 * December 7
 * Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
 * Jean Bell Thomas, American festival promoter (b. 1881)
 * December 9 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (b. 1920)
 * December 10
 * Celia Gámez, Argentinian actress (b. 1908)
 * Dan Maskell, British tennis coach and commentator (b. 1908)
 * December 12
 * Ali Amini, Iranian politician and 67th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1905)
 * Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
 * Sir Robert Rex, 1st Premier of Niue (b. 1909)
 * December 17
 * Günther Anders, German philosopher (b. 1902)
 * Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
 * December 18 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
 * December 21
 * Stella Adler, American acting teacher (b. 1901)
 * Albert King, American blues musician (b. 1923)
 * Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (b. 1903)
 * December 22
 * Frederick William Franz, 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (b. 1893)
 * Milo Sperber, Polish-born British actor, director and writer (b. 1911)
 * Ted Willis, British television dramatist and author (b. 1914)
 * December 23 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (b. 1950)
 * December 24 – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928)
 * December 25
 * Ted Croker, English football official (b. 1924)
 * Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915)
 * Jules Gros, Breton linguist specializing in popular language (b. 1890)
 * December 26
 * Jan Cienski, Ukrainian clandestine Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
 * Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (b. 1912)
 * December 27 – Stephen Albert, American composer (b. 1941)
 * December 28 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 * December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress and singer (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Georges Charpak
 * Chemistry – Rudolph A. Marcus
 * Medicine – Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
 * Literature – Derek Walcott
 * Peace – Rigoberta Menchú
 * Economics – Gary Becker

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

 * 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak occurs in the United States when 732 people, mostly children, are infected with the Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium originating from undercooked beef patties in hamburgers; 4 die.
 * Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
 * Wildfires in California destroy over 16000 acre and 700 homes.
 * The DFA-2 gene is discovered.
 * The extinct European mammalian carnivore genus Prosansanosmilus is discovered and classified with its type species, Prosansanosmilus peregrinus.
 * Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times ever.

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March



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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

January

 * January 1
 * The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
 * The Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico.
 * January 8 – Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
 * January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.
 * January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
 * January 17 – The 6.7 Northridge earthquake strikes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
 * January 19 – Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.
 * January 25 – U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.
 * January 26 – Student David Kang fires two blank shots from a starting pistol at Prince Charles in Sydney, Australia.

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

Templeton Prize

 * Michael Novak

Fields Medal

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

Right Livelihood Award

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

January

 * January 1
 * The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
 * Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
 * January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
 * January 16 – An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.
 * January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
 * January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
 * January 31 – Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

 * January 1
 * Fred West, English serial killer (b. 1941)
 * Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (b. 1902)
 * January 2
 * Ephraim Amu, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher (b. 1899)
 * Siad Barre, Military dictator of Somalia, 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
 * Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
 * January 4 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
 * January 6 – Joe Slovo, ANC activist and South African minister of housing. (b. 1926)
 * January 7
 * Larry Grayson, British comedian and game show host (b. 1923)
 * Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
 * January 8
 * Cao Tianqin, Chinese biochemist (b. 1920)
 * Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (b. 1952)
 * January 9
 * Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937)
 * Souphanouvong, 1st President of Laos (b. 1909)
 * January 11 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish writer and poet (b. 1936)
 * January 15 – Frederick J. Schlink, American activist (b. 1891)
 * January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (b. 1903)
 * January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan, 46th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1907)
 * January 22
 * Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
 * Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
 * January 24 – David Cole, American record producer and songwriter (b. 1962)
 * January 26 – Geoffrey Parsons, Australian pianist (b. 1929)
 * January 28 – James P. Grant, American statesman, Executive Director of UNICEF (b. 1922)
 * January 29 – Song Sung-il, South Korean wrestler (b. 1969)
 * January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
 * January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b. 1887)

February

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

March

 * March 1 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
 * March 2 – Sasha Krasny, Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1882)
 * March 3 – Howard W. Hunter, American Mormon leader (b. 1907)
 * March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. 1943)
 * March 7 – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist (b. 1946)
 * March 8 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
 * March 9 – Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American propagandist (b. 1891)
 * March 11
 * Alf Goullet, Australian cyclist (b. 1891)
 * Isabel Letham, Australian surfboard rider (b. 1899)
 * March 12 – Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
 * March 13
 * Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
 * Odette Hallowes, French intelligence officer (b. 1912)
 * March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (b. 1911)
 * March 16 – Albert Hackett, American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900)
 * March 17
 * Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
 * Ronald Kray, British organised crime leader (b. 1933)
 * March 18 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)
 * March 20
 * Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (b. 1906)
 * John William Minton, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
 * March 21 – Connie Kreski, American model (b. 1946)
 * March 22 – Peter Woods, British journalist, reporter and newsreader (b. 1930)
 * March 23 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
 * March 25 – James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
 * March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer (b. 1963)
 * March 27 – Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (b. 1948)
 * March 28
 * Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
 * Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (b. 1927)
 * March 29
 * Charles Fern, American aviator and newspaper pioneer (b. 1892)
 * Tony Lock, English cricketer (b. 1929)
 * Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish dancer (b. 1957)
 * March 31 – Selena, Mexican-born American singer (b. 1971)

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

 * Richey Edwards, Welsh musician (b. 1967)

Nobel Prizes

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Undated

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May



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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February



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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

 * September 1
 * Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
 * Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk and beekeeper (b. 1898)
 * September 7
 * Bibi Besch, American actress (b. 1940)
 * Arda Bowser, professional football player (b. 1899)
 * September 8 – Eyre de Lanux, American artist, writer and art deco designer (b. 1894)
 * September 9 – Bill Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
 * September 10
 * Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Hans List, Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1896)
 * Juanita Wright, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
 * September 11 – Deane Waldo Malott, American academic and administrator (b. 1898)
 * September 12
 * Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
 * Ricardo López, Uruguayan-American pest control worker (b. 1975)
 * September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper (b. 1971)
 * September 14
 * Helen Cohan, American dancer and actress (b. 1910)
 * Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress (b. 1936)
 * September 16 – Gene Nelson, American dancer and actor (b. 1920)
 * September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician (b. 1918)
 * September 18 – Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
 * September 20
 * Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
 * Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1914)
 * September 21
 * Henri Nouwen, Dutch priest and author (b. 1932)
 * Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born French resistance fighter (b. 1907)
 * September 22 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
 * September 23 – Fujiko Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
 * September 24 – Mark Frankel, British actor (b. 1962)
 * September 26
 * Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
 * Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel chemist (b. 1921)
 * September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
 * September 29 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian and game show host (b. 1933)

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date Unknown

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

Nobel Prizes

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

Right Livelihood Award

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

Nobel Prizes

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

 * October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer
 * October 7 – Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
 * October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili, Georgian model
 * October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor
 * October 12 – Tyler Pierce, American figure skater
 * October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress
 * October 22
 * Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player
 * Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer
 * October 24 – Daya, American singer
 * October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress
 * October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
 * October 28
 * Nolan Gould, American actor
 * Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
 * October 29
 * Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

Fields Medal

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

 * April 1 – Jairus Aquino, Filipino actor
 * April 2 – Sophie Reynolds, American actress
 * April 5
 * Maria Astashkina, Russian swimmer
 * Sharlene San Pedro, Filipina actress
 * April 6 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor
 * April 8
 * CiCi Bellis, American tennis player.
 * José Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 * April 9 – Isaac Hempstead Wright, British actor
 * April 14 – Matteo Guendouzi, French footballer
 * April 15 – Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
 * April 16 – Wendell Carter, American basketball player
 * April 18 – Michael Andrew, American swimmer
 * April 24 – Jonathan Leko, English footballer
 * April 27 – Joel Asoro, Swedish footballer
 * April 30 – Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

January

 * January 1 – Kolkata officially restores name from Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
 * January 10 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
 * January 13 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits all of El Salvador, killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless.
 * January 15 – Wikipedia is launched.
 * January 20
 * George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States.
 * Impeachment proceedings against Philippine President Joseph Estrada, accused of playing Jueteng, end preeminently and trigger the second EDSA People Power Revolution (or People Power II). His Vice-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo succeeds him as the 14th President of the Republic.
 * January 23 – The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident occurs.
 * January 26 – The 7.7 Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured

February

 * February 9 – The submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii.
 * February 12 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
 * February 13 – A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
 * February 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network.
 * February 18 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 25 years.
 * February 19 – The 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak begins.
 * February 28 – The Great Heck rail crash occurs, killing 10 and injuring 82 others.

March

 * March 2 – The Taliban begins destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
 * March 23 – The deorbit of Russian space station Mir is carried out near Nadi, Fiji, with Mir falling into the South Pacific Ocean.

April

 * April 1
 * Hainan Island incident: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. EP-3E surveillance aircraft, which is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, goes missing and is presumed dead.
 * Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
 * In the Netherlands, the Act on the Opening up of Marriage goes into effect. The Act allows same-sex couples to marry legally.
 * April 28 – Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito.

May

 * May 6 – Space tourist Dennis Tito returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-31. (Soyuz TM-32 is left docked at the International Space Station as a new lifeboat.)
 * May 7 – In Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an attempt is made to reconstruct the Ferhadija mosque. However, the ceremony results in mass riots by Serb nationalists, who beat and stone 300 elderly Bosnian Muslims.
 * May 13 – Silvio Berlusconi wins the general election and becomes Prime Minister of Italy for the second time.
 * May 22 – A large trans-Neptunian object (28978 Ixion) is found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey.
 * May 24
 * Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to summit Mount Everest.
 * The Versailles wedding hall disaster kills 23 and injures 380 others in Jerusalem, Israel.

June

 * June 1
 * Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself in the Nepalese royal massacre. Dipendra dies June 4, as King of Nepal. His uncle Gyanendra accedes to the throne.
 * A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv, Israel.
 * June 5–9 – Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain in Houston, killing 22, damaging the Texas Medical Center, and causing more than US$5 billion of damage overall.
 * June 6 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont leaves the Republican Party to caucus as an independent with Democrats, handing majority control of the Senate to the Democratic Party and Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
 * June 7 – George W. Bush signs the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the first tax cut of a series now known as the Bush tax cuts.
 * June 17 – Deserion Griffin's birth, Deserion Original launch.
 * June 19 – A missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11. According to U.S. officials, it was an Iraqi missile that malfunctioned.
 * June 21 – The world's longest train is set up by BHP Iron Ore and is recorded going between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of 275 km) and the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is 7.353 km long.
 * June 23 – The 8.4 southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 75 people dead, and 2,687 injured.

July

 * July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools in the United States.
 * July 3 – Vladivostok Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk Airport, Russia, killing 145.
 * July 7 – 2001 Bradford riots: Race riots erupt in Bradford in the north of England after National Front members reportedly stab an Asian man outside a pub.
 * July 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Beijing the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
 * July 16
 * The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship ("Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation").
 * The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas for violating a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
 * July 20–22 – The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by members of the anti-globalization movement. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is killed by a policeman. Several others are badly injured during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters.
 * July 24
 * Bandaranaike Airport attack: Tamil Tigers attack Bandaranaike International Airport in Sri Lanka, causing an estimated $500 million of damage.
 * Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, deposed as the last Tsar of Bulgaria when a child, is sworn in as the democratically elected 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

August

 * August 1 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
 * August 6 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons bound by chains were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
 * August 9 – A Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem is attacked by a Palestinian militant, who kills 15 civilians and wounds 130.
 * August 10 – The 2001 Angola train attack, causing 252 deaths.
 * August 21 – NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the Republic of Macedonia.
 * August 24 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores, all 306 people onboard survive.
 * August 25 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, The Bahamas.
 * August 31 – September 1 – The 2001 Vancouver TV realignment occurs in British Columbia, Canada.
 * August 31 – The World Conference against Racism 2001 begins in Durban, South Africa.

September

 * September – The piece As Slow as Possible, composed by John Cage, begins. It will last 639 years, finishing in the year 2640.
 * September 3
 * In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, amid rioting and heightened violence.
 * The United States, Canada and Israel withdraw from the U.N. Conference on Racism because they feel that the issue of Zionism is overemphasized.
 * September 4 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
 * September 6 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: The United States Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up software maker Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
 * September 9
 * A suicide bomber kills Ahmad Shah Massoud, military commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance.
 * 68 people die of methanol poisoning in Pärnu County, Estonia.
 * The Unix billennium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.
 * September 10
 * Donald Rumsfeld gives a speech regarding $2.3 trillion in Pentagon spending that cannot be accounted for. He identifies the Pentagon bureaucracy as the biggest threat to America.
 * Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
 * September 11 – Around 2,996 victims are killed or fatally injured in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, due to the passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane. The World Trade Center towers collapse as a result of the crashes.
 * September 12 – Ansett Australia Airlines is placed into administration, the company's fleet is grounded 2 days later on September 14.
 * September 13 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
 * September 14 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
 * September 17 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
 * September 18 – The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer. Twenty-two people in total are exposed, with five resulting fatalities.
 * September 20 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
 * September 21
 * In Toulouse, France, the AZote Fertilisant chemical factory explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2,500.
 * Increased racial tensions in Peterborough, England, following the September 11 attacks result in the murder of Ross Parker by a gang of ten Muslims in a racially motivated attack.
 * Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
 * America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
 * September 27 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.

October

 * October 1 – Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.
 * October 2 – Swissair seeks for bankruptcy protection and grounds its entire fleet, resulting in over 230 flights cancelled and stranding 18,000 people worldwide.
 * October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia; 78 are killed.
 * October 7 – War in Afghanistan: In response to the September 11 attacks, the United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations, thus officially beginning the War on Terror.
 * October 8
 * A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
 * U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
 * October 9 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
 * October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180 km of Jupiter's moon Io.
 * October 17 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
 * October 19 – SIEV X sinks en route to Christmas Island, killing 353 people.
 * October 23
 * The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.
 * The iPod is first introduced by Apple.
 * October 25 – Microsoft releases Windows XP.
 * October 26 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act into law.

November

 * November 2 – The Glocal Forum, leading international organization in the field of city-to-city cooperation, is established by Ambassador Uri Savir.
 * November 4
 * Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
 * The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, as successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
 * November 7 – Sabena, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
 * November 10
 * Australian federal election, 2001: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
 * Heavy rains and mudslides in Algeria kill more than 900.
 * November 11 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
 * November 12
 * American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in Queens minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board.
 * War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
 * November 13 – In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.
 * November 14 – War in Afghanistan: Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
 * November 15 – The first Xbox console is released
 * November 23 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
 * November 27 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
 * November 30 – Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. The Green River Killer, is arrested outside the truck factory where he had worked in Renton, Washington. His arrest marked the end of one of the longest running homicide investigations in US history.

December

 * December – The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty produces a report on Responsibility to protect.
 * December 1 – The last Trans World Airlines flight lands at St. Louis International Airport, following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
 * December 2
 * Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 days after Dynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (to this point, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history).
 * 1998–2002 Argentine great depression: Corralito – The government effectively freezes all bank accounts for twelve months leading to December 2001 riots in Argentina.
 * December 3 – Officials announce that one of the Taliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising at Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is John Walker Lindh, a United States citizen.
 * December 11
 * The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
 * The United States government indicts Zacarias Moussaoui for involvement in the September 11 attacks.
 * The United States Customs Service raids members of international software piracy group DrinkOrDie in Operation Buccaneer.
 * December 13
 * 2001 Indian Parliament attack: 12 are killed, leading to a 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff.
 * U.S. President George W. Bush announces the US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
 * December 15 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
 * December 19
 * A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Zavkhan, Mongolia.
 * Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 * December 22
 * Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
 * Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
 * December 27
 * The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
 * Tropical Storm Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
 * December 29 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.

January

 * January 1 – Angourie Rice, Australian actress
 * January 18 – Claire Engler, American actress
 * January 21 – Jackson Brundage, American actor

February

 * February 5 – Juan Karlos Labajo, Filipino singer and performer
 * February 15 – Haley Tju, American actress
 * February 21 – Isabella Acres, American actress
 * February 24 – Ramona Marquez, British actress

March

 * March 6
 * Milo Manheim, American actor
 * Zhavia Ward, American singer-songwriter
 * March 9 – Jeon So-mi, Canadian-South Korean-Dutch singer
 * March 17 – Pietro Pellegri, Italian footballer
 * March 27 – Gaby Lewis, Irish cricketer
 * March 28 – Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Afghan cricketer
 * March 30 – Anastasia Potapova, Russian tennis player

April

 * April 5 – Robbie Tucker, American actor

May

 * May 8 – Jordyn Huitema, Canadian soccer player
 * May 23 – Matthew Lintz, American actor
 * May 24 – Darren Espanto, Filipino singer and performer

June

 * June 1 – Ed Oxenbould, Australian actor
 * June 19 – Ava Cantrell, American actress and dancer
 * June 21
 * Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
 * Eleanor Worthington Cox, British actress
 * June 24 – Mo'ne Davis, American athlete

July

 * July 1 – Chosen Jacobs, American actor, singer and musician
 * July 10 – Isabela Moner, American actress and singer

August

 * August 6 – Ty Simpkins, American actor
 * August 22 – LaMelo Ball, American basketball player
 * August 23 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor

September

 * September 10 – Ajna Késely, Hungarian swimmer

October

 * October 5 – Dalila Bela, Canadian actress
 * October 9 – Louis Hynes, British actor
 * October 13 – Caleb McLaughlin, American actor
 * October 14 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress
 * October 17
 * Jake Beale, Canadian actor
 * Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer
 * October 19 – Art Parkinson, Irish actor
 * October 25 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, daughter and Heiress Apparent of Philippe, King of the Belgians

November

 * November 27 – Morgana Davies, Australian actress

December

 * December 1 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
 * December 8 – Tylen Jacob Williams, American actor
 * December 14 – Joshua Rush, American actor
 * December 18 – Billie Eilish, American singer
 * December 28 – Madison De La Garza, American actress

January

 * January 1 – Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
 * January 2 – William P. Rogers, American diplomat (b. 1913)
 * January 7 – Charles Helou, 9th President of Lebanon (b. 1913)
 * January 9 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, 2-time Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1919)
 * January 12
 * Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian athlete (b. 1927)
 * William Redington Hewlett, American businessman (b. 1913)
 * January 13 – Michael Cuccione, Canadian child actor and activist (b. 1985)
 * January 16
 * Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
 * Virginia O'Brien, American actress (b. 1919)
 * January 27 – Marie José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (b. 1906)
 * January 30 – Michel Marcel Navratil, last French citizen and male survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1908)
 * January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)

February

 * February 4 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (b. 1922)
 * February 7 – King Moody, American actor (b. 1929)
 * February 9
 * Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
 * Reginald Marsh, British actor (b. 1926)
 * February 10 – Lewis Arquette, American actor (b. 1935)
 * February 18
 * Balthus, French painter (b. 1908)
 * Dale Earnhardt, American auto racing driver (b. 1951)
 * February 19 – Stanley Kramer, American film director (b. 1913)
 * February 20 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
 * February 24 – Claude Shannon, American mathematician (b. 1916)
 * February 25 – Sir Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)

March

 * March 1 – John Painter, World's Oldest Man between 1999 and 2001 (b. 1888)
 * March 4
 * Glenn Hughes, American vocalist (b. 1950)
 * Jean René Bazaine, French painter (b. 1904)
 * March 9 – Richard Stone, American composer (b. 1953)
 * March 12
 * Morton Downey Jr., American television personality (b. 1932)
 * Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
 * March 15
 * Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (b. 1922)
 * Ann Sothern, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
 * March 16 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress and voice actress (b. 1921)
 * March 18 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
 * March 20 – Ilie Verdeț, 51st Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1925)
 * March 22 – William Hanna, American animator and businessman (b. 1910)
 * March 31 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

April

 * April 7
 * David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
 * Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
 * April 8
 * Safiya Henderson-Holmes, African-American poet (b. 1950)
 * Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
 * April 11 – Sandy Bull, American folk musician and composer (b. 1941)
 * April 14 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
 * April 15 – Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (b. 1951)
 * April 20
 * Va'ai Kolone, Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1911)
 * Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
 * April 21 – Jack Haley Jr., American film director and producer (b. 1933)
 * April 25 – Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (b. 1956)
 * April 29 – Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician and corporate director, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1971–1973) (b. 1920)

May

 * May 11 – Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
 * May 12 – Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
 * May 13 – R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
 * May 17 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (b. 1928)
 * May 22 – Jenő Fock, 49th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1916)
 * May 22 – Katharine Bartlett, American physical anthropologist, museum curator (b. 1907)
 * May 24 – Javier Urruticoechea, Spanish footballer (b. 1952)
 * May 31 – Arlene Francis, American actress and game show panelist (b. 1907)

June

 * June 1
 * King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1944)
 * Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (b. 1949)
 * Dhirendra of Nepal (b. 1950)
 * Prince Nirajan of Nepal (b. 1978)
 * Princess Shruti of Nepal (b. 1976)
 * June 2 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
 * June 3 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
 * June 4
 * King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
 * John Hartford, American musician and composer (b. 1937)
 * June 7 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
 * June 10 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (b. 1970)
 * June 11 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
 * June 12 – Owen Bush, American actor (b. 1921)
 * June 17 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
 * June 21
 * John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1917)
 * Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
 * June 27
 * Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
 * Jack Lemmon, American actor and director (b. 1925)
 * Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
 * June 28
 * Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
 * June 30 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (b. 1924)

July

 * July 1 – Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * July 10 – Álvaro Magaña, 38th President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
 * July 11 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician (b. 1946)
 * July 21
 * Sivaji Ganesan, Indian actor (b. 1928)
 * Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
 * July 22 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
 * July 24 – Hiroshi Tsuburaya, Japanese actor (b. 1964)
 * July 26 – Josef Klaus, 16th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1910)
 * July 28 – Ahmed Sofa, Bengali writer (b. 1943)
 * July 29 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
 * July 31
 * Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
 * Francisco da Costa Gomes, President of Portugal (b. 1914)

August

 * August 1 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
 * August 3 – Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, British peer, politician and reformer (b. 1905)
 * August 4 – Lorenzo Music, American voice actor (b. 1937)
 * August 6
 * Larry Adler, American musician (b. 1914)
 * Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
 * Dương Văn Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1916)
 * Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911)
 * August 15 – Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
 * August 19 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
 * August 20 – Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and writer (b. 1915)
 * August 22 – Bernard Heuvelmans, Belgian-French cryptozoologist (b. 1916)
 * August 23 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
 * August 24 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
 * August 25
 * Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
 * Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver (b. 1924)
 * August 26 – Marita Petersen, 8th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
 * August 30 – A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th President of Bangladesh (b. 1915)

September

 * September 2
 * Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (b. 1922)
 * Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
 * September 3
 * Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
 * Thuy Trang, Vietnamese American actress (b. 1973)
 * September 4 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.), American comedian (b. 1962)
 * September 9 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military commander (b. 1953)
 * September 11
 * 2,996 people (2,977 victims and 19 hijackers) who died in the September 11 attacks
 * David Angell, American television producer (b. 1946)
 * Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
 * Berry Berenson, American photographer (and widow of Anthony Perkins) (b. 1948)
 * Daniel Lewin, American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur (b. 1970)
 * Jeremy Glick, passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
 * Barbara Olson, American television commentator (b. 1955)
 * September 13
 * Charles Régnier, German actor, director, radio actor, and translator (b. 1914)
 * Frédéric-Antonin Breysse, French cartoonist (b. 1907)
 * September 14 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
 * September 20
 * Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 51st President of Venezuela (b. 1914)
 * Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, East German journalist and television host (b. 1918)
 * September 22 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
 * September 29 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese politician (b. 1923)

October

 * October 4 – Blaise Alexander, American automobile racing driver (b. 1976)
 * October 15 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military figure (b. 1901)
 * October 22
 * Bertie Mee, English football player and coach (b. 1918)
 * Georgy Vitsin, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1917)
 * October 24 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (b. 1935)

November

 * November – Justin Rakotoniaina, 3rd Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1933)
 * November 1 – Juan Bosch, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1909)
 * November 3 – Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born art historian (b. 1909)
 * November 5 – Gholam Reza Azhari, 73rd Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1912)
 * November 6
 * Gray Morrow, comic book artist and book illustrator (b. 1934)
 * Anthony Shaffer, English novelist and playwright (b. 1926)
 * Milton William Cooper, American author and radio host (b. 1943)
 * November 7 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
 * November 9 – Giovanni Leone, 37th Prime Minister of Italy and 6th President of Italy (b. 1908)
 * November 10 – Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
 * November 12 – Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American-born Hindu guru (b. 1927)
 * November 17 – Michael Karoli, German musician (b. 1948)
 * November 22 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman (b. 1918)
 * November 23 – Mary Whitehouse, British conservative activist (b. 1910)
 * November 24 – Rachel Gurney, British actress (b. 1920)
 * November 25 – Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader (b. 1941)
 * November 29
 * George Harrison, English musician (b. 1943)
 * John Mitchum, American actor (b. 1919)

December

 * December 5 – Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman, murdered (b. 1948)
 * December 12 – Josef Bican, Czech-Austrian footballer (b. 1913)
 * December 13
 * Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and guitarist (b. 1967)
 * Michael Bradshaw, English actor (b. 1933)
 * Rufus Thomas, American singer (b. 1917)
 * December 16 – Stuart Adamson, Scottish singer and guitarist (b. 1958)
 * December 18 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (b. 1901)
 * December 20 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal (b. 1906)
 * December 22
 * Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (b. 1930)
 * Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish musician (b. 1957)
 * Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and officeholder; 2nd chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (b. 1918)
 * December 23 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician and economist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1966–1967) (b. 1918)
 * December 26 – Sir Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (b. 1929)
 * December 31 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman
 * Chemistry – William Standish Knowles, Ryōji Noyori, and Karl Barry Sharpless
 * Medicine – Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Paul Nurse
 * Literature – V. S. Naipaul
 * Peace – United Nations, Kofi Annan
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz

January

 * January 1
 * The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.
 * The Euro is officially introduced in the Eurozone countries. The former currencies of all the countries that use the Euro ceased to be legal tender on February 28.
 * January 17 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
 * January 18 – The Sierra Leone Civil War comes to a conclusion with the defeat of the Revolutionary United Front by government forces.

February

 * February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms celebrates her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years since her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
 * February 8–24 – The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 * February 12 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, begins at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
 * February 19 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
 * February 22 – UNITA guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in clashes against government troops led by Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos in Moxico Province, Angola. His death leads to the end of the Angolan Civil War on April 4.

March

 * March 1 – The Envisat environmental satellite is launched, with its purpose being the recording of information on environmental change.
 * March 27 – A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 people and injures 140 others at a hotel in Netanya, Israel, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank, two days later.

April

 * April 2 – Israeli forces besiege the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, when militants took shelter there. The siege would last for 38 days.
 * April 9 – The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
 * April 15 – Air China Flight 129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.
 * April 25 – South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz TM-34, becoming the first African space tourist.

May

 * May 20 – East Timor regains its independence after 2-and-a-half years of United Nations administration and 26 years of occupation by Indonesia since 1975.
 * May 24 – In Moscow, United States President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin sign the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty to replace the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and the START II Treaty of 1993.
 * May 25 – A Boeing 747 operating as China Airlines Flight 611 breaks up and crashes in the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 passengers and crew on board.
 * May 31 – June 30 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan; which is ultimately won by Brazil.

June

 * June 6 – An object with an estimated diameter of 10 meters collides with Earth over the Mediterranean and detonates in mid-air.
 * June 10 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
 * June 24 – A passenger train collides with a freight train in Dodoma Region, Tanzania, killing 281 people, making it the worst rail accident in African history.

July

 * July 1
 * The Rome Statute comes into force, thereby establishing the International Criminal Court.
 * A Russian passenger jet and cargo plane collide over the town of Überlingen, Germany, killing 71 people.
 * July 9 – The Organisation of African Unity is disbanded and replaced by the African Union.

August

 * August 26 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at discussing sustainable development by the United Nations.

September

 * September 10 – Switzerland joins the United Nations as the 190th member state after rejecting a place in 1986.
 * September 19 – General Robert Guéï leads an army mutiny in an attempt to overthrow Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, resulting in civil war.
 * September 25 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.
 * September 26 – The Senegalese passenger ferry MV Le Joola capsizes in a storm off the coast of the Gambia, killing 1,863 people.
 * September 27 – East Timor is admitted to the United Nations as the 191st member state.

October

 * October 12 – Jemaah Islamiyah militants detonate multiple bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Indonesia, killing 202 people and injuring over 300 in the worst terrorist act in Indonesia's history.
 * October 23–25 – Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow and hold the audience hostage. At least 170 people are killed following a Russian attempt to subdue the militants.

November

 * November 7 – A sovereignty referendum is held in Gibraltar. The people reject Spanish sovereignty.
 * November 8 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1441, forcing Iraq to either disarm or face "serious consequences". Iraq agrees to the terms of the resolution on November 13.
 * November 19 – Prestige oil spill: Greek oil tanker MV Prestige splits in half off the coast of Galicia after spilling an estimated 17.8M US gallons (420,000 bbl) in the worst environmental disaster in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.
 * November 25 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.
 * November 28 – 2002 Mombasa attacks: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues failed in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.

December

 * December 23 – A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.

Births

 * January 17 – Samuel, American-South Korean singer
 * January 25 – Lil Mosey, American rapper
 * February 4 – Graham Verchere, Canadian actor
 * February 5 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
 * February 13 – Sophia Lillis, American actress
 * March 4 – Jacob Hopkins, American actor
 * March 16 – Isabelle Allen, English actress


 * April 8 – Skai Jackson, American actress
 * April 16 – Sadie Sink, American actress
 * May 14 – Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, grand-niece of Elizabeth II, member of the British royal family
 * May 18 – Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater
 * June 2 – Madison Hu, American actress
 * June 25 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
 * July 21 – Rika Kihira, Japanese figure skater
 * July 22 – Prince Felix of Denmark
 * July 24 – Benjamin Flores Jr., American actor and rapper
 * August 1 – Oona Laurence, American actress
 * August 19 – Brighton Sharbino, American actress
 * August 30 – Raffey Cassidy, English actress
 * September 6 – Asher Angel, American actor
 * September 8 – Gaten Matarazzo, American actor
 * September 27 – Jenna Ortega, American actress
 * September 30
 * Levi Miller, Australian actor
 * Maddie Ziegler, American dancer
 * October 2 – Jacob Sartorius, American singer
 * October 6
 * Rio Mangini, American actor
 * Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer
 * October 12 – Iris Apatow, American actress
 * October 15 – Malu Trevejo, Cuban-American social media personality
 * October 16 – Madison Wolfe, American actress
 * October 29 – Ruel, Australian singer-songwriter
 * November 13 – Nikki Hahn, American actress
 * November 20 – Madisyn Shipman, American actress
 * December 23 – Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

January

 * January 6 – Sanya Dharmasakti, 12th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1907)
 * January 8 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1916)
 * January 12 – Cyrus Vance, American politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
 * January 13 – Ted Demme, American director and producer (b. 1963)
 * January 16 – Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
 * January 17 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (b. 1916)
 * January 19
 * Martti Miettunen, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1907)
 * Vavá, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
 * January 21 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (b. 1920)
 * January 23
 * Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
 * Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
 * January 28 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author (b. 1907)

February

 * February 1
 * Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925)
 * Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
 * February 4
 * Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
 * George Nader, American actor (b. 1921)
 * February 6 – Max Perutz, Austrian-born Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1914)
 * February 8
 * Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936)
 * Esther Afua Ocloo, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (b. 1919)
 * Zizinho, Brazilian football player (b. 1921)
 * February 9 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
 * February 10 – Traudl Junge, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler (b. 1920)
 * February 12 – John Eriksen, Danish footballer (b. 1957)
 * February 13 – Waylon Jennings, American country music singer (b. 1937)
 * February 14 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
 * February 15 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
 * February 18 – Jack Lambert, American actor (b. 1920)
 * February 22
 * Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)
 * Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
 * February 25 – Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
 * February 26 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)

March

 * March 9 – Irene Worth, American actress (b. 1916)
 * March 11 – James Tobin, American Nobel economist (b. 1918)
 * March 12 – Spyros Kyprianou, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
 * March 13 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
 * March 20 – Ibn al-Khattab, Saudi guerrilla (b. 1969)
 * March 24 – César Milstein, Argentine Nobel biochemist (b. 1927)
 * March 27
 * Milton Berle, American comedian (b. 1908)
 * Dudley Moore, English pianist, comedian, and actor (b. 1935)
 * Billy Wilder, Polish-American film screenwriter and director (b. 1906)
 * March 30 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (b. 1900)

April

 * April 1 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (b. 1905)
 * April 5 – Layne Staley, American singer (b. 1967)
 * April 8 – María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
 * April 16
 * Ramiro de León Carpio, 31st President of Guatemala (b. 1942)
 * Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
 * April 18 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
 * April 22 – Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (b. 1949)
 * April 25 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper (b. 1971)
 * April 27 – George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)

May

 * May 3 – Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 2-Time Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1928)
 * May 5 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian politician, 62nd and 75th President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
 * May 6 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, author and professor (b. 1948)
 * May 11 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
 * May 13 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian football manager (b. 1939)
 * May 17
 * László Kubala, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
 * Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
 * May 18 – Davey Boy Smith, British professional wrestler (b. 1962)
 * May 19 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
 * May 20 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and author (b. 1941)
 * May 21 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
 * May 24 – Susie Garrett, American actress (b. 1929)
 * May 26 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
 * May 28 – Napoleon Beazley, juvenile convicted murderer (b. 1976)

June

 * June 4 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician, 2-Time President of Peru (b. 1912)
 * June 5 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (b. 1951)
 * June 6 – Robbin Crosby, American rock guitarist (b. 1959)
 * June 7 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
 * June 10 – John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
 * June 15 – Choi Hong Hi, Korean martial artist (b. 1918)
 * June 24 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian politician, 19th and 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
 * June 25 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
 * June 27 – John Entwistle, English bassist (b. 1944)
 * June 29 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)

July

 * July 2 – Ray Brown, American bassist (b. 1926)
 * July 5
 * Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
 * Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)
 * July 6
 * Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
 * John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
 * July 8 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
 * July 9 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
 * July 13 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)
 * July 14 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician, 41st, 45th and 49th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
 * July 16 – John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (b. 1911)
 * July 19 – Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (b. 1915)
 * July 21 – Antti Koivumäki, Finnish poet and musician (b. 1976)
 * July 22 – Chuck Traynor, American pornographer (b. 1937)
 * July 23 – Chaim Potok, American author and rabbi (b. 1929)
 * July 28 – Archer Martin, English Nobel chemist (b. 1910)

August

 * August 5 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
 * August 6 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
 * August 14 – Dave Williams, American musician (b. 1972)
 * August 16 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant (b. 1937)
 * August 21 – Adelina Domingues, World's oldest person between May and August 2002 (b. 1888)
 * August 29 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish Actor, (b. 1920)
 * August 30 – Zaid ibn Shaker, 3-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934)
 * August 31
 * Lionel Hampton, American musician (b. 1908)
 * George Porter, English Nobel chemist (b. 1920)

September

 * September 7 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
 * September 10 – Žarana Papić, Serbian anthropologist (b. 1949)
 * September 11
 * Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
 * September 18 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
 * September 19 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian military ruler (b. 1941)

October

 * October 6 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands, prince consort of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
 * October 9 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
 * October 10 – Teresa Graves, American actress and comedian (b. 1948)
 * October 12
 * Ray Conniff, American musician and bandleader (b. 1916)
 * Audrey Mestre, French freediver (b. 1974)
 * Nozomi Momoi, Japanese AV idol (b. 1977)
 * October 13 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
 * October 18 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1932)
 * October 25
 * Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
 * Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b. 1944)
 * October 28 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
 * October 30 – Jam Master Jay, American Hip-Hop DJ (b. 1965)
 * October 31 – Michail Stasinopoulos, 1st President of Greece (b. 1903)

November

 * November 9 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
 * November 12 – Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter (b. 1918)
 * November 15
 * Roberta Leighton, American drag racer
 * Sohn Kee-Chung, Korean Olympic athlete (b. 1912)
 * November 17 – Abba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat, 3rd Foreign Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
 * November 18
 * James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
 * Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (b. 1937)
 * November 24 – John Rawls, American political theorist (b. 1921)

December

 * December 3 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
 * December 5 – Ne Win, Burmese military commander, 4th President of Burma (b. 1910)
 * December 9 – Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker (b. 1944)
 * December 12 – Edward Harrison, English cricketer and squash player (b. 1910)
 * December 18 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman, 24th Governor General of Canada (b. 1934)
 * December 22
 * Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese politician, 3rd Prime Minister and 4th President of Guyana (b. 1929)
 * Joe Strummer, English musician (b. 1952)
 * December 26 – Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
 * Economics – Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith
 * Literature – Imre Kertész
 * Peace – Jimmy Carter
 * Physics – Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
 * Physiology or Medicine – Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston

January

 * January 11 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
 * January 22 – The last signal from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 12.2 billion kilometers (7.6 billion mi) from Earth.
 * January 30 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in the world to do so.

February

 * February 1 – At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
 * February 4 – The leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia reconstitute the country into a loose state-union between Montenegro and Serbia, marking an end to the 85 year old Yugoslav state.
 * February 15 – Millions of people worldwide take part in massive anti-war protests before the United States and its allies invade Iraq.
 * February 26 – The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups rise up against the Sudanese government.
 * February 27 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić is sentenced by the U.N. ICTY to 11 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War.

March

 * March 8 – Malta approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * March 12
 * Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.
 * The World Health Organization issues a global alert on severe acute respiratory syndrome when it spreads to Hong Kong and Vietnam after originating in China.
 * March 20 – The Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces.
 * March 23 – Slovenia approves joining the European Union and NATO in a referendum.

April

 * April 9 – U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad, ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.
 * April 12 – Hungary approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * April 14 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
 * April 29 – The United States announces the withdrawal of troops stationed in Saudi Arabia, and the redeployment of some at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

May

 * May 11
 * Benvenuto Cellini's Cellini Salt Cellar table sculpture is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
 * Lithuania approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * May 12 – In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, over 30 people are killed in multiple bombings at a housing compound, mostly foreign expatriates.
 * May 17 – Slovakia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * May 23 – Dewey, the first deer cloned by scientists at Texas A&M University, is born.
 * May 28 – Prometea, the world's first cloned horse, is born.

June

 * June 8 – Poland approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * June 14 – The Czech Republic approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * June 30 – Warring parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a peace accord, bringing an end to the Second Congo War, which left millions dead.

July

 * July 5 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome is declared to be contained by the World Health Organization.
 * July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris, that will arrive at these stars in 2036, 2040, May 2044, September 2044 and 2049 respectively.
 * July 18 – The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution.
 * July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, led by Australia, begins after ethnic violence engulfs the island country.

August

 * August 11
 * The Second Liberian Civil War comes to an end after President Charles Taylor resigns and flees the country.
 * NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
 * August 18 – One year old Zachary Turner is murdered by his mother in Conception Bay South, Canada. She had controversially been bailed and granted custody of the toddler despite facing extradition and trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case inspired the movie Dear Zachary and prompted a change in Canadian law.
 * August 25 – The unmanned Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 * August 27
 * Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years.
 * The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

September

 * September 4 – Europe's busiest shopping centre, the Bull Ring in Birmingham, is officially opened.
 * September 14 – Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * September 15 – ELN rebels kidnap eight foreign tourists at Ciudad Perdida, Colombia, being freed 100 days later following negotiations with the Colombian government.
 * September 20 – Latvia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * September 24 – The Hubble Space Telescope starts the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, making 800 exposures, until January 16, 2004.
 * September 27 – SMART-1, an unmanned ESA spaceprobe and ESA's first mission to the moon, is launched from Kourou, French Guiana.

October

 * October 5 – Israeli warplanes strike alleged Islamic jihad bases inside Syrian territory, the first Israeli attack on the country since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
 * October 15 – China launches Shenzhou 5, their first manned spaceflight.
 * October 24 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to an end.

November

 * November 12 – A suicide bombing at an Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.
 * November 23 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns after widespread protests engulf the country following a disputed parliamentary election.
 * November 26 – The supersonic passenger jet, Concorde, makes its last ever flight from Heathrow Airport in London to Bristol Filton Airport.

December

 * December 13 – Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in the small town of Ad-Dawr by the U.S. Army.
 * December 19 – Libya agrees to eliminate all of its materials, equipment, and programs aimed at producing weapons of mass destruction.
 * December 23
 * The World Tourism Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
 * PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
 * December 26 – The 6.6 Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing an estimated 30,000 people.
 * December 29 – The last known speaker of the Akkala Sami language dies, rendering it extinct.

Births

 * January 4 – Jaeden Lieberher, American actor
 * January 6 – MattyBRaps, American remixer
 * January 23 – Apollinariia Panfilova, Russian pair skater
 * March 7 – Polina Kostiukovich, Russian pair skater
 * March 26 – Danielle Bregoli, American rapper
 * April 3 – Elsie Fisher, American actress
 * May 1 – Lizzy Greene, American actress
 * May 19 – JoJo Siwa, American dancer
 * June 15 – Breanna Yde, American actress
 * July 4 – Polina Bogusevich, Russian singer
 * July 13 – Wyatt Oleff, American actor
 * August 19 – Steele Stebbins, American actor
 * August 20 – Prince Gabriel of Belgium
 * August 24 – Alena Kostornaia, Russian figure skater
 * August 28 – Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
 * November 8 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royalty
 * December 1 – Robert Irwin, Australian television personality
 * December 7 – Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

January

 * January 11 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
 * January 12
 * Maurice Gibb, British musician (b. 1949)
 * Leopoldo Galtieri, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
 * January 15 – Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
 * January 17 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
 * January 24 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
 * January 26 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
 * January 27 – Henryk Jabłoński, 5th President of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1909)

February

 * February 1
 * Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
 * David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
 * Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (b. 1962)
 * Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
 * Rick Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
 * William McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
 * Ilan Ramon, Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut (b. 1954)
 * February 2 – Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
 * February 7 – Luigi Ferrando, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1911)
 * February 10 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * February 15 – Francisque Ravony, 7th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1942)
 * February 19 – Johnny Paycheck, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
 * February 20 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1907)
 * February 21 – Julie Mitchum, American actress (b. 1914)
 * February 23 – Howie Epstein, American musician and producer (b. 1955)
 * February 27
 * Wolfgang Larrazábal, Venezuelan naval officer and politician, 52nd President of Venezuela (b. 1911)
 * Fred Rogers, American television personality (b. 1928)
 * February 28
 * Yō Inoue, Japanese voice actress (b. 1946)
 * Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 45th President of El Salvador (b. 1917)

March

 * March 9 – Bernard Dowiyogo, 7-Time President of Nauru (b. 1946)
 * March 12
 * Zoran Đinđić, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
 * Howard Fast, American novelist (b. 1914)
 * Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
 * March 14 – Amanda Davis, American writer and teacher (b. 1971)
 * March 21 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, 4th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
 * March 22 – Milton George Henschel, American Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. 1920)
 * March 29 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
 * March 30 – Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)

April

 * April 1 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (b. 1956)
 * April 2 – Edwin Starr, American soul singer (b. 1942)
 * April 8 – Bing Russell, American actor (b. 1926)
 * April 9 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (b. 1908)
 * April 11 – Cecil Howard Green, British-American geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
 * April 20
 * Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
 * Bernard Katz, German-British Nobel biophysicist (b. 1911)
 * April 21 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
 * April 22 – Mike Larrabee, American Olympic athlete (b. 1933)
 * April 30
 * Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956)
 * Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (b. 1924)

May

 * May 1 – Miss Elizabeth, American professional wrestling valet (b. 1960)
 * May 11 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1945)
 * May 14
 * Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)
 * Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
 * May 15
 * June Carter Cash, American singer (b. 1929)
 * Constantin Dăscălescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1923)
 * Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (b. 1924)
 * May 23 – Jean Yanne, French film actor and director (b. 1933)
 * May 24 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
 * May 27 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
 * May 28
 * Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian Nobel physicist and chemist (b. 1917)
 * Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1933)

June

 * June 2 – Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and humorist (b. 1925)
 * June 5 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
 * June 7 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
 * June 10 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
 * June 12 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
 * June 15
 * Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor (b. 1911)
 * Kaiser Matanzima, 1st President of Transkei (b. 1915)
 * June 21
 * Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
 * Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (b. 1934)
 * June 22 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian novelist (b. 1924)
 * June 23 – Maynard Jackson, American politician (b. 1938)
 * June 26
 * Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
 * Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
 * Strom Thurmond, American politician (b. 1902)
 * June 29 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
 * June 30 − Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)

July

 * July 1 – Nǃxau ǂToma, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
 * July 4 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
 * July 6 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (b. 1908)
 * July 7 – Tomiko Suzuki, Japanese voice actress (b. 1956)
 * July 12 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
 * July 13 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
 * July 15
 * Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
 * Tex Schramm, American football executive (b. 1920)
 * July 16
 * Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (b. 1925)
 * Carol Shields, American-Canadian writer (b. 1935)
 * July 17 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
 * July 22
 * Uday Hussein, Iraqi paramilitary leader (b. 1964)
 * Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician (b. 1966)
 * July 25
 * Erik Brann, American musician (b. 1950)
 * John Schlesinger, English film director (b. 1926)
 * July 27
 * Bob Hope, English-American comedian and actor (b. 1903)
 * Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond, Zairian politician (b. 1938)
 * July 28 – Greg Guidry, American singer-songwriter (b. 1954)
 * July 30 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)

August

 * August 1 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
 * August 3 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
 * August 4 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel pediatrician and virologist (b. 1916)
 * August 6 – Julius Baker, flute player (b. 1915)
 * August 9 – Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (b. 1946)
 * August 11 – Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (b. 1937)
 * August 14 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
 * August 16 – Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (b. c. 1923–28)
 * August 19
 * Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
 * Carlos Roberto Reina, 60th President of Honduras (b. 1926)
 * August 21 – Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
 * August 23 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
 * August 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b. 1919)
 * August 30 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)

September

 * September 2 – Ptolemy Reid, 2nd Prime Minister of Guyana (b. 1912)
 * September 7 – Warren Zevon, American singer (b. 1947)
 * September 8
 * Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress and voice actress (b. 1986)
 * Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
 * September 9 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
 * September 11
 * Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1957)
 * John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
 * September 12 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1932)
 * September 14 - John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert accordionist, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1915)
 * September 17 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
 * September 19 – Slim Dusty, Australian country singer (b. 1927)
 * September 22 − Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
 * September 25
 * Franco Modigliani, Italian-American Nobel economist (b. 1918)
 * Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic (b. 1935)
 * Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
 * September 26
 * Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963)
 * Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
 * September 27 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
 * September 28
 * Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
 * Elia Kazan, Greek-American director (b. 1909)
 * September 30 – Robert Kardashian, American attorney and businessman (b. 1944)

October

 * October 2 – Otto Günsche, German adjutant of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
 * October 5
 * Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978)
 * Neil Postman, American educator, media theorist, and cultural critic (b. 1931)
 * Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (b. 1957)
 * October 12 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
 * October 13 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1918)
 * October 14 – Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (b. 1924)
 * October 16
 * Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling promoter (b. 1915)
 * László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
 * October 17 – Janice Rule, American actress (b. 1931)
 * October 19
 * Alija Izetbegović, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
 * Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
 * October 20 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
 * October 21 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
 * October 22 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (b. 1976)
 * October 23 – Soong Mei-ling, First Lady of China (b. 1898)
 * October 25 - Robert Strassburg, American composer, educator and musicologist (b. 1915)
 * October 24 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
 * October 27 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
 * October 29
 * Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
 * Franco Corelli, Italian opera tenor (b. 1921)

November

 * November 3 – Rasul Gamzatov, poet (b. 1923)
 * November 5
 * Bobby Hatfield, American singer (b. 1940)
 * Dorothy Fay, American actress (b. 1915)
 * November 6
 * Crash Holly, American wrestler (b. 1971)
 * Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
 * November 9 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
 * November 10 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
 * November 12
 * Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
 * Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and writer (b. 1986)
 * Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
 * November 14 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
 * November 18
 * Patricia Broderick, American playwright and painter (b. 1925)
 * Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
 * November 20
 * David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
 * Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
 * November 24 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * November 26 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1977)
 * November 27 – Marjorie Reeves, British historian, educationalist (b. 1905)
 * November 30 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1905)

December

 * December 3
 * Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and author (b. 1921)
 * David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
 * December 6 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 30th President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
 * December 8 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (b. 1919)
 * December 11 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
 * December 12 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
 * December 14 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
 * December 19 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
 * December 23 – Kriangsak Chamanan, 15th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1917)
 * December 27
 * Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
 * Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1962)
 * Pete Alvarado, American animator and comic book artist (b. 1920)
 * December 29
 * Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
 * Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (b.1928)
 * December 30 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1963)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
 * Economics – Robert F. Engle, Clive W. J. Granger
 * Literature – John Maxwell Coetzee
 * Peace – Shirin Ebadi
 * Physics – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett
 * Physiology or Medicine – Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield

New English words and terms

 * anti-cultural
 * baby bump
 * Big Rip
 * binge-watch
 * botnet
 * darmstadtium
 * electronic cigarette
 * flash mob
 * iraimbilanja
 * manscaping
 * MERS
 * muffin top
 * net neutrality
 * netroots
 * SARS
 * severe acute respiratory syndrome
 * unfriend

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 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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Births

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August



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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

New English words and terms

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