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January

 * January 1
 * Czechoslovakia ceases to exist in 1993 just like a 1995, 1999 and 2004 One as the Czech Republic and 1991 one 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 1993 like a 1995 one 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.

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

 * October 1 – Christian Bravo, Chilean footballer
 * October 6
 * Jourdan Miller, American actress
 * Joe Rafferty, English-born Irish footballer
 * October 8
 * Angus T. Jones, American actor
 * Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish professional tennis player
 * Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model
 * October 9 – Scotty McCreery, American singer
 * October 16 – Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer
 * October 19
 * Hunter King, American actress
 * Youna Dufournet, French artistic gymnast
 * October 20 – David Bolarinwa, British sprinter
 * October 23 – Taylor Spreitler, American actress
 * October 27 – Troy Gentile, American actor
 * October 30 – Marcus Mariota, American football player
 * October 31
 * Nadine Lustre, Filipino actress
 * Letitia Wright, Guyanese-British 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 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
 * Blueface, American rapper
 * 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 16 – Daniel Rioli, Australian rules footballer
 * 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 – Mitch 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
 * H.E.R., American singer
 * 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)
 * Johnny Papalia, Canadian mobster (b. 1924)

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