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1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.

January

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

February

 * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car.
 * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With up to 4,000 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
 * February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
 * February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).
 * February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.
 * February 28
 * A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.
 * A study led by Andrew Wakefield is published in The Lancet suggesting an alleged link between MMR vaccine and autism. Now known to be full of data manipulation, the study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. Despite subsequent large epidemiological research found no link between vaccines and autism,   the study contributed — in the following years and decades — to a sharp drop in vaccination rates and the resurgence of measles in several countries. The study, fully retracted in 2010, was later characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the 20th Century".

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

 * June 1 – European Central Bank established, replacing the European Monetary Institute.
 * June 3 – Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
 * June 7
 * Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–99).
 * James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas.
 * June 9–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
 * June 10 – The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.
 * June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opened, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.
 * June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

 * January 1
 * Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
 * January 2
 * Chen Xinyi, Chinese swimmer
 * Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
 * January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
 * January 4
 * Coco Jones, American actress and singer
 * Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
 * January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
 * January 6
 * Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer
 * Norman Grimes, American sprinter
 * Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer
 * January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
 * January 10 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player
 * January 11 – Salih Özcan, German footballer
 * January 12
 * Juan Foyth, Argentine footballer
 * Rafik Zekhnini, Norwegian footballer
 * January 13
 * Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
 * Kamron Doyle, American ten-pin bowler
 * January 14 – Ai Moritaka, Japanese model and actress
 * January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
 * January 18
 * Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
 * Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
 * January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
 * January 21 – Amelia Hundley, American artistic gymnast
 * January 23
 * Rachel Crow, American singer and actress
 * Cole Custer, American stock car racing driver
 * XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
 * January 26 – Devin Druid, American actor
 * January 27 – Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer
 * January 28
 * Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer
 * Ariel Winter, American actress
 * January 29 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese singer and actress
 * January 31
 * Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
 * Bradie Tennell, American figure skater

February

 * February 1
 * Kipyegon Bett, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Stefan Kozlov, American tennis player
 * February 3
 * Michael McLeod, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
 * Yang Hao, Chinese diver
 * February 4
 * Scott Jones, English paralympic athlete
 * Malik Monk, American basketball player
 * February 10
 * Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
 * Gray Gaulding, American stock car racing driver
 * February 13 – Khalifa St. Fort, Trinbagonian sprinter
 * February 15
 * Dennis Cholowski Canadian hockey defenseman
 * Zachary Gordon, American actor
 * George Russell, British racing driver
 * February 17 – Fernanda Urdapilleta, Mexican actress and singer
 * February 18
 * Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
 * Matthew Davidson, American guitarist
 * February 21 – Michaela Hrubá, Czech athlete
 * February 24 – Mariel Pamintuan, Filipino actress
 * February 25 – Rizky Febian, Indonesian singer, songwriter, actor, and TV presenter
 * February 27
 * Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
 * Felix Gall, Austrian cyclist
 * Theo Stevenson, English actor

March

 * March 2 – Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
 * March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
 * March 5
 * Sergio Díaz, Paraguayan footballer
 * Micah Fowler, American actor
 * March 9
 * Najee Harris, American football player
 * Kaylin Whitney, American sprinter
 * March 16 – Lil Keed, American rapper
 * March 17 – Nathan O'Toole, Irish actor
 * March 19 – Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer
 * March 21 – Miles Bridges, American basketball player
 * March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
 * March 26
 * Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper
 * Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater
 * March 27 – Haji Wright, American footballer
 * March 28
 * Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
 * Ryan Simpkins, American actress
 * March 29 – Alex Neustaedter, American actor
 * March 30 – Kalyn Ponga, Australian rugby league footballer
 * March 31
 * Oskar Buur, Danish footballer
 * Jakob Chychrun, American ice hockey player
 * Anna Seidel, German short track speed skater

April

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

May

 * May 2
 * Ian Anderson, American baseball pitcher
 * Tremaine Edmunds, American football player
 * Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
 * May 4
 * Frank Jackson, American basketball player
 * Rex Orange County, English artist and songwriter
 * May 5
 * Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
 * Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 6
 * Sierra Schmidt, American swimmer
 * Kayden Troff, American chess champion
 * May 7
 * Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
 * Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
 * May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
 * May 12
 * Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
 * Tornado Alicia Black, American tennis player
 * May 13
 * Karen Iwata, Japanese singer and voice actress
 * Mickey Moniak, American baseball outfielder
 * May 16 – Adian Pitkeev, Russian figure skater
 * May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
 * May 20 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater
 * May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
 * May 28 – Dahyun, South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
 * May 29
 * Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
 * Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress
 * Oliver Stokes, English actor
 * Felix Passlack, German footballer
 * May 31 – Reza Shekari, Iranian footballer

June

 * June 1
 * Aleksandra Soldatova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
 * June 5
 * Dave, English rapper, singer and songwriter
 * Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
 * June 7 – Graham Newberry, British-American figure skater
 * June 11 – Charlie Tahan, American actor
 * June 12
 * Jean-Victor Makengo, French footballer
 * Andrey Makolov, Russian artistic gymnast
 * June 14 – Jovane Cabral, Cape Verdean footballer
 * June 15 – Alexander Samarin, Russian figure skater
 * June 16
 * Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
 * Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
 * June 19
 * Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer
 * Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
 * Atticus Shaffer, American actor
 * Ömer Yurtseven, Turkish basketball player
 * June 21 – Gerben Thijssen, Belgian road and track cyclist
 * June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
 * June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
 * June 24
 * Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Coy Stewart, American actor
 * June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
 * June 26 – Edu Gueda, Brazilian singer
 * June 27 – Bor Pavlovčič, Slovenian ski jumper
 * June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz, Spanish footballer
 * June 29 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
 * June 30
 * Houssem Aouar, French footballer
 * Tom Davies, English footballer

July

 * July 2 – Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper
 * July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
 * July 8
 * Maya Hawke, American actress and model
 * Yann Karamoh, French footballer
 * Jaden Smith, American actor
 * Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
 * July 10
 * Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
 * Haley Pullos, American actress
 * July 16 – Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
 * July 21 – Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country skier
 * July 22
 * Alicia Moffet, Canadian singer
 * Madison Pettis, American actress
 * Patrick Schmidt, Austrian footballer
 * Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
 * July 23 – Deandre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
 * July 27 – Risa Watanabe, Japanese idol and model
 * July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
 * July 30 – Jake Fromm, American football player
 * July 31 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor

August

 * August 1 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
 * August 2 – Giarnni Regini-Moran, British artistic gymnast
 * August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
 * August 4 – Lil Skies, American rapper
 * August 5
 * Mimi Keene, English actress
 * Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer
 * August 6 – Forrest Goodluck, American actor
 * August 7 – Jalen Hurts, American football player
 * August 8
 * Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Ronan Parke, English singer
 * August 9
 * Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
 * Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
 * August 10
 * Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster
 * Eythóra Thorsdóttir, Dutch gymnast
 * August 11 – Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist
 * August 12 – Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
 * August 13
 * Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
 * Carter Hart, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * August 14 – Amy Marren, English paralympic swimmer
 * August 18 – Tenshin Nasukawa, Japanese kickboxer and mixed martial artist
 * August 25
 * Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
 * China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

September

 * September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
 * September 9 – Jesús Marimón, Colombian footballer
 * September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper
 * September 17 – Richard Wang, Canadian chess champion
 * September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
 * September 19
 * Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
 * Trae Young, American basketball player
 * September 20 – Rashid Khan, Afghan cricket player
 * September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor
 * September 26 – Ivan Pavlov, Ukrainian figure skater
 * September 28
 * Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
 * Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster

October

 * October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer
 * October 7 – Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
 * October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili, Georgian model
 * October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor
 * October 12 – Tyler Pierce, American figure skater
 * October 17 – Erin Kellyman, British actress
 * October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress
 * October 22
 * Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player
 * Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer
 * October 24 – Daya, American singer
 * October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress
 * October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
 * October 28
 * Nolan Gould, American actor
 * Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
 * October 29
 * Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

November

 * November 1 – Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
 * November 2 – Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
 * November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
 * November 4
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress
 * Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
 * November 10 – Renz Valerio, Filipino actor
 * November 11 – Carlo Lacana, Filipino actor
 * November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
 * November 17 – Kara Hayward, American actress
 * November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
 * November 24 – Peyton Meyer, American actor
 * November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder

December

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

January

 * January 1 – Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
 * January 2
 * Feodor I. Kozhevnikov, Soviet legal expert (b. 1893)
 * Frank Muir, British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (b. 1920)
 * January 4
 * Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
 * Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
 * January 5
 * David Bairstow, English cricketer (b. 1951)
 * Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
 * January 6 – Georgy Sviridov, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1915)
 * January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
 * January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
 * January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
 * January 11
 * Ellis Rabb, American director and actor (b. 1930)
 * Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
 * January 15
 * Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
 * Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
 * Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
 * January 16
 * Emil Sitka, American actor (b. 1914)
 * Hermann Wedekind, artistic director (b. 1910)
 * January 18 – Monica Edwards, British writer (b. 1912)
 * January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
 * January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
 * January 26
 * Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
 * Ethelreda Leopold, American film actress (b. 1914)
 * January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)
 * January 29 – Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)

February



 * February 2
 * Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
 * Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
 * February 6
 * Falco, Austrian rock musician (b. 1957)
 * Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
 * February 7
 * Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
 * Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
 * February 8
 * Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
 * Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
 * Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
 * February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * February 10 - Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1924)
 * February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 16 – Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * February 17
 * Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
 * Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * February 18
 * Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1914)
 * Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (b. 1961)
 * February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913)
 * February 22
 * Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author (b. 1902)
 * Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
 * Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (b. 1921)
 * José María de Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
 * February 23
 * Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960)
 * February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
 * February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 * February 27
 * Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (b. 1901)
 * George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
 * J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
 * February 28 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

March



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

April

 * April 1
 * Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
 * Rozz Williams, American singer (b. 1963)
 * April 3 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
 * April 6
 * Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
 * Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
 * April 7 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1942)
 * April 11
 * Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional baseball player (b. 1921)
 * Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
 * April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
 * April 15
 * Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925)
 * Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
 * April 16
 * Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
 * Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
 * April 17
 * Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
 * Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911)
 * April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
 * April 21
 * Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922)
 * April 22 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
 * April 23
 * Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
 * James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
 * April 25
 * Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
 * Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
 * April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author (b. 1906)
 * April 27
 * Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
 * Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)

May



 * May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist and writer (b. 1935)
 * May 2
 * Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
 * Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 * Maidie Norman, American actress (b. 1912)
 * Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
 * May 7
 * Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
 * Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
 * May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 14
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
 * Frank Sinatra, American actor and singer (b. 1915)
 * May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball player (b. 1944)
 * May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 * May 21 – Douglas Fowley, American actor (b. 1911)
 * May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
 * May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1948)
 * May 29
 * Orlando Anderson, American criminal (b. 1974)
 * Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)

June

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

July

 * July 2 – Kay Thompson, American author and actress (b. 1909)
 * July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
 * July 4 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (b. 1957)
 * July 5
 * Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
 * Johnny Speight, British television scriptwriter (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
 * July 8 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)
 * July 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak baseball player (b. 1921)
 * July 21
 * Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 22
 * Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * Don Dunphy, American television and radio sports announcer (b. 1908)
 * July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * July 28 – Harvie Branscomb, American university president (b. 1894)
 * July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
 * July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)

August



 * August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
 * August 2
 * Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
 * Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
 * August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
 * August 4 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
 * August 5 – Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
 * August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 * August 8 – Nelly's, Greek female photographer (b. 1899)
 * August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * August 13
 * Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934)
 * Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
 * August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (b. 1948)
 * August 22 – Jack Briggs, American actor (b. 1920)
 * August 24
 * Jerry Clower, American country comedian (b. 1926)
 * E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914)
 * August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907)
 * August 26
 * Wade Dominguez, American actor, model, singer, and dancer (b. 1966)
 * Frederick Reines, American physicist (b. 1918)
 * August 28 – George Büchi, American chemist (b. 1921)

September



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

October

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

November

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

December

 * December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
 * December 2
 * Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
 * Brian Stonehouse, English painter and secret agent (b. 1918)
 * December 5 – Hazel Bishop, American chemist and inventor (b. 1906)
 * December 6
 * Michael Zaslow, American actor (b. 1942)
 * César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
 * December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
 * December 8 - Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
 * December 9 – Archie Moore, American professional boxer (b. 1916)
 * December 11 – Lynn Strait, American musician (b. 1968)
 * December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
 * December 13
 * Sir Lew Grade, British businessman (b. 1906)
 * Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (b. 1930)
 * December 14
 * Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (b. 1924)
 * December 15 – Brady Boone, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
 * December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (b. 1959)
 * December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * December 19
 * Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist (b. 1909)
 * Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
 * December 20
 * Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
 * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
 * December 21
 * Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
 * Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909)
 * December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
 * December 25
 * Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
 * John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
 * December 26
 * Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Robert Rosen, American biologist (b. 1934)
 * William Frankfather, American actor (b. 1944)
 * Ram Swarup, Indian author (b. 1920)
 * December 30
 * Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
 * George Webb, British actor (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

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

Fields Medal

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

 * June 1 – Napster, a music downloading service, debuts.
 * June 2 – The King of Bhutan allows television transmissions to commence in the Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee.
 * June 5 – The Islamic Salvation Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.
 * June 8 – The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
 * June 9 – Kosovo War: Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty to end their hostilities.
 * June 10 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
 * June 12
 * Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian/Operation Agricola begins: NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping forces KFOR enter Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
 * Texas governor George W. Bush announces he will pursue the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States.
 * June 14 – Thabo Mbeki is elected president of South Africa.
 * June 16 – Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated as the second president of South Africa, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive power in the country's post-democratization history.
 * June 18 – The J18 international anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.
 * June 19 – Turin, Italy, is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics.
 * June 24 – Kosovo War: NATO marines shoot three gunmen in Kosovo, Yugoslavia after being attacked by the latter, killing one of them and injuring the other two.
 * June 25 – Bosnia and Herzegovina gets a new national anthem.
 * June 30 – Twenty-three people die in a fire at the Sealand Youth Training Center in South Korea.

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

 * October – NASA loses one of its probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter.
 * October 1 – Shanghai Pudong International Airport opens in China, taking over all international flights from Hongqiao.
 * October 5 – Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west of London, England.
 * October 12 – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, who is out of the country. The generals lead a coup d'état, ousting Sharif's administration, and Musharraf takes control of the government.
 * October 13 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
 * October 27 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.
 * October 29 – A super cyclonic storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000 people.
 * October 30 – 1999 Inchon bar fire: A pub catches fire in Inchon, South Korea, killing 56 people.
 * October 31
 * EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board.
 * Roman Catholic Church and several Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, attempting to resolve a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

 * April 1 – Jairus Aquino, Filipino actor
 * April 2 – Sophie Reynolds, American actress
 * April 5
 * Maria Astashkina, Russian swimmer
 * Sharlene San Pedro, Filipina actress
 * April 8
 * CiCi Bellis, American tennis player
 * José Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 * April 9 – Lil Nas X, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
 * April 15 – Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
 * April 16 – Wendell Carter, American basketball player
 * April 18 – Michael Andrew, American swimmer
 * April 19 – Corentin Moutet, French tennis player
 * April 20 – Carly Rose Sonenclar, American actress and singer
 * April 30 – Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster

May

 * May 2 – Andre Dozzell, English footballer
 * May 5
 * Jonny Gray, Canadian actor
 * Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
 * Nathan Chen, American figure skater
 * May 8
 * Maykel Massó, Cuban long jumper
 * Rebeca Andrade, Brazilian artistic gymnast
 * May 11 – Sabrina Carpenter, American actress, singer, and songwriter
 * May 13 – Francis Magundayao, Filipino actor
 * May 18 – Teo Halm, American actor
 * May 22 – Camren Bicondova, American actress and dancer
 * May 24 – Charlie Plummer, American actor
 * May 25 – Ibrahima Konaté, French footballer
 * May 27
 * Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model
 * Maria Kameneva, Russian swimmer
 * May 28 – Cameron Boyce, American actor (d. 2019)
 * May 30 – Sean Giambrone, American actor

June

 * June 1 – Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater
 * June 2 – Madison Leisle, American actress
 * June 3 – Dan-Axel Zagadou, French footballer
 * June 10 – Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer
 * June 11
 * Kai Havertz, German footballer
 * Katelyn Nacon, American actress
 * June 14 – Chou Tzu-yu, Taiwanese singer
 * June 18 – Trippie Redd, American rapper
 * June 21 – Natalie Alyn Lind, American actress
 * June 22 – Cam Akers, American football player
 * June 23
 * Noah Marullo, British child actor
 * Semisi Otukolo, Tongan footballer
 * Linton Maina, German footballer
 * June 24 – Mads Roerslev, Danish footballer
 * June 26 – Harley Quinn Smith, American actress
 * June 27 – Chandler Riggs, American actor
 * June 29 – Nikita Volodin, Russian pair skater

July

 * July 1 – Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
 * July 2 – Nicolò Zaniolo, Italian footballer
 * July 4 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer and dancer
 * July 6 – Denis Khodykin, Russian pair skater
 * July 9 – Claire Corlett, American actress and singer
 * July 10
 * April Ivy, Portuguese singer and composer
 * Matthew Real, Brazilian-American soccer player
 * July 12 – Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Malaysian diver
 * July 13 – Leong Jun Hao, Malaysian badminton player
 * July 15 – Seda Tutkhalyan, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 17
 * Lisandro Cuxi, Portuguese-French singer
 * Stahl Gubag, Papua New Guinean footballer
 * July 19 – Kim So-hye, South Korean actress and singer
 * July 20
 * Princess Alexandra of Hanover
 * Ellie Downie, British artistic gymnast
 * July 28 – Troy Brown Jr., American basketball player
 * July 30 – Joey King, American actress

August

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

September

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

October

 * October 1 – Christopher Taylor, Jamaican sprinter
 * October 3 – Aramis Knight, American actor
 * October 14
 * Daniel Roche, British actor
 * Wu Yibing, Chinese tennis player
 * Laura Zeng, American rhythmic gymnast
 * October 15
 * Bailee Madison, American actress
 * Alexei Sancov, Moldovan swimmer
 * Ben Woodburn, British footballer
 * October 17 – Gabrielle Fa'amausili, New Zealand swimmer
 * October 19 – Carlotta Truman, German singer
 * October 20 – YoungBoy Never Broke Again, American rapper
 * October 23 – Joseph Andre Garcia, Filipino actor
 * October 27 – Amy Tinkler, British artistic gymnast
 * October 30 – Wang Yan, Chinese gymnast

November

 * November 1 – Buddy Handleson, American actor
 * November 8 – Isaac Bonga, German basketball player
 * November 9 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress and singer
 * November 10
 * Armand Duplantis, Swedish pole vaulter
 * João Félix, Portuguese footballer
 * Kiernan Shipka, American actress
 * November 11
 * Emma Gonzalez, American gun control activist
 * Fan Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast
 * November 12 – Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer and songwriter
 * November 13 – Lando Norris, British racing driver
 * November 14 – Ellis Hollins, British actor
 * November 18 – Domingos Quina, Portuguese footballer
 * November 19 – Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater
 * November 26 – Olivia O'Brien, American singer

December

 * December 3
 * Kang Mi-na, South Korean singer and actress
 * Kim Do-yeon, South Korean singer
 * December 10 – Reiss Nelson, English footballer
 * December 18 – YBN Nahmir, American rapper and songwriter
 * December 20 – Migo Adecer, Filipino dancer and actor
 * December 25 – Bülow, German singer
 * December 29 – Nadine Joy Nathan, Singaporean artistic gymnast

January

 * January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, Italian-American actor (b. 1904)
 * January 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist and composer (b. 1962)
 * January 10 – Gavin Relly, South African businessman. (b. 1926)
 * January 11
 * Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1912)
 * Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
 * Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian writer (b. 1921)
 * January 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914)
 * January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
 * January 21
 * Gerda Ring, Norwegian stage actress and stage producer (b. 1891)
 * Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
 * January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
 * January 23 – John Osteen, American televangelist (b. 1921)
 * January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
 * January 31 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)

February



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

March

 * March 1 – Ann Corio, American dancer and actress (b. 1909)
 * March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (b. 1939)
 * March 3
 * Jackson C. Frank, American folk musician (b. 1943)
 * Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist (b. 1904)
 * March 4
 * Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908)
 * Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)
 * Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, 79th President of Switzerland (b. 1917)
 * March 5
 * Alfred Denning, Baron Denning, British lawyer and judge (b. 1899)
 * John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (b. 1920)
 * Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
 * March 6
 * Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
 * Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain (b. 1933)
 * March 7
 * Sidney Gottlieb, American intelligence official (b. 1918)
 * Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (b. 1928)
 * March 8
 * Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
 * Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
 * March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916)
 * March 13
 * Lee Falk, American writer, theater director, and producer (b. 1911)
 * Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
 * March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921)
 * March 19
 * Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
 * Juanita Reina, Spanish actress and copla singer (b. 1925)
 * March 21 – Ernie Wise, English comedian (b. 1925)
 * March 22 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
 * March 26 – David Holliday, American actor (b. 1937)
 * March 29 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
 * March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922)

April

 * April 3 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
 * April 4
 * Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
 * Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1944)
 * Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
 * April 9 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerese military officer, 5th President of Niger (b. 1949)
 * April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress (b. 1919)
 * April 12 – Boxcar Willie, American country music singer (b. 1931)
 * April 13 – Willi Stoph, German politician, 2-time Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1914)
 * April 14
 * Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
 * April 15 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (b. 1944)
 * April 20
 * Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (b. 1896)
 * The Columbine High School massacre
 * Cassie Bernall, American student (b. 1981)
 * Rachel Scott, American student (b. 1981)
 * April 21 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American silent film actor (b. 1904)
 * April 22 – Bert Remsen, American actor (b. 1925)
 * April 25
 * Herman Miller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919)
 * Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914)
 * Roger Troutman, American funk musician (b. 1951)
 * April 26
 * Adrian Borland, British musician and producer (b. 1957)
 * Jill Dando, British television journalist (b. 1961)
 * April 27
 * Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
 * Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
 * April 28
 * Rory Calhoun, American television and film actor (b. 1922)
 * Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (b. 1921)
 * Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)

May

 * May 1 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
 * May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
 * May 3 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
 * May 8
 * Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
 * Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
 * Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator (b. 1904)
 * May 10
 * Eric Willis, Australian politician (b. 1922)
 * Shel Silverstein, American author and poet (b. 1930)
 * May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
 * May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
 * May 16 – Eva Macapagal, 9th First Lady of the Philippines (b. 1915)
 * May 17 – Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
 * May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
 * May 19
 * Candy Candido, American voice actor (b. 1913)
 * Alister Williamson, Australian actor (b. 1918)
 * May 23
 * Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
 * John T. Hayward, American admiral (b. 1908)
 * May 26
 * Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
 * Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)

June

 * June 3 – Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player (b. 1921)
 * June 5 – Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925)
 * June 6 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
 * June 8 – Francis Brian Shorland, New Zealand organic chemist (b. 1909)
 * June 9
 * Maurice Journeau, French composer (b. 1898)
 * Andrew L. Stone, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1902)
 * June 11 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
 * June 12 – Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater (b. 1955)
 * June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English politician (b. 1940)
 * June 19 – Paul Montgomery, American entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1960)
 * June 23 – Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
 * June 25
 * Fred Trump, American real estate developer (b. 1905)
 * Yevgeny Morgunov, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer (b. 1927)
 * June 27
 * Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., American admiral (b. 1919)
 * Siegfried Lowitz, German television actor (b. 1914)
 * Marion Motley, American football player (b. 1920)
 * Georgios Papadopoulos, military ruler of Greece, 69th Prime Minister of Greece and 4th President of Greece (b. 1919)
 * June 29 – Allan Carr, American producer (b. 1937)

July



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

August

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

September



 * September 5 – Allen Funt, American television personality (b. 1914)
 * September 6 – Lagumot Harris, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
 * September 7 – Jim Keith, American author (b. 1949)
 * September 8 – Moondog, American musician and composer (b. 1916)
 * September 9
 * Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
 * Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
 * September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
 * September 11 – Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (b. 1972)
 * September 12 – Allen Stack, American swimmer (b. 1928)
 * September 14 – Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
 * September 17 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
 * September 20 – Raisa Gorbacheva, Soviet first lady (b. 1932)
 * September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
 * September 23 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
 * September 24 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist (b. 1910)
 * September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)

October

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

November

 * November 1
 * Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1924)
 * Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
 * Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
 * November 2 – Demetrio B. Lakas, 27th President of Panama (b. 1925)
 * November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
 * November 4 – Daisy Bates, American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer (b. 1914)
 * November 8
 * Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (b. 1908)
 * Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (b. 1898)
 * November 9 – Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
 * November 11
 * Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
 * Vivian Fuchs, English geologist (b. 1908)
 * Jacobo Timerman, Argentine journalist and author (b. 1923)
 * November 12 – Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
 * November 15 – Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (b. 1920)
 * November 16 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (b. 1928)
 * November 18
 * Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
 * Horst P. Horst, American photographer (b. 1906)
 * Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
 * November 20 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
 * November 21
 * Quentin Crisp, English writer (b. 1908)
 * Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (b. 1930)
 * November 27 – Jim Wiggins, English actor (b. 1922)
 * November 29
 * Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1902)
 * Gene Rayburn, American television personality (b. 1917)

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

New English words and terms

 * blog
 * carbon footprint
 * dashcam
 * epigemonic
 * metabolomics
 * texting
 * vape