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Season 4 of Barney & Friends aired from November 3 to November 28, 1997.

Dinosaurs

 * Barney (Voice: Bob West, Costume: David Joyner / Josh Martin / Maurice Scott) [20/20]
 * Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jeff Ayers) [9/20]18856 312087336275 699456275 5319333 7736063 n.jpg and Mr. Boyd)]]
 * BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Jeff Brooks / Adam Brown) [10/20]

Children

 * Robert (Angel Velasco) [9/20]
 * Stephen (Chase Gallatin) [9/20]
 * Hannah  ( Marisa Kuers ) [8/20]
 * Kim (Erica Rhodes) [8/20]
 * Kristen (Sara Hickman) [8/20]
 * Ashley (Maurie Chandler) [8/20]
 * Chip (Lucien Douglas) [6/20]
 * Curtis (Monte Black) (debut) [5/20]
 * Jeff (Austin Ball) (debut) [5/20]
 * Keesha (Mera Baker) [5/20]
 * Danny   ( Jeffrey Hood ) (debut) [4/20]
 * Maria (Jessica Hinojosa) [3/20]
 * Alissa (Monet Chandler) [2/20]

Adults

 * Stella the Storyteller (Phyllis Cicero) [6/20]
 * Mr. Boyd (Robert Sweatman) [1/20]

Animals

 * Scooter McNutty (voiced by Todd Duffey) (debut) [20/20]
 * Miss Etta Kette (voiced by Brice Armstrong) (debut) [19/20]

Guest Appearances

 * Marvin Johnson ("We've Got Rhythm")
 * Mica Johnson ("We've Got Rhythm")
 * Ted Davey (played "Dr. TickTock" in "Tick Tock Clocks!")
 * Sam LaCroix (played "Mateo" in "Waiting For Mr. MacRooney")
 * D. Day (played "Mr. MacRooney" in "Waiting For Mr. MacRooney")
 * Tomie dePaola ("Oh, Brother...She's My Sister")
 * Maureen Modine ("Oh, Brother...She's My Sister")
 * Patsy Goldwater (played "Grammy Johannson" in "E-I-E-I-O")

Trivia

 * This season marked:
 * The final season in which Sheryl Leach serves as an executive producer.
 * The first season to air in only one month.
 * The first appearances of Jeff, Curtis, Danny, Scooter McNutty and Miss Etta Kette.
 * An e/i balloon is added to the 1993 PBS Kids logo with the P-Pals.
 * The first season in which Joe Phillips serves as the show's music director. He also did the music for most of the second era home videos and then all of the rest of the Barney franchise starting in 2002.
 * The first season in which Stella's stories are acted out by the kids while Stella narrates them.
 * ==Major Events==
 * January 7: Barney Songs from the Park was released to stores.
 * January 17: Barney's Colorful World! begins performing at Mid South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee.
 * April 8: Read with Me, Dance with Me is released to stores. Also, Let's Go to the Zoo is released on DVD to stores and re-released on VHS to stores and has new previews.
 * May 13: Barney's Outdoor Fun!, a re-release of Camp WannaRunnaRound, is released to stores.
 * June 12: Barney's Summertime Fun is released to Blockbuster Video stores.
 * June 24: It's Nice To Meet You and Barney's It's A Happy Day are released to stores.
 * August 5: Barney's Red, Yellow and Blue! and Barney's Numbers! Numbers! are released to stores.
 * August 19: Barney's Halloween Party is released on DVD and re-released on VHS to stores. The VHS has new previews.
 * August 26: Barney's Best Manners: Your Invitation to Fun! is released to stores.
 * September 15: Season 8 premieres on PBS.
 * September 30: Barney's Night Before Christmas is re-released on VHS to stores and has new previews.
 * November 11: Start Singing With Barney was released to stores.
 * November 27: Barney, Baby Bop and BJ performed "The Best Manners Medley" at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
 * December 16: Happy Mad Silly Sad: Putting a Face to Feelings is released to stores.

Cast

 * Barney (Body: Carey Stinson / Voice: Dean Wendt)
 * Baby Bop (Body: Jeff Ayers / Voice: Julie Johnson)
 * BJ (Body: Kyle Nelson / Voice: Patty Wirtz)

2013 was designated as:
 * International Year of Water Cooperation
 * International Year of Quinoa

January

 * January 10 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 a 2013 like a 2015 one injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
 * January 11 – The French military begins a five-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.
 * January 16–20 – Thirty-nine international workers and one security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.
 * January 27 – 242 young people (range between 18 and 25) die in a nightclub fire in the Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

February

 * February 12 – North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.
 * February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489-1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.
 * February 21 – American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as transplants for human patients suffering from ear trauma or amputation.
 * February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.

March

 * March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis  and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
 * March 24 – Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after rebel forces capture the nation's capital, Bangui.
 * March 25 – The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation.
 * March 27 – Canada becomes the first country to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

April

 * April 2 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.
 * April 15 – Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one of whom was a United States citizen) explode two bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.
 * April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.
 * April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.

May

 * May 15 – In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning.
 * May 22 – British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered in Woolwich, southeast London by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
 * May 31 – The El Reno tornado, near El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, having a record-breaking width 2.6 miles (4.2 km), with maximum wind speeds up to 301 mph (484 km/h), is the widest tornado ever recorded on earth.

June

 * June 6 – Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.
 * June 25 – Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani abdicates and his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani assumes power.
 * June 26 – Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in an Australian Labor Party leadership ballot and consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years after Gillard replaced Rudd.

July

 * July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
 * July 3 – Amid mass protests across Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence.
 * July 21 – Philippe is sworn in as King of the Belgians, following the abdication of Albert II.

August

 * August 14 – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, leaving 2,696 dead. The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".
 * August 21 – 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War.
 * August 29 – The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK military attacks on Syria.

September

 * September 7
 * Australian federal election, 2013: The Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott defeats the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Abbott would be sworn in on September 18th.
 * The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
 * September 21 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.

October

 * October 10 – Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.
 * October 18 – Saudi Arabia rejects a seat on the United Nations Security Council, making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. Jordan takes the seat on December 6.

November

 * November 5 – The unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launchpad in Sriharikota.
 * November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.
 * November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.
 * November 17 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
 * November 21 – Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.
 * November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.

December

 * December 7 – Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers.
 * December 14 – Chinese unmanned spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.
 * December 15 – Fighting between ethnic Dinka and Nuer members of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan, plunging the country into civil war.
 * December 25 – 38 people are killed in the Christmas Day bombings in Iraq.

Births

 * July 22 – Prince George of Cambridge

January

 * January 1 – Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927)
 * January 2 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
 * January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)
 * January 5 – Fay Bellamy Powell, American civil rights leader (b. 1938)
 * January 7 – David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)
 * January 9 – James M. Buchanan, American Nobel economist (b. 1919)
 * January 11
 * Aaron Swartz, American programmer (b. 1986)
 * Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1927)
 * January 14
 * Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
 * Danny Beath, British photographer and botanist (b. 1960)
 * January 15 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (b. 1932)
 * January 17 – James Hood, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
 * January 18 – Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (b. 1989)
 * January 19 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
 * January 21 – Michael Winner, British film director and producer (b. 1935)
 * January 22 – Said Ali al-Shihri, Saudi Arabian deputy leader (b. 1971)
 * January 23 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)

February

 * February 1 – Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
 * February 2 – Chris Kyle, United States Navy sniper (b. 1974)
 * February 4
 * Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932)
 * Reg Presley, British singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1941)
 * February 14 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)
 * February 17 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1940)
 * February 18
 * Kevin Ayers, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944)
 * Damon Harris, American singer (b. 1950)
 * Chieko Honda, Japanese voice actress (b. 1963)
 * Otfried Preußler, German children author (b. 1923)
 * February 19
 * Armen Alchian, American economist (b. 1914)
 * Robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937)
 * February 22 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (b. 1923)
 * February 23 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
 * February 25 – Carmen Montejo, Cuban-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
 * February 26 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer (b. 1917)
 * February 27
 * Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
 * Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
 * Richard Street, American singer (b. 1942)
 * February 28 – Donald A. Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926)

March

 * March 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
 * March 5
 * Arthur Storch, American actor (b. 1925)
 * Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
 * Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
 * March 6 – Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
 * March 7
 * Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)
 * Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * March 10
 * Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1925)
 * Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (b. 1915)
 * March 12 – Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
 * March 14 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925)
 * March 16
 * José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (b. 1925)
 * Jason Molina, American singer-songwriter (b. 1973)
 * March 20 – Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)
 * March 21
 * Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)
 * Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete (b. 1952)
 * March 22 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918)
 * March 23
 * Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (b. 1946)
 * Joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1919)
 * March 27 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923)
 * March 28 – Richard Griffiths, British actor (b. 1947)

April

 * April 1 – Moses Blah, 23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947)
 * April 2 – Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * April 3 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British novelist and screenwriter (b. 1927)
 * April 4 – Roger Ebert, American film critic and writer (b. 1942)
 * April 6 – Bigas Luna, Spanish film director (b. 1946)
 * April 8
 * Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
 * Sara Montiel, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1928)
 * Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990) (b. 1925)
 * April 9 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect (b. 1919)
 * April 10 – Robert Edwards, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1925)
 * April 11
 * Maria Tallchief, American prima ballerina (b. 1925)
 * Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor (b. 1925)
 * Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)
 * April 13 – Chi Cheng, American musician (b. 1970)
 * April 14
 * Colin Davis, British conductor (b. 1927)
 * Armando Villanueva, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
 * April 17
 * Deanna Durbin, Canadian-born singer and actress (b. 1921)
 * Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1931)
 * April 18 – Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944)
 * April 19
 * Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (b. 1918)
 * François Jacob, French Nobel biologist (b. 1920)
 * Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (b. 1986)
 * April 22 – Richie Havens, American folk singer (b. 1941)
 * April 26
 * George Jones, American country music singer (b. 1931)
 * Maxine Smith, American civil rights activist (b. 1929)
 * April 28 – János Starker, Hungarian-born American cellist (b. 1924)

May

 * May 2 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
 * May 4
 * Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist (b. 1917)
 * Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
 * Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914)
 * César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
 * May 6 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
 * May 7
 * Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects (b. 1920)
 * Romanthony, American singer (b. 1967)
 * May 8 – Bryan Forbes, English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist (b. 1926)
 * May 13 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
 * May 15 – Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946)
 * May 16 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
 * May 17 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian politician, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)
 * May 18 – Nam Duck-woo, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1924)
 * May 20 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (b. 1939)
 * May 22 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
 * May 23
 * Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942)
 * Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (b. 1938)
 * Georges Moustaki, French singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
 * Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (b. 1941)
 * May 25 – Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1953)
 * May 26 – Jack Vance, American novelist (b. 1916)
 * May 31 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)

June

 * June 3
 * Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)
 * Jiah Khan, Indian actress (b. 1988)
 * June 6
 * Jerome Karle, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (b. 1918)
 * Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
 * June 7
 * Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
 * Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
 * June 8
 * Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer (b. 1930)
 * Taufiq Kiemas, 5th First Gentleman of Indonesia (b. 1942)
 * June 9 – Iain Banks, British novelist (b. 1954)
 * June 11 – Robert Fogel, American Nobel Prize-winning economic historian (b. 1926)
 * June 15
 * Heinz Flohe, German footballer (b. 1948)
 * Stan Lopata, American baseball player (b. 1925)
 * Dennis O'Rourke, Australian director and producer (b. 1945)
 * Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (b. 1936)
 * June 16
 * Josip Kuže, Croatian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
 * Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
 * June 19
 * James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
 * Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–1998) (b. 1932)
 * June 23
 * Bobby Bland, American singer and songwriter (b. 1930)
 * Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (b. 1951)
 * June 24 – Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
 * June 26 – Marc Rich, Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (b. 1934)
 * June 27 – Alain Mimoun, French track and field athlete (b. 1921)
 * June 29
 * Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
 * Jim Kelly, American martial artist and actor (b. 1946)

July

 * July 2
 * Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948) (b. 1921)
 * Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist and inventor (b. 1925)
 * July 3 – Radu Vasile, Romanian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
 * July 12 – Amar Bose, American engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
 * July 13 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (b. 1982)
 * July 19
 * Mel Smith, British comedian and actor (b. 1952)
 * Bert Trautmann, German-born British footballer (b. 1923)
 * July 20 – Helen Thomas, American journalist (b. 1920)
 * July 22 – Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
 * July 23
 * Emile Griffith, American welterweight boxer (b. 1938)
 * Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
 * July 25
 * Walter De Maria, American sculptor and composer (b. 1935)
 * Bernadette Lafont, French actress (b. 1938)
 * July 26 – JJ Cale, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
 * July 28 – Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
 * July 29 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1986)
 * July 30 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer (b. 1924)

August

 * August 5 – George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
 * August 8 – Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
 * August 10
 * László Csatáry, Hungarian war criminal (b. 1915)
 * Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928)
 * August 12 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (b. 1968)
 * August 14 – Gia Allemand, American actress (b. 1983)
 * August 15
 * August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (b. 1936)
 * Marich Man Singh Shrestha, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942)
 * Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
 * August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927)
 * August 19
 * Cedar Walton, American pianist (b. 1934)
 * Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984)
 * August 20
 * Elmore Leonard, American novelist (b. 1925)
 * Marian McPartland, British-born pianist (b. 1918)
 * August 21 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
 * August 24 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
 * August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
 * August 30 – Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel poet (b. 1939)
 * August 31 – David Frost, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1939)

September

 * September 1 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
 * September 2
 * Ronald Coase, British Nobel economist (b. 1910)
 * Frederik Pohl, American writer (b. 1919)
 * September 5 – Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
 * September 12 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
 * September 18
 * Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
 * Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (b. 1920)
 * September 19
 * Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
 * Saye Zerbo, 3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1932)
 * September 22 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1926)

October

 * October 1
 * Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
 * Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (b. 1938)
 * Peter Broadbent, English footballer (b. 1933)
 * October 3 – Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
 * October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese General (b. 1911)
 * October 7
 * Patrice Chéreau, French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
 * Ovadia Yosef, Israeli religious leader (b. 1920)
 * October 9 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
 * October 10 – Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (b. 1925)
 * October 11
 * María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
 * Erich Priebke, German SS captain and convicted war criminal (b. 1913)
 * October 14 – Bruno Metsu, French football coach (b. 1954)
 * October 16 – Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
 * October 20 – Lawrence Klein, American Nobel economist (b. 1920)
 * October 23 – Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
 * October 24 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
 * October 25
 * Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
 * Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (b. 1942)
 * October 27 – Lou Reed, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1942)
 * October 28 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)

November

 * November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. c. 1979)
 * November 2 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
 * November 7 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
 * November 10 – Richie Jean Jackson, American author, teacher, and civil rights activist (b. 1932)
 * November 12
 * Al Ruscio, American actor (b. 1924)
 * John Tavener, British composer (b. 1944)
 * November 15
 * Glafcos Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
 * T. J. Jemison, American clergyman and civil rights activist (b. 1918)
 * November 17 – Doris Lessing, British Nobel writer (b. 1919)
 * November 19 – Frederick Sanger, British Nobel biochemist (b. 1918)
 * November 20 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American murderer (b. 1950)
 * November 25
 * Bill Foulkes, British footballer (b. 1932)
 * Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
 * November 26 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
 * November 27 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
 * November 28 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919)
 * November 30
 * Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
 * Yury Yakovlev, Soviet and Russian film actor (b. 1928)

December

 * December 1 – Heinrich Boere, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
 * December 2 – Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (b. 1930)
 * December 5 – Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
 * December 7 – Édouard Molinaro, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
 * December 8 – John Cornforth, Australian–British Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
 * December 9 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
 * December 10 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
 * December 12
 * Jang Sung-taek, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
 * Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator and activist (b. 1931)
 * Audrey Totter, American actress (b. 1917)
 * December 14 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
 * December 15
 * Harold Camping, American evangelist (b. 1921)
 * Joan Fontaine, Japanese-born British American actress (b. 1917)
 * December 16 – Ray Price, American singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
 * December 18 – Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (b. 1929)
 * December 20 – Lord Infamous, American rapper (b. 1973)
 * December 21 – Peter Geach, British philosopher (b. 1916)
 * December 23
 * Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor (b. 1919)
 * Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1920)
 * Vito Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1946)
 * December 26 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American singer and actress (b. 1912)
 * December 29
 * Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (b. 1932)
 * Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1937)
 * December 31 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel
 * Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
 * Literature – Alice Munro
 * Peace – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
 * Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs
 * Physiology or Medicine – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof

January

 * January 1
 * Czechoslovakia ceases to exist as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
 * The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
 * Euronews, a multilingual television news channels in Europe, officially launched.
 * January 2 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kills 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
 * January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
 * January 5
 * US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
 * MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.
 * January 6
 * Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
 * January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.
 * January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
 * January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
 * January 13 – The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
 * January 14 – The Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off in 1993 like a 1995, 1999 and re-coast in 2004 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 11- The film “Jurassic Park comes out.
 * June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
 * June 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
 * June 22 – Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.
 * June 24
 * Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
 * Following a campaign by the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Dáil Éireann in the Republic of Ireland passes the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, reforming the country's sodomy law to decriminalise consensual homosexual acts.
 * June 25
 * Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.
 * Tansu Çiller of True Path Party forms the new government of Turkey.
 * Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Yugoslavia.
 * The litas is introduced as the new currency of Lithuania.
 * Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
 * June 26–28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau.
 * June 27 – U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

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

February

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

March

 * March 1 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
 * March 2
 * Pandelela Rinong, Malaysian diver
 * Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
 * March 4
 * Jenna Boyd, American actress
 * Abigail Mavity, American actress
 * March 5
 * Harry Maguire, English footballer
 * Anna Orlik, Belarusian tennis player
 * March 9 – Suga, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * March 10
 * Jack Butland, English footballer
 * Peniel, South Korean based rapper
 * Jeffrey Scaperrotta, American actor
 * March 11
 * Jodie Comer, English actress
 * 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
 * Jordan Fry, American actor
 * Amanda Leighton, American actress
 * Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and 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
 * Loris Karius, German footballer
 * Izzy Miller, American musician
 * 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
 * Bradley Beal, American basketball player
 * Beanie Feldstein, American actress
 * Jung Dae-hyun, South Korean singer
 * June 29
 * Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor
 * Lorenzo James Henrie, American 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
 * Tiago Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
 * Carlon Jeffery, American actor
 * Florian Sénéchal, French racing cyclist
 * 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
 * Byron Buxton, American baseball player
 * 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
 * Euronymous, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1968)
 * 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

Eclipses
See WT:YEARS for a matter relevant to this page. Arthur Rubin (alternate) (talk) 23:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Page layout years
There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. this dint tell me nothing For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). talk--BozMo 13:39, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Windows 98?
shouldn't it be mentioned windows 98 came out? that was an important thing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.15.216.208 (talk) 14:24, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Layout
There is a discussion pølse on my talk page on page layout. this dint tell me nothing For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior pølse to 1950 I am pretty convinced we pølse can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the pølse material goes into a "see also" box pølse, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main pølse chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.37.154.16 (talk) 12:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

European Court of Human Rights?
That's nonsense, the Court was instituted by the European Convention on Human Rights in 1950. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.105.57 (talk) 16:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Missing economic events
LTCM bail-out, Russian crisis and default... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.195.71.41 (talk) 08:30, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Seinfeld finale
May 14, 1998 I think it was a significant moment in TV history. Shouldn't it be mentioned? Rayansb (talk) 23:32, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.

January

 * January 2 – The in 1998 Year like a 1999 and 2000 Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
 * January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
 * January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
 * January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
 * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
 * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
 * January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
 * January 22 – "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

February

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

March

 * March 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion.
 * March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
 * March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
 * March 11 – Danish general election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
 * March 13 – The 1998 like a 1999 and 2000 one 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 – 1998 like a 1999 one 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 1998 like a 2000 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).
 * Peter Arnett publishes a false report of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970), claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers.
 * James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas.
 * June 9–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
 * June 10 – The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.
 * June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opened, 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 – Australian federal election, 1998: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
 * October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.
 * October 17 – 1998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.
 * October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.

November

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

December

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

Date unknown

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

 * November 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
 * December 17
 * Jasmine Armfield, English actress
 * Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
 * December 18 – Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
 * December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
 * December 20
 * Kylian Mbappé, French football player
 * Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater
 * December 22 – G Hannelius, American actress and singer
 * December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
 * December 26 – Kesz Váldez, Filipino humanitarian
 * December 28
 * Paris Berelc, American actress
 * Jared Gilman, American actor
 * December 31 – Gianina Ernst, German ski jumper

January

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

February

 * February 2
 * Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
 * Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
 * February 6
 * Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
 * Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
 * February 7
 * Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
 * Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
 * February 8
 * Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
 * Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
 * Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
 * February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 16 – Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * February 17
 * Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
 * Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * February 18
 * Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1914)
 * Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (b. 1961)
 * February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913)
 * February 22
 * Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author (b. 1902)
 * Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
 * Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (b. 1921)
 * José María de Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
 * February 23
 * Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960)
 * February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
 * February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 * February 27
 * Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (b. 1901)
 * George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
 * 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)
 * 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 entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball player (b. 1944)
 * May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 * May 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 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak baseball player (b. 1921)
 * July 21
 * Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 22
 * Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * Don Dunphy, American television and radio sports announcer (b. 1908)
 * July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * July 28 – Harvie Branscomb, American university president (b. 1894)
 * July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
 * July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

 * November 3
 * Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
 * Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (b. 1922)
 * November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
 * November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
 * November 10
 * Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
 * Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * November 13
 * Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
 * Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman (b. 1975)
 * Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
 * Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
 * November 15 – Stokely Carmichael, African-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 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 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
 * January 7 – Crevalcore train crash in 2005 like a 1993, 1996 and 1998 one. Italy: 17 dead and dozens injured.
 * January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.
 * January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands 2005 Year like a 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 one on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
 * January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Births

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

January

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

February

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

March

 * March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch soccer player and coach (b. 1928)
 * March 6
 * Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906)
 * Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
 * March 15 – Audrey Callaghan, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1915)
 * March 17 – George F. Kennan, American diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904)
 * March 19 – John Z. DeLorean, American car maker (b.1925)
 * March 22
 * Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946)
 * Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
 * March 26 – James Callaghan, 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
 * March 29 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
 * March 30
 * Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
 * Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American civil rights leader (b. 1919)

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August



 * August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921)
 * August 6 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
 * August 7 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
 * August 8
 * Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist, and children's author (b. 1922)
 * Ahmed Deedat, South African preacher (b. 1918)
 * August 9 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
 * August 12 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1932)
 * August 13 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
 * August 16
 * Joe Ranft, American screenwriter, comedian, animator, storyboard artist, voice actor and magician (b. 1960)
 * Brother Roger, Swiss monastic and founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915)
 * August 19
 * Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1940)
 * Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
 * August 31 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist (b. 1908)

September

 * September 1 – R.L. Burnside, American blues singer (b. 1926)
 * September 3 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and 16th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
 * September 6 – Eugenia Charles, 3rd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
 * September 13 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)
 * September 14 – Robert Wise, American film director (b. 1914)
 * September 18 – Michael Park, English Rally driver (b. 1966)
 * September 20 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
 * September 23 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
 * September 25 – Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

New English words and terms

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

January

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

February

 * February 1 – At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
 * February 4 – The leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia reconstitute the country into a loose state-union between Montenegro and Serbia, marking an end to the decades-long use of the name "Yugoslavia" by a sovereign state.
 * February 15–16 – Antwerp diamond heist: An Italian gang steals loose diamonds, gold and jewellery valued at more than $100 million from a Belgian vault, one of the largest robberies in history.
 * February 15 – Millions of people worldwide take part in massive anti-war protests in anticipation of the United States and its allies invading Iraq.
 * February 26 – The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups rise up against the Sudanese government.
 * February 27 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić is sentenced by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to 11 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War.

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

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

August

 * August 5 - The 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on 5 August 2003 in J.W. Marriott Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia, killing twelve people and injuring 2003 like a 2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2012 and 2014 one. 150. The hotel was closed for five weeks and reopened to the public on 8 September.
 * August 11
 * The Second Liberian Civil War comes to an end after President Charles Taylor resigns and flees the country.
 * NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
 * August 18 – One year old Zachary Turner is murdered by his mother in Conception Bay South, Canada. She had controversially been bailed and granted custody of the toddler despite facing extradition and trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case inspired the movie Dear Zachary and prompted a change in Canadian law.
 * August 25 – The unmanned Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 * August 27
 * Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years.
 * The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Births

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

 * June 2 – Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and humorist (b. 1925)
 * June 5 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
 * June 7 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
 * June 10 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
 * June 12 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
 * June 15
 * Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor (b. 1911)
 * Kaiser Matanzima, 1st President of Transkei (b. 1915)
 * June 18 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
 * June 21
 * Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
 * Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (b. 1934)
 * June 22 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian novelist (b. 1924)
 * June 23 – Maynard Jackson, American politician (b. 1938)
 * June 26
 * Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
 * Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
 * Strom Thurmond, American politician (b. 1902)
 * June 29 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
 * June 30 − Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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

New English words and terms

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

Executive Producer

 * Randy Dalton

Editors

 * McKee Smith
 * Laura Cargile
 * Vickie Sterling
 * Laura Santamaria
 * Dan Whiteman
 * Tim Werner

Directors

 * Jim Rowley
 * Ben Vaughn
 * Martha W. Chang
 * Fred Holmes
 * Joe Phillips (Audio/Musical Director)
 * Lynn Ambrose (Casting Director)
 * Shelley C. Aubrey (Performance Director)
 * Christine Lanning (Performance Director)
 * Eric Norberg (Associate Director)
 * Brian Mack (Associate Director)
 * Terrie Davis (Associate Director)
 * Elizabeth Sagan Velten (Art Director)
 * Randy Breedlove (Director of Technical Operations)
 * David Peak (Technical Director)
 * Terri McCormack (Technical Director)
 * Craig Sepko (Technical Director)

Writers

 * Stephen White
 * Mark S. Bernthal
 * Michael Anthony Steele
 * Perri Verdino-Gates
 * Cheryl Ammeter
 * Sandra J. Payne

Producers

 * Linda Houston (Supervising Producer)
 * Julie Hutchings (also Consulting/Associate Producer)
 * Charlotte Spivey (also Associate Producer)
 * R. Shawn Kelly (also Associate Producer)

Designers

 * Bob Lavalee (Production Designer)
 * Lisa Odette Albertson (Costume Designer)
 * Lowry G. Perry (Lighting Designer)
 * Jeanie L. D'iorio (Makeup Designer)

Presidents

 * Mary Ann Dudko (Vice President of Content Development)

Managers

 * Steven G. McAfee (Production Manager)
 * Nick Ballarini, Jr. (Stage Manager)
 * Traci Hutton (Costume Shop Manager)
 * Bob Evans (Writing Team Manager)
 * Shauni Mast (Character Manager)
 * Debbie Cottle (Manager of Production Accounting)

Supervisors

 * Bob Dauber (Post Production Supervisor)
 * Randy Breedlove (Technical Operations Supervisor)
 * Ken Weber (Wardrobe Supervisor)
 * Jackie Boyer (Script Supervisor)
 * Constanze Villines (Script Supervisor)
 * Marilie Hunter (Child Supervisor)
 * Mark Wagenhurst (Costume Shop Supervisor)

Coordinators

 * Karen M. Gatewood (Production Coordinator)
 * Jennifer Garlington (Art Department Coordinator)
 * Daniel M. Leonard (Construction Coordinator)
 * Ruthy Horak (Script Coordinator)

Engineers

 * Bink Williams (Video Engineer)
 * Wayne Cook (Video Engineer)
 * James Johnson (Video/Studio Engineer)

Operators

 * Larry Allen (Camera Operator)
 * Bruce Harmon (Camera Operator)
 * Harold Boch (Camera Operator)
 * Todd Roling (Camera Operator)
 * Oz Coleman (Camera Operator)
 * Van Smalley (Camera Operator)
 * Paul Cox (Camera Operator)
 * Vic Sosa (Camera Operator)
 * Mark Hawkins (Videotape Operator)
 * Jimmy Young (Videotape Operator)
 * Steve Tennison (Videotape Operator)
 * Stewart Odell (Videotape Operator)
 * Stephen Ritchey (Lighting Board Operator)

Mixers

 * Malcolm Johnson (Production Sound Mixer)

Audio

 * Neal Anderson (Post Production Audio)
 * Pat Sellers (Post Production Audio)
 * Casey Stinson (Post Production Audio)

Electricians

 * Ricky Long (Best Boy Electrician)
 * Mark Herrmann (Best Boy Electrician)
 * John Knight
 * Jeff Conrad
 * Dennis Haden

Grips

 * John Knight (also Key Grip)

Builders

 * Alen Elson, Jr. (Prop Builder)

Dressers

 * Susan Gaedke McGill (Set Dresser)
 * Lorna Munson (Set Dresser)

Shoppers

 * Stephanie Emery

Illustrators

 * Kathryn Yingling

Craftspeople

 * Lyle Huchton

Greenspersons

 * Kelley Johnston

Carpenters

 * Kelton Cole
 * Larry Meinart
 * Stephen Connor

Painters

 * Mikhael Dimov (Scenic Painter)
 * Cathy Miller (Scenic Painter)
 * Amber Bordelon (Scenic Painter)
 * Douglas Camp (Scenic Painter)
 * Tina Griffith Camp (Scenic Painter)
 * Kristin Weeks (Scenic Painter)

Stylists

 * Julie Love (Hair Stylist)
 * John Paul Elson (Hair Stylist)
 * Regina Rutherford (Hair Stylist)
 * Gary Shannon (Hair Stylist)

Costumers

 * Leila Heise (Set Costumer)
 * Taneia Lednicky (Set Costumer)

Typist

 * Ruthy Horak

Researchers

 * Lori Plummer (Educational Researcher)
 * Nancy Batchelder (Educational Researcher)

Teachers

 * Anne Marie Hurlbut
 * Jill Richie

Technicians

 * Shauni Mast (Character Technician)
 * Gilbert Gonzales (Character Technician)
 * Dana O'Neal (Character Technician)
 * Tracy Poe (Character Technician)
 * Phillip Yonko (Character Technician)

Wranglers

 * Gilbert Gonzales (Character Wrangler)
 * Margaret Foster (Character Wrangler)
 * Dana O'Neil (Character Wrangler)
 * Janet Bush (Character Wrangler)
 * Tracy Poe (Character Wrangler)

Stitchers/Seamstresses

 * Margaret Foster (Character Stitcher)
 * Leila Heise
 * Barbara Wood

Accountants

 * George Engman (Payroll Accountant)
 * Debbie Cottle (Production Accountant)

Drafts People

 * Bob Vukasovich

Leadmen

 * Greg Beutel

Artists

 * Jimi White (Makeup Artist)
 * Stephanie Dalvit (Specialty Makeup Artist)

Construction

 * Larry Langley (Set Construction)
 * Dan Leonard (Set Construction)

Property Master

 * Tim Thomaston

Lyricists/Composers

 * Joe Phillips
 * Willy Welch
 * Stephen White
 * Tony Peugh

Assistants

 * Casey Stinson (Audio Assistant)
 * Brenda Galgan (Audio Assistant)
 * Brad Womack (Audio Assistant)
 * Tim McGarity (Assistant Props)
 * Kathryn Yingling (Assistant Production Designer)
 * Cheryl Johnson (Assistant Greensperson)
 * Greg Beutel (Art Department Production Assistant)
 * Tom Jaekels (Assistant Costume Designer)
 * Christine Lanning (Assistant Choreographer/Performance Director)
 * Jillian Jester (Assistant Producer)
 * Shauna Diaz (Assistant Accountant/Executive Assistant)
 * Jayne Royall (Assistant Production Accountant)
 * Mike Scott (Production Assistant)
 * Ryan Walden (Production Assistant)
 * Halim Jabbour (Production Assistant)
 * Josh Fletcher (Production Assistant)
 * Elizabeth Dinh (Production Assistant)
 * Christine Petty (Wardrobe Assistant)
 * Brian Mack (Assistant Director)

The only season in which every episode had at least one new Barney song.
 * After being extras from the previous season; Stephen, Kristen, Ashley, Alissa, Kim, and Maria become regular cast members.
 * Jessica Hinojosa (Maria) left the cast during the filming of this season with her last appearance in "Waiting for Mr. MacRooney".
 * The school, playground, and tree house all get updated:
 * The school doors change from orange to green; the windows have a green trim rather than white; and it now has a wheelchair ramp.
 * Unlike previous seasons, the classroom is no longer arranged by "centers".
 * The playground gets more plants, and a red bench surrounds a tree. The fences have also changed to green rail fences.
 * The treehouse also gets renovated. In the back of the tree house, there is a huge round table and a ship wheel. In the front of the tree house, there are benches that look out to the outside deck of the tree house.
 * In addition, a lookout is added to the treehouse. There are stairs that lead up to the look out, and a slide that connects from the lookout to the back of the tree house.


 * The newly updated school and tree house sets from this season first appeared in the new material of Barney's Musical Scrapbook, except that there is no bench around the tree. Also, the new school can't be seen in that video; as it wasn't completed yet when that video was being produced.


 * While a new Barney doll is introduced, the sparkles and the twinkle wink are the only two things that remain unchanged until season seven.
 * Both David Joyner and Bob West left during production of this season to film Barney's Great Adventure. Duncan Brannan replaced West as the voice but soon later returned to dub over Brannan's lines. Josh Martin and Maurice Scott replaced Joyner to perform the Barney costume, while Joyner would resume performing the character in Barney in Outer Space.
 * Unlike previous seasons, the credits for this season only feature characters that appeared in the specific episode and not the entire cast.
 * Unlike previous seasons, the theme song for this season was edited after all 20 episodes were filmed.
 * The names on the cubbies in the classroom from left to right are: Alissa, Ashley, Keesha, Robert, Stephen, Hannah, Chip, Kim, David, Maria, Dennis, and Kristen.