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'''1995''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXCV''') was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the ''International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-
2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/''
Events
January
*
January 1 -
Austria,
Finland and
Sweden enter the
European Union
*
January 1 -
Fred West, accused of mass murder, hangs himself in
Winson Green Prison,
Birmingham
*
January 1 -
World Trade Organization is established to replace
GATT
*
January 6-
January 7 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in
Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander
Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for
Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind,
Ramzi Yousef, is arrested one month later
*
January 9 -
Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the
Mir space station breaking a duration record
*
January 11 - The
WB Television Network begins operations.
*
January 16 -
UPN begins broadcasting.
*
January 17 - A magnitude 7.3
earthquake called "
Great Hanshin earthquake the Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near
Kobe KÅ?be,
Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people
*
January 24 - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the
O. J. Simpson murder trial
*
January 25 -
The Norwegian Rocket Incident - A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at
Andøya, Norway to study the Northern Lights, is mistaken by the Russians as a nuclear attack and the russian missile command is put into combat mode before realizing the misunderstanding.
*
January 31 -
United States President
Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help
Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
*
February 9 - Dr.
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. makes history as the first African American astronaut to walk in space.
*
February 13 -
United Nations tribunal on
human rights violation in the
Balkans charges 21
Bosnian Serb commanders with
genocide and crimes against humanity
*
February 15 -
hack (technology slang) Hacking:
Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the
FBI and charged with breaking into some of the
United States' most
secure computing "secure" computers systems.
*
February 17 -
Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of
murder for the
December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence
*
February 21 -
Serkadji prison mutiny in
Algeria; 4 guards and 96 prisoners killed in a day and a half.
*
February 21 -
Steve Fossett lands in
Leader, Saskatchewan,
Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the
Pacific Ocean in a
balloon
*
February 23 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 -- The Dow's
Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average first ever close above 4,000.
*
February 26 - The
United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm,
Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker
Nick Leeson has lost $1.4 billion by
speculation speculating on the
Tokyo Stock Exchange
*
February 27 - In
Denver, Colorado, the old
Stapleton Airport closes: it is replaced by a new
Denver International Airport, the largest airport in the
United States.
*
February 28 - Members of the
Group Patriot's Council are convicted in
Minnesota for manufacturing
ricin
March
*
March 1 - Polish Prime Minister
Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist
Jozef Oleksy
*
March 1 -
Daniel Sleator announces his intentions to commercialize the
Internet Chess Server (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest
*
March 1 -
Muntinlupa City,
Philippines officially becomes a city.
*
March 1 - In
Moscow,
Russian anti-corruption journalist
Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.
*
March 2 -
Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of
Barings Bank.
*
March 3 - In
Somalia, the
United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
*
March 6 -
Adrianus Jacobs, chairman of
Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV announces that his company would buy
bankruptcy bankrupt Barings PLC bank for a nominal prize
*
March 14 - Astronaut
Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride to space on-board a
Russian launch vehicle.
*
March 18 - Basketball superstar
Michael Jordan announces he's returning to basketball with his former team, the
Chicago Bulls, and the next day returns to the basketball court facing the
Indiana Pacers.
*
March 20 -
Terrorist incident: Members of the
Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release
sarin gas on five separate railway trains in
Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
*
March 22 - Cosmonaut
Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in
outer space space. Also, the
Schengen treaty comes into force.
*
March 24 - For the first time in twenty six years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of
Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
*
March 26 -
Eazy-E dies of
AIDS.
*
March 30 - Police officer tries to assassinate
Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of
Japan
*
March 31 - The president of
Selena fan club,
Yolanda Aldivar, kills the star in
Corpus Christi, Texas
April
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*
April 19 -
Oklahoma City bombing Bombing of Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, were killed.
Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices,
Terry Nichols set off the bomb.
*
April 24 -
Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in
Sacramento, California
May
*
May 1 -
CBC Radio Overnight Debuts
*
May 7 -
Jacques Chirac elected president of
France.
*
May 11 - In
New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
*
May 13 - A magnitude 6.6
earthquake occurs near greek macedonian city of
Kozani having only material damages.
*
May 14 - The
Tenzin Gyatso Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh
reincarnation of the
Panchen Lama.
*
May 16 - Japanese police besieges the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo near
Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader
Shoko Asahara.
*
May 16 -
Jacques Chirac assumes the presidency of
France.
*
May 17 - 35 year-old
Shawn Nelson goes on a
tank rampage in
San Diego
*
May 23 -
Oklahoma City bombing: In
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City, the remains of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
*
May 24 -
AFC Ajax beat AC Milan 1-0 to win the Champions League.
*
May 25 -
Egan v. Canada -
Supreme Court of Canada rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited grounds of discrimination under the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
*
May 27 - In
Charlottesville, Virginia, actor
Christopher Reeve is
paralysis paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his
horse in a riding competition, ending his career as Superman.
*
May 28 -
Neftegorsk,
Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude
earthquake killing at least 2000 people (2/3rd of the towns population).
June
*
June 1 - The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins. (see
1995 Atlantic hurricane season).
*
June 2 -
United States Air Force Captain
Scott O'Grady's
F-16 is shot down over
Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia while patrolling the
NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady survives on bugs and grass until he is rescued.
*
June 2 -
SS captain
Erich Priebke extradition extradited from
Argentina to
Italy
*
June 5 -
Bose-Einstein condensate created.
*
June 6 -
U.S. astronuat
Norman Thagard broke
NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, one hour and 16 minutes, aboard the
Russian space station
Mir.
*
June 8 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain
Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in
Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia.
*
June 13 -
List of Presidents of France French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in
French Polynesia.
*
June 15 - While on trial for murder,
O.J. Simpson put on a pair of gloves that were found soaked with
blood at the murder scene. The gloves appear not to fit.
*
June 20 - Oil multinational
Royal Dutch Shell Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the
Brent Spar oil rig at sea.
*
June 22 -
Japanese police rescues 365 hostages from a hijacked
Nippon Airlines 747 at
Hakodae airport. The hijacker was armed by a knife and demanded release of
Shoko Asahara
*
June 24 - The
New Jersey Devils sweep the
Detroit Red Wings in 4 games in the
1995 Stanley Cup Finals.
*
June 29 -
Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo
circumnavigation from the northern hemisphere.
*
June 29 - The
Space Shuttle ''
STS-71 Atlantis'' docks with the
Russian
Mir space station for the first time.
*
June 29 - The
Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of
Seoul,
South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
*
Summer -
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly
France and
Russia, are starting to become increasingly more interested in making financial deals with
Iraq than disarming the country.
July
Image:Taiwan Strait.png thumb|200px|The Taiwan Strait
*
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by
Thursday,
August 31 August 31, 1995
*
Midwestern
United States heat wave: An unprecedented heat wave strikes the
Midwestern
United States for most of the month. Temperatures exceed 104°F (40°C) in the afternoon in numerous cities for 5 straight days. At least 3000 people die, 750 in
Chicago, Illinois alone.
*
July 1 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
*
July 4 - The
United Kingdom UK Prime Minister,
John Major, has won his battle to remain leader of the
Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party.
*
July 8 - Volcanic eruption begins in the island of
Montserrat
*
July 11 -
Bosnian Serbs march into
Srebrenica while
United Nations UN Dutch
peacekeeping peacekeepers leave. Large numbers of
Bosniak men and boys are killed in the
Srebrenica massacre.
*
July 13 - Dozens of cities, most notably
Chicago, Illinois and
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, set all-time record high temperatures. Hundreds in these and other cities die as the
Chicago Heat Wave of 1995 July 1995 heat wave reaches its peak.
*
July 17 - The
Nasdaq Composite index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
*
July 18 -
Fabio Casartelli, an
Italy Italian cyclist, dies in a crash during the
Tour de France.
*
July 21 - to
July 26 -
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The
People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of
Taiwan.
*
July 27 - In
Washington, DC, the
Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated
*
July 28 -
Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their
trademarks on the
Internet.
*
Iraq disarmament crisis: Following the defection of his son-in-law,
Hussein Kamel Hussein Kamel al Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation,
Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of
Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs.
Iraq also withdraws its last
United Nations UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
August
*
August 4 -
Croatians launch
Operation Storm against
Serbs Serbian forces in
RSK Krajina and force them to withdraw to
Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia
*
August 5 - Croatian forces take
Knin and continue to advance
*
August 6 - Hundreds in
Hiroshima,
Nagasaki,
Washington, and
Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the
atomic bomb.
*
August 7 -
Operation Storm over, UN-brokered
ceasefire, remaining
Serbian forces start a surrender
*
August 9 - Netscape launches IPO. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,1081456,00.html
*
August 11-
Chrono Trigger is released for the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
*
August 14 - Avalanche buries
Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen - reported dead
*
August 17 - 50th
Indonesia Independence.
*
August 24 -
Microsoft releases
Windows 95.
*
August 28 -
Serbian
mortar (weapon) Mortar bomb near
Sarajevo market square kills 37 civilians
*
August 30 -
NATO bombing campaign against
Serb artillery positions begins in
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia - continues into October
September
*
September -
DVD,
optical disc computer storage storage media format, is announced.
*
September 4 - The
Fourth World Conference on Women opens in
Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
*
September 6 - With the jury absent,
Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles police detective
Mark Fuhrman invokes his
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of
O. J. Simpson
*
September 6 -
NATO air strikes continue after repeated attempts at a solution with the
Serbs fail
*
September 17 -
The Weekly Standard, an influential
United States American conservative magazine makes its debut.
*
September 23 -
Argentina Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede arrested in
Phoenix, Arizona on charges of
industrial espionage. His sales to
Cuba,
People's Republic of China China,
Democratic Republic of North Korea North Korea and
Iran are believed to have involved
Intel and
AMD trade secrets worth USD$10-20 million.
*
September 26 - Trial against former Italian Prime Minister
Giulio Andreotti, accused of
Mafia connections, begins.
*
September 27-
September 28 - night -
Bob Denard's
mercenary mercenaries capture president
Said Mohammed Djohor of the
Comoros. Local army does not resist
October
*
October 1 - 10 people are found guilty for bombing the
World Trade Center in
1993
*
October 3 -
O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman. (He would be found liable in a second civil trial in
1997)
*
October 4 -
France launches a counter-
coup in the
Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest
Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France.
Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes new interim president
*
October 6 -
Michael Mayor and
Didier Queloz announce the discovery of
51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed
Extrasolar planet
*
October 9 - An
Amtrak Sunset Limited train is
1995 Palo Verde derailment derailed by
saboteurs near
Palo Verde,
Arizona.
*
October 12 - black motorist
Johnny Gammage dies of asphxyation after being stopped by police in the nearly all-white
Pittsburgh suburb of Brentwood
*
October 15 - The
Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the
New York Jets at
Clemson Memorial Stadium in
South Carolina.
*
October 16 - The
Million Man March is held in
Washington D.C.. The event was conceived by
Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan.
*
October 21 -
Shannon Hoon, lead singer of
Blind Melon, dies of a cocaine overdose while on tour.
*
October 25 - A
Metra commuter train slammed into a school bus in
Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
*
October 30 -
Quebec separatists narrowly lose a
1995 Quebec referendum referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from
Canada
November
*
November 1 - Participants of the
Yugoslav War begin negotiations in
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, USA
*
November 1 - the
House voted to ban "partial birth"
abortions by a vote of 288-139.
*
November 2 -
Supreme Court of Argentina orders extradition of
Erich Priebke, ex-SS captain
*
November 3 - At
Arlington National Cemetery, US President
Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
*
November 4 - After attending a peace rally in
Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square,
Israeli prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by a
Yigal Amir right-wing Israeli gunman. (He later died on the operating table at
Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv)
*
November 10 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from
Israel and
Jordan, UN inspector Ritter intercepts 240
Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia
*
November 10 - In
Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist
Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces
*
November 14 - A budget standoff between
United States Democrat Party Democrats and
United States Republican Party Republicans in the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close
national parks and
museums and run most government offices with skeleton staff
*
November 16 -
United Nations UN tribunal charges
Radovan Karadžić and
Ratko Mladić with
genocide during the
Bosnian War
*
November 17 -
Public Radio International's radio program
This American Life broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings"
*
November 21 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes the 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses two millennium marks in a single year. It would do it again in
1997 and
1999.
*
November 21 - Peace agreement about
Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia
*
November 22 -
Rosemary West is sentenced for life of killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter
*
November 22- 6 year old
Elisa Izquierdo's child abuse related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in New York City's
child welfare system regarding its handling of children's cases to so prevent similar tragedies
*
November 22 -
Eilat,
Israel,
Egypt, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake in Israel's history - 7.2 mw. Curiously, within a week there is attempted historical revisionism downwards to 6.2 with
Gulf of Aqaba architects and engineers holding the bag for alleged 'shoddy construction'. A 6.2 mw earthquake is only 1/32nd the magnitude of a 7.2 quake.
*
November 28 -
Barcelona Conference Barcelona Treaty signed by 27 attending nations
*
November 28 - US President
Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph
speed limit.
*
November 30 -
Javier Solana is made new
NATO general secretary
December
*
December 14 - The
Dayton Peace Agreement signed in Paris.
*
December 15 - The
European Court of Justice rules that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer between
European Union member states at the end of their contracts (see
Bosman ruling)
*
December 15 - Because of "quadruple-witching"
option expiration, volume on the
New York Stock Exchange hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since
October 20,
1987 when the Dow staged a stunning recovery a day after
Black Monday (1987) Black Monday.
*
December 16 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of UNSCOM, dredge the
Tigris River near
Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited
Russian made missile instruments and components.
*
December 30 - The lowest ever
United Kingdom UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at
Altnaharra in the
Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at
Braemar,
Aberdeenshire (traditional) Aberdeenshire in
1895 and
1982.
*
December 31 - The publication of the last new
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip.
*
Republic of Texas (group) claim to form a provisional government in
Texas.
Unknown dates
* The oldest
flute, made by
Neanderthal, was found by Dr. Ivan Turk in the cave Divje babe I in
Slovenia. See:
prehistoric music.
*The
Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in
Kikwit,
Zaire in Central
Africa.
*
Creed (band) formed.
*
Audi Audi A4 A4 automobile goes on sale as a 1996 model.
*
Katherine Prescott elected president of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
*
Capital One is founded.
Births
*
January 26 -
Kyle Chavarria, American actress
*
May 12 -
Jean Carlos Chera, Brazilian football prodigy
* May 12 -
Sawyer Sweeten, American actor
* May 12 -
Sullivan Sweeten, American actor
*
March 27 -
Taylor Atelian, American actress
*
July 4 -
MarÃa Isabel, Spanish singer
*
July 12 -
Georgie Henley, English actress
*
September 13 -
Mitch Holleman, American actor
Deaths
January-February
*
January 1 -
Fred West, English serial killer (suicide) (b.
1941)
*
January 1 -
Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
*
January 2 -
Siyad Barre, former
President of Somalia.
*
January 7 -
Murray Rothbard, American economist (b.
1926)
*
January 9 -
Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b.
1937)
*
January 18 -
Adolf Butenandt, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
January 18 -
Ron Luciano, baseball umpire (b.
1937)
*
January 22 -
Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b.
1890)
*
January 30 -
Gerald Durrell British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b.
1925)
*
January 31 -
George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b.
1887)
*
February 2 -
Fred Perry, English tennis player (b.
1909)
*
February 2 -
Donald Pleasence, English actor (b.
1919)
*
February 4 -
Patricia Highsmith, American author (b.
1921)
*
February 12 -
Robert Bolt, English writer (b.
1924)
*
February 14 -
U Nu, Burmese politician (b.
1907)
*
February 22 -
Melvin Franklin, American singer (b.
1942)
*
February 23 -
James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b.
1916)
March-June
*
March 3 -
Howard W. Hunter, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1907)
*
March 5 -
Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b.
1943)
*
March 7 -
Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1946)
*
March 12 -
Juanin Clay, American actress (b.
1949)
*
March 13 -
Leon Day, baseball player (b.
1916)
*
March 13 -
Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (b.
1912)
*
March 14 -
William Alfred Fowler, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
*
March 26 -
Eazy-E, American musician and record producer (b.
1964)
*
March 27 -
Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (murdered) (b.
1948)
*
March 29 -
Tony Lock, English cricketer (b.
1929)
*
March 31 -
Selena Quintanilla Perez, American singer (b.
1971)
*
April 2 -
Harvey Penick, American golfer (b.
1904)
*
April 10 -
Morarji Desai, Indian politician (b.
1896)
*
April 14 -
Burl Ives American singer (b.
1909)
*
April 23 -
Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b.
1918)
*
April 25 -
Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b.
1911)
*
May 5 -
Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b.
1911)
*
May 6 -
Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b.
1956)
*
May 8 -
Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b.
1953)
*
May 14 -
Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1916)
*
May 15 -
Eric Porter, English actor (b.
1928)
*
May 18 -
Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b.
1903)
*
May 18 -
Alexander Godunov, Russian-born ballet dancer and actor (b.
1949)
*
May 18 -
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b.
1933)
*
May 25 - Harold Wilson, former U.K. Prime Minister
*
May 26 -
Friz Freleng, American animator (b.
1905)
*
May 30 -
Ted Drake, English footballer (b.
1912)
*
June 7 -
Hsuan Hua, Vietnamese-born Buddhist master (b.
1918)
*
June 12 -
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b.
1920)
*
June 20 -
Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b.
1911)
*
June 26 -
Ernest Walton, Irish physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
June 29 -
Lana Turner, American actress (b.
1921)
*
June 30 -
Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (b.
1921)
July-December
*
July 4 -
Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b.
1919)
*
July 5 -
Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (b.
1905)
*
July 17 -
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b.
1911)
*
July 24 -
George Rodger, British photojournalist (b.
1908)
*
August 3 -
Edward Whittemore, American author and Central Intelligence agent (b.
1933)
*
August 4 -
Technohead Lee Newman, one half of pop / gabba / techno duo
Technohead
*
August 7 -
Brigid Brophy, English author (b.
1929)
*
August 9 -
Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (
Grateful Dead) (b.
1942)
*
August 13 -
Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b.
1931)
*
August 15 -
John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b.
1906)
*
August 19 -
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b.
1910)
*
August 21 -
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1910)
*
August 29 -
Michael Ende, German author (
The Neverending Story) (b.
1929)
*
August 30 -
Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (
The Velvet Underground) (b.
1942)
*
September 15 -
Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b.
1921)
*
September 20 -
Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b.
1920)
*
October 21 -
Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b.
1919)
*
October 26 -
Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
*
November 4 -
Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b.
1925)
*
November 4 -
Yitzhak Rabin,
Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b.
1922)
*
November 21 -
Noel Jones, British diplomat (b.
1940)
*
November 22 -
Elisa Izquierdo, American child murder victim (b.
1989)
*
December 2 -
Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b.
1913)
*
December 10 -
Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (
The Fat Boys) (b.
1967)
*
December 22 -
James Meade, English economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1907)
*
December 25 -
Dean Martin, American actor (b.
1917)
*
December 30 -
Doris Grau, American actress (b.
1924
*
December 30 -
Heiner Müller, German poet and playwriter (b.
1929)
Unknown date
*
Ben Bubar, American activist (b.
1917)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Martin L. Perl,
Frederick Reines
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Paul J. Crutzen,
Mario J. Molina,
F. Sherwood Rowland
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Medicine -
Edward B. Lewis,
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard,
Eric F. Wieschaus
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Seamus Heaney
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
*
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Templeton Prize
*
Paul Davies
Right Livelihood Award
*
András Biró /
Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance,
The Serb Civic Council (
SCC),
Carmel Budiardjo /
TAPOL,
Sulak Sivaraksa
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