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'''1996''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXCVI''') was a
leap year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar, and was designated the ''International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''.
1996 was also the
Chinese New Year of the Fire
Rat (zodiac) Rat, a year traditionally feared for
natural disasters.
Events
January
*
January 5 -
Hamas operative
Yahya Ayyash is killed by an
Israeli-planted
booby-trapped
cell phone.
*
January 7 - One of the worst
blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100.
*
January 8 -
Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital
Kinshasa - 350 dead.
*
January 9 - Assassination of
Eric Hebborn, art forger, in
Rome, Italy.
*
January 14 -
Jorge Sampaio is elected president of
Portugal.
*
January 20 -
Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the
Palestinian Authority.
*
January 22 -
Andreas Papandreou,
Prime Minister of Greece resigns due to health problems. New government forms under
Costas Simitis.
*
January 23 - The first version of the
Java programming language is released.
*
January 24 - Polish Premier
Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for
Moscow.
*
January 26 -
Whitewater scandal:
Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
** US millionaire
John Eleuthère du Pont John Dupont shoots wrestler
David Schultz
*
January 27 - Colonel
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of
Niger,
Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
*
January 29
** President
Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French
nuclear testing.
** Fire destroys
La Fenice,
Venice's opera house.
** A
Greek flag is hoisted above Kardac Rocks, initiating the
Imia-Kardak crisis
**
Duke Nukem 3D Shareware released to public
*
January 30 - Leader of the
Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed, in an internal feud, while in line for his unemployment benefit.
*
January 30 -
February 5 -
Sarah Balabagan caned in the
United Arab Emirates
*
January 31 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in
Colombo,
Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
February
* February -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Recently defected Iraqi weapons program leader and son-in-law to
Saddam Hussein,
Hussein Kamel, returns to Iraq. Within days of his return, he is murdered along with his brother, father, sister and her children. Kamel had forced Iraq to reveal portions of its illegal nuclear and chemical weapons programs.
*
February 1 -
Communications Decency Act is passed by the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress.
*
February 4 - Major
snowstorm paralyzes
Midwestern
United States,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time low temperature at -26°F. (-32°C)
*
February 8 - The
Telecom Reform Act is signed into law by
United States President Bill Clinton.
*
February 9 -
Provisional Irish Republican Army IRA ceasefire ends with 1 one-ton bomb in London's
Canary Wharf Canary Wharf District - 2 dead.
*
February 10 -
Computer chess Chess computer Deep Blue defeats
Garry Kasparov for the first time.
*
February 17 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world
chess champion
Garry Kasparov beats the "
Deep Blue"
supercomputer in a chess match.
*
February 18 - IRA
briefcase bomb in a
London bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in London
West End of London West End.
*
February 27 - The first game in the giant video game series,
Pokémon was released today. It has grossed several billion dollars, and has spawned a television series, movies, a card game, and more.
*
February 29 - Daniel Green convicted of murder of James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star
Michael Jordan.
March
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* March -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces refuse
UNSCOM inspection teams access to five sites designated for inspection. The teams enter the sites only after delays of up to 17 hours.
*
March 2 -
John Howard is elected
Prime Minister of Australia in a landslide election victory, over the
Australian Labor Party Labor Party's Paul Keating.
*
March 13 -
Dunblane Massacre The Dunblane Massacre.
*
March 17 -
Sri Lanka win the Cricket World Cup by storming to a famous victory against the tournament favourites
Australia.
*
March 19 -
Sarajevo becomes a united city again when
Bosniak authorities take control of the last district held by
Serbs.
*
March 20
** In
Los Angeles, California,
Lyle and Erik Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
** The
British Government announces that
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy was likely to have been transmitted to people.
*
March 23 - The
Republic of China on
Taiwan holds its first direct elections for president.
Lee Teng-hui is reelected.
*
March 25 - An 81-day long standoff between antigovernment
Freemen in
Jordan, Montana and federal officers begins.
*
March 26 - The
International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan to
Russia for 'economic reform'.
*
March 28 - Fire breaks out at the
Pasar Anyar shopping centre in
Bogor,
West Java. First estimated death toll is 78 until rescuers notice that 68 of them are
mannequins
*
March 30 - The
Jeff Kennett Kennett government is re-elected in
Victoria (Australia) Victoria with a 30 seat majority.
*
March 31 - WWF(Now known as World Wrestling Entertainment [WWE]) presents WrestleMania 12, whose main event featured a one(1)hour wrestling match between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart.
April
*
April 2 - US
Mafia Mafioso John Gotti is found guilty of murder of
Paul Castellano
*
April 3 - Plane carrying
United States US commerce secretary
Ron Brown (U.S. politician) Ron Brown crashes near
Dubrovnik,
Croatia
*
April 3
** Suspected "Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his
Montana cabin.
** The first EuroHowl is held in
Aberystwyth,
Wales.
** A
Lunar eclipse occurred.
*
April 10 - United States President
Bill Clinton vetos a bill that would have banned
partial-birth abortion.
*
April 16 - The NBA's 1995-1996
Chicago Bulls, with
Michael Jordan's lead, go on to set a new NBA record for most wins in a season, achieving their 70th win and later go on to win 72 games, lose only 10 of them, defeat
Shaquille O'Neal and the
Orlando Magic in the NBA Eastern Confrence Finals, and of course, win their fourth NBA Championship in six years.
*
April 18 - Over 100
Lebanon Lebanese civilians were killed after Israel shelled the
UN compound in
Qana. ''See
Qana Massacre''.
*
April 28 -
Martin Bryant kills 35 people as part of the
Port Arthur Massacre, at the
Port Arthur, Tasmania Port Arthur tourist site,
Tasmania,
Australia.
*
April 29 - Official opening of
Rent (musical) on
Broadway theatre Broadway.
May
*
May 10 - A sudden storm engulfs
Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead. By the end of the month, at least four other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.
*
May 11 - After taking-off from
Miami, Florida Miami, a fire started by improperly-handled
oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta-bound
ValuJet Flight 592 causes the
Douglas DC-9 to crash in the
Everglades Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
*
May 13 - Severe
thunderstorms and a
tornado in
Bangladesh kills 600.
*
May 20 -
Gay rights: The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''
Romer v. Evans'' against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of
Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of
homosexuality homosexuals.
*
May 23 - Swede
Göran Kropp reaches
Mount Everest summit alone without
oxygen after having
bicycled there from
Sweden.
*
May 25 -
Bradley Nowell dies of a
heroin overdose in his
San Francisco hotel room.
*
May 27 -
First Chechnya War:
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin meets with
Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
*
May 27 -
Doctor Who makes its return to
United Kingdom British television for the first time since
1989.
Paul McGann starred in the
United States US made movie which pitted the Doctor against
Eric Roberts' Master.
*
May 31 -
id Software releases the
first person shooter computer game Quake.
FIFA decided to give the
Football World Cup 2002 the first World Cup in
Asia to
Japan and
South Korea becoming the first World Cup with co- host countries in the history of the event.
* May-June -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents.
* May -
The Onion launches its satirical news publication on the Internet.
June
* June -
Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
*
June 1 -
Tennessee celebrates its
1796 bicentennial statehood.
*
June 10 - Peace talks begin in
Northern Ireland without
Sinn Féin
*
June 12 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the
internet. The panel says that the 1996
Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the
free speech rights of adults.
*
June 13 - An 81-day standoff between the
Freemen and
FBI agents ends with their surrender in
Montana.
*
June 15 - A large bomb explosion devastates
Manchester City Centre in
England.
*
June 25 - 19 U.S. servicemen are killed at
Khobar Towers bombing in
Saudi Arabia.
*
June 26 - Journalist
Veronica Guerin is shot dead in her car just outside
Dublin Dublin City
*
June 30 -
Costas Simitis is elected President of the
Panhellenic Socialist Movement of
Greece.
*
June 30 -
Germany national football team Germany beat the
Czech Republic national football team Czech Republic 2-1 with a
Golden goal to win
1996 European Football Championship Euro 96.
July
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* July -
Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector Ritter attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport, but is blocked by
Iraqi officials.
* July -
Prague Manifesto (Esperanto) Prague Manifesto - declared principles of the
Esperanto movement.
*
July 1 - The
Northern Territory in
Australia legalises voluntary
euthanasia.
*
July 5 -
Dolly the sheep, the first
mammal to be successfully
cloning cloned
from an adult
cell (biology) cell, is born. It will prematurely die in February 2003.
*
July 8 -
Martina Hingis youngest person in
history (age 15 years and 282 days) to win at
Wimbledon championships Wimbledon (
Ladies Doubles event).
*
July 8 -
Israel Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu purportedly receives a hand-delivered document, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Security the Realm," spelling out how
Israel could abrogate the
Oslo Accords, and pursue a permanent annexation of the
West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, among other policies. The paper had been prepared for him by
Richard Perle,
Donald Rumsfeld,
Doug Feith,
David Wurmser and
John R. Bolton.
*
July 17 - Off the coast of
Long Island, New York, a
Paris-bound
Boeing 747 carrying
TWA flight 800 explodes killing all 230 on board.
*
July 18 -
July 21 21 - Storms provoke severe
flooding on the
Saguenay River in
Quebec, in one of
Canada's most costly
natural disasters.
*
July 19 - The
1996 Summer Olympics in
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta,
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia,
United States, is opened by US president
Bill Clinton.
*
July 27 - The
Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the
1996 Summer Olympics kills one and injures 111.
*
July 29 - The child protection portion of the
Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a US federal court.
*
July 31 - MIL-STD-
1750A was declared inactive for use in new designs.
August
The ''Detroit of India'' and port city
Madras (disambiguation) Madras is renamed
Chennai.
*
August 1 -
Sarah Balabagan returns to the
Philippines
*
August 4 - The closing ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics takes place.
*
August 6 -
NASA announces that the
ALH 84001 meteorite thought to originate from
Mars (planet) Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms
*
August 6 -
Australian
Australian Bureau of Statistics census
*
August 6 -
The Ramones play their last show ever at
Lollapalooza.
*
August 7 - Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near
Huesca,
Spain
*
August 13 - Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicated there may be
water on one of
Jupiter (planet) Jupiter's moons
*
August 28 - Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the
High Court of Justice in
London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled,
Diana, Princess of Wales.
*
August 31 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces launch an offensive into the northern
Iraqi no-fly zones No-Fly Zone and capture Arbil.
*
August 31 - The
Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between
Kansas State University and
Texas Tech University in
Manhattan, Kansas.
September
*
September 1 - The
Fitzroy Football Club (established 1883) plays its last ever game in the
Australian Football League, against
Fremantle FC Fremantle at
Subiaco Oval. The following season the club
1996 Fitzroy-Brisbane merger merged with the
Brisbane Bears, ending a long history of the club in the
VFL/AFL.
*
September 2 - A permanent peace agreement was signed at the
Malacañang Palace between the
Government of the Philippines and the
Moro National Liberation Front.
*
September 4 -
War on Drugs:
Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC) attack a military base in
Guaviare,
Colombia starting three weeks of
guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130
Colombians.
*
September 7 - Rapper
Tupac Shakur shot in
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas,
Nevada following
Mike Tyson bout. He would succumb 6 nights later on
September 13.
*
September 11 - Aubrey Berryhill and Ashton Cayado won the Nobel prize.
*
September 19 - The 127.5 Million dollar scoreboard at Buffalo's
HSBC Arena falls to the ice just hours before a NHL hockey game, no one was injured.
*
September 22 - The
Panhellenic Socialist Movement under the leadership of
Costas Simitis succeeds in the Greek legislative election, 1996.
*
September 13 - Tupac Shakur is pronounced dead in hospital after being shot.
*
September 25 - The last of the
Magdalen Asylums was closed in
Ireland.
*
September 25 -
Nicu CeauÅŸescu dies from
cirrhosis of the
liver in a
Vienna Viennese hospital. He was the younger son of
Nicolae CeauÅŸescu.
*
September 27 - In
Afghanistan, the
Taliban capture capital city
Kabul after driving out President
Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader
Mohammad Najibullah.
October
*
October 1 -
Nirvana release
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah a live electric album. Also the second album released after guitarist/singer
Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
*
October 2 - The
Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President
Bill Clinton.
*
October 2 - Assassination of the former prime minister of
Bulgaria,
Andrei Lukanov
*
October 14 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to close at 6,010.00 -- The Dow's
Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average first close above 6,000.
*
October 23 - Opening statements in the
O. J. Simpson O.J. Simpson civil trial begin.
*
October 25 - The Disney Movie "The Santa Clause" starring Tim Allen is released on video
*
October 29 - The
New York Yankees defeat the
Atlanta Braves in 6 games to win their 23rd
World Series title.
John Wetteland is named
Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the series.
*
October 30 - Fighting erupts when
Banyamulenga Tutsis of
Laurent Kabila in
Zaire seize
Uvira and proceed to kill
Hutu refugees
November
* November -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country
*
November 5 -
U.S. presidential election, 1996:
United States Democrat Party Democrat incumbent
Bill Clinton defeats
United States Republican Party Republican challenger
Bob Dole to win his second term.
*
November 7 - Devastating
category 4 Cyclone strikes
Andhra Pradesh,
India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 persons die. 95 percent of the crops are completely destroyed.
*
November 7 -
NASA launches the
Mars Global Surveyor.
*
November 15 -
Alger Hiss, former U.S. State Department official
*
November 16 -
Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
*
November 18 - World-renowned
bird expert
Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without
parole for leading an illegal
parrot smuggling ring.
*
November 19 - U.S President Bill Clinton makes a visit to Australia in which he addresses both Houses of Parliament
*
November 21 - A
propane Humberto Vidal Explosion explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in
San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan,
Puerto Rico kills 33.
*
November 23 - The
Angola Republic of Angola officially joins the
World Trade Organization, as ''Angola''.
*
November 25 -
Ice storm strikes the U.S. 26 direct deaths, hundreds more from accidents. Powerful windstorm blasts
Florida, winds gust to 90 mph.
*
November 25 - The U.S.
stock markets, especially the
Dow Jones Industrial Average, gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 Presidential elections. It gains 10 days in a row during the month (a feat that hasn't been touched as of
June 2005), and burned through five century marks:
**6,100 on
November 6
**6,200
November 7 the next day
**6,300 on
November 14
**6,400 on
November 20
**6,500 today
December
*
December 2 - US President
Bill Clinton signs
Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments.
*
December 5 -
Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Alan Greenspan gives a speech in which he suggests that "
irrational exuberance" may have "unduly escalated asset values".
*
December 12 -
Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
*
December 17 -
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in
Japanese Embassy in
Lima, WW
Peru
*
December 20 -
Steve Jobs and his company
NeXT were bought back into Apple, the company he originally founded.
*
December 26 -
JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered in her family's basement in
Boulder, Colorado.
*
December 27 -
Taliban forces retake the strategic
Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around
Kabul.
*
December 29 -
Guatemala and leaders of
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year a
civil war
*
December 30 - In the
Indian state of
Assam, a passenger train is bombed by
Bodo separatists killing 26.
*
December 30 - Proposed budget cuts by
Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across
Israel.
Environmental change
*The
invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in
New York
Unknown date
*
Ask Jeeves formed.
*
General Motors EV1 launched. The EV1 is the first electric car to go into mass production.
Births
*
January 1 -
Mary Gibbs, American actress
*
February 9 -
Jimmy Bennett, American actor
*
February 17 -
Sasha Pieterse, South African actress
*
April 25 -
Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
*
July 5 -
Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (d.
2003)
*
August 7 -
Tessa Allen, American actress
*
September 16 -
Abigail Breslin, American actress
*
November 3 -
Aria Wallace, American actor
*
December 20 -
Sloane Momsen, American actress
Deaths
January
*
January 2 -
Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b.
1915)
*
January 5 -
Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b.
1966)
*
January 8 -
François Mitterrand,
President of France (b.
1916)
*
January 15 - Paramount Chief
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b.
1938)
*
January 17 -
Barbara Jordan, American politician (b.
1936)
*
January 18 -
Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b.
1908)
*
January 20 -
Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b.
1927)
*
January 28 -
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1940)
*
January 28 -
Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b.
1914)
February
*
February 2 -
Gene Kelly, American actor (b.
1912)
*
February 3 -
Audrey Meadows, American actress (b.
1926)
*
February 6 -
Guy Madison, American actor (b.
1922)
*
February 7 -
Boris Tchaikovsky Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b.
1925)
*
February 11 -
Kebby Musokotwane,
Prime Minister of Zambia (b.
1946)
*
February 11 -
Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b.
1921)
*
February 11 -
Phil Regan (actor) Phil Regan, American actor (b.
1906)
*
February 11 -
Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b.
1930)
*
February 12 -
Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer (b.
1931)
*
February 15 -
McLean Stevenson, American actor (b.
1929)
*
February 16 -
Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California (b.
1905)
* February 16 -
Brownie McGhee, American musician (b.
1915)
* February 16 -
Roger Bowen, American actor (b.
1932)
*
February 20 -
TÅ?ru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b.
1930)
*
February 21 -
Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b.
1913)
*
February 25 -
Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (murdered) (b.
1940)
*
February 26 -
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Polish composer (b.
1919)
March
*
March 3 -
Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b.
1914)
*
March 4 -
Minnie Pearl, American comedienne (b.
1912)
*
March 9 -
George Burns, American actor and singer (b.
1896)
*
March 13 -
Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b.
1941)
*
March 16 -
Charlie Barnett, American actors (b.
1954)
*
March 17 -
René Clément, French film director (b.
1913)
*
March 18 -
Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
*
March 19 -
Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician
*
March 26 -
David Packard, American engineer (b.
1912)
April
*
April 3 -
Carl Stokes, American politician (b.
1927)
*
April 4 -
Barney Ewell, American athlete (b.
1918)
*
April 4 -
Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b.
1912)
*
April 6 -
Greer Garson, English actress (b.
1904)
*
April 20 -
Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (b.
1920)
*
April 21 -
Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen President (b.
1944)
*
April 22 -
Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b.
1927)
*
April 26 -
Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b.
1918)
May
*
May 5 -
Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (b.
1922)
*
May 15 -
Charles B. Fulton, American judge (b.
1910)
*
May 17 -
Kevin Gilbert, American musician, composer, and record producer (b.
1966)
*
May 20 -
Jon Pertwee, British actor (b.
1919)
*
May 24 -
Jacob Druckman, American composer (b.
1928)
*
May 24 -
Joseph Mitchell, American writer (b.
1908)
*
May 25 -
Brad Nowell, American musician (b.
1968)
*
May 31 -
Paul Peter Piech, American artist (b.
1920)
June
*
June 2 -
Ray Combs, American game show host, and comedian (suicide) (b.
1956)
*
June 2 -
Leon Garfield, English children's author (b.
1921)
*
June 6 -
George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1903)
*
June 15 -
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b.
1917)
*
June 17 -
Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b.
1922)
*
June 19 -
G. David Schine, American businessman (b.
1927)
*
June 23 -
Andreas Papandreou,
Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1919)
July
*
July 1 -
William T. Cahill, America politician (b.
1912)
*
July 5 -
Erik Wickberg, the 9th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1904)
*
July 10 -
Alan Blakley, British musician (Tremeloes) (b.
1942)
*
July 15-
Dana Hill, American actress (b.
1964)
*
July 20 -
Frantisek Planicka, Czech footballer (b.
1904)
*
July 28 -
Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist (b.
1908)
*
July 30 -
Claudette Colbert, French actress (b.
1903)
August
*
August 1 -
Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1897)
*
August 8 -
Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905)
*
August 11 -
Rafael Kubelik, Czech-born conductor (b.
1914)
*
August 13 -
David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b.
1926)
September
*
September 1 -
Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b.
1909)
*
September 13 -
Tupac Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor (b.
1971)
October
*
October 4 -
Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b.
1913)
*
October 16 -
Eric Malpass, English novelist (b.
1910)
*
October 16 -
Jason Bernard, American actor (b.
1938)
November
*
November 21 -
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1926)
*
November 26 -
Mark Lenard, American actor (b.
1924)
*
November 26 -
Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b.
1914)
*
November 30 -
Tiny Tim, American musician (b.
1932)
December
*
December 6 -
Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League (b.
1926)
*
December 11 -
Willie Rushton, English comedian, satirist, actor, and cartoonist (b,
1937)
*
December 16 -
Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b.
1910)
*
December 20 -
Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b.
1934)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
David M. Lee,
Douglas D. Osheroff,
Robert C. Richardson
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Robert Curl,
Sir Harold Kroto,
Richard Smalley
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine -
Peter C. Doherty,
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Wislawa Szymborska
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and
José Ramos Horta
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
*
James Mirrlees,
William Vickrey
Templeton Prize
*
Bill Bright William R. "Bill" Bright
Right Livelihood Award
*
Herman Daly,
The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia,
Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishat and
George Vithoulkas
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