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is shelled during the
1993 Russian constitutional crisis The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, also known as the 1993 October Coup, Black October, the Shooting of the White House or Ukaz 1400, was a political stand-off and a constitutional crisis between the Russian president Boris Yeltsin and t ...
;
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is peacefully dissolved into the
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and
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; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to
David Koresh David Koresh (; born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was an American cult leader who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect and offshoot of the Davidian Se ...
and the
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in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the
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and
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, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces;
Ramzi Yousef Ramzi Ahmed Yousef ( ur, , translit=''Ramzī Ahmad Yūsuf''; born 20 May 1967 or 27 April 1968) is a Pakistani convicted terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines ...
and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the
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in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200
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Waco siege The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the law enforcement siege of the compound that belonged to the religious sect Branch Davidians. It was carried out by the U.S. federal government, Texas state law enforcement, and the U.S. ...
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1993 Storm of the Century The 1993 Storm of the Century (also known as the 93 Superstorm, The No Name Storm, or the Great Blizzard of '93/1993) was a cyclonic storm that formed over the Gulf of Mexico on March 12, 1993. The cold weather, heavy snowfall, high winds and s ...
rect 400 400 600 600 Independence of Eritrea
1993 was designated as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the
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had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the Eastern Hemisphere side of the International Date Line, skipping August 21, 1993.


Events


January

*
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Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...
ceases to exist, as the
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and
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separate in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. ** The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market. * January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
(Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. *
January 5 Events Pre-1600 *1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 * 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
** US$7.4 million is stolen from the
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Armored Car Depot in
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, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history. ** , a Liberian-registered
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, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill. * January 6 **
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is the first high-ranking British official to visit
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since the Falklands War. ** January 620 – The
Bombay riots In the Bombay riots in December 1992 and January 1993, an estimated 900 people died. The riots were mainly due to escalations of hostilities after large scale protests by Muslims in reaction to the 1992 Babri Masjid Demolition by Hindu Karsev ...
take place in
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. * January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with
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as president. * January 817 – 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. **
Iraq disarmament crisis The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biologi ...
: US, British and French aircraft attack Iraqi Surface to Air Missile sites in Southern Iraq. * January 14 – The Polish ferry sinks off the coast of
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in the
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, killing 54 people. *
January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrend ...
- Iraq disarmament crisis:
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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
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, and the northern
Iraqi no-fly zones The Iraqi no-fly zones conflict was a low-level conflict in the two no-fly zones (NFZs) in Iraq that were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War of 1991. The United States stated that the NFZs were intend ...
. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at
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factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program (→
January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq During January 1993, numerous coalition airstrikes occurred against Iraq in response to actions by the latter predominantly due to the No-Fly Zone in Southern Iraq. Prelude Just after the Gulf War ended, there were fears that Iraq might invade ...
). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights. * January 20
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is sworn in as the 42nd
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. *
January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. *1438 – The Cou ...
– In
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, thousands protest against the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu. * January 25
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succeeds
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as
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. *
January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then ...
is elected President of the Czech Republic.


February

* February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian
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split to form the
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in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party. *
February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, spar ...
**
Lien Chan Lien Chan (; born 27 August 1936) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 20 ...
is named by Lee Teng-hui to succeed
Hau Pei-tsun Hau Pei-tsun (, 8 August 1919 – 30 March 2020) was a Chinese politician and military officer who was the Premier of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1 June 1990 to 27 February 1993, and the longest-serving Chief of the General Staff of the R ...
as
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. ** ''
Mani pulite ''Mani pulite'' (; Italian language, Italian for "clean hands") was a nationwide judicial investigation into political corruption in Italy held in the early 1990s, resulting in the demise of the so-called "History of the Italian Republic#First ...
'' scandal: Italian legislator
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resigns, followed by various politicians over the next two weeks. * February 14 **
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defeats incumbent
George Vasiliou Giorgos Vasos Vassiliou ( el, Γιώργος Βασιλείου; born 20 May 1931) is a Cypriot politician who served as the third president of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993. He was also the founder and leader of the Cypriot United Democrats party (E ...
in the Cypriot presidential election. **
Albert Zafy Albert Zafy (1 May 1927 – 13 October 2017) was a Malagasy politician and educator who served as President of Madagascar from 27 March 1993 to 5 September 1996. In 1988, he founded the National Union for Democracy and Development (UNDD). In ...
defeats
Didier Ratsiraka Didier Ignace Ratsiraka (; 4 November 1936 – 28 March 2021) was a Malagasy politician and naval officer who was President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving President o ...
in the Madagascar presidential election. *
February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferd ...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in
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. The tribunal is established on
May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
by Resolution 827. * February 26
World Trade Center bombing The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, U.S., carried out on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the complex. The urea nitrate–hydrogen gas en ...
: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the
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explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.


March

* March 5Macedonian Palair Flight 301, an F-100 on a flight to
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, crashes shortly after take-off from
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, killing 83 of the 97 on board. *
March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...
– 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 was in 2008. *
March 11 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
Janet Reno Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as the 78th United States attorney general. She held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only Wi ...
is confirmed by the
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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 Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more. ** North Korea nuclear weapons program:
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announces that it plans to withdraw from the
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and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites, beginning the 1993-94 North Korean Nuclear Crisis. *
March 13 Events Pre-1600 *624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. *1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. *1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from
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to
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; it reportedly kills 184 people. *
March 13 Events Pre-1600 *624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. *1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. *1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
1993 Australian federal election:
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's
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is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the
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/ National Coalition led by
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. *
March 17 Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
– The
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announces a unilateral
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in
Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
. *
March 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. *1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate o ...
** The Israeli
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elects
Ezer Weizman Ezer Weizman (; he, עֵזֶר וַיצְמָן ''Ezer Vaytsman''; 15 June 1924 – 24 April 2005) was the seventh President of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Ai ...
as
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. ** South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in
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. *
March 27 Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
**
Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as pr ...
becomes President of the People's Republic of China. ** Following a rash of integrist murders (including those of foreigners),
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breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs. **
Mahamane Ousmane Mahamane Ousmane (born 20 January 1950), press release no. 179, is a Nigerien politician. He was the first democratically elected and fourth President of Niger, serving from 16 April 1993, U.S. Department of State. until he was deposed in a mili ...
is elected president of
Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesMarch 28 Events Pre-1600 * AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
1993 French legislative election: Rally for the Republic (Gaullist party) wins a majority and
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becomes
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. *
March 29 Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. * 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– The
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, hosted by
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, are held at the
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in
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April

* April–May – 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak: Thirteen people are killed by
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, mainly in the Southwestern United States. * April–October –
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: The
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and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest. * April 8 – The
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. *
April 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. * 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. * 73 – Masad ...
– Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area". * April 19 –
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: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including
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. * April 20 – The Council for National Academic Awards, the national degree-awarding authority in the United Kingdom, is officially dissolved. * 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
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-monitored referendum, the 1993 Eritrean independence referendum. * April 26 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Prime Minister of Italy. * April 27 ** Eritrea: Eritrean independence is declared verified by the
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. ** 1993 Yemeni parliamentary election: The General People's Congress (Yemen), General People's Congress of Yemen wins a Plurality (voting), plurality of 121 seats. ** 1993 Zambia national football team plane crash: 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 the top-ranked player in women's tennis – is stabbed during a match at the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany.


May

* May 1 ** A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka. Dingiri Banda Wijetunga becomes the president of Sri Lanka, 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, after defeating Domingo Laíno in the 1993 Paraguayan general election. * May 15 – Niamh Kavanagh wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with ''In Your Eyes (Niamh Kavanagh song), 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 (Turkey), Social Democratic Populist Party for 40 days. * May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia. *
May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– 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. ** 1993 Burundian presidential election: 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 1993 Burundian legislative election, 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 of Venezuela, President Carlos Andrés Pérez. ** Twenty-four Pakistani troops in the
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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
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. * June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi. * June 18 –
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: 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 (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party. * June 24 – UK mathematician 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. * June 25 ** Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada. ** Tansu Çiller of True Path Party (Turkey), True Path Party forms the new government of
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. ** Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Serbia and Montenegro, President of Yugoslavia. ** The Lithuanian litas, litas is introduced as the new currency of Lithuania. ** Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. * June 26–June 28, 28 – Typhoon Koryn (1993), Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau. * June 27 – U.S. President
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orders a Cruise missile strikes on Iraq (June 1993), cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of
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, 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 5 **
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: 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–July 9, 9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan. * July 7 – Hurricane Calvin (1993), 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 1993 Okushiri earthquake, 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 19 – 1993 Japanese general election: 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 Saint James' Church Massacre, 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 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 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 of Belgium, 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 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 ** 1993 Norwegian parliamentary election: 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–September 21, 21 – Hurricane Gert (1993), Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico. * September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland. * September 19 – 1993 Polish parliamentary election: 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 while the Amtrak ''Sunset Limited'' is in the process of crossing it, killing 47 people. * 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 (1992–93), War in Abkhazia: Sukhumi massacre, Fall of Sukhumi – Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity. * September 30 – 1993 Latur earthquake, Latur earthquake: A 6.2 earthquake occurs in the vicinity of Maharashtra, India having a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.


October

* October 3–October 4, 4– Battle of Mogadishu (1993), Battle of Mogadishu: The U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia, deploying Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 74 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured. * October 4 – The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Russian constitutional crisis culminates with Russian military and security forces, using tanks and clearing the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President
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. * October 5 – China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide ''de facto'' Moratorium (law), moratorium. * October 10 – The South Korean ferry ''Sinking of the MV Seohae, Seohae'' capsizes off Pusan, South Korea; 292 are killed. * October 11–October 28, 28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti by its military-led regime. On October 18,
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economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them. * October 13 ** 1993 Greek legislative election: Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece. ** The fifth summit of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Francophonie opens in Mauritius. ** The 1993 Finisterre earthquakes in Papua New Guinea kill at least 60 due to landslides. * 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 – 1993 Canadian federal election: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 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 4 – Jean Chrétien becomes the 20th Prime Minister of Canada. * November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail. * November 9 – Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Croat forces destroy the ''Stari Most'', or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire. * November 12 – London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed. * November 14 – In Puerto Rican status referendums, a status referendum, residents of Puerto Rico vote by a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth status. * November 17–November 22, 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. ** 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, Republic of Macedonia, 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 Tripartite Commission for East African Co-operation is signed. ** U.S. President
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signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.


December

* December 2 ** ''STS-61'': NASA launches the Space Shuttle ''Space Shuttle Endeavour, 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 ** Omar Bongo is re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections. ** 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. ** List of heads of state of Ivory Coast, President of Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 88, the oldest African head of state. He is succeeded four days later by Henri Konan Bédié. * December 8 – U.S. President
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signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement. * December 11 ** One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Highland Towers collapse, collapses, killing 48. ** 1993 Chilean presidential election: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58% of the vote. * December 13 ** Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 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 17 – Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption. * December 20 ** The United Nations General Assembly votes to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. ** The first corrected images from the Hubble Space Telescope are taken. * December 21 – The Hungarian Parliament elects Péter Boross Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall on December 12. * December 30 ** The Indian National Congress, Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers. ** Representatives of Israel and the Holy See sign the Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State of Israel, preparing for the establishment of Holy See–Israel relations, diplomatic relations. **
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passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second consecutive term. It also shortens presidential terms to 4 years and removes the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.


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* 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak, 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; four die. * Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. * Wildfires in California destroy over and 700 homes.


Births


January

*
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– Larry Nance Jr., American basketball player * January 2 – Bryson Tiller, American rapper, singer and songwriter * January 4 – Scott Redding, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer * January 6 – Jesús Manuel Corona, Mexican footballer * January 7 – Jan Oblak, Slovenian footballer * January 9 ** Ashley Argota, American actress and singer ** Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English heptathlete ** Aminata Savadogo, Latvian singer-songwriter * January 12 ** D.O. (entertainer), D.O., South Korean singer and actor ** Zayn Malik, British singer * January 13 ** Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast ** Tyler Barnhardt, american actor * January 14 – Mariya Lasitskene, Russian track and field athlete * January 15 – Paulina Vega, Colombian model and television presenter * January 22 – Netta Barzilai, Israeli singer * January 25 – Iris Mittenaere, French beauty queen and model * January 28 ** John Brooks (soccer, born 1993), John Brooks, German-born American soccer player ** Will Poulter, English actor * January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger, and recording artist


February

* February 6 – Tinashe, American actress and singer * February 7 – Diego Laxalt, Uruguayan footballer * February 1 – Karl Geiger, German ski-jumper * February 17 ** Elhaida Dani, Albanian singer-songwriter ** Marc Márquez, Spanish four time MotoGP world champion * February 19 – Victoria Justice, American actress and singer * February 28 – Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer and songwriter


March

* March 1 – Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer * March 2 ** Pandelela Rinong, Malaysian diver ** Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer * March 3 – Antonio Rüdiger, German footballer * March 4 – Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (d. 2015) * March 5 ** Fred (footballer, born 1993), Fred, Brazilian footballer ** Harry Maguire, English footballer * March 9 – Suga (rapper), Suga, South Korean rapper and songwriter * March 10 – Peniel Shin, Peniel, South Korean based rapper *
March 11 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
** Jodie Comer, English actress ** Anthony Davis (basketball), Anthony Davis, American basketball player * March 14 – Anna Ewers, German model * March 15 ** Alia Bhatt, British actress and singer in Bollywood ** Paul Pogba, French footballer ** Mark Scheifele, Canadian ice hockey player * March 18 – Mana Iwabuchi, Japanese footballer * March 19 – Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer * March 20 – Sloane Stephens, American tennis player * March 23 – Lee Hyun-woo (actor, born 1993), Lee Hyun-woo, South Korean actor and singer *
March 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. *1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate o ...
– Mackenzie Dern, American mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner *
March 29 Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. * 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer * March 30 ** Anitta (singer), Anitta, Brazilian singer and dancer ** Ji Soo, South Korean actor


April

* April 2 ** Shin Jae-ha, South Korean actor ** Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower * April 10 – Sofia Carson, American actress and singer * April 12 – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player *
April 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. * 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. * 73 – Masad ...
** Chance the Rapper, American rapper ** Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater * April 24 – Ben Davies (footballer, born 1993), Ben Davies, Welsh footballer * April 25 – Raphaël Varane, French footballer * April 28 – Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder * April 30 – Arnór Ingvi Traustason, Icelandic footballer


May

* May 6 – Naomi Scott, English actress, singer and musician * May 8 – Kayla Williams (gymnast), Kayla Williams, American gymnast * May 9 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese idol * May 10 ** Tímea Babos, Hungarian tennis player ** Halston Sage, American actress * May 13 ** Romelu Lukaku, Belgian football player ** Stefan Kraft, Austrian ski jumper ** Debby Ryan, American actress and singer ** Tones and I, Australian singer-songwriter * May 14 ** Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer ** Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player * May 16 ** IU (singer), IU, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress ** Atticus Mitchell, Canadian actor and musician * May 18 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor * May 28 – Jonnie Peacock, English Paralympic athlete * May 29 – Richard Carapaz, Ecuadorian cyclist


June

* June 3 – Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, American theoretical physicist * June 6 ** Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model ** Ashley Spencer (athlete), Ashley Spencer, American track and field athlete * June 7 ** Swae Lee, American singer, rapper and songwriter ** George Ezra, English singer-songwriter ** Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress * June 10 – Scott McLaughlin (racing driver), Scott McLaughlin, New Zealand racing driver * June 12 – Robbie Henshaw, Irish rugby union player * June 13 – Thomas Partey, Ghanaian footballer * June 14 – Gunna (rapper), Gunna, American rapper * June 15 – Carolina Marín, Spanish badminton player * June 16 ** Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor ** Alex Len, Ukrainian basketball player * June 17 – Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer * June 20 – Sead Kolašinac, German-Bosinian footballer * June 21 ** Caroline Brasch Nielsen, Danish model ** Matej Palčič, Slovenian footballer * June 22 – Loris Karius, German footballer * June 25 – Barney Clark (actor), Barney Clark, British actor * June 26 – Ariana Grande, American singer, songwriter, and actress * June 27 – Gabriela Gunčíková, Czech singer * June 28 ** Bradley Beal, American basketball player ** Beanie Feldstein, American actress ** Jung Dae-hyun, South Korean singer * June 29 – Alyssa Valdez, Filipino volleyball player * June 30 – Alexander Evtushenko, Russian racing cyclist


July

* July 1 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress and singer * July 2 ** Yassine Meriah, Tunisian footballer ** Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Lithuanian singer ** Saweetie, American rapper * July 3 ** Mathias Anderle, American singer-songwriter and actor ** Vincent Lacoste, French actor * July 4 – Mate Pavić, Croatian tennis player * July 6 – Jana Burčeska, Macedonian singer * July 7 ** Ally Brooke, American singer ** Shakhram Giyasov, Uzbekistani boxer * July 8 – Ergys Kaçe, Albanian footballer * July 9 – DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player * July 10 – Florian Sénéchal, French racing cyclist * July 11 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast * July 14 – Sayaka Yamamoto, Japanese singer * July 16 ** Alexander Ipatov, Ukrainian-Turkish chess grandmaster ** Ganna Rizatdinova, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast * July 18 ** Alex Esmail, British actor and wrestler ** Taemin, South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer. * July 20 ** Alycia Debnam-Carey, Australian actress ** Lucas Digne, French footballer ** Debrah Scarlett, Norwegian-Swiss singer * July 21 – Haziq Kamaruddin, Malaysian archer * July 26 ** Elizabeth Gillies, American actress ** Taylor Momsen, American singer, songwriter, and model ** Stormzy, English rapper * July 27 ** Omer Atzili, Israeli footballer ** Jordan Spieth, American golfer * July 28 ** Harry Kane, English footballer ** Cher Lloyd, English singer * July 30 – Andre Gomes, Portuguese footballer


August

* August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer * August 10 – Andre Drummond, American basketball player * August 11 ** Gita Gutawa, Indonesian soprano, actress, and songwriter ** Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Iranian footballer ** Alyson Stoner, American actress, singer and dancer * August 12 ** Ewa Farna, Polish singer ** Luna (South Korean singer), Luna, South Korean singer, musical actress, and television presenter * August 13 ** Artur Gachinski, Russian figure skater ** Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player * August 15 ** Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer ** 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, songwriter, actress, and voice actress ** Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer * August 20 – Laura Glauser, French handballer * August 24 – Marina Rajčić, Montenegrin handballer * August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and singer * August 28 ** Sora Amamiya, Japanese voice actress ** Shira Naor, Israeli actress * August 29 ** Lucas Cruikshank, American comedian, actor, & YouTuber ** Liam Payne, British singer-songwriter * August 30 – Paco Alcácer, Spanish footballer * August 31 **Haruka Imai, Japanese figure skater **Pablo Marí, Spanish footballer


September

* September 1 ** Ilona Mitrecey, French singer ** Silje Norendal, Norwegian snowboarder * September 3 – Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player * September 4 – Yannick Carrasco, Belgian footballer * September 10 – Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian singer and actor * September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini, American singer * September 13 – Niall Horan, Irish singer-songwriter * September 15 ** Dennis Schröder, German basketball player ** JP Tokoto, American basketball player * September 16 – Bryson DeChambeau, American golfer * September 17 – Sofiane Boufal, French-Moroccan footballer * September 20 – Julian Draxler, German footballer * September 21 – Ante Rebić, Croatian footballer * September 23 – Pontus Åberg, Swedish ice hockey player * September 24 ** Sonya Deville, American professional wrestler ** Ben Platt, American actor and singer * September 25 ** Rosalía (singer), Rosalía, Spanish singer, songwriter and record producer ** Abdel Nader, Egyptian-American basketball player * September 26 – Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player * September 27 ** Patrick Mölleken, German actor, dubber, and voice-over artist ** Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player * September 28 – Jodie Williams, British sprint runner * September 29 ** Lee Hong-bin, Hongbin, South Korean singer and actor ** Milad Mohammadi, Iranian footballer ** Carlos Salcedo, Mexican footballer


October

* October 1 – Christian Bravo, Chilean footballer * October 2 ** Michy Batshuayi, Belgian footballer ** Lasha Talakhadze, Georgian weightlifter * October 6 – Adam Gemili, British sprinter * October 8 ** Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish professional tennis player ** Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model ** Molly Quinn, American actress * October 9 ** Lauren Davis, American tennis player ** Scotty McCreery, American singer * October 16 ** Wílmar Barrios, Colombian footballer ** Caroline Garcia, French tennis player * October 19 – Youna Dufournet, French artistic gymnast * October 23 – Fabinho (footballer, born 1993), Fabinho, Brazilian footballer * October 29 – India Eisley, American actress * October 31 ** Letitia Wright, Guyanese-British actress **Zarah Sultana, British politician, Member of Parliament for Coventry South


November

* November 4 – Elisabeth Seitz, German artistic gymnast * November 13 – Julia Michaels, American singer and songwriter * November 14 ** Luis Gil (soccer), Luis Gil, American soccer player ** Samuel Umtiti, Cameroonian-French footballer * November 15 ** Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer ** Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast * November 16 ** Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor ** Dakota Earnest, American gymnast * November 17 – Taylor Gold, American Olympic snowboarder * November 19 – Suso (footballer), Suso, Spanish footballer * November 21 – Elena Myers, American motorcycle racer * November 22 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress * November 25 – Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer * November 28 ** David Nofoaluma, Australian-Samoan rugby league player ** Stephanie Park, Canadian paralympic wheelchair basketball player * November 29 – David Lambert (actor), David Lambert, American actor * November 30 ** Yuri Chinen, Japanese idol ** Mia Goth, English actress and model


December

* December 5 – Ross Barkley, English footballer * December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress, singer and model * December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress and preschool teacher * December 16 – Thiago Braz da Silva, Brazilian pole vaulter * December 17 – Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer * December 18 ** Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast ** Riria, Japanese actress * December 20 ** Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer ** Yana Egorian, Russian sabre fencer * December 22 ** Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer ** Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer


Deaths


January

*
January 5 Events Pre-1600 *1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 * 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
** Juan Benet, Spanish writer (b. 1927) ** Yuri Bezmenov, Soviet KGB informant (b. 1939) * January 6 ** Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993), Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1922) ** 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) * January 13 – René Pleven, French politician, 88th Prime Minister of France (b. 1901) * January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913) * January 16 ** Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930) ** Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman (b. 1960) * January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert, Eleanor Burford, English writer (b. 1906) * 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) ** Jim Pollard, American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1922) * January 23 ** Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician and Christian evangelist, "Father of Gospel Music" (b. 1899) ** Keith Laumer, American science fiction author (b. 1925) *
January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. *1438 – The Cou ...
** Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor (b. 1908) ** Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, first African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908) ** Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942) * January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1911) *
January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
** Baron Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Axel von dem Bussche, German military officer, member of the anti-Hitler Resistance (b. 1919) ** Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1905) ** Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912) ** Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (b. 1922) * January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946) * January 30 – Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)


February

* February 2 – Alexander Schneider, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1908) * February 3 – Karel Goeyvaerts, Belgian composer (b. 1923) * February 5 ** Hans Jonas, German philosopher (b. 1903) ** Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909) * February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943) * February 9 – Saburo Okita, Japanese politician, Foreign Minister of Japan (b. 1914) *
February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, spar ...
** Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (b. 1914) ** Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929) * February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) * February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960) * February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916) * February 21 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888) *
February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferd ...
– 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 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893) * February 28 ** Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911) ** Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)


March

* March 3 ** Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906) ** Carlos Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist and a founder of the modern-day popular flamenco style of music (b. 1903) * March 5 – Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (b. 1957) *
March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...
– Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914) * March 10 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949) * March 12 – Wang Zhen (general), Wang Zhen, Chinese politician, Vice President of the PRC (b. 1908) * March 15 – Ricardo Arias (politician), Ricardo Arias, Panamanian politician, 29th President of Panama (b. 1912) * March 16 – Muhammad Khan Junejo, Pakistani politician, 10th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1932) *
March 17 Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
– Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900) * March 20 ** Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) ** Paul László, Hungarian-born architect (b. 1900) *
March 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. *1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate o ...
– John Hersey, American writer and journalist (b. 1914) *
March 27 Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
** 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) ** Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900) ** Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)


April

* April 1 ** Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, 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 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian film actress (b. 1974) * 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 13 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909) * April 15 ** Leslie Charteris, British author (b. 1907) ** John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908) * April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish statesman, 19th Prime Minister of Turkey, Prime Minister and 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927) * April 19 –
David Koresh David Koresh (; born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was an American cult leader who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect and offshoot of the Davidian Se ...
, American spiritualist, leader of the Branch Davidian religious cult (b. 1959) * April 20 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian (b. 1911) * April 23 – Cesar Chavez, Mexican American civil rights activist (b. 1927) * April 24 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and former president of the African National Congress, ANC (b. 1917) * April 29 ** Michael Gordon (film director), American actor and director (b. 1906) ** 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) * May 5 – Irving Howe, American writer (b. 1920) * May 6 – 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 – Freya Stark, Dame Freya Stark, British explorer and travel writer (b. 1893) * May 12 – Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b. 1920) * May 16 – Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (b. 1951) * May 21 – John Frost (British Army officer), John Frost, English army officer (b. 1912) * May 22 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (b. 1892) * May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Mexican Cardinal (b. 1926) *
May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (b. 1907) * May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)


June

* June 2 ** Tahar Djaout, Algerian writer (b. 1954) ** Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913) ** Norton Simon, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1907) * 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 professional basketball player (b. 1964) * June 8 ** René Bousquet, head of the Vichy France Police (b. 1909) ** Severo Sarduy, Cuban poet (b. 1937) * June 9 ** Arthur Alexander, American musician (b. 1940) ** Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (b. 1921) * June 10 ** Arleen Auger, American soprano singer (b. 1939) ** Richard Webb (actor), Richard Webb, American actor (b. 1915) * June 11 ** Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (b. 1934) ** Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952) * June 13 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (b. 1924) * June 15 ** John Connally, American politician (b. 1917) ** James Hunt, British racing driver (b. 1947) * June 19 ** William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) ** Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist (b. 1909) * 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 28 ** GG Allin, American punk singer (b. 1956) ** Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1914) * June 29 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1946) * June 30 – George McFarland, Spanky McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)


July

* July 2 – Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian (b. 1926) * July 3 ** Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936) ** Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909) * July 4 ** Anne Shirley (actress), Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918) ** Lola Gaos, Spanish actress (b. 1921) * July 7 – Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b. 1965) * July 8 – Abul Hasan Jashori, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and freedom fighter (b. 1918) * July 10 – Masuji Ibuse, Japanese writer (b. 1898) * July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b. 1961) * July 14 – Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter (b. 1916) * July 15 ** Hugo Ballivián, Bolivian general, 44th President of Bolivia (b. 1901) ** David Brian, American actor (b. 1914) * July 18 – Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born film director (b. 1900) * July 19 – Gordon Gray (cardinal), Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (b. 1910) * July 25 – Nan Grey, American actress (b. 1918) * July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, American army general (b. 1895) * July 27 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965) * July 30 – Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish aristocrat, diplomat, writer, and politician, 8th President of Poland (b. 1891) * July 31 ** Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (b. 1903) ** King Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)


August

* August 1 – Claire Du Brey, American actress (b. 1892) * August 3 – James Donald, Scottish actor (b. 1917) * August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (b. 1908) * August 10 ** Euronymous, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1968) ** Irene Sharaff, American costume designer (b. 1910) * August 16 – Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (b. 1913) * August 19 – Salah Jadid, Syrian general and Ba'athist politician (b. 1926) * August 21 – Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1938) * August 22 – Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Kazakh Soviet communist politician (b. 1912) * August 26 − Roy Raymond, American entrepreneur (b. 1947) * August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and activist (b. 1924) * August 30 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1937)


September

* September 1 – Hasan Abdullayev, Azerbaijani physicist and scientist (b. 1918) * 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 (critic), 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 15 ** Pino Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1937) ** Maurice Yaméogo, Burkinabé statesman, 1st President of Upper Volta, current Burkina Faso (b. 1921) * September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian political activist, artist, and educator (b. 1920) * 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) ** Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901) * September 24 ** Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913) ** Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer (b. 1957) * September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer (b. 1896) * September 29 – Gordon Douglas (director), Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)


October

* October 5 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1905) * October 7 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910) * October 11 – Andy Stewart (musician), Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933) * October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903) * October 17 – Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (b. 1963) * October 21 – 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 25 ** Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer (b. 1958) ** Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911) * October 26 – František Filipovský, Czech actor (b. 1907) * October 28 ** Doris Duke, American heiress and philanthropist (b. 1912) ** Juri Lotman, Russian formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist (b. 1922) * 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) * November 3 – Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin (b. 1896) * November 7 – Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer, entertainer (b. 1901) * November 9 – Stanley Myers, British film composer (b. 1930) * November 10 – Alberto Breccia, Argentine comics artist and writer (b. 1919) * 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 – Sanzō Nosaka, Japanese Communist politician (b. 1892) * November 15 – Luciano Leggio, Italian mobster (b. 1925) * November 16 ** Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (b. 1939) ** Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. 1913) * 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 24 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1932) * November 28 – Kenneth Connor, English comedian (b. 1916) * November 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian aviator and businessman (b. 1904)


December

* December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949) * December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1940) * December 5 – Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer (b. 1906) * December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908) * December 7 ** Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, 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) * December 11 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress (b. 1894) * December 12 – József Antall, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932) * 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. 1925) ** Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918) ** Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929) * December 17 – Janet Margolin, American actress (b. 1943) * December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American film director and actor (b. 1919) * December 19 – Michael Clarke (musician), Michael Clarke, American musician (b. 1946) * December 20 – W. Edwards Deming, American engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant (b. 1900) * December 21 – Gussie Nell Davis, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes (b. 1906) * December 22 ** Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913) ** Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film director (b. 1912) * December 23 – James Ellison (actor), 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 28 ** William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904) ** Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926) * December 29 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian stage and film actor (b. 1930) * December 31 ** İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1908) ** Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939) ** Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972) ** Thomas Watson Jr., American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist (b. 1914)


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith (chemist), Michael Smith * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Robert W. Fogel, Douglass North * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Toni Morrison * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk * Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Phillip Allen Sharp


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