1990

This article is about the year. For other uses, see 1990 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar).

From January 27, it was the year of the Horse in the Chinese Zodiac.

It is often considered the final year of the Cold War era.

Contents:
Events of 1990 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional - World population Births Deaths - Ship events Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize Right Livelihood Award - Fields Medal See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1990

January

January 3 - Manuel Noriega, the former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
January 4 - 307 people are killed in a train accident in Ghotki, Pakistan.
January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.

Jan. 7 – The Pisa tower closed.

January 9 - Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
January 10 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
January 11 - In Lithuania, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
January 13 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
January 15 - Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
January 18 - Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
January 20 - Soviet troops occupied Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Gorbachev and killed over 130 and wounded over 700 protesters for national independence.^[1]^[2]
January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
January 25 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials.
January 25–26 - The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe.

Jan. 28 – Super Bowl XXIV.

Jan. 29: Captain is on trial for the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

January 27 - The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.
January 29 - The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill to date.
January 31 - The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens.

February

February 2 - Apartheid: In South Africa, President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to free Nelson Mandela.
February 5 - Manuel Fraga becomes the president of Galicia, Spain.
February 10 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released the next day.
February 11 - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.
February 11 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.
February 13 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
February 15 - The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British Dependent Territory, in 1982.
February 26 - The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections.
February 26 - The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.
February 27 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

March

March 1 - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
March 1 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
March 1 - The Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues its daily rum ration.
March 6 - An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
March 9 - Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
March 9 - Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
March 9 - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.
March 10 - Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti.
March 11 - Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
March 11 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
March 15 - Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
March 15 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
March 15 - The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
March 18 - Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2007) have not been recovered.
March 18 - East Germany holds its first free elections.
March 20 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
March 21 - After 75 years of South African rule, Namibia becomes independent.
March 24 - Australian federal election, 1990: The government of Australian prime minister Bob Hawke is re-elected for a 4th term.
March 25 - In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
March 25 - Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announced his intention to retire at the end of the year.
March 26 - The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.
March 27 - Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
March 28 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
March 31 - "The Second Battle of Trafalgar": A massive anti-poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.

April

April 1 - Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continued for three weeks and three days, until April 25
April 6 - Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
April 7 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
April 8 - Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.
April 13 - The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn Massacre.
April 15 - Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an engagement party in Uttar Pradesh.
April 20 - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
April 24 - West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
April 25 - Violeta Chamorro was elected President of Nicaragua making her the first woman President in Latin America.

May

May 2 - In London, a man brandishing a knife robs courier Nicholas Lane of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the largest mugging to date).
May 4 - Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
May 5 - The 35th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
May 15 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
May 17 - The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
May 20 - The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
May 22 - The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.
May 22 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
May 24 - The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Boston Bruins in the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals for their fifth Stanley Cup.

June

June 1 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
June 1 - Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.
June 2 - The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. 37 tornadoes occurred in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.
June 7 - Universal Studios Florida opens to the public.
June 8 - The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins in Italy.
June 12 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
June 14 - The Detroit Pistons defeat the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1990 NBA Finals.
June 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale kills thousands in the Iranian city of Manjil^[3]
June 22 - Underwater volcano Mount Didicas erupts in the Philippines.
June 24 - Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, becoming the first Anglican women priests in the United Kingdom.
June 25 - First Television Program in HDTV has aired.
June 26 - U.S. President Bush breaks his 1988 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.

July

July 2 - A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426.
July 6 - Somali president Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre antigovernment demonstrators during a soccer match. 65 people are killed, and over 300 are seriously injured.
July 7 - In Rome, at the evening of the 1990 FIFA World Cup soccer the Three Tenors sing together for the first time. The event is broadcast live on television and watched worldwide by millions of people. Highlight is Luciano Pavarotti's performance of "Nessun Dorma" from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot.
July 8 - West Germany defeats Argentina 1-0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
July 15 - Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
July 16 - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.
July 25 - George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
July 25 - The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.
July 26 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
July 27 - The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister, A.N.R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
July 27 - Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR.
July 28 - Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
July 30 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills British M.P. Ian Gow, a staunch unionist.

August

August 2 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
August 6 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
August 19 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
August 23 - East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.
August 24 - Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
August 28 - Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) struck the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, in Illinois, killing 29 people. Strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area

September

September 2 - Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
September 9 - First Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.
September 11 - Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
September 12 - The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
September 19 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives.
September 29 - Washington National Cathedral finished.

October

October 3 - East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
October 5 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days (Friday, January 3, 1840 – Friday, October 5, 1990), The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
October 6 - Collingwood wins the AFL Grand Final rematch against Essendon by 48 points.
October 8 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount
October 9 - Leonard Bernstein announces his retirement from conducting. Unbeknownst to anyone other than himself and his doctors, he is terminally ill.
October 13 - Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
October 14 - Leonard Bernstein dies of a heart attack at his home in New York City. He is 72 years old.
October 15 - Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.
October 21 - First Apple Day set up by Common Ground in London
October 25 - Evander Holyfield defeats James 'Buster' Douglas for the Heavyweight Boxing crown.
October 27 - The Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan chooses Askar Akayev as the republic's first president.
October 27 - The New Zealand general election 1990 returns the New Zealand National Party with record number of 67 seats.

November

November 1 - Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
November 5 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
November 12 - Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan.
November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web. [1]
November 14 - Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line.
November 15 - STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified military mission.
November 22 - Margaret Thatcher announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative Party.
November 25 - Lech Wałęsa and Stanisław Tymiński win the first round of the first presidential elections in Poland.
November 27 - John Major wins the second ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election and his two rivals, Michael Heseltine and Douglas Hurd, concede defeat.
November 28 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the UK; John Major succeeds her as Party Leader and is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
November 29 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

December

December 1 - Establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe since the last Ice Age, Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.
December 2 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
December 3 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
December 3 - Mary Robinson begins her term as the first female President of Ireland.
December 6 - Saddam Hussein releases the Western hostages.
December 6 - President Hossain Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh is forced to resign following massive protests.
December 9 - Slobodan Milošević becomes President of Serbia.
December 9 - Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.
December 11 - John Gotti is arrested.
December 16 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending 3 decades of military rule.
December 31 - Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.

Undated

For a brief while in early 1990, Romania had a civil war in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the opposition was for Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Communist regime, and those for the new regime.
New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published in the United States.
Metropolitan Aleksy of Leningrad elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
Channel 7 + 10 networks go into receivership (Australia).
Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Queensland.

Fictional

The following are references to year 1990 in fiction:

When the Stephen King novel The Stand was re-issued as a "Complete and Uncut Edition", the setting of the story was changed from 1980 to 1990.

World population

1990

1985

1995

World

5,263,593,000

4,830,979,000

432,614,000

5,674,380,000

410,787,000

Africa

622,443,000

541,814,000

80,629,000

707,462,000

85,019,000

Asia

3,167,807,000

2,887,552,000

280,255,000

3,430,052,000

262,245,000

Europe

721,582,000

706,009,000

15,573,000

727,405,000

5,823,000

	Latin-America

441,525,000

401,469,000

40,056,000

481,099,000

39,574,000

	North America

283,549,000

269,456,000

14,093,000

299,438,000

15,889,000

Oceania

26,687,000

24,678,000

2,009,000

28,924,000

2,237,000

**1990 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1990 MCMXC
Ab urbe condita	2743
Armenian calendar	1439 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԹ
Bahá'í calendar	146 – 147
Berber calendar	2940
Buddhist calendar	2534
Burmese calendar	1352
Byzantine calendar	7498 – 7499
Chinese calendar	己巳年十二月初五日 (4626/4686-12-5) — to — 庚午年十一月十五日 (4627/4687-11-15)
Coptic calendar	1706 – 1707
Ethiopian calendar	1982 – 1983
Hebrew calendar	5750 – 5751
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2045 – 2046
- Shaka Samvat	1912 – 1913
- Kali Yuga	5091 – 5092
Holocene calendar	11990
Iranian calendar	1368 – 1369
Islamic calendar	1410 – 1411
Japanese calendar	Heisei 2 (平成2年)
Korean calendar	4323
Thai solar calendar	2533
Unix time	631152000 – 662687999
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Births

January–June

January 1 - Sadick Adams, Ghanaian football striker
January 1 - Ali Murtaza, Indian First Class cricketer
January 4 - Toni Kroos, German footballer
January 4 - Alberto Paloschi, Italian footballer
January 6 - Abhinav Mukund, cricketer
January 6 - Dominique Aegerter, German motorcycle racer
January 6 - Alex Teixeira Santos, Brazilian footballer
January 7 - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
January 7 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
January 7 - Liam Aiken, American actor
January 8 - Maci Wainwright, American singer-songwriter
January 10 - Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer
January 12 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
January 15 - Chris Warren Jr., American actor
January 15 - Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
January 26 - Christopher Massey, American actor
January 30 - Jake Thomas, American actor
January 30 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
February 1 - Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter
February 3 - Sean Kingston, American singer
February 4 - Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū
February 7 - Anna Abreu, Finnish pop singer
February 7 - Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
February 9 - Camille Winbush, American Actress (The Bernie Mac Show)
February 9 - Facundo Affranchino, Argentine footballer
February 10 - Craig Sorger, American murder victim (d. 2003)
February 11 - Q'Orianka Kilcher, German-born actress
February 13 - Erdini Qoigyijabu, Tibetan religious figure
February 13 - Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer
February 14 - Emily Mae Young, American child actress
February 18 - Nao Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
February 28 - Anna Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess player
March 1 - James Lomas, British stage actor
March 2 - Adderly Fong, Hong Kong Chinese race car driver
March 4 - Andrea Bowen, American actress
March 8 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
March 14 - Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
March 19 - Anthony Skorich, Australian footballer
March 23 - Princess Eugenie of York
March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
March 24 - Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
April 9 - Kristen Stewart, American actress
April 10 - Alex Pettyfer, English Actor
April 12 - Frank Gotti Agnello, grandson of convicted mobster John Gotti
April 15 - Emma Watson, English actress
April 16 - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
April 17 - Astrit Ajdarevic, Swedish professional football player
April 23 - Matthew Underwood, American actor
April 27 - Vahid Amraei, Iranian football player
May 1 - Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
May 2 - Kay Panabaker, American actress
May 4 - David Hasler, Liechtenstein Footballer
May 5 - Saad Al Sheebi, Qatari footballer
May 12 - Florent Amodio, French figure skater
May 15 - Gerald Santos, Filipino actor and singer
May 24 - Joey Logano , American race car driver
May 30 - Matías Nocedal, Argentine basketball player
May 30 - Dean Collins, American actor
June 2 - Kristiina Brask, Finnish pop singer
June 6 - Ashleigh Chisholm, Australian actress
June 10 - Niamh Perry, Irish actress and singer
June 17 - Marcell Miklos Ács, Hungarian/Australian amateur Muay Thai fighter
June 21 - Bridget Hall, Canadian actress
June 21 - Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian football player
June 21 - Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player
June 28 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian Actress

July–December

July 1 - Angelo Balanta, Colombian footballer
July 24 - Daveigh Chase, American actress
July 27 - Nick Hogan, American television personality
July 27 - Indiana Evans, Australian actress
July 28 - Soulja Boy, American Rapper
July 30 - Patrick Elyas, American actor
August 6 - JonBenét Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (d. 1996)
August 9 - Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
August 10 - Tai Woffinden, English speedway rider
August 12 - Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
August 20 - Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
August 28 - Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
August 31 - Oliver Adams, American actor
September 3 - Abbas Ali (footballer), Pakistani footballer
September 8 - Matt Barkley, American football player
September 9 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
September 13 - Jamie Anderson (snowboarder), American snowboarder
September 19 - Patrick Breeding, American singer
September 19 - Saki Fukuda,Japanese actress
September 20 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
September 21 - Christian Serratos, American actress
September 21 - Allison Scagliotti-Smith, American actress
September 23 - Agustin Sierra, Argentine actor
September 23 - Laurent Alvarez, Swiss figure skater
September 25 - Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
October 12 - Henri Lansbury, English footballer
October 18 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
October 21 - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player
October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
October 23 - Stevie Brock, American singer
October 23 - Dalmar Abuzeid, Canadian Actor
October 25 - Austin Peralta, American jazz musician and composer
November 4 - Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor
November 7 - Matt Corby, Australian singer
November 7 - Marisa Siketa, Australian actress
November 14 - Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
November 19 - James Chichester, Earl of Belfast, Irish Peer
November 29 - Diego González, Mexican singer, actor, and song writer
November 30 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
December 10 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
December 10 - Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Canadian actress
December 13 - Corey Anderson, New Zealand cricketer
December 17 - Folashade Abugan, Nigerian sprinter
December 20 - JoJo, American singer/actress
December 21 - Abdullah Nabeel Al Ahmad, Kuwaiti footballer
December 22 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor
December 23 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress
December 26 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
December 28 - David Archuleta, American singer

Deaths

January–March

January 2 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
January 4 - Sir Henry Bolte, Australian politician, former Premier of Victoria (b. 1908)
January 4 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
January 6 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
January 9 - Spud Chandler, American baseball player (b. 1907)
January 18 - Melanie Appleby, British musician (b. 1966)
January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
January 20 - Hayedeh, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
January 22 - Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (b. 1897)
January 23 - Allen Collins, American musician (b. 1952)
January 25 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
January 26 - Lewis Mumford, American historian of science (b. 1895)
February 2 - Joe Erskine, British boxer (b. 1934)
February 2 - Mel Lewis, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
February 7 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (b. 1913)
February 7 - Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general and World War II hero (b. 1905)
February 8 - Del Shannon, American musician and singer (b. 1934)
February 19 - Michael Powell, British director (b. 1905)
February 16 - Keith Haring, American pop artist (b. 1954)
February 24 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1919)
February 27 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, American scholar (b. 1903)
March 13 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
March 13 - Bruno Bettelheim, American child psychologist (b. 1903)
March 17 - Ric Grech, British musician (b. 1946)
March 17 - Capucine, French actress (b. 1933)
March 19 - Andrew Wood, American musician (b. 1966)
March 20 - Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)

April–June

April 3 - Sarah Vaughan, American jazz vocalist (b. 1924)
April 8 - Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
April 15 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
April 17 - Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (b. 1926)
April 18 - Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and father of Eddie Guerrero (b. 1921)
April 21 - Romain de Tirtoff, French Art Deco artist (b. 1892)
April 23 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)
May 8 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1923)
May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor, dancer, and singer (b. 1925)
May 16 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer and filmmaker (b. 1936)
May 18 - Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
May 25 - Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)
June 2 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
June 3 - Robert Noyce, American businessman and inventor (b. 1927)
June 3 - Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
June 16 - Dame Eva Turner, British soprano (b. 1892)
June 22 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.