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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s |
| Years: | 1990 1991 1992 – 1993 – 1994 1995 1996 |
Events
January
- January 2 – Vladimir Makogonov, Azerbaijani chess player (b. 1904)
- January 5 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
- January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (b. 1917)
- January 6 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
- January 7 – Toshihiko Izutsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1914)
- January 8 – Hans Bertram, German Film director (b. 1906)
- January 9 - Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
- January 9 - Mario Genta, Italian footballer (b. 1912)
- January 10 - Luther Gulick, American academic (b. 1892)
- January 11 - Tommy Walker, Scottish footballer (b. 1915)
- January 12 - Józef Czapski, Polish artist (b. 1896)
- January 13 - René Pleven, Prime Minister of France (b. 1901)
- January 13 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
- January 13 - Charles Tillon, French politician (b. 1897)
- January 14 - Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat (b. 1914)
- January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
- January 16 – Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
- January 16 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
- January 17 – Albert Hourani, British historian (b. 1915)
- January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (b. 1906)
- January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
- January 23 – Thomas Dorsey, American musician (b. 1899)
- January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist (b. 1908)
- January 24 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (b. 1942)
- January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (b. 1911)
- January 26 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (born 1905)
- January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (born 1922)
- January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
- January 28 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)
February
- February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- February 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
- February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
- February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
- February 25 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
- February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
March
- March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist (b. 1906)
- March 20 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist (b. 1911)
- March 27 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
- March 27 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
- March 31 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
April
- April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
- April 17 – Turgut Özal, 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
- April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
- April 19 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
- April 23 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader (b. 1927)
May
- May 1 – Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
- May 1 – Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1924)
- May 2 - André Moynet, French Politician (b. 1921)
- May 8 – Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
- May 15 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet (b. 1933)
- May 25 - Buddhadasa, Thai Buddhist monk (b. 1906)
June
- June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
- June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
- June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
- June 10 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
- June 16 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
- June 19 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
- June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- June 28 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
- June 30 – George 'Spanky' McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July
- July 2 – Masuji Ibusi, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
- July 3 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- July 19 – Elmar Klos, Czech film director (b. 1910)
- July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
August
- August 20 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
- August 21 – Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (b. 1911)
September
- September 5 - Baek Du-jin, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1908)
- September 5 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
- September 12 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
- September 22 – Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
- September 22 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
- September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
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- October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
- October 12 – Tofik Bakhramov, Soviet linesman (b. 1926)
- October 21 – Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi (b. 1953)
- October 25 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
- October 31 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (b. 1920)
- October 31 – River Phoenix, Musician and American actor (b. 1970)
November
- November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist (b. 1905)
- November 15 – Cvijetin Mijatović, President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1913)
- November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
- November 22 – Anthony Burgess, British writer (b. 1917)
December
- December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (shot) (b. 1949)
- December 4 – Frank Zappa, American musician (b. 1940)
- December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
- December 7 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)
- December 7 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
- December 12 – József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
- December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
- December 16 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1918)
- December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
- December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
- December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (b. 1939)
Births
- January 25 - Kylie Padilla, Filipina actress
- January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
- February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
- February 19 - Victoria Justice, American singer and actress
- February 21 - Empress Shruck, Filipina actress
- February 26 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
- March 4 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer and television personality (d. 2015)
- May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
- May 18 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
- June 26 – Ariana Grande, American singer
- July 26 – Taylor Momsen, American actress
- July 28 – Cher Lloyd, English singer
- August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
- August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and dancer
- September 1 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
- October 2 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
- December 4 – Iulian Țâmpu, guitarist, musician (Moby Band)
- December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Hit songs
- "Ain't Nothing But a G Thang" – Snoop Doggy Dogg / Dr Dre
- "Award Tour" – A Tribe Called Quest
- "Bombtrack" – Rage Against the Machine
- "Both Sides Of The Story" – Phil Collins
- "Bullet In The Head" – Rage Against the Machine
- "Creep" – Radiohead
- "Cryin'" – Aerosmith
- "Deeper And Deeper" – Madonna
- "Human Behavior" – Björk
- "Heart Shaped Box" – Nirvana
- "Hey Jealousy" – Gin Blossoms
- "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" – Meat Loaf
- "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" – The Proclaimers
- "It Was a Good Day" – Ice Cube
- "Man On The Moon" – R.E.M.
- "On the Sea" – Vertical Horizon
- "Passin' Me By" – The Pharcyde
- "Plush" – Stone Temple Pilots
- "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Digable Planets
- "Return of the Crazy One" Digital Underground
- "Rooster" – Alice in Chains
- "Sober" – Tool
- "Standing Outside The Fire" – Garth Brooks
- "Two Princes" – The Spin Doctors
- "The World Around Me" – King's X
New books
- Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years – Sue Townsend
- Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
- Barnyard Dance – Sandra Boynton
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays – Stephen Hawking
- The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
- The Client – John Grisham
- Complicity – Iain Banks
- The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- Honour Among Thieves – Jeffrey Archer
- The Hope – Herman Wouk
- In the Eye of the Sun – Ahdaf Soueif
- Lasher – Anne Rice
- Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
- Losing Eddie – Deborah Joy Corey
- Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
- Moving Mars – Greg Bear
- The Night Manager – John le Carré
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Stephen King
- Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale – Miranda Seymour
- Pleading Guilty – Scott Turow
- Le Rocher de Tanios – Amin Maalouf
- The Scorpio Illusion – Robert Ludlum
- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree – Tariq Ali
- Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend – Robert James Waller
- Too Big To Fail – Walter Stewart
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) – Esther Delisle
- Vanished – Danielle Steel
- Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions – Martin Amis
- The Wicca Spellbook – Gerina Dunwich
- Without Remorse – Tom Clancy
1993 Media
1993 Events Collage
The aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing.
