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| | 49 year-old Ophthalmologist Dino from Beauport, spends time with passions like jet engines, diet and polo. Reminisces what an amazing area it was having made a trip to Roman Walls of Lugo. |
| {{Year dab|1995}}
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| This was the year that the [[Internet]] entered public consciousness and also the year it was completely privatized and the [[United States Government]] no longer funded it with public money - in April '''1995''' the [[NSFNET]] was retired.<ref>http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lazowska/cra/networks.html</ref><ref>http://www.studymode.com/essays/Electronic-Commerce-In-Private-Purchasing-1549362.html</ref> [[America Online]] and [[Prodigy (online service)|Prodigy]] offered access to the [[World Wide Web]] system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/31/business/company-news-prodigy-sees-quick-growth-from-internet-web-service.html</ref>
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| == Events ==
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| === January ===
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| * [[January 1]]
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| ** The [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) is established to replace the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT).
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| ** [[Austria]], [[Finland]] & [[Sweden]] act to join the [[European Union]].
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| ** The [[Draupner wave]] in the [[North Sea]] in [[Norway]] is detected, confirming the existence of [[rogue wave]]s.
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| * [[January 6]]–[[January 7]] – A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in [[Manila, Philippines]]. Policemen led by watch commander [[Aida Fariscal]] and investigators find a bomb [[factory]] and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for [[Project Bojinka]], a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, [[Ramzi Yousef]], is arrested one month later.
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| * [[January 9]] – [[Valeri Polyakov]] completes 366 days in space while aboard the [[Mir]] space station, breaking a duration record.
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| * [[January 16]]
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| ** An [[avalanche]] hits the village [[Súðavík]] in [[Iceland]], killing 14 people.
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| ** The fourth ''[[Star Trek]]'' TV series, ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'', premieres on [[UPN]].
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| * [[January 17]] – A magnitude 6.8 [[earthquake]] called the "[[Great Hanshin earthquake]]" occurs near [[Kobe]], [[Japan]], causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.
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| **Prodigy online service offers access to the [[World Wide Web]].<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/31/business/company-news-prodigy-sees-quick-growth-from-internet-web-service.html</ref>
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| * [[January 25]] – [[Norwegian rocket incident]]: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at [[Andøya]], [[Norway]] is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
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| * [[January 30]] – [[John Howard]] becomes leader of the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] to challenge [[Paul Keating]] for the [[Australian federal election, 1996|1996 Federal Election]] and the position of [[Prime Minister of Australia]].
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| * [[January 31]] – U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help [[Mexico]] avert financial collapse.
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| === February ===
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| * [[February 1]] – Lyricist/guitarist [[Richey Edwards]] of the [[Wales|Welsh]] [[alternative rock]] band [[Manic Street Preachers]] goes missing from a hotel in [[Bayswater]], [[London]] on the eve of a planned tour of the [[United States]]. His car is found two weeks later at [[Severn View services]] in [[Aust]].
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| * [[February 9]] – ''[[STS-63]]'': Dr. [[Bernard A. Harris, Jr.]] and [[Michael Foale]] became the second [[African American]] and [[United Kingdom|Briton]], respectively, to [[extra-vehicular activity|walk in space]].
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| * [[February 13]] – A [[United Nations]] tribunal on [[human rights]] violations in the [[Balkans]] charges 21 [[Bosnian Serb]] commanders with [[genocide]] and crimes against humanity.
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| * [[February 15]]
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| ** [[Hack (technology slang)|Hacker]] [[Kevin Mitnick]] is arrested by the [[FBI]] and charged with penetrating some of the United States' most [[computer security|"secure" computer systems]].
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| ** [[Taiwan]]'s deadliest fire, at a [[karaoke]] restaurant in [[Taichung]], kills 64.
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| * [[February 17]]
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| ** [[Colin Ferguson (convict)|Colin Ferguson]] is convicted of 6 counts of [[murder]] for the December [[1993]] Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 25-year sentence for each of the 6 murders.
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| * [[February 21]]
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| ** [[Serkadji prison mutiny]] in [[Algeria]]: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
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| ** [[Ibrahim Ali (France)|Ibrahim Ali]], a 17-year-old [[Comores|Comorian]] living in France, is murdered by 3 far-right [[National Front (France)|National Front]] activists.
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| ** [[Steve Fossett]] lands in [[Leader, Saskatchewan]], [[Canada]], becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the [[Pacific Ocean]] in a [[balloon]].
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| * [[February 23]] – The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 – the Dow's [[Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average|first ever]] close above 4,000.
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| * [[February 25]] – [[Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization]] (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica [OTCA]).
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| * [[February 26]] – The [[United Kingdom]]'s oldest investment banking firm, [[Barings Bank]], collapses after securities broker [[Nick Leeson]] loses $1.4 billion by [[speculation|speculating]] on the [[Tokyo Stock Exchange]]
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| * [[February 27]] – In [[Denver, Colorado]], [[Stapleton International Airport|Stapleton Airport]] closes and is replaced by the new [[Denver International Airport]], the largest in the United States.
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| * [[February 28]] – Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in [[Minnesota]] of manufacturing [[ricin]].
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| === March ===
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| * [[March 1]]
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| ** [[Julio María Sanguinetti]] is sworn in as [[List of Presidents of Uruguay|President of Uruguay]] for his second term.
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| ** Polish Prime Minister [[Waldemar Pawlak]] resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist [[Jozef Oleksy]].
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| ** In [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]n anti-corruption journalist [[Vladislav Listyev]] is killed by a gunman.
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| ** The first [[Yahoo! Search|search engine service Yahoo!]] is founded.
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| * [[March 2]] – [[Nick Leeson]] is arrested for his role in the collapse of [[Barings Bank]].
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| * [[March 3]] – In [[Somalia]], the United Nations [[peacekeeping]] mission ends.
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| * [[March 6]] – On an episode of ''[[The Jenny Jones Show]]'' ("Same-Sex Crushes"), [[Scott Amedure]] reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.
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| * [[March 12]] – The [[1995 Gazi Quarter riots]] occur in [[Sultangazi]] (then [[Gaziosmanpaşa]]), [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]. A few days later, riots broke out in [[Ümraniye]], Istanbul and [[Kızılay, Ankara|Kızılay]], [[Ankara]] also.
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| * [[March 13]] – David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans working for a military contractor in [[Kuwait]], are arrested after straying into [[Iraq]].
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| * [[March 14]] – Astronaut [[Norman Thagard]] becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the ''[[Soyuz TM-21]]''), lifting off from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]].
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| * [[March 16]] – [[Mississippi]] ratifies the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth Amendment]], becoming the last state to approve the abolition of [[slavery]]. The amendment was nationally ratified in [[1865]].
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| * [[March 20]] – [[Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway]]: Members of the [[Aum Shinrikyo]] religious cult release [[sarin]] gas on 5 subway trains in [[Tokyo]], killing 13 and injuring 5,510.
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| * [[March 22]] – Cosmonaut [[Valeri Polyakov]] returns after setting a record for 438 days in [[outer space]].
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| * [[March 24]] – For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].
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| * [[March 26]] – The [[Schengen Agreement]], easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
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| * [[March 30]] – A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of [[Japan]].
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| * [[March 31]] – Mexican American [[Tejano music|Tejano pop]] singer [[Selena]] is [[Murder of Selena|murdered]] at a [[Days Inn]] motel in [[Corpus Christi, Texas]] by her former employee, [[Yolanda Saldívar]].
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| === April ===
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| [[File:Oklahomacitybombing-DF-ST-98-01356.jpg|thumb|199px|[[April 19]]: A car bomb explodes outside the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]], killing 168 people and wounding 680 more]]
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| * [[April 1]] – [[Dialog Telekom]] launches [[Sri Lanka]]'s first [[GSM]] [[mobile phone]] network.
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| * [[April 2]] – An explosion in [[Gaza]] kills 8, including a [[Hamas]] leader.
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| * [[April 5]] – The [[U.S. House of Representatives]] votes 246–188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.
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| * [[April 7]] – House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the [[Contract with America]].
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| * [[April 19]] – [[Oklahoma City bombing]]: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]]. [[Timothy McVeigh]] and one of his accomplices, [[Terry Nichols]], set off the bomb.
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| * [[April 24]] – A [[Unabomber]] bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in [[Sacramento, California]].
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| * [[April 28]] – In [[Daegu]], [[South Korea]], a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 people, mostly teenage schoolboys.
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| * The United States government stops funding the [[NSFNET]], making the [[Internet]] a wholly privatised system. <ref>http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/nsfnet.htm</ref>
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| === May ===
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| * [[May 1]]
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| ** [[Jacques Chirac]] is elected president of [[France]].
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| ** Croatian forces launch [[Operation Flash]] against rebel Serb forces in western [[Slavonia]].
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| * [[May 7]] – [[Finland]] wins the [[ice hockey]] [[1995 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|world championship]].
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| * [[May 11]] – More than 170 countries agree to extend the [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]] indefinitely and without conditions.
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| * [[May 13]] – An [[earthquake]] hits the regions of [[Kozani]] and [[Grevena]] in [[Greece]], with an intensity of 6.6 on the Richter scale.
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| * [[May 14]]
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| ** The [[Tenzin Gyatso|Dalai Lama]] proclaims 6-year-old [[Gedhun Choekyi Nyima]] as the 11th [[reincarnation]] of the [[Panchen Lama]].
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| ** [[Team New Zealand]] wins the [[America's Cup]] in [[San Diego]], beating [[Stars & Stripes (yacht)|Stars and Stripes]] 5–0.
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| * [[May 16]] – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of [[Aum Shinrikyo]] near [[Mount Fuji]] and arrest cult leader [[Shoko Asahara]].
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| * [[May 18]] – [[Shawn Nelson]], 35, goes on a [[tank]] rampage in [[San Diego]].
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| * [[May 20]] – [[U.S. President]] [[Bill Clinton]] indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the [[White House]], [[Pennsylvania Avenue]], to vehicular traffic in response to the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].
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| * [[May 21]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] [[canonization|canonizes]] [[John Sarkander]] during his visit to [[Olomouc]], the [[Czech Republic]].
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| * [[May 23]] – Oklahoma City bombing: In [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]], the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
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| * [[May 24]] – [[AFC Ajax]] wins the [[UEFA Champions League]] in the [[Ernst Happel Stadium]] in [[Vienna]] by defeating [[AC Milan]] 0–1 by a goal of [[Patrick Kluivert]]. This was the third consecutive win of AFC Ajax over AC Milan that season, ranking AFC Ajax on the 4th place on the [[list of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners]].
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| * [[May 25]] – [[Egan v. Canada]]: The [[Supreme Court of Canada]] rules that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under the [[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]].
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| * [[May 27]] – In [[Culpeper, Virginia]], actor [[Christopher Reeve]] is [[paralysis|paralyzed]] from the neck down after falling from his [[horse]] in a riding competition.
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| * [[May 28]] – A [[1995 Neftegorsk earthquake|7.6 magnitude earthquake]] in [[Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast|Neftegorsk]], Russia kills at least 2,000.
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| === June ===
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| * [[June 1]] – The [[1995 Atlantic Hurricane season|busiest hurricane season in 62 years]] begins.
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| * [[June 2]]
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| ** [[Mrkonjić Grad incident]]: A [[United States Air Force]] [[F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16]] piloted by [[Captain (United States)|Captain]] [[Scott O'Grady]] is shot down over [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] while patrolling the [[NATO]] [[no-fly zone]]. O'Grady is rescued by [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] six days later.
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| ** [[Waffen-SS]] [[Hauptsturmführer]] [[Erich Priebke]] is [[extradited]] from [[Argentina]] to [[Italy]].
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| **The Dimmitt, Texas Tornado strikes.
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| * [[June 3]] – [[Montreal Expos]] pitcher [[Pedro Martinez]] becomes the second [[major league baseball]] [[pitcher]] to pitch a "perfect game" leading into the 10th inning.
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| * [[June 6]]
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| ** U.S. astronaut [[Norman Thagard]] breaks [[NASA]]'s space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station [[Mir]].
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| ** The [[Constitutional Court of South Africa]] abolishes [[capital punishment in South Africa]] in the case of ''[[S v Makwanyane and Another]]''.
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| * [[June 13]] – [[President of France|French President]] Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in [[French Polynesia]].
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| * [[June 15]] – A powerful earthquake, registering a [[Moment magnitude scale|moment magnitude]] of 6.2, hits the city of [[Aigio]], Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.
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| * [[June 16]] – The IOC selects [[Salt Lake City]] to host the [[2002 Winter Olympics]].
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| * [[June 20]] – Oil multinational [[Royal Dutch Shell]] caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the [[Brent Spar]] oil rig at sea.
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| * [[June 22]] – [[Japan]]ese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked [[All Nippon Airways]] Flight 857 ([[Boeing 747-200]]) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of [[Shoko Asahara]].
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| * [[June 24]]
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| ** The [[New Jersey Devils]] sweep the heavily favored [[Detroit Red Wings]] to win their first [[Stanley Cup]] in the lock-out shortened season.
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| ** South Africa wins the [[Rugby World Cup]].
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| * [[June 29]]
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| ** [[Lisa Clayton]] completes her 10-month solo [[circumnavigation]] from the Northern Hemisphere.
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| ** ''[[STS-71]]'': [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] docks with the Russian Mir [[space station]] for the first time.
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| ** The [[Sampoong Department Store collapse]]s in the Seocho-gu district of [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]], killing 501 and injuring 937.
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| ** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly [[France]] and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with [[Iraq]] than in disarming the country.
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| === July ===
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| [[File:Srebrenica Massacre - Exhumed Grave of Victims - Potocari 2007.jpg|thumb|Exhumed grave of victims of the July [[Srebrenica massacre]].]]
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| * July – [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by [[August 31]]. Following the defection of his son-in-law, [[Hussein Kamel al-Majid]], [[Saddam Hussein]] makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
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| * [[July 1]] – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
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| * [[July 4]] – [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] [[John Major]] wins his battle to remain leader of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].
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| * [[July 5]] – The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act]], requiring that producers of [[pornography]] keep records of all models who are filmed or photographed, and that all models be at least 18 years of age.
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| * [[July 9]] – [[Sri Lankan Civil War]]: 125 civilians are [[Navaly church bombing|killed]] in [[Navaly]] as result of bombing by the [[Sri Lanka Air Force]].
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| * [[July 10]] – Burmese dissident [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] is freed from house arrest.
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| * [[July 11]] –
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| ** [[Srebrenica massacre]]: Units of the [[Army of the Republika Srpska]], [[command responsibility|under the command]] of [[General officer|General]] [[Ratko Mladić]], enter [[Srebrenica]] with little resistance from Dutch [[peacekeeping|peacekeepers]] of the [[United Nations Protection Force]], going on to kill of thousands of [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] men and boys and [[rape]] many women.
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| ** President Clinton announces the restoration of [[United States–Vietnam relations]] twenty years after the [[Vietnam War]].
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| ** A [[Cubana de Aviación]] [[Antonov An-24]] crashes into the [[Caribbean]] off southeast [[Cuba]] killing 44 people.
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| [[File:Taiwan Strait.png|thumb|200px|The Taiwan Strait]]
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| * [[July 17]] – The [[Nasdaq]] Composite index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
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| * [[July 18]] – A series of huge eruptions by the [[Soufrière Hills volcano]] sends lava flows and ash falls across a wide area of southern [[Montserrat]].
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| * [[July 21]]–[[July 26]] – [[Third Taiwan Strait Crisis]]: The Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] fires missiles into the waters north of [[Taiwan]].
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| * [[July 23]] – David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans held as spies by Iraq, are released by [[Saddam Hussein]] after negotiations with U.S. Congressman [[Bill Richardson]].
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| === August ===
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| * [[August 2]] – The first [[cold front]] of the [[White Earthquake]] strikes [[Chile]]; during the rest of August several communities becomes isolated due to heavy snowfall and livestock is decimated.
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| * [[August 3]] – An [[Il-76]]TD piloted by a Russian crew is [[1995 Airstan incident|forced down]] by [[Taliban]] fighter planes.
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| * [[August 4]] – [[Croatia]]n forces, with the cooperation of the [[Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ARBiH]], launch [[Operation Storm]] against rebel [[Republic of Serbian Krajina|Croatian Serb]] forces in the Krajina, which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity.
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| * [[August 5]] – Croatian forces take the [[Croatian Serb]] capital, [[Knin]], and continue their advance into the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
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| * [[August 6]] – Hundreds in [[Hiroshima]], [[Nagasaki, Nagasaki|Nagasaki]], [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Tokyo]] mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the [[atomic bomb]].
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| * [[August 7]] – Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered [[ceasefire]]; remaining Croatian Serb forces start surrendering.
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| * [[August 11]] – The [[Russell Hill subway accident]] results in 3 deaths and 30 injuries in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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| * [[August 14]] – An avalanche buries [[Alison Hargreaves]], the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; she is reported dead.
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| * [[August 16]] – [[Bermuda]]ns reject independence in a [[Bermudan independence referendum, 1995|referendum]].
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| * [[August 24]] – [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows 95]].
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| * [[August 28]] – A Bosnian Serb [[mortar (weapon)|mortar]] bomb near a [[Sarajevo]] market square [[Markale massacres|kills]] 37 civilians.
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| * [[August 29]] – [[Eduard Shevardnadze]], the [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] [[head of state]], survives an assassination attempt in [[Tbilisi]].
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| * [[August 30]] – The [[NATO]] [[Operation Deliberate Force|bombing campaign]] against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and [[Bosnian Krajina]].
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| === September ===
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| * [[September]]
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| ** The [[DVD]], an [[optical disc]] [[computer storage]] media format, is announced.
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| ** The European Parliament elects the first [[European Ombudsman]], [[Jacob Söderman]], who takes up office in September 1995.
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| * [[September 4]]
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| ** The first episode of WCW Monday Nitro airs on TNT.
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| ** [[eBay]] is founded.
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| ** The [[Fourth World Conference on Women]] opens in [[Beijing]] with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
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| * [[September 6]] – [[Operation Deliberate Force|NATO air strikes]] against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail.
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| * [[September 19]] – The ''[[Washington Post]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'' publish the [[Unabomber]]'s manifesto.
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| * [[September 22]] – American millionaire [[Steve Forbes]] announces his candidacy for the 1996 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] presidential nomination.
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| * [[September 23]] – [[Argentina|Argentine]] national [[Bill Gaede|Guillermo "Bill" Gaede]] is arrested in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] on charges of [[industrial espionage]]. His sales to [[Cuba]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[North Korea]] and [[Iran]] are believed to have involved [[Intel]] and [[AMD]] [[trade secret]]s worth US$10–20 million.
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| * [[September 26]] – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister [[Giulio Andreotti]], who is accused of [[Mafia]] connections, begins.
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| * [[September 27]]–[[September 28]] – [[Bob Denard]]'s [[mercenary|mercenaries]] capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the [[Comoros]]; the local army does not resist.
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| * [[September 28]] – [[Croatia]]n forces [[Varivode massacre|massacre]] 9 elderly [[Croatian Serbs]] in the village of [[Varivode]], Croatia.
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| === October ===
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| * [[October 3]] – [[O. J. Simpson]] is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife [[Nicole Simpson]] and [[Ronald Goldman]].
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| * [[October 4]]
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| ** [[France]] launches a counter-[[coup]] in the Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest [[Bob Denard]] and his mercenaries and take Denard to France; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.
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| ** [[Hurricane Opal]] makes landfall at [[Pensacola Beach, Florida]] as a Category 3 hurricane with {{convert|115|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} winds.
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| * [[October 5]] – [[Tansu Çiller]] of [[True Path Party (Turkey)|DYP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
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| * [[October 6]] – [[Michael Mayor]] and [[Didier Queloz]] announce the discovery of [[51 Pegasi b]], the first confirmed [[extrasolar planet]] orbiting an ordinary [[main sequence|main-sequence]] star.
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| * [[October 9]] – [[1995 Palo Verde derailment]]: An [[Amtrak]] [[Sunset Limited]] train is derailed by saboteurs near [[Palo Verde, Arizona]].
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| * [[October 15]] – The [[Carolina Panthers]] win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the [[New York Jets]] at [[Memorial Stadium, Clemson|Clemson Memorial Stadium]] in [[South Carolina]].
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| * [[October 16]] – The [[Million Man March]] is held in [[Washington, D.C.]] The event was conceived by [[Nation of Islam]] leader [[Louis Farrakhan]].
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| * [[October 17]] – French woman [[Jeanne Calment]] reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days, making her the oldest person ever recorded.
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| * [[October 23]] – In [[Houston]], [[Texas]], [[Yolanda Saldívar]] is convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of [[Selena|Selena Quintanilla Perez]], and 3 days later is sentenced to life in prison.
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| * [[October 24]] – A total [[solar eclipse]] is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.<ref>[http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEcat/SEdecade1991.html NASA – Solar Eclipses: 1991 – 2000]</ref>
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| * [[October 25]] – A [[Metra]] commuter train slams into a school bus in [[Fox River Grove, Illinois]], killing seven students.
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| * [[October 26]] – An [[avalanche]] hits the village [[Flateyri]] in [[Iceland]], killing 20 people.
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| * [[October 28]] – A [[1995 Baku Metro fire|fire in Baku Metro]], [[Azerbaijan]], kills 289 passengers (the world's worst subway disaster).
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| * [[October 30]]
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| ** [[Quebec]] independentists narrowly lose a [[1995 Quebec referendum|referendum]] for a mandate to negotiate independence from [[Canada]].
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| ** [[Tansu Çiller]] of [[True Path Party (Turkey)|DYP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]].
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| === November ===
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| * [[November 1]]
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| ** [[NASA]] loses contact with the [[Pioneer 11]] probe.
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| ** Participants in the [[Yugoslav Wars]] begin negotiations at the [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] in [[Dayton, Ohio]].
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| ** The [[U.S. House of Representatives]] votes to ban partial birth [[abortion]]s by a vote of 288–139.
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| * [[November 2]] – The [[Supreme Court of Argentina]] orders the extradition of [[Erich Priebke]], ex-S.S. captain.
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| * [[November 3]] – At [[Arlington National Cemetery]], U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] dedicates a memorial to the victims of the [[Pan Am Flight 103]] bombing.
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| * [[November 4]] – [[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
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| * [[November 7]] – [[Typhoon Angela (1995)|Typhoon Angela]] leaves the [[Philippines]] and [[Vietnam]] devastated, with 882 deaths and damage of P 10,829,000,000. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of {{convert|130|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} and gusts of {{convert|180|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}.
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| * [[November 10]]
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| ** Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from Israel and [[Jordan]], [[UNSCOM]] inspector [[Scott Ritter]] intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.
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| ** In [[Nigeria]], playwright and environmental activist [[Ken Saro-Wiwa]], along with 8 others from the [[Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People]], are hanged by government forces.
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| * [[November 12]] – The [[Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme]], a programme to implement the [[Harare Declaration]], is announced by the [[Commonwealth Heads of Government]].
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| * [[November 14]] – A budget standoff between [[United States Democratic Party|Democrats]] and [[United States Republican Party|Republicans]] in the [[Congress of the United States]], forces the [[United States federal government shutdown of 1995|federal government to temporarily close]] [[national park]]s and [[museum]]s, and run most government offices with skeleton staff.
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| * [[November 16]] – A United Nations tribunal charges [[Radovan Karadžić]] and [[Ratko Mladic]] with [[genocide]] during the [[Bosnian War]].
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| * [[November 21]]
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| ** The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses two millennium marks in a single year.
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| ** The [[Dayton Agreement]] to end the [[Bosnian War]] is reached at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] near [[Dayton, Ohio]] (signed [[December 14]]).
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| * [[November 22]]
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| ** [[Rosemary West]] is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff (the other is [[Myra Hindley]]).
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| ** Six-year-old [[Elisa Izquierdo]]'s child abuse-related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in [[New York City]]'s [[child welfare]] system.
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| ** [[Egypt]], [[Eilat, Israel]], and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake (7.2 [[Moment magnitude scale|<math>M_\mathrm{w}</math>]]) along the [[Dead Sea Transform]] in a century; 8 are killed.
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| ** The first ever full length computer animated feature film, "[[Toy Story]]", is released by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.
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| * [[November 28]]
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| ** The [[Barcelona Conference|Barcelona Treaty]] is signed by 27 attending nations.
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| ** U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the [[National Highway Designation Act]], which ends the federal {{convert|55|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} [[speed limits in the United States|speed limit]].
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| * [[November 30]] – [[Javier Solana]] becomes the new [[NATO]] General Secretary; Operation [[Desert Storm]] officially ends.
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| === December ===
| |
| * [[December 3]] – [[1995 strikes in France|Strikes]] paralyze France's public sector.
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| * [[December 7]] – NASA's ''[[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]]'' probe enters [[Jupiter]]'s atmosphere.
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| * [[December 8]]
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| ** [[Jean-Dominique Bauby]], editor-in-chief of ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' magazine, suffers a massive [[stroke]] and lapses into a coma.
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| ** 6-year-old [[Gyaincain Norbu]] is enthroned as the 11th [[reincarnation]] of the [[Panchen Lama]] at [[Tashilhunpo Monastery]].
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| * [[December 14]] – The [[Dayton Agreement]] is signed in Paris.
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| * [[December 15]]
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| ** The [[European Court of Justice]] [[Bosman ruling|rules]] that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer among member states at the end of their contracts.
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| ** Because of the "quadruple-witching" [[Option (finance)|option]] expiration, volume on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since October 20, 1987, when the Dow staged a stunning recovery a day after [[Black Monday (1987)|Black Monday]].
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| * [[December 16]] – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the [[United Nations Special Commission]], dredge the [[Tigris]] near [[Baghdad]]. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
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| * [[December 20]]
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| ** [[American Airlines Flight 965]] ([[Boeing 757]]) crashes into a mountain near [[Buga, Valle del Cauca]], Colombia after veering off its course en route to Cali, Colombia. Of the 164 people on board, 4 passengers and a dog are the only survivors.
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| ** HM The Queen advises "an early divorce" to Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, Prince of Wales. The divorce is finalized on 28 August 1996.
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| * [[December 30]]
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| ** The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of {{Convert|-27.2|°C|°F|abbr=on}} is recorded at [[Altnaharra]] in the [[Scottish Highlands]]. This equals the record set at [[Braemar]], [[Aberdeenshire]] in [[1895#January–March|1895]] and [[1982#January|1982]].
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| ** The [[Republic of Texas (group)|Republic of Texas group]] claims to have formed a provisional government in [[Texas]].
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| * [[December 31]] – The final original ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' comic strip is published.
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| === Date unknown ===
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| * [[Sudden oak death]], the tree disease caused by the [[plant pathogen]] ''[[Phytophthora ramorum]]'', is first observed, in [[California]].
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| === World population ===
| |
| {|class="wikitable"
| |
| !colspan="7"|[[World population]]
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| |-
| |
| !
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| !1995
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| !colspan="2"|[[1990]]
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| !colspan="2"|[[2000]]
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| |-
| |
| ![[File:Globe.svg|50px]] [[World]]
| |
| |align="right"|'''5,674,380,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|5,263,593,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]]410,787,000
| |
| |align="right"|6,070,581,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]]396,201,000
| |
| |-
| |
| ![[File:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Africa]]
| |
| |align="right"|'''707,462,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|622,443,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 85,019,000
| |
| |align="right"|795,671,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 88,209,000
| |
| |-
| |
| ![[File:Two-point-equidistant-asia.jpg|50px]] [[Asia]]
| |
| |align="right"|'''3,430,052,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|3,167,807,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]]262,245,000
| |
| |align="right"|3,679,737,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]]249,685,000
| |
| |-
| |
| ![[File:Europe satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Europe]]
| |
| |align="right"|'''825,405,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|721,582,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 5,823,000
| |
| |align="right"|830,986,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 5,581,000
| |
| |-
| |
| |
| |
| {| style="background: #EEEEEE; width: 4em;"
| |
| |style="border: 0px;"|[[File:Latin America terrain.jpg|50px]]
| |
| !style="border: 0px;"|[[Latin-America]]/ [[Caribbean Islands|Islands]]
| |
| |}
| |
| |align="right"|'''481,099,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|441,525,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 39,574,000
| |
| |align="right"|520,229,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 39,130,000
| |
| |-
| |
| |
| |
| {| style="background: #EEEEEE; width: 4em;"
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| |style="border: 0px;"|[[File:LocationWHNorthernAmerica.png|50px]]
| |
| !style="border: 0px;"|[[Northern America]]
| |
| |}
| |
| |align="right"|'''299,438,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|283,549,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 15,889,000
| |
| |align="right"|315,915,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 16,477,000
| |
| |-
| |
| ![[File:Oceania (World-Factbook).jpg|50px]] [[Oceania]]
| |
| |align="right"|'''28,924,000'''
| |
| |align="right"|26,687,000
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| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,237,000
| |
| |align="right"|31,043,000
| |
| |align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,119,000
| |
| |}
| |
| | |
| == Births ==
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| | |
| === January–March ===
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| <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. -->
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| [[File:Joyce Ching.jpg|200px|thumbnail|Joyce Ching]]
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| * [[January 3]]
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| ** [[Muhammed Demirci]], Turkish footballer
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| ** [[Victoria Duffield]], Canadian pop singer
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| * [[January 4]]
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| ** [[Maddie Hasson]], American actress
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| ** [[María Isabel]], Spanish singer
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| * [[January 5]]
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| ** [[Joyce Ching]], Filipina actress, dancer, singer and commercial model
| |
| ** [[Lexi Fernandez]], Filipina actress, host, singer and dancer
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| * [[January 9]] – [[Nicola Peltz]], American actress
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| * [[January 17]] – [[Ann Li]], [[Taiwan]]ese actress
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| * [[January 21]] – [[Jennifer Rae Daykin]], British teen actress
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| * [[January 24]]
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| ** [[Callan McAuliffe]], Australian actor
| |
| ** [[Dylan Everett]], Canadian actor
| |
| * [[January 26]] – [[Kyle Chavarria]], American actress
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| * [[January 30]]
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| ** [[Danielle Campbell]], American actress
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| ** [[Thia Megia]], American singer
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| * [[February 6]]
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| ** [[Nyck de Vries]], Dutch kart racer
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| ** [[Moon Jongup]], South Korean singer and dancer
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| * [[February 8]] – [[Jordan Todosey]], Canadian actress
| |
| * [[February 13]]
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| ** [[Ayame Koike]], Japanese actress
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| ** [[Marsel Efroimski]], Israeli chess player
| |
| * [[February 14]] – [[Diego Fagundez]], American footballer
| |
| * [[February 26]] – [[Liam Fairhurst]], British charity fundraiser (d.[[2009]])
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| * [[February 28]] – [[Madisen Beaty]], American actress
| |
| * [[March 7]] – [[Hailey Clauson]], American model
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| * [[March 8]] – [[Luca Brecel]], Belgian snooker
| |
| * [[March 12]] – [[Kanon Fukuda]], Japanese pop singer and voice actress
| |
| * [[March 13]] – [[Mikaela Shiffrin]], American skier, World Champion Slalom 2013
| |
| * [[March 19]]
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| ** [[Julia Montes]], Filipina actress and commercial model
| |
| ** [[Philip Daniel Bolden]], American actor
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| * [[March 21]] – [[Diggy Simmons]], American rapper
| |
| * [[March 22]] – [[Nick Robinson (American actor)|Nick Robinson]], American actor
| |
| * [[March 27]] – [[Taylor Atelian]], American actress
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| | |
| === April–June ===
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| <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. -->
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| * [[April 14]] – [[Yukiko Fujisawa]], Japanese figure skater
| |
| * [[April 15]] – [[Kiri Baga]], American figure skater
| |
| * [[April 26]] – [[Daniel Padilla]], Filipino actor
| |
| * [[April 28]] – [[Yulia Gurska]], Ukrainian singer-songwriter
| |
| * [[May 2]] – [[Skye Bennett]], English actress
| |
| * [[May 3]] – [[Celeste Buckingham]], Slovak singer-songwriter
| |
| * [[May 4]] – [[Martin Santiago Augusto Castillo]], Argentine boxer
| |
| * [[May 5]] – [[Devon Gearhart]], American actor
| |
| * [[May 10]] – [[Missy Franklin]], American swimmer
| |
| * [[May 12]]
| |
| ** [[Luke Benward]], American actor and singer
| |
| ** [[Kenton Duty]], American actor ([[Shake It Up (TV series)|Shake It Up]])
| |
| * [[May 15]] – [[Ksenia Sitnik]], Belarusian singer
| |
| * [[May 25]] – [[Greg Grossman]], American chef
| |
| * [[June 2]] – [[Sterling Beaumon]], American actor
| |
| * [[June 5]]
| |
| ** [[Beckii Cruel]], British pop dancer
| |
| ** [[Troye Sivan]], Australian actor
| |
| * [[June 8]]
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| ** [[Bessie Cursons]], English actress
| |
| ** [[Akari Saho]], Japanese musician
| |
| * [[June 9]] – [[Alina Grosu]], Ukrainian singer
| |
| * [[June 23]] – [[Eva Lazzaro]], Australian actress
| |
| * [[June 27]] – [[Eirik Gjen]], Norwegian artist
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| | |
| === July–September ===
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| <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. -->
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| * [[July 7]] – [[Chloe Greenfield]], American actress
| |
| * [[July 9]] – [[Georgie Henley]], English actress
| |
| * [[July 12]] – [[Jordyn Wieber]], American gymnast
| |
| * [[July 15]] – [[Elyar Fox]], British singer
| |
| * [[July 26]] – [[Holly Bodimeade]], British actress
| |
| * [[August 1]] – [[Derick Monasterio]], Filipino actor, dancer and singer
| |
| * [[August 4]] – [[Jessica Sanchez]], American singer
| |
| * [[August 15]] – [[Chief Keef]], American rapper
| |
| * [[August 18]] – [[Parker McKenna Posey]], American actress
| |
| * [[August 20]] – [[Liana Liberato]], American actress
| |
| * [[August 23]] – [[Tommy Batchelor]], American dancer
| |
| * [[August 29]] – [[Aria Clemente]], Filipina singer and actress
| |
| * [[September 1]] – [[Nathan MacKinnon]], Canadian hockey player
| |
| * [[September 5]]
| |
| ** [[Tehilla Blad]], Swedish actress
| |
| ** [[Caroline Sunshine]], American actress ([[Shake It Up (TV series)|Shake It Up]])
| |
| * [[September 8]] – [[Thuliso Dingwall]], American actor
| |
| * [[September 13]] – [[Robbie Kay]], British actor
| |
| * [[September 20]]
| |
| ** [[Laura Dekker]], Dutch solo sailor
| |
| ** [[Sammi Hanratty]], American actress
| |
| * [[September 22]] – [[Juliette Goglia]], American actress
| |
| | |
| === October–December ===
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| <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. -->
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| * [[October 8]] – [[Courtney Taylor Burness]], American actress
| |
| * [[October 21]] – [[Antoinette Guedia Mouafo]], Cameroonian swimmer
| |
| * [[October 25]] – [[Conchita Campbell]], Canadian actress
| |
| * [[November 1]]
| |
| ** [[Nour El Sherbini]], Egyptian squash player
| |
| ** [[Nick D'Aloisio]], British computer programmer
| |
| * [[November 3]] – [[Kendall Jenner]], American model and a member of the Kardashian family
| |
| * [[November 7]] – [[Michael Dameski]], Australian dancer and actor
| |
| * [[November 16]] – [[Noah Gray-Cabey]], American actor and pianist
| |
| * [[November 29]] – [[Austin & Ally|Laura Marano]], American actress and singer
| |
| * [[December 6]] – [[Joy Gruttmann]], German singer
| |
| * [[December 9]] – [[McKayla Maroney]], American gymnast
| |
| * [[December 14]] – [[Yulia Belokobylskaya]], Russian gymnast
| |
| * [[December 19]] – [[Elliot Evans]], English singer
| |
| * [[December 22]] – [[Hunter Allan]], American actor
| |
| * [[December 26]] – [[Zach Mills]], American actor
| |
| * [[December 29]] – [[Ross Lynch]], American actor
| |
| * [[December 31]] – [[Gabby Douglas]], African-American gymnast
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| == Deaths ==
| |
| [[File:Siabar 003.jpg|thumb|150x150px|[[Siad Barre]]]]
| |
| === January ===
| |
| * [[January 1]]
| |
| ** [[Fred West]], English serial killer (b. [[1941]])
| |
| ** [[Eugene Wigner]], Hungarian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])
| |
| * [[January 2]]
| |
| ** [[Siad Barre]], [[Military dictatorship|Military dictator]] of [[Somalia]] (b. [[1919]])
| |
| ** [[Nancy Kelly]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
| |
| * [[January 4]] – [[Sol Tax]], American anthropologist (b. [[1907]])
| |
| * [[January 7]]
| |
| ** [[Murray Rothbard]], American economist (b. [[1926]])
| |
| ** [[Larry Grayson]], British comedian and game show host (b. [[1923]])
| |
| * [[January 9]] – [[Peter Cook]], English comedian and writer (b. [[1937]])
| |
| * [[January 11]], [[Onat Kutlar]], Turkish writer, poet, screenplay writer, founder of [[Turkish Sinematek]] (b. [[1936]])
| |
| * [[January 18]]
| |
| ** [[Adolf Butenandt]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
| |
| ** [[Ron Luciano]], American baseball umpire (b. [[1937]])
| |
| * [[January 22]]
| |
| ** [[Jerry Blackwell]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1949]])
| |
| ** [[Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy]], American philanthropist and mother of President John F. Kennedy (b. [[1890]])
| |
| * [[January 26]] – [[Geoffrey Parsons (pianist)|Geoffrey Parsons]], Australian pianist (b. [[1929]])
| |
| * [[January 30]] – [[Gerald Durrell]], British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. [[1925]])
| |
| * [[January 31]] – [[George Abbott]], American writer, director, and producer (b. [[1887]])
| |
| | |
| === February ===
| |
| [[File:Donald Pleasence in Eye of the Devil trailer 1.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Donald Pleasence]]]]
| |
| [[File:David Wayne in Adams Rib trailer.jpg|thumb|150px|[[David Wayne]]]]
| |
| * [[February 2]]
| |
| ** [[Fred Perry]], English tennis champion (b. [[1909]])
| |
| ** [[Donald Pleasence]], English actor (b. [[1919]])
| |
| * [[February 4]] – [[Patricia Highsmith]], American author (b. [[1921]])
| |
| * [[February 5]] – [[Doug McClure]], American actor (b. [[1935]])
| |
| * [[February 6]] – [[James Merrill]], American poet (b. [[1926]])
| |
| * [[February 8]] – [[Rachel Thomas]], Welsh actress (b. [[1905]])
| |
| * [[February 9]] – [[David Wayne]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
| |
| * [[February 12]]
| |
| ** [[Robert Bolt]], English writer (b. [[1924]])
| |
| ** [[Philip Taylor Kramer]], American musician (b. [[1952]])
| |
| * [[February 14]] – [[U Nu]], Burmese politician (b. [[1907]])
| |
| * [[February 19]]
| |
| ** [[Nicholas Fairbairn|Sir Nicholas Fairbairn]], British politician (b. [[1933]])
| |
| ** [[John Howard (American actor)|John Howard]], American actor (b. [[1913]])
| |
| * [[February 22]] – [[Ed Flanders]], American actor (b. [[1934]])
| |
| * [[February 23]]
| |
| ** [[Melvin Franklin]], American singer (b. [[1942]])
| |
| ** [[James Herriot]], English veterinarian and author (b. [[1916]])
| |
| * [[February 24]]
| |
| ** [[Hideko Maehata]], Japanese swimmer (b. [[1914]])
| |
| ** [[Tatsumi Kumashiro]], Japanese film director (b. [[1927]])
| |
| * [[February 26]] – [[Jack Clayton]], British film director (b. [[1921]])
| |
| | |
| === March ===
| |
| [[File:Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.jpg|thumbnail|150px|[[Selena]]]]
| |
| * [[March 1]] – [[Vladislav Listyev]], [[Russia]]n [[journalist]] (b. [[1956]]).
| |
| * [[March 3]] – [[Howard W. Hunter]], American Mormon leader (b. [[1907]])
| |
| * [[March 5]] – [[Vivian Stanshall]], English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. [[1943]])
| |
| * [[March 7]] – [[Georges J. F. Köhler]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1946]])
| |
| * [[March 8]] – [[Ingo Schwichtenberg]], German drummer (b. [[1965]])
| |
| * [[March 12]] – [[Juanin Clay]], American actress (b. [[1949]])
| |
| * [[March 13]]
| |
| ** [[Leon Day]], American baseball player (b. [[1916]])
| |
| ** [[Odette Hallowes]], French World War II heroine (b. [[1912]])
| |
| * [[March 14]] – [[William Alfred Fowler]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1911]])
| |
| * [[March 16]] – [[Albert Hackett]], American dramatist and screenwriter (b. [[1900]])
| |
| * [[March 17]]
| |
| ** [[Kray twins|Ronald Kray]], British [[organised crime]] leader (b. [[1933]])
| |
| ** [[Rick Aviles]], American actor (b. [[1952]])
| |
| * [[March 18]] – [[Robin Jacques]], English illustrator (b. [[1920]])
| |
| * [[March 19]]
| |
| ** [[Nike Ardilla]], Indonesian singer (b. [[1975]])
| |
| ** [[Yasuo Yamada]], Japanese voice actor (b. [[1932]])
| |
| * [[March 20]]
| |
| ** [[Sidney Kingsley]], American dramatist (b. [[1906]])
| |
| ** [[Big John Studd|John William Minton]] American Wrestler (Big John Studd) (b. [[1948]])
| |
| * [[March 22]] – [[Peter Woods (journalist)|Peter Woods]], British journalist, reporter and newsreader (b. [[1930]])
| |
| * [[March 23]] – [[Davie Cooper]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1956]])
| |
| * [[March 26]] – [[Eazy-E]], American rapper and record producer (b. [[1963]])
| |
| * [[March 27]] – [[Maurizio Gucci]], Italian businessman (b. [[1948]])
| |
| * [[March 28]] – [[Hugh O'Connor]], American actor the son of Carroll O'Connor (b. [[1962]])
| |
| * [[March 29]]
| |
| ** [[Tony Lock]], English cricketer (b. [[1929]])
| |
| ** [[Jimmy McShane]] (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish dancer (b. [[1957]])
| |
| * [[March 31]] – [[Selena|Selena Quintanilla-Pérez]], Mexican American singer (b. [[1971]])
| |
| | |
| === April ===
| |
| [[File:Arturo Frondizi 2.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Arturo Frondizi]]]]
| |
| * [[April 2]]
| |
| ** [[Harvey Penick]], American golfer (b. [[1904]])
| |
| ** [[Hannes Alfvén]], Swedish chemist, Nobel-prize (b.[[1908]])
| |
| * [[April 4]]
| |
| ** [[Kenny Everett]], British comedian (b. [[1944]])
| |
| ** [[Priscilla Lane]], American actress (b. [[1915]])
| |
| * [[April 10]]
| |
| ** [[Morarji Desai]], Indian politician (b. [[1896]])
| |
| ** [[Glyn Jones (Welsh writer)|Glyn Jones]], Welsh writer (b. [[1905]])
| |
| * [[April 14]] – [[Burl Ives]], American singer and actor (b. [[1909]])
| |
| * [[April 15]] – [[Harry Shoulberg]], American painter and [[Serigraphy|serigrapher]] (b. [[1903]])
| |
| * [[April 16]] – [[Cy Endfield]], American screenwriter (b. [[1914]])
| |
| * [[April 18]] – [[Arturo Frondizi]], President of [[Argentina]] (b. [[1908]])
| |
| * [[April 20]] – [[Milovan Đilas]], Yugoslavian Marxist (b. [[1911]])
| |
| * [[April 23]] – [[Howard Cosell]], American sportscaster (b. [[1918]])
| |
| * [[April 24]] – [[Art Fleming]], American actor and game show host (b. [[1924]])
| |
| * [[April 25]]
| |
| ** [[Ginger Rogers]], American actress and dancer (b. [[1911]])
| |
| ** [[Alexander Knox]], Canadian actor (b. [[1907]])
| |
| ** [[Andrea Fortunato]], Italian football player (b. [[1971]])
| |
| | |
| === May ===
| |
| [[File:Harold Wilson Number 10 official.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Harold Wilson]]]]
| |
| *[[May 1]] – [[Antonio Salemme]], Italian born American artist (b. [[1895]])
| |
| * [[May 2]] – [[Michael Hordern]], English actor (b. [[1911]])
| |
| * [[May 5]]
| |
| ** [[Ye Qianyu]], Chinese painter and [[manhua]] artist (b. [[1907]])
| |
| ** [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], Russian chess player (b. [[1911]])
| |
| ** [[Al Sanders]], American news anchorman (b. [[1941]])
| |
| * [[May 6]] – [[Noel Brotherston]], Irish footballer (b. [[1956]])
| |
| * [[May 8]] – [[Teresa Teng]], Taiwanese singer (b. [[1953]])
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| * [[May 9]] – [[Marguerite Jones]], Canadian professional baseball player (b. [[1917]])
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| * [[May 12]]
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| ** [[Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman]], British lawyer and political adviser (b. [[1915]])
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| ** [[Arthur Lubin]], American film director (b. [[1898]])
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| * [[May 14]] – [[Christian B. Anfinsen]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1916]])
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| * [[May 15]]
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| ** [[Eric Porter]], English actor (b. [[1928]])
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| ** [[Woldeab Woldemariam]], Eritrean Politician (b. [[1905]])
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| ** [[Ben Bubar]], American activist (b. [[1917]])
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| * [[May 18]]
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| ** [[Elisha Cook, Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
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| ** [[Alexander Godunov]], Russian-born ballet dancer and actor (b. [[1949]])
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| ** [[Elizabeth Montgomery]], American actress (b. [[1933]])
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| * [[May 24]]
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| ** [[Dan Fortmann]], American football player ([[Chicago Bears]]) and member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1916]])
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| ** [[Harold Wilson]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1916]])
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| * [[May 25]] – [[Jack Allen (actor)|Jack Allen]], English actor (b. [[1907]])
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| * [[May 26]] – [[Friz Freleng]], American animator (b. [[1906]])
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| * [[May 27]] – [[Severn Darden]], American actor (b. [[1929]])
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| * [[May 28]] – [[Irfan Ljubijankic]], Bosnian diplomat (b. [[1952]])
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| * [[May 30]] – [[Ted Drake]], English footballer (b. [[1912]])
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| === June ===
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| [[File:Warren e burger photo.jpeg|thumb|150px|[[Warren E. Burger]]]]
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| * [[June 3]] – [[Frank Waters]], American Writer (b. [[1902]])
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| * [[June 7]] – [[Hsuan Hua]], Chinese Buddhist master (b. [[1918]])
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| * [[June 12]] – [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]], Italian pianist (b. [[1920]])
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| * [[June 14]]
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| **[[Roger Zelazny]], American writer of fantasy (b. [[1937]])
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| **[[Rory Gallagher]], Irish [[blues]]-[[guitarist]], [[singer-songwriter]] and [[Taste (band)|Taste]] frontman (b. [[1948]])
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| * [[June 15]] – [[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)|Charles Bennett]], English screenwriter (b. [[1899]])
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| * [[June 20]] – [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. [[1911]])
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| * [[June 23]] – [[Jonas Salk]], American medical researcher (b. [[1914]])
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| * [[June 25]]
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| **[[Warren E. Burger]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1907]])
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| ** [[Ernest Walton]], Irish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
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| * [[June 29]] – [[Lana Turner]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
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| * [[June 30]]
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| ** [[Georgi Beregovoi]], Russian cosmonaut (b. [[1921]])
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| ** [[Gale Gordon]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
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| === July ===
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| [[File:Fangio.png|thumb|120px|[[Juan Manuel Fangio]]]]
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| * [[July 1]] – [[Wolfman Jack]], American disc jockey (b. [[1938]])
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| * [[July 3]] – [[Pancho Gonzales]], American tennis champion (b. [[1928]])
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| * [[July 4]]
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| ** [[Eva Gabor]], Hungarian actress (b. [[1919]])
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| ** [[Bob Ross]], American television painter (b. [[1942]])
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| * [[July 5]] – [[Takeo Fukuda]], Japanese politician (b. [[1905]])
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| * [[July 16]]
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| ** [[Patsy Ruth Miller]], American actress (b. [[1904]])
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| ** [[Stephen Spender]], English poet and writer (b. [[1909]])
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| * [[July 17]]
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| ** [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], Argentine race car driver (b. [[1911]])
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| ** [[Harry Guardino]], American actor (b. [[1925]])
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| * [[July 18]] – [[Fabio Casartelli]], Italian cyclist (b. [[1970]])
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| * [[July 19]] – [[Tomás Méndez|Tomas Mendez]], Mexican composer (b. [[1921]])
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| * [[July 19]] – [[Genevieve Tobin]], American actress (b. [[1899]])
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| * [[July 24]]
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| ** [[Marjorie Cameron]], American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. [[1922]])
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| ** [[George Rodger]], British photojournalist (b. [[1908]])
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| * [[July 25]] – [[Charlie Rich]], American singer (b. [[1932]])
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| * [[July 27]]
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| ** [[Rick Ferrell]], American baseball player ([[History of the Washington Senators (1901-1960)|Washington Senators]], [[St. Louis Browns]]) and member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. 1905)
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| ** [[Miklós Rózsa]], Hungarian composer (b. [[1907]])
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| * [[July 29]] – [[Philippe De Lacy]], American actor (b. [[1917]])
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| === August ===
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| [[File:Grateful Dead - Jerry Garcia.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Jerry Garcia]]]]
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| * [[August 1]] – [[Esther Muir]], American actress (b. [[1903]])
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| * [[August 3]]
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| ** [[Ida Lupino]], British actress (b. [[1914]])
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| ** [[Edward Whittemore]], American author and Central Intelligence agent (b. [[1933]])
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| * [[August 4]] – [[J. Howard Marshall]], American billionaire (b. [[1905]])
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| * [[August 7]] – [[Brigid Brophy]], English author (b. [[1929]])
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| * [[August 9]] – [[Jerry Garcia]], American guitarist (b. [[1942]])
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| * [[August 11]] – [[Phil Harris]], American actor (b. [[1904]])
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| * [[August 12]] – [[Felipe Tromp]], 1st Governor of [[Aruba]] (b. [[1917]])
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| * [[August 13]] – [[Mickey Mantle]], American baseball player ([[New York Yankees]]) and member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1931]])
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| * [[August 15]] – [[John Cameron Swayze]], American journalist (b. [[1906]])
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| * [[August 17]] – [[Howard Koch (screenwriter)|Howard Koch]], American screenwriter (b. [[1901]])
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| * [[August 19]] – [[Pierre Schaeffer]], French composer (b. [[1910]])
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| * [[August 21]] – [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]], Indian-born astrophysicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1910]])
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| * [[August 22]] – [[Johnny Carey]], Irish football player and manager. (b. [[1919]])
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| * [[August 24]]
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| ** [[Gary Crosby (actor)|Gary Crosby]], American singer and actor (b. [[1933]])
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| ** [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]], German-American photographer (b. [[1898]])
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| * [[August 29]]
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| ** [[Michael Ende]], German author (b. [[1929]])
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| ** [[Frank Perry]], American film director (b. [[1930]])
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| * [[August 30]]
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| ** [[Fischer Black]], American economist (b. [[1938]])
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| ** [[Sterling Morrison]], American guitarist (b. [[1942]])
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| === September ===
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| [[File:GunnarNordahl.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gunnar Nordahl]]]]
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| [[File:Madalyn Murray O'Hair.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Madalyn Murray O'Hair]]]]
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| * [[September 2]] – [[Gloria Roeder]], 1960's TV Fitness instructor (b. [[1923]])
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| * [[September 7]] – [[Russell Johnson (cartoonist)|Russell Johnson]], cartoonist (b. [[1893]])
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| * [[September 12]] – [[Jeremy Brett]], English actor (b. [[1933]])
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| * [[September 15]]
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| ** [[Harry Calder]], South African cricketer (b. [[1901]])
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| ** [[Dietrich Hrabak]], German World War II flying ace (b. [[1914]])
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| ** [[Gunnar Nordahl]], Swedish footballer (b. [[1921]])
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| * [[September 17]] – [[Grady Sutton]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
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| * [[September 19]] – [[Orville Redenbacher]], American entrepreneur and businessman (b. [[1907]])
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| * [[September 20]] – [[Eileen Chang]], Chinese writer (b. [[1920]])
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| * [[September 25]] – [[Kei Tomiyama]], Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator (b. [[1938]])
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| * [[September 29]] – [[Madalyn Murray O'Hair]], atheist activist (b. [[1919]])
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| ** [[Annie Elizabeth Delany]], American physician and author (b. [[1891]])
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| ** [[Pedro Nolasco]], Dominican boxer (b. [[1963]])
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| === October ===
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| [[File:Alec Douglas Home Allan Warren cropped.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Alec Douglas-Home]]]]
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| * [[October 1]] – [[Margaret Gorman]], First [[Miss America]] winner (b. [[1905]])
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| * [[October 5]] – [[Linda Gary]], American voice actress (b. [[1944]])
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| * [[October 9]] – [[Alec Douglas-Home]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1903]])
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| * [[October 21]]
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| ** [[Maxene Andrews]], American singer (b. [[1916]])
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| ** [[Jesús Blasco]], Spanish comic book author (b. [[1919]])
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| ** [[Shannon Hoon]], American singer (b. [[1967]])
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| * [[October 22]]
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| ** [[Kingsley Amis]], English writer (b. [[1922]])
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| ** [[Mary Wickes]], American actress (b. [[1910]])
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| * [[October 25]]
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| ** [[Viveca Lindfors]], Swedish actress (b. [[1920]])
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| ** [[Bobby Riggs]], American tennis champion (b. [[1918]])
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| * [[October 26]]
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| ** [[Gorni Kramer]], Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. [[1913]])
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| ** [[Wilhelm Freddie]], Danish painter (b. [[1909]])
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| * [[October 29]] – [[Terry Southern]], American screenwriter (b. [[1924]])
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| === November ===
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| [[File:Yitzhak Rabin (1986) cropped.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Yitzhak Rabin]]]]
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| * [[November 4]]
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| ** [[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1922]])
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| ** [[Gilles Deleuze]], French philosopher (b. [[1925]])
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| ** [[Paul Eddington]], English actor (b. [[1927]])
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| * [[November 6]] – [[Aneta Corsaut]], American actress (b. [[1933]])
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| * [[November 7]] – [[Ann Dunham]], American anthropologist and mother of [[Barack Obama]], the 44th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1942]])
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| * [[November 12]] – [[Robert Stephens]], British actor (b. [[1931]])
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| * [[November 13]] – [[Ralph Blane]], American composer (b. [[1914]])
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| * [[November 20]] – [[Sergei Grinkov]], Russian figure skater (b. [[1967]])
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| * [[November 21]] – [[Noel Jones (diplomat)|Noel Jones]], British diplomat (b. [[1940]])
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| * – [[Bruno Gerussi]], Canadian actor who played Nick Adonidas on TV's "The Beachcombers". (b. [[1928]])
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| * [[November 22]] – [[Elisa Izquierdo]], American murder victim (b. [[1989]])
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| * [[November 23]] – [[Louis Malle]], French film director (b. [[1932]])
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| * [[November 24]] – [[Jeffrey Lynn]], American actor (b. [[1909]])
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| * [[November 30]] – [[Stretch (rapper)|Stretch]], American rapper and record producer (b. [[1972]])
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| === December ===
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| [[File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Konrad Zuse]]]]
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| [[File:Dean Martin - Rio Bravo 1959.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Dean Martin]]]]
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| * [[December 2]]
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| ** [[Roxie Roker]], American actress (b. [[1929]])
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| ** [[Robertson Davies]], Canadian novelist (b. [[1913]])
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| * [[December 3]] – [[Jimmy Jewel]], English actor (b. [[1909]])
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| * [[December 7]] – [[Kathleen Harrison]], British actress (b. [[1892]])
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| * [[December 9]] – [[Vivian Blaine]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
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| * [[December 10]] – [[Darren Robinson (rapper)|Darren Robinson]], American rapper and actor (b. [[1967]])
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| * [[December 16]] – [[Johnny Moss]], American poker player (b. [[1907]])
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| * [[December 18]] – [[Konrad Zuse]], German engineer (b. [[1910]])
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| * [[December 20]] – [[Madge Sinclair]], Jamaican-American actress (b. [[1938]])
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| * [[December 22]]
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| ** [[Butterfly McQueen]], American actress (b. [[1911]])
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| ** [[James Meade]], English economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1907]])
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| * [[December 23]] – [[Patric Knowles]], English actor (b. [[1911]])
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| * [[December 25]]
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| ** [[Nicolas Slonimsky]], Russian-American musicologist (b. [[1894]])
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| ** [[Dean Martin]], American actor, singer, comedian, and entertainer (b. [[1917]])
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| * [[December 28]] – [[Virginius Dabney]], American teacher, writer, journalist and editor (b. [[1901]])
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| * [[December 30]]
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| ** [[Doris Grau]], American actress (b. [[1924]])
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| ** [[Heiner Müller]], German poet and playwright (b. [[1929]])
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| == Nobel Prizes ==
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| [[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
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| * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Martin L. Perl]], [[Frederick Reines]]
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| * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Paul J. Crutzen]], [[Mario J. Molina]], [[F. Sherwood Rowland]]
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| * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Edward B. Lewis]], [[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]], [[Eric F. Wieschaus]]
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| * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Seamus Heaney]]
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| * [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] – [[Robert Lucas, Jr.]]
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| * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Joseph Rotblat]] and the [[Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs]]
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| == References ==
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| {{Portal|1990s}}
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| {{Reflist}}
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| * [http://web.archive.org/web/20010701023318/www.cnn.com/EVENTS/year_in_review/ 1995: A look back] - [[CNN]]
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| * [http://web.archive.org/web/20010406003629/www.cnn.com/EVENTS/year_in_review/capsule/index.html CNN Time Capsule: The Defining Moments of 1995] - [[CNN]]
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:1995}}
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| [[Category:1995| ]]
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