Year '1996' ('
MCMXCVI') was a
leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996
Gregorian calendar).
The year 1996 was designated the ''International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. It was also the
Chinese New Year of the
Rat, a year traditionally feared for
natural disasters.
Events of 1996
January
★
January 5 -
Hamas operative
Yahya Ayyash is killed by an
Israeli-planted
booby-trapped
cell phone.
★
January 7 - One of the worst
blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 100.
★
January 8 - A
Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital
Kinshasa - 350 dead.
★
January 9 - Art forger
Eric Hebborn is assassinated in
Rome, Italy.
★
January 14 -
Jorge Sampaio is elected president of
Portugal.
★
January 20 -
Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the
Palestinian Authority.
★
January 22 -
Andreas Papandreou,
Prime Minister of Greece, resigns due to health problems; a new government forms under
Costas Simitis.
★
January 23 - The first version of the
Java programming language is released.
★
January 24 - Polish Premier
Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for
Moscow.
★
January 26 -
Whitewater scandal: U.S. First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
★
January 26 - U.S. millionaire
John Dupont shoots wrestler
David Schultz.
★
January 27 - Colonel
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of
Niger,
Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
★
January 28 - The
Dallas Cowboys become the first NFL franchise to win 3
Super Bowls in a span of 4 seasons, as they defeat the
Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in
Super Bowl XXX at
Sun Devil Stadium in
Tempe,
Arizona. It is the
Cowboys 5th
Super Bowl championship.
★
January 29 - President
Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French
nuclear testing.
★
January 29 - Fire destroys
La Fenice,
Venice's opera house.
★
January 29 -
Imia-Kardak crisis: A
Greek flag is hoisted on a small rocky island named
Imia (
Greek) / Kardak (
Turkish).
★
January 30 -
Irish National Liberation Army leader
Gino Gallagher is killed in an internal feud, while in line for his unemployment benefits.
★
January 30-
February 5 -
Sarah Balabagan is caned in the
United Arab Emirates.
★
January 31 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in
Colombo,
Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
February
★
February 8 - An IRA ceasefire ends with a 1-ton bomb in London's
Canary Wharf District, killing 2 and causing over 1 billion pounds worth of damage.
★
February 9 - Discovery of the element Ununbium
★
February 10 -
Chess computer "
Deep Blue" defeats world
chess champion
Garry Kasparov for the first time.
★
February 15 - In south-west
Wales, the
Sea Empress oil tanker runs aground, spilling 73,000 tonnes of crude oil, killing many birds.
★
February 15 - The U.S. Embassy in
Athens, Greece comes under mortar fire.
★
February 17 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Garry Kasparov beats "
Deep Blue" in a second
chess match.
★
February 18 - An IRA briefcase bomb in a bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in the
West End of London.
★
February 29 - In
Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of
James Jordan, the father of basketball star
Michael Jordan.
March
★
March 1 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces refuse
UNSCOM inspection teams access to 5 sites designated for inspection. The teams enter the sites only after delays of up to 17 hours.
★
March 2 -
John Howard is elected
Prime Minister of Australia in a landslide, over the
Labor Party's Paul Keating.
★
March 2 - Ranabima Royal College, Sri Lanka, is established.
★
March 9 -
Jorge Sampaio is the new
Portuguese president.
★
March 13 - The
Dunblane Massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper
Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in
Scotland and opens fire, killing 16 students and 1 teacher before fatally shooting himself.
★
March 17 -
Sri Lanka wins the Cricket World Cup by storming to a famous victory against the tournament favourite
Australia.
★
March 19 -
Sarajevo becomes a united city again when
Bosniak authorities take control of the last district held by
Serbs.
★
March 20 - In
Los Angeles, California,
Lyle and Erik Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
★
March 20 - The
British Government announces that
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been likely transmitted to people.
★
March 23 - The
Republic of China on
Taiwan holds its first direct elections for president;
Lee Teng-hui is re-elected.
★
March 25 - An 81-day long standoff between antigovernment
Freemen in
Jordan, Montana and federal officers begins.
★
March 26 - The
International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan to
Russia for economic reform.
★
March 28 - Fire breaks out at the Pasar Anyar shopping centre in
Bogor,
West Java. The first death toll estimate is 78 until rescuers notice that 68 of them are
mannequins.
★
March 28 - Three
British soldiers are found guilty of the manslaughter of
Danish tour guide
Louise Jensen in
Cyprus.
Allan Ford,
Justin Fowler and
Geoffrey Pernell receive life sentences for their crime, which was committed in
September 1994.
★
March 30 - The
Jeff Kennett government is re-elected in
Victoria with a 30 seat majority.
April
★
April 1 - The
Halifax Regional Municipality in
Nova Scotia is created.
★
April 2 - U.S.
Mafioso John Gotti is found guilty of murdering
Paul Castellano.
★
April 3 - A plane carrying
United States Commerce Secretary
Ron Brown crashes near
Dubrovnik,
Croatia.
★
April 3 - Suspected "Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his
Montana cabin.
★
April 3 - A
Lunar eclipse occurs.
★
April 3 -
Panathinaikos FC beats
Ajax Amsterdam in Amsterdam 0-1 in the semi-finals of Champions League. The winning goal is scored by
Krzysztof Warzycha in the 89th minute of the match
★
April 6 -
Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31,683 packed
Spartan Stadium to witness the historic first game.
San Jose Clash forward
Eric Wynalda scored the league's first goal in a 1-0 victory over
D. C. United.
★
April 12 -
Jessica Dubroff, aged 7, is killed in a crash near
Cheyenne, Wyoming while attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States.
★
April 16 - The NBA's 1995-1996
Chicago Bulls, with
Michael Jordan's lead, go on to set a new NBA record for the most wins in a season, achieving their 70th win.
★
April 18 -
Qana Massacre: Over 100
Lebanese civilians are killed after Israel shells the
UN compound in
Qana.
★
April 28 -
Port Arthur massacre:
Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the
Port Arthur, Tasmania tourist site,
Australia.
May
★
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents.
★
May 8 - dedication of the
Keck 2 telescope
★
May 10 - A sudden storm engulfs
Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead. By the end of the month, at least 4 other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.
★
May 11 - After takeoff from
Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly-handled
oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of
Atlanta-bound
ValuJet Flight 592 causes the
Douglas DC-9 to crash in the
Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
★
May 13 - Severe
thunderstorms and a
tornado in
Bangladesh kill 600.
★
May 20 -
Gay rights: The
Supreme Court of the United States rules (''
Romer v. Evans'') against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of
Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of
homosexuals.
★
May 21 - The ''
MV Bukoba'' sinks in
Tanzanian waters in
Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000 in one of
Africa's worst maritime disasters.
★
May 21 - The
Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
★
May 23 - Swede
Göran Kropp reaches the
Mount Everest summit alone without
oxygen, after having bicycled there from
Sweden.
★
May 27 -
First Chechnya War:
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin meets with
Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
★
May 31 -
FIFA decides to give the
FIFA World Cup 2002, the first World Cup in
Asia, to
Japan and
South Korea, becoming the first World Cup with co-host countries in the history of the event.
June
★
Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
★
June 7 - An
IRA gang murders Detective Garda
Jerry McCabe during a botched armed robbery in Adare,
County Limerick.
★
June 8 -
Steffi Graf defeats
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the longest ever women's final at the
French Open to win her 19th
Grand Slam title.
★
June 10 - Peace talks begin in
Northern Ireland without
Sinn Féin.
★
June 10 - The
Colorado Avalanche win their first Stanley Cup, defeating the
Florida Panthers 4 games to none. Avalanche captain
Joe Sakic wins the
Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
★
June 12 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the
internet. The panel says that the 1996
Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the
free speech rights of adults.
★
June 13 - An 81-day standoff between the
Montana Freemen and
FBI agents ends with their surrender in
Montana.
★
June 15 - In
Manchester,
UK, a
massive IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
★
June 16 - The
Chicago Bulls win their 4th
NBA championship by defeating the
Seattle Supersonics in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
★
June 23 - The
Nintendo 64 video game system is released in
Japan.
★
June 25 - The
Khobar Towers bombing in
Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
★
June 26 - Journalist
Veronica Guerin is shot and killed in her car just outside
Dublin.
★
June 29 -
The Prince's Trust concert is held in
Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people.
The Who headlines the event in their first performance since
1989.
★
June 30 -
Costas Simitis is elected President of the
Panhellenic Socialist Movement of
Greece.
★
June 30 -
Germany beats the
Czech Republic 2-1 with a
Golden goal to win
Euro 96.
July
★
Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector
Scott Ritter attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport, but is blocked by
Iraqi officials.
★ The
Prague Manifesto declares the principles of the
Esperanto movement.
★
July 1 - The
Northern Territory in
Australia legalises voluntary
euthanasia.
★
July 5 -
Dolly the sheep, the first
mammal to be successfully
cloned from an adult
cell, is born at the
Roslin Institute in
Midlothian,
Scotland.
★
July 8 -
Martina Hingis becomes the youngest person in
history (age 15 years and 282 days) to win at
Wimbledon in the Ladies' Doubles event.
★
July 17 -
Paris-bound
TWA Flight 800 (
Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of
Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
★
July 18 - Howard Hughes is sentenced to life imprisonment at
Chester Crown Court for the rape and murder of 7-year-old
Sophie Hook at
Llandudno 12 months previously. The trial judge recommends that Hughes, 31, should never be released.
★
July 19 - The
1996 Summer Olympics in
Atlanta,
United States, is opened by U.S. President
Bill Clinton.
★
July 21 - Storms provoke severe
flooding on the
Saguenay River in
Quebec, in one of
Canada's most costly
natural disasters.
★
July 27 - The
Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the
1996 Summer Olympics kills 1 and injures 111.
★
July 29 - The child protection portion of the
Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
August
The electron microscope revealed chain structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001
★
August 1 -
Sarah Balabagan returns to the
Philippines.
★
August 4 - The
1996 Summer Olympics conclude.
★
August 6 -
NASA announces that the
ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from
Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
★
August 6 - The
Australian
census is conducted.
★
August 7 - Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near
Huesca,
Spain.
★
August 11 - The British rock band
Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in UK history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
★
August 13 - Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be
water on one of
Jupiter's moons.
★
August 15 -
Bob Dole is nominated for President, and
Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the
Republican National Convention in
San Diego,
California.
★
August 23 -
Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," his first open call for war.
★
August 28 - Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the
High Court of Justice in
London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled
Diana, Princess of Wales.
★
August 29 - U.S. President
Bill Clinton and Vice President
Al Gore are renominated at the
Democratic National Convention in
Chicago.
★
August 31 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces launch an offensive into the northern
No-Fly Zone and capture Arbil.
★
August 31 - The
Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between
Kansas State University and
Texas Tech University in
Manhattan, Kansas.
September
★
September 1 - The
Fitzroy Football Club (established 1883) plays its last ever game in the
Australian Football League, against
Fremantle at
Subiaco Oval. The following season the club merges with the
Brisbane Bears, ending a long history of the club in the
VFL/AFL.
★
September 2 - A permanent peace agreement is signed at the
Malacañang Palace between the
Government of the Philippines and the
Moro National Liberation Front.
★
September 3 - The U.S. launches
Operation Desert Strike against
Iraq in reaction to the attack on Arbil.
★
September 4 -
War on Drugs: The
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attack a military base in
Guaviare,
Colombia, starting 3 weeks of
guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130
Colombians.
★
September 7 - Rap legend
Tupac Shakur is shot in
Las Vegas, Nevada following the
Mike Tyson bout; he dies 6 days later on
September 13.
★
September 19 - The scoreboard at Buffalo's US$127.5 million dollar
HSBC Arena falls to the ice just hours before a
National Hockey League game; no one is injured.
★
September 22 - The
Panhellenic Socialist Movement under the leadership of
Costas Simitis succeeds in the 1996 Greek legislative election.
★
September 25 - The last of the
Magdalen Asylums is closed in
Ireland.
★
September 27 - In
Afghanistan, the
Taliban capture the capital city of
Kabul, after driving out President
Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader
Mohammad Najibullah.
October
★
October 2 - The
Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President
Bill Clinton.
★
October 2 - The former prime minister of
Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated.
★
October 14 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to close at 6,010.00, the Dow's first close above 6,000.
★
October 23 - The
O.J. Simpson civil trial begins in
Santa Monica, California.
★
October 29 - The
New York Yankees defeat the
Atlanta Braves in 6 games to win their 23rd
World Series title.
John Wetteland is named
Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the series.
★
October 30 - Fighting erupts when Banyamulenga
Tutsis of
Laurent Kabila in
Zaire seize
Uvira and proceed to kill
Hutu refugees.
November
★
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country
★
November 5 -
U.S. presidential election, 1996:
Democrat incumbent
Bill Clinton defeats
Republican challenger
Bob Dole to win his second term.
★
November 7 - A devastating
category 4 Cyclone strikes
Andhra Pradesh,
India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 persons die. 95 percent of the crops are completely destroyed.
★
November 7 -
NASA launches the
Mars Global Surveyor.
★
November 10 - Rapper
Yaki Kadafi, born Yafeu Fula, is shot to death in
New Jersey at the age of 19.
★
November 12 - Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 has a mid-air collision with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.
★
November 15 -
State Street in
Chicago is re-opened to pedestrian traffic.
★
November 16 -
Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
★
November 18 - World-renowned
bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to 7 years in prison without
parole for leading an illegal
parrot smuggling ring.
★
November 18 - Martyn Bryant is sentenced to life imprisonment, 2 weeks after confessing to murdering 35 people in
Tasmania earlier this year.
★
November 19 -
STS-80: was the longest mission of the
Space Shuttle program, flew by
Space Shuttle Columbia.
★
November 21 - A
propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in
San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
★
November 23 - The
Republic of Angola officially joins the
World Trade Organization, as ''Angola''.
★
November 23 -
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the
Indian Ocean off the coast of
Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.
★
November 25 - An
ice storm strikes the U.S., killing 26 directly, hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts
Florida; winds gust to 90 mph.
★
November 25 - The U.S.
stock market, especially the
Dow Jones Industrial Average, gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 Presidential election. It gains 10 days in a row during the month.
December
★
December 2 - U.S. President
Bill Clinton signs the
Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments.
★
December 5 -
Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Alan Greenspan gives a speech in which he suggests that "
irrational exuberance" may have "unduly escalated asset values".
★
December 12 -
Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
★
December 17 - The
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the
Japanese Embassy in
Lima,
Peru.
★
December 20 -
Steve Jobs's company
NeXT is bought by
Apple Computer, the company co-founded by Jobs.
★
December 26 - Start of the
largest strike in
South Korean history.
★
December 26 - Six-year-old
JonBenét Ramsey is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado.
★
December 27 -
Taliban forces retake the strategic
Bagram air base, which solidifies their buffer zone around
Kabul.
★
December 29 -
Guatemala and the leaders of the
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year
civil war.
★
December 30 - In the
Indian state of
Assam, a passenger train is bombed by
Bodo separatists, killing 26.
★
December 30 - Proposed budget cuts by
Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers, who shut down services across
Israel.
★
December 31 - The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with the
Burlington Northern Railroad to form the
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U.S. history.
Undated
★
General Motors EV1 launched. The EV1 is the first electric car to go into mass production.
Ongoing
★ The
search-engine revolution.
Fictional
The following are references to year 1996 in fiction:
★ The 1991 film ''
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man'' starting
Mickey Rourke and
Don Johnson takes place in 1996.
Births
★
January 1 -
Mary Gibbs, American actress
★
January 5 -
Max Baldry, English/Russian actor
★
January 29 -
Megan Jossa, English actress
★
February 7 -
Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
★
February 9 -
Jimmy Bennett, American actor
★
February 17 -
Sasha Pieterse, South African actress
★
February 28 -
Bobbe' J. Thompson, American actor
★
March 6 -
Savanah Stehlin, American actress
★
March 18 -
Madeline Carroll, American actress
★
April 14 -
Abigail Breslin, American actress
★
April 17 -
Dee Dee Davis, American actress
★
April 25 -
Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
★
May 2 -
Megan McKinnon, Canadian actress
★
July 5 -
Dolly the Sheep, first cloned mammal (d.
2003)
★
July 23 -
Rachel G. Fox, American actress
★
August 7 -
Tessa Allen, American actress
★
August 17 -
Ella Cruz, Filipina actress
★
August 21 -
Jamia Simone Nash, American actress
★
August 23 -
Eliza Pineda, Filipina actress
★
September 8 -
Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress
★
September 27 -
Princess Iman bint Al Abdullah II
★
October 3 -
Adair Tishler, American actress
★
October 8 -
Kylee Russell, American actress
★
October 28 -
Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
★
October 28 -
Naelee Rae, American actress
★
November 3 -
Aria Wallace, American actress
★
November 22 -
Madison Davenport, American actress and singer
★
November 27 -
Alexandra Astin, American actress
Deaths
January
★
January 2 -
Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b.
1915)
★
January 5 -
Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b.
1966)
★
January 8 -
François Mitterrand,
President of France (b.
1916)
★
January 9 -
Fearless Nadia, Indian actress and stuntwoman (b.
1908)
★
January 9 -
Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor (b.
1938)
★
January 15 -
Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b.
1922)
★
January 15 - Paramount Chief
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b.
1938)
★
January 17 -
Barbara Jordan, American politician (b.
1936)
★
January 18 -
Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b.
1908)
★
January 18 -
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor (b.
1923)
★
January 20 -
Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b.
1927)
★
January 25 -
Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b.
1960)
★
January 28 -
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1940)
★
January 28 -
Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b.
1914)
★
January 31 -
Gustave Solomon, American mathematician and engineer (b.
1930)
February
★
February 2 -
Gene Kelly, American actor (b.
1912)
★
February 3 -
Audrey Meadows, American actress (b.
1926)
★
February 6 -
Guy Madison, American actor (b.
1922)
★
February 7 -
Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b.
1925)
★
February 11 -
Kebby Musokotwane,
Prime Minister of Zambia (b.
1946)
★
February 11 -
Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b.
1921)
★
February 11 -
Phil Regan, American actor (b.
1906)
★
February 11 -
Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b.
1930)
★
February 12 -
Bob Shaw, Irish writer (b.
1931)
★
February 14 -
Bob Paisley, English football manager (b.
1919)
★
February 15 -
McLean Stevenson, American actor (b.
1929)
★
February 16 -
Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California (b.
1905)
★
February 16 -
Brownie McGhee, American musician (b.
1915)
★
February 16 -
Roger Bowen, American actor (b.
1932)
★
February 20 -
Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b.
1930)
★
February 21 -
Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b.
1913)
★
February 25 -
Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (murdered) (b.
1940)
★
February 26 -
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Polish composer (b.
1919)
March
★
March 3 -
Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b.
1914)
★
March 4 -
Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b.
1912)
★
March 9 -
George Burns, American actor and singer (b.
1896)
★
March 13 -
Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b.
1941)
★
March 16 -
Charlie Barnett, American actor (b.
1954)
★
March 17 -
René Clément, French film director (b.
1913)
★
March 18 -
Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
★
March 19 -
Virginia Henderson, American nurse theorist (b.
1897)
★
March 19 -
Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b.
1933)
★
March 25 -
John Snagge, British radio personality (b.
1904)
★
March 26 -
David Packard, American engineer (b.
1912)
★
March 29 -
Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer, teacher (b.
1926)
★
March 31 -
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (
The Gun Club and
The Cramps) (b.
1958)
April
★
April 1 -
Florence Buchsbaum, theater director and musician (b.
1926)
★
April 3 -
Carl Stokes, American politician (b.
1927)
★
April 4 -
Barney Ewell, American athlete (b.
1918)
★
April 4 -
Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b.
1912)
★
April 6 -
Greer Garson, English actress (b.
1904)
★
April 8 -
George W. Jenkins, American businessman (b.
1907)
★
April 20 -
Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (b.
1920)
★
April 21 -
Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen President (b.
1944)
★
April 22 -
Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b.
1927)
★
April 25 -
Saul Bass, American graphic designer (b.
1920)
★
April 26 -
Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b.
1918)
May
★
May 5 -
Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (b.
1922)
★
May 11 -
Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b.
1961)
★
May 15 -
Charles B. Fulton, American judge (b.
1910)
★
May 17 -
Kevin Gilbert, American musician, composer, and record producer (b.
1966)
★
May 17 -
Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b.
1959)
★
May 20 -
Jon Pertwee, British actor (b.
1919)
★
May 21 -
Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b.
1957)
★
May 22 -
Seymour H. Knox III, hockey team owner (b.
1926)
★
May 24 -
Jacob Druckman, American composer (b.
1928)
★
May 24 -
Joseph Mitchell, American writer (b.
1908)
★
May 25 -
Brad Nowell, American musician (b.
1968)
June
★
June 2 -
Ray Combs, American game show host, and comedian (suicide) (b.
1956)
★
June 2 -
Leon Garfield, English children's author (b.
1921)
★
June 6 -
George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1903)
★
June 10 -
Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b.
1906)
★
June 15 -
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b.
1917)
★
June 17 -
Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b.
1922)
★
June 19 -
G. David Schine, American businessman (b.
1927)
★
June 23 -
Andreas Papandreou,
Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1919)
★
June 26 -
Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (murdered) (b.
1958)
July
★
July 1 -
William T. Cahill, America politician (b.
1912)
★
July 5 -
Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (b.
1904)
★
July 12 -
Jonathan Melvoin, musician (b.
1961)
★
July 14 -
Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver (b.
1964)
★
July 15 -
Dana Hill, American actress (b.
1964)
★
July 20 -
Frantisek Planicka, Czech footballer (b.
1904)
★
July 28 -
Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist (b.
1908)
★
July 30 -
Claudette Colbert, French actress (b.
1903)
August
★
August 1 -
Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1897)
★
August 2 -
Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b.
1917)
★
August 8 -
Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905)
★
August 11 -
Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (b.
1914)
★
August 13 -
David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b.
1926)
September
★
September 1 -
Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b.
1909)
★
September 9 -
Bill Monroe, American "father of
bluegrass" music (b.
1911)
★
September 10 -
Hans List, Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer (b.
1896)
★
September 13 -
Tupac Amaru Shakur, American rapper and actor (b.
1971)
★
September 17 -
Spiro Agnew, American Vice President (b.
1918)
★
September 20 -
Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b.
1911)
★
September 21 -
Henri Nouwen, Dutch Catholic priest and author (b.
1932)
★
September 21 -
Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1926)
★
September 26 -
Nicu Ceauşescu, son of
Romanian leader
Nicolae Ceauşescu (b. 1951)
★
September 29 -
Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian & game show host (b.
1933)
October
★
October 4 -
Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b.
1913)
★
October 4 -
Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair)
★
October 12 -
René Lacoste, French tennis player (b.
1904)
★
October 16 -
Eric Malpass, English novelist (b.
1910)
★
October 16 -
Jason Bernard, American actor (b.
1938)
★
October 27 -
Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b.
1908)
November
★
November 2 -
Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (b.
1963)
★
November 3 -
Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist (b.
1956)
★
November 3 -
Jean-Bédel Bokassa of
Central African Republic/
Empire (b.
1921)
★
November 10 -
Yafeu Fula, rapper (b.
1977)
★
November 10 -
Imam Alimsultanov, Chechen bard (b.
1957)
★
November 14 -
Virginia Cherrill, actress (b.
1908)
★
November 15 -
Alger Hiss, U.S. State Department official (b.
1904)
★
November 21 -
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1926)
★
November 26 -
Mark Lenard, American actor (b.
1924)
★
November 26 -
Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b.
1914)
★
November 30 -
Tiny Tim, American musician (b.
1932)
December
★
December 3 -
Babrak Karmal,
President of Afghanistan (b.
1929)
★
December 6 -
Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League (b.
1926)
★
December 11 -
Willie Rushton, English comedian, actor, and cartoonist (b.
1937)
★
December 16 -
Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b.
1910)
★
December 20 -
Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b.
1934)
★
December 26 -
JonBenét Ramsey, child beauty queen and murder victim (b.
1990)
★
December 30 -
Lew Ayres, American actor (b.
1908)
Unknown dates
★ (none)
Environmental
★ The
invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in
New York.
Ship events
★
List of ship launches in 1996
★
List of ship decommissionings in 1996
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
David M. Lee,
Douglas D. Osheroff,
Robert C. Richardson
★
Chemistry -
Robert Curl,
Sir Harold Kroto,
Richard Smalley
★
Medicine -
Peter C. Doherty,
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
★
Literature -
Wislawa Szymborska
★
Peace -
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and
José Ramos Horta
★
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -
James Mirrlees,
William Vickrey
Templeton Prize
★
William R. "Bill" Bright
Right Livelihood Award
★
Herman Daly,
The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia,
Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishat and
George Vithoulkas
Fields Medal
★ (unknown)
See also
★
20th century
Notes
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