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Year '1992' ('
MCMXCII') was a
leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992
Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1992
January
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January 1 -
Boutros Boutros-Ghali of
Egypt replaces
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of
Peru as
United Nations Secretary-General.
★
January 1 -
George H. W. Bush becomes the first U.S. President to address the
Australian Parliament.
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January 6 -
Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within
Bosnia and Herzegovina, in protest of the decision by
Bosniaks and
Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition.
★
January 6 -
George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a
state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.
★
January 11 - Singer
Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour
South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
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January 12 - The second round of
Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the
Islamic Salvation Front.
★
January 13 -
Japan apologizes for forcing
Korean women into sexual slavery during
World War II.
★
January 13 -
Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys.
★
January 15 - The
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up.
Slovenia and
Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
★
January 16 -
El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in
Mexico City ending a 12-year
civil war that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
★
January 22 - Rebel forces occupy
Zaire's national radio station in
Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
★
January 22 - ''
STS-42'': Dr.
Roberta Bondar becomes the first
Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle ''
Discovery''.
★
January 26 -
Boris Yeltsin announces that
Russia will stop targeting
United States cities with
nuclear weapons.
[1]
★
January 26 - The
Washington Redskins defeat the
Buffalo Bills 37-24 in
Super Bowl XXVI at the
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in
Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
February
★
February 1 - Chief Judicial Magistrate of
Bhopal Court declares
Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of
Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the
Bhopal Disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an
extradition from
United States.
★
February 7 - The
Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the
European Union.
★
February 10 - In
Indianapolis, Indiana, boxer
Mike Tyson is convicted of raping
Desiree Washington.
★
February 10 -
Tom Harkin wins the
Iowa Democratic Caucus.
★
February 11 - An
F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of
Hengelo, the
Netherlands; no casualties are reported.
★
February 17 - A court in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences
serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
★
February 18 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details
Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
★
February 18 - In
New Hampshire, U.S. President
George H.W. Bush defeats
Pat Buchanan in the
Republican primary;
Paul Tsongas leads the
Democratic candidates.
★
February 20 - The English
FA Premier League is officially formed. The first games will be played at the beginning of the
new football season on
15 August, and its founder members will be the teams who finish in the top 19 places of
this season's Football League First Division and the 3 teams who win promotion from the
Second Division.
★
February 21 - The
United Nations Security Council approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a
UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to
Yugoslavia.
★
February 25-
February 26 - Massacre of 613
Azerbaijani civilians in
Khojaly. Among them are 106 women and 83 children. 56 people are killed especially brutally. 8 families are totally exterminated. 25 children are totally, and 130 children partly orphaned. 476 people (of which 76 are children) become disabled. 1,275 people are taken hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages are released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. Reported to be carried out by the
Armenian forces.
★
February 26 - The
Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to
England to have an abortion.
March
★
March 1 - After a majority of the
Bosniak and
Bosnian Croat communities vote for
Bosnian independence,
Serb snipers fire on civilians.
★
March 3 - 263 die in
Turkey's worst
coal mine disaster near
Zonguldak.
★
March 9 - The
People's Republic of China ratifies the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
★
March 10 - On 'Super Tuesday', U.S. President
George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Governor
Bill Clinton win most of the primaries held.
★
March 12 -
Mauritius becomes a
republic while remaining a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations.
★
March 12 - A
tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in
Gothenburg,
Sweden; 13 are killed and several injured.
★
March 13 - In eastern
Turkey, an
earthquake registering 6.8 on the
Richter scale kills over 500.
★
March 17 - A suicide car-bomb goes off in the
Israeli Embassy in
Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring 242.
★
March 18 - On
CNN's ''
Larry King Live'', Texas billionaire
H. Ross Perot announces that he will run for U.S. President as an independent, if volunteers put him on the ballot in all 50 states.
★
March 25 - Cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the
Mir space station.
April
★
April 2 - In
New York,
Mafia boss
John Gotti is convicted of the
murder of mob boss
Paul Castellano and
racketeering, and is later sentenced to life in prison.
★
April 6 - The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of
Serbian political delegates) proclaims independence from the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
★
★
Bosnian War:
Serbian troops, following a mass rebellion of
Serbs in
Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from
Yugoslavia, besiege the city of
Sarajevo.
★
April 8 - ''
Punch'' magazine publishes its final issue.
★
April 9 - A
Miami,
Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler
Manuel Noriega of assisting
Colombia's cocaine cartel.
★
★ -
United Kingdom general election, 1992: the Conservative Party, led by
John Major, is unexpectedly re-elected.
★
April 10 - A
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the
Baltic Exchange in the
City of London; 3 are killed, 91 injured.
★
April 12 -
Disneyland Paris officially opens under the name "EuroDisney".
★
April 13 -
Roermond, the
Netherlands, is rocked by an
earthquake along the Peel Fault.
★
April 14 - first light on the
Keck 1 telescope with fully-filled mirror
★
April 15 - The
National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992
Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
★
April 20 - Seville's 6-month Universal Exhibition opens, called
Seville Expo '92, in the city of
Seville, Spain.
★
★ - The
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at
Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
★
April 21 - The death of
Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia results in a succession dispute between
Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter
Maria for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.
★
April 22 - Fuel that has leaked into a
sewer explodes in
Guadalajara,
Mexico; 215 are killed, 1500 injured.
★
April 26 - In
Simi Valley, California, the
LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of
Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.
★
April 27 -
Betty Boothroyd is elected the first woman to be
Speaker of the British House of Commons.
★
April 28 - The 2 remaining countries of the former
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the
Republic of Serbia and the
Republic of Montenegro - form a new state, named the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after
2003,
Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from
1918 (with the exception of the period during
World War II).
★
April 29 - A jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist
Rodney King, causing the
1992 Los Angeles riots and leading to 53 deaths and $1 billion in damage.
May
★
May 5 -
Alabama ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment to the
United States Constitution making the
27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the
U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise.
★
May 5 -
Russian leaders in
Crimea declare their separation from
Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on
May 10.
★
May 10 -
Sweden wins the
Ice Hockey World Championships in
Prague.
★
May 13 -
Falun Gong introduced by
Li Hongzhi.
★
May 15 - The
Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in
Genoa,
Italy.
★
May 16 - ''
STS-49'': Space Shuttle ''
Endeavour'' lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
★
May 19 - In
Massapequa,
New York,
Amy Fisher shoots
Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
★
May 19 - In
San Francisco, U.S. Vice President
Dan Quayle gives his famous ''
Murphy Brown'' speech.
★
May 23 - A
Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge
Giovanni Falcone.
★
May 25 -
Jay Leno clocks in as host of NBC's Tonight Show, following the retirement of
Johnny Carson
★
May 25 -
Lindy Chamberlain receives compensation for wrongful conviction.
★
May 26 -
Charles Geschke, President of
Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company parking lot. Kidnappers demand ransom for $650,000 - they are later apprehended.
June
★
June 1 -
Kentucky celebrates its
bicentennial statehood.
★
June 1 - Terrorist
Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
★
June 1 - The
Pittsburgh Penguins sweep the
Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games in the
1992 Stanley Cup Finals.
★
June 3 - Four
nuclear missiles are launched into the Pacific Ocean.
★
June 8 - The first
World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the
Earth Summit held in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
★
June 14 - The Chicago Bulls win their 2nd NBA championship by defeating the Portland Trailblazers in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
★
June 15 - During a
spelling bee at a
Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President
Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's
spelling of the word ''potato'', by indicating it should have an ''e'' at the end.
★
June 17 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President
George H.W. Bush and
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in
START II).
[2]
★
June 20 - In
Estonia,
kroon replaces
Soviet ruble.
★
June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in
Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar
Nicholas II and
Tsarina Alexandra.
★
June 22 -
Radio Wimbledon, the Official Radio Station of the
Wimbledon Tennis Championships is launched.
★
June 23 -
Mafia boss
John Gotti is sentenced to life in
prison, after being found guilty of
conspiracy to commit
murder and
racketeering on
April 2.
[3]
★
June 26 -
Denmark beats
Germany 2-0 to win
Euro 92 at
Ullevi Stadium in
Gothenburg,
Sweden.
★
June 28 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes
Landers, California, followed by a magnitude 6.4 aftershock 8km southeast of
Big Bear Lake, California.
★
June 28 -
Estonia holds a referendum on its
constitution.
★
June 29 - A bodyguard assassinates President
Muhammad Boudiaf of
Algeria.
July
★
July 6-
July 29 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
★
July 10 - In
Miami, Florida, former
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for
drug and
racketeering violations.
★
July 16 - Arkansas Governor
Bill Clinton is nominated for U.S. President and Tennessee Senator
Al Gore for Vice President, at the
Democratic National Convention in
New York City.
★
July 16 - Independent U.S. presidential candidate
H. Ross Perot drops out of the race, saying that the
Democratic Party has 'revitalized itself'.
★
July 20 -
Václav Havel resigns as president of
Czechoslovakia.
★
July 22 - Near
Medellín,
Colombian drug lord
Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the
United States.
★
July 25-
August 9 - The
1992 Summer Olympics are held in
Barcelona, Spain.
August
★
August 10 - The UK government bans the
Ulster Defence Association, a
loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
★
August 14 -
Nigel Mansell wins the 1992 Formula One World Drivers Championship
★
August 17 - U.S. Marshalls start the siege of
Ruby Ridge.
★
August 18 -
Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
★
August 20 -
Kristiansund's connection to the main land of
Norway,
Krifast, opens.
★
August 21 - The
Republican National Convention in
Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President
George H.W. Bush and Vice President
Dan Quayle.
Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
★
August 21-
August 22 - Events at
Ruby Ridge,
Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of
Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
★
August 24-
August 28 -
Hurricane Andrew hits South
Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.
★
August 30 -
Michael Schumacher wins his first
Grand Prix in
Belgium at
Spa-Francorchamps in a
Benetton-Ford.
September
★
September 11 -
Hurricane Iniki hits the
Hawaiian Islands,
Kauai and
Oahu.
★
September 12 - ''
STS-47'': Dr.
Mae Jemison becomes the first
African-American woman to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle ''
Endeavour''.
★
September 15 –
Mihkel Mathiesen assumes presidency of the pre-WW II Republic of Estonia in exile, and appoints a new government in pursuit to avoid abolition of the
government in exile.
★
September 16 - The
Pound Sterling and the
Italian Lira are forced out of the
European Exchange Rate Mechanism (
Black Wednesday).
★
September 17 - Two
Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the
Iranian Kazem Darabi and the
Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
★
September 18 - Undaunted by his earlier withdrawal, supporters of U.S. presidential candidate
H. Ross Perot succeed in getting his name on the ballot in all 50 states.
★
September 23 - A large
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in
Belfast.
★
September 24 - The
Kentucky Supreme Court, in ''
Kentucky v. Wasson'', holds that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional, and accurately predicts that other states and the nation will eventually rule the same way.
October
★
October 1 -
Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for
USAir and an upgrade from the older
Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
★
October 1 -
H. Ross Perot re-enters the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.
★
October 2 - A riot breaks out in the
Carandiru prison system in
São Paulo,
Brazil, resulting in the
Carandiru Massacre.
★
October 4 - The
Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in
Amsterdam, the
Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured.
★
October 6 -
Lennart Meri becomes the first
president of re-independent
Estonia.
★
October 9 - A 13-kilogram (29-pound)
meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in
Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980
Chevrolet Malibu.
★
October 12 - In
Dominican Republic,
Pope John Paul II congregates to celebrate the 500th anniversary on the meeting of 2 cultures.
★
October 15 - In
Russia,
Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders.
★
October 17 -
Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot dead after knocking on the wrong door in
Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in
Japan.
★
October 20 - ''
Erotica'' is released. Its "overly sexual" themes loses
Madonna a lot of religious fans and even gets her concerts banned from
Vatican City. The cover, which seems to depict Madonna enjoying
sexual intercourse, the inner artwork, the lyrics, and the music videos make ''Erotica'' the most controversial album of all time.
★
October 24 - The
Toronto Blue Jays win the
World Series in 6 games, making them the first Canadian team to win.
★
October 25 -
Lithuania holds
a referendum on
its first constitution after declaring independence from the
Soviet Union in 1991.
★
October 26 - In
Canada, the
Charlottetown Accord is defeated in a national
referendum.
★
October 29 - The
Food and Drug Administration approves
Depo Provera for use as a
contraceptive in the
United States.
★
October 31 -
Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the
Inquisition against
Galileo Galilei.
November
★
November 3 -
U.S. presidential election, 1992:
Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President
George H.W. Bush and businessman
H. Ross Perot.
★
November 11 - The
Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
★
November 20 - In
England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of
Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
★
November 24 - In the
People's Republic of China, a
China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
★
November 24 -
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom describes this year as an ''
Annus Horribilis'' (horrible year), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
★
November 25 - The
Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the
Czech Republic and
Slovakia, starting on
January 1,
1993.
★
November 30 - The trial of 14
South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24
North Vietnamese begins in
Hong Kong (ends
November 29,
1994).
December
★
December 3 -
UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of
United Nations peacekeepers led by the
United States to form
UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in
Somalia.
★
December 3 - The Greek
oil tanker ''
Aegean Sea'', carrying 80,000 tonnes of
crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to
La Coruña,
Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
★
December 4 - U.S. military forces land in
Somalia.
★
December 5 -
Kent Conrad of
North Dakota resigns his seat in the
United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only U.S. Senator ever to have held 2 seats on the same day.
★
December 6 -
Hindu extremists demolish
Babri Masjid (a 16th century
mosque) in
Ayodhya,
India.
★
December 8 - The last blast is fired at the
Falu Copper Mine in
Falun,
Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.
★
December 12 - An
earthquake hits
Flores,
Indonesia, leaving 2,500 dead.
★
December 20 - The
Folies Bergere music hall in
Paris,
France closes.
★
December 21 - A
Dutch DC-10, flight
Martinair MP 495, crashes at
Faro Airport (Portugal), killing 56 people.
★
December 29 -
Brazil's president
Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for eight years.
Undated
★
Deng Xiaoping accelerates market reforms to establish a
socialist market economy in the
People's Republic of China.
★ Queensland introduces Freedom Of Information Laws
★ The
Council for National Academic Awards,
UK is wound up.
★ The largest shopping mall in the US,
Minnesota's
Mall of America is constructed spanning 78 acres (316,000 m²)
★
Carsington Reservoir opened in
England after nearly 20 years planning and construction.
★
Image Comics is founded by a number of former Marvel artists, seeking to create a company where creators were given exclusive ownership of their creations.
★ Amalgamation of the Hospital Chaplains' Fellowship and the National Association of Whole Time Hospital Chaplains to form the
College of Health Care Chaplains in the
UK.
Ongoing
★
Fictional
The following are references to year 1992 in fiction:
Television
:
★ The events of ''
The X-Files''
pilot episode take place in 1992 between
March 6 and
March 22.
Computer/video games
:
★ Set in 1992: '' (2004).
Film
:
★ '' (1968): On
January 12, the computer
HAL 9000 becomes operational (1997 in ).
Births
:''For more 1992 births, see: ''
January-April
★
January 10 -
Eric & Brandon Billings, twin American actors
★
January 12 -
Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
★
January 19 -
Logan Lerman, American actor
★
January 21 -
Logan O'Brien, American actor
★
January 27 -
Connor Widdows, Canadian actor
★
January 30 -
Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
★
February 11 -
Taylor Lautner, American actor
★
February 14 -
Freddie Highmore, British actor
★
February 16 -
Danielle Catanzariti, Australian actress
★
February 16 -
Steffani Brass, American actress
★
March 3 -
Madison Cross, American singer and actress
★
March 4 -
Jazmin Grace Rotolo, daughter of
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
★
March 8 -
Charlie Ray, American actress
★
March 9 -
Luis Armand Garcia, American actor
★
March 10 -
Emily Osment, American actress
★
March 14 -
Kylie Tyndall, American actress
★
March 14 -
Keaton Tyndall, American actress
★
March 15 -
Sosie Bacon, American actress
★
March 21 -
Bobby Preston, American actor
★
March 26 -
Haley Ramm, American actress
★
April 4 -
Alexa Nikolas, American actress
★
April 15 -
Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
★
April 15 -
Richard Sandrak, Ukrainian bodybuilder
★
April 25 -
Kyousuke Ikeda, Japanese voice actor
May-August
★
May 4 -
Courtney Jines, American actress
★
May 12 -
Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
★
May 18 -
Spencer Breslin, American actor
★
May 30 -
Liam Mower, British stage actor
★
June 4 -
Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
★
June 12 -
Ryan Malgarini, American actor
★
June 14 -
Daryl Sabara, American voice actor
★
June 14 -
Evan Sabara, American actor
★
June 17 -
James Martin, British actor
★
June 19 -
Mariah Stanley, American singer
★
June 26 -
Jennette McCurdy, American actress
★
June 30 -
Lynx and Lamb Gaede, twin American Neo-Nazi musicians
★
July 1 -
Andrew and Steven Cavarno, twin American actors
★
July 13 -
Dylan Patton, American actor and model
★
July 15 -
Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer
★
July 20 -
Nicki Prian, American actress
★
July 22 -
Selena Gomez, American actress
★
August 4 -
Dylan and Cole Sprouse, twin American actors
★
August 10 -
Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
★
August 13 -
Katharine Close,
Scripps National Spelling Bee winner
★
August 18 -
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of
Kurt Cobain and
Courtney Love
September-December
★
September 9 -
Allie DiMeco, American actress
★
September 16 -
Nicholas Jonas, American singer/songwriter
★
September 19 -
Gavin Fink, American actor
★
September 28 -
Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
★
October 1 -
Gauri Shankar, Indian chess prodigy
★
October 9 -
Tyler James Williams, American actor
★
October 12 -
Josh Hutcherson, American actor
★
October 12 -
Taylor Horn, American singer and actress
★
October 13 -
Sarah Payne, British murder victim (d.
2000)
★
October 13 -
Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor
★
October 15 -
Vincent Martella, American actor
★
October 17 -
Sam Concepcion, Filipino singer/performer
★
October 22 -
Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
★
October 30 -
Tequan Richmond, American actor
★
November 12 -
Macey Cruthird, American actress
★
November 12 -
Shelbie Bruce, American actress
★
November 17 -
Darian Weiss, American actor
★
November 18 -
Nathan Kress, American actor
★
November 23 -
Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
★
November 25 -
Zack Shada, American actor
★
November 28 -
Kianna Underwood, American actress
★
November 28 -
Adam Hicks, American actor
★
November 30 -
Dylan Smith, American actor
★
December 3 -
Joseph McManners, British stage actor
★
December 14 -
Victoria Kelly, American actress
★
December 17 -
Thomas Law, British actor
★
December 21 -
Haylee Wanstall, American actress
★
December 23 -
Spencer Daniels, American actor
Deaths
January-March
★
January 1 -
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b.
1906)
★
January 3 - Dame
Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b.
1897)
★
January 9 -
Bill Naughton, British playwright (b.
1910)
★
January 23 -
Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b.
1924)
★
January 26 -
José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b.
1912)
★
January 27 -
Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b.
1907)
★
January 29 -
Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b.
1915)
★
February 2 -
Bert Parks, American game show host (b.
1914)
★
February 4 -
Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b.
1911)
★
February 10 -
Alex Haley, American author (b.
1921)
★
February 12 -
Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b.
1907)
★
February 20 -
Dick York, American actor (b.
1928)
★
March 2 -
Sandy Dennis, American actress (b.
1939)
★
March 4 -
Art Babbitt, animator (
Mister Magoo,
Goofy) (b.
1907)
★
March 9 -
Menachem Begin,
Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1913)
★
March 21 -
Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b.
1930)
★
March 23 -
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
★
March 29 -
Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor (b.
1908)
★
March 30 -
Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b.
1919)
April-June
★
April 5 -
Suada Dilberovic, Bosnian medical student. First casualty of the
Siege of Sarajevo (b.
1968)
★
April 5 -
Molly Picon, American actress (b.
1898)
★
April 6 -
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b.
1920)
★
April 6 -
Sam Walton, founder of
Wal-Mart (b.
1918)
★
April 7 -
Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b.
1903)
★
April 8 -
Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1907)
★
April 10 -
Sam Kinison, American comedian (b.
1953)
★
April 11 -
Alejandro Obregón,
Colombian painter (b.
1920)
★
April 19 -
Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b.
1924)
★
April 21 -
Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia (b.
1917)
★
April 23 -
Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b.
1921)
★
April 25 -
Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b.
1965)
★
April 27 -
Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b.
1908)
★
April 28 -
Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b.
1909)
★
May 4 -
Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b.
1927)
★
May 6 -
Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b.
1901)
★
May 12 -
Robert Reed, American actor (b.
1932)
★
May 13 -
F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b.
1909)
★
May 14 -
Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b.
1899)
★
May 17 -
Lawrence Welk, American musician (b.
1903)
★
May 22 -
Tony Accardo, American gangster (b.
1906)
★
May 23 -
Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b.
1939)
★
June 18 -
Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b.
1896)
★
June 22 -
Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b.
1927)
★
June 25 -
Jerome Brown, American football player (b.
1965)
July-December
★
July 13 -
Albert Pierrepoint,
British Chief
Executioner (b.
1905)
★
July 15 -
Hammer DeRoburt, first
President of Nauru (b.
1922)
★
July 27 -
Anthony Salerno, member of the U.S. La Cosa Nostra and a leader in the Genovese Family (b.
1911)
★
August 5 -
Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b.
1954)
★
August 12 -
John Cage, American composer (b.
1912)
★
August 16 -
Mark Heard, American singer (b.
1951)
★
August 18 -
John Sturges, American director,
The Great Escape,
The Magnificent Seven, (b.
1911)
★
September 2 -
Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1902)
★
September 12 -
Anthony Perkins, American actor, most noted for his portrayal of
Norman Bates in
Alfred Hitchcock's
1960 film ''
Psycho'' (b.
1932)
★
October 5 -
Eddie Kendricks, American singer (
The Temptations) (b.
1939)
★
October 6 -
Denholm Elliott, English actor (b.
1922)
★
October 7 -
Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of
Ubykh (b.
1904)
★
October 8 -
Willy Brandt,
Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1913)
★
October 17 -
Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student (b.
1975)
★
October 17 -
Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b.
1912)
★
October 19 -
Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b.
1920)
★
October 22 -
Cleavon Little, American actor (b.
1939)
★
October 25 -
Roger Miller, American singer (b.
1936)
★
October 27 -
David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b.
1917)
★
November 2 -
Hal Roach, American director and producer (b.
1892)
★
November 5 -
Malice Green, black motorist in
Detroit, Michigan who died in the custody of white police officers
★
November 7 -
Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b.
1921)
★
November 22 -
Sterling Holloway, American actor (b.
1905)
★
December 6 -
Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of
John Lennon (b.
1914)
★
December 12 -
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b.
1901)
★
December 18 -
Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b.
1915)
★
December 21 -
Stella Adler, American acting teacher (b.
1901)
★
December 21 -
Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (b.
1903)
★
December 21 -
Albert King, American musician (b.
1923)
★
December 22 -
Frederick William Franz, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (b.
1893)
★
December 22 -
Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist and author (b.
1914)
★
December 25 -
Ted Croker, English former football official (b.
1924)
★
December 25 -
Monica Dickens, English author (b.
1915)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Georges Charpak
★
Chemistry -
Rudolph A. Marcus
★
Medicine -
Edmond H. Fischer,
Edwin G. Krebs
★
Literature -
Derek Walcott
★
Peace -
Rigoberta Menchú
Templeton Prize
★
Kyung-Chik Han
See also
★
20th century
Notes
External links
★
1992 House by Bill Frolick - article about 1992 from ''
The New Yorker'' magazine.
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