Events of 1992

January

• 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.

• 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 8 – 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.

• 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 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 22 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two Arab suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip kill 19 Israelis and themselves at road junction often used as a military transit point.

• January 26 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

• January 26 – Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37–24 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

February

• February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.

• February 8 – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.

• 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 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 23 – The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.

• February 25–26 – 613 Azerbaijani civilians are massacred in Khojaly.

• 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 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb groom and his father in a Sarajevo shooting. A majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities vote for Bosnian independence.

• March 3 – Turkey's worst coal mine disaster leaves 263 dead near Zonguldak.

• March 9 – The People's Republic of China ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

• 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 30 – The 64th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with The Silence of the Lambs winning Best Picture.

April

• April 2 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of the murder of mob boss Paul Castellano and of racketeering, and is later sentenced to life in prison.

• April 5 – The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serb political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

• * Bosnian War: Serb 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 6 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.1

• April 9 – A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.

• April 9 – United Kingdom general election, 1992: the Conservative Party, led by John Major, is 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 – The Great Chicago Flood occurs.

• April 13 – Roermond, the Netherlands, is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.

• April 15 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

• April 20 – Seville, Spain's 6-month Universal Exhibition, called Seville Expo '92, opens.

• April 20 – 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, 1,500 injured.

• April 27 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman elected Speaker of the British House of Commons.

• April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the official 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 – In Simi Valley, California, a jury acquits four LAPD police officers accused of excessive force 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 1 – Eric Houston of Yuba County kills 4, injures 9, and holds many others hostage at Lindhurst High School, Olivehurst, California.

• May 2 – Jason Dunstall of Hawthorn Football club kicks 17 goals, 5 points against Richmond at VFL Park.

• 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 is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China.

• 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 22 – After 30 years, Johnny Carson retires as host of NBC's Tonight Show.

• May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.

• May 25 – Jay Leno becomes the new host of NBC's Tonight Show, following the retirement of Johnny Carson.

• May 25 – In Australia, Lindy Chamberlain receives compensation for wrongful conviction on murder charges.

• May 26 – Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company parking lot. The kidnappers demand $650,000 ransom; they are later apprehended.

June

• June 1 – Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.

• June 1 – Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.

• June 2 – In a national referendum Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin.

• 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 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, 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).

• June 20 – In Estonia, the kroon replaces the Soviet ruble.

• June 22 – Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.

• 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.

• June 26 – Denmark beats Germany 2–0 to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• June 28 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes Landers, California, followed by a magnitude 6.4 aftershock 8 km south-east of Big Bear Lake, California.

• June 28 – Estonia holds a referendum on its constitution.

• June 29 – A bodyguard assassinates President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria.

• June 30 – Retired general and Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos is sworn in as the 12th President of the Philippines, having won elections held the previous month.

July

• July 6–29 – 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 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.

• 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 23 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.

• July 25 – August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Spain.

• July 31 – The ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia becomes the 179th member of the United Nations.

August

• August 10 – The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for 20 years.

• August 11 – The largest shopping mall in the US, Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m²).

• August 20 – Kristiansund's connection to the mainland of Norway, Krifast, opens.

• August 21–22 – 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 24–28 – Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.

September

• September 6 – Christopher McCandless body is found

• 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 the 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 – Black Wednesday: The Pound Sterling and the Italian Lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

• September 17 – Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.

• 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 state and the nation will eventually rule the same way.

• September 27 – Brett Favre makes his first start for the Green Bay Packers

October

• October 1 – Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility opens 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 2 – A riot breaks out in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru Massacre.

• October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.

• 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 newly 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 Chevrolet Malibu. It becomes known as the Peekskill Meteorite.

• October 9 – The Chief of Naval Operations adopts the US Navy's core values: Honor, Courage and Commitment.

• October 12 – In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of 2 cultures.

• October 15 – In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 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 24 – The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series in 6 games, becoming 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 Windsor Castle, causing over £50 million worth of damage.

• 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 the 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 9 – Prince Charles and Princess Diana publicly announce their separation.

• December 12 – An earthquake hits Flores, Indonesia, leaving 2,500 dead.

• December 15 – Legendary hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre releases his groundbreaking solo debut studio album The Chronic, which sparked the beginning of the mainstream popularity and success of Gangsta Rap, G-Funk, and West Coast Hip-Hop in the United States (a run that lasted from the early to mid-1990s). The Chronic is considered by many to be the most well-produced Hip-Hop album of all time. Rolling Stone ranked it at #137 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

• December 20 – The Folies Bergère 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 22 – Archives of Terror discovered by Dr. Martín Almada detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. This was known as Operation Condor.

• 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 8 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 Hospital Chaplains' Fellowship joins with the National Association of Whole Time Hospital Chaplains to form the College of Health Care Chaplains in the UK.

• Number of students graduating university in Cameroon – 41,000.

Ongoing

• Information Age

Fictional

Television

Computer/video games

• The events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas begins on October 1992.

• The events of Contra Force is set in the fictional metropolis of Neo City in 1992.

Film

Births

January–April

• January 1 – Oren Williams, American actor

• January 1 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer

• January 19 – Logan Lerman, American actor

• January 19 – Shawn Johnson, American Olympic gymnast

• January 21 – Logan O'Brien, American actor

• January 27 – Connor Widdows, Canadian actor

• January 30 – Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor

• February 7 – Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer

• February 9 – Avan Jogia, Canadian actor

• February 11 – Taylor Lautner, American actor

• February 11 – Georgia Groome, British actress

• February 13 – Kaya Scodelario, British actress and model

• February 14 – Freddie Highmore, British actor

• February 16 – Danielle Catanzariti, Australian actress

• February 16 – Steffani Brass, American actress

• March 4 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

• March 6 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer

• March 7 – Bel Powley, British actress

• March 8 – Charlie Ray, American actress

• March 9 – Luis Armand Garcia, American actor

• March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer

• March 14 – Kylie Tyndall, American actress

• March 14 – Keaton Tyndall, American actress

• 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 16 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg

• April 25 – Kyōsuke Ikeda, Japanese voice actor

• April 27 – Allison Iraheta, American singer

May–August

• May 3 – Melissa Wu, Australian Diver

• May 4 – Courtney Jines, American actress

• May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor

• May 18 – Spencer Breslin, American actor

• May 22 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer

• May 30 – Liam Mower, British stage actor

• June 4 – Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer

• June 12 – Allie DiMeco, American actress

• June 14 – Daryl Sabara, American actor

• June 14 – Evan Sabara, American actor

• June 17 – James Martin, British actor

• June 26 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress

• June 29 – Adam G. Sevani, Armenian-American actor and dancer

• June 30 – Lynx and Lamb Gaede, twin American Neo-Nazi musicians

• July 3 – Maasa Sudo, Japanese singer

• July 7 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress

• July 8 – Benjamin Grosvenor, Pianist

• July 12 – Eoghan Quigg, Irish singer

• July 13 – Dylan Patton, American actor and model

• July 15 – Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer

• July 20 – Paige Hurd, American actress

• July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer

• August 4 – Cole and Dylan Sprouse, twin American actors

• August 4 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress

• August 10 – Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress

• August 18 – Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

• August 20 – Demi Lovato, American actress, singer, songwriter

• August 21 – Brad Kavanagh, British actor, singer and songwriter

• August 25 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer

• August 28 – Zhao Guo Rong, Taiwanese singer

September–December

• September 16 – Nick Jonas, American singer/songwriter and actor

• September 25 – Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater

• September 28 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress

• September 28 – Koko Tsurumi, Japanese artistic gymnast

• October 1 – Gauri Shankar, Indian chess prodigy

• October 9 – Tyler James Williams, American actor

• October 12 – Taylor Horn, American singer and actress

• October 14 – Savannah Outen, American Singer

• October 15 – Vincent Martella, American actor and singer

• October 17 – Nanami Sakuraba, Japanese gravure idol and actress

• October 20 – Ksenia Semenova, Russian Olympic gymnast.

• October 22 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress

• October 30 – Tequan Richmond, American actor

• November 11 – Trey Smith, American actor

• November 12 – Shelbie Bruce, American actress

• November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor

• November 23 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer

• November 27 – Tola Szlagowska, Polish singer

• November 28 – Kianna Underwood, American actress

• November 30 – Dylan Smith, American actor

• December 3 – Joseph McManners, British stage actor

• December 17 – Thomas Law, British actor

• December 23 – Spencer Daniels, American actor

• December 24 – Melissa Suffield, British Actress

Deaths

January–March

• January 1 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)

• January 2 – Virginia Field, British actress (b. 1917)

• January 3 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)

• January 7 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (b. 1951)

• January 9 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)

• January 17 – Frank Pullen, English business person and racehorse owner (b. 1915)

• January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player (b. 1940)

• January 22 – A.J. Antoon, American theater director (b. 1944)

• January 23 – Freddie Bartholomew, British actor (b. 1924)

• January 23 – Ian Wolfe, American actor (b. 1896)

• January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)

• January 27 – Sally Hayfron, Wife of Robert Mugabe and first lady of Zimbabwe (b. 1933)

• 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 11 – Ray Danton, American actor (b. 1931)

• February 12 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)

• February 13 – Dorothy Tree, American actress (b. 1906)

• February 15 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)

• February 16 – Jânio Quadros, former President of Brazil (b.1917)

• February 20 – Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)

• February 29 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (b. 1936)

• March 2 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)

• March 3 – Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (b. 1909)

• March 4 – Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)

• March 4 – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)

• March 5 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)

• March 9 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)

• March 11 – Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912)

• March 14 – Jean Poiret, French actor, screenwriter, director (b. 1926)

• March 20 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)

• March 21 – John Ireland, American actor (b. 1914)

• March 21 – Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)

• March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

• March 25 – Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)

• March 29 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor (b. 1908)

• March 30 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1919)

April–June

• April 5 – Suada Dilberović, Bosnian medical student. First casualty of the Siege of Sarajevo (b. 1968)

• April 5 – Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)

• April 5 – Sam Walton, American businessman, founder of Wal-Mart (b. 1918)

• April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)

• 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 16 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)

• April 19 – Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924)

• April 21 – Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia (b. 1917)

• April 23 – Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)

• April 23 – Tanka Prasad Acharya former Nepalese Prime Minister (b.1912)

• April 25 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965)

• April 27 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)

• April 27 – Harlond Clift, American baseman (b. 1912)

• April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b. 1909)

• April 29 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)

• May 3 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (b. 1902)

• May 4 – Gregor Mackenzie, British Labour Party politician (b. 1927)

• May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)

• May 10 – John Lund, American actor (b. 1911)

• May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)

• May 13 – F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)

• May 14 – Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)

• May 14 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)

• May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)

• May 18 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925)

• May 21 – T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (b. 1913)

• May 22 – Tony Accardo, American gangster (b. 1906)

• May 23 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)

• June 2 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter and director (b. 1908)

• June 3 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)

• June 4 – Carl Stotz, American founder of Little League Baseball (b. 1910)

• June 18 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)

• June 18 – Peter Allen, Australian singer, songwriter (b. 1944)

• June 19 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, British tennis player (b. 1896)

• June 22 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)

• June 25 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)

• June 26 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)

• June 27 – Allan Jones, American actor (b. 1907)

July–September

• July 1 – Stan Frazier (Uncle Emler), American pro wrestler (b. 1937)

• July 9 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)

• July 13 – Albert Pierrepoint, British Chief Executioner (b. 1905)

• July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)

• July 22 – John Meyendorff, Russian-born Orthodox scholar (b. 1926)

• July 23 – Rosemary Sutcliff, British author (b. 1920)

• July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)

• July 25 – Alfred Drake, American actor (b. 1914)

• July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)

• July 27 – Anthony Salerno, American mobster (b.1911)

• July 30 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)

• July 31 – Leonard Cheshire, English war hero and philanthropist (b. 1917)

• August 4 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)

• August 8 – Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist (b. 1966)

• August 9 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Entertainer (b. 1936)

• 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 film director (b. 1911)

• August 29 – Teddy Turner, English comedian (b. 1917)

• September 1 – Morris Carnovsky, American actor (b. 1897)

• September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)

• September 12 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)

October–December

• October 4 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)

• October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (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 12 – John Hancock, American actor (b. 1941)

• October 16 – Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)

• 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 Olympic runner (b. 1920)

• October 22 – Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)

• 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 4 – George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)

• 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 7 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)

• November 7 – Richard Yates, American writer (b. 1926)

• November 10 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921)

• November 11 – Earle Meadows, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)

• November 19 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)

• November 22 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)

• November 23 – Roy Acuff, American singer (b. 1903)

• December 6 – Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914)

• December 9 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (b. 1922)

• December 12 – Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)

• December 13 – Ricky Ray, one of the Ray brothers, a hemophiliac teenager diagnosed with HIV (b. 1977)

• December 17 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)

• 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 23 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (b. 1950)

• December 25 – Ted Croker, English former football official (b. 1924)

• December 25 – Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915)

• December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Georges Charpak

• Chemistry – Rudolph A. Marcus

• Medicine – Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs

• Literature – Derek Walcott

• Peace – Rigoberta Menchú

• Economics – Gary Becker

Templeton Prize

• Kyung-Chik Han

See also

• 20th century