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1999 (MCMXCIX ) was acommon year starting on Friday in theGregorian calendar ,the 1999th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the2nd millennium ,the 99th year of the20th century ,and the 10th and last year of the1990s decade.
January 1 –Euro is established.
January 2 – Asnowstorm leaves 14 inches (359 mm) of snow inMilwaukee, Wisconsin and 21 inches (533.4 mm) inChicago, Illinois ,killing 68.
January 4 – Gunmen open fire onShia Muslims worshiping in a mosque inIslamabad ,Pakistan ,killing 16 and injuring 25.
January 6 –Dennis Hastert becomesSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives .
January 8 – 3.4 million copies of the movieThe Rescuers is recalled after a photo of a topless woman was discovered in two of the 110,000 slides in that scene of the movie.
January 10 – A large piece of the chalk cliff atBeachy Head collapses into the sea.
January 11 –Bülent Ecevit ,ofDSP forms the new government ofTurkey (56th government, an interim government )
January 20 – TheChina News Service announces new government restrictions onInternet use aimed especially atInternet cafes .
January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, theUnited States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 tons) ofcocaine aboard, headed forHouston, Texas .
January 25 – A 6.1Richter scale earthquake hits westernColombia ,killing at least 1,000.
Countries adopting theEuro in 1999/2002
February 2 –Hugo Chávez becomesPresident ofVenezuela .[1]
February 4 – UnarmedWest African immigrantAmadou Diallo is shot dead by NYC police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.[2]
February 7 – KingHussein of Jordan dies fromcancer ,and his sonAbdullah II inherits the throne.
February 10 –Avalanches in theFrench Alps nearGeneva kill at least 10.
February 11 –Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from theSun thanNeptune .It had been nearer than Neptune since1979 ,and will become again in2231 .
February 16 – InUzbekistan ,an apparentassassination attempt against PresidentIslom Karimov takes place at government headquarters.[3]
February 16 – Across Europe,Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages afterTurkey arrests one of their rebel leaders.
February 21 – The Albertinkatu shootings inHelsinki ,Finland :Three men are killed and 1 wounded at a shooting range.
February 22 – ModerateIraqi Shiite clericMohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.
February 23 –Kurdish rebel leaderAbdullah Öcalan is charged withtreason inAnkara ,Turkey .
February 23 –White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killingAfrican American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).
February 23 – Anavalanche destroys the village of Galtür,Austria ,killing 31.
February 24 –LaGrand Case :The State ofArizona executesKarl LaGrand ,a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite ofGermany 's legal action in theInternational Court of Justice to attempt to save him.
February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in ahot air balloon ,Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
Orbit ofPluto – polar view.
March 1 – One of 4 bombs detonated inLusaka ,Zambia ,destroys the AngolanEmbassy .
March 1 –Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember 8 foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead,Uganda .
March 1 – TheConvention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
March 2 – The brand newMandalay Bay hotel and casino opens inLas Vegas .
March 3 –Walter LaGrand is executed in thegas chamber inArizona .
March 4 – In a military court,United States Marine Corps Captain Richard J. Ashby is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in theItalian Alps ,when his low-flying jethit a gondola cable .
March 12 –Hungary ,Poland and theCzech Republic joinNATO .
March 15 – InBrussels, Belgium ,theSanter Commission resigns over allegations of corruption.
March 17 – TheRoth IRA is introduced by U.S. SenatorWilliam V. Roth, Jr.
March 21 –Bertrand Piccard andBrian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in ahot air balloon .
March 21 – The71st Academy Awards are held at theDorothy Chandler Pavilion inLos Angeles, California withShakespeare in Love winningBest Picture .
March 23 – Gunmen assassinateParaguay 's Vice PresidentLuis María Argaña .
March 24 –NATO launchesair strikes against theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia ,which refused to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
March 24 – Fire in theMont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly 3 years.
March 25 –Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined forCalifornia to the town ofSilver Peak, Nevada ,population 200.
March 26 – TheMelissa worm attacks theInternet .
March 26 – AMichigan jury finds Dr.Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
March 27 –Kosovo War :A U.S.F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Serbian forces.
March 29 – For the first time, theDow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.
Map ofNunavut
April 1 –Nunavut ,anInuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of theNorthwest Territories to becomeCanada 's thirdterritory .
April 5 – TwoLibyans suspected of bringing downPan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in theNetherlands .TheUnited Nations suspends sanctions againstLibya .
April 5 – InLaramie, Wyoming ,Russell Henderson pleads guilty tokidnapping and felony murder, in order to avoid a possibledeath penalty conviction for the apparenthate crime killing ofMatthew Shepard .
April 7 –Kosovo War :Kosovo 's main border crossings are closed bySerbian forces to prevent ethnicAlbanians from leaving.
April 7 – A bomb explodes at theValley of the Fallen Church inSpain ;GRAPO claims responsibility.
April 8 Bill Gates personal fortune exceeds $100 Billion dollars, due to the increased value of Microsoft stock.
April 9 –Ibrahim Baré Maînassara ,president ofNiger ,is assassinated.
April 13 – Tercentenary celebrations of the creation of theSikh Khalsa are held.
April 17 – A nail bomb explodes in the middle of a busy market inBrixton ,SouthLondon .
April 20 –Columbine High School massacre :TwoLittleton, Colorado teenagers,Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold ,open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.
April 25 – The term ofTuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman as the 10thYang di-Pertuan Agong ofMalaysia ends.
April 26 –Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj ,Sultan ofSelangor ,becomes the 11thYang di-Pertuan Agong ofMalaysia .
April 26 –British T.V presenterJill Dando ,37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home inFulham ,London .
April 30 –Cambodia joins theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), bringing the total members to 10.
April 30 – A third nail bomb (seeApril 17 ) explodes in theAdmiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street,Soho, London ,killing a pregnant woman and two friends and injuring 70 others, including her husband. This is part of a hate campaign againstethnic minorities andgay people byDavid Copeland .[4]
May 1 –Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
May 1 –SpongeBob SquarePants made its debut onNickelodeon (TV Channel) on this day with its first episode isHelp Wanted /Reef Blower/Tea at the Treedome.
May 2 – Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by serial killerAngel Maturino Resendiz inWeimar, Texas .
May 3 –1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak :AnF5 tornado slams intoMoore, Oklahoma ,killing 38 people (the strongest tornado ever recorded in world history).
May 3 – TheDow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time, at 11,014.70.
May 5 – Microsoft releasesWindows 98 (Second Edition) (from1998 ).
May 6 – Elections are held inScotland andWales for the newScottish Parliament andNational Assembly for Wales .
May 7 – A jury findsThe Jenny Jones Show andWarner Bros. liable in the shooting death ofScott Amedure ,after the show deceivedJonathan Schmitz into appearing on a secret same-sex crush episode.
May 7 –Kosovo War :In theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia ,3Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded, when aNATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese Embassy inBelgrade .
May 7 – InGuinea-Bissau ,PresidentJoão Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a militarycoup .
May 8 –Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate fromThe Military College of South Carolina .
May 12 –David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (Speaker) of the modernScottish Parliament .
May 13 –Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President ofItaly .
May 17 –Ehud Barak is elected prime minister ofIsrael .
May 19 –Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters. It becomes the highest grossingStar Wars movie.
May 26 – TheIndian Air Force launches an attack on intrudingPakistan Army troops andmujahadeen militants inKashmir .
May 26 – The firstWelsh Assembly in over 600 years opens inCardiff .
May 26 –Manchester United wins theUEFA Champions League at theNou Camp stadium,Barcelona ,beatingBayern Munich .
May 27 – TheInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia inThe Hague ,Netherlands indictsSlobodan Milošević and four others forwar crimes andcrimes against humanity committed inKosovo .
May 28 –Bülent Ecevit ,ofDSP forms the new government ofTurkey (57th government, coalition partnersMHP andANAP ) This is Ecevit's fifth and last term.
May 28 –Swedish police officers Robert Karlström andOlov Borén are wounded by three bank robbers armed with automatic weapons, and later executed with their own service pistols inMalexander .
May 28 – After 22 years of restoration work,Leonardo da Vinci ’sThe Last Supper is placed back on display inMilan ,Italy .
May 29 –Cathy O'Dowd ,a South African mountaineer, becomes the first woman to summitMount Everest from both the north and south sides.
May 29 –Nigeria terminates military rule, and theNigerian Fourth Republic is established withOlusegun Obasanjo aspresident .
May 30 –Travel Midland Metro enters public service.
May 31 –Sean Elliott of theSan Antonio Spurs hits theMemorial Day Miracle against thePortland Trail Blazers in the1999 NBA Playoffs .
theiBook G3
June 1 –Napster ,a revolutionary music downloading service, debuts.
June 1 -American Airlines Flight 1420 overruns the runway inLittle Rock, Arkansas killing 11 people.
June 2 – After decades of fighting off outside technological influences like television, theKing of Bhutan allows television transmissions to commence inthe Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee (seeBhutan Broadcasting Service ).
June 5 – TheIslamic Salvation Army ,the armed wing of theIslamic Salvation Front ,agrees in principle to disband inAlgeria .
June 6 – InBrazil ,345 prisoners escape fromPutim prison through the front gate.
June 8 – The government ofColombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country'sillegal drug crops, exceeding half a billionUS dollars ,in itsgross national product .
June 9 –Kosovo War :TheFederal Republic of Yugoslavia andNATO sign apeace treaty .
June 10 – Kosovo War:NATO suspends itsair strikes afterSlobodan Milošević agrees to withdrawSerbian forces fromKosovo .
June 12 – Kosovo War –Operation Joint Guardian /Operation Agricola begins:NATO -ledUnited Nations peacekeeping forcesKFOR enter the province ofKosovo in theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia .
June 12 –Texas GovernorGeorge W. Bush announces he will seek theRepublican Party nomination forPresident of the United States .
June 14 –Thabo Mbeki is electedPresident of South Africa .
June 18 – TheJ18 international anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which lead to riots.
June 19 –Turin ,Italy is awarded the2006 Winter Olympics .
June 19 – Horror writerStephen King is hit in a car accident on Route 5 in NorthLovell ,Maine byBryan Smith .
June 21 –Apple Computer releases the firstiBook ,aLaptop designed specifically for average consumers.[5]
June 23 – ThePhillips explosion of 1999 kills 2 and injures 3 inPasadena, Texas .
1 July – TheScottish Parliament is officially opened byQueen Elizabeth on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the oldScottish Office inLondon to the new devolvedScottish Executive inEdinburgh .
July 2 –Benjamin Nathaniel Smith begins a 3-day killing spree targeting racial and ethnic minorities in Illinois and Indiana.
July 5 – U.S. Army Pfc.Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep atFort Campbell ,Kentucky by fellow soldiers; he dies the next day from his injuries.
July 7 – InRome ,Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13.
July 8 – A major flash flood in Las Vegas swamps hundreds of cars, smashes mobile homes and kills 2 people.
July 10 - USA soccer playerBrandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the FIFA Women's World Cup.
July 11 –India recapturesKargil ,forcing thePakistan Army to retreat. India announces victory, ending the 2-month conflict.
July 16 – Off the coast ofMartha's Vineyard ,a plane piloted byJohn F. Kennedy Jr. crashes, killing him and his wifeCarolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sisterLauren Bessette .
July 20 –Mercury program :Liberty Bell 7 is raised from theAtlantic Ocean .
July 20 –Falun Gong is banned in thePeople's Republic of China underJiang Zemin .
July 22 – The first version ofMSN Messenger is released byMicrosoft .
July 23 –ANA Flight 61 is hijacked inTokyo .
July 23 –Mohammed VI ofMorocco becomes king upon the death of his fatherHassan II .
July 23 –25 – TheWoodstock 99 festival is held inNew York .
July 25 –Lance Armstrong wins his firstTour de France .
July 26 – The lastChecker taxi cab is retired inNew York City and auctioned off for approximately $135,000.
July 27 – Twenty-one people die in acanyoning disaster nearInterlaken ,Switzerland .
July 31 –Mark O. Barton kills 9 inAtlanta, Georgia .
July 31 –NASA intentionally crashes theLunar Prospector spacecraft into theMoon ,thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.
August 7 – Hundreds of Chechen guerrillas invade theRussian republic ofDagestan ,triggering a short war.
August 8 – The firstCallatis Festival ,the largest music & culture festival inRomania ,is held.
August 9 –Russian PresidentBoris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister,Sergei Stepashin ,and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
August 10 –Buford O. Furrow, Jr. wounds 5 and kills 1 during theAugust 1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting .
August 10 – TheAtlantique Incident occurs as an intrudingPakistan Navy plane is shot down inIndia .The incident sparks tensions between the 2 nations, coming just a month after the end of theKargil War .
August 11 – Atotal solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia.
August 11 –Salt Lake City tornado :A very rare F2 tornado strikes Salt Lake City, killing 1.
August 17 –1999 İzmit earthquake :A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikesİzmit and levels much of northwesternTurkey ,killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. This is the first of a long series of unrelated but frequent earthquakes throughout the world during the years 1999 and 2000.
August 19 – InBelgrade ,tens of thousands ofSerbians rally to demand the resignation ofYugoslav PresidentSlobodan Milošević .
August 22 –Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 crashes inHong Kong .
August 22 – GPS Week Numbers Reset to 0
August 30 –East Timor voted for independence fromIndonesia in a referendum.
August 31 –Apple Computer releases the Power Macintosh G4.
October –NASA loses one of its probes, theMars Climate Orbiter .
October 1 –Pudong International Airport opens inShanghai ,China, taking over all international flights to Hongqiao.
October 5 – Thirty-one people die in theLadbroke Grove rail crash ,west ofLondon ,England .
October 10 – Elections are held inPortugal .
October 12 –Pakistani Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army Chief GeneralPervez Musharraf and installISI directorZiauddin Butt in his place. Senior Army generals refuse to accept the dismissal. Musharraf, who is out of the country, attempts to return in a commercial airliner. Sharif orders the Karachi airport to not allow the plane to land. The generals lead acoup d'état ,ousting Sharif's administration and taking over the airport. The plane lands with only a few minutes of fuel to spare, and Musharraf takes control of the government.
October 12 –World population reaches 6 billion people, as the 6 billionthperson (according to theUN ) is born inSarajevo ,Bosnia and Herzegovina .
October 13 – TheUnited States Senate rejects ratification of theComprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
October 15 – ANational Geographic Society press conference reveals the fossil ofArchaeoraptor (which is later found to be a forgery).
October 27 – Gunmenopen fire in theArmenian Parliament, killing Prime MinisterVazgen Sargsyan ,Parliament ChairmanKaren Demirchyan ,and 6 other members.
October 31 –EgyptAir Flight 990 ,travelling fromNew York City toCairo ,crashes off the coast ofNantucket, Massachusetts ,killing all 217 on board. When the pilot leaves the cockpit, the co-pilot causes theBoeing 767 to enter a steep dive, resulting in impact with theAtlantic Ocean .
October 31 –Roman Catholic Church andLutheran Church leaders sign theJoint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ,ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature offaith andsalvation .
November 6 – Australians defeat a referendum proposing the replacement of The Queen and The Governor General with a President to make Australia a republic.
November 9 –TAESA Flight 725, covering the routeTijuana –Guadalajara –Uruapan –Mexico City ,crashes a few minutes after takeoff fromUruapan International Airport ,killing 18 people on board. This event causes the bankruptcy of the Mexican airline a few months later.
November 12 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikesDuzce and northwesternTurkey ,killing 845 and injuring 4,948.
November 18 – TheAggie Bonfire collapses inCollege Station, TX ,killing 12.
November 19 –Mikhail Gorbachev proposes that theUN create anInternational Men's Day ,which is now commemorated every year on this same date.
November 19 – Every digit in this date is an odd number (19/11/1999). This hitherto common event will not happen again until the year 3111.
November 20 – ThePeople's Republic of China launches the firstShenzhou spacecraft .
November 26 – An earthquake and tsunami strikeVanuatu .
November 27 – The left-wingLabour Party takes control of theNew Zealand government, with leaderHelen Clark becoming the second female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
November 30 – TheExxonMobil Corporation merger is completed, forming the largest company in the world.
December 3 – After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 nautical miles (5486 km),Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross theAtlantic Ocean byrowboat alone, when she reachesGuadeloupe from theCanary Islands .
December 3 –NASA loses radio contact with theMars Polar Lander ,moments before the spacecraft enters theMartian atmosphere.
December 18 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform, carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments, includingASTER ,CERES ,MISR ,MODIS andMOPITT .
December 20 – Thesovereignty ofMacau istransferred from thePortuguese Republic to thePeople's Republic of China after 422 years of Portuguese rule.
December 22 –Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 ,aBoeing 747-200 F crashes shortly after take-off fromLondon Stansted Airport due topilot error .All 4 crew members were killed.
December 31 – The U.S. turns over complete administration of thePanama Canal to the Panamanian Government, as stipulated in the Torrijos-Carter Treaty of1977 .
December 31 –Boris Yeltsin resigns asPresident of Russia ,leavingPrime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president.
December 31 -Millennium celebration .
December 31 - To most people, it was the last day of the20th century and2nd millennium ,however there are some people who argue that both distinctions happened a year later, on December 31, 2000.
Susan Strasberg
January 4 –Iron Eyes Cody ,American actor (b.1904 )
January 11 –Fabrizio De André ,Italian singer and songwriter (b.1940 )
January 11 –Brian Moore ,Irish-born writer (b.1921 )
January 14 –Jerzy Grotowski ,Polish theatre director (b.1933 )
January 21 –Susan Strasberg ,American actress (b.1938 )
January 22 –Graham Staines ,Australian missionary (b.1941 )
January 25 –Ted Mallie ,American radio and television announcer (b.1924 )
January 25 –Robert Shaw ,American conductor (b.1916 )
January 28 –Markey Robinson ,Irish painter (b.1918 )
January 30 –Huntz Hall ,American actor (b.1919 )
January 31 –Norm Zauchin ,American baseball player (b.1929 )
Hussein of Jordan
Gene Siskel
Glenn Seaborg
February 1 –Paul Mellon ,American philanthropist (b.1907 )
February 1 –Barış Manço ,Turkish singer and television personality (b.1943 )
February 5 –Wassily Leontief ,Russian economist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1905 )
February 6 –Jimmy Roberts ,American singer (b.1924 )
February 6 –Don Dunstan ,Australian politician (b.1926 )
February 6 -Danny Dayton ,American actor (b.1923 )
February 7 – KingHussein of Jordan (b.1935 )
February 8 –Iris Murdoch ,Irish writer (b.1919 )
February 12 –Toni Fisher ,American pop singer (b.1931 )
February 14 –John Ehrlichman ,AmericanWatergate scandal figure (b.1925 )
February 14 –Buddy Knox ,American singer (b.1933 )
February 15 –Henry Way Kendall ,American physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1926 )
February 15 –Big L ,American rapper (b.1974 )
February 17 –Sunshine Parker ,American actor (b.1927 )
February 18 –Noam Pitlik ,American actor and director (b.1932 )
February 18 –Michael Larson ,American game show celebrity (b.1949 )
February 20 –Sarah Kane ,English playwright (b.1971 )
February 20 –Gene Siskel ,American movie critic (b.1946 )
February 21 –Gertrude B. Elion ,American scientist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1918 )
February 22 –William Bronk ,American poet (b.1918 )
February 24 –Andre Dubus ,American short-story writer (b.1936 )
February 24 –Virginia Foster Durr ,American civil rights activist (b.1903 )
February 24 –Frank Leslie Walcott ,Barbadian labour leader (b.1916 )
February 25 –Glenn Seaborg ,American chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1912 )
February 26 –José Quintero ,Panamanian director (b.1924 )
February 28 –Bill Talbert ,American tennis player (b.1918 )
Dusty Springfield
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Stanley Kubrick
Joe DiMaggio
March 1 –Ann Corio ,American dancer and actress (b.1914 )
March 2 –Dusty Springfield ,English singer (b.1939 )
March 3 –Gerhard Herzberg ,German-born chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1904 )
March 4 –Harry Blackmun ,American judge (b.1908 )
March 4 –Del Close ,American actor, writer, and teacher (b.1934 )
March 5 –Richard Kiley ,American actor (b.1922 )
March 6 –Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa ,Emir of Bahrain (b.1933 )
March 7 –Sidney Gottlieb ,American Central Intelligence Agency official (b.1918 )
March 7 –Stanley Kubrick ,American movie director and producer (b.1928 )
March 8 –Peggy Cass ,American actress (b.1924 )
March 8 –Joe DiMaggio ,American baseball player (b.1914 )
March 12 –Yehudi Menuhin ,American-born violinist (b.1916 )
March 13 –Garson Kanin ,American playwright and screenwriter (b.1912 )
March 17 –Ernest Gold ,Austrian-born composer (b.1921 )
March 18 –Adolfo Bioy Casares ,Argentine writer (b.1914 )
March 18 –Rod Hull ,British entertainer (b.1935 )
March 21 –Ernie Wise ,British comedian (b.1925 )
March 24 –Birdie Tebbetts ,American baseball player and manager (b.1912 )
March 25 –Cal Ripken, Sr. ,American baseball player and manager (b.1935 )
March 29 –Joe Williams ,American singer (b.1918 )
March 31 –Yuri Knorozov ,Russian linguist and epigrapher (b.1922 )
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Alf Ramsey
April 3 –Lionel Bart ,English composer (b.1930 )
April 4 –Faith Domergue ,American actress (b.1924 )
April 10 –Jean Vander Pyl ,American television actress (b.1919 )
April 12 –Boxcar Willie ,American country music singer (b.1931 )
April 14 –Ellen Corby ,American actress (b.1911 )
April 14 –Anthony Newley ,English actor, singer and songwriter (b.1931 )
April 20 –Rick Rude ,American professional wrestler (b.1958 )
April 20 –Señor Wences ,Spanish ventriloquist (b.1896 )
April 21 –Charles Rogers ,American actor (b.1904 )
April 25 –Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ,6thPresident of the International Olympic Committee (b.1914 )
April 25 –Herman Miller ,American screenwriter and producer (b.1919 )
April 27 –Al Hirt ,American trumpeter and bandleader (b.1922 )
April 27 –Cyril Washbrook ,English cricketer (b.1914 )
April 28 –Rory Calhoun ,American television and movie actor (b.1922 )
April 28 –Arthur Leonard Schawlow ,American physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1921 )
April 30 –Alf Ramsey ,English football manager (b.1920 )
Owen Hart
May 2 –Oliver Reed ,English actor (b.1938 )
May 8 –Dirk Bogarde ,English actor (b.1921 )
May 10 –Shel Silverstein ,American writer and poet (b.1930 )
May 10 –Eric Willis ,Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales (b.1922 )
May 12 –Saul Steinberg ,Romanian-born cartoonist (b.1914 )
May 13 –Gene Sarazen ,American golfer (b.1902 )
May 17 –Henry Jones ,American actor (b.1912 )
May 18 –Betty Robinson ,American athlete (b.1911 )
May 23 –Owen Hart ,Canadian professional wrestler (b.1965 )
May 26 –Paul Sacher ,Swiss conductor (b.1906 )
DeForest Kelley
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Hassan II of Morocco
July 1 –Edward Dmytryk ,Canadian-American movie director (b.1908 )
July 1 –Guy Mitchell ,American singer (b.1927 )
July 1 –Sylvia Sidney ,American actress (b.1910 )
July 2 –Mario Puzo ,American writer (b.1920 )
July 6 –Carl Gunter Jr ,American politician (b.1938 )
July 6 –Joaquin Rodrigo ,Spanish composer (b.1901 )
July 8 –Charles Conrad ,American astronaut (b.1930 )
July 11 –Helen Forrest ,American jazz singer (b.1917 )
July 12 –Bill Owen ,English actor (b.1914 )
July 16 –John F. Kennedy, Jr. ,American lawyer and son ofJohn F. Kennedy (b.1960 )
July 18 –Meir Ariel ,Israeli singer (b.1942 )
July 20 –Sandra Gould ,American actress (b.1916 )
July 23 – KingHassan II of Morocco (b.1929 )
July 26 –Trygve Haavelmo ,Norwegian economist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1911 )
July 29 –Anita Carter ,American singer (b.1933 )
July 29 –Rajendra Kumar ,Indian movie actor, producer and director (b.1929 )
August 1 –Nirad C. Chaudhuri ,Bengali writer (b.1897 )
August 3 –Leroy Vinnegar ,American musician (b.1928 )
August 4 –Victor Mature ,American actor (b.1913 )
August 11 –Hendrick Chin A Sen ,2ndPresident of Suriname (b.1934 )
August 13 –Jaime Garzón ,Colombian journalist and comedian (b.1960 )
August 14 –Lane Kirkland ,American union leader (b.1922 )
August 14 –Pee Wee Reese ,American baseball player (b.1918 )
August 23 –Norman Wexler ,American screenwriter (b.1926 )
August 23 –James White ,Irish writer (b.1928 )
August 24 –Mary Jane Croft ,American actress (b.1916 )
Raisa Gorbachyova
George C. Scott
September 5 –Allen Funt ,American television personality (b.1914 )
September 5 –Alan Clark ,English politician and diarist (b.1928 )
September 6 –Lagumot Harris ,Nauruan politician and former President (b.1938 )
September 9 –Ruth Roman ,American actress (b.1922 )
September 10 –Alfredo Kraus ,Spanish tenor (b.1927 )
September 11 –Gonzalo Rodriguez ,Uruguyan race car driver (b.1972 )
September 12 –Allen Stack ,American Olympic swimmer (b.1928 )
September 14 –Charles Crichton ,English movie director (b.1910 )
September 20 –Raisa Gorbachyova ,Soviet first lady (b.1932 )
September 22 –George C. Scott ,American actor (b.1927 )
September 23 –Ivan Goff ,Australian screenwriter (b.1910 )
Amália Rodrigues
Wilt Chamberlain
Julius Nyerere
October 6 –Amália Rodrigues ,PortugueseFado legend (b.1920 )
October 6 –Gorilla Monsoon ,American professional wrestler and announcer (b.1937 )
October 7 –Helen Vinson ,American actress (b.1907 )
October 8 –John McLendon ,American basketball coach (b.1915 )
October 9 –Akhtar Hameed Khan ,Pakistani pioneer inmicrocredit andmicrofinance (b.1914 )
October 9 –Milt Jackson ,American musician (b.1923 )
October 11 –Rafi' Daham Al-Tikriti ,Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (b.1937 )
October 12 –Wilt Chamberlain ,American basketball player (b.1936 )
October 14 –Julius Nyerere ,President of Tanzania (b.1922 )
October 18 –Paddi Edwards ,American actress (b.1931 )
October 19 –Harry Bannink ,Dutch composer and musician (b.1929 )
October 19 –James C. Murray ,American politician (b.1917 )
October 20 –Jack Lynch ,Prime Minister of Ireland (b.1917 )
October 21 –Lars Bo ,Danish artist and writer (b.1924 )
October 21 –John Bromwich ,Australian tennis player (b.1918 )
October 24 –John Chafee ,American politician (b.1922 )
October 25 –Payne Stewart ,American golfer (b.1957 )
October 26 –Rex Gildo ,German singer (b.1939 )
October 26 –Hoyt Axton ,American actor and singer-songwriter (b.1938 )
October 26 –Abraham Polonsky ,American screenwriter and director (b.1910 )
October 27 –Frank De Vol ,American composer (b.1911 )
October 27 –Robert Mills ,American physicist (b.1927 )
October 27 –Wes Berggren ,American musician (b.1971 )
October 31 –Greg Moore ,Canadian race car driver (b.1975 )
Amintore Fanfani
November 1 –Theodore Hall ,American physicist and spy (b.1925 )
November 3 –Ian Bannen ,Scottish actor (b.1928 )
November 9 –Mabel King ,American actress (b.1932 )
November 11 –Mary Kay Bergman ,American actress (b.1961 )
November 15 –Gene Levitt ,American television writer, producer, and director (b.1920 )
November 16 –Daniel Nathans ,American microbiologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1928 )
November 18 –Paul Bowles ,American novelist (b.1910 )
November 18 –Horst P. Horst ,German-American photographer (b.1906 )
November 18 –Doug Sahm ,American musician (b.1941 )
November 30 –Amintore Fanfani ,Prime Minister of Italy (b.1908 )
November 21 –Quentin Crisp ,English writer (b.1908 )
November 21 –Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz ,Grand Mufti ofSaudi Arabia .(b.1910 )
November 24 –Hilary Minster ,British Actor (b.1944 )
November 29 –Gene Rayburn ,American television personality (b.1917 )
November 29 –Iwamoto Kaoru ,Japanese professionalGo player (b.1902 )
November 30 –Charlie Byrd ,American Jazz musician and classical guitarist (b.1925 )
Scatman John
Franjo Tuđman
Desmond Llewelyn
João Figueiredo
Shankar Dayal Sharma
December 2 –Joey Adams ,American comedian (b.1911 )
December 3 –Scatman John ,American musician (b.1942 )
December 3 –Jarl Wahlström ,Salvation Army general (b.1918 )
December 3 –Madeline Kahn ,American actress (b.1942 )
December 4 –Rose Bird ,American judge (b.1936 )
December 8 –Péter Kuczka ,Hungarian writer (b.1923 )
December 10 –Rick Danko ,Canadian musician (b.1943 )
December 10 –Shirley Hemphill ,American actress (b.1947 )
December 10 –Franjo Tuđman ,President of Croatia (b.1922 )
December 12 –Paul Cadmus ,American artist (b.1904 )
December 12 –Joseph Heller ,American novelist (b.1923 )
December 17 –Rex Allen ,American actor, singer, and songwriter (b.1920 )
December 17 –Grover Washington, Jr. ,American saxophonist (b.1943 )
December 18 –Robert Bresson ,French movie maker (b.1901 )
December 19 –Desmond Llewelyn ,Welsh actor (b.1914 )
December 19 –Robert Dougall ,British newsreader (b.1913 )
December 20 –Irving Rapper ,American movie director (b.1898 )
December 20 –Hank Snow ,Canadian musician (b.1914 )
December 23 –John P. Davies ,American diplomat (b.1908 )
December 24 -Maurice Couve de Murville ,Prime Minister of France (b.1907 )
December 24 –João Figueiredo ,President of Brazil (b.1918 )
December 24 –Tito Guízar ,Mexican singer and movie actor (b.1908 )
December 26 –Shankar Dayal Sharma ,President of India (b.1918 )
December 26 –Curtis Mayfield ,American musician and composer (b.1942 )
December 27 –Leonard Goldenson ,American television executive (b.1905 )
December 28 –Clayton Moore ,American actor (b.1914 )
December 30 –Fritz Leonhardt ,German structural engineer (b.1909 )
December 30 –Sarah Knauss ,Americanoldest living person (b.1880 )
December 31 –Elliot Richardson ,AmericanAttorney General underRichard Nixon (b.1920 )
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