1995 (
MCMXCV) was a
common year that started on a Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar. The year 1995 was the 1995th year in the
Anno Domini/
Common Era, the 995th year of the
2nd millennium, the 95th year of the
20th century, and the 6th year of the
1990s.
Events of 1995
January
January 1 – The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
January 1 – Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join the European Union.
January 1 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
January 2 – The most distant Galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii (est. 15 billion light years away).
January 2 – Bus crashes in Luzon, Philippines, killing 29 people.
January 4 – The 104th United States Congress, the first controlled by Republicans in both houses since 1953 to 1955, convenes.
January 6–7 – A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested 1 month later.
January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
January 16 – An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.
January 17 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake called the "Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.
January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.
January 31 – U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
February 1 – Lyricist/guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater, London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States. His car is found 2 weeks later at Severn View services in Aust.
February 9 – STS-63: Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale became the first African American and Briton, respectively, to walk in space.
February 13 – A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity.
February 15 – Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with penetrating some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
February 15 – Taiwan's deadliest fire, at a karaoke restaurant in Taichung, kills 64.
February 15 – In Dublin, a Republic of Ireland vs. England football match in Lansdowne Road is abandoned, due to violence and rioting.
February 17 – Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
February 21 – Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
February 21 – Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far-right National Front activists.
February 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
February 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 – the Dow's first ever close above 4,000.
February 25 – Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica [OTCA]).
February 26 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
February 27 – In Denver, Colorado, Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced by the new Denver International Airport, the largest in the United States.
February 28 – Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in Minnesota of manufacturing ricin.
March
March 1 – Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.
March 1 – In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.
March 1 – Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California.
March 2 – Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.
March 3 – In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
March 6 – On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.
March 13 – David Daliberti and William Barloon, two Americans working for a military contractor in Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq.
March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
March 16 – Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865.
March 20 – Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring 5,510.
March 22 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
March 24 – For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
March 26 – The Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
March 27 – The 67th Academy Awards, hosted by David Letterman, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with Forrest Gump winning Best Picture.
March 30 – A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan.
March 31 – Tejano superstar Selena is killed by the president of her own fanclub, Yolanda Saldívar.
April
April 1 – Dialog Telekom launches Sri Lanka's first GSM mobile phone network.
April 2 – An explosion in Gaza kills 8, including a Hamas leader.
April 5 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 246–188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.
April 7 – House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the Contract with America.
April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.
April 24 – A Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California.
April 28 – In Daegu, South Korea, a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 persons, mostly teenage schoolboys.
May
May 1 – Jacques Chirac is elected president of France
May 7 – Finland wins the ice hockey world championship.
May 11 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
May 13 – An earthquake hits the regions of Kozani and Grevena in Greece, with an intensity of 6.6 on the Richter scale.
May 14 – The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
May 14 – Team New Zealand wins the America's Cup in San Diego, beating Stars and Stripes 5–0.
May 16 – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.
May 17 – Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.
May 20 – U.S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.
May 21 – Pope John Paul II canonizes John Sarkander during his visit to Olomouc, the Czech Republic.
May 23 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
May 24 – AFC Ajax wins the UEFA Champions League in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating AC Milan 0–1 by a goal of Patrick Kluivert. This was the third consecutive win of AFC Ajax over AC Milan that season, ranking AFC Ajax on the 4th place on the list of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners.
May 25 – Egan v. Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
May 27 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
May 28 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Neftegorsk, Russia kills at least 2,000.
June
June 1 – The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins.
June 2 – Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later.
June 2 – Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.
June 6 – U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.
June 13 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
June 15 – During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson puts on a pair of gloves that were presumably worn by the person who murdered his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman.
June 15 – A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6.2, hits the city of Aigio, Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.
June 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.
June 20 – Oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.
June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.
June 24 – The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win their first Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.
June 24 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup.
June 29 – Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
June 29 – STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
June 29 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
June 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.
July
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31.
July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
July 4 – UK Prime Minister John Major wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative Party.
July 5 – The U.S. Congress passes the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, requiring that producers of pornography keep records of all models who are filmed or photographed, and that all models be at least 18 years of age.
July 10 – Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.
July 11 – Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica while UN Dutch peacekeepers leave. Large numbers of Bosniak men and boys are killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
July 17 – The Nasdaq Composite index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
July 21–26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
July 23 – David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans held as spies by Iraq, are released by Saddam Hussein after negotiations with U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson.
July 27 – In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
Iraq disarmament crisis: Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
August
August 2 – The first cold front of the White Earthquake strikes Chile, during the rest of August several communities becomes isolated due to heavy snowfall and livestock is decimated.
August 4 – Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina.
August 5 – Croatian forces take Knin and continue to advance.
August 6 – Hundreds in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb.
August 7 – Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered ceasefire; remaining Serbian forces start surrendering.
August 11 – The Russell Hill subway accident results in 3 deaths and 30 injuries in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
August 14 – An avalanche buries Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; she is reported dead.
August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.
August 28 – A Serbian mortar bomb near a Sarajevo market square kills 38 civilians.
August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.
August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into October. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and Bosnian Krajina.
September
September – The DVD, an optical disc computer storage media format, is announced.
September – The European Parliament elects the first European Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.
September 4 – eBay is founded.
September 4 – The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
September 6 – NATO air strikes continue, after repeated attempts at a solution with the Serbs fail.
September 19 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
September 22 – American millionaire Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
September 23 – Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of industrial espionage. His sales to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran are believed to have involved Intel and AMD trade secrets worth USD$10–20 million.
September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.
September 27–28 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.
October
October 1 – Ten people are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993.
October 3 – O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
October 4 – France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.
October 4 – Hurricane Opal makes landfall at Pensacola Beach, Florida as a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds.
October 5 – Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence)
October 6 – Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed extrasolar planet.
October 9 – 1995 Palo Verde derailment: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
October 15 – The Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the New York Jets at Clemson Memorial Stadium in South Carolina.
October 16 – The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
October 17 – French woman Jeanne Calment reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days, making her the oldest person ever recorded.
October 23 – In Houston, Texas, Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of Selena Quintanilla Perez and three days later is sentenced to life in prison.
October 24 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.
October 25 – A Metra commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
October 26 – An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland, killing 20 people.
October 28 – A fire in Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, kills 289 passengers (the world's worst subway disaster).
October 30 – Quebec independentists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
October 30 – Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey.
November
November 1 – NASA loses contact with the Pioneer 11 probe.
November 1 – Participants in the Yugoslav War begin negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
November 1 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes to ban partial birth abortions by a vote of 288–139.
November 2 – The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of Erich Priebke, ex-S.S. captain.
November 3 – At Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 7 – Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and damage of P 10,829,000,000. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mph and gusts of 180 mph.
November 10 – Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from Israel and Jordan, UNSCOM inspector Scott Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.
November 10 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with 8 others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, are hanged by government forces.
November 12 – The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the Harare Declaration, is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
November 14 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the Congress of the United States, forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums, and run most government offices with skeleton staff.
November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladic with genocide during the Bosnian War.
November 21 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses 2 millennium marks in a single year.
November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio (signed December 14).
November 22 – Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff (the other is Myra Hindley).
November 22 – Six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo's child abuse-related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in New York City's child welfare system.
November 22 – Egypt, Eilat, Israel, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake (7.2 ) along the Dead Sea Transform in a century; 8 are killed.
November 22 – The first ever full length computer animated feature film "Toy Story" was released by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.
November 28 – The Barcelona Treaty is signed by 27 attending nations.
November 28 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the National Highway Designation Act, which ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.
November 30 – Javier Solana becomes the new NATO General Secretary; Operation Desert Storm officially ends.
December
Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
December 3 –
December 7 – NASA's Galileo probe reenters over Jupiter.
December 8 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, suffers a massive stroke and lapses into a coma.
December 8 – 6-year-old Gyaincain Norbu is enthroned as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery.
December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris.
December 15 – The European Court of Justice rules that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer among member states at the end of their contracts.
December 15 – Because of the "quadruple-witching" option expiration, volume on the New York Stock Exchange hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since October 20, 1987, when the Dow staged a stunning recovery a day after Black Monday.
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission, dredge the Tigris near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 (Boeing 757) crashes into a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia after veering off its course en route to Cali, Colombia. Of the 164 people on board, four passengers and a dog are the only survivors.
December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982.
The Republic of Texas group claims to have formed a provisional government in Texas.
December 31 – The final original Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is published.
Ongoing
Console wars, Computer Age.
Fictional
The 1997 Quentin Tarantino movie Jackie Brown takes place in 1995
The timeline of Metal Gear Solid establishes that the events of the original Metal Gear were set in 1995.
The Belkan War, in begins and ends, with massive destruction
In Command & Conquer, the fictional alien substance Tiberium first appears on Earth in Italy.
The events of take place in 1995.
World population
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World population
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!1995
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1990
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2000
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World
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5,674,380,000
|align="right"|5,263,593,000
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|align="right"|6,070,581,000
|align="right"| 396,201,000
|-
!
Africa
|align="right"|
707,462,000
|align="right"|622,443,000
|align="right"| 85,019,000
|align="right"|795,671,000
|align="right"| 88,209,000
|-
!
Asia
|align="right"|
3,430,052,000
|align="right"|3,167,807,000
|align="right"| 262,245,000
|align="right"|3,679,737,000
|align="right"| 249,685,000
|-
!
Europe
|align="right"|
825,405,000
|align="right"|721,582,000
|align="right"| 5,823,000
|align="right"|830,986,000
|align="right"| 581,000
|-
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Latin-America/
Islands
|}
|align="right"|
481,099,000
|align="right"|441,525,000
|align="right"| 39,574,000
|align="right"|520,229,000
|align="right"| 39,130,000
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Northern America
|}
|align="right"|
299,438,000
|align="right"|283,549,000
|align="right"| 15,889,000
|align="right"|315,915,000
|align="right"| 16,477,000
|-
!
Oceania
|align="right"|
28,924,000
|align="right"|26,687,000
|align="right"| 2,237,000
|align="right"|31,043,000
|align="right"| 2,119,000
|}
Births
January 4 – María Isabel, Spanish singer
February 8 – Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
May 12 – Luke Benward, American actor and singer
May 15 – Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer
May 24 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
June 19 – Blake Woodruff, American actor
July 9 – Georgie Henley, English actress
August 8 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
August 18 – Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
November 16 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist
December 6 – Joy Gruttmann, German singer
Deaths
January
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* January 1 – Fred West, English serial killer who raped his victims (b. 1941)
January 1 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
January 2 – Siad Barre, Military dictator of Somalia (b. 1919)
January 2 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
January 4 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
January 7 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
January 7 – Larry Grayson, British comedian and game show host (b. 1923)
January 9 – Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937)
January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
January 18 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
January 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b. 1887)
February
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* February 2 – Fred Perry, English tennis champion (b. 1909)
February 2 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
February 5 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
February 6 – James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
February 9 – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
February 12 – Robert Bolt, English writer (b. 1924)
February 12 – Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (b. 1952)
February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
February 19 – Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, British politician (b. 1933)
February 19 – John Howard, American actor (b. 1913)
February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
February 23 – Melvin Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)
February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
February 24 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (b. 1914)
February 24 – Tatsumi Kumashiro, Japanese film director (b. 1927)
February 26 – Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
March
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* March 1 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956).
March 3 – Howard W. Hunter, American Mormon leader (b. 1907)
March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. 1943)
March 7 – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
March 8 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
March 12 – Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
March 13 – Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
March 13 – Odette Hallowes, French World War II heroine (b. 1912)
March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
March 16 – Albert Hackett, American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900)
March 17 – Ronald Kray, British organised crime leader (b. 1933)
March 17 – Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
March 18 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)
March 19 – Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)
March 20 – Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (b. 1906)
March 20 – John William Minton American Wrestler (Big John Studd) (b. 1948)
March 22 – Peter Woods, British journalist, reporter and newsreader (b. 1930)
March 23 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer (b. 1963)
March 27 – Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (b. 1948)
March 28 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor the son of Carroll O'Connor (b. 1962)
March 29 – Tony Lock, English cricketer (b. 1929)
March 29 – Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish dancer (b. 1957)
March 31 – Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican American singer (b. 1971)
April
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* April 2 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (b. 1904)
April 2 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish chemist, Nobel-prize (b.1908)
April 4 – Kenny Everett, British comedian (b. 1944)
April 4 – Priscilla Lane, American actress (b. 1915)
April 10 – Morarji Desai, Indian politician (b. 1896)
April 14 – Burl Ives, American singer (b. 1909)
April 15 – Harry Shoulberg, American painter and serigrapher (b. 1903)
April 16 – Cy Endfield, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslavian Marxist (b. 1911)
April 23 – Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)
April 24 – Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (b. 1924)
April 25 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
April 25 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (b. 1907)
April 25 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian football player (b. 1971)
May
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May 2 – Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
May 5 – Al Sanders, American news anchorman (b. 1941)
May 6 – Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (b. 1956)
May 8 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
May 12 – Arthur Lubin, American film director (b. 1898)
May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
May 15 – Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
May 15 – Woldeab Woldemariam, Eritrean Politician (b. 1905)
May 15 – Ben Bubar, American activist (b. 1917)
May 18 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
May 18 – Alexander Godunov, Russian-born ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
May 18 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
May 24 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1906)
May 27 – Severn Darden, American actor (b. 1929)
May 28 – Irfan Ljubijankic, Bosnian diplomat (b. 1952)
May 30 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
June
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* June 7 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist master (b. 1918)
June 12 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
June 15 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (b. 1899)
June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
June 23 – Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
June 25 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
June 26 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
June 29 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
June 30 – Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921)
June 30 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
July
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* July 1 – Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (b. 1938)
July 3 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis champion (b. 1928)
July 4 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
July 4 – Bob Ross, American television painter (b. 1942)
July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (b. 1905)
July 16 – Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1904)
July 16 – Stephen Spender, English poet and writer (b. 1909)
July 17 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b. 1911)
July 17 – Harry Guardino, American actor (b. 1925)
July 18 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
July 21 – Genevieve Tobin, American actress (b. 1899)
July 24 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
July 24 – George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (b. 1932)
July 27 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian composer (b. 1907)
July 29 – Philippe De Lacy, American actor (b. 1917)
August
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* August 1 – Esther Muir, American actress (b. 1903)
August 3 – Ida Lupino, British actress (b. 1914)
August 3 – Edward Whittemore, American author and Central Intelligence agent (b. 1933)
August 4 – J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (b. 1905)
August 7 – Brigid Brophy, English author (b. 1929)
August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (b. 1942)
August 11 – Phil Harris, American actor (b. 1904)
August 13 – Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b. 1931)
August 15 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
August 17 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1901)
August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
August 24 – Gary Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1933)
August 24 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (b. 1898)
August 29 – Michael Ende, German author (b. 1929)
August 29 – Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
August 30 – Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
August 30 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (b. 1942)
September
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*
September 12 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
September 15 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
September 15 – Dietrich Hrabak, German World War II flying ace (b. 1914)
September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
September 17 – Grady Sutton, American actor (b. 1906)
September 19 – Orville Redenbacher, American entrepreneur and businessman (b. 1907)
September 20 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920)
September 25 – Annie Elizabeth Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
September 25 – Pedro Nolasco, Dominican republican boxer (b. 1963)
October
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* October 1 – Margaret Gorman, First Miss America winner (b. 1905)
October 5 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
October 9 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
October 21 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (b. 1916)
October 21 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
October 21 – Shannon Hoon, American singer (b. 1967)
October 22 – Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
October 22 – Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)
October 25 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
October 25 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis champion (b. 1918)
October 26 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909)
October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
November
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* November 4 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
November 4 – Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
November 7 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States (b. 1942)
November 12 – Robert Stephens, British actor (b. 1931)
November 13 – Ralph Blane, American composer (b. 1914)
November 20 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
November 21 – Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
November 22 – Elisa Izquierdo, American murder victim (b. 1989)
November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
November 24 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b. 1909)
November 30 – Stretch, American rapper and record producer (b. 1972)
December
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* December 2 – Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
December 3 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
December 7 – Kathleen Harrison, British actress (b. 1892)
December 9 – Vivian Blaine, American actress (b. 1921)
December 10 – Darren Robinson, American rapper and actor (b. 1967)
December 16 – Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
December 18 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910)
December 20 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
December 22 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
December 22 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
December 23 – Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
December 25 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American musicologist (b. 1894)
December 25 – Dean Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
December 30 – Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
December 30 – Heiner Müller, German poet and playwright (b. 1929)
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
Chemistry – Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
Medicine – Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
Literature – Seamus Heaney
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Lucas, Jr.
Peace – Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Templeton Prize
Paul Davies
Notes
External links
1995: A look back - CNN
CNN Time Capsule: The Defining Moments of 1995 - CNN
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