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1990 | |
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Germany will be reunified . | |
Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign the Schengen Agreement . |
The Baltic states declare their independence from the Soviet Union . |
The year 1990 was marked by numerous political innovations and marked the beginning of the 1990s. German reunification went down in history as one of the most formative events , after the end of the Cold War was actually sealed with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 . With the declaration of independence of some member states, the end of the Soviet Union was in sight, which then actually collapsed in 1991. In South Africa the era of apartheid ended after decades .
Annual dedications
1990 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2743 |
Armenian calendar | 1438-1439 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1982-1983 |
Badi calendar | 146-147 |
Bengali calendar | 1396-1397 |
Berber calendar | 2940 |
Buddhist calendar | 2534 |
Burmese calendar | 1352 |
Byzantine calendar | 7498-7499 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4686-4687 or 4626-4627 |
- 60 year cycle |
Earth Snake (己巳, 6) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CXCVIII CXCIX 198-199 |
Hebrew calendar | 5750-5751 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2046-2047 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1912-1913 |
Iranian calendar | 1368-1369 |
Islamic calendar | 1410-1411 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Heisei 2 |
- Kōki | 2650 |
Coptic calendar | 1706-1707 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4323 |
- Juche era | 79 |
Minguo calendar | 79 |
Modern Olympics | XXIV |
Seleucid calendar | 2301-2302 |
Thai solar calendar | 2533 |
- 1990 is "International Year of Literature"
- The golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany)
- The beech (Fagus sylvatica) is tree of the year (Kuratorium Baum des Jahres / Germany)
- The pyramidal dogwort (Anacamptis pyramidalis) is Orchid of the Year (Arbeitsgruppe Heimische Orchideen / Germany )
Events
Politics and world events
January
- January 1st : Arnold Koller becomes Federal President of Switzerland .
- January 15 : turning point in the GDR . Demonstrators storm the Berlin Stasi headquarters. The BStU is still processing the files secured in this way .
- January 20 : Military intervention in Baku
February
- February 2 : USSR : The Central Committee of the CPSU gives up the party's monopoly on power.
- February 3 : Bulgaria . Andrei Lukanov becomes Prime Minister.
- February 5 : The electoral alliance Allianz for Germany is closed. Eight representatives of the Central Round Table (including Wolfgang Ullmann , Rainer Eppelmann , Matthias Platzeck , Tatjana Böhm ) are accepted into the Modrow government .
- February 11 : Nelson Mandela's unconditional release marks the beginning of the end of apartheid .
- February 11th : Serious unrest takes place in Dushanbe , the capital of the Tajik Soviet Republic . From
- February 12 : The two adventurers Arved Fuchs and Reinhold Messner end with the achievement of Scott Base after 92 days and 2,800 kilometers walk her over the South Pole runny Antarctica -Durchquerung.
- February 15 : In the Celle trial against the DOB (Dirk Breschinski), Pedro (Peter Carl) and a hacker named Urmel who were involved in the KGB hack - along with Karl Koch . You will be sentenced to probation from two years to 14 months.
- February 16 : SWAPO politician Sam Nujoma is elected the first president of independent Namibia .
- February 25 : In the elections in Nicaragua , the anti-Scandinavian electoral alliance Unión Nacional Opositora (UNO) surprisingly wins with 55.2 percent of the vote over the Sandinistas , who receive 40.8 percent.
March
- March 11th : Lithuania declares independence .
- March 11 : Said Mohamed Djohar is elected President of the Comoros .
- March 11 : In Chile , Patricio Aylwin takes over the office of President from Augusto Pinochet , one of the most important events in the country's return to democracy .
- March 13 : Judge Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the first woman to be named President of Haiti . She succeeds Hérard Abraham , who, as a previously successful coup against President Prosper Avril, resigns from office after three days.
- March 14 : Mikhail Gorbachev is elected President of the USSR .
- March 16 : The 6-day Wild Lily student movement begins in Taipei, Taiwan .
- March 18 : The first free election to the People's Chamber in the GDR is held.
- March 19: Saarland's Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine is unanimously nominated by the SPD party executive as candidate for Chancellor for the Bundestag election on December 2.
- March 19: The jury of the city of Homburg awards the writer Rolf Haufs their Holderlin Prize.
- March 21 : With Nujoma's swearing in as President by UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuéllar , Namibia's independence is achieved .
- March 21 : Lee Teng-hui is elected President by the National Assembly in Taiwan .
- March 24 : Islom Karimov becomes president of Uzbekistan .
- March 25th : First democratic parliamentary elections since 1945 in Hungary .
- March 27 : The US television channel TV Martí , broadcast to Cuba , begins operations.
- March 30 : Estonia declares itself a republic. On May 4th it declares itself independent. See Singing Revolution
April
- April 1 : The private local stations in North Rhine-Westphalia start. Radio Duisburg is the first to go on air.
- April 3 : Petar Mladenow becomes President of Bulgaria .
- April 5 : 18 days after the first free elections to the People's Chamber of the GDR , the GDR is constituted and elects Sabine Bergmann-Pohl as its president.
- April 6 : Protests by the Nepalese opposition are brutally suppressed. 300 people die.
- April 9th : The multiparty system is introduced in Nepal .
- April 12 : Lothar de Maizière becomes the first (and last) democratically elected Prime Minister of the GDR .
- April 12th : In Hardegg the border crossing over the Thaya bridge Hardegg - Čížov into the ČSFR is opened.
- April 13 : The Soviet Union admits the Katyn massacre . President Mikhail Gorbachev confirms a killing decision by the Soviet leadership under Josef Stalin . At the instigation of the NKVD , more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war were executed in other places as well.
- April 23 : Namibia becomes a member of the United Nations .
- April 23rd : The citizen survey in Karl-Marx-Stadt shows: 76 percent choose the old city name “ Chemnitz ”. The name will be changed on June 1st .
- April 24 : Nursultan Nazarbayev becomes President of Kazakhstan .
- April 25 : Oskar Lafontaine is critically injured in an attack.
May
- May 4th : Latvia declares independence.
- May 5 : The first round of the two-plus-four talks on the reunification of the two German states begins in Bonn .
- May 6th : In the GDR the first free local elections take place in municipalities and districts, after “massive” election frauds were uncovered in the previous year's local elections.
- May 17 : The World Health Organization (WHO) removes homosexuality from the diagnosis code for diseases.
- May 18 : Theo Waigel and Walter Romberg sign the German-German State Treaty for the formation of an economic, social and monetary union.
- May 22nd : The unification of the two Yemeni states , the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Republic of Yemen , takes place.
- May 23 : The unexplained death of the opposition politician Joseph Rendjambe in Gabon triggers riots and riots in Libreville and Port-Gentil .
- May 25 : General elections are held in Myanmar .
- May 30th : The new constitution in Schleswig-Holstein comes into force.
- May 30th : France imposes an import ban on all British beef products following the outbreak of BSE .
- May 30th : The freely elected Croatian Parliament ( Sabor ) is constituted. Franjo Tuđman becomes Croatian President ( Predsjednik Republike ).
- May 31 : A cultural agreement is concluded between the Federal Republic of Germany and Singapore , which has been in force since August 23, 1991 .
June
- June 6th : Susanne Albrecht is arrested in East Berlin - as the first of the RAF terrorists who left the GDR and had a new identity .
- June 8th : In the first free parliamentary elections since 1946 in Czechoslovakia , after the end of communist rule, the civil rights movements win .
- June 10 : British Airways flight 5390 loses a cockpit window through which the captain of the aircraft is sucked out and only with the help of the crew does not completely fall out of the aircraft.
- June 11th : GDR Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière officially visits the USA and has a meeting with President George HW Bush .
- June 12 : The Russian Soviet Republic announces its sovereignty from the Soviet Union .
- June 13 : The final demolition of the Berlin Wall begins.
- June 17 : In the Federal Republic of Germany for the last time non-working holiday , since only national memorial day .
- June 19 : The Schengen Agreement is signed by the Benelux countries , the Federal Republic of Germany and France .
- June 22nd : While the second round of negotiations on the two-plus-four contract begins in Berlin , Checkpoint Charlie is being dismantled.
- 23 June : Moldova's declaration of sovereignty
- June 28 : The CSCE Human Rights Conference in Copenhagen agrees to lay down basic democratic principles such as free elections and a multi-party system .
- June 29 : With the update of the Montreal Protocol during the Ozone Protection Conference in London, it is decided to end the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) worldwide by the year 2000.
July
- July 1 : In the GDR triggers the entry into force of the economic, monetary and social union that the two German states Deutsche Mark , the Mark of the GDR as legal tender from.
- July 1 : Restrictions on movement of goods between Australia and New Zealand are lifted.
- July 11th : The ten-day 28th party congress of the CPSU comes to an end. Mikhail Gorbachev is re-elected as its General Secretary.
- 15 / July 16 : Mikhail Gorbachev accepted in talks with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl membership of a unified Germany in NATO .
- July 19 : The Federal Constitutional Court judges different notice periods for blue-collar and white-collar workers as incompatible with the Basic Law .
- July 22nd : The People's Chamber of the GDR passes the Land Introduction Act .
August
- August 1 : Shelju Shelev becomes President of Bulgaria .
- August 2nd : Second Gulf War : Iraqi troops invade Kuwait .
- August 3rd : declaration of sovereignty of Armenia
- August 6 : Second Gulf War: The United Nations instigates resolution 661 economic sanctions against Iraq, which invaded Kuwait.
- August 9 : The annexation of Kuwait by Iraq is from the UN Security Council for null and void explained. During the Gulf War, he calls for the Iraqi army to withdraw from the country immediately.
- August 10 : A special Arab League summit meets after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- August 12 : The West German FDP unites with the Bund Free Democrats , the German Forum Party (DFP) and the GDR FDP at a special party conference in Hanover . Two block parties of the GDR , the LDPD and the NDPD , have joined forces in the Bund Free Democrats .
- August 22nd : Sao Tome and Principe adopts a new constitution.
- August 23 : The East Berlin People's Chamber votes in favor of the GDR joining the Federal Republic of Germany.
- August 31 : On the way to the reunification of the two German states , the Unification Treaty is signed in Berlin .
- August: A peace agreement ends the Lebanese civil war after 15 years .
September
- September 10 : At a meeting in Jakarta , representatives of the Cambodian parties agree on the adoption of the UN peace plan .
- September 12 : On the way to the reunification of the two German states , the two-plus-four treaty is signed in Moscow .
- September 12 : The Faroe Islands win an international match with a historic 1-0 over Austria .
- September 13 : The Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a cooperation and non-aggression agreement with a term of 20 years.
- September 18 : Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
- September 19 : The Palace of the Republic is closed due to asbestos contamination.
- September 23 : A popular initiative for a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction is adopted in Switzerland .
- September 24 : The National People's Army of the GDR is out of the Warsaw Pact in terms of German unification removed. Rainer Eppelmann as Minister for Disarmament and Defense of the GDR and the commander-in-chief in the Warsaw Pact, Soviet Army General Pyotr G. Luschew , sign a protocol in East Berlin to leave the military organization of the Alliance.
- September 27 : The West and East German Social Democrats meet in Berlin . The chairman of the Eastern SPD , Wolfgang Thierse , becomes deputy chairman of the entire SPD at the party congress .
- September 27 : With the unanimous decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court for women , the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last Swiss canton to introduce women’s right to vote .
- September 29th : The Federal Constitutional Court declares the right to vote for the first all-German Bundestag election unconstitutional and demands a. separate threshold clauses for the area of the current Federal Republic as well as for the accession area.
October
- October 1 : CDU East and West unite at a party conference in Hamburg. The foreign ministers of the four victorious powers of the Second World War declare Germany a sovereign state in New York City.
- October 2 : From Uganda from the start of Tutsi founded -Flüchtlingen Rwandan Patriotic Front with an invasion in Rwanda to that of Hutus to overthrow led government.
- October 3 : With the accession of the areas of the GDR including East Berlin to the scope of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany , the reunification of the two German states takes place. In addition, the adopted by the parliament of the GDR on July 22 occurs ländereinführungsgesetz into force. As soon as the parliaments of the victorious powers have ratified the Two-Plus-Four Treaty , as intended, the remainder of the Allies' rights of reservation with regard to all of Germany and Berlin will expire as a result of World War II and Germany would become completely sovereign . For the first time, October 3rd as the Day of German Unity is also a national holiday for all of Germany .
- October 7th : National Council election in Austria . SPÖ under Chancellor Vranitzky party with the strongest vote.
- October 12 : The President of the People's Assembly, Refaat Al-Mahgoub , is assassinated in Egypt .
- October 12 : Wolfgang Schäuble , German Federal Minister of the Interior , is seriously injured in a gunshot attack.
- October 14 : Elections to the state parliaments take place in the new federal states and in Bavaria . The CDU becomes the strongest party in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia , the SPD in the elections to the Brandenburg state parliament - the CSU wins the Bavarian state election with an absolute majority.
- October 21 : In a drift net - the sixth specimen ever - a basking mouth shark is found and - provided with transmitters - released the next day
- October 22 : Turkmenistan declares itself sovereign .
- October 25 : Kazakhstan declares sovereignty within the USSR ; in the following year it becomes an independent state.
- October 27 : Saparmurat Niyazov becomes President of Turkmenistan .
November
- November 6th : The 9th additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights , which enables every citizen to appeal personally to the European Court of Human Rights , is presented.
- November 7th : Mary Robinson , nominated by the Irish Labor Party for the Irish presidential election , is surprisingly elected and is the first woman in this office.
- November 9th : Nepal receives a democratic constitution.
- November 9 : The Soviet Union and Germany sign the “Treaty on Good Neighborhood, Partnership and Cooperation”.
- November 11 : The UN Security Council passes Resolution 678: Iraq is to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991 .
- November 12 : Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan .
- November 14th : Signing of the German-Polish border treaty .
- November 14th: Mainzer Strasse in Berlin is cleared .
- November 15: The Alternative List announces the red-green coalition ( Senate Momper ).
- November 19 : OSCE summit in Paris
- November 21 : In the Charter of Paris , the division of Europe into East and West in the Cold War is declared over. 32 European countries as well as the USA and Canada are committed to a democracy based on human rights and fundamental freedoms , to prosperity through economic freedom and social justice, and to equal security for the contracting states .
- November 22 : Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . John Major will be her successor on November 28th.
- November 28 : Lee Kuan Yew resigns as Prime Minister of Singapore after 31 years.
- November 29 : early election of the people's assembly in Egypt . Atef Sedky remains Prime Minister.
December
- December 2 : In the 1990 Bundestag election , the first all-German elections , Helmut Kohl's government is confirmed in office.
- December 5 : President Hossain Mohammad Ershad is overthrown in Bangladesh .
- December 7th : With the entry into force of the Electricity Feed Act in Germany, electricity generation from renewable energy sources is politically supported significantly.
- December 9th : Lech Wałęsa wins the presidential election in Poland .
- December 11th : After a referendum , the new constitution comes into force in Benin .
- December 15 : Kyrgyzstan declares its sovereignty
- December 17th : A multiparty system is introduced in Albania .
- December 19 : Bulgaria receives a government under Dimitar Popov .
- December 20 : The first all-German Bundestag meets for a constituent session in Berlin.
- December 22nd : New constitution in Croatia, a semi-presidential system designed primarily to concentrate the political power of former President Franjo Tuđman .
- December 23rd : In Slovenia , 95 percent of voters vote in a referendum to break away from the state of Yugoslavia . The country's independence is subsequently declared on June 25, 1991.
- December 30th : The BND law , which regulates the organization, tasks and powers of the Federal Intelligence Service , comes into force.
economy
- January 26th : The Deutsche Terminbörse starts trading as the first fully electronic exchange in Germany.
- January 31 : The first Russian McDonald’s restaurant opens in Moscow .
- January 31 : The coal -promoting Radbod in Bockum-Hoevel is shut down.
- February 28 : In the Soviet Union , private farmers are enabled to buy land and pass it on to their descendants. This eases the land reform based on Lenin's decree on land of 1917.
- May 29 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Bangladesh
- May 29 : An agreement to establish the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBWD) is signed.
- June 20 : The EEC and EFTA begin negotiations on the creation of the European Economic Area (EEA).
- June 21 : The Budapest Stock Exchange is reopened under significant influence of the Vienna Stock Exchange .
- July 7th : The businessman Bernard Tapie acquires 80 percent of the shares in the sporting goods manufacturer adidas from the Dassler family for 1.6 billion French francs .
- 13 July : As the legal successor of Gosbank is Bank Rossii as Central Bank of Russia established.
- October 22nd : Trade agreement between the EC and Romania
- Ford buys Jaguar
- November 26th : The Shanghai Stock Exchange is founded.
- December 19 : The rocket soundings in Zingst are temporarily suspended for security reasons.
- December 31 : The SDAG Wismut stops mining in Saxony and Thuringia. This ends uranium mining in Germany.
science and technology
- January 24th : The Japanese space probe Hiten is launched into orbit around the earth, it will later reach the moon .
- April 24th : The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-31 mission .
- August 10 : The space probe Magellan occurs after a 15-month trip to the orbit of Venus , a
- September 2nd : The Silver Arrow (ET 201) of the Cologne-Bonn Railways has its last day of operation.
- September 14 : The worldwide Human Genome Project to decipher the human genome is founded
- December 25 : At CERN , the first prototype system with HTTP , HTML and the combination of web server and web browser on a NeXT computer goes into operation.
society
- January 18 : Washington Mayor Marion Barry is arrested by the FBI for possession and use of a drug .
- July 14th : Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr is found murdered.
- November 13 : The Aramoana rampage in New Zealand develops out of an argument between two neighbors. The perpetrator then shoots 13 people and dies the next morning after another exchange of fire with police officers from his sustained injuries.
Culture
- January 2nd : The Wolf Foundation's art prize this year goes to painter Anselm Kiefer
- January 7th : The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to visitors for security reasons
- January 21 : World premiere of the ballet Medea by John Neumeier (choreography and libretto) by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Small House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart
- January 31 : Italian premiere of Federico Fellini's last film The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna)
- March 18 : Twelve paintings valued at $ 100 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston , Massachusetts by two thieves dressed as police officers . It is the largest art theft in US history.
- March 26 : The German animated film Balance by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein wins an Oscar for best animated short film.
- March 27 : The Sherlock Holmes Museum opens in London .
- March 28 : Bergerac's film Cyrano is shown for the first time in France and has garnered many awards.
- April 6th : Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch is sprayed with sulfuric acid by a confused man in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam .
- April 19 : The Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize is awarded for the first time in the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.
- May 5th : World premiere of the musical drama The betrayed sea by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin
- May 10 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Vietnam . In force since March 6, 1991
- May 23 : cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Rwanda . In force since April 2, 1991
- August 24th : The Diddl mouse is sketched by Thomas Goletz for the first time
- October 1 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Guatemala . In force since April 23, 1992
- October 17th : The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is founded, but it does not appear on the World Wide Web until 1994 . The current operator is amazon.com (founded in 1994)
- October 30 : World premiere of the opera Tulifant by Gottfried von Eine in Vienna
- Commissioning of the German Science Network
- Foundation of the support group of the gallery for contemporary art
- First award of the Carl Einstein Prize
music
- May 5 : Toto Cutugno wins the 35th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Italy with the song Insieme 1992 in Zagreb .
- July 21 : Roger Waters gives the biggest concert in the history of rock music ( The Wall ) on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin .
- August 24th : The Wacken Open Air , later Europe's largest metal festival, takes place for the first time.
- November 20 : A visitor to a Queensrÿche concert in Ichtegem, Belgium, is stabbed to death after a scuffle.
- The Association of the Phonographic Industry recognizes the Hamburg band Helloween the golden records for the albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 + Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 .
- GWAR cancel their current US tour after guitarist Balzac left.
- The Californian rock band Y&T split up.
- The British boy band Take That is founded and becomes the most successful British boy band of all time.
See also: 1990 number one hits in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .
religion
- February 22 : The Bavarian Administrative Court decides that for women in the Oberammergau Passion Play , regardless of their marital status and age equality applies.
- September 10 : The Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast , the largest Christian church in the world, is consecrated
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- February 11 : James "Buster" Douglas wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Mike Tyson in the Tokyo Dome , Tokyo , Japan , by knockout.
- May 9 : The GDR women's national soccer team plays its only international match that is lost 3-0 to the national soccer team of Czechoslovakia in the Karl Liebknecht Stadium in Potsdam-Babelsberg in front of around 800 spectators.
- May 19 : 1. FC Kaiserslautern defeated Werder Bremen 3-2 in the German Cup final in Berlin and won the DFB Cup for the first time in its history .
- June 8th : In the opening game of the 14th World Cup , Cameroon wins a 1-0 win against reigning world champions Argentina .
- July 8th : Andreas Brehme turned a penalty against Argentina for the DFB team to win the final of the 14th World Cup 1-0 and become world champions for the third time.
- August 27th : 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split , Croatia .
- September 12 : International football match between Faroe Islands and Austria in Landskrona . The 1-0 for the amateurs from the Faroe Islands started a football fairy tale .
- October 2 : In women's handball , the GDR wins the last German-German international match before reunification against the Federal Republic .
- October 25 : Evander Holyfield wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against James "Buster" Douglas at The Mirage , Las Vegas , by knockout.
- November 20 : The German Football Association (DFV) of the GDR decides to dissolve it.
- December 31 : The last time in the fight for the world chess championship is the long rivals Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov on the board. Kasparov remains world champion after the last game with 12.5: 11.5 points.
- Ayrton Senna becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time .
Disasters
- January 4 : A railway accident near Sangi in Pakistan kills around 350 people and injures 700. A passenger and a freight train collided.
- June 21 : The Manjil-Rudbar quake with a magnitude of 7.4 in Iran , 40,000 to 50,000 dead
- July 2 : An outbreak of mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel near Mecca kills 1,427 Muslim pilgrims on the Hajj .
- July 16 : 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Luzon , Philippines , killing 1,621
- October 2 : Baiyun , People's Republic of China . During the emergency landing of a hijacked Boeing 737 from Xiamen Airlines , a fight breaks out between the pilot and the hijacker and the machine gets out of control. She rams a Boeing 707 from China Southwest Airlines and then collides with a Boeing 757 from the same airline. 132 people die, 141 survive the disaster
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1st : Nick Aitken , Australian road cyclist
- January 1st : Ercan Çapar , Turkish soccer player
- January 1st : Marian Lösch , German actor and voice actor
- January 2nd : Karel Abraham , Czech motorcycle racer
- January 2nd : Elisabeth Assmann , German agricultural economist and politician
- January 2nd : Jiří Mazoch , Czech ski jumper
- January 2nd : Géraldine Raths , German actress
- January 3 : José Pierre Vunguidica , Angolan football player
- January 4th : Patrick Auracher , German soccer player
- January 4th : Iago Falqué , Spanish soccer player
- January 4th : Toni Kroos , German soccer player
- January 5th : Leroy Fer , Dutch football player
- January 5th : Thomas Leberfinger , German soccer player
- January 6th : Sandro Cortese , German motorcycle racer
- January 6th : Marlene Zapf , German handball player
- January 7th : Liam Aiken , American actor
- January 7th : Camryn Elizabeth Grimes , American actress
- January 7th : Gregor Schlierenzauer , Austrian ski jumper
- January 8th : Laura Brosius , German soccer player
- January 8th : Kenshirō Itō , Japanese ski jumper
- January 8 : Scott Pye , Australian racing car driver
- January 10 : Mirko Bortolotti , Italian racing car driver
- January 10 : John Carlson , American ice hockey player
- January 10th : Fabian Grünwald , German grass skier
- January 10th : Mario Innauer , Austrian ski jumper
- January 12th : Sergej Karjakin , Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- January 13 : Liam Hemsworth , Australian actor
- January 13th : Bobby Schagen , Dutch handball player
- January 13 : Julia Zirnstein , German soccer player
- January 15 : Lucry , German rapper
- January 16 : Oliver Hofstetter , Swiss cyclist
- January 16 : Valentino Stepčić , Croatian football player
- January 17th : Tonje Angelsen , Norwegian athlete
- January 17th : Esteban Chaves , Colombian cyclist
- January 17 : Tyler Zeller , American basketball player
- January 18 : İbrahim Eren Akduman , Turkish soccer player
- January 18 : Gorgui Dieng , Senegalese basketball player
- January 18 : Constantin Gastmann , German actor
- January 19th : Jakub Kot , Polish ski jumper
- January 19 : Fabian Römer , German rapper
- January 20 : Johannes Focher , German football goalkeeper
- January 23 : Judith Fuchs , German chess champion
- January 23 : Bianca Schmidt , German soccer player
- January 24th : Artyom Artjunin , Estonian football player
- January 25th : Fábio Silvestre , Portuguese cyclist
- January 26 : Christopher Massey , American actor
- January 26th : Sergio Pérez , Mexican racing car driver
- January 26th : Peter Sagan , Slovak cyclist
- January 27 : Nicholas Bett , Kenyan athlete († 2018 )
- January 27 : Christoph Moritz , German football player
- January 28 : Daylon Claasen , South African soccer player
- January 28 : Tim Treude , German soccer player
- January 30th : Jazmyne Avant , American soccer player
- January 30th : Jake Thomas , American actor
- January 31 : Cro , German rapper
- January 31 : Marco Holz , German soccer player
February
- February 1st : Leo Au Chun-ming , Chinese squash player
- February 2 : Telly Tellz , German rapper
- February 2nd : Matic Kramaršič , Slovenian ski jumper
- February 2nd : Cynthia Micas , German actress
- February 3 : Sean Kingston , American singer
- February 3 : Julia Wenzl , German handball player
- February 4th : Marcel Kandziora , German soccer player
- February 4th : Karen Knútsdóttir , Icelandic handball player
- February 4th : Nairo Quintana , Colombian cyclist
- February 5th : Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Andreikin , Russian chess master
- February 5 : Ásta Guðrún Helgadóttir , Icelandic politician
- February 6th : Tatiana Chmyrowa , Russian handball player
- February 6th : Desirée Schumann , German soccer player
- February 7th : Anna Abreu , Finnish pop and R&B singer
- February 7th : Neil Etheridge , Anglo-Filipino football goalkeeper
- February 7th : Eva Voraberger , Austrian professional boxer
- February 8 : Baek Jin-hee , South Korean actress
- February 8 : Klay Thompson , American basketball player
- February 10 : Maximilian Ahlschwede , German soccer player
- February 10 : Hajck Karapetjan , German handball player
- February 10 : Choi Soo-young , South Korean singer
- February 11 : Javier Aquino , Mexican soccer player
- February 11th : Adelina Berisha , Kosovar singer
- February 13 : Sae-bom An , South Korean Taekwondoin
- February 13 : Stephan Gusche , German soccer player
- February 14th : Andrea Caldarelli , Italian racing car driver
- February 14th : Therese Wislander , Swedish handball player
- February 15 : Samuel Atrous , French football goalkeeper
- February 15 : Anja Brandt , German volleyball player
- February 15 : Martin Fuger , Austrian handball player
- February 15 : Draško Nenadić , Serbian handball player
- February 15 : Charles Pic , French racing car driver
- February 16 : Nico Abegglen , Swiss football player
- February 16 : Jonas Ahlstrand , Swedish road cyclist
- February 16 : Nicol Gastaldi , Argentine ski racer
- February 16 : The Weeknd , Canadian singer
- February 17th : Simon Schmitz , German basketball player
- February 19 : Silje Katrine Svendsen , Norwegian handball player
- February 20 : Ciro Immobile , Italian football player
- February 21 : David Nii Addy , Ghanaian soccer player
- February 22nd : Christian Andree , German foil and epee fencer
- February 23 : Jan Tratnik , Slovenian cyclist
- February 24 : Ayub Daud , Somali soccer player
- February 24 : Yao Lei , Singaporean badminton player
- February 24th : Randy Krummenacher , Swiss motorcycle racer
- February 24th : Ryu Eun-hee , South Korean handball player
- February 25 : Younès Belhanda , Moroccan football player
- February 25th : Pello Bilbao , Spanish cyclist
- February 26th : Tobias Angerer , Austrian natural track tobogganist
- February 27 : Kim Young-gwon , South Korean soccer player
- February 27 : Beate Scheffknecht , Austrian handball player
- February 28 : Aiden Ashley , American wrestler and porn actress
- February 28 : Sebastian Rudy , German soccer player
March
- March 2nd : Luis Advíncula Castrillón , Peruvian soccer player
- March 2nd : Jerome Flaake , German ice hockey player
- March 2 : Adderly Fong , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
- March 2nd : Niklas Liepe , German violinist
- March 3rd : Livia Matthes , German actress
- March 4th : Enrico Barbin , Italian cyclist
- March 4th : Andrea Bowen , American actress
- March 5th : Hannes Ackermann , German freestyle motocross rider
- March 5 : Mason Plumlee , American basketball player
- March 5 : Lum Zhaveli , Kosovar swimmer
- March 6th : Clara Lago , Spanish actress
- March 6th : Ronja Prinz , German actress
- March 7th : Robert Markotić , Croatian handball player
- March 7th : Gary Noël , British-Mauritian soccer player
- March 9 : Fahri Akyol , German-Turkish soccer player
- March 10 : Víctor García , Spanish racing car driver
- March 12th : Jesper Asselman , Dutch cyclist
- March 12th : Dawid Kubacki , Polish ski jumper
- March 12th : Franziska Müller , German handball player
- March 12th : Milena Raičević , Montenegrin handball player
- March 14th : Mario Canedo , Austrian actor, author and speaker
- March 14th : Stefanie Hiekmann , German food journalist and cookbook author
- March 15 : Tavon Wesley Austin , American football player
- March 15 : Dragana Cvijić , Serbian handball player
- March 15 : Thomas Stielner , German actor
- March 16 : Raphaël Addy , Swiss road cyclist
- March 16 : Fabian Arends , German drummer and composer
- March 16 : James Bulger , victim of violent crime († 1993 )
- March 17th : Johannes Heinrichs , German actor
- March 17th : Jakub Hrstka , Czech handball player
- March 17th : Saina Nehwal , Indian badminton player
- March 17th : Stéphane Richelmi , Monaco racing car driver
- March 17 : Jacob Wilson , American racing car driver
- March 18 : Jonatan Kotzke , German soccer player
- March 18 : Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht , German actor
- March 19 : Isabella Benz , German writer
- March 20 : Marcos Rojo , Argentine soccer player
- March 20 : René Vollath , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Lisa Mitchell , Australian singer-songwriter
- March 22nd : Daniel Zampieri , Italian racing driver
- March 23rd : Eugenie of York , British princess
- March 23 : Jaime Alguersuari , Spanish racing car driver
- March 23 : Gordon Hayward , American basketball player
- March 24th : Keisha Castle-Hughes , New Zealand actress
- March 24th : Libby Clegg , British athlete
- March 24th : Benedikt Doll , German biathlete
- March 25 : Alexander Esswein , German soccer player
- March 26th : Hanno Behrens , German soccer player
- March 26 : Choi Woo-shik , South Korean actor
- March 26th : Sarah Menezes , Brazilian judoka
- March 27th : Amir Abrashi , Kosovar-Swiss football player
- March 27th : Cosima Lehninger , Austrian actress
- March 27 : Mateusz Zachara , Polish football player
- March 28 : Michail Gregory Antonio , English football player
- March 28 : Laura Harrier , American actress and model
- March 28 : Luca Marrone , Italian football player
- March 30th : Stefano Bizzarri , Italian racing car driver
- March 30 : Cassie Scerbo , American actress, singer, and dancer
- March 31 : Lyra McKee , Northern Irish journalist († 2019 )
April
- April 1 : Justin Hamilton , American basketball player
- April 1 : PA Sports , German rapper
- April 1 : Sandrina Zander , German actress
- April 2 : Nikolai Link , German handball player
- April 2 : Miralem Pjanić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- April 3 : Laura Glaser , German handball goalie
- April 4 : Steffen Fäth , German handball player
- April 4th : Marc Vales , Andorran football player
- April 5 : Sercan Yıldırım , Turkish soccer player
- April 6th : Andreas Angerer , Austrian politician
- April 7th : Nickel Ashmeade , Jamaican sprinter
- April 7th : George Bennett , New Zealand cyclist
- April 8 : Kim Jonghyun , South Korean singer († 2017 )
- April 8th : Émilie Aubry , Swiss snowboarder
- April 8 : Karim Bellarabi , German national soccer player
- April 8 : Rabea Neßlage , German handball player
- April 9 : Matías Abero , Uruguayan soccer player
- April 9th : Emma Augier de Moussac , Czech show jumper
- April 9 : Kristen Stewart , American actress
- April 10 : Benjamin Paul Amos , English soccer player
- April 10 : Alex Pettyfer , British actor
- April 11th : Dimitrios Anastasopoulos , Greek footballer
- April 11th : Philipp Keinath , German handball player
- April 11th : Ville Larinto , Finnish ski jumper
- April 11th : Andrea Roda , Italian racing car driver
- April 12th : Rahmat Adianto , Indonesian badminton player
- April 12th : Andreas Nilsson , Swedish handball player
- April 12 : Eetu Vähäsöyrinki , Finnish Nordic combined
- April 14th : Arianna Fontana , Italian short tracker
- April 15th : Lily Carter , American porn actress
- April 15th : Emma Watson , British actress
- April 16 : Senta-Sofia Delliponti , German singer, musical artist and actress
- April 16 : Jérémy Kapone , French actor, songwriter
- April 16 : Lily Loveless , British actress
- April 16 : Bruno Méndez , Spanish racing car driver
- April 16 : Nadine Menz , German actress
- April 16 : Arthur Zanetti , Brazilian gymnast
- April 16 : Reggie Jackson , American basketball player
- April 17th : Astrit Ajdarevic , Kosovar-Swedish football player
- April 18 : Stefanie Mirlach , German soccer player
- April 18 : Wojciech Szczęsny , Polish football player
- April 19 : Tom Van Asbroeck , Belgian cyclist
- April 19 : Kim Chiu , Sino-Filipino actress and singer
- April 19 : Christian Hirschbühl , Austrian ski racer
- April 19 : Damien Le Tallec , French football player
- April 20 : Max Hartl , German actor, filmmaker and Wild West artist
- April 20 : Randy Edwini-Bonsu , Ghanaian-Canadian soccer player
- April 21 : Tunay Torun , German-Turkish soccer player
- April 22nd : Nils Dresrüsse , German handball player
- April 22nd : Machine Gun Kelly (rapper) , American rapper
- April 23 : Sajad Esteki , Iranian handball player
- April 23 : Matthew Underwood , American actor
- April 23 : Zanka , Danish football player
- April 24 : David Harrer , Austrian soccer player
- April 24th : Daniel Morad , Canadian racing car driver
- April 24th : Karoline de Souza , Brazilian handball player
- April 24th : Jan Veselý , Czech basketball player
- April 25 : Matias Laine , Finnish racing car driver
- April 25 : Jean-Éric Vergne , French racing driver
- April 26 : Luciano Bacheta , British racing car driver
- April 27 : Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Akimov , Russian biathlete
- April 27 : Will Atkinson , Scottish DJ and record producer
- April 27 : Can Çelebi , Turkish handball player
- April 27 : Pawel Vladimirovich Karelin , Russian ski jumper († 2011 )
- April 27 : Maria Liku , Fijian weightlifter
- April 28 : Martin Stührk , German actor
- April 29th : Valentine Arrieta , Swiss athlete
- April 29th : Christopher Schindler , German soccer player
- April 30th : Michael Schulte , German singer
- April 30th : Mat Zo , British DJ and music producer specializing in trance and progressive
May
- May 1st : Caitlin Stasey , Australian actress
- May 2nd : Zubayr Amiri , Afghan soccer player
- May 2nd : Albert Costa , Spanish racing car driver
- May 2nd : Annemarie Eilfeld , German singer and songwriter
- May 2nd : Erwin Feuchtmann Perez , Chilean handball player
- May 2nd : Francesco Friedrich , German bobsleigh driver
- May 2 : Paul George , American basketball player
- May 2 : Kay Panabaker , American actress
- May 3rd : Jan Antolec , Polish cross-country skier
- May 3rd : Alexandra Cadanțu , Romanian tennis player
- May 3rd : Carole da Silva Costa , Portuguese soccer player
- May 4th : Bram Nuytinck , Dutch football player
- May 5th : Roman Dietzel , German snooker player
- May 5th : Joanna Semmelrogge , German actress
- May 5th : Martine Smeets , Dutch handball player
- May 6 : Christian Gytkjær , Danish football player
- May 7th : Samira Jakobs , German voice actress
- May 8 : Alexander Alexandrovich Andrijenko , Russian ski racer
- May 8 : Kemba Walker , American basketball player
- May 9 : Johannes Firn , German Nordic combined athlete
- May 10 : Espen Enger Halvorsen , Norwegian ski jumper
- May 10 : Ivana Španović , Serbian long jumper
- May 10 : Valentin Weckerle , German handball player
- May 11th : Daniel Buballa , German soccer player
- May 11 : Florian Hart , Austrian soccer player
- May 11 : Julian Leal , Colombian racing car driver
- May 12 : Florent Amodio , French figure skater
- May 12 : Lumaraa , German rapper
- May 15 : Ryō Aono , Japanese snowboarder
- May 16 : Sermet Agartan , German music producer, composer, songwriter and sound engineer
- May 16 : Deniz Akdeniz , Australian actor
- May 16 : Bjarki Már Elísson , Icelandic handball player
- May 16 : Thomas Sangster , British actor
- May 17th : Sonny Colbrelli , Italian cyclist
- May 17th : Ján Kuciak , Slovak journalist († 2018 )
- May 17 : Ross Butler , American actor
- May 17 : Leven Rambin , American actress
- May 18 : Daniel Egeland Jarstø , Norwegian cyclist
- May 18 : Tore Eikeland , Norwegian politician († 2011 )
- May 18 : Carolin Schmele , German handball player
- May 19 : Víctor Ibarbo , Colombian football player
- May 19 : Stefán Rafn Sigurmannsson , Icelandic handball player
- May 20 : Lisa Mößinger , German handball player
- May 20th : Pius Paschke , German ski jumper
- May 22 : Malcolm Lee , American basketball player
- May 22nd : Danick Snelder , Dutch handball player
- May 23 : Stephane Assengue Ombiogno , Cameroonian football player
- May 23 : Maike Schirmer , German handball player
- May 24th : Yūya Matsushita , Japanese singer and actor
- May 24th : Christina Petersen , German actress
- May 24th : Andreas Wolf , German handball player
- May 25 : Majda Mehmedović , Montenegrin handball player
- May 26 : Dominick Drexler , German soccer player
- May 27 : Samuel Armenteros , Swedish football player
- May 27th : Nadine Beiler , Austrian singer
- May 27 : Chris Colfer , American actor
- May 27th : Maximilian Lechner , Austrian pool player
- May 27 : Apinya Sakuljaroensuk , Thai actress
- May 28th : Tobias Bogner , German ski jumper
- May 28 : Niklas Dams , German soccer player
- May 28 : Rohan Dennis , Australian cyclist
- May 28 : Jamina Roberts , Swedish handball player
- May 29 : Antony Golec , Australian soccer player
- May 29th : Thibaut Pinot , French cyclist
- May 30 : Mustafa Akbaş , Turkish soccer player
- May 30 : Im Yoon-a , South Korean singer and actress
- May 30 : Josef Šural , Czech football player († 2019 )
- May 31 : Yusuf Arslan , Turkish painter
June
- June 1st : Roman Josi , Swiss ice hockey player
- June 2nd : Anıl Atağ , Turkish football goalkeeper
- June 2 : Brittany Curran , American actress
- June 2nd : Jonathan Eisenkrätzer , German handball player
- June 2nd : Michał Kwiatkowski , Polish cyclist
- June 2 : Eddie Lacy , American football player
- June 2nd : Sebastian Saavedra , Colombian racing car driver
- June 4th : Greg Monroe , American basketball player
- June 4th : Jetsun Pema , Queen of Bhutan
- June 5 : Deniz Ayçiçek , German soccer player
- June 5th : Sophie Lowe , Australian actress
- June 5th : Youssouf Mhadjou , Comorian sprinter
- June 6 : Ashleigh Chisholm , Australian actress
- June 6 : Ellie Kendrick , British actress
- June 6 : Matthew John Lewis , Australian soccer player
- June 6th : Rodri , Spanish soccer player
- June 7th : Iggy Azalea , Australian rapper
- June 9 : Andrés Arroyave , Colombian football player († 2018 )
- June 9 : Matthias Mayer , Austrian ski racer and Olympic champion
- June 10 : Jane Chirwa , German actress
- June 11 : Christophe Lemaitre , French sprinter
- June 12 : Kate Bracken , Scottish actress
- June 12 : Jrue Holiday , American basketball player
- June 13 : Christos Arkoudas , Greek football player
- June 13th : Tara Lynn Foxx , American porn actress
- June 14th : Jeinkler Aguirre , Cuban water diver
- June 14 : Patrice Cormier , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 14th : Robert Hering , German athlete
- June 14th : Jeroen Mul , Dutch racing driver
- June 15th : Roberto Dellasega , Italian ski jumper
- June 15 : Josef Král , Czech racing car driver
- June 16 : John Newman , British soul singer
- June 16 : Sanna Solberg , Norwegian handball player
- June 16 : Silje Solberg , Norwegian handball player
- June 17th : Maja Lehrer , German actress
- June 18 : Luke Adam , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 19 : Brodie Mooy , Australian soccer player
- June 19 : Gerrit Pressel , German soccer player
- June 20 : Haris Handžić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- June 20 : Emil Reinke , German actor
- June 20 : Fab Melo , Brazilian basketball player († 2017 )
- June 21 : Håvard Nordtveit , Norwegian football player
- June 21 : Katrin Welter , German handball player and trainer
- June 22nd : Faruk Vražalić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian handball player
- June 24th : Richard Sukuta-Pasu , German soccer player
- June 24th : Caroline Thomas , German handball player
- June 25 : John Wartique , Belgian racing driver
- June 26 : Iman Shumpert , American basketball player
- June 27th : Laura van der Heijden , Dutch handball player
- June 27 : Sina Tkotsch , German actress
- June 29th : Philipp Laude , German-Austrian actor, singer and comedian
- June 29th : Sayuri Sugawara , Japanese singer
- June 30th : Tim Schwarzmaier , German voice actor
July
- July 2nd : Roman Lob , German singer
- July 3 : Fabio Aru , Italian road cyclist
- July 3 : Kento Sakuyama , Japanese ski jumper
- July 4th : Jake Gardiner , American ice hockey player
- July 5th : Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik , Swedish middle distance runner
- July 6 : Noh Ah-joo , Korean singer
- July 6 : Jae Crowder , American basketball player
- July 6th : Felix Schoft , German ski jumper
- July 7th : Lee Addy , Ghanaian soccer player
- July 9 : Kuba Giermaziak , Polish racing car driver
- July 9 : Bernd Herndlhofer , Austrian automobile racing driver
- July 10 : Antonio Daniloski , German e-athlete († 2010 )
- July 10 : Veronica Kristiansen , Norwegian handball player
- July 11 : Mona Barthel , German tennis player
- July 11th : Caroline Wozniacki , Danish tennis player
- July 11th : Daniel Colman , American poker player
- July 11 : Connor Paolo , American actor
- July 12th : Alessandro Abruscia , Italian football player
- July 12th : Philipp Eitzinger , Austrian motorcycle racer
- July 13 : Murat Akça , Turkish football player
- July 14th : Jan Nepomnyashchi , Russian chess grandmaster
- July 14th : Jessica Wich , German soccer player
- July 15 : Olly Alexander , British singer and actor
- July 15 : Damian Lillard , American basketball player
- July 16 : Eddie Hassell , American actor († 2020 )
- July 16 : Jens Klingmann , German racing car driver
- July 16 : James Maslow , American actor and singer
- July 16 : Johann Zarco , French motorcycle racer
- July 17 : Mattie Stepanek , American poet († 2004 )
- July 19 : Aron Pálmarsson , Icelandic handball player
- July 20 : Lars Unnerstall , German soccer player
- July 21 : Rut Arnfjörð Jónsdóttir , Icelandic handball player
- July 23 : Nicole Mieth , German actress
- July 23 : Cedric Sprick , German actor
- July 24th : Daveigh Chase , American actress
- July 24th : Iso Sluijters , Dutch handball player
- July 24th : Dean Stoneman , British racing car driver
- July 25th : Michel Abt , German handball player
- July 25th : Shalin-Tanita Rogall , German actress
- July 26 : Jesús Herrada , Spanish cyclist
- July 26 : Älichan Qaranejew , Kazakh billiards player
- July 26th : Isabell Roch , German handball player
- July 26 : Bianca A. Santos , American actress
- July 27 : Indiana Evans , Australian actress
- July 27 : David Storl , German shot putter
- July 28 : Soulja Boy , American rapper
- July 28th : Mun Sung-Hak , South Korean racing car driver
- July 28 : Aleksandr Sidorov , Uzbek billiards player
- July 29 : Munro Chambers , Canadian actor
- July 30th : Martin Stosch , German singer
- July 31 : Nicolas De Crem , Belgian racing driver
August
- August 2nd : Dejan Judež , Slovenian ski jumper
- August 3rd : Mareike Adermann , German wheelchair basketball player
- August 3rd : Silvan Dillier , Swiss cyclist
- August 4th : Tim Hornke , German handball player
- August 4th : David Lama , Austrian sport climber and alpinist († 2019 )
- August 5th : Jonas Hummels , German sports commentator and expert
- August 7th : Alex Brundle , British racing car driver
- August 8th : Mari Molid , Norwegian handball player
- August 9 : Eugenio Alafaci , Italian cyclist
- August 10 : Iris Shala , Austrian actress and model
- August 12 : Mario Balotelli , Italian football player
- August 13 : DeMarcus Cousins , American basketball player
- August 13 : Fabian Sagstetter , German fist and volleyball player
- August 15th : Filippa Idéhn , Swedish handball player
- August 15 : Jennifer Lawrence , American actress
- August 16 : Alexander Antropov , Russian ice hockey player
- August 16 : Tolgay Ali Arslan , German-Turkish soccer player
- August 16 : Marta Menegatti , Italian beach volleyball player
- August 17th : Rachel Hurd-Wood , British actress
- August 17th : David Zhu , Chinese racing car driver
- August 19 : Nora Quest , German actress
- August 20 : Ashlee Ankudinoff , Australian cyclist
- August 20 : Macauley Chrisantus , Nigerian soccer player
- August 21 : Ina Großmann , German handball player
- August 22 : Rifat Şen , Austrian football player
- August 23 : Tomáš Hasilla , Slovak biathlete
- August 23 : Reimond Manco , Peruvian soccer player
- August 23 : Exaucé Mayombo , German-Congolese soccer player
- August 23 : Luís Sá Silva , Angolan racing car driver
- August 23 : Čaba Silađi , Serbian swimmer
- August 26th : Marcel Aregger , Swiss road cyclist
- August 26th : Markus Schwabl , German soccer player
- August 27 : Taylor Mitchell , Canadian folk singer († 2009 )
- August 28 : Brahim Bedbouda , Algerian football player
- August 28 : Michael Christensen , Danish racing car driver
- August 28 : Arnaud Grand , Swiss cyclocross rider
- August 28 : Bojan Krkić , Serbian-Spanish soccer player
- August 28 : Nicola de Marco , Italian racing car driver
- August 28 : Brooke Wales , American ski racer
- August 29 : Patrick van Aanholt , Dutch football player
- August 29 : Nicole Gale Anderson , American actress
- August 29th : Maria Augutis , Swedish athlete
- August 31 : Thomas Götzl , Finnish-German soccer player
- August 31 : Simon Unge , German web video producer
September
- September 1st : Ann Sophie , German singer and songwriter
- September 2nd : Marcus Ericsson , Swedish racing car driver
- September 3 : Rossen Asenov , Bulgarian ice hockey player
- September 3rd : Stine Jørgensen , Danish handball player
- September 3 : Jesse Krohn , Finnish automobile racing driver
- September 3 : Yevhen Novossad , Ukrainian billiards player
- September 3 : Rita Volk , American actress
- September 4th : Stefanía Fernández , Miss Universe 2009
- September 4th : Anatoly Sossnitskij , Ukrainian cyclist
- September 5th : Franco Zuculini , Argentinian soccer player
- September 5 : Kim Yu-na , South Korean figure skater
- September 5 : Lance Stephenson , American basketball player
- September 6 : John Wall , American basketball player
- September 6th : Marco Sørensen , Danish racing driver
- September 7th : Tanja Kolbe , German figure skater
- September 7th : Maximilian Schubert , German handball player
- September 9 : Vasco Regini , Italian football player
- September 9 : Haley Reinhart , American singer
- September 9 : Yaroslav Tarnovetsky , Ukrainian billiards player
- September 12 : Yūji Kunimoto , Japanese racing car driver
- September 12th : Holly Lam-Moores , British handball player
- September 12 : Felix Ahr , German volleyball player
- September 14 : Douglas Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- September 14th : Sam Lowes , British motorcycle racer
- September 14th : Luisa Schulze , German handball player
- September 15 : Christopher "Chris" Payne , Australian soccer player
- September 17th : Petar Đorđić , German handball player
- September 17th : Lelde Gasūna , Latvian ski racer
- September 17th : Felix Handschke , German handball player
- September 17th : Rupert Svendsen-Cook , British racing car driver
- September 18 : Faty Papy , Burundian football player († 2019 )
- September 20 : Jonas Nay , German actor
- September 20 : Donatas Motiejūnas , Lithuanian basketball player
- September 20 : John Tavares , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 21 : Al-Farouq Ajiede Aminu , Nigerian-American basketball player
- September 22nd : Peter Ankersen , Danish football player
- September 22nd : Miquel Nelom , Dutch football player
- September 23 : Martin Finger , German poker player
- September 25 : Mao Asada , Japanese figure skater
- September 26 : Michael Matthews , Australian cyclist
- September 29 : Tierra Abbott , American actress and stunt woman
- September 29 : Doug Brochu , American actor and comedian
- September 29th : JV Horto , Brazilian racing car driver
- September 30th : Dominique Aegerter , Swiss motorcycle racer
- September 30th : Osama Malik , Australian soccer player
- September 30th : Tobias Weihe , German actor
October
- October 1st : Marina Marx , German pop singer
- October 3 : Ana Maria Crnogorčević , Swiss football player
- October 3rd : Maria Fisker , Danish handball player
- October 3 : Madeline Weinstein , American actress
- October 4th : Signy Aarna , Estonian soccer player
- October 5th : Ferdinand Oswald , German soccer player
- October 6 : Jordan Hamilton , American basketball player
- October 6th : Nicolas Mayer , French ski jumper
- October 6th : Selina Wagner , German soccer player
- October 7th : Mason Finley , American discus thrower and shot putter
- October 7th : Glenhis Hernández , Cuban Taekwondoin
- October 8 : Vytautas Andriuškevičius , Lithuanian football player
- October 10 : Astapenka jury , Belarusian cross-country skier
- October 10 : Jakub Vadlejch , Czech javelin thrower
- October 11th : Behzod Abduraimov , Uzbek pianist
- October 11 : Paul Niemann , German actor
- October 15 : Johannes Lochner , German bobsleigh driver
- October 15 : Benjamin Trinks , German actor
- October 16 : Weni Anggraini , American actress
- October 16 : Sam Bennett , Irish cyclist
- October 16 : Antoine Demoitié , Belgian cyclist († 2016 )
- October 16 : Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir , Icelandic singer
- October 17th : Marcelo Arévalo , Salvadoran tennis player
- October 18 : Daniel Kaiser , German soccer player
- October 19th : Niklas Askmyr , Swedish snowboarder
- October 19 : Emma Coburn , American obstacle runner
- October 20 : Ben Münchow , German actor and voice actor
- October 21 : Raidel Acea Morales , Cuban middle distance runner
- October 21 : Christian Erichsen , Swiss Nordic combined athlete
- October 21 : Ricky Rubio , Spanish basketball player
- October 21 : Maxime Vachier-Lagrave , French chess grandmaster
- October 23 : Matt Angel , American actor
- October 24 : İlkay Gündoğan , German football player
- October 24th : Danilo Petrucci , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 24 : Nikola Vučević , Montenegrin basketball player
- October 25 : Wayne Boyd , British racing car driver
- October 25 : Mattia Cattaneo , Italian cyclist
- October 26th : Felix König , German handball player
- October 26th : Pit Schlechter , Luxembourg cyclist
- October 27 : Farzad Abdollahi , Iranian Taekwondoin
- October 27 : Jana Beller , German model
- October 27 : Vinzenz Wagner , Austrian actor and dancer
- October 29th : Adriana Cardoso de Castro , Brazilian handball player
- October 29 : Jascha Rust , German actor
- October 29 : Carlson Young , American actress
- October 30th : Melvin Boskamp , Dutch cyclist
- October 30th : Daniel Schlingmann , German handball goalkeeper
- October 31 : Emiliano Sala , Argentinian football player († 2019 )
November
- November 2 : Kendall Schmidt , American actor and singer
- November 4th : Matthias Büttner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- November 4th : Anders Fjordbach , Danish racing driver
- November 6th : André Schürrle , German soccer player
- November 7th : David de Gea , Spanish soccer player
- November 7th : Rosa-Mystique Jones , Nauruan athlete
- November 8th : Hanna Fogelström , Swedish handball player
- November 9th : Olga Anatoljewna Gorschenina , Russian handball player
- November 9th : Lalawélé Atakora , Togolese football player
- November 10 : Julia Arnold , German soccer player
- November 10 : Sylvia Arnold , German soccer player
- November 10 : Vanessa Ferrari , Italian gymnast
- November 11th : Tom Dumoulin , Dutch cyclist
- November 11 : Julian Koch , German soccer player
- November 12th : Florent Manaudou , French swimmer
- November 13 : Christine Hesel , German handball player
- November 13 : Jibbs , American rapper
- November 14th : Kateřina Němcová , Czech chess player
- November 14th : Zoe Van der Weel , British handball player
- November 16 : Dénes Dibusz , football player
- November 18 : Noémie Schmidt , Swiss actress
- November 19 : Nick Andries , American racing car driver
- November 19th : Patrick Miedema , Dutch handball player
- November 21 : Richard Idoine , New Zealand ice hockey player
- November 21 : Ilie Sánchez , Spanish soccer player
- November 22nd : Taha Akgül , Turkish wrestler
- November 25th : Alaaeldin Abouelkassem , Egyptian fencer
- November 26 : Osama Akharraz , Danish-Moroccan football player
- November 26 : Avery Bradley , American basketball player
- November 26 : Gabriel Paulista , Brazilian soccer player
- November 26th : Rita Ora , British singer
- November 27th : Amaro Antunes , Portuguese road cyclist
- November 28th : Anga Dedryck Boyata , Belgian football player
- November 28 : Gianmarco Raimondo , Canadian racing car driver
- November 28th : Bradley Smith , British motorcycle racer
- November 28th : Tosh Van der Sande , Belgian cyclist
- November 29th Diego Boneta , Mexican actor
- November 29th Johan Koch , Danish handball player
- November 30th : Miiko Albornoz , Chilean-Swedish football player
- November 30th : Magnus Carlsen , Norwegian chess grandmaster
- November 30th : Jesús Ezquerra , Spanish cyclist
December
- December 2 : Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu , Ghanaian soccer player
- December 3 : Fausto Rossi , Italian football player
- December 3 : Anna Sergejewna Sen , Russian handball player
- December 3 : Mike Tauchman , American baseball player
- December 3rd : Nick Yelloly , British racing car driver
- December 5th : Cléber , Brazilian soccer player
- December 5th : Diego Dellasega , Italian ski jumper
- December 5th : Andri Mikaelsson , Icelandic ice hockey player
- December 6th : Tamira Paszek , Austrian tennis player
- December 9th : Debbie Bont , Dutch handball player
- December 9th : Samuel Guy , French Nordic combined skier
- December 9th : Marc Lauterbach , German handball player
- December 9th : LaFee , German singer
- December 9 : Ashleigh Brewer , Australian actress
- December 10 : Aruwa Late Ameh , Nigerian football player († 2011 )
- December 10 : Timothy Boldt , German actor
- December 10 : Shōya Tomizawa , Japanese motorcycle racer († 2010 )
- December 12th : Polat Kemboi Arıkan , Turkish long-distance runner
- December 12th : Prince Damien , German singer
- December 13th : Niklas Russ , German handball player
- December 14th : Bojan Kosić , Montenegrin ski racer
- December 15 : Xenia Georgia Assenza , German actress
- December 15th : Juliane Wurm , German sport climber
- December 17th : Felix Adjei , Ghanaian soccer player
- December 17th : Folashade Abugan , Nigerian athlete
- December 17 : Henri Anier , Estonian football player
- December 18 : Fabian Rießle , German Nordic combined athlete
- December 20 : Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque , American singer
- December 22nd : Jean-Baptiste Maunier , French singer and actor
- December 22nd : Josef Newgarden , American racing car driver
- December 23 : Yvette Broch , Dutch handball player
- December 24th : Marcel Glauche , German actor and director
- December 24th : Lars Hartig , German rower
- December 24th : Michael Lewis , American racing car driver
- December 25th : Moreno Moser , Italian cyclist
- December 25th : Marie Luise Stahl , German actress
- December 26th : Andy Biersack , American singer
- December 28th : Ayele Abshero , Ethiopian long distance runner
- December 28 : David James Archuleta , American pop singer
- December 29th : Amanuel Mesel , Eritrean long-distance runner
- December 30th : Bruno Henrique , Brazilian soccer player
- December 30th : John Henson , American basketball player
- December 31 : Patrick Chan , Canadian figure skater
- December 31 : Jakob Schubert , Austrian sport climber
- December 31 : Johannes Sellin , German handball player
Day unknown
- Matthew Aucoin , American composer, pianist, conductor and author
- Jasper Diedrichsen , German actor, cabaret artist and comedian
- Chantal Dubs , Swiss actress
- Willi Gerk , German actor
- Wolf Danny Homann , German actor
- Maximilian Klas , German actor
- Moritz Leu , German actor
- Kerstin König , German actress
- Cecil von Renner , German actor
- Arne Rudolf , German actor
- Victoria Schulz , German actress
- Simon Werdelis , German actor
Died
This is a list of the most important people who passed away in 1990. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 1990 .
January
- January 1 : Ernst Kuzorra , German football player (* 1905 )
- January 2nd : Juan Urteaga Loidi , Spanish organist, choir director, music teacher and composer (* 1914 )
- January 3 : Ernst Widmer , Swiss-Brazilian composer (* 1927 )
- January 4th : Kurt-Werner Seidel , German firefighter, retired state fire director. D. (* 1930 )
- January 4 : Vladimir Ussachevski , Russian-American composer (* 1911 )
- January 4 : Harold E. Edgerton , American electrical engineer, inventor of the stroboscope (* 1903 )
- January 5th : Lola Iturbe , Spanish anarchist and feminist (* 1902 )
- January 6th : Hans Jaray , chamber actor, director and author (* 1906 )
- January 6th : Pawel Alexejewitsch Cherenkov , Russian physicist (* 1904 )
- January 7 : Bronko Nagurski , Canadian American football player (* 1908 )
- January 8 : Johann Asch , German politician (* 1911 )
- January 8 : Georgie Auld , American jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and band leader (* 1919 )
- January 8 : Terry-Thomas , British actor (born 1911 )
- January 9th : Buschi Niebergall , German musician (* 1938 )
- January 9 : Bazilio Olara Okello , Ugandan general and President of Uganda for two days (* 1929 )
- January 9 : Rosemarie Clausen , German theater photographer (* 1907 )
- January 10 : Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve , German politician (* 1916 )
- January 12 : Gaston Crunelle , French flautist and music teacher (* 1898 )
- January 12 : John Hansen , Danish football player (* 1924 )
- January 12 : Paul Amadeus Pisk , Austrian musicologist and composer (* 1893 )
- January 14th : Hellmut Haase-Altendorf , German composer and pianist (* 1912 )
- January 15 : Zeno Vancea , Romanian composer and musicologist (* 1900 )
- January 16 : Alfred Maleta , Austrian politician, President of the National Council (* 1906 )
- January 17th : Charles Hernu , French politician (* 1923 )
- January 19 : Pierre Barbizet , French pianist and music teacher (* 1922 )
- January 19 : Rajneesh Chandra Mohan , founder and leader of a religious movement in India (* 1931 )
- January 19 : Herbert Wehner , German politician (* 1906 )
- January 20 : Claude Auclair , French comic artist (* 1943 )
- January 20 : Barbara Stanwyck , American actress (* 1907 )
- January 21 : Wilhelm Flitner , educator (* 1889 )
- January 22 : Gerhard Klarner , German news anchor (* 1927 )
- January 23 : Galo Leoz , Spanish ophthalmologist and supercentenarian (* 1879 )
- January 23 : Allen Larkin Collins , American musician (* 1952 )
- January 23 : Charley Johns , American politician (* 1905 )
- January 24th : Abraham Patusca da Silveira , Brazilian soccer player (* 1905 )
- January 25 : Ava Gardner , American actress (born 1922 )
- January 26 : Bob Gerard , British racing driver (* 1914 )
- January 26 : Miloslav Ištvan , Czech composer and music teacher (* 1928 )
- January 26 : Lewis Mumford , philosopher (* 1895 )
- January 26 : Higashikuni Naruhiko , Japanese politician and Prime Minister (* 1887 )
- January 27th : Travis "Spider" Webb , American racing car driver (* 1910)
- January 28 : Josef Konrad Scheuber , Swiss clergyman and youth and folk writer (* 1905 )
- January 31 : Juan Francisco Giacobbe , Argentine composer, musicologist and teacher (* 1907 )
- January 31 : Samuel Cochran Phillips , American general (born 1921 )
February
- February 2 : Paul Ariste , Estonian linguist (* 1905 )
- February 2 : Mel Lewis , American jazz musician (* 1929 )
- February 5 : Edgar Herschler , American politician (* 1918 )
- February 7th : Alan J. Perlis , computer scientist (* 1922 )
- February 7th : Jimmy Van Heusen , American composer (* 1913 )
- February 8 : Georges de Mestral , Swiss engineer, inventor of the Velcro fastener (* 1907 )
- February 8 : Del Shannon , American rock 'n' roll singer (born 1934 )
- February 8 : Ernest Titterton , nuclear physicist (* 1916 )
- February 10 : Josef Hindels , Austrian resistance fighter in the 3rd Reich (* 1916 )
- February 11 : Léopold Anoul , Belgian football player (* 1922 )
- February 11 : Helmut Bornefeld , German church musician, composer, organ expert, graphic artist and author (* 1906 )
- February 13 : Heinz Haber , German astrophysicist (* 1913 )
- February 14 : Luděk Čajka , Czech ice hockey player (* 1963 )
- February 14th : Tony Holiday , German singer (* 1951 )
- February 14 : Fritz Schulz-Reichel , German composer and pianist (* 1912 )
- February 14 : Jean Wallace , American actress (* 1923 )
- February 15 : Henry Brandon , American actor (born 1912 )
- February 16 : Keith Haring , American artist (* 1958 )
- February 22nd : Aida Tsunao , Japanese poet (* 1914 )
- February 23 : James M. Gavin , American Lieutenant General (* 1907 )
- February 24th : Alessandro Pertini , Italian politician (* 1896 )
- February 25 : Johnnie Ray , American singer, pianist and songwriter (* 1927 )
- February 28 : Manuel Saber Marroquín , Mexican pianist and composer (* 1914 )
March
- March 3rd : Bruce Low , Dutch pop and gospel singer (* 1913 )
- March 4 : Konstantin Kokkinaki , Soviet test pilot (* 1910 )
- March 5 : Edmund Conen , German footballer (* 1914 )
- March 6 : ET Klassen , American businessman (* 1908 )
- March 7 : Claude Arrieu , French composer (* 1903 )
- March 7th : Luís Carlos Prestes , Brazilian politician (* 1898 )
- March 7th : Carl Alvar Wirtanen , American astronomer (* 1910 )
- March 9 : Carlos Alberto Peronace , Argentine chess problem composer (* 1933 )
- March 9 : Martial Singher , French opera singer and music teacher (* 1904 )
- March 10 : Bruno Bělčík , Czech violinist (* 1924 )
- March 10 : Tseng Kwong Chi , American photographer from China (* 1950 )
- March 12th : Baldur Hönlinger , Austrian chess master (* 1905 )
- March 12 : Philippe Soupault , French poet and writer (* 1897 )
- March 13 : Bruno Bettelheim , American psychoanalyst and child psychologist (* 1903 )
- March 13 : Ernst Goldenbaum , Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR (* 1898 )
- March 13 : Karl Münchinger , German conductor (* 1915 )
- March 16 : Ernst Bacon , American composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher (* 1898 )
- March 16 : Fritz Ewert , German football player (* 1937 )
- March 17 : Andō Mikio , Japanese children's author, literary critic and university lecturer (* 1930 )
- March 17th : Capucine , French actress (* 1928 )
- March 17th : Ric Grech , British rock musician (* 1946 )
- March 19 : Oyinkan Abayomi , Nigerian politician, women's rights activist and teacher (* 1897 )
- March 19 : Franz Felke , German entrepreneur (* 1902 )
- March 19 : Leopold Neumer , German and Austrian football player (* 1919 )
- March 20 : Hildegard Bienen , visual artist (* 1925 )
- March 20 : Maurice Cloche , French director, screenwriter and film producer (* 1907 )
- March 20 : Lev Yashin , Russian football player (* 1929 )
- March 22 : Gerald Bull , Canadian artillery scientist (* 1928 )
- March 24th : To Wang , American computer developer and inventor (* 1920 )
- March 26 : Christian Meyer-Oldenburg , German-speaking science fiction author (* 1936 )
- March 28 : Gino Cappello , Italian football player (* 1920 )
- March 28 : Kurt Scharf , Protestant bishop (* 1902 )
- March 31 : Piera Aulagnier , French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (* 1923 )
- March 31 : Jerzy Karol Ablewicz , Polish bishop (* 1919 )
- Eric Anderson , English soccer player (* 1931 ) March:
April
- April 1 : Carlos Peucelle , Argentine football player and coach (* 1908 )
- April 2 : Aldo Fabrizi , Italian film actor and director (* 1905 )
- April 3 : Sarah Vaughan , American jazz singer (* 1924 )
- April 4 : Bernhard Rensch , German evolutionary biologist (* 1900 )
- April 4 : Paul Yoder , American composer and professor (* 1908 )
- April 6 : Alfred Sohn-Rethel , economist, philosopher and industrial sociologist (* 1899 )
- April 8 : Will Brandes , German pop singer (* 1928 )
- April 8 : Hans Korte German major general (* 1899 )
- April 9 : Wolfgang Junker , Minister for Construction of the GDR (* 1929 )
- April 10 : Gerhard Schrader , German chemist (* 1903 )
- April 12 : Otto Neumann , German athlete (* 1902 )
- April 12 : Luis Trenker , South Tyrolean architect, mountaineer, actor, director and writer (* 1892 )
- April 12 : Kitagawa Fuyuhiko , Japanese poet and theater critic (* 1900 )
- April 13 : Hans Reinerth , German archaeologist (* 1900 )
- April 14 : Mario Frustalupi , Italian football player (* 1942 )
- April 14 : Martin Kessel , German writer (* 1901 )
- April 15 : Greta Garbo , Swedish film actress (* 1905 )
- April 15 : Helmut Lemke , German politician and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (* 1907 )
- April 17 : Ralph David Abernathy , American civil rights activist (* 1926 )
- April 17th : Angelo Schiavio , Italian football player (* 1905 )
- April 17 : Karl Walz , German politician (* 1900 )
- April 18 : Bob Drake , American racing driver (* 1919 )
- April 18 : Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer , a German architect and university professor (* 1907 )
- April 19 : Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez , 32nd President of Panama (* 1905 )
- April 20 : Hedda Koppé , Swiss actress (* 1896 )
- April 20 : Horst Sindermann , German politician and President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (* 1915 )
- April 21 : Frank J. Lausche , American politician (* 1895 )
- April 22nd : Bob Davies , American basketball player (* 1920 )
- April 23 : Paulette Goddard , American actress (* 1910 )
- April 25 : Dexter Gordon , American tenor saxophonist (* 1923 )
- April 27 : Hellmuth Klauhs , Austrian bank director (* 1928 )
- April 29 : Max Bense , German philosopher, writer and publicist (* 1910 )
- April 30th : Mario Pizziolo , Italian football player (* 1909 )
May
- May 2 : William L. Dawson , American composer, choir director and music teacher (* 1899 )
- May 3 : Dovima , American photo model (* 1927 )
- May 5 : Henning von Arnim , German Chief Finance President (* 1916 )
- May 5 : Walter Bruch , pioneer of German television (* 1908 )
- May 5 : Kurt Gregor , Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR (* 1907 )
- May 6 : Irmtraud Morgner , German writer (* 1933 )
- May 7 : Andreas Karađorđević , brother of the last king of Yugoslavia (* 1929 )
- May 8 : Gustav Rudolf Sellner , German director and theater manager (* 1905 )
- May 10 : Bruno Arno , German actor, cabaret artist, choreographer and dancer (* 1902 )
- May 10 : Therese Neudorfer , Austrian politician (* 1920)
- May 10 : Karl-Eduard Wilke , German major general (* 1901 )
- May 11 : Heidemarie Hatheyer , Austrian actress, singer and cabaret artist (* 1918 )
- May 11 : Hanne Wieder , German cabaret artist, diseuse and actress (* 1925 )
- May 14 : André Amellér , French composer and music teacher (* 1912 )
- May 16 : Jim Henson , American director and TV producer (born 1936 )
- May 16 : Sammy Davis junior , American singer, dancer and actor (born 1925 )
- May 17 : Manuel Anatol Arístegui , Spanish football player (* 1903 )
- May 18 : Joseph-Marie Trinh Van-Can , Archbishop of Hanoi and Cardinal (* 1921 )
- May 18 : Jill Ireland , actor and producer (born 1936 )
- May 21 : Morris Levy , American record empresario (* 1927 )
- May 22 : Rocky Graziano , American boxer (born 1919 )
- May 24 : Léo Rivest , Canadian actor (born 1913 )
- May 24th : Dries van der Lof , Dutch automobile racing driver (* 1919 )
- May 24 : Julijans Vaivods , Archbishop of Riga and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1895 )
- May 26 : Edouard Burnier , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor (* 1906 )
- May 26 : Chris McGregor , South African pianist, composer and band leader (* 1936 )
- May 27 : Hans Bunge , German dramaturge, director and author (* 1919 )
- May 27 : Robert B. Meyner , American politician (* 1908 )
- May 28 : Giorgio Manganelli , Italian writer, essayist, journalist and literary scholar (* 1922 )
- May 28 : Wilhelm Wagenfeld , German consumer designer (* 1900 )
- May 28 : Wally "Gundel" Wittmann , German athlete and handball player (* 1905 )
- May 29 : Joseph Asher , German-American rabbi (* 1921 )
- May 31 : José d'Angelo Neto , Brazilian Archbishop (* 1917 )
- May 31 : Johannes Paul , German historian (* 1891 )
- May 31 : Willy Spühler , Swiss politician (* 1902 )
- Elroy Dietzel , American rockabilly musician (* 1936 ) May:
June
- June 1 : Ernst Wilhelm Borchert , German actor and voice actor (* 1907 )
- June 2 : Jack Gilford , American actor (born 1907 )
- June 2 : Rex Harrison , British actor (born 1908 )
- June 3 : Robert Noyce , is considered the inventor of the integrated circuit (* 1927 )
- June 5 : Frederick Nnabuenyi Ugonna , Nigerian linguist and literary scholar (* 1936 )
- June 8 : Akaba Suekichi , Japanese illustrator (* 1910 )
- June 11 : Oldřich Nejedlý , Czechoslovak football player (* 1909 )
- June 12 : Georg Meistermann , German glass painter (* 1911 )
- June 14 : Erna Berger , German soprano (* 1900 )
- June 16 : Ruedi Walter , Swiss folk actor and cabaret artist (* 1916 )
- June 16 : Thomas George Cowling , British astronomer and mathematician (* 1906 )
- June 21 : Rudolf Alexander Agricola , German sculptor (* 1912 )
- June 21 : June Christy , b. Shirley Luster, American jazz singer (* 1925 )
- June 21 : Lucy Millowitsch , German actress and theater director (* 1905 )
- June 22 : Ilja Michailowitsch Frank , Russian physicist, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics (* 1908 )
- June 25 : Peggy Glanville-Hicks , Australian composer (* 1912 )
- June 28 : Herbert Jobst , German writer (* 1915 )
July
- July 2 : Silvina Bullrich , Argentine writer (* 1915 )
- July 6 : Joseph Emmanuel Appiah , Ghanaian lawyer, diplomat and politician (* 1918 )
- July 6 : Měrćin Nowak-Njechorński , Sorbian painter, publicist and writer (* 1900 )
- July 7th : Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle , Jesuit and Zen master (* 1898 )
- July 10 : Donald McGavran , American evangelical theologian, missionary and missiologist (* 1897 )
- July 15 : Otto Frei , Swiss journalist and writer (* 1924 )
- July 15 : Maekawa Samio , Japanese lyric poet (* 1903 )
- July 17 : Edgar Rabsch , German organist, choir director and composer (* 1928 )
- July 18 : Yves Chaland , French draftsman and comic book author (* 1957 )
- July 18 : Sergio Hualpa , Argentine composer (* 1941 )
- July 18 : Yun Bo-seon , South Korean politician (* 1897 )
- July 20 : Hippolyt Poschinger von Frauenau , Bavarian entrepreneur, forest manager and politician (* 1908 )
- July 21 : Sergei Parajanov , Armenian film director (* 1924 )
- July 22nd : Irene Ambrus , Hungarian singer and actress (* 1904 )
- July 22nd : John Niemann , German chess problem composer (* 1905 )
- July 22nd : Manuel Puig , Argentine writer and screenwriter (* 1932 )
- July 23 : Otto Ambros , German chemist (* 1901 )
- July 23 : Mihály Hajdú , Hungarian composer (* 1909 )
- July 25 : Jean Fourastié , French economist (* 1907 )
- July 25 : Alfredo Piàn , Argentine racing car driver (* 1912 )
- July 26 : Hans Aebli , Swiss educator (* 1923 )
- July 26 : Brent Mydland , American keyboardist and singer, member of the Grateful Dead (* 1952 )
- July 26th : Giorgio Scarlatti , Italian racing driver (* 1921 )
- July 27 : Ernie Archer , British art director and production designer (* 1910 )
- July 29 : Bruno Kreisky , Austrian politician (* 1911 )
- July 31 : Ludger Westrick , German politician, Federal Minister for Special Tasks (* 1894 )
- July 31 : Wilhelm Nowack , German journalist and politician (* 1897 )
- July 31 : Fernando Sancho , Spanish actor (* 1916 )
August
- August 1 : Norbert Elias , German-British sociologist, philosopher and poet (* 1897 )
- August 3 : Betty Amann , German-American actress (* 1907 )
- August 3 : Eunice Katunda , Brazilian composer (* 1915 )
- August 4th : Heinz Frieler , German politician (* 1927 )
- August 5 : Ivan Blatný , Czech poet and writer (* 1919 )
- August 6 : Gordon Bunshaft , American architect (* 1909 )
- August 7 : Gebhard Müller , Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (* 1900 )
- August 8 : Andrzej Dobrowolski , Polish composer and music teacher (* 1921 )
- August 10 : Jacobo Arenas , Colombian politician and guerrilla (* 1924 )
- August 12 : Roy Williamson , musician and instrument maker (* 1936 )
- August 15 : Wiktor Zoi , Russian rock singer (* 1962 )
- August 16 : Roland Charrière , French racing car driver (* 1926 )
- August 16 : Annik Saxegaard , Norwegian writer (* 1905 )
- August 18 : Burrhus Frederic Skinner , most prominent representative of behaviorism in the USA (* 1904 )
- August 20 : Rudolf Gellesch , German football player (* 1914 )
- August 20 : Maurice Gendron , French cellist (* 1920 )
- August 20 : Werner Lansburgh , German writer and publicist (* 1912 )
- August 21 : Kurt Müller , German politician (* 1903 )
- August 22 : Julius Angerhausen , German auxiliary bishop (* 1911 )
- August 22nd : Luigi Dadaglio , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1914 )
- August 23 : Omero Tognon , Italian football player and coach (* 1924 )
- August 24 : Sergei Dovlatow , Russian writer (* 1941 )
- August 25 : Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer (born 1903 )
- August 25 : David Hampshire , British racing driver (born 1917 )
- August 26 : Rudolf Marić , chess master and chess author from Yugoslavia (* 1927 )
- August 27 : Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco , Brazilian lawyer, politician, historian, teacher, essayist and critic (* 1905 )
- August 27 : Stevie Ray Vaughan , American blues musician (* 1954 )
- August 28 : Richard Lauffen , German actor (* 1907 )
- August 28 : Willy Vandersteen , Belgian comic artist (* 1913 )
- August 29 : Luigi Beccali , Italian athlete and Olympic champion (* 1907 )
- August 30 : Adriano Chicco , Italian problem composer and chess historian (* 1907 )
September
- September 2 : Piet Stalmeier , Dutch composer and conductor (* 1912 )
- September 2 : Maria-Christine von Urach , German mechanical engineer (* 1933 )
- September 3 : Karl Mommer , German politician (* 1910 )
- September 3 : Mieczysław Fogg , Polish singer (* 1901 )
- September 4 : Turan Dursun , Turkish critic of religion and civil rights activist (* 1934 )
- September 4 : Irene Dunne , theater and film actress (* 1898 )
- September 5 : Beppo Brem , German actor (* 1906 )
- September 5 : Jerry Iger , American cartoonist and comic artist (* 1903 )
- September 6 : Tom Fogerty , American musician and guitarist (* 1941 )
- September 6 : Fernando Valenti , American harpsichordist (* 1926 )
- September 7th : Ahti Karjalainen , Finnish politician (* 1923 )
- September 7th : Erich Kosiol , German professor of business administration (* 1899 )
- September 9 : Nicola Abbagnano , Italian philosopher (* 1901 )
- September 9 : Samuel K. Doe , President of Liberia (* 1951 )
- September 9 : Alexander Wladimirowitsch Men , Russian clergyman and dissident (* 1935 )
- September 11th : Iris von Roten , Swiss lawyer, journalist and women's rights activist (* 1917 )
- September 11th : Frederick Fyvie Bruce , evangelical theologian and New Testament scholar (* 1910 )
- September 12 : Johannes Ernst Köhler , German organist, cantor and university professor (* 1910 )
- September 13 : Bert De Cleyn , Belgian football player (* 1917 )
- September 14 : Denis Payot , Swiss lawyer (* 1942 )
- September 20 : Siegfried Behrend , German guitarist and composer (* 1933 )
- September 22nd : John A. Danaher , American politician (* 1899 )
- September 26 : Alberto Moravia , Italian writer (* 1907 )
- September 26 : Lothar Collatz , German mathematician (* 1910 )
- September 27 : Larry O'Brien , American manager, third commissioner of the NBA (* 1917 )
- September 29 : Volodymyr Malanczuk , Ukrainian bishop (* 1904 )
- September 30 : Rudolf Jahn , Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg (1949–1952) (* 1906 )
- September 30th : Michel Leiris , French writer and ethnologist (* 1901 )
- September 30th : Rob Moroso , American racing driver (* 1968 )
- September 30 : Patrick White , Australian Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (* 1912 )
October
- October 1 : John Stewart Bell , Irish physicist (* 1928 )
- October 1st : Andrzej Krzanowski , Polish composer and accordionist (* 1951 )
- October 2 : Peter Herman Adler , Czech-American conductor (* 1899 )
- October 2 : Sophie Ehrhardt , Russian-German anthropologist (* 1902 )
- October 3 : Stefano Casiraghi , Italian entrepreneur and pleasure boat driver (* 1960 )
- October 4 : Erwin Bünning , German botanist and plant physiologist (* 1906 )
- October 6 : Juan José Arévalo , President of Guatemala (* 1905 )
- October 7th : Raschid bin Said Al Maktum , Emir of Dubai (* 1912 )
- October 7 : Scott M. Matheson , American politician (* 1929 )
- October 8 : Erika Keck , German CDU local politician (* 1900 )
- October 8 : BJ Wilson , British rock musician (born 1947 )
- October 9 : Clara Ege , German painter, sculptor and silk weaver (* 1897 )
- October 9 : Georges de Rham , Swiss mathematician (* 1903 )
- October 10 : Franco Autori , American conductor (* 1903 )
- October 10 : Emil Joseph Diemer , German chess player (* 1908 )
- October 10 : Carlos Thompson , Argentine actor and writer (* 1923 )
- October 12 : Nagai Tatsuo , Japanese writer (* 1904 )
- October 13 : Lê Đức Thọ , Vietnamese politician (* 1911 )
- October 13 : Hans Freudenthal , German mathematician (* 1905 )
- October 14 : Leonard Bernstein , American composer and conductor (* 1918 )
- October 14 : Daniel Guilet , French-American violinist and music teacher of Russian origin (* 1899 )
- October 16 : Art Blakey , American drummer (born 1919 )
- October 16 : Jorge Bolet , American-Cuban pianist (* 1914 )
- October 18 : Heinz Oskar Vetter , German trade unionist and politician (* 1917 )
- October 20 : Colette Audry , French writer, dramaturge and screenwriter (* 1906 )
- October 20 : Joel McCrea , actor (born 1905 )
- October 21 : Jo Ann Kelly , British blues singer and guitarist (* 1944 )
- October 22 : Louis Althusser , French philosopher (* 1918 )
- October 22 : Werner Jarowinsky , German politician (* 1927 )
- October 24 : Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann , German religious scholar (* 1910 )
- October 24 : Hugo Nünlist , Swiss cave explorer and author (* 1910 )
- October 24 : Ernst Zwilling , Austrian travel writer (* 1904 )
- October 25 : Werner Bergmann , German cameraman (* 1921 )
- October 25 : Major Holley , American jazz bassist (* 1924 )
- October 26 : Robert Antelme , French writer (* 1917 )
- October 27 : Xavier Cugat , Spanish-Cuban orchestra leader (* 1900 )
- October 27 : Jacques Demy , French film director (* 1931 )
- October 28 : Ernst Rudolf Huber , German constitutional lawyer (* 1903 )
- October 28 : Gerhard Wacher , German politician (* 1916 )
- October 28 : Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach , German architect and building contractor (* 1929 )
- October 29 : Lis Böhle , German dialect writer (* 1901 )
- October 29 : Volker von Collande , German actor, screenwriter and director (* 1913 )
- October 29 : William French Smith , American lawyer and politician (* 1917 )
- October 30 : Willy Jürissen , German football player (* 1912 )
November
- November 2 : Giovanni Battista Amico , Italian documentary film director, film director, screenwriter and cultural worker (* 1933 )
- November 2 : Eliot Porter , American photographer (* 1901 )
- November 3 : Carlos Alberto Débole , Argentine poet (* 1915 )
- November 3 : Mary Martin , American actress (* 1913 )
- November 7th : Lawrence Durrell , British writer (born 1912 )
- November 10 : Ronnie Dyson , American pop singer (* 1950 )
- November 10 : Valdemar Söderholm , Swedish composer (* 1909 )
- November 11th : Attilio Demaría , Argentine-Italian football player and coach (* 1909 )
- November 11th : Giannis Ritsos , Greek writer (* 1909 )
- November 12th : Hans Jürgen Hundt , German archaeologist for early history (* 1909 )
- November 12 : Eve Arden , American actress (* 1908 )
- November 13th : Nico Haak , Dutch singer (* 1939 )
- November 13th : Hanuš Burger , theater, film and television director, book and screenwriter (* 1909 )
- November 14th : Horst Feistel , German cryptologist (* 1915 )
- November 16 : Abraham Meister , German Protestant theologian, Bible teacher and Bible translator (* 1901 )
- November 17 : Robert Hofstadter , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1915 )
- November 17 : Herbert B. Maw , American politician (* 1893 )
- November 18 : Wolfgang Büttner , German actor (* 1912 )
- November 19 : Felix Lützkendorf , German screenwriter (* 1906 )
- November 20 : Herbert Kegel , German conductor (* 1920 )
- November 23 : Roald Dahl , Welsh writer (* 1916 )
- November 24th : Helga Feddersen , German actress (* 1930 )
- November 24th : Arnold Marquis , German actor and voice actor (* 1921 )
- November 24th : Marion Post Wolcott , American photographer (* 1910 )
- November 26th : Ludwig von Moos , Swiss politician (CVP) (* 1910 )
- November 28 : Władysław Rubin , auxiliary bishop in Gniezno and cardinal (* 1917 )
- November 28 : Paco Godia , Spanish automobile racing driver (* 1921 )
- November 29 : Oskar Rudolf Schlag , German medium, psychotherapist, writer and esoteric collector (* 1907 )
- November 30th : Fritz Barzilauskas , American football player (* 1920 )
- November 30th : Hilde Spiel , journalist and writer (* 1911 )
December
- December 1 : Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas , Archbishop of Santo Domingo and Cardinal (* 1906 )
- December 1 : Sergio Corbucci , Italian film director (* 1927 )
- December 1 : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit , Indian politician and UN diplomat (* 1900 )
- December 1 : Rudolf Signer , Swiss chemist (* 1903 )
- December 2 : Robert Cummings , American film actor (* 1908 )
- December 2 : Aaron Copland , American composer (* 1900 )
- December 5 : Emerson Meyers , American composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1910 )
- December 6 : Tunku Abdul Rahman , Malay politician (* 1903 )
- December 7th : Reinaldo Arenas , gay Cuban writer (* 1943 )
- December 7th : Joan Bennett , American actress (born 1910 )
- December 7th : Horst Bienek , German writer (* 1930 )
- December 7th : Peter Mieg , Swiss composer, painter and publicist (* 1906 )
- December 8 : Martin Ritt , American film director (* 1914 )
- December 8 : Deane C. Davis , American politician (* 1900 )
- December 9 : Anton Bossi Fedrigotti , Austrian author (* 1901 )
- December 10 : Tsuchiya Bunmei , Japanese poet (* 1890 )
- December 12 : Andrea Schorta , Swiss Romance philologist (* 1905 )
- December 13 : Alice Marble , American tennis player (* 1913 )
- December 14 : Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer, playwright and painter (* 1921 )
- December 14th : Francisco Gabilondo Soler , Mexican author, composer and interpreter of children's songs (* 1907 )
- December 14th : Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis , German nobleman, landowner and entrepreneur (* 1926 )
- December 15 : Julio Gutiérrez , Cuban composer, conductor and pianist (* 1918 )
- December 15 : Walther Hans Reinboth , Harz painter and poet (* 1899 )
- December 16 : Marc Augier , French writer, adventurer and alpinist (* 1908 )
- December 18 : Paul Tortelier , French cellist (* 1914 )
- December 19 : Norbert Dufourcq , French music historian and organist (* 1904 )
- December 21 : Sigurd Anderson , American politician (* 1904 )
- December 21 : Anne-Marie Barat , French organist (* 1948 )
- December 21 : Magda Julin , Swedish figure skater (* 1894 )
- December 21 : Iwan Lyudwigowitsch Knunjanz , Soviet chemist (* 1906 )
- December 22nd : Bernard Addison , American jazz guitarist and banjo player (* 1905 )
- December 23 : Pierre Gripari , French writer (* 1925 )
- December 24th : Thorbjørn Egner , Norwegian children's author (* 1912 )
- December 24th : Friedrich Luft , German theater critic (* 1911 )
- December 25th : John Stuart Anderson , British chemist (* 1908 )
- December 27 : Əbülfət Əliyev , Azerbaijani mugham and opera singer (* 1930 )
- December 31 : Armand Hiebner , Swiss music critic and choir director (* 1898 )
- December: Walter Burle Marx , Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor (* 1902 )
Day unknown
- Paul Arzens , French designer (* 1903 )
- Oscar Muñoz Bouffartique , Cuban composer, songwriter, violinist, pianist and band leader (* 1904 )
- Cécile Chabot , Canadian writer and illustrator (* 1907 )
- Abderrahman Ibrir , Algerian-French football player (* 1919 )
- Esther Fahmy Wissa , Egyptian suffragette (* 1895 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Jerome I. Friedman , Henry W. Kendall, and Richard E. Taylor
- Chemistry : Elias James Corey Jr.
- Medicine : Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas
- Literature : Octavio Paz
- Nobel Peace Prize : Mikhail Gorbachev
- Economics : Harry M. Markowitz , Merton H. Miller, and William F. Sharpe
Web links
- Annual review from tagesschau.de
- Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
- Website Chronicle of the Wende
Individual evidence
- ↑ The end for the old cadre. Federal government website (bundesregierung.de), accessed on August 4, 2017