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1996
The last French atomic bomb test on the Moruroa Atoll triggers global protests against President Jacques Chirac .
Trans-World Airlines Flight 800 explodes shortly after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport .

1996 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2749
Armenian calendar	1444-1445
Ethiopian calendar	1988-1989
Badi calendar	152-153
Bengali calendar	1402-1403
Berber calendar	2946
Buddhist calendar	2540
Burmese calendar	1358
Byzantine calendar	7504-7505
Chinese calendar
- era	4692-4693 or 4632-4633
- 60 year cycle	Wood Pig (乙亥, 12) - Fire Rat (丙子, 13)
French revolution calendar	CCIV - CCV 204-205
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2052-2053
- Shaka Samvat	1918-1919
Iranian calendar	1374-1375
Islamic calendar	1416-1417
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Heisei 8
- Kōki	2656
Jewish calendar	5756-5757
Coptic Calendar	1712-1713
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4329
- Juche era	85
Minguo calendar	85
Modern Olympics	XXVI
Seleucid calendar	2307-2308
Thai solar calendar	2539

Annual dedications

• The hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is tree of the year ( Kuratorium Baum des Jahres / Germany).
• The hawk mushroom (Sarcodon imbricatus) is mushroom of the year ( German Society for Mycology ).
• The lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany).
• The lady's slipper (Cypripedium calceolus) is Orchid of the Year ( Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen / Germany).
• The European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) is Animal of the Year ( Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild ).
• The sea ​​trout (Salmo trutta trutta) is the fish of the year ( Verband Deutscher Sportfischer eV ).
• The common pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) is the flower of the year ( Stiftung Naturschutz Hamburg and Stiftung Loki Schmidt ).

events

Politics and world events

January

• January 1st: Jean-Pascal Delamuraz becomes President of Switzerland again .
• January 1st: Switzerland : Reduction of the age of majority or age from 20 to 18 years according to Art. 14 ZGB
• January 1st: Slovenia becomes a member of CEFTA (Central European Free Trade Agreement).
• January 1: The Turkey joins the EU - the Customs Union at.
• January 11: The Japanese parliament elects the Liberal Democrat Ryūtarō Hashimoto as the new Prime Minister . He replaces the Social Democrat Murayama Tomiichi .
• January 18: New constitution in Cameroon .
• January 18: Ten people died in an arson attack on asylum seekers' accommodation in Lübeck .
• JANUARY 26: last of the 210 nuclear tests in France on the Mururoa - Atoll
• January 27: Military coup by the Chief of Staff Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in the Republic of Niger
• January 29: French President Jacques Chirac announces that further French nuclear weapons tests will be discontinued .
• January 31: Suicide bombings by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with a truck full of explosives on the central bank of Sri Lanka and on a high-rise in Colombo cause a total of 88 deaths and around 1,000 injuries.

February

• February 7th: Lesotho . Letsie III. is sworn in as president.
• February 22nd: Pope John Paul II issues the decree Universi Dominici Gregis on the conclave .
• February 24: Two small airliners shot down over international waters through Cuba
• February 25: Equatorial Guinea : early presidential elections
• February 28: Russia becomes a member of the Council of Europe .

March

• March 9: Jorge Sampaio becomes President of Portugal .
• March 11th: John Howard becomes head of government in Australia .
• March 12: Meeting of 30 heads of state and government in Sharm El Sheikh , discussion on peace in the Middle East
• March 13: Thomas Hamilton kills 16 primary school students and their teacher with a revolver in a rampage in Dunblane , Scotland ; then he shoots himself.
• March 15: The Duma declares the dissolution of the Soviet Union null and void.
• March 16: Comoros . Election of President Mohammed Taki Abdoulkarim
• March 18: Mathieu Kérékou becomes President of Benin .
• March 23: In the first direct election of the President of the Republic of China , incumbent Lee Teng-hui is confirmed in Taiwan with 54 percent of the vote. The election for the National Assembly , held at the same time, was won by the Kuomintang .
• March 24th: Jan Philipp Reemtsma is kidnapped for 33 days .
• March 29: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah becomes President of Sierra Leone .

April

• April 10: The highest wind speed ever recorded on our planet - apart from tornadoes - is recorded at 408 km / h on Barrow Island , 50 km northwest of Australia.
• April 15: The politician and former minister Mona Sahlin renounces her mandate in the Swedish parliament as a result of the Toblerone affair .

The Eldorado dos Carajás massacre, sketched by the cartoonist Carlos Latuff

• April 17: In Eldorado dos Carajás in the state of Pará , Brazilian military police use gun violence to clear a street that is being blocked by members of the Landless Workers Movement (MST). 19 MST activists are killed in the action. A pillar of shame later commemorates the event.
• April 18: The Federal Constitutional Court decides that the expropriations of real estate carried out in the Soviet occupation zone between 1945 and 1949 cannot be reversed within the meaning of the Unification Treaty of 1990.
• April 21: Armenia signs the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU in Luxembourg .
• April 22nd: Azerbaijan signs the partnership and cooperation agreement with the EU in Brussels .
• April 22nd: General Lino Oviedo attempted coup in Paraguay
• April 24: Andorra joins the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ).
• April 29: Martin Bryant kills 35 people and injures 21 in a rampage in Port Arthur , Australia. The mentally impaired perpetrator is later sentenced to 35 life sentences.

May

• May 5th: Spain . José María Aznar becomes Prime Minister.
• May 25: Former Bulgarian Tsar Simeon II visits Bulgaria .
• May 27: Parliamentary elections begin in India
• May 28: Canadian police storm the Taiwanese cargo ship Maersk Dubai on charges of murder against the captain. He is said to have thrown shipwrecked people overboard, but was acquitted in Taiwan in 2003.
• May 29: Macedonia signs the Helsinki Final Act .

June

• June 12: Free parliamentary elections in Bangladesh
• June 20: Trade and Cooperation Agreement between Macedonia and the EU
• June 22nd: Egypt . The Arab summit in Cairo confirms the Arab will for peace and gives Egypt the mandate to press Israel to continue the peace process.
• June 29: Presidential election in Iceland 1996 : Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is elected fifth President of Iceland.
• June 28th: ​​Attack on the Quebec barracks of the British armed forces in Osnabrück by the Provisional Irish Republican Army .
• June 30: Parliamentary elections in Mongolia 1996

July

• July 3: Concordat between the Holy See and Saxony
• July 7: Niger. Presidential election
• July 25: Military coup by Major Pierre Buyoya in Burundi
• July 31: Economic sanctions against Burundi as a result of the military coup

August

• August 12: Change of the name of the capital of the Indian state Maharashtra from 'Bombay' in Mumbai by the "Corporation Resolution No.512" and the "Maharashtra Act, XXV of 1996".
• August 16: Dominican Republic . Leonel Fernández Reyna becomes President.
• August 31: Russia . In Khasavyurt, the Russian representative for Chechnya, Alexander Lebed, and the chief of staff of the Chechen independence fighters, Aslan Maskhadov , sign a peace agreement. The treaty declares the military conflict over, but postpones the decision on the political status of Chechnya until the end of 2001.

September

• September 4th: Madagascar . A court forbids President Albert Zafy to exercise his office.
• September 13: Rapper Tupac Shakur (2pac) is killed by one or more strangers in Las Vegas.
• September 18: Early in the morning, a Sang-o-class submarine of the North Korean Navy that ran aground on the east coast of South Korea was discovered and the South Korean military was alerted.
• September 27: Former Afghan head of state Mohammed Najibullah is executed by Taliban fighters in Kabul .

October

• October 2: Bulgaria. Assassination of the former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov
• October 12: General election in New Zealand
• October 17th: Nauru becomes a member of UNESCO .
• October 20: After a series of murders of sexually abused children and the uncovering of a gang of child molesters in the Marc Dutroux affair , 250,000 Belgians take to the streets in Brussels to denounce the poor conduct of the executive branch .
• October 20: The coalition of Prime Minister Ryūtarō Hashimoto defends its majority in the general election in Japan .
• October 24: The Convention on Nuclear Safety enters into force.
• October 27: Petar Stoyanov becomes President of Bulgaria .

November

• November 5: Bill Clinton is re-elected as President of the United States .
• November 6th: Croatia is admitted to the Council of Europe .
• November 12: Mena Conference in Cairo (Egypt)
• November 17th: German agent Werner Mauss is arrested in Medellín .
• November 22nd: Poland joins the OWCE .

December

• December 1: Bulgaria becomes a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO).
• December 1st: Comoros . Parliamentary elections
• December 2: OSCE Summit in Lisbon ( Portugal )
• December 21: Bulgaria. Resignation of Prime Minister Schan Widenow
• December 29: The Guatemalan government signs a peace agreement with the rebels of the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG). The Guatemalan civil war is coming to an end after 36 years.
• December 31: Bavaria . The Security Guard Act comes into force.
• Foundation of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism

business

• February 22nd: The real estate speculator Jürgen Schneider is extradited from the USA to Germany.
• February 10: Edelweiss Air makes its maiden flight.
• March 15: The Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker files for bankruptcy . The German parent company Daimler-Benz separated from the company in January.
• May 29: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Russia
• July 28: The Pay TV transmitter DF1 of the Kirch Group in Germany began with the broadcast of digital television , first locally in the region around Munich.
• October 2: After more than 113 years of company history - at times as one of the largest electrical companies in the world - the company AEG is deleted from the commercial register of Frankfurt am Main.
• OCTOBER 15: In Japan the financial institution goes Nichei Finance in bankruptcy . It is the largest corporate bankruptcy in the country's history to date.
• November 1st: According to the law on European works councils , cross-border employee representatives can now be set up in companies operating across the EU with at least one thousand employees .
• November 1: The new Arab news channel Al Jazeera starts broadcasting from Doha in Qatar via satellite.
• November 14th: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Belarus
• November 18: Deutsche Telekom goes public.
• November 29: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Estonia
• Founding of the Supply Chain Council
• The two Basel chemical groups Ciba-Geigy & Sandoz merge to form Novartis . At that time it was the largest company merger in the world.

science and technology

• January 30th: Comet Hyakutake is discovered.
• February 9: Researchers from the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt announce the discovery of the element, later named Copernicium .

Deep blue

• February 10th: With Deep Blue , a chess computer defeats a world chess champion, the Russian Garry Kasparov , for the first time in a game under tournament conditions.
• March 20: British scientists suspect a connection between BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease .
• From April: The publication of the book Hitler's Willing Executioners (orig. Hitler's Willing Executioners ) by the American Daniel Goldhagen triggers an international historical debate on the perpetrators of the Holocaust from.
• May 3: The Be 4/4 8 of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn is put into service.
• June 23: The Japanese video game and console manufacturer Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in Japan .
• June 30th: The American consumer electronics manufacturer Atari Corporation merges with the hard disk manufacturer JTS, a subsidiary of the Tandon Corporation .
• July 5th: Dolly sheep , the world's first cloned mammal , is born.
• July 28: The remains of the Kennewick man are found on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State .
• August 17: The first French space traveler Claudie André-Deshays takes off for the Russian Mir space station on the Soyuz TM-24 mission .
• September 22nd: The TV station h1 goes on air for the first time as the Open Channel Hanover .
• October 10th: In Germany, the Skyper intelligence service goes into operation via radio signal receivers .
• October 19: Greenpeace presents the first three-liter car: a converted production car, the Twingo Smile .
• November 19: The Space Shuttle Columbia starts on mission STS-80 , in which two satellites are to be released and later recaptured. Due to poor weather conditions towards the end of the mission, the longest flight in the history of the shuttle takes place.
• BMW brings the Z3 roadster onto the market
• VBA replaces the old WordBasic as the Office macro language.
• Start of the Ansari X-Prize
• The Austrian Science Prize START Prize is launched.

Culture

art

• February 8: 24 Hours in Cyberspace , the first global online event takes place.
• April 16: Priam's treasure is shown to the public for the first time in 51 years in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Museum Tinguely, west side

• May 4: Founding of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art in Zurich
• October 3: The Tinguely Museum opens in Basel . The work of Jean Tinguely is considered representative of kinetic art .
• December 4th: The Nuremberg cultural center K4 opens.
• December 7th: The Gothic Lonja de la Seda in Valencia is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
• December 7th: The Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau are declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
• First edition of the art newspaper
• The Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren is built.

• First award of the Central Art Prize
• The Manifesta art exhibition takes place for the first time

music

• February 13: The British pop group Take That announces their split after Robbie Williams left the band the previous year .
• May 18: Eimear Quinn wins the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo with the song The Voice for Ireland , the German candidate Leon fails in the preliminary round.
• August 11: British rock band Oasis breaks a record for the highest number of spectators in free standing concerts in Knebworth, England, with 250,000 visitors over two days.
• September 7th: American musician Tupac Shakur was shot and died six days later.
• Die Toten Hosen publish opium for the people .
• Evil Empire is released, the second album by the band Rage Against the Machine .
• Foundation of the band Xero, later Linkin Park .
• Foundation of the band Sportfreunde Stiller .
• Founding of the band Sunnyglade, later July .
• Foundation of the band Nightwish .
• Foundation of the band Freundeskreis .
• Founding of the band Within Temptation .
• Formation of the band Coldplay .

See also: 1996 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 .

See also: Category: Music 1996

Others

• February 7th: The mixed culture commission meets in Luxembourg .
• February 27th: The games Pokémon Green and Red appear in Japan .
• March 19: Cultural agreement between Germany and Bulgaria . In force since August 13, 1997
• June 22nd: The first person shooter Quake is released in North America .
• July 1: With the Vienna declaration of intent to reorganize German spelling, the 1996 reform of German spelling is set in motion.
• Opening of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia
• The association Schools on the Net is created.
• Foundation of the Virginia Holocaust Museum
• The Plohn amusement park opens.
• Samuel P. Huntington's book Clash of Cultures: The Reshaping of World Politics in the 21st Century is published in the United States and in German translation.
• First award of the Leo von Klenze Medal
• Founding of the American gaming network IGN

society

• August 13: Belgian Marc Dutroux and two accomplices are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez . In the course of further police investigations, several child abductions for the purpose of sexual abuse of victims and murders are uncovered.
• October 19: With the help of sniffer dogs, the police find the corpse of a wealthy Frankfurt citizen in the Taunus . After Jakub Fiszman's kidnapping, a ransom of DM four million had been paid. Suspects are in police custody.

religion

• May 27: In Constance , the old Catholic bishop Joachim Vobbe consecrates two women as the first priestesses of the Old Catholic Church in Germany .
• October 23: Pope John Paul II accepts the compatibility between theistic evolution and Darwin's theory of evolution in the Christian faith with the remark that it is more than just a hypothesis .

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see the respective discipline under athletics .

• March 2nd: The Ernst Lehner Stadium in Augsburg opens.
• March 10 to October 13: The 47th Formula 1 World Championship is held
• March 16: Mike Tyson wins his boxing match for the world heavyweight title against Frank Bruno at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas , by a technical knockout.
• March 17th: Sri Lanka wins the sixth Cricket World Cup in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by defeating Australia with 7 wickets in the final.
• March 31 to October 20: The 48th FIM World Motorbike Road Championship is held
• April 11th: Panathinaikos Athens defeated FC Barcelona in the final of the European Cup of National Basketball Champions in Paris 67:66.
• May 11: With the defeat of FC Bayern Munich , Borussia Dortmund secured the German championship early.
• MAY 15: FC Bayern Munich is UEFA Cup winner after a 3: 1 victory in the second leg (first leg 2: 0) against Girondins Bordeaux .
• May 25: After relegation from the first Bundesliga, 1. FC Kaiserslautern defeated Karlsruher SC 1-0 in the DFB Cup final in Berlin and took the second cup winners' title.
• June 1st: The merger of TuS and BW-Ahlen creates the sports and soccer club LR Ahlen .
• June 1st: SK Rapid Wien becomes Austrian soccer champions for the 30th time.
• June 8th: The tenth European Football Championship in England begins with the opening game England - Switzerland .
• June 10: Uwe Krupp shoots the Colorado Avalanche for the first Stanley Cup victory in its history.
• June 30: Germany won the first golden goal in history at Wembley Stadium in London , scored by Oliver Bierhoff , and was European champion for the third time.
• June 29-July 21: The 83rd Tour de France is by Bjarne Riis won as the first Scandinavians.
• July 19 to August 4: XXVI. Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta / USA .
• October 13: Damon Hill becomes Formula 1 world champion, the son of a former world champion ( Graham Hill ) wins the title for the first time in Formula 1 .
• November 23: Henry Maske loses the last fight of his pro - career against Virgil Hill on points.
• The special bike fair takes place for the first time .
• Michael Schumacher changes from Benetton to Ferrari .

Disasters

• January 8: Kinshasa , Democratic Republic of the Congo . An Antonov An-32 of the African Air caused the plane crash in Kinshasa , die at least 297 people.
• February 3: A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes in Yunnan Sheng , near Lijiang , People's Republic of China, killing around 300.
• February 6: A charter plane operated by Turkish Birgenair , a Boeing 757 with flight number 301 , crashes into the Atlantic shortly before midnight local time after taking off from Puerto Plata Airport in the Dominican Republic. 189 people die, including 164 German tourists. The cause of the crash is technical failure followed by human error.
• February 15: The Sea Empress tanker ran aground on a rock near Milford Haven after a pilot error . 71,800 tons of leaking crude oil is causing severe oil spill on the Welsh coast.
• February 17: An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Irian Jaya region , Indonesia . 166 dead
• February 29th: Arequipa , Peru . A Boeing 737 coming from Lima on Faucett-Perú flight 251 crashes into a mountain while approaching, killing all 123 passengers.
• March 18: 150 people die in a fire in a discotheque in Manila because the emergency exits are closed.
• April 11th: In the fire disaster at Düsseldorf Airport , triggered by welding work, 17 people died and 88 others were injured.
• May 11: Everglades , Florida , USA : A Douglas DC-9 crashes on ValuJet Flight 592 from Miami to Atlanta after a fire in the cargo hold . All 110 inmates die.
• May 13: Bangladesh . A tornado kills over 500 and injures almost 33,000 people.
• May 21: The ferry MV Bukoba capsizes and sinks on Lake Victoria . Over 700 people drown.
• July 17: Shortly after taking off from New York City , the Boeing 747-131 of Trans-World Airlines Flight 800 explodes at a height of about four kilometers. All 230 people on board are killed.
• August 7th: Biescas , Spain . The Biecas debris flow kills 87 people and injures 187 others.
• August 29th: Svalbard , Norway . A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain. All 141 people on board die.
• November 7th: Lagos , Nigeria . A Boeing 727 crash on ADC Airlines Flight 86 . All 143 people die.
• November 12: In the plane collision in Charkhi Dadri between a Boeing 747 of Saudi Arabian Airlines and an Ilyushin Il-76 of Kazak Airlines , all 349 people die in both planes.
• November 23: Comoros . The hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 breaks during ditching and sinks. 125 of the 175 inmates perish.
• December 25th: When migrants transfer from the freighter Yiohan, the Maltese boat F174 capsizes and at least 283 people drown off Sicily on the night of December 25th to 26th.

nature and environment

The Karymski volcano

• January 2: On the peninsula of Kamchatka it comes to the only known historical eruption of the stratovolcano Akademija Nauk .
• April 10: On the western Australian island of Barrow Island - apart from tornadoes - the highest wind speed is measured at 408 km / h .
• September 11th: A mountain attack occurs near Teutschenthal in Saxony-Anhalt . Seismographs around the world record the triggered earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale .

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Adem Furkan Avcı , Turkish boxer
• 0January 1st: Mahmoud Dahoud , German-Syrian soccer player
• 0January 1st: Pan Dandan , Chinese rower
• 0January 1st: Andreas Pereira , Brazilian-Belgian soccer player
• 0January 2nd: Laila Youssifou , Dutch rower
• 0January 4th: Valerie Huber , Austrian actress and model
• 0January 6th: Sebastian Arnold , German handball player
• 0January 6th: Mitsuru Maruoka , Japanese soccer player
• 0January 7th: Lionel Enguene , Cameroonian football player
• 0January 7th: Carina Mair , Austrian skeleton pilot
• 0January 9: Oana Gregory , Romanian actress
• January 10: Larissa Crummer , Australian soccer player

Leroy Sané (2018)

• January 11th: Leroy Sané , Franco-German soccer player
• January 12th: Ella Henderson , English singer-songwriter
• January 13: Maximilian Werner , German actor
• January 15: Dove Cameron , American actress and singer
• January 15th: Romano Fenati , Italian motorcycle racer
• January 15: Huang Kaixiang , Chinese badminton player
• January 15th: Katharina Truppe , Austrian ski racer
• January 16: Cameron Carolissen , South African darts player
• January 16: Jennie Kim , South Korean singer
• January 17th: Victor Lafay , French cyclist
• January 17th: Caitlin Sanchez , American actress
• January 18: Sarah Gilman , American actress
• January 19: Mathias Graf , Austrian ski racer and freestyle skier
• January 19: Breezy Johnson , American ski racer

Franziska Jaser (2012)

• January 20: Franziska Jaser , German soccer player
• January 20th: Jovana Preković , Serbian karateka
• January 20th: Michelle Uhrig , German speed skater
• January 21: Marc Jurczyk , German cyclist
• January 21: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. , American actor
• January 21: Marco Asensio , Spanish soccer player
• January 21: Julia Schwaiger , Austrian biathlete
• January 21: Florian Wilmsmann , German freestyle skier
• January 23: Julia Albrecht , German actress
• January 23: Felix Schröter , German soccer player
• January 23: Ruben Loftus-Cheek , English football player
• January 24th: Iyayi Believe Atiemwen , Nigerian soccer player
• January 24th: Bianca Blöchl , German soccer player
• January 24th: Patrik Schick , Czech football player
• January 25: Carissa Christensen , American-Filipino soccer player
• January 25th: Adama Traoré , Spanish soccer player
• January 26: Zakaria Bakkali , Belgian football player
• January 26: Igor Decraene , Belgian cyclist († 2014)
• January 27: Istok Rodeš , Croatian ski racer
• January 29th: Max van Splunteren , Dutch racing driver
• January 30th: Sinje Irslinger , German actress
• January 31: Joel Courtney , American actor

February

• 0February 1st: Dionne Bromfield , British soul singer
• 0February 1: Valmir Sulejmani , German-Albanian soccer player
• 0February 2: Dylan Authors , Canadian actor
• 0February 3rd: Jorge Navarro , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 0February 4th: Jonathan Elias Weiske , German actor

Meike Pfister (2017)

• 0February 6th: Meike Pfister , German ski racer
• 0February 7: Aaron Ekblad , Canadian ice hockey player
• 0February 7th: Ruby O. Fee , German actress
• 0February 7th: Pierre Gasly , French racing car driver
• 0February 7th: Piera Hudson , New Zealand ski racer
• 0February 8: Kenedy , Brazilian soccer player
• 0February 9: Jimmy Bennett , American actor
• 0February 9: Kelli Berglund , American actress and singer
• 0February 9: Chungha , South Korean singer
• 0February 9: Alec Potts , Australian archer
• February 10: Valentin Ponkratz , German pop singer
• February 10: Anica Röhlinger , German actress
• February 10: Robert Vişoiu , Romanian racing car driver
• February 11: Felix Platte , German soccer player
• February 11: Jonathan Tah , German soccer player
• February 12: Brooke Austin , American tennis player
• February 14: Viktor Kovalenko , Ukrainian football player
• February 14: Roni Remme , Canadian ski racer
• February 15: Lukas Zumbrock , German actor
• February 17: Sasha Pieterse , American actress
• February 20: Lennart Betzgen , German actor
• February 20: Bicho , Spanish soccer player
• February 20: Dennis Lippert , German soccer player
• February 20: Mabel , British-Swedish R&B singer and songwriter
• February 21: Søren Bjerg , Danish League Of Legends player
• February 21: Sophie Turner , British actress
• February 23: Niccolò Antonelli , Italian motorcycle racer
• February 23: Osisang Chilton , Palaui swimmer
• February 27: Ahmet Bahçıvan , Turkish soccer player
• February 28: Shi Yuqi , Chinese badminton player

March

• 0March 1: Alexei Gassilin , Russian football player

Lisa Zimmermann (2014)

• 0March 2nd: Lisa Zimmermann , German freestyle skier
• 0March 3rd: Julia Wiedemann , German actress
• 0March 4th: Timo Baumgartl , German soccer player
• 0March 5: Franco Acosta , Uruguayan football player († 2021)
• 0March 6th: Lisa Hörnblad , Swedish ski racer
• 0March 6th: Timo Werner , German soccer player
• 0March 7th: Johannes Kreidl , Austrian football goalkeeper
• 0March 7th: Bart Nieuwkoop , Dutch football player
• March 10: Aylin Bok , German handball player
• March 11: Elio Capradossi , Ugandan-Italian soccer player
• March 12th: Tom Booth-Amos , British motorcycle racer
• March 12th: Philo Paz Patrick Armand , Indonesian racing car driver
• March 12th: Cene Prevc , Slovenian ski jumper
• March 15: Levin Öztunali , German soccer player
• March 16: Ajiona Alexus , American actress
• March 16: Ruben Reisig , German-Ghanaian soccer player
• March 18: Madeline Carroll , American actress
• March 19: Christian Borgnaes , Austrian ski racer
• March 19: Barbara Haas , Austrian tennis player
• March 19: Maria Pudovkina , Ukrainian billiards player
• March 20: Pascal Stenzel , German soccer player
• March 21: Dennis Barthel , German volleyball player
• March 22nd: Lea Freund , German actress
• March 24th: Marlon Frey , German soccer player
• March 31: Lennart König , German actor

April

• 0April 1: Dennis Lippert , German motorcycle racer († 2019)
• 0April 2nd: Stefan Babinsky , Austrian ski racer
• 0April 2nd: Jonas Müller , German handball player
• 0April 3: Sarah Jeffery , Canadian actress
• 0April 3rd: Fabián , Spanish soccer player
• 0April 4: Jeanne Goursaud , Franco-German actress
• 0April 4: Gustav Schmidt , German actor
• 0April 4th: Jannik Steimle , German racing cyclist
• 0April 6th: Tomáš Portyk , Czech Nordic combined skier
• 0April 7th: Marquardt Petersen , German trumpeter
• 0April 8th: Ann-Marie Hepler , Marshallic swimmer
• 0April 9: Ida Šimunčić , Croatian athlete
• April 10: Andreas Christensen , Danish football player
• April 10: Loïc Nottet , Belgian singer
• April 12th: Matteo Berrettini , Italian tennis player
• April 12th: Alina Grijseels , German handball player
• April 12: Anton Salétros , Swedish football player
• April 13: Marko Grujić , Serbian football player
• April 14th: Abigail Breslin , American actress
• April 14th: Dennis Olsen , Norwegian racing car driver
• April 15th: Boubacar Barry , German-Guinean soccer player
• April 16: Alberto Cerri , Italian football player
• April 18: Ski Mask the Slump God , American rapper
• April 20: Anže Lanišek , Slovenian ski jumper
• April 20: Elias , German rapper
• April 20: Emelie Kundrun , German actress
• April 21: Janine Berger , German gymnast
• April 21: Luisa Neubauer , German climate protection activist
• April 22nd: Adrian Pertl , Austrian ski racer
• April 23: Matthieu Bailet , French ski racer
• April 23: Álex Márquez , Spanish motorcycle racer
• April 23: Charlie Rowe , British actor
• April 23: Alexander Anatolyevich Vlasov , Russian cyclist
• April 24th: Ashleigh Barty , Australian tennis player
• April 25: Allisyn Ashley Arm , American actress
• April 25: Liam Henderson , Scottish soccer player
• April 25: Miguel Herrán , Spanish actor
• April 25: Daniel Felipe Martínez , Colombian cyclist
• April 26th: Alexander Ursenbacher , Swiss snooker player
• April 29: Katherine Langford , Australian actress
• April 29th: Michael Augustin , Austrian soccer player
• April 30th: Florian Alt , German motorcycle racer

May

Julian Brandt (2014)

• 0May 2nd: Julian Brandt , German soccer player
• 0May 3: Alex Iwobi , Nigerian soccer player
• 0May 3: Noah Munck , American actor
• 0May 3rd: Philipp Öttl , German motorcycle racer
• 0May 3: Domantas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player
• 0May 3: Annina Walt , Swiss actress
• 0May 4th: Maximilian Steiner , Austrian ski jumper
• 0May 5th: Jai Hindley , Australian cyclist
• 0May 7th: Robin Fluß , German soccer player
• 0May 7: Khari Willis , American football player
• 0May 8: Tim Suton , German-Croatian handball player
• 0May 9: Noah Centineo , American actor
• 0May 9: Lorenzo Fortunato , Italian cyclist
• 0May 9: Diana Mironova , Russian billiards player
• May 12th: Sebastian Ofner , Austrian tennis player
• May 13: Max Häfner , German handball player
• May 14th: Martin Garrix , Dutch DJ
• May 14: McKaley Miller , American actress
• May 15: Shannon-Ogbani Abeda , Eritrean-Canadian ski racer
• May 15: Birdy , British pop singer
• May 15: Patrick Kujala , Finnish racing car driver
• May 16: Louisa Chirico , American tennis player
• May 18: Dzmitryi Assanau , Belarusian boxer
• May 18th: Lukas Kleckers , German snooker player
• May 19: Pelle Clement , Dutch football player
• May 19: Luca Waldschmidt , German soccer player
• May 23: Katharina Althaus , German ski jumper
• May 23: Ryan Fulton , Scottish football goalkeeper
• May 23: Elias Kolega , Croatian ski racer
• May 27: Elena Stoffel , Swiss ski racer
• May 28: José Gutiérrez , Mexican racing car driver
• May 29th: Halvor Egner Granerud , Norwegian ski jumper
• May 30th: Christian Garín , Chilean tennis player
• May 30th: Erik Jones , American racing car driver

June

Edvinas Gertmonas (2015)

• 0June 1st: Burhan Arman , Turkish soccer player
• 0June 1st: Matteo Cairoli , Italian racing car driver
• 0June 1st: Edvinas Gertmonas , Lithuanian football goalkeeper
• 0June 1st: Tom Holland , British dancer and actor
• 0June 3: Han Tianyu , Chinese short tracker
• 0June 3: Lukas Klostermann , German soccer player
• 0June 4th: Jesper Verlaat , Dutch football player
• 0June 7th: Jasper Harris , British actor
• 0June 7: Christian McCaffrey , American football player
• 0June 8: Ivan Andreevich Kuznetsov , Russian ski racer
• 0June 9: Gervane Kastaneer , Dutch football player
• June 12: Anna Margaret Collins , American singer, songwriter, and actress

Kingsley Coman (2015)

• June 13: Kingsley Coman , French football player
• June 14th: Katharina Hennig , German cross-country skier
• June 15: Alessandro Casillo , Italian pop singer
• June 15th: Aurora Aksnes , Norwegian singer
• June 17th: Sophie Imelmann , German actress
• June 18: Alen Halilović , Croatian football player
• June 19: Lorenzo Pellegrini , Italian football player
• June 20: Sigtryggur Daði Rúnarsson , Icelandic handball player
• June 22nd: Rodrigo , Spanish soccer player
• June 24th: Edoardo Affini , Italian cyclist
• June 26th: Laura Lindemann , German triathlete
• June 28th: Marie-Therese Sporer , Austrian ski racer
• June 30th: Matilda Merkel , German actress

July

• 0July 1st: Eliana Bandeira , Portuguese-Brazilian athlete
• 0July 4th: James Allen , Australian racing car driver
• 0July 7: Zekeria Ebrahimi , Afghan actor
• 0July 7th: Serghei Krîjanovski , Moldovan billiards player
• 0July 9: Rafael Miguel , Brazilian actor († 2019)
• 0July 9: Katarina Beton , Slovenian badminton player
• July 10: Mun Ka-Young , South Korean actress
• July 10: Ozan Papaker , Turkish soccer player
• July 11: Andrija Živković , Serbian football player
• July 12th: Moussa Dembélé , French football player

Andreas Obst (2017)

• July 13: Andreas Obst , German basketball player
• July 14th: Edin Bahtic , Austrian soccer player
• July 15: Carole Bissig , Swiss ski racer
• July 15: Lisa Klein , German racing cyclist
• July 16: Nathaël Julan , French football player († 2020)
• July 16: Kevin Abstract , American rapper, singer, and record producer
• July 20: Robby Foley , American racing car driver
• July 23: Danielle Bradbery , American country singer
• July 24th: Davide Plebani , Italian cyclist
• July 25th: Filippo Ganna , Italian cyclist
• July 25: Jacob Tuioti-Mariner , American football player
• July 26th: Jenny Rautionaho , Finnish ski jumper
• July 26th: Carla Sénéchal , French bobsledder
• July 27th: Lisa Arnholdt , German volleyball player
• July 27: Ashlyn Sanchez , American actress
• July 29th: Juri Michailowitsch Jelissejew , Russian chess grandmaster († 2016)

August

• 0August 2nd: Pomme , French singer and musician
• 0August 2nd: Elisabeth Reisinger , Austrian ski racer
• 0August 3rd: Luca Tribondeau , Austrian freestyle skier
• 0August 5: Daichi Kamada , Japanese soccer player
• August 10: Laura Aarts , Dutch water polo player
• August 11th: Thomas Gradinger , Austrian motorcycle racer
• August 12: Arthur , Brazilian soccer player
• August 12: Amelie Herres , German actress
• August 12: Torri Webster , American actress
• August 13: Ryan Meikle , English dart player
• August 14: Joelinton , Brazilian soccer player
• August 14: Matteo Moschetti , Italian cyclist
• August 14: Neal Maupay , French football player
• August 15: Lumor , Ghanaian soccer player
• August 15: Alihan Öztürk , Turkish soccer player
• August 15: Samuel Röthlisberger , Swiss handball player
• August 15: Stefan Salger , German handball player
• August 16: Maximilian Lahnsteiner , Austrian ski racer
• August 20: Max Hopp , German dart player
• August 20: Luca Pfeiffer , German soccer player
• August 22nd: Doğan Erdoğan , Turkish football player
• August 22nd: Jenny Gaugigl , German soccer player
• August 22nd: Sascha Horvath , Austrian soccer player
• August 23: Vincent Gross , Swiss pop singer
• August 23: Berry van Peer , Dutch darts player
• August 24th: Luca Amato , German motorcycle racer
• August 25: Donis Avdijaj , German soccer player

David Siegel (2017)

• August 28: David Siegel , German ski jumper
• August 31: Fabio Jakobsen , Dutch cyclist
• August 31: Chiara Mair , Austrian ski racer

September

• 0September 1: Zendaya Coleman , American actress
• 0September 1st: Edward Dunbar , Irish cyclist
• 0September 3: Erik Arvidsson , American ski racer
• 0September 3: Linus Mathes , German handball goalkeeper
• 0September 3: Park Soo-young , South Korean singer and actress
• 0September 3: Aljaksej Mschachyk , Belarusian weightlifter († 2021)
• 0September 5th: Raquel Galdes , Maltese singer
• 0September 5th: Ivo Oliveira , Portuguese cyclist
• 0September 5th: Rui Oliveira , Portuguese cyclist
• 0September 5: Richairo Živković , Dutch football player
• 0September 6th: Lil Xan , American rapper and songwriter with a Mexican background
• 0September 8: Qadree Ollison , American football player
• 0September 9: Bersant Celina , Norwegian football player
• 0September 9: Lennard Kämna , German racing cyclist
• 0September 9: Jaïro Riedewald , Dutch football player
• September 11th: Travis Cooper , American biathlete
• September 12: Colin Ford , American actor and voice actor

Cheick Diallo (2017)

• September 13: Cheick Diallo , Malian basketball player
• September 13: Lili Reinhart , American actress
• September 16: Álvaro Hodeg , Colombian cyclist
• September 17: Justin Holborow , Australian actor
• September 17th: Slayyyter , American singer-songwriter
• September 19: Jaxon Evans , New Zealand racing car driver
• September 20: Lisa Lösch , German soccer player
• September 20: Marlos Moreno , Colombian soccer player
• September 21: Thilo Kehrer , German soccer player
• September 22nd: Anthoine Hubert , French racing car driver († 2019)
• September 23: Sierra Kidd , German rapper
• September 25: Lina Arndt , German pop singer
• September 25: Max Christiansen , German soccer player
• September 30th: Nico Elvedi , Swiss football player
• September 30: Alexander Nübel , German soccer goalkeeper
• September 30: Isaiah Oliver , American football player

October

• 0October 2nd: Guilherme Samaia , Brazilian racing car driver
• October 2nd: Larry ten Voorde , Dutch racing driver
• 0October 3: Lena Arnaud , French biathlete
• 0October 3: Kelechi Iheanacho , Nigerian soccer player
• 0October 4: Ryan Lee , American actor
• 0October 5th: David Bates , Scottish soccer player
• 0October 5th: Imaan Hammam , Dutch model
• 0October 7th: Hamidou Traoré , Malian football player
• 0October 8th: Sara Takanashi , Japanese ski jumper

Bella Hadid (2018)

• 0October 9: Bella Hadid , American model
• 0October 9th: Sondre Ringen , Norwegian ski jumper
• October 10: David Gaudu , French cyclist
• October 10: Jack Main , English dart player
• October 10: Oscar Zia , Swedish singer
• October 11: Fynn Henkel , German actor († 2015)
• October 12: Riechedly Bazoer , Dutch football player
• October 13: Joshua Wong , Chinese dissident from Hong Kong
• October 15: Jerome Müller , German handball player
• October 16: Toprak Razgatlıoğlu , Turkish motorcycle racer
• October 18: Olivia Burkhart , German actress
• October 18: Bradford Jamieson IV , American football player
• October 21: Lovelyn Enebechi , German model
• October 21: Paola Piazzolla , Italian rower
• October 23: Ronaldo , Brazilian soccer player
• October 23: Sam Berns , progeria sufferer († 2014)
• October 25: Lara Casanova , Swiss snowboarder
• October 28: Jasmine Jessica Anthony , American actress
• October 29: Richard Neudecker , German soccer player
• October 30: Ryquell Armstead , American football player
• October 30: Mohammed Baghdadi , German-Lebanese soccer player
• October 30th: Selina Hocke , German swimmer

November

• 0November 1st: Sean Gelael , Indonesian racing car driver
• 0November 1: Lil Peep , American rapper († 2017)
• 0November 1st: Daniela Melchior , Portuguese actress
• 0November 3: Aria Wallace , American actress
• 0November 5th: Sebastian Dahlström , Finnish soccer player
• 0November 6th: Lorenzo Baldassarri , Italian motorcycle racer
• 0November 7th: Lorde , New Zealand singer
• 0November 8th: William Borland , Scottish darts player
• November 10th: Sina Hinteregger , Austrian triathlete

Gianluca Gaudino (2014)

• November 11th: Gianluca Gaudino , German soccer player
• November 12th: Vincenzo Albanese , Italian cyclist
• November 12: Nyheim Hines , American football player
• November 13th: Luisa Hornung , German skeleton pilot
• November 15th: Demi Vollering , Dutch cyclist
• November 19: Diego Elías , Peruvian squash player
• November 19: Tanguy Nef , Swiss ski racer
• November 19: Yannik Oettl , German soccer player
• November 21: Maximilian Rolka , Polish-German handball player
• November 22: Madison Davenport , American actress
• November 22nd: Jamule , German rapper
• November 22: Leon Seidel , German actor and radio play speaker
• November 23: Helene Luise Doppler , German actress
• November 23: Anna Fernstädt , German-Czech skeleton pilot
• November 26th: Louane Emera , French singer and actress
• November 29: Nicolas Abdat , German soccer player
• November 29: Lawrence Ati Zigi , Ghanaian soccer goalkeeper
• November 30th: Patrick Pflücke , German soccer player

December

• 0December 1st: Nico Dannowski , German badminton player
• 0December 1st: Patrick Feurstein , Austrian ski racer
• 0December 3: Dajana Dengscherz , Austrian ski racer
• 0December 4th: Urška Žigart , Slovenian cyclist
• 0December 5: Sterling Court Judge , American football player
• 0December 5th: Phan Khắc Khoan , Vietnamese hurdler
• 0December 6th: Stefanie Scott , American actress
• 0December 9th: Pol Moya , Andorran athlete
• December 11th: Hailee Steinfeld , American actress
• December 12th: Miguel Bernardeau , Spanish actor
• December 12th: Martine Veldhuis , Dutch rower
• December 12th: Mathéo Tuscher , Swiss racing driver
• December 17th: Paul Falk , German musician, actor, musical performer and voice actor
• December 17th: Kungs , French DJ
• December 18: Connor Wilson , South African ski racer
• December 19: Felix Auböck , Austrian swimmer
• December 19th: Diede de Groot , Dutch wheelchair tennis player

Kaitlyn Dever (2014)

• December 21: Kaitlyn Dever , American actress
• December 21: Cosima Henman , German actress
• December 23: Melvin Twellaar , Dutch rower
• December 25th: David Atanga , Ghanaian soccer player
• December 25th: Mathlynn Sasser , Marshallese weightlifter
• December 27th: Timon Haugan , Norwegian ski racer
• December 29: Dylan Minnette , American actor and musician
• December 30th: Moussa Koné , Senegalese soccer player
• December 31: Felix Leitner , Austrian biathlete

Date unknown

• Tillmann Eckardt , German actor
• Runa Greiner , German actress
• Matti Schmidt-Schaller , German actor
• Anna-Lena Schwing , German actress

Died

This is a list of the most important people who passed away in 1996. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 1996 .

January

François Mitterrand

• 0January 2: Theodor Joedicke , German general staff doctor (* 1899)
• 0January 3: Reinhard Goerdeler , German lawyer and auditor (* 1922)
• 0January 4: Bob Flanagan , American writer and artist (* 1952)
• 0January 5: Thomas Ruf , German politician (* 1911)
• 0January 6: Willy Czernik , German operetta and film composer (* 1901)

Kurt Schmücker , 1971

• 0January 6: Kurt Schmücker , German politician (* 1919)
• 0January 7th: William H. Clothier , American cameraman (* 1903)
• 0January 7th: John A. Gronouski , American politician (* 1919)
• 0January 7th: Max Wiener , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1947)
• 0January 8: Teobaldo Depetrini , Italian football player and coach (* 1913)
• 0January 8: John William Hargreaves , Australian actor (born 1945)
• 0January 8: François Mitterrand , French politician, 1981–1995 President of France (* 1916)
• January 11: Walter M. Miller , American writer (* 1923)
• January 12: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden , Dutch mathematician (* 1903)
• January 14th: Onno Tunç , Turkish musician, composer and arranger (* 1948)
• January 15: Jack Barkin , Canadian singer (born 1914)
• January 15: Les Baxter , American orchestra conductor and arranger (* 1922)
• January 15: Moshoeshoe II , King of Lesotho (* 1938)
• January 18: Leonor Fini , Argentine surrealism painter (* 1907)
• January 18: Endel Puusepp , Soviet fighter pilot of Estonian descent in World War II (* 1909)
• January 19: Upendranath Ashk , Indian writer, journalist and publisher (* 1910)
• January 19: Ulrich Hausmann , German archaeologist (* 1917)
• January 20: Gerry Mulligan , American jazz musician and composer (* 1927)
• January 22nd: Bill Cantrell , American racing car driver (* 1908)
• January 23: Clifford Griffith , American racing car driver (born 1916)
• January 23: Horst Wende , German orchestra conductor, arranger and accordionist (* 1919)
• January 25: Ruth Berghaus , German director of music theater (* 1927)
• January 25: Antonio Buenaventura , Filipino composer (* 1904)
• January 25: Sigi Sommer , German chronicler and journalist (* 1914)
• January 26: Peter Aust , German actor and voice actor (* 1939)
• January 26: Harold Brodkey , American writer (born 1930)
• January 26: Saul Goodman , American timpanist, composer and music teacher (* 1907)
• January 28: Joseph Brodsky , Russian-American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1940)
• January 28: Jerry Siegel , American author and co-inventor of the comic book Superman (* 1914)

February

• 0February 1: Willi Bäuerle , German politician, Member of the Bundestag (* 1926)

Gene Kelly , 1986

• 0February 2: Gene Kelly , American actor and dancer (* 1912)
• 0February 3: Ibrahim Hélou , Lebanese Archbishop (* 1925)
• 0February 4: Sara C. Bisel , American archaeologist (* 1932)
• 0February 4th: Manolo Fábregas , Mexican actor, director and film producer of Spanish origin (* 1921)
• 0February 5: Ludwig Ratzel , German politician (* 1915)
• 0February 7th: Boris Alexandrowitsch Tschaikowski , Russian composer (* 1925)
• 0February 7: Pat West , American football player (born 1923)
• 0February 8: Heinz Aull , German politician (* 1926)
• 0February 9: Alistair Cameron Crombie , Australian historian of science (born 1915)
• 0February 9: Logan R. Frazee , American special effects artist (* 1913)
• 0February 9: Adolf Galland , German Air Force officer and fighter pilot (* 1912)
• 0February 9: August Kühn , German writer (* 1936)
• 0February 9: Robin Stille , American actress (* 1961)
• February 11: Sten Olov Åhlund , Swedish football player and coach (* 1920)
• February 11: Pierre Verger , photographer (* 1902)
• February 12: Bob Shaw , British SF author (born 1931)
• February 12: Shiba Ryōtarō , Japanese writer (* 1923)
• February 13: Arthur William Hope Adkins , British classical philologist (born 1929)
• February 13: Martin Balsam , American actor (* 1919)
• February 14: Cenek Kottnauer , Czech-British chess player (* 1910)
• February 14: Bob Paisley , English football player and coach (* 1919)
• February 15: McLean Stevenson , American actor (born 1927)
• February 16: Edmund G. Brown Sr. , American politician (* 1905)
• February 16: Brownie McGhee , American blues singer and guitarist (born 1915)
• February 17: Hervé Bazin , French writer (* 1911)
• February 17th: Michel Pablo , Trotskyist from Greece (* 1911)
• February 18: Andy Marefos , American football player (born 1917)
• February 18: Josef Meinrad , Austrian chamber actor (* 1913)
• February 19: Antonio Creus , Spanish racing car driver (* 1924)
• February 19: Ernest Manning , Canadian politician (* 1908)
• February 19: Dorothy Maynor , American singer (born 1910)
• February 20: Solomon Asch , Polish-American gestalt psychologist (* 1907)
• February 20: Toru Takemitsu , Japanese composer (* 1930)
• February 21: Rudolf Braunburg , German writer (* 1924)
• February 21: Morton Gould , American composer, conductor and pianist (* 1913)
• February 23: William Bonin , serial killer (born 1947)
• February 23: Alan Dawson , American jazz drummer (* 1929)
• February 23: Willy Hüttenrauch , German politician in the GDR (* 1909)

Helmut Schön (right), 1974

• February 23: Helmut Schön , German soccer coach and player (* 1915)
• February 24: Akram al-Haurani , Syrian politician (* 1915)
• February 24: Wolfgang Schieren , German manager and CEO of Allianz AG (* 1927)
• February 26: Mieczysław Weinberg , Russian composer of Polish descent (* 1919)
• February 27: Sarah Palfrey Cooke , American tennis player (* 1912)
• February 29: Øystein Gaukstad , Norwegian musicologist and librarian (* 1912)

March

• 0March 2: Walter Kaaden , German engineer (* 1919)
• 0March 3: Marguerite Duras , French writer, screenwriter and film director (* 1914)
• 0March 3: John Joseph Krol , Archbishop of Philadelphia and Cardinal (* 1910)
• 0March 4: Gerhard Schaffran , Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (* 1912)
• 0March 5: Fritz Huschke von Hanstein , German motor sportsman (* 1911)
• 0March 9: George Burns , American actor (* 1896)
• 0March 9: Alfredo Vicente Scherer , Archbishop of Porto Alegre and Cardinal (* 1903)
• March 10: Joseph Braunstein , musician, writer, mountaineer (* 1892)
• March 11: Biljana Jovanović , Serbian writer, civil rights activist and peace activist (* 1953)
• March 12: Paul Scherman , Canadian violinist and conductor (* 1907)
• March 13: Lucio Fulci , Italian film director and producer (* 1927)
• March 13: Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish film director and screenwriter (* 1941)
• March 15: Wolfgang Koeppen , German writer (* 1906)

René Clément , 1995

• March 17th: René Clément , French film director (* 1913)
• March 17th: Christa Wehling , German actress (* 1928)
• March 18: Odysseas Elytis , Greek artist (* 1911)
• March 18: Maxl Graf , German actor and singer of popular music (* 1933)
• March 19: Colin Pittendrigh , American biologist and co-founder of chronobiology (* 1918)
• March 21: Inés Puyó , Chilean painter (* 1906)
• March 23: CC Bergius , German writer (* 1910)
• March 26: Edmund Muskie , American politician (* 1914)
• March 26th: Käte Strobel , German politician (* 1907)
• March 26: David Packard , co-founder of the US technology group Hewlett-Packard (* 1912)
• March 27: Alfred Hirschmeier , German film architect (* 1931)
• March 28: Hans Blumenberg , German philosopher (* 1920)
• March 28: Barbara McLean , American film editor, Oscar winner (* 1903)

April

• 0April 2: Karl Gößwald , German zoologist (* 1907)

Ron Brown

• 0April 2: Pierre Lelong , French racing driver (* 1919)
• 0April 3: Ron Brown , American politician (* 1941)
• 0April 4: Barney Ewell , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1918)
• 0April 5: Monika Dannemann , German friend of the musician Jimi Hendrix (* 1945)
• 0April 6: Greer Garson , British film actress (* 1904)
• 0April 7th: Michael Holzinger , writer in Banat dialect (* 1920)
• 0April 8: León Klimovsky , Argentine director and screenwriter (* 1906)
• April 16: George Gordon Abel , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1916)
• April 16: Stavros Niarchos , Greek shipowner (* 1909)
• April 17: Johanne Autenrieth , German palaeographer and Middle Latin philologist (* 1923)
• April 17th: Paul Bleiß , German politician (* 1904)
• April 17th: Madeleine Bourdouxhe , Belgian writer (* 1906)
• April 17: José Luis López-Aranguren , philosopher and essayist (* 1909)
• April 18: Piet Hein , Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor and man of letters (* 1905)
• April 21: Jokhar Musayevich Dudayev , first Chechen President (* 1944)
• April 21: Zora Arkus-Duntov , American engineer (* 1909)
• April 21: Adolf Windorfer , German pediatrician (* 1909)

PL Travers, ca.1924

• April 23: PL Travers , Australian writer (Mary Poppins) (* 1899)
• April 24: Walter Dreizner , German photographer (* 1908)
• April 26: Wolfgang Franz , German mathematician (* 1905)
• April 27: Rudolf Schulten : nuclear technologist, developer of the pebble bed reactor (* 1923)
• April 28: Lester Sumrall : American healing evangelist, Pentecostal preacher and founder of LeSEA (* 1913)
• April 29: Peter Griese , German science fiction author (* 1938)
• April 29: François Picard , French racing car driver (* 1921)
• 00.April: Bernard Morel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1921)

May

• 0May 1: Herbert Brownell junior , American politician and attorney general (* 1904)

Portrait of David M. Kennedy

• 0May 1: David M. Kennedy , American politician (* 1905)
• 0May 1: Irene Koss , German actress and TV announcer (* 1928)
• 0May 2: Christopher Bird , American botanist and writer (* 1928)
• 0May 3: Dimitris Fampas , Greek guitarist and composer (* 1921)
• 0May 3: Maxim Hermaniuk , Ukrainian Archbishop (* 1911)
• 0May 3: Hermann Kesten , German writer (* 1900)
• 0May 3: Gilberto Monroig , Puerto Rican singer (* 1930)
• 0May 3: Patsy Montana , American country singer (* 1908)
• 0May 5: Ai Qing , Chinese poet and painter (* 1910)
• 0May 5: Salli Terri , American singer and vocal teacher (* 1922)
• 0May 6: Heini Kaufeld , German actor (* 1920)
• 0May 6: Léon-Joseph Suenens , Belgian theologian, Archbishop of Mechelen and Cardinal (* 1904)
• 0May 8: Ludwig Hoelscher , German cellist (* 1907)
• May 10: Gerd Duwner , German actor and voice actor (* 1925)
• May 10: Ethel Smith , American organist (* 1902)
• May 11: Ademir de Menezes , Brazilian soccer player (* 1922)
• May 11: Nnamdi Azikiwe , Nigerian politician (President) (* 1904)
• May 11: Scott Fischer , American mountain guide (* 1955)
• May 11: Rob Hall , New Zealand mountain guide, (* 1961)
• May 11: Jerry Murad , American harmonica player (* 1918)
• May 12: Homer Keller , American composer and music teacher (* 1915)
• May 13: Hans Sauer , German inventor (* 1923)
• May 14: Ludwig Preiß , German politician (* 1910)
• May 14: Adolf Rambold , German engineer (* 1900)
• May 17: Rudolf Angerer , Austrian illustrator and caricaturist (* 1923)
• May 17: Nikolaus Utermöhlen , German musician and artist (* 1958)
• May 17th: Johnny "Guitar" Watson , American blues, soul and funk musician (* 1935)
• May 19: Spiros Argiris , Greek conductor (* 1948)
• May 20: Rajmund Ambroziak , Polish pianist and conductor (* 1932)
• May 20: Willi Daume , German sports official (* 1913)
• May 21: Abu Ubaida al-Banschiri , Egyptian terrorist (* 1950)
• May 21: Fritz Ligges , German eventing and show jumping rider (* 1938)
• May 23: Bernhard Klodt , German soccer player (* 1926)
• May 23: Peter Pasetti , German actor (* 1916)
• May 24: John Abbott , British actor (born 1905)
• May 24: Jacob Druckman , American composer and music teacher (* 1928)
• May 25: Keith Ballisat , British racing driver (* 1928)
• May 25: Bradley Nowell , American singer and guitarist (* 1968)
• May 27: Wilhelm Mayrhofer , Austrian politician (* 1923)
• May 28: Jimmy Rowles , American jazz pianist (* 1918)
• May 29: Antonín Mrkos , Czech astronomer (* 1918)
• May 29: Isidro Maiztegui , Argentine composer (* 1905)
• May 30th: Léon-Etienne Duval , Archbishop of Algiers and Cardinal (* 1903)
• May 30th: John Kahn , American bassist (* 1947)
• May 31: Timothy Leary , American psychologist and author (* 1920)
• May 31: Ton de Leeuw , Dutch composer and music teacher (* 1926)
• 000May: Giorgio Agliani , Italian film producer (* 1910)

June

Ella Fitzgerald

• 0June 1: Otto Meier , German artist (ceramics) (* 1903)
• 0June 2: John Alton , American cameraman, Oscar winner (* 1901)
• 0June 2: Amos Tversky , Israeli psychologist (* 1937)
• 0June 3: Connie Brown , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1917)
• 0June 3: Tito Okello , Head of State of Uganda 1985–1986 (* 1914)
• 0June 5: Jan Kerouac , American author (* 1952)
• 0June 6: Harry Andersson , Swedish football player (* 1913)
• 0June 6: George Davis Snell , American physician, Nobel Prize winner in medicine (* 1903)
• 0June 7th: Ulrich Koch , German violist (* 1921)
• 0June 7th: Friedrich von Stülpnagel , German athlete (* 1913)
• 0June 8: Gustav Heckmann , German philosopher (* 1898)
• June 10: Hugh Mitchell , American politician (* 1907)
• June 10: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky , Austrian expressionist painter (* 1906)
• June 11: Brigitte Helm , German film actress (* 1908)
• June 13: Glen Stewart Morley , Canadian conductor, composer and cellist (* 1912)
• June 15: Ella Fitzgerald , American jazz singer (* 1917)
• June 15: Paul Schultz-Liebisch , German painter and graphic artist (* 1905)
• June 17: Thomas S. Kuhn , American physicist, science theorist and historian (* 1922)
• June 17: Reinhard Lettau , German-American writer (* 1929)
• June 18: Branko Bošnjak , professor of philosophy in Zagreb (* 1923)
• June 20: Karl Ackermann , German journalist and publisher (* 1908)
• June 20: Herbert Gerigk , German musicologist and National Socialist (* 1905)
• June 21: Gerhard Wendland , German pop singer (* 1916)
• June 22nd: Terrel Bell , American politician (* 1921)
• June 26th: Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist (* 1958)
• June 26th: Max Klankermeier , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1909)
• June 26: Vicentico Valdés , Cuban singer (* 1919)
• June 27: Khachatur Avetisyan , Armenian composer (* 1926)
• June 28: Friedrich Adler , German engineer (* 1916)
• June 28: Julio Bolbochán , Argentine chess player (* 1920)

July

• 0July 1: Ota Janeček , Czech illustrator, painter, graphic artist (* 1919)

William T. Cahill

• 0July 1: William T. Cahill , American politician (* 1912)
• 0July 1: Margaux Hemingway , American actress and model (* 1954)
• 0July 3: Barry Crump , New Zealand writer (* 1935)
• 0July 3: Luis Alfonzo Larrain , Venezuelan composer and musician (* 1911)
• 0July 4th: Arlie Duff , American country musician (born 1924)
• 0July 5: Predrag Ostojić , Yugoslav chess player (* 1938)
• 0July 5: Clyde E. Wiegand , American physicist (* 1915)
• 0July 7th: J. Hermann Siemer , German politician (* 1902)
• 0July 8th: Albrecht von Bayern , head of the Wittelsbach family (* 1933)
• 0July 8th: Mario Camorani , Italian chess problem composer (* 1912)
• 0July 8: Adelheid Duvanel , Swiss writer (* 1936)
• 0July 8: Richard Groschopp , director and cameraman (* 1906)
• July 12: Gottfried von Eine , Austrian composer (* 1918)
• July 13: Käte van Tricht , German organist, pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher (* 1909)
• July 14th: Volker Georg Ludwig Aschoff , German professor (* 1907)
• July 14th: Jeff Krosnoff , American racing driver (* 1964)
• July 14th: Jean Rudolf von Salis , Swiss historian, writer and publicist (* 1901)
• July 15: Erwin Fischer , German lawyer (* 1904)
• July 15: Rabe Perplexum , German painter and performance artist (* 1956)
• July 16: Adolf von Thadden , German politician (* 1921)
• July 17th: Chas Chandler , British musician, record producer and manager (* 1938)
• July 18: Donny the Punk , American prisoner rights activist (born 1946)
• July 18: Hans Katzer , German politician (* 1919)
• July 19: Alfred Kunze , lecturer in football at the German University for Physical Culture and Sport (* 1909)
• July 20: František Plánička , Czech football player (* 1904)
• July 21: Waluliso , peace activist and well-known original in Vienna (* 1914)
• July 22nd: Tamara Danz , singer (* 1952)
• July 22nd: Franco Lini , Italian journalist and 1967 team boss of Scuderia Ferrari (* 1924)
• July 22nd: Peter Ludwig , German industrialist and art patron (* 1925)
• July 23: Milagros Beras Dalmasí , Dominican pianist and music teacher (* 1945)
• July 26: Heriberto Herrera , Paraguayan-Spanish soccer player and coach (* 1926)
• July 30th: Magda Schneider , German actress (* 1909)
• July 31: Hans Schwier , German politician (* 1926)

August

• 0August 1: Mohammed Farah Aidid , leader of the Somali Habr Gidr clan (* 1934)
• 0August 1: Pierre Ailleret , French electrical engineer (* 1900)
• 0August 1st: Frida Boccara , French singer (* 1940)

Tadeus Reichstein .

• 0August 1: Tadeus Reichstein , Swiss chemist (* 1897)
• 0August 2: Anthony Rayappa Arulappa , Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore (* 1912)
• 0August 2nd: Vera Auer , Austrian accordionist and vibraphonist (* 1919)
• 0August 2nd: Michel Debré , French politician (* 1912)
• 0August 4th: Kiyoshi Atsumi , Japanese actor (* 1928)
• 0August 5: Roman Schnur , German constitutional lawyer (* 1927)
• 0August 6: Bud Svendsen , American football player (born 1915)
• 0August 7th: Danny Wolfe , American songwriter and rockabilly musician (* 1928)
• 0August 8: Joseph Asajirō Satowaki , Archbishop of Nagasaki and Cardinal (* 1904)
• 0August 8: Nevill F. Mott , English physicist (* 1905)

Frank Whittle .

• 0August 9: Frank Whittle , English pilot, inventor and businessman (born 1907)
• 0August 9: John W. King , American politician (born 1916)
• August 10: Walter MacNutt , Canadian organist, composer, choir director and music teacher (* 1910)
• August 11: Rafael Kubelík , Swiss conductor and composer of Czech origin (* 1914)
• August 12: Viktor Hambardsumjan , Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist (* 1908)
• August 13: Willi Heeks , German automobile racing driver (* 1922)
• August 13: António de Spínola , Portuguese general and politician (* 1910)
• August 13: David Tudor , American pianist and one of the pioneers of electronic and experimental music (* 1926)
• August 14: Sergiu Celibidache , Romanian conductor (* 1912)
• August 14: Camilla Horn , German actress (* 1903)
• August 15: Liesel Christ , Frankfurt folk actress (* 1919)
• August 15: Albert Osswald , Prime Minister of the State of Hesse (* 1919)
• August 15: Max Thurian , Swiss theologian (* 1921)
• August 16: Miles Goodman , American composer (born 1949)
• August 20: Rio Reiser , German rock musician ( clay stones shards ) (* 1950)
• August 22nd: Wilhelm Angele , German-American engineer for rocket control technology (* 1905)
• August 22nd: Erwin Leiser , German-Swedish publicist (* 1923)
• August 23: Jurriaan Andriessen , Dutch composer and teacher (* 1925)
• August 24th: Jean Aurel , French screenwriter and film director (* 1925)
• August 24: James Saunders , American ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1946)
• August 25: Reinhard Libuda , German soccer player (* 1943)
• August 26: Alejandro Agustín Lanusse Gelly , Argentine military and politician (* 1918)
• August 27: Wayne D. Overholser , American western writer (* 1906)
• August 30th: Laura Adani , Italian actress (* 1906)
• August 30: Josef Müller-Brockmann , graphic designer, typographer, author and teacher (* 1914)
• August 31: Milt Larkin , American jazz trumpeter (* 1910)

September

• 0September 1: Vagn Holmboe , Danish composer (* 1909)
• 0September 2: Hans Peter Heinzl , Austrian cabaret artist (* 1942)
• 0September 2: Otto Luening , American composer (* 1900)
• 0September 5: Anselm Strauss , American sociologist (* 1916)
• 0September 5: Erhard Ueckermann , German hunting and forestry scientist (* 1924)
• 0September 6th: Ginette Martenot , French pianist, Ondes Martenot player and music teacher (* 1902)
• 0September 6: Ester Soré , Chilean singer (* 1915)
• 0September 7th: Arthur Flemming , American politician (* 1905)
• 0September 7th: Gilda , Argentine pop singer (* 1961)
• 0September 9: Manuel Marino Miniño , Dominican composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1930)
• 0September 9: Bill Monroe , American musician (* 1911)
• September 10th: Hans List , Austrian entrepreneur (* 1896)
• September 12: Eleazar de Carvalho , Brazilian composer and conductor (* 1912)
• September 12: Ernesto Geisel , President of Brazil during the military dictatorship of the 1970s (* 1908)
• September 12: Richard Maling Barrer , New Zealand chemist (* 1910)
• September 13: Ricardo García Perdomo , Cuban guitarist and singer (* 1920)
• September 13: Tupac Shakur , American musician (* 1971)
• September 14: Bruno Menzel , German politician (* 1932)
• September 14: Rose Ouellette , Canadian comedian, actress and singer (* 1903)
• September 16: Gene Nelson , American film director, screenwriter and film producer (* 1920)
• September 17: Spiro Agnew , American politician (* 1918)
• September 17: Marianne Bachmeier , German mother who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom (* 1950)
• September 17: Arnold Peters , Canadian politician (CFF, NDP) (* 1922)
• September 18: Annabella , French film actress (* 1907)
• September 19: Helmut Heißenbüttel , German writer (* 1921)
• September 20: Franco Angrisano , Italian actor (* 1926)
• September 20: Cheb Aziz , Algerian Raï singer (* 1968)
• September 20: Paul Erdős , mathematician (* 1913)
• September 20: Nelson Wesley Trout , American Lutheran bishop (born 1920)
• September 21: Erika Cremer , German physicist (* 1900)
• September 21: Claus Holm , German actor (* 1918)
• September 22nd: Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani , Algerian Prime Minister (* 1927)
• September 22nd: Arthur Dom , Dutch-German motorcycle racer and engineer (* 1903)
• September 22: József Sir , Hungarian sprinter and Olympian (* 1912)
• September 23: František Rauch , Czech pianist and music teacher (* 1910)
• September 25: Heinz Engelmann , German actor and voice actor (* 1911)
• September 26th: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson , British chemist (born 1921)
• September 27: Mohammed Najibullah , Afghan President (* 1947)
• September 28: Mennato Boffa , Italian racing driver (* 1929)
• September 28: Bob Gibson , American folk musician (* 1931)
• September 29: Endō Shūsaku , Japanese writer (* 1923)
• September 30th: Gerhard Trede , German composer (* 1913)

October

• 0October 1: Alfred Vogel , Swiss naturopath and pharmaceutical entrepreneur (* 1902)
• 0October 2: Joonas Kokkonen , Finnish composer (* 1921)
• 0October 2: Helmut Artzinger , German politician (* 1912)
• 0October 3: Arturo Gatica , Chilean singer (* 1921)
• 0October 4: Humphrey Edward Gregory Atkins , British politician (* 1922)
• 0October 4: Silvio Piola , Italian football player (* 1913)

Seymour Cray

• 0October 5: Seymour Cray , computer scientist (* 1925)
• 0October 6: Harry Glickman , Russian violinist (* 1910)
• 0October 8: Mignon G. Eberhart , American writer (* 1899)
• 0October 9: Joachim Wohlgemuth , German writer (* 1932)
• October 11: Lars Valerian Ahlfors , Finnish-American mathematician (* 1907)
• October 11: Pierre Grimal , French classical philologist (* 1912)
• October 11: William Vickrey , American economist (* 1914)
• October 12: René Lacoste , tennis player from France (* 1904)
• October 12: Roger Lapébie , French cyclist (* 1911)
• October 13: Pawel Alexandrowitsch Solowjow , Soviet engine designer (* 1917)
• October 13: Henri Nannen , German publisher and publicist (* 1913)
• October 13: Elisabeth Pitz-Savelsberg , German politician (* 1906)
• October 14: Jean Grimaldi , Canadian actor, singer and author (* 1898)
• October 15: Karl-Heinz Ahlheim , German chess composer (* 1933)
• October 16: Eric Malpass , English writer (* 1910)
• October 17: Berthold Goldschmidt , German composer (* 1903)
• October 17: Gerhard Holtz-Baumert , German writer (* 1927)
• October 18: Hans Drachsler , German politician (* 1916)
• October 18: Otto Heinrich Kühner , German writer (* 1921)
• October 19: Josef Becker , German politician (* 1905)
• October 21: Léon Yehouda Ashkénasi , French rabbi (* 1922)
• October 23: Harold Hughes , American politician (* 1922)
• October 23: Alexander Kelly , Scottish pianist and music teacher (* 1929)
• October 24th: Arthur Axmann , Reich Youth Leader during the National Socialist era (* 1913)
• October 24: Edgar Augustin , German sculptor and draftsman (* 1936)
• October 24: Gladwyn Jebb , British politician, 1st Secretary General of the United Nations (* 1900)
• October 26: Miquel Asins Arbó , Spanish composer, conductor and teacher (* 1916)
• October 26th: Angélica Ortiz , Mexican film producer and screenwriter (* 1924)
• October 28: Maria Grevesmühl , German violinist and university lecturer (* 1936)
• October 28: Franca Magnani , Italian journalist (* 1925)
• October 28: Hans Otto , German organist and cantor (* 1922)
• October 31: Marcel Carné , French film director (* 1906)
• October 31: Grachan Moncur II , American jazz bassist (* 1915)

November

• 0November 1st: Margot Rojas Mendoza , Cuban pianist and music teacher (* 1903)
• 0November 2: Eva Cassidy , American singer (* 1963)
• 0November 2: Tobias Gruben , German underground musician (* 1963)

Jean-Bédel Bokassa

• 0November 3: Jean-Bédel Bokassa , President and Emperor of the Central African Republic (* 1921)
• 0November 3: Abdullah Çatlı , Turkish criminal (* 1956)
• 0November 6th: Mario Savio , American civil rights activist (* 1942)
• 0November 6: Toni Schmücker , German industrial manager, 1975–1981 VW CEO (* 1921)
• 0November 7th: Dietrich Andernacht , German historian and archivist (* 1921)
• 0November 8th: Georg Schreiber , German physician and medical journalist (* 1921)
• November 14: Joseph Louis Bernardin , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal (* 1928)
• November 14th: Meridel Le Sueur , American writer and suffragette (* 1900)
• November 15: Alger Hiss , American lawyer (* 1904)
• November 16: Holger Hagen , German actor and voice actor (* 1915)
• November 17th: Michele Abbruzzo , Italian actor (* 1904)
• November 21: Elmo Langley , American racing driver (* 1928)
• November 21: Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1926)
• November 22nd: Garrett Birkhoff , American mathematician (* 1911)
• November 22nd: Maria Casarès , French actress (* 1922)
• November 22nd: Erich Pizka , Austrian horn player and professor (* 1914)
• November 22nd: Ray Blanton , American politician, governor of Tennessee (* 1930)
• November 26th: Hans Klein , German politician (* 1931)
• November 26th: Paul Rand , American designer of company logos (* 1914)
• November 26th: Rudolph Schulze , Minister for Post and Telecommunications in the GDR (* 1918)
• November 26th: Diedrich Wattenberg , German astronomer and publicist (* 1909)
• November 28: Donald McNeill , American tennis player (* 1918)
• November 30th: Tiny Tim , American singer (born 1932)

December

• 0December 1: Babrak Karmal , Afghan politician (* 1929)
• 0December 2: Jean Jérôme Hamer , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1916)
• 0December 6th: Pete Rozelle , American sports functionary (* 1926)
• 0December 6th: Victor Bruns , German bassoonist and composer (* 1904)
• 0December 9th: Wilhelm Hahn , German CDU politician, 1964–1978 Minister of Culture v. Baden-Wuerttemberg (* 1909)

Mary Leakey , 1977

• 0December 9th: Mary Leakey , British archaeologist (born 1913)
• 0December 9: Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , German writer (* 1902)
• December 10: Faron Young , American country singer (born 1932)
• December 11th: Danuta Gleed , Canadian writer (* 1946)
• December 11: Erich Zöllner , Austrian historian (* 1916)
• December 12: Vance Packard , American publicist (born 1914)
• December 13: Otto Kurth , German actor and director (* 1912)
• December 15: Harry Kemelman , American writer (* 1908)
• December 15: Jean-Pierre Lévy , Resistance member, founder of the Franc-Tireur group (* 1911)
• December 15: Tristan Keuris , Dutch composer and musician (* 1946)
• December 16: Laurens van der Post , South African-British writer (* 1906)
• December 17th: Armando Luis Gallop , American DJ and music producer (* 1970)
• December 17th: Magda Rose-Weingardt , German painter (* 1902)
• December 19: Marcello Mastroianni , Italian film actor (* 1924)

Carl Sagan , 1980

• December 20: Alan Graham Apley , English orthopedist and editor (* 1914)
• December 20: Carl Sagan , American astronomer (* 1934)
• December 21: Christine Brückner , German writer (* 1921)
• December 21: Hans-Joachim Fränkel , German Protestant bishop and human rights activist (* 1909)
• December 21: Josef Landlinger , Austrian politician (* 1919)
• December 23: Clarisse Nicoïdski , French writer (* 1938)
• December 25: Bill Osmanski , American football player (born 1915)
• December 25th: August Wenzinger , Swiss cellist, gambist, music teacher and conductor (* 1905)
• December 26th: Narciso Jubany Arnau , Archbishop of Barcelona and Cardinal (* 1913)
• December 28: Hans Baumgartner , Swiss photographer (* 1911)
• December 28: Wassili Ivanovich Rakow , Soviet pilot (* 1909)
• December 29: Dorothy Livesay , Canadian poet (born 1909)
• December 29th: Daniel Mayer , member of the residency (* 1909)
• December 29th: Wolfgang Pietzsch , German chess player (* 1930)
• December 30th: Eugen Kramár , Slovak architect (* 1914)
• December 30th: Karl Josef Partsch , German lawyer and professor (* 1914)
• December 30th: Lew Ayres , American actor and director (born 1908)
• December 30th: Jack Nance , American actor (born 1943)

Day unknown

• Karl Andres , German ministerial official (* 1906)
• Lilly Kröhnert , German painter and sculptor (* 1912)
• Jerzy Zgodziński , Polish percussionist and music teacher (* 1927)

Nobel Prizes

Harold Kroto

• Physics : David M. Lee , Douglas D. Osheroff, and Robert C. Richardson
• Chemistry : Robert F. Curl , Harold Kroto, and Richard E. Smalley
• Medicine : Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel
• Literature : Wisława Szymborska
• Nobel Peace Prize : Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
• Economics : James Mirrlees and William Vickrey

Others

• December 24th: A mentally confused woman causes a bloodbath in a Frankfurt church with two hand grenades .

Web links

Commons : 1996  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Annual review from tagesschau.de
• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marycelina Masha: Remembering MV Bukoba Disaster 21 Years on , Daily News, May 18, 2017, accessed October 28, 2018.
2. ^ Pakistani cleared of multiple murder . Times of Malta, May 17, 2007, accessed October 27, 2018