Wikipedia / 1988
Wikipedia / 1988
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States (National Science Foundation Network) and Europe (NORDUnet) as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol, the Internet Relay Chat. The concept of the World Wide Web was first discussed at CERN in 1988.
The Soviet Union began its major deconstructing towards a mixed economy at the beginning of 1988 and began its gradual dissolution. The Iron Curtain began to disintegrate in 1988 as Hungary began allowing freer travel to the Western world. The first extrasolar planet, Gamma Cephei Ab (confirmed in 2003), was detected this year and the World Health Organization began its mission to eradicate polio. Global warming also began to emerge as a more significant concern, with climate scientist James Hansen testifying before the U.S. Senate on the issue.
Events
January
January – The cargo ship Khian Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months.
January 1 – The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
January 7–8 – In the Soviet-Afghan War, 39 men of the Soviet Airborne Troops from the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment fight off an attack by 200 to 250 Mujahideen in the Battle for Hill 3234, later dramatized in the Russian film The 9th Company.
January 13 – Vice-president Lee Teng-hui takes over as President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomintang following the death of Chiang Ching-kuo.
A re-enactment of the First Fleet arrives in Sydney Harbour to mark the bicentenary of the First Fleet arriving in Australia in 1788.
Upon request of Hubert Michon, archbishop of Rabat, two Trappist monks come to Fez and start a community that will later become the Priory of Our Lady of the Atlas.
February
February 12 – The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy intentionally rams USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown claims innocent passage. The accompanying US destroyer escapes damage.
February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1988 Oshakati bomb blast: A bomb explodes outside the First National Bank in Oshakati, Namibia, killing 27 and injuring 70.
U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (and later killed by his captors).
February 20 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
February 23 – Start of Anfal campaign, a genocidal counterinsurgency operation within the Iran–Iraq War carried out by Ba'athist Iraqi forces led by Ali Hassan al-Majid on the orders of President Saddam Hussein that will kill between 50,000 and 182,000 Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan.
February 25 – The constitution of the Sixth Republic of Korea comes into effect.
February 27–29 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Sumgait pogrom of Armenians occurs in Sumqayit.
February 29 – A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in World War II deportations.
March
March 6 – Operation Flavius: A Special Air Service team of the British Army shoots dead 3 unarmed members of a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) Active service unit in Gibraltar.
The Halabja chemical attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Milltown Cemetery attack: Three men are killed and 70 wounded in a gun and grenade attack by loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone on mourners at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the funerals of the 3 IRA members killed in Gibraltar.
In the United States, the First Republic Bank of Texas fails and enters FDIC receivership, the largest FDIC assisted bank failure in history.
A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143 people.
Eritrean War of Independence – Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF).
March 19 – Corporals killings in Belfast: Two British Army corporals are abducted, beaten and shot dead by Irish republicans after driving into the funeral cortege of IRA members killed in the Milltown Cemetery attack.
March 20 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
March 24 – The first McDonald's restaurant in a country run by a Communist party opens in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It was later followed by one in Budapest, and in 1990 in Moscow, and Shenzhen, China.
March 25 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia, is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the socialist government in Czechoslovakia.
April
April 1 – A bus carrying 54 passengers falls into the Han River in Seoul, South Korea killing 19 and injuring 35.
April 5 – Kuwait Airways Flight 422 is hijacked while en route from Bangkok, Thailand, to Kuwait. The hijackers demand the release of 17 Shiite Muslim prisoners held by Kuwait. Kuwait refuses to release the prisoners, leading to a 16-day siege across 3 continents. Two passengers are killed before the siege ends.
April 10 – The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.
April 16 – Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.
April 18 – The United States Navy retaliates for the mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
April 20 – The world's longest skyjacking comes to an end when the remaining passengers of Kuwait Airways Flight 422 are released by their captors.
April 28 – Aloha Airlines Flight 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people.
April 30 – World Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
May
May 8 – François Mitterrand is re-elected as President of France for 7 years.
May 15 – Soviet–Afghan War: After more than 8 years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
May 16–18 – 1988 Gilgit massacre: A revolt by the Shias of Gilgit (in northern Pakistan) is ruthlessly suppressed by the Zia-ul Haq regime.
May 27–29 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.
May 29–June 3 – The Moscow Summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev takes place, where the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was finalized.
June
June 10–14 – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.
June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands.
June 21 – The Poole explosion of 1988 caused 3,500 people to be evacuated out of the town centre in the biggest peacetime evacuation the United Kingdom had seen since the World War II.
June 23 – NASA scientist James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate that human-made global warming has begun, becoming one of the first environmentalists to warn of the problem.
The Gare de Lyon rail accident occurs in Paris, France as a commuter train headed inbound to the terminal crashes into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57.
Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kills 9 to 12 and injures over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.
June 30 – Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Écône, Switzerland, for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.
July
July 1 – The Soviet Union votes to end the CPSU's monopoly on economic and other non-political power and to further economic changes towards a less rigidly Marxist-Leninist economy.
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by a missile launched from the , killing a total of 290 people on board.
July 6 – The Piper Alpha production platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners. 61 workers survive.
July 31 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
August
August 5 – The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ousting of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
August 8 – 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
August 11 – A meeting of Islamic Jihadi leaders, including Osama bin Laden, takes place, leading to the founding of Al-Qaeda.
August 17 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Lewis Raphel, are among those killed when a plane crashes and explodes near Bahawalpur.
August 20 – A ceasefire effectively ends the Iran–Iraq War, with an estimated one million lives lost.
August 21 – The 6.9 Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
August 28 – Seventy people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst air show disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.
September
September 11 – Singing Revolution: In the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 300,000 people gather to express their support for independence.
September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5billion in damage.
September 15 – The International Olympic Committee awards Lillehammer the right to host the 1994 Winter Olympics.
September 17–October 2 – The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.
September 22 – The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea (see also July 6), resulting in one death.
September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.
October
Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has tortured and killed about 500 people in crushing the riots.
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet loses a national plebiscite on his rule; he relinquishes power in 1990.
Promulgation of the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
The Birchandra Manu massacre occurs in Tripura, India.
October 20 – The Los Angeles Dodgers won 4 games to 1 in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics.
October 28 – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the drug.
October 29 – Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
October 30 – Jericho bus firebombing: Five Israelis are killed and five wounded in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank.
November
November – TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed. This led to more robust connections between the American and European Internet.
November 2 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet, written by Robert Tappan Morris, is launched from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.
November 3 – 1988 Maldives coup attempt: The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, a Sri Lankan Tamil militant group, attempts to overthrow the Maldivian government. At the request of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
November 6 – The 1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes kills at least 938 people when it strikes the China–Myanmar border region in Yunnan.
November 8 – The United States Vice-president and Republican nominee George H. W. Bush defeats the Democratic nominee and Governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, in the 1988 United States Presidential Election.
In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253–46.
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
Singing Revolution: The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR adopts the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration in which the laws of the Estonian SSR are declared supreme over those of the Soviet Union. The USSR declares it unconstitutional on November 26. It is the first declaration of sovereignty from the Soviet Union of any Soviet or Eastern Bloc entity.
In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections are held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
November 23 – Former Korean president Chun Doo-hwan makes a formal apology for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.
December
Carlos Salinas de Gortari takes office as President of Mexico.
The first World AIDS Day is held.
Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5million homeless and thousands dead.
December 6 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government by the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988.
December 7 – In Soviet Armenia, the 6.8 Spitak earthquake kills nearly 25,000, injures 31,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
December 12 – The Clapham Junction rail crash in London kills 35 and injures 132.
December 16 – Perennial U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is convicted of mail fraud.
December 20 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
December 21 – Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Libya is suspected of involvement.
Date unknown
Near the end of the year, the first proper and official intercontinental Internet connection between North America (through the National Science Foundation Network) and Europe (through NORDUnet) is permanently established between Princeton, New Jersey, United States, and Stockholm, Sweden.
Zebra mussels, a species originally native to the lakes of southern Russia and Ukraine, are found in the Great Lakes of North America.
Births
January
January 3 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
January 5 – Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
January 7 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
January 11 – Wang Yimei, Chinese volleyball player
Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
Xiong Jing Nan, Chinese mixed martial artist and current ONE Women's Strawweight World Champion
January 13 – Artjoms Rudņevs, Latvian footballer
January 15 – Skrillex, American musician and DJ
Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
FKA Twigs, English singer-songwriter, record producer, director and dancer
Li Xiaoxia, Chinese table tennis player
January 18 – Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
Ashton Eaton, American decathlete
Glaiza de Castro, Filipino actress and singer
January 25 – Tatiana Golovin, Russian-born French professional tennis player
January 27 – Liu Wen, Chinese model
January 29 – Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer
February
February 2 – Zosia Mamet, American actress and musician
Cho Kyuhyun, Korean singer
Gregory van der Wiel, Dutch footballer
Kamil Glik, Polish footballer
February 4 – Carly Patterson, American gymnast
Ai Kago, Japanese singer
Lee Joon, South Korean idol singer (MBLAQ), dancer, actor and model
Matthew Stafford, American football player
February 8 – Zemfira Magomedalieva, Russian boxer
February 9 – Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
February 12 – Nicolás Otamendi, Argentinian footballer
Aston Merrygold, English singer
Irene Montero, Spanish politician and psychologist
February 14 – Ángel Di María, Argentine footballer
February 15 – Rui Patrício, Portuguese footballer
Diego Capel, Spanish footballer
Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor
Natascha Kampusch, Austrian television hostess and kidnapping victim
Vasiliy Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer
Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
February 21 – Matthias de Zordo, German javelin thrower
Ki Bo-bae, South Korean archer
February 22 – Ximena Navarrete, Mexican actress, Miss Universe 2010
Brittany Bowe, American speed skater
Efraín Juárez, Mexican footballer
February 25 – Claudia Faniello, Maltese singer
February 26 – Kim Yeon-koung, South Korean volleyball player
February 28 – Markéta Irglová, Czech-Icelandic singer and songwriter
March
March 2 – Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
Gal Mekel, Israeli basketball player
Valentina Shevchenko, Kyrgyz born-Peruvian mixed martial artist
Agnes, Swedish recording artist
Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player
Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean speed skater
March 8 – Laura Unsworth, British field hockey player
March 10 – Ivan Rakitić, Croatian and Swiss footballer
March 11 – Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer
March 14 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
Jhené Aiko, American singer-songwriter
Agustín Marchesín, Argentine footballer
March 17 – Carrie Johnson, British media consultant and activist
Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player
Zhou Lulu, Chinese weightlifter
Maxim Mikhaylov, Russian volleyball player
March 20 – Alberto Bueno, Spanish footballer
March 21 – Josepmir Ballón, Peruvian footballer
March 23 – Jason Kenny, British cyclist
Holliday Grainger, English actress
Jessie J, English singer-songwriter
Brenda Song, American actress
Atsuto Uchida, Japanese football player
March 28 – Lacey Turner, English actress
April
April 2 – Jesse Plemons, American film and television actor
Alisha Glass, American volleyball player
Daniela Luján, Mexican pop singer and actress
April 6 – Fabrice Muamba, Democratic Congolese born-English football player and coach
April 8 – Stephanie Cayo, Peruvian actress, singer and songwriter
April 9 – Swara Bhasker, Indian actress
April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
April 12 – Lisa Unruh, German archer
April 14 – Roberto Bautista Agut, Spanish tennis player
Vanessa Kirby, English actress and model
Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary
April 19 – Diego Buonanotte, Argentine footballer
April 21 – Ricky Berens, American Olympic swimmer
Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer
Alistair Brownlee, English triathlete
April 25 – Laura Lepisto, Finnish figure skater
Lizzo, American singer-songwriter and rapper
Semyon Varlamov, Russian Ice Hockey player
Juan Mata, Spanish footballer
Camila Vallejo, Chilean politician
April 29 – Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player
April 30 – Ana de Armas, Cuban actress
May
May 1 – Anushka Sharma, Indian actress
May 4 – Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer
May 6 – Dakota Kai, New Zealand professional wrestler
May 8 – Timm Klose, Swiss footballer
Ace Hood, American rapper
Blac Chyna, American model and entrepreneur
Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
May 16 – Behati Prinsloo, Namibian model
May 17 – Nikki Reed, American actress
May 21 – Park Gyu-ri, South Korean idol singer
May 25 – Cameron van der Burgh, South African Olympic swimmer
Juan Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
Dani Samuels, Australian discus thrower
May 29 – Tobin Heath, American women's soccer player
May 30 – Amanda Nunes, Brazilian mixed martial artist
June
June 1 – Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer
Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
Amber Marshall, Canadian actress
Awkwafina, American actress
June 4 – Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, American politician
June 6 – Arianna Errigo, Italian fencer
Michael Cera, Canadian actor, comedian, producer and singer-songwriter
Ekaterina Makarova, Russian tennis player
Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist
Frédéric Julan, French boxer
Mae Whitman, American actress, voice actress and singer
Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
June 11 – Claire Holt, Australian actress
Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
June 14 – Kevin McHale, American actor, dancer and singer
Banks, American singer-songwriter
Thierry Neuville, Belgian rally driver
June 17 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
June 19 – Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
Portia Doubleday, American actress
Dean Furman, South African footballer
June 23 Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
June 25 Therese Johaug, Norwegian cross-country skier
Célia Šašić, German footballer
Matthew Spiranovic, Australian soccer player
June 29 Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
July
July 1 – Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete
July 2 – Lee Chung-yong, South Korean footballer
July 4 – Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress and singer
July 5 – Samir Ujkani, Albanian-Kosovan footballer
Melissa O'Neil, Canadian actress
Colton Haynes, American actor and model
Tulisa Contostavlos, British singer-songwriter
July 14 – Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist
Eric Johannesen, German rower
Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
July 20 – Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress
July 21 – DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
July 22 – Noriko Senge, Japanese princess
July 24 – Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and actress
July 26 – Francia Raisa, American actress
August
August 1 – Nemanja Matić, Serbian footballer
August 2 – Rocío Sánchez Moccia, Argentine field hockey player
Mizuki Fujii, Japanese badminton player
Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
Princess Beatrice, British princess
Agata Sobczyk, Polish economist and politician
Irfan Bachdim, Indonesian footballer
Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
August 12 – Tyson Fury, British boxer
August 14 – Kayla Mueller, American human rights activist (d.2015)
G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and fashion icon
Katarina Ivanovska, Macedonian model and actress
Veronica Roth, American novelist and short story writer
Cristina Scuccia, Italian singer
Kacey Musgraves, American country music artist
Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
August 23 – Mikhail Aloyan, Russian boxer
Alexandra Burke, English singer
Giga Chikadze, Georgian mixed martial artist
Evan Ross, American actor and musician
Danielle Savre, American actress
August 28 – Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast
August 29 – Bartosz Kurek, Polish volleyball player
September
September 1 – Simona de Silvestro, Swiss racing driver
September 2 – Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer
September 5 – Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
September 6 – Sargun Mehta, Indian model, comedian, dancer, presenter and actress
September 7 – Kevin Love, American basketball player
September 8 – Roy van den Berg, Dutch track cyclist
September 10 – Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
September 11 – Lee Yong-dae, South Korean male badminton player
September 12 – Prachi Desai, Indian film and television actress
September 13 – Eva-Maria Brem, Austrian alpine skier
September 14 – Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
September 16 – Michael Ollis, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian Ice Hockey player
Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian mixed martial artist
September 21 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
September 23 – Juan Martín del Potro, Argentine tennis player
James Blake, English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter
Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
Wei Qiuyue, Chinese volleyball player
September 27 – Alma, French singer-songwriter
September 28 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
Kevin Durant, American basketball player
Maurício Souza, Brazilian volleyball player and politician
Alexander Volkanovski, Australian mixed martial artist and boxer
October
Cariba Heine, Australian actress and performer
Nemanja Matić, Serbian footballer
Alex Dowsett, British racing cyclist
ASAP Rocky, American rapper and music video director
Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
Derrick Rose, American basketball player
Maja Salvador, Filipino actress
Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby union player
October 6 – Jennifer Maia, Brazilian mixed martial artist
October 7 – Diego Costa, Brazilian born-Spanish footballer
October 8 – Maddie Hinch, English field hockey player
October 9 – Amanda Serrano, Puerto Rican boxer, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
October 10 – Jodie Devos, Belgian soprano (d. 2024)
October 15 – Mesut Özil, German football player
October 16 – Ikechukwu Ezenwa, Nigerian footballer
Efe Ambrose, Nigerian footballer
Sam Quek, British field hockey player
Irene Escolar, Spanish actress
Claudia Lösch, Austrian Paralympian and alpine monoskier
Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player
Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel
Blanca Suárez, Spanish actress
Hope Hicks, American public relations consultant, White House Communications Director
Glen Powell, American actor
Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress
Julia Krajewski, German equestrian
October 23 – Nia Ali, American hurdler
October 24 – Emilia Fahlin, Swedish cyclist
October 28 – Camila Brait, Brazilian volleyball player
October 29 – Dmitry Muserskiy, Russian volleyball player
October 30 – Tandara Caixeta, Brazilian volleyball player
October 31 – Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver
November
Scott Arfield, Scottish footballer
Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
November 2 – Julia Görges, German tennis player
November 5 – Virat Kohli, Indian international cricketer
Emma Stone, American actress
Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2014 winner
Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
Tinie Tempah, English rapper
Makwan Amirkhani, Iranian-Finnish mixed martial artist
Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer
November 12 – Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
November 9 – Lio Tipton, American actress and model
November 15 – B.o.B., American rapper, singer, record producer and conspiracy theorist
November 16 – Helly Luv, Iranian born-Finnish singer and actress
November 19 – Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
November 20 – Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer
November 22 – Dong Bin, Chinese triple jumper
Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
November 25 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d.2010)
November 26 – Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Icelandic strongman and actor
November 29 – Russell Wilson, American football player
Rebecca Rittenhouse American actress
Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
December
Jelena Blagojević, Serbian volleyball player
Tyler Joseph, American singer
Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer and model
December 2 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
Mario Maurer, Thai model and actor
Justin Meram, American-Iraqi soccer player
Tina Charles, American basketball player
Joanna Rowsell, English cyclist
Miralem Sulejmani, Serbian footballer
December 6 – Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian musician
Nathan Adrian, American Olympic swimmer
Emily Browning, Australian actress
Cláudia Gadelha, Brazilian mixed martial artist
December 9 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
Jena Hansen, Danish sailor
Neven Subotić, Serbian footballer
Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
Mats Hummels, German footballer
Kaitlyn Lawes, Canadian curler
Chibuzor Okonkwo, Nigerian footballer
Park Seo-joon, South Korean actor and singer
David Rudisha, Kenyan middle-distance runner
Yann Sommer, Swiss footballer
Rin Takanashi, Japanese film and television actress
December 19 – Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
December 23 – Tatiana Kosheleva, Russian volleyball player
December 24 – Nikola Mektić, Croatian tennis player
Dele Adeleye, Nigerian footballer
Marco Mengoni, Italian singer-songwriter
December 27 – Hayley Williams, American singer
December 28 – Katlyn Chookagian, American mixed martial artist
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
Chemistry – Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
Medicine – Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Maurice Allais
References