Wikipedia / 1994
Wikipedia / 1994
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day.
Events
January
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
Beginning of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico.
January 8 – Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.
January 14 – U.S. president Bill Clinton and Russian president Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
January 17 – The 6.7 Northridge earthquake strikes the Greater Los Angeles Area of the United States, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
February
February 3 – In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the International Court of Justice rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad.
February 6 – Markale massacres: a Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
February 9 – The Vance–Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7).
The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer.
February 24 – In Gloucester, England, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
February 28 – Four United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21ss over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.
March
March – China gets its first connection to the Internet.
March 6 – A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
March 12 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in Somalia.
March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg).
Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, United States, causing 24 fatalities.
Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana.
TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election.
The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama.
March 28 – Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters battle in central Johannesburg, South Africa.
March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
April
April 2 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana. commits suicide at the age of 27 at his home in Seattle. His body was found three days later.
April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.
April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.
April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
April 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the "Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during apartheid.
April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.
April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people.
April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.
May
May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy.
May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan is signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.
May 10 Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
May 18 – The Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption.
May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leader John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.
May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis from the Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".
June
June 1 – The Republic of South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth of Nations after its first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in 1961.
June 6–8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
June 15 Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
June 19 – Ernesto Samper is elected President of Colombia.
June 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200.
The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan regains power after spending 11 months in opposition, in coalition with the Japan Socialist Party.
Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of Florida causing $1.03billion in damage and 32 deaths.
July
July 4 – Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Kigali, a major breakthrough in the Rwandan Civil War.
July 5 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il Sung dies, but officially continues to hold office.
July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin officially ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. president Bill Clinton.
July 16–22 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.
July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0).
AMIA bombing: In Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the Rwandan genocide.
July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
August
August 5 – Maleconazo: Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
August 12 – Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York, United States, marking the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
1994 Mascara earthquake: a 5.8 earthquake leaves 171 dead in Algeria.
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants: a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court.
August 20 – Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations" as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. This will temporarily end in 1996 with the Docklands bombing in England before a definite ceasefire in 1997. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement is signed and the IRA decommissions its weapons in 2005
The Russian Army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's Soviet occupation.
c. August – Pizza Hut becomes the first restaurant to offer online food ordering, in California.
September
September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
September 5 – New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
September 8 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport killing all on board.
September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
September 14 – The 1994 World Series in baseball is officially cancelled due to the ongoing work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904.
Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.
Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.
September 19 – Operation Uphold Democracy: U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimately elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power.
The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari.
September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.
October
In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the general election.
Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
October 5 – The day after five members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada, Swiss police find 48 members of the cult dead, in what was found to be a mass murder-suicide.
After three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Aristide returns to his country.
Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
October 16 – Robbery on the Bank of the Republic: In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).
November
A letter by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.
American boxer George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified.
A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people.
Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties.
November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
"Republican Revolution": Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern United States, causing $594million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, is established.
Iraq formally rescinds its claims over Kuwait, which it has claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the Persian Gulf War.
November 13 Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
November 14 – The first Eurostar train passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
1994 Nepalese general election The CPN (UML) is elected with a minority government, becoming the first democratically elected Communist party in Asia.
1994 Mindoro earthquake A 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to high.
November 16 – United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea {1982) comes fully into effect on receiving 60 signatures.
November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
November 27 – A Fuxin Yiyuan dance hall catches fire in Liaoning Province, China, killing 233 persons, with another 71 rescued, according to a confirmed Chinese government official report.
November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a referendum.
December
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sony releases the PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.
Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
December 11 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.
Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, England, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.
A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration.
Civil unionss between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden.
December 31 – This date is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.
Births
January
January 1 – Emilie Hegh Arntzen, Norwegian handball player
January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist
January 4 – Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player
January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
January 7 – Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer
January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
January 11 – Desirae Krawczyk, American tennis player
January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer
Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner
Kai, South Korean singer
Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress
January 19 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor
January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer
February
Julia Garner, American actress
Luke Saville, Australian tennis player
Harry Styles, English singer
February 3 – Malaika Mihambo, German athlete
February 4 – Alexia Putellas, Spanish footballer
February 8 – Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
Arman Hall, American sprinter
Bakar, British musician
February 13 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
Becky Hill, British singer
Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer and former ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion
Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
Ava Max, American singer
J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter
Gabriela Schloesser, Mexican born-Dutch archer
February 20 – Brigid Kosgei, Kenyan marathon runner
February 21 – Wendy, South Korean singer
Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model
Lucas Pouille, French tennis player
February 24 – Jessica Pegula, American tennis player
February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
February 26 – Mahra Al Maktoum, Emirati princess.
February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
February 28 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
March
March 1 Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer
Nikita Parris, English footballer
March 11 − Andy Robertson, Scottish footballer
Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
Christina Grimmie, American singer (murdered. 2016)
March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ
March 15 – Georgia Taylor-Brown, British triathlete
March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
March 22 – Douglas Santos, Brazilian footballer
March 23 – Bridger Zadina American actor
March 24 – Giulia Steingruber, Swiss artistic gymnast
March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer
March 29 – Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d. 2019)
March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
April
Feng Bin, Chinese discus thrower
Srbuk, Armenian singer
April 9 – Rosamaria Montibeller, Brazilian volleyball player
Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer
Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer
Oh Se-hun, South Korean singer
Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress
April 14 – Pauline Ranvier, French fencer
April 20 – Alexander Massialas, American fencer
April 21 – Gulnaz Khatuntseva, Russian cyclist
April 22 – Maria Verschoor, Dutch field hockey player
April 24 – Bruna Moura, Brazilian cross-country skier
April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
May
May 1 Khamzat Chimaev, Russian born-Swedish mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
May 2 – Alexander Choupenitch, Czech fencer
May 4 – Zhu Yaming, Chinese triple jumper
Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer
Juan Musso, Argentine footballer
Pernille Blume, Danish swimmer
Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer
May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter
May 19 – Gabriela Guimarães, Brazilian volleyball player
May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer
Athena Manoukian, Greek born-Armenian singer
Miho Takagi, Japanese speed skater
Jarell Martin, American basketball player
Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
May 25 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast and model
João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer
Aymeric Laporte, French born-Spanish footballer
Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, Polish–Thai politician, political scientist, and humanitarian
June
June 8 – Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (d. 2021)
June 10 – Cheung Ka Long, Hong Kong foil fencer
Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist
Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer
Lee Kiefer, American fencer
June 19 – Lejla Njemčević, Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist
June 20 – Sarah Köhler, German swimmer
June 23 – Jung Ho-yeon, South Korean actress
June 24 – Lily Williams, American cyclist
June 25 – Lauren Price, Welsh boxer
Anish Giri, Russian born-Dutch chess grandmaster
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent of Jordan
Camila Mendes, American actress
Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer
July
July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer
July 4 – Era Istrefi, Kosovar-Albanian singer and songwriter.
Robin Gosens, German footballer
Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player
July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet and painter
Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer
Jake Wightman, British middle-distance runner
July 12 – Molly Seidel, American marathon runner
Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer
Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
July 25 – Bianka Buša, Serbian volleyball player
Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
Sándor Tótka, Hungarian canoeist
July 31 – Liang Xinping, Chinese synchronised swimmer
August
August 1 – Sayaka Hirota, Japanese badminton player
August 2 – Tang Yuanting, Chinese badminton player
August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
August 11 – Song I-han, South Korean singer
Joaquín Correa, Argentine footballer
Cianna Lieffers, Canadian ice hockey referee
August 15 – Natalia Zabiiako, Estonian born-Russian pair skater
August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress
August 18 – Madelaine Petsch, American actress
Katja Salskov-Iversen, Danish sailor
Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete
August 23 – Dara Howell, Canadian freestyle skier
Kelsey Plum, American basketball player
Breanna Stewart, American basketball player
August 28 – Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer
September
Kento Momota, Japanese badminton player
Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter
September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
Elinor Barker, Welsh racing cyclist
Kento Yamazaki, Japanese actor
Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter
Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
Aleksandar Mitrović, Serbian footballer
Mina Popović, Serbian volleyball player
September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer
Halsey, American singer
Nicholas Galitzine, English actor
Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Polish racing cyclist
October
Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer
Arthur Van Doren, Belgian field hockey player
October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
October 10 – Bae Suzy, South Korean singer and actress
October 12 – Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
Sara Dosho, Japanese wrestler
Alejandra Valencia, Mexican archer
October 18 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian racing driver
October 20 – Festus Talam, Kenyan athlete
October 22 – Carline van Breugel, Dutch politician
Alberta Santuccio, Italian fencer
October 23 – Margaret Qualley, actress
Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer
Sean O'Malley, American mixed martial artist fighter
October 26 – Matthew Hudson-Smith, British sprinter
November
November 8 – Wang Yilyu, Chinese badminton player
Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer
Zoey Deutch, American actress
November 13 – Laurien Leurink, Dutch field hockey player
November 18 – Cédric Follador, Swiss bobsledder
November 21 – Kit Wilson, British professional wrestler
November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
Julius Randle, American basketball player
Zhu Ting, Chinese volleyball player
December
December 3 – Jake T. Austin, American actor
December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner
Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English footballer
December 10 – Lily Owsley, British field hockey player
December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor
December 18 – Vlada Chigireva, Russian synchronised swimmer
Katrina Lehis, Estonian fencer
M'Baye Niang, French-Senegalese footballer
December 20 – Emmanuel Niyoyabikoze, Burundian environmental activist
December 21 – Daniel Amartey, Ghanaian footballer
December 24 – Jennifer Valente, American cyclist
December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer
December 29 Princess Kako of Akishino, Japanese princess
December 30 – Hannah Martin, British field hockey player
December 31 – Max Bowden, English actor
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
Fields Medal
Right Livelihood Award
Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra), Ken Saro-Wiwa / MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)
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