1999 year

January

• 1st of January
  • The introduction of the euro in cashless payments ^{[1] [2] [3]} .
  • The Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority has begun operations.
  • In accordance with the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “On State Fingerprint Registration in the Russian Federation” that has entered into force, citizens of Russia from the age of 18 have the opportunity to apply with a written application to the passport and visa service of the internal affairs authority at the place of residence and register for fingerprints.
  • In Poland , the reform of the administrative-territorial division came into force ^[4] .
• January 4 - Robbery of the famous Church of the Intercession on the Nerl . The criminal brought two icons, gold and silver chains, crosses and medallions from the church shop.
• January 7 - 8 - A large rebellion, known as the " general " rebellion broke out in the Gobustan closed prison in Azerbaijan .
• January 8 - The Soviet and Russian theater and film actress Vera Ivleva disappeared (the body was found in March; according to the investigation, she got under a car whose driver buried the body to cover the tracks; the criminal was never found).
• January 9 - When trying to arrest the French military in Bosnia , Yugoslav Dragan Gagovich , who was charged with war crimes by an international court, was killed.

• January 10 - At the presidential election in Kazakhstan, an overwhelming majority of votes (more than 80%) re-elected President N. A. Nazarbayev .
• January 11th
  • Intel Corporation announces next-generation microprocessors, formerly codenamed Katmai . Chips are launched under the trademark Intel® Pentium® III.
  • Bulent Ecevit, who led the Democratic Left Party (DLP), a member of the government coalition, formed the new Turkish minority government, which remained in power until April 18.
• January 12 - The ousted Malian dictator Musa Traore and his wife were sentenced to death for major embezzlement ^[2] , but President Alfa Umar Konare again commuted this sentence to life imprisonment.
• January 13 - Four people were killed in the crash of the American Boeing 707 refueling aircraft in Geilenkirchen ^[5] .
• January 15 - Massacre in Racak during a military conflict between Yugoslav police and Albanian separatists.
• January 17 - A VAZ-2106 car exploded near the US Embassy in Moscow ^[6] . No harm done.
• January 18 - In the parliamentary elections in Grenada, the ruling New National Party (NNP) won all the seats in parliament. NNP leader Keith Mitchell became the country's prime minister.
• January 20 - A court in Shanghai sentenced a computer entrepreneur in China’s first political Internet trial because of an alleged attempted coup of 2 years in prison. He was accused of sending about 30,000 email addresses to an exiled journal publisher in order to supply recipients with information prohibited in China ^[7] .
• January 21 - Armenia and Haiti established diplomatic relations ^[8] .
• January 23
  • Jean-Francois Ntutum Eman became Gabon 's Prime Minister.
  • Grenade explosion at the Kursk station in Moscow: one dead.
• January 24 - A severe earthquake occurred in Colombia , as a result of which over 700 people were killed and over 3,000 were injured ^[2] .
• January 31
  • The first part of the Silent Hill game series ^{[2] has been released} .
  • A pilot episode of Family Guy aired on Fox .

February

• February 2 - Hugo Chavez takes office as President of Venezuela .
• February 6 - March 19 - In Rambouillet ( France ) with the participation of representatives of the member countries of the Contact Group on the Former Yugoslavia (Great Britain, Italy, Russia, the USA, France, Germany) negotiations were held between the warring parties in Kosovo. The participants were unable to reach an agreement, and negotiations were interrupted ^[3] .
• February 7
  • King of Jordan becomes Abdullah II ibn Hussein .
  • In Syria, a referendum on the re-election of the President of the Syrian Arab Republic .
• February 10th
  • as a result of a major fire in the Samara police department , 57 people were killed, more than 200 people were evacuated.
  • The UN Security Council adopted resolution No. 1227 in connection with the aggravation of the border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia . The Security Council demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities and the resumption of diplomatic efforts with a view to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
  • Latvia joined the WTO ^[9] .
• February 12 - Armenia and Belize established diplomatic relations ^[10] .
• February 15 - The leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured by Turkish security services in Kenya .
• February 16 - a terrorist attack took place in Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) - a series of explosions . ^[2]
• February 20 - the launch of the Soyuz TM-29 spacecraft . Launch crew - V. M. Afanasyev , J.-P. Haigner ( France ) and I. Bella ( Slovakia ).
• February 23 - An avalanche hit the Austrian ski resort Galtür , killing 31 people.
• February 24 - in the vicinity of Wenzhou , the Tu-154M of China Southwest Airlines crashed resulting in the death of 61 people.
• February 25 - March 4 - a census was held in Kazakhstan.
• 28th of February
  • Landing of the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft . The landing crew - G.I. Padalka , I. Bella ( Slovakia ).
  • in Nigeria , the presidential election was held. The victory was won by a candidate from the People’s Democratic Party, the former head of state, retired General Olusegun Obasanjo , who collected more than 60% of the vote.

March

• March 1 - The Ottawa Treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling and export of anti-personnel mines entered into force.
• March 3 - Monica Lewinsky publicly apologized to the Americans for the role she played in the impeachment of US President Bill Clinton ^[2] .
• March 4 - Abdurrauf al-Rawabde became Prime Minister of Jordan .
• the 5th of March
  • in St. Petersburg initialed “Agreement on the delimitation of the state border and the delimitation of water areas between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Estonia”
  • Former Colonel of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Dmitry Sitrakov, threatening with a hunting rifle, seized the chief accountant of the Russian Credit Bank and, threatening to crack down on the accountant and blow up the bank building, demanded his contribution - $ 22,000 , which he needed to treat his wife. At the time of the transfer of money was arrested.
• March 6 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa becomes the emir of Bahrain .
• March 7th
  • Market-oriented parties won the parliamentary elections in Estonia. On March 25, Parliament elected conservative politician Mart Laar the new head of government.
  • In the presidential election in El Salvador , Francisco Guillermo Flores won.
  • Togo hosted the first round of parliamentary elections .
  • In the parliamentary elections in Equatorial Guinea , the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea won, which together received 85.5% of the vote.
• 9th of March
  • Diplomatic relations were established between the Russian Federation and the Federated States of Micronesia ^[11] .
  • In the parliamentary elections in Antigua and Barbuda, the victory was again won by the LPA, but the opposition accused the authorities of numerous violations.
• March 12 - Hungary , Poland and the Czech Republic joined NATO ^{[2] [3]} .
• March 13 - 14 - explosions in Istanbul . The first explosion killed 13 people, as a result of the second - 2 were injured. The third bomb was found in the area of ​​the Burger King restaurant and was successfully defused.
• March 14 - The crash of Mi-8 in Haiti ^[12] .
• March 16 - The crash of Mi-8 in the Kamchatka Territory ^[13] .
• March 19th
  • A terrorist act was committed on the Central market of Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia).
  • The first broadcast of iTV broadcasts from Shabolovka using IP / TV technology is being carried out. Trial broadcasts before this were conducted only during several Internet press conferences ^[2] .
• March 20 - An agreement was reached on the extradition by Libya of persons suspected of involvement in the plane crash in Lockerbie in 1988, for trial in the Netherlands. Thus, the main problem was solved on the way to lifting international sanctions against Libya.
• 21 March
  • In the parliamentary elections in Finland , the non-socialist majority strengthened.
  • Parliamentary elections in Tanzania .
  • The second round of parliamentary elections in Togo .
  • After a 478-hour journey, Bertrand Picard and Brian Jones became the first people to fly around the earth in a balloon ^[2] .
• March 22
  • At 8.20 in the morning in Omsk an attempt was made on the first vice-governor of the Omsk region Andrei Golushko . The driver was killed by an automatic fire burst from Kalashnikov (3 bullets hit his head), Golushko was injured in his knee and groin ^[14] .
  • Armenia and El Salvador established diplomatic relations ^[15] .
• March 24
  • The beginning of the NATO military operation in Yugoslavia , which lasted until June 10 ^{[1] [3]} .
  • Fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel , 38 dead.
• March 24 - 25 - massacre of residents of the Kosovo village of Bela-Tsrkva .
• March 25
  • The death in a car accident of the leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine Vyacheslav Chernovol .
  • According to Albanian witnesses, a special police unit entered the village of Velika Kruše, near Orahovac , separated the men from the boys, and killed them. Human Right Watch reported that more than 90 people were killed. After the massacre, women and children were expelled from the city.
• 26 March
  • The Suva River massacre, the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians by Serbian police .
  • The appearance of the Melissa virus has been recorded, which has infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in a short time ^[2] .
• March 27 - Yugoslav air defense forces shot down an American F-117 attack aircraft - the first combat loss in the history of a stealth- built aircraft.
• March 28
  • In the Pacific Ocean, the Zenith-3SL carrier rocket was first launched from the Odyssey marine floating platform 2250 kilometers south of the Hawaiian Islands at the equator, which launched a gravity-weight model of the Demo Set communications satellite into low Earth orbit " ^[1] .
  • during a rally against the bombing of Serbia by NATO aircraft in Moscow, the US embassy tried to fire from a grenade launcher. The building needed serious redecoration, since the glass was broken and almost the entire facade was splashed with multi-colored paint ^[16] .
  • the massacre in Izbica resulted in the deaths of about 93 Kosovo Albanians, mostly civilians aged 60 to 70. On the same day, a detachment of Scorpio, a Serbian paramilitary organization combined with a special anti-terrorist unit of Serbia, completely killed 14 Kosovo Albanians and civilians in Poduyevo , mostly women and children. One of the survivors of the carnage, 13-year-old Saranda Boguevtsi, received media attention after she managed to bring the killers to justice with the help of several organizations from Serbia , Canada and the United Kingdom .
  • The very first episode of the series " Futurama " was broadcast.
• March 30 - Parliamentary elections in Benin

April

• April 1st
  • Air China Boeing 747 , flight 9018, taxied onto the existing runway of O'Hara Airport during take-off of another Boeing 747 - Korean airplane flight 36. Collisions were avoided. There were 8 people aboard an early Chinese cargo plane, and 379 passengers aboard a Korean air carrier.
  • Lyubenich became the site of the massacre of about 66 people, according to villagers.
• April 2
  • On the border of Tajikistan with Afghanistan, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter crashes ^[17] .
  • Georgia , Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan withdrew from the Collective Security Treaty ^[18] .
• April 3
  • At 10.30, a Mi-24 combat helicopter crashed in Dagestan . All 3 crew members died.
  • An -24 civilian aircraft in Dagestan was fired upon.
• April, 4
  • terrorist attack in Moscow . Near the building of the reception of the FSB of the Russian Federation on the Kuznetsk bridge , a shellless explosive device with a capacity of about 2 kg of TNT worked. A police officer and one of the FSB security guards were injured ^[19] .
  • Hurricane in Southwest Louisiana (USA). Six dead, more than 100 wounded.
  • Guido de Marco became President of Malta .
• April 5 - The building of the Ministry of Transport of Russia burned down in Moscow. The fire started at 20.50. There are no victims.
• April 6th
  • A Turkish Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes ^[2] .
  • in Canada, a former company driver fired from his job comes to the company and opens fire with an automatic rifle. Four were killed, more than 10 wounded. Himself committed suicide.
  • Suspended international sanctions against Libya .
• April 9th
  • In the presidential election in Djibouti , Ismail Omar Gelle , the only NOP candidate, won.
  • The military coup in Niger .
• 12th of April
  • accident on the Wuppertal suspension road , during which 5 people were killed and 47 injured.
  • the strike of the F-15E NATO aircraft destroyed the passenger train number 393, which was traveling from Nis through Vranje , Skopje to Athens and passing over the Grdeliczka Klisura bridge (the pilot was ordered to destroy the bridge) ^[20] . As a result, 9 bodies and four more fragments were found, many are considered missing ^[21] . NATO Secretary General Javier Solana justifies pilot error.
• April 14 - Albanian refugees died as a result of an air raid on the Djakovitsa – Decani road in Yugoslavia.
• April 15th
  • livejournal.com is registered ( LiveJournal ).
  • Abdel Aziz Bouteflika is elected President of Algeria with a result of 74% of the vote.
  • An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of large planets near the Epsilon star of the constellation Andromeda ^[2] .
• April 18th
  • Parliamentary elections in Iceland.
  • The referendum on the introduction of a majority voting system in Italy.
  • Following the results of the parliamentary elections in Turkey, the Democratic Left Party of Prime Minister Ecevit won the most votes, who thus led the coalition government, which, in addition to the leaders of the Democratic Party , also included representatives of the Nationalist Movement Party (PND) and the Fatherland Party .
  • Switzerland’s constitution was adopted at a national referendum, 59.2% of voters and 13 of 26 cantons voted for it. Compared with the previous constitution of 1874, there were no fundamental changes in the regulation of public relations.
• April 20 - a tragedy at Columbine High School ( Columbine , Colorado , USA ). Two teenagers shot their classmates and teachers.
• April 23 - airstrike on the Belgrade television center . 16 people were killed, another 16 were injured of varying severity.
• April 24 - in the morning there was an explosion on Gogol Street in Yekaterinburg near the building of the Consulates General of the USA and Great Britain. An unidentified explosive device went off at a parking lot near the consulate building at about 04:50 Moscow time. As a result, several windows were knocked out in nearby buildings and the Moskvich car was damaged. There were no casualties. According to some reports, the bag with the explosive device was thrown out by unknown intruders passing by on the Audi . According to experts, an explosive bag was in a thrown bag. The prosecutor's office of Yekaterinburg instituted criminal proceedings under Art. 205 of the Criminal Code ("terrorism"), and the protection of the US Consulate General in Yekaterinburg was strengthened.
• 25th of April
  • 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners appealed to the Chinese government in Zhonganhai over the course of the day in connection with the unlawful arrests of 30 people who were arrested in Tianjin .
  • The first direct elections of the head of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic took place . The elections did not reveal the winner, a repeat vote was nominated on the candidacies of Stanislav Derev and Vladimir Semenov ^[22] .
  • At a constitutional referendum in Venezuela, most Venezuelans approved the idea of ​​convening an assembly to draft a new constitution.
• 26 April
  • The computer virus " Chernobyl " hit, according to various estimates, up to half a million computers around the world ^[2] .
  • a powerful explosion occurred in the elevator of the Intourist Hotel. 11 people were injured. The power of an unidentified explosive device was approximately 1 kilogram of TNT. The building suffered significant damage.
• April 27th
  • The massacre at Mezhe , more than three hundred Kosovo Albanians were killed by Yugoslav and Serbian forces.
  • Georgia becomes the 41st member of the Council of Europe ^{[23] [24]} .
  • During a routine flight in Albania, one of the 24 located American Apache combat helicopters crashed ^[25] .

May

• May 1 - The Amsterdam Treaty entered into force, which introduced substantial changes to the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union .
• May 2
  • The Vucitrna massacre , Serbian police and military executed 100-120 Kosovo Albanians from a refugee column
  • On Mount Everest , the body of an English mountain climber George Lee Mallory was discovered. In 1924, he disappeared with his partner Andrew Irvine (Andrew Irvine) after a snowstorm. The location of Mallory's body testified to the high probability that their ascent was successful ^[2] .
• May 3 - A tornado hit the states of Oklahoma and Kansas .
• May 4th
  • In Moscow, the constituent congress of the communist organization Vanguard of the Red Youth took place.
  • Irena Diagutene became and. about. Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania .
• 5 May
  • Macedonia closed its borders to Albanian refugees from Kosovo ^[2] .
  • For the first time in the history of Scotland , the election of its own parliament took place ^[2] .
• May 5 - 6 - Tornado in the states of Kansas , Arkansas , Texas .
• May 7th
  • For the first time since the split of the Christian church in 1054, the pope visited an Orthodox country (Romania) ^[2] .
  • Blow to the city of Nis . A high-precision rocket hit the building of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade ^[26] .
• May 8 - Ismail Omar Gelle took office as President of Djibouti .

• May 12 - Sergey Stepashin appointed and. about. Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation . May 19 was approved by the State Duma as chairman of the Government ^[3] .
• May 13 - Bombing of a column of Albanian refugees near the village of Korisha. As a result of the raid, 48 to 87 died and at least 60 civilians were injured.
• May 14 - in the village of Chushka, the Serbian security forces, the Yugoslav army and the paramilitary unit “Jackals” committed the killing of 41 Kosovo Albanians, aged 19 to 69 years.
• May 15
  • In the State Duma, an attempt was made to remove President of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin from office . The deputies failed to get the required 300 votes on any of the five counts of charges against B. N. Yeltsin ^{[3] [27]} .
  • In the first round of the presidential election in Slovakia , Rudolf Schuster won.
• 16th of May
  • A repeat vote was held on the elections of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the elections were confidently won by General Vladimir Semenov ^[22] .
  • terrorist act in Vladikavkaz . A series of terrorist attacks was committed in the military town of Sputnik, located in the vicinity of Vladikavkaz . In three 5-story buildings where officers of the 58th Army lived, explosive devices went off. 18 apartments have turned into ruins, another 60 have received significant damage. 4 people died, 9 were injured of varying severity. According to the investigating authorities, this crime was carried out by the same terrorist group that carried out the attack on March 19, 1999 in the Central Market of Vladikavkaz.
  • presidential elections were held in Belarus , which were declared invalid.

• May 17 - Ehud Barak becomes Prime Minister of Israel ^[2] .
• May 18
  • A strong hurricane on the southern coast of Crimea .
  • After a year of discussion, the Government of Canada stated that it would not regulate and control the Internet in the country ^[2] .
  • Rolandas Paksas became the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania.
• May 19 - The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on renaming the city of Novgorod to Veliky Novgorod ^[2] .
• May 23 - General local elections were held in the Republic of Moldova , during which 628 mayors, 312 municipal councilors / county councilors and 6.105 rural / city councilors were elected.
• May 24 - 41 miners died in a severe explosion in a mine in Donetsk . The cause of the accident at a depth of 1000 m is a damaged fan device.
• May 26 - the beginning of the Kargil war between India and Pakistan (continued until July 26 ) ^[2] .
• May 27 - 94th launch ( STS-96 ) under the Space Shuttle program. 26th Discovery shuttle flight. Crew - Kenneth Rominger , Rick Khasband , Daniel Barry , Valery Tokarev ( Russia ), Ellen Ochoa , Julie Payette ( Canada ), Tamara Jernigan .
• May 28 - after 15 years of controversy, Canada passed a law under which the age of criminal responsibility for adolescents was reduced from 16 to 14 years ^[2] .
• May 29
  • Rudolf Schuster won the second round of the presidential election in Slovakia.
  • Adoption of the Constitution of Nigeria .
• May 30
  • in Minsk , a tragedy occurred in Nemiga (a mass crush in the Minsk underpass near the Nemiga metro station, which killed 53 people) ^[2] .
  • elections of the Governor of the Belgorod region. The current governor Yevgeny Savchenko confirmed his authority, and one of the leading Russian politicians and the leader of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, took only third place ^[22] .
  • In the parliamentary elections in Armenia , the Unity bloc won, the main forces of which were the Republican Party led by Minister of Defense Vazgen Sargsyan and the People’s Party led by former leader of the Armenian SSR Karen Demirchyan .

June

• June - December - A group of KLA members carry out a massacre in Gnilan .
• June 1st
  • American Airlines flight 1420 crash .
  • On June 11, Vazgen Sargsyan became the Prime Minister of Armenia .
• June 3 - a ban was introduced in Russia on the sale of chicken meat from Belgium ^[2] .
• June 4th
  • The opening of the new federal capital of Malaysia, Putrajaya, was announced ^[2] .
  • In Ingushetia , celebrations began dedicated to the move of the administration to the new capital - the city of Magas ^[2] .
• June 5 - Aviatika-MAI-890 crashed in the Lipetsk Region during aviation chemical work. The pilot died.
• June 7 - Beginning of broadcasting of the Daryal-TV channel ^[28] .
• June 9 - in Kumanovo, representatives of the Army of Yugoslavia and the NATO bloc signed a military-technical agreement , Kosovo came under the control of KFOR forces.
• June 10 - UN Security Council Resolution 1244 adopted. The end of the Kosovo war .
• June 11 - Adoption of the Constitution of Finland .
• June 12 - a battalion of Russian paratroopers made a march from the base of the peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Kosovo , covering more than 600 km in 7.5 hours, and occupied the Slatina airport before the NATO forces . On the same day, NATO ground forces were entered into Serbia.
• June 13th
  • Legislative Election in Luxembourg . On them, the Christian Social People’s Party won 19 seats and again became the largest parliamentary party, creating a coalition with the Democratic Party , and Jean-Claude Juncker again became the country's prime minister.
  • in the area of ​​the Kosovo village of Dulje (Prizrensky Podgor), 25 km from the city of Prizren, two special correspondents from the German journal Stern, Gabriel Grüner and Volker Kremer, were killed, their translator Senol Alit was also killed. The murder has not yet been solved: both the Yugoslav border guards from the checkpoint near the Dulevo Gorge (western part of Kosovo and Metohija controlled by the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo) and British soldiers from the KFOR peacekeeping contingent are suspected of committing it.
• June 14th
  • The US Supreme Court lifted the 65-year ban on casino television advertising ^[2] .
  • Thabo Mbeki took over as president of South Africa .
• June 15th
  • in Belgium, the sale of Coca-Cola is prohibited due to the increased level of chemicals in it ^[2] .
  • With a strong earthquake in Mexico , at least 15 people were killed.
• June 18 - June 20 - The G8 summit was held in Cologne .
• June 19 - the first version (1.0 Beta) of the most popular online shooter Counter-Strike ^{[2] was released} .
• June 20 - Yugoslav troops leave Kosovo and Metohija.
• June 21 - the beginning of hostilities in southern Serbia between the troops of the Slovak Republic of Yugoslavia (armed forces and the police) and the illegal armed group " Liberation Army of Presevo, Medveja and Buyanovac "
• 22nd of June
  • an explosive device with a clock mechanism with a capacity of about 300 grams of TNT was discovered near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on Zhitnaya Street . It exploded before it was neutralized. The blast wave damaged several cars and part of the glass in the ministry building. There were no victims and injuries ^{[29] [30] [31] [32]} .
  • volcano eruption in the Philippines ^[2] .
• June 28 - explosion at a bus stop in Vladikavkaz. 12 people were injured ^[33] .
• June 30 - Near the city of West Elton , Missouri , the body of Ricky McCormick was discovered . Investigators interpreted this death as murder only 12 years later. At the same time, it was announced that notes had been found in the pockets of the deceased, written by the murdered incomprehensible cipher. According to the version of the investigation, the notes found may contain information about the killers, who, as well as the motives for the murder, as well as the exact cause of death, have not been established.

July

• 1 июля — Впервые за 300 лет открылось заседание парламента Шотландии.
• 5'th of July
  • Куба предъявила Соединённым Штатам иск на сумму 181 млрд долларов за ущерб, причинённый 40-летней экономической блокадой ^[2] .
  • В южно-сербском промышленном городе Лесковац 20 000 человек проводят демонстрации против югославского президента Слободана Милошевича . Это самый большой акт протеста с конца войны Косово.
• 8 июля — Вайра Вике-Фрейберга стала президентом Латвии.
• 10 июля — В Лусаке главы государств Анголы , ДР Конго , Намибии , Руанды , Уганды , Замбии и Зимбабве подписали соглашение о прекращении огня .
• 11 июля — Михаэль Шумахер в аварии на Гран-при Великобритании получает тяжёлую травму — сложный перелом правой ноги. Это фактически лишило его шансов на чемпионство в сезоне 1999 года ^[2] .
• 12 июля — Ги Верхофстадт стал главой правительства Бельгии.
• July 16
  • Джон Ф. Кеннеди мл. , сын убитого президента США Джона Ф. Кеннеди, погибает при катастрофе с его частным самолётом у берега Мартас-Винъярд .
  • Андрис Шкеле стал премьер-министром Латвии.
• 18 июля — В Нигере на е принята Конституция Республики Нигер .
• 21 July
  • в Ингушетии мужчинам разрешено иметь четырёх жён ^{[2] [34]} .
  • Установлены дипломатические отношение между Казахстаном и Чадом ^[35] .
• July 22
  • Госсовет Кубы обнародовал декрет, направленный на пресечение попыток нелегально покинуть территорию острова ^[2] .
  • Несколько тысяч оппозиционеров демонстрируют в Минске против следующего пребывания в посту президента Александра Лукашенко . Его регулярной пятилетний срок правления истёк накануне. После спорного референдума 1996 года он позволил продлевать их, тем не менее, до 2001 года.
  • Правительство Монголии ушло в отставку, временно исполняющий обязанности премьер-министра стала Ням-Осорын Туяа .
• July 23
  • 95-й старт ( STS-93 ) по программе Спейс Шаттл . 26-й полёт шаттла Колумбия . Экипаж — Айлин Коллинз , Джефри Эшби , Мишель Тонини ( Франция ), Стивен Хоули , Катерина Коулман . Коллинз — первая женщина-командир шаттла.
  • В деревне Старо-Грацко в Косово совершенно массовое убийство 14 сербских фермеров .
  • Мухаммед VI становится королём Марокко .
• 24 июля — Армения и Суринам установили дипломатические отношение ^[36] .
• 25 июля — состоялись выборы в Конституционную ассамблею (Учредительное собрание) Венесуэлы .
• 26 июля — грузовой самолёт Ил-76ТД авиакомпании Эльф-эйр, выполняя взлёт с иркутского аэропорта в сторону Байкала, не смог набрать высоту и потерпел катастрофу .
• 30 июля — главой правительства Монголии назначен Ринчиннямын Амаржаргал.
• 30 июля — 27 сентября — вооружённые столкновения между боевиками Исламского движения Узбекистана (ИДУ) и вооружёнными силами Кыргызстана и Узбекистана .

August

• 4 августа — Узбекистан и Маврикий установили дипломатичные отношения ^[37] .
• 5 августа — Правительство югославской республики Черногория официально высказывается за роспуск Федеративной республики Югославию в её современной форме. Черногория стремится вместо этого к свободному союзу с Сербией.

• 7 августа — вторжение отрядов Шамиля Басаева и Хаттаба в Дагестан (продолжалось до 14 сентября ). Фактически считается началом второй чеченской войны .

• 9 августа — Владимир Путин был назначен и. about. Председателя Правительства Российской Федерации . В тот же день действующий президент Борис Ельцин назвал его своим преемником. 16 августа Путин утвержден председателем правительства РФ ^{[1] [3]} .
• 10 августа — Инцидент с «Атлантик» , в котором патрульный самолёт пакистанских ВМС «Атлантик» был сбит истребителем ВВС Индии после нарушения границы.

• 11th August
  • полное солнечное затмение , наблюдаемое во Франции , Румынии , Турции ^[38] .
  • Правительство Люксембурга запретило движение тяжёлого грузового автотранспорта по дорогам страны на период солнечного затмения с 10:30 до 13:45 по местному времени. Запрет касается только тех машин, которые будут двигаться из Бельгии, Германии и самого Люксембурга в сторону Франции. Это объясняется тем, что Франция уже объявила об аналогичном запрете на своей территории. Южная половина Люксембурга, включая столицу, попадала в полосу полного солнечного затмения ^[2] .
  • В штате Канзас из программ государственных школ изъяты лекции по теории эволюции Дарвина ^[2] .
• 12 августа — Украиной принято решение о закрытии всех вытрезвителей ^[2] .
• August 17
  • землетрясение на северо-западе Турции . Погибли более 17 тысяч человек.
  • согласно Постановлению кабинета Министров Украины № 078 ликвидировано Киевское высшее инженерное радиотехническое училище ПВО страны им. маршала авиации А. И. Покрышкина ( КВИРТУ ПВО ).
• 19 августа — Примерно 150 000 человек участвуют в Белграде в первом массовом митинге сербской оппозиции с конца воздушных налётов НАТО на Югославию. Демонстранты требуют отставки президента Слободана Милошевича.
• 22 августа — самолёт McDonnell Douglas MD-11 авиакомпании China Airlines , рейс 642 совершал посадку в Гонконге во время тайфуна. Из-за сильного ветра самолёт ударился об ВПП, перевернулся и загорелся. Из находившихся на борту 315 пассажиров погибли трое.
• 24 августа — В проливе Ла-Манш близ юго-восточного побережья Англии круизный корабль 'Норвегиан дрим' с 2400 пассажирами на борту сталкивается с транспортным судном 'Эвер Дисент', экипаж которого составляет 17 человек. Пострадали 3 человека.
• 27 августа — Конгресс США решил провести слушания по вопросу о причастности « Bank of New York » к «отмыванию» российских криминальных капиталов ^[2] .
• 28 августа — приземление корабля Союз ТМ-29 . Экипаж посадки — В. М. Афанасьев , С. В. Авдеев и Ж.-П. Эньере ( Франция ).
• August 29
  • состоялся учредительный съезд избирательного блока Отечество — Вся Россия .
  • состоялись выборы Губернатора Свердловской области. Голосование в первом туре не выявило победителя, назначено повторное голосование по кандидатурам Эдуарда Росселя и Александра Буркова ^[22] .
• August 30th
  • В ходе референдума подавляющее большинство населения Восточного Тимора проголосовало за независимость от Индонезии ^[2] .
  • Сотрудниками ГУБОП МВД РФ задерживается «вор в законе» Александр Окунев, известный в криминальном мире под кличкой Саша-Огонек. При его задержании изъяты пистолет иностранного производства калибра 7.62 мм и несколько доз героина. По утверждению «Интерфакса» «авторитет» является одной из ключевых фигур в российском преступном мире. В Москве он исполнял роль некоего третейского судьи среди криминальных сообществ столицы.
  • Узбекистан и Намибия установили дипломатичные отношения ^[37] .
• August 31
  • взрыв в торговом комплексе «Охотный Ряд» на Манежной площади в Москве. Одна женщина погибла, пострадали 40 человек ^[1] .
  • Катастрофа Boeing 737 в Буэнос-Айресе . Погибли 65 (по другим данным — 64) человек.

September

• Серия террористических актов — взрывы жилых домов в Буйнакске , Москве и Волгодонске , в результате которых погибло около 300 человек.
• 5 сентября — состоялись выборы губернаторов Новгородской и Омской областей, губернаторы Михаил Прусак и Леонид Полежаев сохранили свои посты ^[22] .
• 7 сентября — При землетрясении около Афин более 100 человек погибли.
• 9 сентября — По инициативе Муаммара Каддафи на встрече глав африканских государств в Сирте ( Ливия ) была создана Организация африканского единства (ОАЕ), объединяющая 53 государства Африки ^[2] .
• 12 сентября — в Свердловской области состоялось повторное голосование по выборам губернатора, Эдуард Россель подтвердил свои полномочия ^[22] .
• September 19th
  • 17-летняя ученица шестого класса Вики Холл исчезла по дороге домой из ночного клуба в Феликсстоу . Её обнажённое тело было найдено спустя пять дней во рве с водой в 25 милях от Критинг-Сент-Питер, Суффолк . Подозреваемый, обвинённый в этом убийстве, был оправдан. Убийство не раскрыто.
  • состоялись выборы губернаторов Ленинградской и Томской областей . В Ленинградской области Валерий Сердюков , длительное время исполнявший полномочия губернатора, выиграл у экс-губернатора Вадима Густова , а в Томской области губернатор Виктор Кресс подтвердил свои полномочия ^[22] .
• 20 сентября — В Бельгии, в городе Антверпене начала работу «школа проституток». На курсы могут быть зачислены не только «начинающие», но и те, кто хотят повысить уровень своего профессионального мастерства. Спустя три месяца школа была закрыта под давлением общественных организаций ^[2] .
• September 21st
  • Землетрясение на Тайване, более 2000 жертв ^[2] .
  • Установлены дипломатические отношение между Казахстаном и Республикой Конго ^[35] .
• 23 September
  • Объявлено об обнаружении в Китае самого древнего из найденных музыкальных инструментов — флейты возрастом 9000 лет ^[39] .
  • На первых прямых президентских выборах в Йемене Али Абдалла Салех переизбран на новый срок. За президента проголосовали 96,2 % избирателей.
  • Установлены дипломатические отношение между Казахстаном и Мьянмой ^[35] .
• 24 сентября — Министр по чрезвычайным ситуациям Сергей Шойгу объявил о создании при поддержке глав многих регионов избирательного блока "Межрегиональное движение « Единство » («Медведь»)
• 25 сентября — Борис Ельцин утвердил положение о Федеральной службе налоговой полиции и установил её штатную численность.
• September 26th
  • в Таджикистане прошёл референдум по внесению поправок к конституции, в числе которых поправки об учреждении двухпалатного парламента и увеличение срока президентских полномочий с четырёх до семи лет. За принятие поправок к основному закону страны проголосовало 61,9 % избирателей ^[40] .
  • Взрыв подпольного склада пиротехники приводит к пожару и взрыву ресторана в мексиканском городе Селая . 56 погибших, около 300 раненых.
  • Египетский президент Хосни Мубарак переизбран на референдуме на 6 лет. На выборах не участвовали оппозиционные кандидаты.
• September 29th
  • в России создан Национальный антикоррупционный комитет .
  • Сербская полиция подходит с дубинками и водомётами против 20 000 демонстрантов, которые хотят двигаться к резиденции югославского президента Слободана Милошевича в Белграде . 60 человек ранены.
• 30 сентября — авария на ядерном объекте Токаймура повлекла за собой смерть двух человек ^[41] . На тот момент это был наиболее серьёзный инцидент в Японии , связанный с мирным использованием ядерной энергии .

October

• October 1st
  • социалисты укрепили свои позиции на очередных всеобщих парламентских выборах в Португалии .
  • на телеканале НТВ состоялась премьера телеигры « О, счастливчик! ".
• October 3rd
  • Парламентские выборы в Австрии вызвали огромный переворот в политическом ландшафте. На этих выборах впервые на второе место вышла ультраправая партия — Австрийская партия свободы .
  • начался учредительный съезд избирательного блока Единство (Медведь) ^[42] .
  • в непризнанной Республике Абхазия был проведен референдум об отношении граждан к действующей Конституции. Референдум проводился одновременно с выборами Президента Абхазии, победителем стал действующий президент В. Ардзинба .
• 4 октября — В США создан центр надзора и контроля за преступностью в Интернете . Обязанность нового центра — обнаружение результатов деятельности хакеров в сети и последующее оперативное извещение банков и финансовых институтов о наличии исходящей от хакеров угрозы ^[2] .
• October 5th
  • В Лондоне близ вокзала Паддингтон произошла железнодорожная катастрофа , унёсшая жизни 31 человека.
  • Атеф Абейд стал премьер-министром Египта .
• 6 октября — президент России Борис Ельцин подписал Федеральный закон «Об общих принципах организации законодательных (представительных) и исполнительных органов государственной власти субъектов Российской Федерации», которым, в частности, закреплена выборность высших должностных лиц субъектов Российской Федерации (президентов, губернаторов, глав администраций и т. п.) ^[43]
• 7 октября — обнаружен первый в мире компьютерный вирус , внедряющийся на самый высокий уровень безопасности Windows NT — область системных драйверов. Эта особенность делает вирус труднодоступным для лечения в памяти многими антивирусными программами ^[2] .
• 10 октября — в Казахстане прошёл первый тур парламентских выборов .
• 11 октября
  • Как заявил британский астроном Джон Мюррей, исходя из его расчётов, вокруг Солнца по десятой орбите движется огромная планета, по размерам больше Юпитера ^[2] .
  • Во Франции избрана новая Марианна — женщина, чей облик должен будет представлять символ республики. Ею стала известная топ-модель Летиция Каста , которая была отобрана среди прочих претенденток мэрами французских городов ^[2] .
  • Узбекистан и Шри-Ланка установили дипломатичные отношения ^[37] .
• 12 октября — В Пакистане правительство Наваза Шарифа свергнуто . Новым правителем стал армейский руководитель Первез Мушарраф .
• 17 октября — Парламентские выборы на Аландских островах
• 18 октября — Вторая чеченская война : российские войска форсировали Терек и продолжили наступление на территорию Чечни ^[44] .
• October 19th
  • Принято решение о строительстве второго тоннеля под Ла-Маншем . Он будет предназначен исключительно для автомобильного транспорта ^[2] .
  • Установлены дипломатические отношение между Россией и Свазилендом ^{[45] [примечание 1]} .
• The 20th of October
  • убит лидер фракции «Петербургские районы» Законодательного собрания Санкт-Петербурга Виктор Новосёлов .
  • Абдуррахман Вахид стал президентом Индонезии .
• October 24th
  • на втором туре парламентских выборов в Казахстане победила партия Отан , которая заняла 23 из 77 мест.
  • Парламентские выборы в Швейцарии.
• 25 октября — Американец Рон Харрис открыл в Интернете страничку для проведения торгов человеческими половыми клетками. Создатель нового сайта предлагает приобрести генетический материал «высшего сорта». На аукцион выставлены яйцеклетки красоток из модельного бизнеса ^[2] .
• October 26th
  • по предложению английского премьер-министра Тони Блэра лорды, заседающие в верхней палате парламента по праву рождения, проголосовали за отмену этого права, уничтожив тем самым одну из основ британского парламентаризма — право лордов на наследование кресла, существовавшее почти 800 лет ^[2] .
  • Главы государств-участников Таможенного союза ( Россия , Белоруссия , Казахстан , Киргизия , Таджикистан ) принимают «Московскую декларацию», согласно которой основной целью интеграции в настоящее время является завершение формирования Таможенного союза как непременного условия подъёма национальных экономик, повышения жизненного уровня людей и устойчивого демократического развития.
• 27th October
  • Теракт в армянском парламенте . Погибло 8 человек, включая премьер-министра Вазгена Саркисяна и спикера НС Карена Демирчяна .
  • Ирена Дягутене стала и. about. премьер-министром Литовской Республики.
• 29 октября — Илир Мета стал премьер-министром Албании .
• 29 октября — 10 ноября — Вторая чеченская война : Бои за Гудермес : полевые командиры братья Ямадаевы и муфтий Чечни Ахмат Кадыров сдали федеральным силам Гудермес .
• 31 октября
  • Боинг 767 египетской авиакомпании EgyptAir упал в Атлантический океан. Погибли 217 человек.
  • прошёл первый тур президентских выборов на Украине .
  • прошёл первый тур парламентских выборов в Грузии .

November

• Основана компания Phenomedia . Место расположеня — Бохум , Германия .
• 1 ноября — Премьер-министром Армении стал Арам Саргсян .
• 3 ноября — Андрюс Кубилюс назначен на должность премьер-министра Литвы.
• 4 ноября — Гаванский суд постановляет, что США должны выплатить Кубе 181 млрд долларов в качестве моральной компенсации за кампанию лжи и провокаций ^[46] .
• 6 ноября
  • на президентских выборах в Таджикикстане Эмомали Рахмонов одержал победу, набрав 96,9 % голосов ^[47] .
  • на территории Австралии прошёл референдум , которой содержал два вопроса: желают ли жители преобразовать страну из королевства Содружества в республику и по изменению конституции.
• November 7-14 - the second round of parliamentary elections in Georgia was held.
• November 11 - The director of the Lisbon Zoo brings a lion and a tiger to the Portuguese parliament in protest against the weak funding of its establishment.
• November 12 - Eruption of the volcano Tungurahua ( Ecuador ) ^[2] .
• the 13th of November
  • In Latvia, a referendum on the abolition of amendments of August 5, 1999 to the Law "On State Pensions" was held .
  • Estonia joined the WTO ^[48] .

• November 14th
  • In the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine , the current president Leonid Kuchma won.
  • The first round of presidential elections in Macedonia .
• November 17 - Mohammed Gannushi becomes Tunisian Prime Minister.
• November 19th
  • At the OSCE Istanbul Summit, an Agreement on the Adaptation of the CFE Treaty was signed, the need for which was caused by a military imbalance that arose due to the expansion of NATO at the expense of the former ATS countries and post-Soviet states.
  • In Ust-Kamenogorsk ( Kazakhstan ), a group of Russian citizens accused of preparing a coup is arrested.
• November 20 - Valentina Matvienko had an accident in the Penza region, where she was on a working visit. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government was seriously injured, and the Penza Region Governor Vasily Bochkarev, who was with her in the car, was injured. Three people died in an accident: drivers of colliding cars and deputy governor of the region Vyacheslav Tarasov. An accident occurred due to the fault of the UAZ-452 driver, who flew into the oncoming lane, ignoring the requirements of the traffic police who accompanied the government motorcade.
• November 22 - Due to the fall of a military aircraft on a high-voltage line, 800 thousand Tokyo houses are left without light.
• November 24 - Ferry sinks in Northeast China, killing more than 300 people ^[49] .
• November 26th
  • A Norwegian ferry is drowning in the North Sea, killing 16 people ^[50] .
  • After hospitalization, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman handed over his powers to Parliament Speaker Vlatko Pavletich for 2 months. On December 10, Tudjman passed away.
• November 28 - The “Union of Georgian Citizens” won the most votes in the parliamentary elections in Georgia. Political associations “Revival of Georgia” (leader Aslan Abashidze ) and “Industry will save Georgia” (leader Gogi Topadze) also took place.
• November 29 - In the general elections in Malaysia, the majority again received the National Front, but its support fell significantly in connection with the scandal with former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was convicted on trumped-up charges of corruption and homosexuality.

December

• December 4 - 7 - Second Chechen war : federal forces occupied Argun ^[51] .
• 5th of December
  • passed the first round of parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan .
  • Thanks to the support of the Albanian population, the candidate of VMRO-DPMNE Boris Traykovsky was elected President of Macedonia.
  • The collapse of the Il-114 in Domodedovo . Five crew members died, two survived ^[52] .
• December 8 - Alexander Lukashenko and Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement on the creation of the Union State of Russia and Belarus ^[3] .
• December 11 - Dubrovka metro station opened in Moscow.
• 12 December
  • Ricardo Lagos , a candidate for the Coalition of Parties for Democracy, won the first round of the presidential election in Chile .
  • in the parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan, all seats in parliament were taken by the only legal party in the country, the Democratic Party .
• December 14 - explosion of a residential building in St. Petersburg on Nauky Avenue, house 12. Power is about 1 kg of TNT. There are no victims. At the entrance staircases collapsed ^[53] .
• December 15 - A constitutional referendum was held in Venezuela to approve the new constitution of Venezuela .
• December 15 - 17 - about 30 thousand people died in Venezuela due to flooding and landslides .
• December 16 - Mugur Isarescu was appointed Prime Minister of Romania.
• December 17 - in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, at the consular office, a group of unknowns held a demonstration under the slogans directed against Russian policy in the Caucasus. Some protesters entered the territory of the diplomatic mission, but were expelled by security forces ^[54] .
• December 19th
  • In the elections to the State Duma of Russia of the third convocation , the Communist Party , Unity and the OVR receive the most votes.
  • Yuri Luzhkov and Valery Shantsev were re-elected as mayors and vice-mayors of Moscow, the governor of Primorsky Krai Evgeny Nazdratenko , the governor of the Vologda Oblast Vyacheslav Pozgalyov and the governor of the Yaroslavl Oblast Anatoly Lisitsyn retained their posts in the Moscow, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Tambov and Tambov Regions voting ^[22] .
  • In the second round of parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan . The People’s Democratic Party of Uzbekistan has become the largest party with 49 out of 250 seats.
  • 96th launch ( STS-103 ) under the Space Shuttle program. 27th Discovery shuttle flight. Crew - Curtis Brown , Scott Kelly , Stephen Smith , Michael Fowle , John Gransfeld , Claude Nicole (Switzerland), Jean-Francois Clairvoy ( France ). Third Hubble Telescope Maintenance Expedition.
• December 20
  • Portugal transferred the island of Macao to China ^[2] .
  • Okil Okilov has been appointed Prime Minister of Tajikistan .
• December 22
  • Ukrainian parliament voted to appoint Viktor Yushchenko to the post of head of government.
  • Uzbekistan and Peru have established diplomatic relations ^{[37] [note 2]} .
  • The crash of a Boeing 747 near London . Killed all 4 crew members on board.
• December 23
  • explosion in the building of the district court in St. Petersburg. 3 people were injured ^[23] .
  • Ahmed Benbitour became the Prime Minister of Algeria .
• December 25 - on the way to Valencia Airport, after waiting 40 minutes for landing, the YAK-42D plane of the Cuban company Cubana , following the Havana – Valencia route, crashed into the Tokuito Mountains and exploded 5 miles from the airport. All 22 people on board were killed.
• December 26th
  • a second vote was held in the elections of the Orenburg and Tambov regions, which ended in failure for the current governors. In the Orenburg region, the deputy - agrarian Alexei Chernyshev won, in the Tambov region - the former governor - appointee Oleg Betin ^[22] .
  • The second Chechen war : the beginning of the siege of Grozny .
• 27th of December
  • In the presidential election in Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo wins. ^[2]
  • At least 17 people die as a result of a new hurricane on the night of December 28, having fallen to the south-west of France. Gusts of wind reach 150 kilometers per hour ^[2] .
• December 28 - Saparmurat Niyazov declared president of Turkmenistan for life ^[2] .
• December 29 - President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov signs a law abolishing the death penalty ^[2] .

• 31th of December
  • Boris Yeltsin , the first president of the Russian Federation , at 12 o’clock in a televised address to the people announced his resignation and signed a corresponding decree ^[55] . A few hours before his resignation, he signed federal laws on the election of the President and on the federal budget for 2000. The exercise of the powers of the President of Russia is entrusted to the Chairman of the Government of Russia Vladimir Putin. On the same day already in quality and. about. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on guarantees to the president, who ceased to exercise his powers. ^{[56] [1] [2] [3]} .
  • The United States handed over control of the Panama Canal to the Panama government.

No exact dates

• According to UN estimates, the world's population has reached 6 billion people ^[57] .
• The end of unrest in Bahrain
• The murder of the Butyuki brothers

Ongoing Events

• Burma Civil War
• Angola Civil War
• Aceh conflict
• Second Civil War in Sudan
• Sri Lanka Civil War
• Turkish-Kurdish conflict
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Karabakh conflict
• Somalia Civil War
• Civil War in Afghanistan
• Georgian-South Ossetian conflict

See also: Category: Born in 1999

January

• January 6
  • Ivan Ignatiev , Russian footballer.
  • Elena Radionova , Russian figure skater.

February

• February 25 - Gianluigi Donnarumma , Italian footballer, goalkeeper.

March

• March 17 - Sergey Kolesnik , Ukrainian model.

April

• April 9 - Isaac Hampstead-Wright , British actor.
• April 22 - Maryana Naumova , Russian athlete-powerlifter.

May

• 5 May
  • Justin Kluivert , Dutch footballer.
  • Nathan Chen , an American skater, a loner, multiple champion of the world and four continents.
• May 24 - Tarja, Sandvik Mu , Norwegian actor.
• May 27 - Lily-Rose Melody Depp , actress and model.
• May 28 - Cameron Boyce , film actor, dancer, fashion model, singer (d. In 2019 ).

June

• June 14 - Zhou Ziyu , member of the girl group twice.
• June 15 - Kaplenko, Kirill Dmitrievich , Russian and Belarusian football player.

August

• August 28 - Nicholas, Prince of Denmark .

October

• October 7 - Maryana Ro , Russian video blogger, actress and singer.
• October 15 - Benjamin Woodburn , Welsh footballer.

November

• November 19 - Evgenia Medvedeva , Russian figure skater, repeated world and European champion in singles.

January

• January 8
  • Lucien Ovchinnikova , Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR .
  • Vera Ivleva , Russian theater and film actress.
• January 21 - Mikhail Urzhumtsev , Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of Russia (1998).
• January 23 - Alexei Sakharov , Soviet Russian film director.
• January 24 - Leonty (Bondar) , Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk ( ROC ).
• January 29 - Valery Gavrilin , Soviet and Russian composer.

February

• February 1 - Alexander Nemtin , Soviet and Russian composer in the field of electronic music , interpreter of the ideas of the composer Alexander Scriabin .
• February 5 - Vasily Leontyev , economist, Nobel Laureate in Economics ( 1973 ).
• February 7 - Hussein , king of Jordan .
• February 13 - Gary Jennings , American writer. Author of historical novels.
• February 15th - Big L , rap artist.
• February 16 - Green, Herbert , British physicist, doctoral candidate of Nobel laureate Max Bourne in Edinburgh.
• February 26 - Stasis Anglitskis , Lithuanian poet.

March

• March 2 - Dusty Springfield , English singer, breast cancer.
• March 7 - Stanley Kubrick , American filmmaker, heart attack.
• March 11 - Herbert Henry Jasper , Canadian neurophysiologist.
• March 13 - Lee Falk , writer, theater director, producer, creator of the Phantom and Mandrake Wizard comics.

April

• April 2 - Felix Chuev , Soviet poet, writer, publicist.

May

• May 23 - Hart, Owen , professional wrestler
• May 26 - Sacher, Paul , Swiss conductor, music teacher and philanthropist.

June

• June 7 - Victor Aleksandrovich Otiev , Soviet painter (born 1935 ).
• June 25 - Evgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov , Soviet and Russian actor , Honored Artist of the RSFSR .
• June 26 - Muse Krepkogorskaya , theater and film actress.

July

• July 1 - Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov (76) - Soviet party and statesman, Chairman of the KGB of the USSR ( 1982 - 1988 ), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee ( 1985 - 1989 ), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee ( 1988 - 1989 ), army general .
• July 23 - Hassan II , King of Morocco .
• July 23 - Lancaster, Calvin , American economist of Australian descent. Veteran of World War II.
• July 29 - Anatoly Solovyanenko , Ukrainian opera singer (lyric and dramatic tenor), People's Artist of the USSR .

August

• August 2 - Evgeny Galunov , Soviet painter (born 1931 ).
• August 4 - Elena Junger , Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• August 7 - Brion James , American actor.
• August 9 - Yuri Vitalyevich Volintsev , Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• August 19 - Lena Mogucheva , soloist of the Bolshoi Children's Choir .
• August 21 - Venya Drkin (Alexander Litvinov), Russian poet of Ukrainian origin, musician, bard .
• August 22 - Alexander Demyanenko , Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• August 24 - Ilya Tyurin , Russian poet, philosopher, rock musician.

September

• September 8 - Vladimir Yakovlevich Samoilov , Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• September 9 - Abdel Latif Mahmoud al-Bogdadi , Egyptian political and military leader, one of the leaders of the 1952 revolution , vice president of the United Arab Republic and Egypt in 1958 - 1964 (born 1917 ).
• September 20 - Gorbacheva, Raisa Maksimovna , Soviet and Russian public figure, wife of M. S. Gorbachev.
• September 30 - Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev , Russian philologist , full member ( academician ) of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
• September 30 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Annenkov , Soviet theater and film actor, artist of the Maly Theater , People's Artist of the USSR .

November

• November 8 - Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev , Russian cosmonaut .
• November 24 - Maximov, Mateo , gypsy writer.

December

• December 1 - Evgeny Dvorzhetsky (39) - Soviet Russian film and theater actor; car accident.
• December 3 - Scatman, John (57) - American jazz musician and poet, who created a unique style of music that combines sket and techno.
• December 10 - Franjo Tudjman , President of Croatia .

• December 13 - Joseph Heller , American writer.

• December 23 - Oleg Mitasov , Kharkov madman.

• December 24 - Maurice Couve de Murville , Prime Minister of France in 1968 - 1969 (born 1907 ).

Человек года по версии журнала Time — Джефри Бэзос , Альберт Эйнштейн («Человек века»; первый человек, выбранный посмертно).

• Физика — Герард Хоофт и Мартин Вельтман — «За прояснение квантовой структуры электрослабых взаимодействий».
• Химия — Ахмед Зевейл — «За исследование переходных состояний, возникающих во время химических реакций, с использованием фемтосекундной техники».
• Медицина и физиология — Гюнтер Блобел — «За обнаружение в белковых молекулах сигнальных аминокислот последовательностей, ответственных за адресный транспорт белков в клетке».
• Экономика — Роберт Манделл — «За анализ монетарной и фискальной политики при различных обменных курсах и за анализ оптимальных валютных зон».
• Литература — Гюнтер Грасс — «За то, что его игривые и мрачные притчи освещают забытый образ истории».
• Премия мира — « Врачи без границ » — «За гуманитарную деятельность и помощь пострадавшим во время вооружённых конфликтов от природных, техногенных катастроф».