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===[[January 2002|January]]===
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** The [[Treaty on Open Skies|Open Skies]] mutual [[surveillance]] treaty, initially signed in [[1992]], officially enters in to force.
* [[January 5]] - Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a [[Tampa, Florida]] building, evoking fear of a [[copycat]] [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack|9/11 terrorist attack]].
* [[January 9]] - The [[United States Department of Justice]] announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of [[Enron]].
* [[January 10]] - [[Enrique Bolaños]] began his five-year term as President of the Republic of [[Nicaragua]].
* [[January 13]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] faints after choking on a [[pretzel]].
* [[January 16]] -
** A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law, killing three.
** [[John Ashcroft]] announces that American [[Taliban]] member [[John Walker Lindh]] would be tried in the [[United States]].
** The [[UN Security Council]] unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of [[Osama bin Laden]], [[Al-Qaida]], and the [[Taliban]].
* [[January 17]] - Eruption of [[Mount Nyiragongo]] in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
* [[January 18]] - A [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] train carrying anhydrous [[ammonia]] derails outside of [[Minot, North Dakota]], killing one.
* [[January 22]] -
** [[AOL Time Warner]] brings a federal suit against [[Microsoft]] seeking damages. The suit alleges that the market for AOL's [[Netscape Navigator]] Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.
** [[Kmart Corp]] becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection]].
* [[January 27]] - Several explosions at a military dump in [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]] kill more than 1,000.
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* [[February 3]] - [[Costa Rica]]: elections for President and Congress
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* [[February 8]] through [[February 24]] - [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]
* [[February 12]]
** The trial of former President of the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] [[Slobodan Milosevic]] begins at the [[United Nations]] [[war crime]]s tribunal in [[The Hague]]
** [[Nuclear waste]]: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that [[Yucca Mountain]] is suitable to be the [[United States]]' nuclear repository.
* [[February 13]] - [[Queen Elizabeth II]] gives former [[New York City]] mayor [[Rudolph Giuliani]] an honorary [[knighthood]].
* [[February 19]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Mars Odyssey]] [[space probe]] begins to map the surface of [[Mars (planet) | ]] using its thermal emission imaging system.
* [[February 20]] - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, [[Egypt]], a fire on a [[train]] injures over 65 and kills at least 370
* [[February 22]] - Norwegian-facilitated [[ceasefire]] begins in [[Sri Lanka]]
* [[February 27]] - [[Ethnic conflict in India]]: 59 [[Hindu]] pilgrims die aboard a train burned by a [[Muslim]] mob in [[Godhra]], [[India]], sparking a series of [[riots]], leaving hundreds dead.
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* [[March 1]]
** [[U.S. invasion of Afghanistan]]: In eastern [[Afghanistan]], [[Operation Anaconda]] begins.
** 28 people die in continuing violence in [[Ahmedabad]]. Police shoot and kill five while attempting to control rioters.
** The [[Envisat]] [[environmental satellite]] successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest [[payload]] to date at 8500kg.
** [[Space Shuttle Columbia]] flies [[Hubble Space Telescope]] service mission ([[STS-109]]).
** [[Peseta]] discontinued as official [[currency]] of [[Spain]] and is replaced with the [[euro]] (€)
* [[March 3]] - [[São Tomé and Príncipe]]: elections for the legislature
* [[March 6]] - France agrees to return the remains of [[Saartje Baartman]] to South Africa
* [[March 10]] - [[Colombia]]: elections for the legislature; [[Togo]]: elections for the Parliament
* [[March 12]] - In [[Texas]], [[Andrea Yates]] is found guilty of [[drowning]] her five children on [[June 20]], [[2001]]. She is later sentenced to life in prison
* [[March 17]] - [[Portugal]]: elections for the Parliament
* [[March 19]] - [[US Attack on Afghanistan]]: [[Operation Anaconda]] ends (started on [[March 1]]) after killing 500 [[Taliban]] and [[al Qaeda]] fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities
* [[March 21]] - In [[Pakistan]], [[Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh]] along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reporter [[Daniel Pearl]]
* [[March 31]] - [[Ukraine]]: elections for the Parliament
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* [[April 2]] - [[Israel|Israeli]] forces surround the [[Church of the Nativity]] in [[Bethlehem]], where Palestinian terrorists are holding around 200 hostages. A siege ensues.
* [[April 15]] - An [[Air China]] [[Boeing 767]]-200 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near [[Pusan]], [[South Korea]], killing 128.
* [[April 17]] - Four [[Canada|Canadian]] infantrymen are killed in [[Afghanistan]] by [[friendly fire]] from two [[U.S.]] [[F-16]]s.
* [[April 18]] - New order of [[insect]]s, [[Mantophasmatodea]], announced.
* [[April 25]] - [[South Africa]]n [[Mark Shuttleworth]] blasts off from the [[Baikonur cosmodrome]]; he had paid £15 million for the trip.
* [[April 26]] - Robert Steinhauser opens fire on his former teachers and other students in [[Erfurt]], [[Germany]] and then kills himself: 16 dead.
* [[April 30]] - [[Pakistan]]: [[referendum]] on continuation of military government is approved.
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[[Image:East timor flag large.png|thumb|250px|The [[Flag of East Timor]]]]
* [[May 4]] - In [[Germany]], [[BV Borussia Dortmund]] wins the [[Bundesliga]] title after a 2-1 victory over [[SV Werder Bremen]].
* [[May 6]] - In the [[Netherlands]], politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] is killed by [[Volkert van der Graaf]].
* [[May 7]] - Gay [[Canada|Canadian]] teenager [[Marc Hall]] is granted a court injunction ordering that he be allowed to attend his [[high school]] prom with his boyfriend.
* [[May 9]] -
** The 38-day stand-off in the [[Church of the Nativity]] in [[Bethlehem]] comes to an end when the [[Palestinians]] inside agreed to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. The standoff started [[April 2]].
** In Kaspiysk, [[Russia]], a remote-control [[bomb]] explodes during a holiday parade, killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
* [[May 10]] - [[FBI]] agent [[Robert Hanssen]] is sentenced to life without the possibility of [[parole]] for selling American secrets to [[Moscow]] for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
* [[May 12]] - Former President [[Jimmy Carter]] arrives in [[Cuba]] for a five-day visit with [[Fidel Castro]] becoming the first [[President of the United States]], in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's [[1959]] revolution.
* [[May 15]] - [[The Netherlands]]: elections for the Lower House
* [[May 20]] - Restoration of [[East Timor]] independence
* [[May 22]] -
** In [[Washington, DC]], [[Chandra Levy]]'s remains are found in [[Rock Creek Park]].
** [[American civil rights movement]]: [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing]]: A jury in [[Birmingham, Alabama]] convicts former [[Ku Klux Klan]] member [[Bobby Frank Cherry]] of the [[1963]] murders of four girls.
* [[May 23]] - First [[Eurovision Song Contest]] in a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] country: [[Estonia]]
*[[May 25]] - A [[China Airlines]] [[Boeing 747]]-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the [[Taiwan Strait]], killing 225.
* [[May 26]] - The [[Mars Odyssey]] finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
* [[May 28]] - [[Washington DC]]'s medical examiner declares that [[Chandra Levy]]'s death was the result of [[homicide]].
* [[May 31]] through [[June 30]] - 17th [[Football World Cup]] in [[Japan]] and [[South Korea]]
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[[image:Concorde_Jubilee.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Concorde]] leads the [[Red Arrows]] over [[London]] in a fly past for [[Queen Elizabeth II]] on her Golden Jubilee]]
* [[June 3]] - The "Party in the Palace" takes place at [[Buckingham Palace]], [[London]] for [[Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[Golden Jubilee]] celebrations.
* [[June 4]] -
** [[Quaoar]] is discovered.
** [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip|the Duke of Edinburgh]] ride in the gold state coach from [[Buckingham Palace]] to [[St Paul's Cathedral]] for a special service marking the Queen's 50 years on the throne. In [[New York]], the [[Empire State Building]] is lit in purple for her honour.
* [[June 5]] -
** [[Elizabeth Smart (born 1987)|Elizabeth Smart]] is kidnapped from her [[Salt Lake City, Utah]] home.
** [[Mozilla]] 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.
* [[June 6]] - The [[United States House of Representatives]] Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing [[Martha Stewart]]'s [[ImClone]] stock sales.
* [[June 10]] - Annular [[solar eclipse]].
* [[June 13]] - The [[Detroit Red Wings]] def the [[Carolina Hurricanes]] 4 games to 1 in the [[2002 Stanley Cup Finals]]
* [[June 14]] - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a [[car bomb]] explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]].
* [[June 18]] - [[Arizona]] experiences its worst forest fire, burning 462,606 acres (1,872 km²) near the [[Mogollon Rim]].
* [[June 30]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeats [[Germany national football team|Germany]] to win the [[Football World Cup 2002]].
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* [[July 1]] - Russian passenger jet and a cargo plane collide over the town of Uberlingen in Southern [[Germany]] - 72 dead
* [[July 5]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] once again rejects new U.N. weapons inspections proposals
* [[July 10]] - At a [[Sotheby's]] auction, [[Peter Paul Rubens]]' painting "[[The Massacre of the Innocents]]" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson
* [[July 13]] - A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in [[Oregon]] and northern [[California]], which is left to burn 499,570 acres (2,022 km²) when finally contained on [[September 5]].
* [[July 14]] - During [[Bastille Day]] celebrations, [[Jacques Chirac]] escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
* [[July 15]] - So-called "American [[Taliban]]" [[John Walker Lindh]] pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a [[felony]]. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges
* [[July 19]] - [[K-19: The Widowmaker]] starring [[Harrison Ford]] is released.
* [[July 21]] - [[Telecommunication]]s giant [[WorldCom]] files for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection]] in the largest such filing in [[United States]] history
* [[July 27]] - A [[Sukhoi Su-27]] fighter crashes at an [[air show]] in [[Ukraine]] killing 78 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
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* [[August 2]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] invites chief weapons inspector [[Hans Blix]] to [[Iraq]] for discussions on remaining disarmament issues.
* [[August 6]] - [[Marquis de la Fayette]] is made [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]].
* [[August 13]] - [[Human Rights Campaign]] released the first Corporate Equality Index.
* [[August 19]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: The U.N. Secretary General rejects [[Iraq]]'s [[August 2]] proposal as the "wrong work program", and instead recommends that Iraq allow weapons inspectors to return to the country, in accordance with previous U.N. resolutions.
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* [[September 2]] - The opening of the [[United Nations]] [[World Summit on Sustainable Development]], successor of the [[1972]] [[Conference on the Human Environment]], [[1983]] [[World Commission on Environment and Development]], and the [[1992]] Conference on Environment and Development.
* [[September 5]] -
** A [[car bomb]] kills at least 30 people in [[Afghanistan]], and an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President [[Hamid Karzai]] fails the same day.
** The Sour Biscuit Fire in [[Oregon]] and northern [[California]], which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 km²), is finally contained.
* [[September 11]] - The [[World Summit on Sustainable Development]] comes to a close.
* [[September 12]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: U.S. President [[George W. Bush]], addresses the U.N. and challenges its members to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of [[Iraq]] or stand aside as the United States and likeminded nations act.
* [[September 15]] - The [[Swedish parliamentary election, 2002|Swedish parliamentary election]] leaves [[Prime Minister]] [[Göran Persson]] and the [[Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet|Social Democrats]] in power.
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* [[October 2]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] passes a joint resolution which explicitly authorizes the [[President]] to use the [[United States Armed Forces|Armed Forces of the United States]] as he determines to be necessary and appropriate.
* [[October 7]] - Discovery of [[Quaoar]] is announced.
* [[October 11]] - Lone bomber explodes a home-made bomb in the Myyrmanni shopping mall north of [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]] - casualties include himself. See [[Myyrmanni bombing]].
* [[October 12]] - [[2002 Bali terrorist bombing|Bali bombing]]: Terrorists detonate massive bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, [[Bali]], killing 202 and injuring over 300.
* [[October 16]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[George W. Bush]] signs the [[Iraq]] war resolution.
* [[October 24]] - The [[Beltway sniper attacks|Beltway snipers]] are arrested.
* [[October 25]] - U.S. Senator [[Paul Wellstone]], his family and staff, are killed by a plane accident at [[Eveleth, Minnesota]].
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===[[November 2002|November]]===
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* [[November 5]] - U.S. [[Elections]]: The [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] maintains control of the [[House of Representatives]] and regains control of the [[Senate]].
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* [[November 7]] - [[Iran]] bans [[advertising]] of [[United States|US]] products.
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* [[November 8]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[UN Security Council Resolution 1441]] – The [[United Nations Security Council]] unanimously approves a resolution on [[Iraq]], forcing [[Saddam Hussein]] to [[disarmament|disarm]] or face ''"serious consequences"''.
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* [[November 9]] - In [[Los Angeles, California]], [[television]] and [[film]] actor [[Merlin Santana]] is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car parked on the 3800 block of Victoria Avenue.
* [[November 13]]
** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] agrees to the terms of the [[UN Security Council Resolution 1441]].
** The oil tanker [[Prestige (ship)|Prestige]] sinks off the [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]]n coast and causes a huge [[oil spill]].
* [[November 14]] - [[Argentina]] defaults on a US$805 million [[World Bank]] payment
* [[November 15]] - [[Hu Jintao]] becomes general secretary of the [[Communist Party of China]].
* [[November 16]] - A [[Campaign Against Climate Change]] march takes place in [[London]] from [[Lincoln's Inn Fields]], past [[Exxon Mobil|Esso]] offices to the [[United States]] Embassy.
* [[November 18]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[United Nations]] weapons inspectors led by [[Hans Blix]] arrive in [[Iraq]].
* [[November 21]]
** [[NATO]] invites [[Bulgaria]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Romania]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Slovenia]] to become members.
** [[Anne, Princess Royal|The Princess Royal]] is fined £500 at [[Slough]] magistrate court following her conviction of one of her dogs attacking two children in [[Windsor]] Great Park.
* [[November 22]] - In [[Nigeria]], more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the [[Miss World]] contest.
* [[November 25]] - US President [[George W. Bush]] signs the [[Homeland Security Act]] into law, establishing the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] in the largest [[government of the United States|US government]] reorganization since the creation of the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] in [[1947]] (the [[United States Senate|Senate]] passed the bill 90-9 on [[November 19]]).
* [[November 29]] - [[Brian Henderson]] retires from reading the news at [[Sydney, Australia]] [[television]] station [[TCN-9]]. At his retirement he held the record for the longest-serving television [[news anchor]] ever, having hosted the weekend evening bulletins on the station from [[1957]] to [[1964]] and the weeknight evening news bulletins from 1964 to 2002.
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* [[December 4]] - Total [[solar eclipse]]
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* [[December 7]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: As required by the recently passed [[U.N.]] resolution, [[Iraq]] files a 12,000 page weapons declaration with the U.N. Security Council. Although it is supposed to be a complete declaration, it is seen as incomplete by the Security Council and weapons inspectors.
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* [[December 10]] - [[High Court of Australia]] hands down its judgement in the [[Internet]] [[defamation]] dispute in the case of [[Gutnick v. Dow Jones]].
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* [[December 27]] - [[Suicide bombing|Suicide truck-bomb]] attack destroys headquarters of [[Chechnya|Chechnya's]] [[Moscow]]-backed government, killing 72 people.
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* [[December 29]] – Communist [[New People's Army]] blows up a bust of [[Ferdinand Marcos]] in [[Benguet]], [[Philippines]].
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* [[January 3]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], beer magnate (b. [[1923]])
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* [[January 8]] - [[Dave Thomas]], founder of [[Wendys Restaurant |Wendy's International]] (b. [[1932]])
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**[[Stanley Unwin]], comedian
**[[Cyrus Vance]], former [[United States Secretary of State]] ([[1977]]-[[1980]]) (b. [[1917]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Ted Demme]], film and television director (b. [[1963]])
* [[January 16]]:
**[[Michael Anthony Bilandic|Michael Bilandic]], mayor of Chicago, Illinois (b. [[1923]])
**[[Bobo Olson]], American boxer
**[[Ron Taylor]], American actor
* [[January 22]] - [[Peggy Lee]], American singer, actress
* [[January 23]]:
**[[Pierre Bourdieu]], French sociologist (b. [[1930]])
**[[Robert Nozick]], philosopher (b. [[1938]])
* [[January 28]]:
**[[Dick "Night Train" Lane]], American football, [[NFL]] Hall of Famer
**[[Astrid Lindgren]], Swedish children's book author (b. [[1907]])
* [[January 29]] - [[Harold Russell]], actor
* [[January 29]] or [[January 30]] - [[Daniel Pearl]], journalist (b. [[1963]]) (beheaded in Pakistan)
===February===
* [[February 6]] - [[Max Perutz]], founder of molecular biology (b. [[1914]])
* [[February 8]] - [[Joachim Hoffmann]], German historian (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 9]] - [[Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom|The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon]], sister of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] of [[England]] (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Harold Furth]], American leader in [[plasma physics]] and [[nuclear fusion]]
* [[February 11]] - [[Barry Foster]], British actor
* [[February 12]] - [[Theresa Ferber Bernstein]], artist
* [[February 14]] - [[Nándor Hidegkuti]], [[Hungary|Hungarian]] footballer (b. [[1922]])
* [[February 15]]:
**[[Howard K. Smith]], American TV journalist (b. [[1914]])
**[[Kevin Smith (actor)|Kevin Smith]], actor (b. [[1963]])
* [[February 16]] - [[Walter Winterbottom]], the first [[England]] [[Football (soccer) |football]] manager (b. [[1913]])
* [[February 21]] - [[John Thaw]], actor (b. [[1942]])
* [[February 22]]:
**Sir [[Raymond Firth]], British anthropologist
**[[Chuck Jones]], American animator
**[[Jonas Savimbi]], rebel leader
* [[February 24]] - [[Leo Ornstein]], composer and pianist (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 26]] - [[Lawrence Tierney]], actor
* [[February 27]]:
**[[Spike Milligan]], comedian, writer, poet (b. [[1918]])
**[[Mary Stuart (actress)|Mary Stuart]], soap opera actress
* [[February 28]] - [[Helmut Zacharias]], German violinist (b. [[1920]])
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===March===
* [[March 1]] - [[Doreen Waddell]], vocalist of bands [[Soul II Soul]] and [[KLF]]
* [[March 14]] - [[Cherry Wilder]], author (b. [[1930]])
* [[March 15]] - [[Sylvester Weaver]], [[television]] executive
* [[March 18]] - [[Gösta Winbergh]], tenor
* [[March 25]] - [[Kenneth Wolstenholme]], British football commentator
* [[March 27]]:
**[[Milton Berle]], comedian, actor (b. [[1908]])
**[[Dudley Moore]], comedian, actor(b. [[1935]])
**[[Billy Wilder]], [[film]] [[screenwriter]] and [[film director|director]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother]] of England (b. [[1900]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Barry Took]], British comedian and writer
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* [[April 9]] - [[Leopold Vietoris]], Austrian mathematician
* [[April 15]] - [[Byron White]], US athlete and Supreme Court justice
* [[April 16]]:
**[[Franz Krienbühl]], Swiss speed skater
**[[Robert Urich]], actor (cancer)
* [[April 18]]:
**[[Thor Heyerdahl]], Norwegian anthropologist
**[[Wahoo McDaniel]], [[American football]] player, [[wrestler]] (b. [[1938]])
* [[April 25]]:
**[[Indra Devi]], yoga teacher to the stars
**[[Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]], rapper, member TLC
* [[April 27]]:
**[[George Alec Effinger]], [[science fiction authors|science fiction author]] (b. [[1947]])
**[[Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza]], Swiss industrialist and art collector
* [[April 28]]:
**[[Ruth Handler]], inventor of the [[Barbie]] doll (b. [[1916]])
**[[Alexander Lebed]], Russian general and politician (b. [[1950]])
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* [[May 7]] - [[Seattle Slew]], last triple crown winner
* [[May 11]] - [[Joseph Bonanno]], Sicilian Mafia boss
* [[May 13]] - [[Valeri Lobanovsky]], Ukrainian football manager
* [[May 19]] - [[John Gorton]], nineteenth [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
* [[May 20]] - [[Stephen Jay Gould]], paleontologist and popular science author (b. [[1941]])
* [[May 21]] - [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], French artist (b. [[1930]])
* [[May 23]] - [[Sam Snead]], American golfer
* [[May 26]] - [[Mamo Wolde]], Ethiopian marathon runner (b. [[1932]])
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* [[June 1]] - [[Hansie Cronje]], South African cricketer (b. [[1969]])
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* [[June 4]] - [[Fernando Belaunde Terry]], Peruvian politician, president of [[Peru]] ([[1963]]-[[1968]]) ([[1980]]-[[1985]])
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* [[June 5]] - [[Dee Dee Ramone]], founding member of [[The Ramones]] (b. [[1952]])
* [[June 6]] - [[Hans Janmaat]], controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands
* [[June 7]] - [[Mary Lilian Baels]], Princess of Rethy, [[Belgium]]
* [[June 10]] - [[John Gotti]], imprisoned mobster
* [[June 11]] - [[Robbin Crosby]], guitarist of rock band Ratt
* [[June 12]] - [[Bill Blass]], fashion designer
* [[June 17]]:
**[[Willie Davenport]], [[Olympic Games]] champion
**[[Fritz Walter]], football player, captain of [[1954]] [[Football World Cup|World Cup]] winners.
* [[June 18]] - [[Jack Buck]], [[Major League Baseball]] announcer
* [[June 22]]:
**[[Esther Pauline Friedman]], author of the Ann Landers column
**[[Darryl Kile]], [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[June 23]] - [[Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar]], Panamian boxer
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* [[June 26]] - [[Jay Berwanger]], college football player, first winner of the [[Heisman Trophy]]
* [[June 27]] - [[John Entwistle]], bassist for [[The Who]]
* [[June 29]] - [[Rosemary Clooney]], singer, actress
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* [[July 14]] - [[Joaquín Balaguer]], Dominican politician, president of [[Dominican Republic]] ([[1960]]-[[1962]], [[1966]]-[[1978]], [[1986]]-[[1996]])
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**[[William Pierce]], rocket scientist, [[neo-Nazi]], author
**[[Chaim Potok]], author
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**[[Chick Hearn]], pro-[[basketball]] announcer
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* [[August 16]] - [[Abu Nidal]], Palestinian terrorist
* [[August 23]] - [[Hoyt Wilhelm]], Baseball Hall of Fame member
* [[August 25]] - [[Dorothy Hewett]], Australian poet, playwright and novelist
* [[August 27]] - [[Richard Ricci]], Utah handyman and religious fanatic suspected of kidnapping 14-year-old [[Elizabeth Smart]]
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* [[October 12]] - [[Ray Conniff]], American musician and band leader
* [[October 13]] - [[Stephen Ambrose]], historian and [[Dwight Eisenhower]] biographer
* [[October 17]] - [[Derek Bell (musician)|Derek Bell]], member of [[The Chieftans]], harpist
* [[October 18]] - [[Nikolai Rukavishnikov]], [[astronaut|cosmonaut]]
* [[October 24]] - [[Harry Hay]], US gay rights activist and [[Mattachine Society]] founder
* [[October 25]]:
**[[Richard Harris (actor)|Richard Harris]], [[Ireland|Irish]] actor
**[[Paul Wellstone]], [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[United States Senate|US Senator]] from [[Minnesota]]
* [[October 30]] - [[Jam Master Jay]], member of [[Run DMC]]
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* [[December 5]] - [[Ne Win]], Burmese dictator
* [[December 6]] - Father [[Philip Berrigan]], priest, political activist
* [[December 6]] - [[Charles Rosen]], pioneer in [[artificial intelligence]]
* [[December 9]] - [[Stan Rice]], painter, educator, poet, husband of author [[Anne Rice]]
* [[December 18]] - [[Ray Hnatyshyn]], former [[Governor General of Canada]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Joe Strummer]], musician
==Nobel Prizes==
*'''Peace:''' [[Jimmy Carter]], 39th US president "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
*'''Literature:''' [[Imre Kertész]], Hungarian writer "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
*'''Chemistry:'''
**[[John B. Fenn]] ([[Virginia Commonwealth University]], Richmond, USA) and [[Koichi Tanaka]] ([[Shimadzu Corp.]], Kyoto, Japan) "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
**[[Kurt Wüthrich]] ([[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich]], Switzerland and The [[Scripps Research Institute]], La Jolla, USA) "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
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**[[Raymond Davis Jr.]] (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and [[Masatoshi Koshiba]] ([[International Center for Elementary Particle Physics]], University of Tokyo, Japan) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
**[[Riccardo Giacconi]] (Associated Universities Inc., Washington DC, USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
*'''Physiology or Medicine:'''
**[[Sydney Brenner]], [[H. Robert Horvitz]] and [[John E. Sulston]] "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
*[[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]]
**[[Daniel Kahneman]], [[Vernon L. Smith]]
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