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January 1 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.

January 1 - George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to address the Australian Parliament.

January 6 - Twelfth Day of Christmas, or Three Kings Day

January 8 - Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia and Herzegovina, in protest of the decision by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition.

January 8 - George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.

January 11 - Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

January 12 - The second round of Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the Islamic Salvation Front.

January 13 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

January 13 - Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys.

January 15 - The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.

January 16 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000 lives.

January 22 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

January 22 - STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.

January 26 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.*

January 26 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.

January 26 - In an interview on CBS TV's 60 Minutes, Bill and Hillary Clinton proclaim their marriage to be solid, notwithstanding the Gennifer Flowers affair.

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February 1 - The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from United States.

February 7 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.

February 10 - In Indianapolis, Indiana, boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping Desiree Washington.

February 10 - Tom Harkin wins the Iowa Democratic Party Caucus.

February 11 - An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported.

February 17 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.

February 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.

February 18 - In New Hampshire, U.S. President George H.W. Bush defeats Pat Buchanan in the Republican primary; Paul Tsongas leads the Democratic candidates.

February 20 - The English FA Premier League is officially formed.

February 21 - The United Nations Security Council approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to the Yugoslavia.

February 25-February 26 - Massacre of 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Khojaly. Among them are 106 women and 83 children. 56 people are killed especially brutally. 8 families are totally exterminated. 25 children are totally, and 130 children partly orphaned. 476 people (of which 76 are children) become disabled. 1,275 people are taken hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages are released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. Reported to be carried out by the Armenian forces.

February 26 - The Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.

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March - Boxer Mike Tyson is given a 6-year sentence for raping Desiree Washington.

March 1 - After a majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities vote for Bosnian independence, Serb snipers fire on civilians.

March 10 - On 'Super Tuesday', U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton win most of the primaries held.

March 12 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

March 12 - A tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden; 13 are killed and several injured.

March 13 - In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.

March 17 - A suicide car-bomb goes off in the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring 242.

March 18 - On CNN's Larry King Live, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot announces that he will run for U.S. President as an independent, if volunteers put him on the ballot in all 50 states.

March 25 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

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April 2 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of the murder of mob boss Paul Castellano and racketeering, and is later sentenced to life in prison.

April 6 - The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serbian political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

April 6 - Robert Schumann (record-breaker), 10, becomes the youngest person to visit the North Pole.

April 6 - Serbian troops, as a result of a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo (the beginning of the Bosnian War).

April 8 - Punch magazine publishes its final issue.

April 9 - A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.

April 9 - United Kingdom general election: the Conservative Party, led by John Major, is unexpectedly re-elected.

April 10 - An IRA bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; 3 are killed, 91 injured.

April 13 - Roermond, the Netherlands, is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.

April 14-October 15 - The trial of the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo ends with a death sentence.

April 15 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

April 18 - In Teddington, England, British comedian Benny Hill dies of a heart attack at the age of 68.

April 20 - Seville's 6-month Universal Exhibition opens, called Seville Expo '92, in the city of Seville, Spain.

April 20 - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises thousands of dollars for AIDS research.

April 21 - Maria Vladimirovna of Russia succeeds her father as Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, and Titular Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias.

April 22 - Fuel that has leaked into a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1500 injured.

April 27 - Betty Boothroyd is elected the first woman to be Speaker of the British House of Commons.

April 28 - The 2 remaining countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro form a new state under name - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II).

April 29 - In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.

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May 5 - Alabama ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise.

May 5 - Russian leaders in Crimea declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10.

May 10 - Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague.

May 15 - The Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in Genoa, Italy.

May 16 - STS-49: Space Shuttle ''Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.

May 19 - In Massapequa, New York, Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco.

May 19 - In San Francisco, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle gives his famous Murphy Brown speech.

May 23 - A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.

May 26 - Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company car park. Kidnappers demand ransom for $650,000 - they are later apprehended.

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June 1 - Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.

June 1 - Terrorist Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.

June 1 - The Pittsburgh Penguins sweep the Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games in the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals.

June 8 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

June 12 - Medical doctor Pravin Thakkar is sentenced to 16 years for aborting the fetuses of 2 of his former lovers without their permission.

June 15 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's spelling of the word potato, by indicating it should have an e at the end.

June 17 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II). *

June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

June 23 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2. *

June 26 - Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win Euro 92 at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.

June 29 - A bodyguard assassinates president Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria.

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July 6-July 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.

July 10 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

July 13 - Britain's former executioner Albert Pierrepoint dies.

July 16 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is nominated for U.S. President and Tennessee Senator Al Gore for Vice President, at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.

July 16 - Independent U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot drops out of the race, saying that the Democratic Party has 'revitalized itself'.

July 20 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.

July 22 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.

July 25 - The 1992 Summer Olympics open in Barcelona, Spain.

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August


August 10 - The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
August 17 - U.S. Marshalls start the siege of Ruby Ridge.
August 18 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
August 20 - Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
August 21 - The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
August 21-August 22 - Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
August 24-August 28 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.

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September


September 11 - Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu.
September 12 - STS-47: Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel into space, going into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
September 15 – Mihkel Mathiesen assumes presidency of the pre-WW II Republic of Estonia in exile, and appoints a new government in pursuit to avoid abolition of the government in exile.
September 16 - The Pound Sterling and the Italian Lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (Black Wednesday).
September 17 - Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
September 18 - Undaunted by his earlier withdrawal, supporters of U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot succeed in getting his name on the ballot in all 50 states.
September 23 - A large IRA bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
September 24 - The Kentucky Supreme Court, in Kentucky v. Wasson, holds that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional, and accurately predicts that other states and the nation will eventually rule the same way.

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October


October 1 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for U.S. Air and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
October 1 - H. Ross Perot re-enters the U.S. presidential race.
October 2 - A riot breaks out in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil, which leads up to the Carandiru Massacre.
October 4 - The Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured.
October 7 - In Turkey, the farmer Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of the Ubykh language, dies.
October 9 - A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
October 15 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders.
October 17 - Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot dead after knocking on the wrong door in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in Japan.
October 24 - The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series in 6 games, making them the first Canadian team to win.
October 26 - In Canada, the Charlottetown Accord is defeated in a national referendum.
October 29 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
October 31 - Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.

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November


November 3 - Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President George H. W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot in the U.S. presidential election.
November 5 - In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green dies after a struggle with white policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn. The officers are later convicted and sentenced to prison.
November 11 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
November 20 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
November 24 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
November 24 - Queen Elizabeth II describes this year as an Annus Horribilis (horrible year), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
November 25 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993.
November 30 - The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).

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December


December 3 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
December 3 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
December 4 - U.S. military forces invade Somalia.
December 5 - Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only U.S. Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
December 6 - Hindu extremists demolish Babri Masjid (a 16th century mosque) in Ayodhya, India.
December 8 - The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.
December 20 - The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes.
December 25 - Monica Dickens, author and descendant of the much more famous Charles Dickens, dies of cancer aged 77.
December 29 - Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello resigns, following charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government and impeachment proceedings.



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Unknown Dates

The Council for National Academic Awards, UK is wound up.
The largest shopping mall in the US, Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed spanning 78 acres (316,000 m²)
Carsington Reservoir opened in England after nearly 20 years planning and construction.
Image Comics is founded by a number of former Marvel artists, seeking to create a company where creators were given exclusive ownership of their creations.
Great American Bathroom Book published

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Births
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January-April

January 6 - Lauren Brianna, American actress/dancer
January 10 - Eric & Brandon Billings, twin American actors
January 19 - Logan Lerman, American actor
January 21 - Logan O'Brien, American actor
January 27 - Connor Widdows, Canadian actor
January 30 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
February 11 - Taylor Lautner, American actor
February 14 - Freddie Highmore, British actor
February 16 - Steffani Brass, American actress
March 8 - Charlie Ray, American actress
March 9 - Luis Armand Garcia, American actor
March 10 - Emily Osment, American actress
March 14 - Kylie Tyndall, American actress
March 14 - Keaton Tyndall, American actress
March 15 - Sosie Bacon, American actress
March 21 - Bobby Preston, American actor
March 26 - Haley Ramm, American actress
April 4 - Alexa Nikolas, American actress
April 15 - Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
April 15 - Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder and actor
April 25 - Kyousuke Ikeda, Japanese voice actor

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May-August

May 4 - Courtney Jines, American actress
May 12 - Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
May 18 - Spencer Breslin, American actor
May 30 - Liam Mower, British stage actor
June 4 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
June 7 - Will Reeve, son of Christopher Reeve
June 12 - Ryan Malgarini, American actor
June 14 - Daryl Sabara, American voice actor
June 14 - Evan Sabara, American actor
June 17 - James Martin, American actor
June 19 - Mariah Stanley, American singer
June 30 - Lynx and Lamb Gaede, twin American Neo-Nazi musicians
July 1 - Andrew and Steven Cavarno, twin American actors
July 8 - Benjamin Grosvenor, British musician
July 13 - Dylan Patton, American actor and model
July 15 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer
July 22 - Selena Gomez, American actress
August 4 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, twin actors
August 8 - Veronica Afflerbach, American actress
August 18 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain

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September-December

September 14 - Holly Jones, Canadian murder victim
September 16 - Nicholas Jonas, American musican
September 19 - Gavin Fink, American actor
September 28 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
October 9 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
October 12 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
October 13 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim
October 13 - Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor
October 15 - Vincent Martella, American actor
October 17 - Sam Concepcion, Filipino singer/performer
October 22 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
October 30 - Tequan Richmond, American actor
November 12 - Macey Cruthird, American actress
November 12 - Shelbie Bruce, American actress
November 17 - Darian Weiss, American actor
November 23 - Miley Cyrus, American actress
November 25 - Zack Shada, American actor
November 26 - Louis Ducruet, British noble
November 28 - Kianna Underwood, American actress
November 28 - Adam Hicks, American actor
November 30 - Dylan Smith, American actor
December 3 - Joseph McManners, British stage actor
December 14 - Victoria Kelly, American actress
December 17 - Thomas Law, British actor
December 21 - Haylee Wanstall, American actress
December 23 - Spencer Daniels, American actor
December 24 - Melissa Suffield, British actress

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January-March

January 1 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)
January 3 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
January 9 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
January 23 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
January 26 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
January 27 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
January 29 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
February 2 - Bert Parks, American game show host (b. 1914)
February 4 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
February 10 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
February 12 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
February 20 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
March 2 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1939)
March 4 - Art Babbitt, animator (Mister Magoo, Goofy) (b. 1907)
March 9 - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
March 23 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
March 29 - Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor (b. 1908)

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April-June

April 5 - Suada Dilberovic, Bosnian medical student .First casualty of the Siege of Sarajevo (b.1968)
April 5 - Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
April 6 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
April 7 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)
April 8 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
April 10 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
April 11 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
April 18 - Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924)
April 21 - Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia (b. 1917)
April 23 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
April 25 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965)
April 27 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
April 28 - Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b. 1909)
May 4 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
May 6 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
May 12 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
May 13 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
May 14 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
May 17 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
May 22 - Tony Accardo, American gangster (b. 1906)
May 23 - Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
June 18 - Mordecai Ardon, One of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
June 22 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
June 25 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)

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July-December

July 15 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
August 5 - Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
August 12 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
August 16 - Mark Heard, American singer (b. 1951)
September 2 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
October 6 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
October 7 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
October 8 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
October 17 - Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student (b. 1975)
October 17 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
October 19 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b. 1920)
October 22 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
October 25 - Roger Miller, American singer (b. 1936)
October 27 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
November 7 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
November 22 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
December 18 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
December 21 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (b. 1903)
December 21 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1923)
December 22 - Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist and author (b. 1914)
December 25 - Ted Croker, English former football official (b. 1924)
December 25 - Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915)

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Unknown date

E. Harold Munn, American activist (b. 1903)
Introduction of Lorenzo's oil

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Nobel prize|Nobel Prizes

Physics - Georges Charpak
Chemistry - Rudolph A. Marcus
Medicine - Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
Literature - Derek Walcott
Peace - Rigoberta Menchú Tum

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Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Gary Becker

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Templeton Prize

Kyung-Chik Han

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Right Livelihood Award|Alternative

Finnish Village Action Movement, Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury, Helen Mack, John Gofman and Alla Yaroshinskaya

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1992 in Fiction

The events of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas take place.
12 January 1992 is the date that HAL 9000 becomes operational in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The events of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? take place.