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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
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Years:	1991 1992 1993 – 1994 – 1995 1996 1997

1994 was a year that started on a Saturday in the Gregorian calendar. Many important events happened around the world, and many famous people were born or passed away. It was a year of big changes, from new technologies to major political shifts.

People Born in 1994
Famous People Who Passed Away in 1994
Key Events of 1994
Nobel Prizes in 1994
Movies Released in 1994
Video Games Released in 1994
New Books in 1994
Hit Songs of 1994
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People Born in 1994

Many well-known people were born in 1994. Here are some of them:

January 21 – Laura Robson, a British tennis player.
February 14 – Paul Butcher, an American actor.
February 14 – Allie Grant, an American actress.
February 23 – Dakota Fanning, a famous American actress.
February 27 – Hou Yifan, a Chinese chess player who became a grandmaster.
March 5 – Aislinn Paul, a Canadian actress.
March 8 – Dylan Tombides, an Australian footballer.
March 12 – Christina Grimmie, an American singer-songwriter.
March 30 - Jetro Willems, a Dutch footballer.
April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards, a British actress.
April 12 – Saoirse Ronan, an Irish actress.
May 21 – Tom Daley, a British diver.
July 16 – Mark Indelicato, an American actor.
September 1 – Bianca Ryan, an American singer.
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, a Canadian actress.
November 17 – Raquel Castro, an American singer and actress.
December 8 - Raheem Sterling, an English footballer.

Famous People Who Passed Away in 1994

The year 1994 also saw the passing of many influential people from different fields.

January to March Deaths

January 1 – Cesar Romero, a Cuban-American actor.
January 15 – Harry Nilsson, an American musician.
January 20 – Matt Busby, a Scottish football manager.
January 22 – Telly Savalas, an American actor.
January 29 – Ulrike Meier, an Austrian skier.
February 9 – Howard Temin, an American geneticist.
February 24 – Dinah Shore, an American actress and singer.
March 4 – John Candy, a Canadian comedian and actor.
March 6 – Melina Mercouri, a Greek singer, actress, and politician.
March 13 – Danny Barker, an American jazz musician.

April to June Deaths

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)

April 1 – Robert Doisneau, a French photographer.
April 5 – Kurt Cobain, an American musician from the band Nirvana.
April 6 – Juvénal Habyarimana, the President of Rwanda.
April 6 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, the President of Burundi.
April 15 – John Curry, a British ice skater.
April 16 – Ralph Ellison, an American writer.
April 22 – Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States.
April 30 – Roland Ratzenberger, an Austrian race car driver.
May 1 – Ayrton Senna, a Brazilian race car driver.
May 8 – George Peppard, an American actor.
May 12 – John Smith, a British politician.
May 19 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a former First Lady of the United States.
May 29 – Erich Honecker, a former East German leader.
June 2 – Henry Mancini, an American composer.
June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, a Dutch economist.
June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, a German conductor.

July to September Deaths

Linus Pauling (1901-1994)

July 2 – Andrés Escobar, a Colombian footballer.
July 8 – Kim Il-Sung, the former leader of North Korea.
July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, a British chemist.
August 11 – Peter Cushing, a British actor.
August 14 – Elias Canetti, a Bulgarian writer.
August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, a British chemist.
August 19 – Linus Pauling, a famous American scientist.
September 10 – Max Morlock, a German footballer.
September 11 – Jessica Tandy, a British actress.
September 12 – Boris Yegorov, a Soviet cosmonaut.
September 17 – Vitas Gerulaitis, an American tennis player.
September 17 – Karl Popper, an Austrian philosopher.
September 20 – Abioseh Nicol, a diplomat from Sierra Leone.
September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia.

October to December Deaths

Burt Lancaster (1913-1994)

October 7 – Niels Kaj Jerne, a Danish immunologist.
October 20 – Burt Lancaster, a well-known American actor.
November 4 – Sam Francis, an American painter.
November 11 – Pedro Zamora, an American activist.
November 13 – Motoo Kimura, a Japanese geneticist.
November 18 – Cab Calloway, an American jazz singer and bandleader.
December 20 – Dean Rusk, the 54th United States Secretary of State.
December 27 – Fanny Cradock, a British cookery writer and TV presenter.
December 31 – Bruno Pezzey, an Austrian footballer.

Key Events of 1994

Many important things happened around the world in 1994.

January 1 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began. This agreement made it easier for goods to move between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
January 6 – Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was injured by an attacker. This event gained a lot of media attention.
January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement to stop aiming nuclear missiles at each other and to reduce their nuclear weapons.
January 17 – The 1994 Northridge earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 hit Los Angeles. It caused a lot of damage.

January 17 Northridge Earthquake: A freeway section damaged by the quake.

January 20 – Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet to attend The Citadel, a military college, but she later left.
April 7 – A major conflict began in Rwanda.
April 19 – The band The Offspring released their album Smash, which became very popular.
April 27 – South Africa held its first elections where people of all races could vote, marking the end of Apartheid.
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which connects the United Kingdom and France under the sea, was officially opened.
May 10 – Nelson Mandela became the President of South Africa. This was a historic moment for the country.
mid-July – The planet Jupiter was hit by pieces of a comet called Shoemaker-Levy 9. Scientists watched this event closely.
August 12 – The Woodstock '94 music festival took place.
August 31 – The Russian army completed its withdrawal from Estonia.
September 28 – The Car Ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, which was a tragic accident.

September 28: One of the Estonia's inflatable life rafts.

October 1 – Palau became an independent country.
October 14 – The popular movie Pulp Fiction was released in theaters.
November 5 – Former President Ronald Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer's disease to help raise public awareness.
November 13 – Voters in Sweden decided to join the EU.
November 28 – Voters in Norway chose not to join the EU.
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo became the President of Mexico.
December 26 – French police stormed a plane in Marseille, freeing hostages and ending a terrorist situation.
December 31 – Parts of Kiribati skipped this date as the International Date Line was moved, changing time zones for the country.