1996

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1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1996th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 996th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1990s decade.

1996 was designated as:

International Year for the Eradication of Poverty

Events

January

January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, killing around 300 people.^[1]
January 9–20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya.
January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
January 13 – Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government.
January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal.
January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February.
January 19
- The North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The North Cape Barge is pulled along with it and leaks 820,000 gallons of home heating oil.
- An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.
January 20 – Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority.
January 21 – France undertakes its last nuclear weapons test.
January 22 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, resigns due to health problems; a new government forms under Costas Simitis.
January 24 – Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid accusations that he spied for Moscow. He is replaced by Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.
January 27 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected President of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
January 31
- Colombo Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
- An amateur astronomer from southern Japan discovers Comet Hyakutake; it will pass very close to the Earth in March.

February

February 3 – The 6.6 M_w  earthquake near Lijiang in South-west China kills up to 322 people, injures 17,000, and leaves 300,000 homeless.
February 6 – Birgenair Flight 301, on a charter flight from the Caribbean to Germany, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 passengers and crew.
February 7 – René Préval succeeds Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti in the first peaceful handover of power since the nation achieved independence 192 years earlier, in 1804.
February 9
- The element copernicium is created by fusing a ²⁰⁸Pb nucleus with a 70Zn nucleus, forming ²⁷⁸Cn. Given the placeholder name "ununbium", the element is not named until 2010.
- An IRA ceasefire ends with the Docklands bombing in London's Canary Wharf District, killing two people and causing over £85,000,000 worth of damage.
- Disney formally finalizes its $19 billion acquisition of the ABC parent, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
February 10 – Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.
February 14 – Violent clashes erupt between Filipino soldiers and Vietnamese boat people, as the Filipino government attempts to forcibly repatriate hundreds of Vietnamese asylum seekers.
February 15
- The American Embassy in Athens, Greece, comes under mortar fire.
- Begum Khaleda Zia is re-elected as Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The country's second democratic election is marred by low voter turnout, due to several boycotts and pre-election violence, which has resulted in at least thirteen deaths.
- The UK government publishes the Scott Report.
February 17 – The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake strikes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving 166 people dead or missing and 423 injured.
February 24 – Cuban fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.
February 25 – Two suicide bombs in Israel kill 25 and injure 80; Hamas claims responsibility.
February 29
- Faucett Perú Flight 251 en route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa; all 123 people on board are killed.
- At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala, Uganda.
- The Bosnian government declares the end of the Siege of Sarajevo.
February:
- The Cuban government recognises the Concilio Cubano pro-democracy group.^[2]

March

March 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces refuse UNSCOM inspection teams access to five sites designated for inspection. The teams enter the sites only after delays of up to seventeen hours.
March 2 – 1996 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Coalition led by John Howard defeats the Labor government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating. Howard was sworn in on March 11.^[3]
March 3 – José María Aznar, leader of the Popular Party, is elected as Prime Minister of Spain, replacing Felipe González.
March 3–4 – Two suicide bombs explode in Israel, killing 32 people. The Yahya Ayyash Units admit responsibility, and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat condemns the killings in a televised address. Israel warns of retaliation.
March 6
- Mesut Yılmaz of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (53rd government).
- A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown harbour in Sierra Leone, killing at least 86 people.
- Chechen rebels attack the Russian government headquarters in Grozny; 70 Russian soldiers and policemen and 130 Chechen fighters are killed.
March 8 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: China begins surface-to-surface missile testing and military exercises off Taiwanese coastal areas. The United States government condemns the act as provocation, and the Taiwanese government warns of retaliation.
March 9 – Jorge Sampaio becomes the new Portuguese president.
March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing sixteen infant school pupils and one teacher before committing suicide.

March 14 – An international peace summit is held in Egypt in response to escalating terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
March 15 – Fokker, a major manufacturer of small size aircraft, goes bankrupt in Netherlands.^[4]
March 16 – Robert Mugabe is re-elected as President of Zimbabwe, although only 32% of the electorate actually voted.
March 17 – Sri Lanka wins the Cricket World Cup by beating Australia in the final.
March 18 – The Ozone Disco Club fire in Quezon City, Philippines, kills 163 people.^[5]
March 22 – Sweden's Finance Minister Göran Persson becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden.
March 23 – Taiwan (Republic of China) holds its first direct elections for president; Lee Teng-hui is re-elected.
March 24 – The Marcopper mining disaster on the island of Marinduque, Philippines takes place.
March 25 – The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Braveheart winning Best Picture.
March 26 – The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan to Russia for economic reform.

April

April 1 – The Halifax Regional Municipality encompassing the City of Halifax, the City of Dartmouth, the Town of Bedford, and the Municipality of the County of Halifax is formed in Nova Scotia, Canada.^[6]
April 3
- A Boeing 737 military jet crashes into a mountain north of Dubrovnik, Croatia. All 35 people on board are killed, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.^[7]
- Burundian Civil War: massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.
April 6
- First Liberian Civil War: fighting breaks out in Monrovia, Liberia, between various rebel factions struggling for power in the country's interrupted civil war. Several foreign nationals leave the nation.
- Turkish authorities begin operation Hawk, a military offensive against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party in south-east Turkey.
April 9 – In a common statement, the European Union officially recognises the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
April 11 – The Israeli government launches Operation Grapes of Wrath, consisting of massive attacks on Lebanon, in retaliation for "terrorist attacks", and sparking off a violent series of retaliations.
April 18 – Qana massacre: Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed after Israel shells the United Nations compound in Qana. In reaction, an Islamist group in Egypt opens fire on a hotel, killing eighteen Greek tourists and injuring seventeen others.
April 21 – A general election in Italy proclaims a new center-left government headed by Romano Prodi, replacing Silvio Berlusconi.
April 24 – At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization drops its clause in Palestinian National Covenant calling for the removal of Israel (→ Legitimacy of the State of Israel). The Israeli government responds by dropping a similar clause concerning the existence of Palestine.
April 26 – Shanghai Five group, predecessor of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, is created with the signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in Shanghai by the heads of states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.^[8]
April 28
- Port Arthur massacre (Australia): Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in Tasmania.
- Bhai Pheru bus bombing: A bomb explodes in Bhai Pheru, Punjab, Pakistan, killing more than 60 people.^[9]

May

May – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents.
May 9
- South Africa's National Party pulls out of the coalition government formed two years earlier, and the African National Congress assumes full political control.
- Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75% of the vote.
May 10
- 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving eight people dead. By the end of the month, at least four other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.
- The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on the private possession of both automatic and semi-automatic rifles, in response to the Port Arthur massacre.
May 11 – After takeoff from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
May 13 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
May 17–28 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected as Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress. However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns thirteen days later rather than face a no confidence vote and is replaced by the United Front leader, Deve Gowda.
May 18 – The X Prize Foundation launches the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize.
May 21
- The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000 people in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.^[10]
- Seven Trappist monks from the monastery of Thibirine are killed by members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.^[11]^[12]
May 27 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a ceasefire for the dispute.
May 28 – Albania's general election of May 26 is declared unfair by international monitors, and the ruling Democratic Party under President Muhannad Ibrahim is charged by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with rigging the elections. Several hundred protestors gather in Tirana to demonstrate against the election result.
May 30 – The Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, wins a narrow victory in the Israeli general election.

June

June – Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the United States fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
June 1–3 – The Czech Republic's first general election ends inconclusively. Prime Minister Václav Klaus and his incumbent Civic Democratic Party emerge as the winners, but are unable to form a majority government. President Václav Havel refuses to invite Klaus to form a coalition.
June 4 – The space rocket Ariane 5 explodes forty seconds in its maiden flight, after takeoff in French Guiana. The project costs European governments $7,500,000,000 over eleven years.
June 6 – Leighton W. Smith, Jr. resigns as NATO commander in the face of increasing criticism.
June 8–30 – England hosts the UEFA Euro 1996 football tournament, which is won by Germany.
June 11
- An explosion in a São Paulo suburban shopping centre kills 44 people and injures more than 100.
- A peace convoy carrying Chechen separatist leaders and international diplomats is targeted by a series of remotely controlled land mines; eight people are killed.
June 15 – In Manchester, UK, an IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
June 28
- A new government is formed in Turkey, with Necmettin Erbakan of Refah Partisi becoming Prime Minister of the coalition government, and Deputy/Foreign Minister Tansu Çiller of the True Path Party succeeding him after two years.
- The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
June 29
- The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
- An explosion in a firecrackers factory in Sichuan Province, China kills at least 52 people and injures 83 others.
June 30
- Costas Simitis is elected president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece.
- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić relinquishes power to his deputy, Biljana Plavšić.

July

July
- Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector Scott Ritter attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport but is blocked by Iraqi officials.
- The Indian government officially renames the city of Madras, restoring the name Chennai.^[13]
July 1
- The Northern Territory in Australia legalises voluntary euthanasia.
- German orthography reform of 1996 agreed internationally.
July 3 – Boris Yeltsin is re-elected as President of Russia after the second round of elections.
July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
July 11 – Arrest warrants are issued for Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić by the Russell Tribunal in The Hague.
July 12 – Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage ($525 million in present-day terms^[14]) to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
July 16 – An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in Japan results in 6,000 children being ill, including two deaths, after a group of school children eat contaminated lunches.
July 17
- The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is constituted.
- Paris- and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board.
July 19
- The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, begin.
- Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes.
July 21 – The Saguenay Flood, one of Canada's most costly natural disasters, is caused by flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec.
July 22 – The first Gethsemani Encounter takes place at the abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. This event, hosted by the DIMMID, is the first intermonastic dialogue between Buddhist and Christian monks and is attended by the Dalai Lama and Bishop Joseph John Gerry.^[15]^[16]
July 24 – The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo.
July 25 – The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the United States kills one person and injures 111.^[17]

August

August
- The first three-parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through mitochondrial donation.^[18]
- The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York City.
August 1
- Sarah Balabagan returns to the Philippines.
- A pro-democracy demonstration supporting Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia is broken up by riot police.
August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.
August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms; further tests are inconclusive.
August 7 – Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near Huesca, Spain.^[19]
August 9 – Boris Yeltsin is sworn in at the Kremlin for a second term as President of Russia.
August 13 – Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons.
August 14 – A rocket ignited during a fireworks display in Arequipa, Peru knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people.
August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.
August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the 20-foot (6.1 m) deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue.
August 21
- Former State President of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, makes an official apology for crimes committed under Apartheid to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town.
- In the UK, Queen Elizabeth II issues letters patent on divorced former wives of British princes, taking away from the ex-wives the attribute and style of Royal Highness. With that Sarah, Duchess of York as well as Diana, Princess of Wales legally cease to be Royals, but they remain as non-royal Duchess and Princess.
August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
August 26 – David Dellinger, Bradford Lyttle, and nine others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.^[20]
August 28 – Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess of Wales, due to the Queen's letters patent issued a week earlier.
August 29
- U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- A Russian Tupolev 154 jetliner crashes into a mountain as it approaches the airport at Spitsbergen, Norway, killing all 141 people on board.
August 31 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces launch an offensive into the northern No-Fly Zone and capture Arbil.

September

September 2 – A permanent peace agreement is signed at Malacañang Palace between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front.
September 3 – The United States launches Operation Desert Strike against Iraq in reaction to the attack on Arbil.
September 4 – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
September 5 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph (185 km/h) sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damages ($5.83 billion in present-day terms^[14]) and killed 27 people, mainly in North Carolina. The name "Fran" was retired due to the extensive damage.
September 10 – Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed (it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries).
September 13 – Alija Izetbegović is elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country's first election since the Bosnian War.
September 20 – Leader of Pakistani opposition party Pakistan Peoples Party Murtaza Bhutto is killed during a gunfight with police.
September 22 – The Panhellenic Socialist Movement under the leadership of Costas Simitis succeeds in the 1996 Greek legislative election.
September 24 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
September 27 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.

October

October 2 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 people on board.
October 6 – The government of New Zealand agrees to pay $130 million worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864.
October 22 – A fire at La Planta prison in southwest Caracas, Venezuela, kills thirty prisoners.
October 31 – TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into a densely populated area of São Paulo, killing all 96 people on board.

November

November – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country.
November 5 – 1996 United States presidential election: Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican challenger, Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot.
November 7
- A category 4 cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India, killing at least 1,000 people.
- NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
November 8 – All 144 people on board a Nigerian-owned Boeing 727 die after the aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while approaching Lagos airport.
November 12 – Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76 in New Delhi, India, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.
November 17
- A bomb explodes in Kaspiysk, Russia, killing 32 people.
- Emil Constantinescu is elected as President of Romania.
November 18 – Frederick Chiluba is re-elected as President of Zambia.
November 19
- Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1,035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree in Tasmania earlier this year.
- Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization (CTBTO) established.
- STS-80: Space Shuttle Columbia conducts the longest mission of the Space Shuttle program.
November 20 – The 1996 Garley Building fire occurred in Hong Kong, resulting in 41 deaths and 81 injuries.
November 21 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33 people.
November 23
- The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization as Angola.
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
November 25 – An ice storm strikes the U.S. killing 26 directly and hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts Florida with winds gusts up to 90 mph.

December

December 9 – Jerry Rawlings is re-elected as President of Ghana.
December 11 – Tung Chee-hwa is appointed to become the new leader of Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, at the end of a 99-year lease to the United Kingdom.
December 13 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is elected by the United Nations Security Council the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.
December 17 – The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru.
December 25 – At least 283 migrants drown in the sinking of F174 near Capo Passero (Sicily).
December 27 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Air Base, solidifying their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.
December 29 – Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord that ends the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War.
December 30 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.

Births

January

January 3 – Florence Pugh, English actress^[21]
January 6
- Soufiane El Bakkali, Moroccan steeplechase runner^[22]
- Courtney Eaton, Australian actress
- Harmanpreet Singh, Indian hockey player
January 7 – Helly Shah, Indian actress^[23]
January 12 – Ella Henderson, English singer
January 15 – Dove Cameron, American actress and singer
January 16
- Anastasia Grishina, Russian artistic gymnast
- Jennie, South Korean singer and rapper
January 17 – Nile Wilson, British artistic gymnast^[24]
January 21 – Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer
January 24 – Patrik Schick, Czech footballer
January 31 – Joel Courtney, American actor

February

February 1 – Ahmad Abughaush, Jordanian taekwondo athlete^[25]
February 2 – Harry Winks, English footballer
February 7
- Aaron Ekblad, Canadian ice hockey player
- Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
February 9
- Jimmy Bennett, American actor
- Kelli Berglund, American actress
- Chungha, South Korean singer and dancer
February 11 – Lucas Torreira, Uruguayan footballer
February 13 – Muhammad Rian Ardianto, Indonesian badminton player
February 14
- Lucas Hernandez, French footballer
- Viktor Kovalenko, Ukrainian footballer
February 15 – Toshikazu Yamanishi, Japanese race walker^[26]
February 17 – Sasha Pieterse, South African-born American actress
February 20 – Mabel, English singer
February 21
- Noah Rubin, American tennis player^[27]
- Sophie Turner, English actress
February 23 – D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
February 25 – Emel Dereli, Turkish shot putter
February 28 – Shi Yuqi, Chinese badminton player

March

March 1 – Ye Shiwen, Chinese swimmer
March 5 – Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese professional basketball player
March 6
- Christian Coleman, American sprinter
- Timo Werner, German footballer
- Yan Han, Chinese figure skater
March 9 – Giorgio Minisini, Italian synchronized swimmer
March 23 – Alexander Albon, Thai racing driver
March 24
- Valentino Lazaro, Austrian footballer
- Myles Turner, American basketball player^[28]
March 26 – Kathryn Bernardo, Filipina actress
March 27 – Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Italian-American actress
March 28
- Benjamin Pavard, French footballer
- Xie Siyi, Chinese diver
March 31 – Kira Hagi, Romanian actress^[29]^[30]

April

April 2
- Polina Agafonova, Russian figure skater
- Matheus Santana, Brazilian swimmer
April 3 – Sarah Jeffery, Canadian actress
April 4 – Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor
April 9 – Giovani Lo Celso, Argentinian footballer
April 10
- Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer
- Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australian tennis player
- Loïc Nottet, Belgian singer
April 11
- Dele Alli, English footballer
- Summer Walker, American singer
April 12 – Matteo Berrettini, Italian tennis player^[31]
April 14 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
April 15 – Edimilson Fernandes, Swiss footballer^[32]
April 16 – Anya Taylor-Joy, actress
April 17 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress
April 22 – Wendy Sulca, Peruvian singer
April 23 – Álex Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
April 24 – Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
April 25 – Mack Horton, Australian swimmer
April 28 – Tony Revolori, American actor
April 29 – Katherine Langford, Australian actress

May

May 2 – Julian Brandt, German footballer
May 3 – Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
May 4
- Arielle Gold, American snowboarder
- Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist.
May 8 – 6ix9ine, American rapper
May 9
- Noah Centineo, American actor
- Mary Mouser, American actress
May 10 – Tyus Jones, American basketball player
May 11 – Andrés Cubas, Argentinian footballer
May 14 – Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
May 15
- Birdy, British singer and songwriter
- Ilias Ennahachi, Dutch-Moroccan Muay Thai kickboxer and former ONE Flyweight Kickboxing World Champion
May 19
- Chung Hyeon, South Korean tennis player^[33]
- Lakshmi Menon, Indian film actress
May 18 – Yuki Kadono, Japanese snowboarder
May 23 – Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper
May 30
- Aleksandr Golovin, Russian footballer
- Erik Jones, American racing driver
May 31 – Normani, American singer

June

June 1 – Tom Holland, English actor
June 3 – Han Tianyu, Chinese short track speed skater
June 10 – Jun, Chinese singer and actor
June 12 – Davinson Sánchez, Colombian footballer
June 13
- Kingsley Coman, French footballer
- Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
June 15 – Aurora, Norwegian singer
June 16 – Lily Zhang, American table tennis player
June 17 – Godfred Donsah, Ghanese footballer
June 18
- Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
- Ayaka Miyoshi, Japanese actress and model^[34]
June 19 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian artistic gymnast
June 22
- Hugo Calderano, Brazilian table tennis player
- Kong Sang-jeong, South Korean short track speed skater
- Rodri, Spanish footballer^[35]
June 24 – Harris Dickinson, English actor, writer, and director
June 27 – Lauren Jauregui, American singer
June 28
- Milot Rashica, Kosovar footballer
- Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player

July

July 1 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
July 3 – Kendji Girac, French singer^[36]
July 4 – Ryoya Kurihara, Japanese baseball player^[37]
July 5 – Risa Shōji, Japanese figure skater
July 7 – Mikey Musumeci, American BJJ practitioner and current ONE Flyweight Submission Grappling World Champion
July 10 – Moon Ga-young, South Korean actress
July 11
- Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Andrija Živković, Serbian footballer
July 18 – Yung Lean, Swedish rapper and record producer
July 20 – Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player^[38]

August

August 1
- Arisa Higashino, Japanese badminton player
- Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
August 2 – Simone Manuel, American swimmer^[39]
August 5
- Francesca Deagostini, Italian artistic gymnast
- Mai Murakami, Japanese artistic gymnast
August 12 – Arthur, Brazilian footballer
August 14 – Brianna Hildebrand, American actress
August 16 – Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
August 18 – Jonathan Di Bella, Italian-Canadian kickboxer and current ONE Strawweight Kickboxing World Champion
August 19
- Almoez Ali, Sudanese-Qatari footballer
- Laura Tesoro, Belgian singer and actress
August 21 – Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Puerto Rican hurdler^[40]
August 24 – Kenzō Shirai, Japanese gymnast
August 27
- Femke Van den Driessche, Belgian cyclist found guilty of mechanical doping^[41]^[42]
- Ebru Topçu, Turkish footballer
August 28 – Kim Se-jeong, South Korean singer and actress
August 30
- Gabriel Barbosa, Brazilian footballer
- Chen Dequan, Chinese short track speed skater

September

September 1 – Zendaya, American actress and singer
September 3 – Joy, South Korean singer and actress
September 5 – Sigrid, Norwegian singer
September 9 – Jaïro Riedewald, Dutch footballer
September 12
- Joshua Cheptegei, Ugandan long-distance runner^[43]
- Colin Ford, American actor^[44]
September 13 – Lili Reinhart, American actress ^[45]
September 17
- Duje Ćaleta-Car, Croatian footballer^[46]
- Esteban Ocon, French racing driver^[47]^[48]
- Ella Purnell, English actress^[49]
- Slayyyter, American singer-songwriter^[50]^[51]
September 19 – Steve Wijler, Dutch archer^[52]
September 23
- Lee Hi, South Korean singer-songwriter
- Evgeny Rylov, Russian swimmer
September 25 – Mie Nielsen, Danish swimmer
September 27 – Maxwel Cornet, French-Ivorian footballer
September 28 – Michael Ronda, Mexican actor and singer

October

October 3 – Kelechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
October 4 – Ella Balinska, English actress^[53]^[54]
October 7 – Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter
October 8 – Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
October 9
- Jacob Batalon, American-Filipino actor
- Bella Hadid, American model
October 10 – Oscar Zia, Swedish singer and songwriter
October 12 – Vitória Strada, Brazilian actress^[55]
October 13
- Joshua Wong, Hong Kong student activist and politician^[56]
- Đỗ Mỹ Linh, Vietnamese model^[57]
October 15 – Zelo, Korean singer
October 17 – Cansu Özbay, Turkish volleyball player^[58]
October 20 – Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
October 24
- Jaylen Brown, American basketball player
- Kyla Ross, American gymnast
October 28 – Lee June-hyoung, South Korean figure skater
October 30 – Devin Booker, American basketball player

November

November 1
- Sean Gelael, Indonesian racing driver
- Lil Peep, American rapper (d. 2017)
- Daniela Melchior, Portuguese actress^[59]
- Jeongyeon, South Korean singer
November 4 – Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater
November 7
- André Horta, Portuguese footballer
- Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
November 9
- Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên, Vietnamese swimmer
- Momo Hirai, Japanese singer and dancer
November 11
- Adam Ounas, French-born Algerian footballer
- Tye Sheridan, American actor
November 14 – Borna Ćorić, Croatian tennis player
November 16
- Brendan Murray, Irish singer
- Jan Zieliński, Polish tennis player^[60]
November 17 – Ruth Jebet, Bahraini long-distance runner
November 18
- Akram Afif, Qatari footballer
- Noah Ringer, American actor
- Sorn, South Korean-based singer
November 19
- Liliána Szilágyi, Hungarian swimmer
- Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, Belarusian sprinter^[61]
November 20 – Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
November 21 – Gina Lückenkemper, German sprinter^[62]
November 22 – Hailey Bieber, American model and socialite
November 23
- James Maddison, English footballer
- Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
November 26 – Louane Emera, French singer and actress
November 29 – Gonçalo Guedes, Portuguese footballer

December

December 4 – Daria Svatkovskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
December 6 – Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer
December 7 – Gabrielle Thomas, American sprinter^[63]
December 10
- Joe Burrow, American football player
- Kang Daniel, South Korean singer
- Ayano Sato, Japanese speed skater^[64]
- Jonas Vingegaard, Danish cyclist^[65]
December 11
- Eliza McCartney, New Zealand track and field athlete
- Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, model and singer
December 14 – Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater
December 15 – Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
December 16 – Wilfred Ndidi, Nigerian footballer
December 17 – Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
December 19 – Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer
December 21 – Kaitlyn Dever, American actress
December 28 – Alfred Kipketer, Kenyan middle-distance runner
December 29
- Dylan Minnette, American actor, singer and musician
- Sana, Japanese singer

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

Right Livelihood Award

Herman Daly, The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad and George Vithoulkas

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External links

1996 Year in Review – CNN