1994

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years:	1991 1992 1993 – 1994 – 1995 1996 1997

1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Births

• January 21 – Laura Robson, British tennis player
• February 14 – Paul Butcher, American actor
• February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
• March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
• April 11 – Dakota Blue Richards, British actress
• April 12 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
• May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
• July 16 – Mark Indelicato, American actor
• September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
• October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
• November 17 – Raquel Castro, American singer and actress

Deaths

January – March

Dinah Shore 1916-1994

• January 1 – Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907)
• January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
• January 20 – Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909)
• January 22 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)
• January 29 – Ulrike Meier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)
• February 9 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
• February 14 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
• February 24 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
• March 4 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
• March 6 – Melina Mercouri, Greek singer, actress and politician (b. 1920)
• March 13 – Danny Barker, American jazz musician (b. 1909)

April – June

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929-1994

• April 1 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
• April 5 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
• April 6 – Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
• April 6 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
• April 15 – John Curry, British ice skater (b. 1949)
• April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)
• April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
• April 30 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
• May 1 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
• May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
• May 10 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• May 12 – John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
• May 19 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
• May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German leader (b. 1913)
• June 2 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
• June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
• June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
• June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• June 29 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian murderer (b. 1950)

July – September

Linus Pauling 1901-1994

• July 2 – Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
• July 8 – Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
• July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)
• August 11 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
• August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (b. 1905)
• August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist (b. 1914)
• August 19 – Linus Pauling, American scientist (b. 1901)
• September 10 – Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1924)
• September 11 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (b. 1909)
• September 12 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1937)
• September 17 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
• September 17 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
• September 20 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonian diplomat (b. 1924)
• September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)

October – December

Burt Lancaster 1913-1994

• October 7 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)
• October 20 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
• November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
• November 11 – Pedro Zamora, American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
• November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
• November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1908)
• November 28 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
• December 20 – Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
• December 27 – Fanny Craddock, British cookery writer and television presenter (b. 1909)
• December 31 – Bruno Pezzey, Austrian footballer (b. 1955)

Events

January 17 Northridge Earthquake: The freeway just bent before the collapsed section.

September 28: One of the Estonia's inflatable life rafts, filled with water

• January 1 – North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
• January 6 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
• January 11 – Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein
• January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
• January 17 – 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 am.
• January 20 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
• January 26 – A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
• January 28 – The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
• January 31 – German luxury car manufacturer BMW announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace
• April 7 – The Rwandan Genocide begins.
• April 8 – Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. He had committed suicide three days earlier.
• April 19 – The Offspring releases their third album, Smash, which would be one of the band's top selling albums sold in the entire world. It contains their best known hit singles, "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" and "Self Esteem".
• April 27 – South Africa holds its first multiracial elections after the end of Apartheid.
• April 30 – Racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during practice for the San Marino Grand Prix.
• May 1 – Racing driver Ayrton Senna is killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.
• May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, linking the United Kingdom and France, is opened.
• May 10 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
• June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found dead. O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of their murders the following year.
• mid-July – Jupiter is hit by fragments from the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
• August 12 – Woodstock '94 happens.
• August 31 – The Russian army leaves Estonia.
• September 28 – The Car Ferry Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea.
• October 1 – Palau becomes an independent state in association with the USA.
• October 14 – A popular Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction was released in theaters, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel and Bruce Willis.
• November 13 – Swedish voters support entry into the EU.
• November 28 – Norwegian voters reject membership of the EU.
• December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo becomes President of Mexico.
• December 26 – French anti-terrorist police storm a jet plane in Marseille, freeing all the hostages and killing 4 terrorists.
• December 31 – This date is skipped in parts of Kiribati, as the International Date Line is shifted to the east of the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands, in order to integrate the whole country.
• In the midst of the success of their then-new album, Brett Gurewitz leaves Bad Religion to concentrate on the fast growing Epitaph Records, leaving their singer Greg Graffin the only founding member of the band still performing with the group. He was replaced by former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time. However, Gurewitz rejoined Bad Religion in 2001 and he is still a member of the band today.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford Glenwood Shull
• Chemistry – George Andrew Olah
• Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
• Literature – Kenzaburo Oe
• Nobel Peace Prize – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
• Economics – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash, John Harsanyi

Movies released

• Forrest Gump
• Ed Wood
• The Lion King
• Pulp Fiction
• The Seventh Brother
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Speed
• Reality Bites

Video games

• Donkey Kong Country
• Earthbound (Japanese)
• Kirby's Dream Course (Japanese)
• Kirby's Avalanche
• Kirby's Dream Land 2
• Wario Blast
• Wario Woods

New books

• Accident – Danielle Steel
• The Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield
• The Chamber – John Grisham
• Creatures of the Kingdom – James A. Michener
• Dark Rivers of the Heart – Dean R. Koontz
• Daughter of Damascus – Shiham Turjuman
• Dead Right – David Frum
• The Debt of Honor – Tom Clancy
• Disclosure – Michael Crichton
• The Ghosts of Sleath – James Herbert
• The Gift – Danielle Steel
• How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
• The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
• The Informers – Bret Easton Ellis
• In Search of CHURCHILL – Martin Gilbert
• Interesting Times – Terry Pratchett
• In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O'Brien
• Insomnia – Stephen King
• Just Like That – Lily Brett
• Life After God – Douglas Coupland
• Nothing Lasts Forever – Sidney Sheldon
• Point de côté – Judith Godrèche
• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories – James Finn Garner
• Recessional – James A. Michener
• Songs of Earth and Power – Greg Bear
• Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
• The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
• Troubling a Star – Madeleine L'Engle
• La Virevolte – Nancy Huston
• The Wind in the Wheat, by Reed Arvin
• Wings – Danielle Steel

Hit songs

• "90's Girl" – BlackGirl
• "All For Love" – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
• "All I Wanna Do" – Sheryl Crow
• "All That She Wants" – Ace of Base
• "Always" – Erasure
• "Another Night" – Real McCoy
• "Any Time, Any Place" – Janet Jackson
• "Backwater" – Meat Puppets
• "Big Empty" – Stone Temple Pilots
• "Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden
• "Come Out and Play" – The Offspring
• "Closer" – Nine Inch Nails
• "Cut Your Hair" – Pavement
• "Don't Turn Around" – Ace of Base
• "Everyday" – Phil Collins
• "Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms
• "Gin & Juice" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
• "I Alone" – Live
• "I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
• "Longview" – Green Day
• "Loser" – Beck
• "Love Is All Around" – Wet, Wet, Wet
• "Love is Strong" – Rolling Stones
• "Mary Jane's Last Dance" – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• "Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows
• "Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
• "Seether" – Veruca Salt
• "She Don't Use Jelly" – The Flaming Lips
• "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" – Prince
• "The Sign" – Ace of Base
• "Until I Fall Away" – Gin Blossoms
• "Waterfalls" – TLC
• "Without You" – Mariah Carey
• "You Want This" – Janet Jackson