1996

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1993 1994 199519961997 1998 1999

1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar, the 996th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1990s decade.

The most important events[change | change source]

Blizzard of January 1996:Snow drifts in Yonkers, New York.
Bill Clinton is reelected as US president.

Births[change | change source]

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Minseo in 2022
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Zendaya in 2019

Deaths[change | change source]

January[change | change source]

Francois Mitterrand
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
Gerry Mulligan
Joseph Brodsky
Jerry Siegel

February[change | change source]

Gene Kelly
Martin Balsam
Bob Paisley

March[change | change source]

George Burns
Lucio Fulci
Krzysztof Kieślowski
René Clément
Odysseas Elytis
Edmund Muskie

April[change | change source]

Greer Garson
Lucille Bremer
Dzhokhar Dudayev
P. L. Travers
Siti Hartinah

May[change | change source]

Nnamdi Azikiwe
Tamara Toumanova
Timothy Leary

June[change | change source]

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Jo Van Fleet
Ella Fitzgerald
Andreas Papandreou

July[change | change source]

Margaux Hemingway
Claudette Colbert

August[change | change source]

Frida Boccara
Tadeus Reichstein
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Michel Debré
Obdulio Varela
Nevill Francis Mott
António de Spínola
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse

September[change | change source]

Ernesto Geisel
Spiro Agnew
Paul Erdős
Dorothy Lamour
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Mohammad Najibullah

October[change | change source]

Silvio Piola
Johnny Costa
René Lacoste
Morey Amsterdam

November[change | change source]

J. R. Jayewardene
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Abdus Salam
Tiny Tim

December[change | change source]

Marcello Mastroianni
Carl Sagan

Nobel Prizes[change | change source]

Movies released[change | change source]

Hit songs[change | change source]

New books[change | change source]

Other websites[change | change source]

Media related to 1996 at Wikimedia Commons