What happened in 1994
400 entries recorded for 1994, listed by date. That was 32 years ago.
1994 at a glance
- Years ago
- 32 (as of 2026)
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- 20th century
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- 1990s
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- 400
- Breakdown
- 87 historical events · 311 births · 2 deaths
January
- January 1
Far-left politics
The revolutionary leftist Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiated twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
- January 2
Ronald Darby
Ronald Darby, American football player
- January 3
Baikal Airlines Flight 130
Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Mamoney, Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.
- January 5
Lachlan Fitzgibbon
Lachlan Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league player
- January 5
Matt Grzelcyk
Matt Grzelcyk, American ice hockey player
- January 5
Gustavo Scarpa
Gustavo Scarpa, Brazilian footballer
- January 5
Zemgus Girgensons
Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
- January 5
Tyrone Phillips
Tyrone Phillips, Australian rugby league player
- January 6
Figure skating
Two-time American Olympic figure-skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
- January 6
Nancy Kerrigan
U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
- January 6
Jay B
Jay B, South Korean singer
- January 6
Denis Suárez
Denis Suárez, Spanish footballer
- January 6
Jameis Winston
Jameis Winston, American football player
- January 6
Catriona Gray
Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2018
- January 7
British Aerospace Jetstream 41
A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
- January 7
Jarnell Stokes
Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player
- January 7
MacKenzie Weegar
MacKenzie Weegar, Canadian ice hockey player
- January 7
Lee Sun-bin
Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer
- January 8
Astronaut
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
- January 8
Glenn Robinson III
Glenn Robinson III, American basketball player
- January 9
Radek Faksa
Radek Faksa, Czech ice hockey player
- January 11
Republic of Ireland
The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
- January 12
Emre Can
Emre Can, German footballer
- January 13
Vasilije Micić
Vasilije Micić, Serbian basketball player
- January 14
Kai (entertainer, born 1994)
Kai, South Korean singer, model, actor and dancer
- January 15
Eric Dier
Eric Dier, English footballer
- January 16
Mikko Lehtonen (ice hockey, born 1994)
Mikko Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- January 17
1994 Northridge earthquake
The 6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
- January 17
Lucy Boynton
Lucy Boynton, American-English actress
- January 17
Mark Steketee
Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer
- January 19
Matthias Ginter
Matthias Ginter, German footballer
- January 19
Marvelous Nakamba
Marvelous Nakamba, Zimbabwean footballer
- January 19
Alfie Mawson
Alfie Mawson, English footballer
- January 20
Lucas Piazon
Lucas Piazon, Brazilian footballer
- January 20
Seán Kavanagh
Seán Kavanagh, Irish footballer
- January 20
Hampus Lindholm
Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
- January 22
Tyrone Taylor
Tyrone Taylor, American baseball player
- January 23
Addison Russell
Addison Russell, American baseball player
- January 25
Clementine (spacecraft)
The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
- January 26
Montrezl Harrell
Montrezl Harrell, American basketball player
- January 27
Jack Stephens (footballer)
Jack Stephens, English footballer
- January 27
Desiree Becker
Desiree Becker, German politician
- January 28
Maluma
Maluma, Colombian singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor
- January 28
Zhu Lin (tennis)
Lin Zhu, Chinese tennis player
- January 28
Joel Bolomboy
Joel Bolomboy, Russian-American basketball player
- January 30
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Amelia Dimoldenberg, English comedian, writer and presenter
- January 31
Kenneth Zohore
Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer
February
- February 1
Julia Garner
Julia Garner, American actress
- February 1
Harry Styles
Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter and actor
- February 1
Anna-Lena Friedsam
Anna-Lena Friedsam, German tennis player
- February 2
Caterina Bosetti
Caterina Bosetti, Italian volleyball player
- February 3
Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
- February 3
Rougned Odor
Rougned Odor, Venezuelan baseball player
- February 5
Markale massacres
Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
- February 5
Byron De La Beckwith
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- February 7
Michael Jordan
Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox to play baseball.
- February 7
Riley Barber
Riley Barber, American ice hockey player
- February 7
Nathan Walker
Nathan Walker, Welsh-Australian ice hockey player
- February 8
Hakan Çalhanoğlu
Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
- February 8
Nikki Yanofsky
Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
- February 10
Son Na-eun
Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress
- February 11
Dansby Swanson
Dansby Swanson, American baseball player
- February 12
National Gallery (Norway)
Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
- February 12
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (pictured) was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
- February 12
Paxton Lynch
Paxton Lynch, American football player
- February 12
Arman Hall
Arman Hall, American sprinter
- February 12
Kemal Bilmez
Kemal Bilmez, Belgian politician
- February 13
Memphis Depay
Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
- February 15
Sodapoppin
Sodapoppin, American Twitch streamer and internet personality
- February 16
Annika Beck
Annika Beck, German tennis player
- February 16
Ava Max
Ava Max, American singer and songwriter
- February 16
Federico Bernardeschi
Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
- February 17
Mason Jobst
Mason Jobst, American ice hockey player
- February 18
J-Hope
J-Hope, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, and record producer
- February 18
Paul Zipser
Paul Zipser, German basketball player
- February 19
Tiina Trutsi
Tiina Trutsi, Estonian footballer
- February 20
Kateryna Baindl
Kateryna Baindl, Ukrainian tennis player
- February 20
Luis Severino
Luis Severino, Dominican baseball player
- February 21
Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
- February 21
Hayley Orrantia
Hayley Orrantia, American actress and singer-songwriter
- February 21
Tang Haochen
Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
- February 21
Wendy (singer)
Wendy, South Korean singer
- February 22
Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- February 22
Nam Joo-hyuk
Nam Joo-hyuk, South Korean model and actor
- February 22
Elfrid Payton
Elfrid Payton, American basketball player
- February 23
Triptii Dimri
Triptii Dimri, Indian actress
- February 23
Neviana Vladinova
Neviana Vladinova, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
- February 24
Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula, American tennis player
- February 24
Earl Sweatshirt
Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper
- February 25
Baruch Goldstein
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
- February 25
Fred VanVleet
Fred VanVleet, American basketball player
- February 26
Jacob Trouba
Jacob Trouba, American ice hockey player
- February 26
Mahra bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
Mahra Al Maktoum, Emirati princess.
- February 27
Mike Matheson
Mike Matheson, Canadian ice hockey player
- February 28
Alex Caruso
Alex Caruso, American basketball player
- February 28
Arkadiusz Milik
Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
March
- March 1
Maximilian Philipp
Maximilian Philipp, German footballer
- March 1
Asanoyama Hiroki
Asanoyama Hiroki, Japanese sumo wrestler
- March 1
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter
- March 1
Tyreek Hill
Tyreek Hill, American football player
- March 3
Umika Kawashima
Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress
- March 3
Dilson Herrera
Dilson Herrera, Colombian baseball player
- March 4
Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-62.
- March 4
Callum Harriott
Callum Harriott, English footballer
- March 4
AJ Tracey
AJ Tracey, British rapper and record producer
- March 4
Luisito Pié
Luisito Pié, Dominican taekwondo athlete
- March 5
MJ (South Korean singer)
MJ, South Korean singer and actor
- March 5
Daria Saville
Daria Saville, Russian-Australian tennis player
- March 6
Marcus Smart
Marcus Smart, American basketball player
- March 7
Jordan Pickford
Jordan Pickford, English footballer
- March 7
Chase Kalisz
Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
- March 7
Jake Layman
Jake Layman, American basketball player
- March 8
1994 Indira Gandhi Airport collision
A collision at Indira Gandhi International Airport kills 9 people.
- March 8
Claire Emslie
Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer
- March 9
Morgan Rielly
Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 10
Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler
- March 10
Nikita Parris
Nikita Parris, English footballer
- March 11
Andy Robertson
Andy Robertson, Scottish footballer
- March 12
Jerami Grant
Jerami Grant, American basketball player
- March 12
Christina Grimmie
Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)
- March 12
Katie Archibald
Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
- March 13
Gerard Deulofeu
Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
- March 13
Mohammed Siraj
Mohammed Siraj, Indian cricketer
- March 14
Ansel Elgort
Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ
- March 15
Scott Seiss
Scott Seiss, American comedian
- March 15
Matt Gay
Matt Gay, American football player
- March 16
Camilo (singer)
Camilo, Colombian singer
- March 16
Joel Embiid
Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
- March 16
Sierra McClain
Sierra McClain, American actress
- March 17
Terry Rozier
Terry Rozier, American basketball player
- March 17
Marcel Sabitzer
Marcel Sabitzer, Austrian footballer
- March 17
DeForest Buckner
DeForest Buckner, American football player
- March 17
Ivan Provedel
Ivan Provedel, Italian footballer
- March 18
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- March 18
Kris Dunn
Kris Dunn, American basketball player
- March 18
Ronnie Stanley
Ronnie Stanley, American football player
- March 21
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
- March 21
Jasmin Savoy Brown
Jasmin Savoy Brown, American actress
- March 22
Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player
- March 22
Ha Sung-woon
Ha Sung-woon, South Korean singer
- March 22
Dax (rapper)
Dax, Canadian rapper and singer
- March 22
Taurean Prince
Taurean Prince, American basketball player
- March 22
Edwin Díaz
Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican baseball player
- March 23
Aeroflot Flight 593
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.
- March 23
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground alongside destroying a Starlifter by accident. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
- March 23
Tijuana
At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
- March 23
Bridger Zadina
Bridger Zadina, American actor
- March 23
Nick Powell
Nick Powell, English footballer
- March 23
Oskar Sundqvist
Oskar Sundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
- March 25
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
- March 26
Alison Van Uytvanck
Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgian tennis player
- March 26
Marcela Zacarías
Marcela Zacarías, Mexican tennis player
- March 26
Paige VanZant
Paige VanZant, American mixed martial artist and model
- March 26
Jed Wallace
Jed Wallace, English footballer
- March 26
Ryan Arcidiacono
Ryan Arcidiacono, American basketball player
- March 28
African National Congress
In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
- March 28
Jackson Wang
Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper
- March 29
One (rapper)
Jung Jae-won, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor
- March 29
Matt Olson
Matt Olson, American baseball player
- March 29
Tom Wilson (ice hockey)
Tom Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 30
Jetro Willems
Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
- March 30
Alex Bregman
Alex Bregman, American baseball player
April
- April 2
Pascal Siakam
Pascal Siakam, Cameroonian basketball player
- April 3
Kodi Nikorima
Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player
- April 3
Dylann Roof
Dylann Roof, American mass murderer
- April 4
KLM Cityhopper Flight 433
Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
- April 4
Shunsuke Nishikawa
Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor
- April 4
Risako Sugaya
Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress
- April 5
Mateusz Bieniek
Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player
- April 5
Edem Rjaïbi
Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer
- April 5
Richard Sánchez (footballer, born 1994)
Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer
- April 6
Juvénal Habyarimana
The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
- April 6
Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
- April 6
Adrián Alonso
Adrián Alonso, Mexican actor
- April 7
FedEx
A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
- April 7
Federal Express Flight 705
Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
- April 7
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
- April 7
Rwandan Civil War
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.
- April 7
Johanna Allik
Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater
- April 7
Josh Hader
Josh Hader, American baseball player
- April 7
Aaron Gray (rugby league)
Aaron Gray, Australian rugby league player
- April 8
Josh Chudleigh
Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player
- April 9
Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-59.
- April 9
Joey Pollari
Joey Pollari, American actor
- April 9
Bladee
Bladee, Swedish rapper and singer
- April 10
Siobhan Hunter
Siobhan Hunter, Scottish footballer
- April 11
Brandon Montour
Brandon Montour, Canadian ice hockey player
- April 12
Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.
- April 12
Eric Bailly
Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer
- April 12
Isabelle Drummond
Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer
- April 12
Sehun
Sehun, South Korean musician
- April 12
Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress
- April 12
Guido Rodríguez
Guido Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
- April 13
Kahraba (footballer)
Kahraba, Egyptian footballer
- April 14
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.
- April 14
Friendly fire
In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
- April 15
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 123 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
- April 15
Marrakesh Agreement
Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
- April 15
Brodie Grundy
Brodie Grundy, Australian rules football player
- April 15
Shaunae Miller-Uibo
Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian sprinter
- April 17
Alanna Goldie
Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
- April 17
Hongseok
Yang Hongseok, South Korean singer and actor
- April 18
Aminé
Aminé, American singer-songwriter
- April 21
Ludwig Augustinsson
Ludwig Augustinsson, Swedish footballer
- April 22
Chandler Stephenson
Chandler Stephenson, Canadian ice hockey player
- April 23
Patrick Olsen
Patrick Olsen, Danish footballer
- April 23
Song Kang
Song Kang, South Korean actor
- April 24
Douglas DC-3
A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
- April 24
Jordan Fisher
Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer, and actor
- April 24
Caspar Lee
Caspar Lee, British-South African YouTuber
- April 25
Maggie Rogers
Maggie Rogers, American musician
- April 25
Omar McLeod
Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
- April 25
Sam Fender
Sam Fender, English singer-songwriter and musician
- April 26
Nagoya Airfield
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- April 26
South Africa
South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
- April 26
China Airlines Flight 140
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- April 26
Odysseas Vlachodimos
Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer
- April 26
Daniil Kvyat
Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver
- April 27
1994 South African general election
South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.This marked the end of Apartheid.
- April 27
Corey Seager
Corey Seager, American baseball player
- April 28
Central Intelligence Agency
Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- April 28
Jakob Butturff
Jakob Butturff, American bowler (died 2026)
- April 28
Wonpil
Wonpil, South Korean musician
- April 29
Christina Shakovets
Christina Shakovets, German tennis player
- April 30
Formula One
Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
- April 30
Riverdance
Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
- April 30
Wang Yafan
Wang Yafan, Chinese tennis player
- April 30
Chae Seo-jin
Chae Seo-jin, South Korean actress
May
- May 1
Formula One
Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
- May 4
Prime minister
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
- May 4
Abi Masatora
Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
- May 4
Joseph Tapine
Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
- May 5
Bishkek Protocol
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
- May 5
Caning of Michael Fay
American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
- May 5
Celeste (singer)
Celeste, British singer
- May 5
Laura Stacey
Laura Stacey, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 6
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
- May 6
Mateo Kovačić
Mateo Kovačić, Croatian international footballer
- May 7
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
- May 10
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
- May 10
John Wayne Gacy
American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.
- May 11
Hagos Gebrhiwet
Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
- May 11
Nene Macdonald
Nene Macdonald, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
- May 13
Percy Tau
Percy Tau, South African footballer
- May 14
Bronte Campbell
Bronte Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
- May 14
Marquinhos
Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer
- May 14
Pernille Blume
Pernille Blume, Danish swimmer
- May 16
Kathinka von Deichmann
Kathinka von Deichmann, Liechtenstein tennis player
- May 17
Malawi
Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
- May 17
Julie Anne San Jose
Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter
- May 18
Gaza Strip
Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
- May 19
Carlos Guzmán
Carlos Guzmán, Mexican footballer
- May 21
Democratic Republic of Yemen
The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
- May 21
Tom Daley
Tom Daley, English diver
- May 22
Haiti
A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- May 22
Athena Manoukian
Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter
- May 22
Florian Luger
Florian Luger, Austrian male model
- May 24
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- May 24
Daiya Seto
Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
- May 24
Emma McKeon
Emma McKeon, Australian swimmer
- May 24
Emily Temple-Wood
Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
- May 24
Emily Nicholl
Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player
- May 24
Rodrigo De Paul
Rodrigo De Paul, Argentine footballer
- May 24
Jarell Martin
Jarell Martin, American basketball player
- May 25
Matt Murray (ice hockey, born 1994)
Matt Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 25
Aly Raisman
Aly Raisman, American gymnast
- May 26
Gong Myung
Gong Myung, South Korean actor
- May 27
Aymeric Laporte
Aymeric Laporte, French-Spanish footballer
- May 27
Maximilian Arnold
Maximilian Arnold, German footballer
- May 27
Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska
Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, Polish–Thai politician, political scientist, and humanitarian
- May 27
João Cancelo
João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer
- May 28
Alec Benjamin
Alec Benjamin, American singer and songwriter
- May 28
John Stones
John Stones, English footballer
- May 30
Scott Laughton
Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player
June
- June 1
South Africa
Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
- June 1
Kagayaki Taishi
Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler
- June 3
Harrison Bader
Harrison Bader, American baseball player
- June 6
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
- June 6
Barry Sullivan (American actor)
Barry Sullivan, American film actor (born 1912)
- June 6
Mark McManus
Mark McManus, Scottish actor (born 1935)
- June 6
Yvon Mvogo
Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
- June 8
Liv Morgan
Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler
- June 10
DF-31
China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
- June 11
Ivana Baquero
Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
- June 12
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight.
- June 12
Don Toliver
Don Toliver, American rapper and singer-songwriter
- June 13
Anchorage, Alaska
A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
- June 13
Deepika Kumari
Deepika Kumari, Indian archer
- June 13
Atsuhiro Inukai
Atsuhiro Inukai, Japanese actor
- June 14
1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
- June 14
Taeil (singer)
Moon Tae-il, South Korean singer
- June 15
Iñaki Williams
Iñaki Williams, Basque-Ghanaian footballer
- June 16
Rezar
Rezar, Albanian wrestler
- June 17
O. J. Simpson
Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
- June 17
Amari Cooper
Amari Cooper, American football player
- June 18
The Troubles
The Troubles: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rifles, killing six people.
- June 18
Sean McMahon
Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
- June 18
Takeoff (rapper)
Takeoff, American rapper (died 2022)
- June 19
Lejla Njemčević
Lejla Njemčević, Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist
- June 20
Imam Reza Shrine bombing
A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured.
- June 20
Leonard Williams (defensive lineman)
Leonard Williams, American football player
- June 21
Başak Eraydın
Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player
- June 22
Marnus Labuschagne
Marnus Labuschagne, South African-Australian cricketer
- June 22
Sébastien Haller
Sébastien Haller, French-Ivorian footballer
- June 22
Carlinhos (footballer, born June 1994)
Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer
- June 23
NASA
NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
- June 23
Ben Dwarshuis
Ben Dwarshuis, Australian cricketer
- June 23
Roger Martínez
Roger Martínez, Colombian footballer
- June 24
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington, killing four.
- June 26
Hollie Arnold
Hollie Arnold, English javelin thrower
- June 26
Leonard Carow
Leonard Carow, German actor
- June 27
Aum Shinrikyo
Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano, killing eight people and injuring more than five hundred others.
- June 27
Anita Wagner
Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player
- June 28
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
- June 29
Leandro Paredes
Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer
- June 29
Camila Mendes
Camila Mendes, American actress and model
- June 30
Airbus A330
An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all seven people on board.
July
- July 1
Chloé Paquet
Chloé Paquet, French tennis player
- July 2
USAir Flight 1016
USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
- July 2
Henrik Kristoffersen
Henrik Kristoffersen, Norwegian skier
- July 2
Derrick White
Derrick White, American basketball player
- July 3
Chris Jones (defensive tackle, born 1994)
Chris Jones, American football player
- July 4
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
- July 5
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
- July 5
Jeon Jong-seo
Jeon Jong-seo, South Korean actress
- July 5
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player
- July 6
Andrew Benintendi
Andrew Benintendi, American baseball player
- July 7
Timothy Cathcart
Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (died 2014)
- July 7
Ashton Irwin
Ashton Irwin, Australian musician
- July 7
Nigina Abduraimova
Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistani tennis player
- July 8
Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong Il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung.
- July 8
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on an international science mission.
- July 10
Chae Soo-bin
Chae Soo-bin, South Korean actress
- July 11
Lucas Ocampos
Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer
- July 11
Bartłomiej Kalinkowski
Bartłomiej Kalinkowski, Polish footballer
- July 11
Nina Nesbitt
Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- July 11
Anthony Milford
Anthony Milford, Australian rugby league player
- July 12
Kanako Momota
Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter
- July 14
Lucas Giolito
Lucas Giolito, American baseball player
- July 15
Mason Dye
Mason Dye, American actor
- July 16
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
- July 16
Shericka Jackson
Shericka Jackson, Jamaican sprinter
- July 17
Brazil national football team
Brazil won the FIFA World Cup final against Italy 3–2 on penalties, following a 0–0 draw after extra time.
- July 17
Kali Uchis
Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter
- July 18
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
- July 18
AMIA bombing
The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
- July 18
Nilo Soares
Nilo Soares, East Timorese footballer
- July 19
Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901
Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is destroyed by a bomb after takeoff from Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport in Colón, Panama, killing 21.
- July 19
Christian Welch
Christian Welch, Australian rugby league player
- July 20
Maia Shibutani
Maia Shibutani, American ice dancer
- July 24
Phillip Lindsay
Phillip Lindsay, American football player
- July 25
Jordan
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- July 25
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Andrei Vasilevskiy, Russian ice hockey player
- July 25
Matt Dumba
Mathew Dumba, Canadian ice hockey player
- July 25
Natalija Stevanović
Natalija Stevanović, Serbian tennis player
- July 26
Ella Leivo
Ella Leivo, Finnish tennis player
- July 27
Winnie Harlow
Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
- July 28
Hyojung
Hyojung, South Korean singer
- July 28
Walker Buehler
Walker Buehler, American baseball player
- July 29
Liam O'Brien (ice hockey)
Liam O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
- July 29
Daniele Rugani
Daniele Rugani, Italian footballer
- July 30
Nelydia Senrose
Nelydia Senrose, Malaysian actress
August
- August 1
Sergeal Petersen
Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
- August 1
Ayaka Wada
Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
- August 2
Laremy Tunsil
Laremy Tunsil, American football player
- August 2
Laura Pigossi
Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
- August 2
Emil Krafth
Emil Krafth, Swedish footballer
- August 2
MoistCr1tikal
Cr1TiKaL, American YouTuber and streamer
- August 3
Kwon Alexander
Kwon Alexander, American football player
- August 3
Younghoe Koo
Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player
- August 3
Esther Earl
Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)
- August 4
Bobby Shmurda
Bobby Shmurda, American rapper
- August 5
Natalia García
Natalia García, Spanish rhythmic gymnast
- August 8
Cameron Payne
Cameron Payne, American basketball player
- August 9
Kelli Hubly
Kelli Hubly, American soccer player
- August 9
King Von
King Von, American rapper (died 2020)
- August 10
Bernardo Silva
Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
- August 11
Song I-han
Song I-han, South Korean singer
- August 11
Anton Cooper
Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
- August 11
Joseph Barbato
Joseph Barbato, French footballer
- August 11
Storm Hunter
Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
- August 12
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
- August 12
Ian Happ
Ian Happ, American baseball player
- August 13
Filip Forsberg
Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- August 14
Carlos the Jackal
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
- August 14
Maya Jama
Maya Jama, British TV presenter.
- August 15
Kosuke Hagino
Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
- August 15
Lasse Vigen Christensen
Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer
- August 17
Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter
- August 17
Taissa Farmiga
Taissa Farmiga, American actress
- August 17
Jack Conklin
Jack Conklin, American football player
- August 18
Madelaine Petsch
Madelaine Petsch, American actress and YouTuber
- August 18
Seiya Suzuki
Seiya Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- August 18
Morgan Sanson
Morgan Sanson, French footballer
- August 19
Fernando Gaviria
Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
- August 19
Nafissatou Thiam
Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
- August 20
Mitchell Trubisky
Mitchell Trubisky, American football player
- August 21
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
- August 21
Alex Cooper (podcaster)
Alex Cooper, American podcaster
- August 21
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, British-Turkish reality television personality, actress and model
Questions about 1994
What happened in 1994?
This site records 400 entries for 1994, including Far-left politics on January 1. They are listed below by date.
How long ago was 1994?
32 years ago, counting from 2026. Anyone born in 1994 turns 32 this year.
Which century is 1994 in?
1994 falls in the 20th century, in the 1990s.
Which generation was born in 1994?
Millennials (Generation Y) (1981–1996). Came of age around the year 2000 and the rise of the internet.
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