1991

From the left, in the sense of the clock's needles: Boris Yeltsin, chosen as the first president of Russia, waves the new flag of Russia after the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, orchestrated by the Soviet hard line; Mount Pinatubo erupted into the Philippines, making it the second largest volcanic eruption in the century.XX.The MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa, but the crew notoriously leaves the ship before the passengers are rescued; Soviet Union Dissolution: The Soviet flag is dropped from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the flag of the Russian Federation; the United States and the Soviet Union that will soon be dissolved sign the START I Treaty; A tropical cyclone hits

1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 2nd: in Guipuzcoa (Spanish Basque Country) the terrorist group ETA murders Luis García Lozano, acting military governor.
• 4 January:
  • In New York, the UN unanimously votes to condemn Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians.
  • The European Community is issuing to Spain for the poor control of dirt on its beaches.
  • In Poland, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki is appointed new prime minister.
• 6 January:
  • A peace agreement with the Tuaregs was signed in Mali.
  • In Guatemala, Jorge Serrano Elías is elected new president after winning the second round of the general elections.
• January 7: In Haiti, Roger Lafontant (ex-minister of the overthrown dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier), fails in his coup against the democratic president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
• 13 January:
  • In Vilna (Lithuania), the Red Army attacks the radio and television building; 14 people die and hundreds are wounded.
  • In Portugal, the socialist Mário Soares is re-elected president with 70% of the votes.
• January 14: in Guatemala he assumes the presidency Jorge Serrano Elías.
• January 15: In Colombia, Jorge Luis Ochoa is handed over to justice within a process of negotiation by the State.
• January 16: In Iraq, the United States begins the Gulf War (also called Operation Desert Storm).
• 17 January: In Norway, the current king Harald V held the sceptre to the death of his father, Olaf V.
• January 23: in Colombia, members of the Police Search Block release the Sicar brothers David Prisco Lopera and Armando Prisco Lopera. (See: The Priscos)
• January 25: In Colombia, members of the Medellín cartel murder Colombian journalist Diana Turbay just when she was going to be rescued.
• January 26: In Somalia, President Siad Barre is deposed and the country enters civil war.
• January 28: emissions of TNT (Latin America) are started, which broadcasts in South America and Mexico.

February

• 1 February: In north-east Afghanistan, an earthquake of 6.9 in the Richter scale causes 848 deaths and destroys numerous populations.
• 3 or 4 February: in Rimini, the Italian Communist Party ceases to exist officially, after 70 years of history, by approving the XX Congress its conversion to the Democratic Party of the Left.
• February 5: In Colombia, the National Constituent Assembly was set up, which aimed to shape the Constitution of Colombia.
• 7 February: In Spain, the plenary of the Congress of Deputies approves the creation of the Instituto Cervantes, which aims to disseminate Spanish language and culture abroad.
• 9 or 10 February: a plebiscite is held in Lithuania, declared illegal by the Soviet leader Gorbachev, in which 90.47 % of the population asks to be independent of the Soviet Union.
• 10 February: The Peruvian Government imposes the state of emergency because of a cholera epidemic.
• 11 February: In Lithuania, Parliament ratified the plebiscite made two days earlier. The Icelandic Government is the only one that recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
• February 13: In Iraq—in the framework of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, two U.S. "intelligence" bombs destroy an underground civilian shelter, killing hundreds of Iraqi civilians.
• 16 February:
  • In Iraq: Americans and British bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, with dozens of civilian casualties and no military.
  • In Spain, the film Oh, Carmela!, by Carlos Saura, obtains thirteen Goya Awards from the Spanish Film Academy.
  • In the bullring La Macarena de Medellín (Colombia) explodes a car bomb. 17 people die and more than 60 are injured. The crime is attributed to the Cartel de Medellín.
• February 18: In London, UK, the Provisional IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington and Victoria stations.
• February 19: in Seville (Spain) the construction of the Bridge of the V Centenario projected for Expo 92 ends.
• 20 February: In Tirana (Albania), 100,000 people are manifested in favour of the democratization of that country.
• 21 February: Czechoslovakia enters the Council of Europe and becomes the 25th member of this body.
• February 22: The U.S. gives Iraq an ultimatum to withdraw from Kuwait under the threat of an immediate ground offensive.
• 23 February:
  • In Thailand General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloody coup d'etat, destituting Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
  • In Argentina, in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, a 29-year-old tries to assassinate the then radical president Raúl Alfonsín.
• February 24: The U.S. launches a ground offensive against Iraq, within the so-called Persian Gulf War, with the largest attack ever since World War II.
• February 26: In the United States, Tim Berners-Lee presents the internet browser.
• 27 February: the Iraqi army withdraws from Kuwait following the success of the US-led offensive.

March

• 1 March:
  • In Catalonia, Spain, the Constitutional Court requires that officials of the Catalan Government have full knowledge of the Catalan language.
  • The king of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, approves the constitutional reform, the first step towards the replacement of martial power established in the country after the recent coup d'etat.
  • In the hulleras basins of the Soviet Union, 28 000 miners strike for wage increases.
• 3 March:
  • Iraq accepts the conditions of surrender: restitution of Kuwaiti sovereignty and compliance with the UN sanctions, thus officially ending the Persian Gulf War.
  • In Los Angeles (California): An amateur video shoots the beating of Black taxi driver Rodney King (1965-2012).
  • In Colorado Springs (United States), a United Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Denver rotates unchecked in the middle of a turbulence and crashes when trying to land. 25 people die.
• March 10: The legislative and municipal elections are held in El Salvador.
• 17 March: the referendum is held in the Soviet Union.
• March 19: flooding in São Paulo, studies of the SBT channel were destroyed even by the tele journalism
• 21 March: in Madrid, Tres Cantos is independent of the municipality of Colmenar Viejo, becoming the first in an independent municipality
• 26 March: in Asunción (Paraguay), four South American presidents—Carlos Menem (of Argentina), Fernando Collor de Mello (of Brazil), Andrés Rodríguez (of Paraguay) and Luis Alberto Lacalle (of Uruguay)—sign the Treaty of Asunción, which creates Mercosur.
• March 27: In Argentina the Law on the Convertibility of the Austral is sanctioned, starting the homonymous regime.
• March 31: the Warsaw Pact is dissolved in Europe.

April

• 1 April: in the United States, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times They report that U.S. actress Selene Walters (1924-2017) confirmed her claim that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) raped her at her house in 1952.
• April 1: In Chile, Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz was murdered by members of the Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez.
• April 5: In Venezuela, a bus from the Quick Maracaibo line rushes into the waters of Maracaibo Lake from the General Bridge Rafael Urdaneta. Only 10 people survive.
• April 8: Per Yngve Ohlin best known as Dead de Mayhem, commits suicide.
• 9 April: the Republic of Georgia is unilaterally independent of the Soviet Union (although it will be recognized in August 1991).
• April 22: in Costa Rica and Panama, an earthquake of 7.7 hits the Caribbean. The epicenter was located in Pandora, Valle La Estrella, province of Limón (Costa Rica). In Costa Rica and Panama, approximately 2000 dead are recorded.
• April 26: In Andover (Kansas) a tornado happens.
• April 28: Colombia founded the International Poetry Festival of Medellín.
• April 29: In Bangladesh a tropical cyclone happens, killing some 138 000 people.
• April 30: At the departure of the University of La Salle – in Bogotá, Colombia – the former Minister of Justice Enrique Low Murtra is killed.

May

• 1 May: in the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II publishes his ninth encyclical, Centesimus Annus.
• 4 May: in Rome, the song Fångad av in Stormvind by Swedish singer Carola is a winner in the XXXVI Edition of Eurovision.
• 5 May: racial disturbances occur in Mount Pleasant (CDC suburb).
• May 12: officially launches the transmission of La Red in Chile.
• May 14: Chinese Jiang Qing, a widow of Mao Zedong, committed suicide.
• May 17: In Las Vegas, Lupita Jones (representative of Mexico) wins the first crown of Miss Universe for his country.
• 21 May: in Sriperumbudur (India), former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is killed by a bomb hidden in a bouquet of flowers.
• 25 May:
  • In Peru, an armed strike called by the Sendero Luminoso terrorist gang leaves a lot of dead, wounded, and car bombs.
  • Presidential elections are held in Suriname. Win Ronald Venetiaan from the New Front party.
• May 26: municipal elections are held in Spain.
• 29 May: in Vich (Catalonia, Spain), the terrorist group ETA commits the attack on the Guardia Civil barracks, causing 10 deaths and 44 injuries.

June

• June 5: In Chile, the club Colo-Colo is crowned champion of the Copa Libertadores de América
• 12 June:
  • In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian Federation.
  • The Soviet city of Leningrad, already integrated into the Russian Federation, regains its ancient name St.Petersburg.
• June 14th: the 8th edition of the 1991 Sub-20 World Cup begins for the first time in Portugal.
• June 15: In the Philippines, the Pinatubo volcano erupted into what will be the second largest eruption in the twentieth century. The total amount of dead is 800.
• 17 June: South African Parliament abolishes apartheidin force for forty years.
• June 19: In Colombia, drug traffickers Pablo Escobar, in the company of their residents Carlos Aguilar, were handed over. The Mugre and Otoniel de Jesús González, Otto.
• 23 June:
  • Mazda becomes the first Japanese brand to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a Mazda 787B.
• The videogame Sonic the Hedgehog is released for sale on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
• 25 June: Slovenia and Croatia declare their unilateral independence from Yugoslavia.
• June 28: the Economic Mutual Aid Council is dissolved.
• June 28: In the state of California there is a 5.6 earthquake that leaves 2 dead and about 100 wounded.
• June 30: in Lisbon (Portugal) the World Championship is finished sub-20 where the host Portugal is crowned world champion for the second consecutive time by defeating its similar in Brazil for 4-2 for criminals by matching without goals in regulatory time.

July

• 1 July: the Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
• 4 July: in Colombia the National Constituent Assembly promulgates the new Political Constitution of Colombiawhich will be known as 1991 Constitution.
  • In Timor, two earthquakes of 6.9 leave 23 dead and 181 wounded.
• 6 July: the thirty-fifth edition of the Copa América 1991 in Chile is inaugurated.
• July 7: In Merida, Mexico, the American and Caribbean Nating Championship is launched by the end of July 14th.
• 9 July:
  • The International Federation for Human Rights reports that the Canadian police and militia violated human rights during the Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
  • The Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys beats the Club Atlético Boca Juniors for criminals and is dedicated champion of the First Division of Argentine football
• July 10: Boris Yeltsin swears as president of the Russian Federation.
• 11 July:
  • In Nayarit, Mexico, from 12:51 p.m. you can see a solar eclipse that lasts 6 minutes and 37 seconds.
  • Nigeria Airlines flight 2120 crashes near Yeda because of a fire: its 261 occupants die.
  • In Costa Rica at 2:01 p.m. you see a solar eclipse that lasts 6 minutes and 53 seconds.
• July 21st: in Santiago (Chile) the Copa América 1991 and Argentina Contains its 13th Title of Copa América.
• July 22: In Milwaukee (United States) Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested, at his home there are a number of human remains, so the authorities called him “El caníbal de Milwaukee”.

August

• August 4th: On the Costa Salvaje (South Africa) the Greek cruise sinks MTS Oceans.
• August 5: Japanese engineer and businessman Sōichirō Honda dies.
• August 6: In the United States, Tim Berners-Lee distributes documents describing his idea of a global network (Internet).
• August 7: Former Iranian Prime Minister Shapur Bajtiar was killed in Paris.
• August 8: In Lebanon the Islamic organization Jihad liberates John McCarthy, a British journalist kidnapped.
• 11 August:
  • The first round of legislative elections is held in Argentina.
  • They premiere in Nickelodeon the first fully original animated productions called Nicktoons, introducing Doug, the Rugrats and Ren and Stimpy.
• August 12: The first section of the Metro Line A of Mexico City comes into service.
• August 14: The World Youth Day, convened by Pope John Paul II, takes place in Czestochowa, Poland.
• 18 August:
  • Federal elections are held in Mexico.
  • In Moscow, a coup attempt was perpetrated in the Soviet Union against Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 20 August:
  • Estonia becomes independent of the Soviet Union.
  • The Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz, publishes his official debut album Living fast.
• 21 August: Latvia regains its independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 24: Ukraine is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 25 August:
  • Belarus is independent of the Soviet Union.
  • In Finland, the student Linus Torvalds posts a message in the USENET news group comp.os.minix about the new Unix (Linux) type kernel he has been developing.
• August 26: In Argentina the play "Drácula, the musical" directed by Pepe Cibrián and Ángel Mahler is premiered.
• August 27: Moldova is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 31 August: Kyrgyzstan is independent of the Soviet Union.

September

• September 1st: Uzbekistan is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 6 September:
  • Morocco agrees to a ceasefire with the Frente Polisario.
  • In Russia the name of St.Petersburg was returned to the second largest city in the country, which had been renamed Petrograd in 1914 and Leningrad in 1924.
  • Lithuania regains its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 8 September:
  • The Republic of Macedonia is unilaterally independent of Yugoslavia.
  • The second round of legislative elections is held in Argentina.
  • The Monterrey is champion of the Mexico Cup.
• 9 September: Tajikistan is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 15 September:
  • General elections are held in Sweden.
  • In Suriname Ronald Venetiaan is invested president.
• 17 September:
  • The American hard rock band Guns N' Roses launches the so-called "big twins," Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.
  • The American singer Mariah Carey publishes her second studio album Emotions.
  • The Spanish singer José Luis Perales publishes his album America.
  • Mexican boyband Magneto publishes his album Fly, fly.
• 19 September:
  • Near Volturno (Italian Alps), German tourists discover the remains of a human being, who will be baptized as Ötzi (3300 BC).
  • Argentina announces its withdrawal from the Non-Aligned Movement.
  • In Nevada's Emplacement of Tests, the United States blows up the atomic bomb Distant Zeniththe 1120 atomic bomb that detonated that country between 1945 and 1992.
• 21 September:
  • In the United States, the Huntington Library presents the public for the first time Dead Sea Manuscripts.
• Armenia is independent of the Soviet Union.
• September 24th: the second studio album of the American band Nirvana, Nevermind is released, this being its most successful album, with great successes like "smells like teen spirit","come as you are" and lithium
• September 25: It is captured in New York (United States) by Colombian drug dealer Dandenys Muñoz Mosquera, "La Kika".
• September 26: In Oracle (Arizona) the two-year quarantine of an eight-scientist team is launched within the billionaire Biosfera 2 project, built as a self-sufficient ecosystem.
• September 29: In Haiti, President George H. W. Bush's Government deposes democratic President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

October

• October 1st: in Mexico the ZAZ channel begins its transmissions.
• October 3: In Sweden, Ingvar Carlsson resigns as 31st Prime Minister.
• October 4th: In Sweden, Carl Bildt becomes a 32nd Prime Minister.
• 6 October: the legislative elections are held in Portugal.
• October 11: In Ukraine there is an explosion in the turbine room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—where on April 26, 1986 there was the largest radioactive accident in history, but that the government made it work until December 2000, due to the high demand for energy—. Radioactive materials are not released. No mortal victim.
• October 12: In Kyrgyzstan, the Supreme Soviet of the Republic confirms Askar Akayev as president.
• October 16: In Killeen, Texas, a former unemployed Marine named George Hennard goes to a Luby’s cafe in the town, shoots at 23 people, hurts another twenty-seven and then kills himself.
• October 19: In Italy, an earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale shakes the north of the country, leaving 2000 dead.
• October 20: Federal elections are held in Switzerland.
  • In India, an earthquake of 6.8 leaves 768 dead and thousands of homes destroyed.
• October 26: Yugoslav troops attack Dubrovnik.
• 27 October:
  • The legislative elections are held in Colombia.
  • In Argentina, the third round of legislative elections is held.
  • Turkmenistan is independent of the Soviet Union.
• October 28: the "Perfect Tormenta" hits the northeast of the United States, causing 12 deaths and more than $200 million in losses.
• 29 October:
  • The American probe Galileo is the first ship to visit an asteroid, passing by (951) Gaspra.
  • In Bañolas (Spain), the Haitian doctor Alphonse Arcelín denounces the exhibition at the Darder del Negro de Bañolas (cadáver embalsamado de un hombre botsuano de la etnia san (called peyorativamente «bosquimano»), which was exhibited as a circus attraction since 1916. Repatriation to Botswana in 2007.
• 30 October:
  • The Peace Conference for the Near East opened.
  • In Madrid, 30 countries signed the protocol to the Antarctic Treaty, which protects the area from exploitation for 50 years.
  • The Cabrera Archipelago is declared a national park in Spain.

November

• 1 November: the video game Sonic the Hedgehog, the first and best-selling Sonic saga, is released.
• 3 November: in Lima (Peru) the military command Grupo Colina kills 16 innocent people on a site of the Barrios Altos.
• 7 November: In the United States, basketball player Magic Johnson (1959-) announces that he has contracted the HIV virus, and ends his career at the NBA.
• 19 November:
  • Mexican singer Luis Miguel, launches his eighth studio album and first album in Boleros entitled Romance
  • In Tehuacán there is a rail accident that left a balance of 38 dead and 22 injured.
• 23 November: Freddie Mercury publicly declares that he suffers from HIV
• 24 November:
  • In Knightbridge (London), Freddie Mercury — a British songwriter and songwriter from the Queen rock band — dies of bronconeumony at home.
  • General elections are held in Belgium.
• 25 November: in Shanghai China, it ends at the plant then S.A.T.I.C (Shanghai Automobile and Tractor Industry Corporation), now SAIC Motor, the last Sedán Shanghai. First tourism of the history manufactured in that country. The last specimen was the SH7221 model with almost 80,000 units produced from this car since 1964, starting with Shanghai SH760.
• 26 November:
  • The eighth studio album of American singer Michael Jackson is on sale Dangerous.
  • The Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, publishes his debut album studio name as soloist Ricky Martin. (1991), under the musical production of the Spanish Mariano Pérez Bautista.

December

The Soviet Union disappears after the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and the independence of several Soviet states, ending the Cold War.

• 1 December:
  • The independence referendum was held in Ukraine and the first presidential elections were held.
  • In Argentina, the fourth and last round of the legislative elections is held.
• 4 December: the PanAm airline is closed in the United States.
• December 5: In Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk became the first president of that country.
• 8 December: In the natural reserve of Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Bielorrusia) the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine meet, and sign an agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.
• 14 December:
  • in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Argentine rock group Soda Stereo, performs a free recital on Avenida 9 de Julio against 250 000 people, the record of more people in a free recital until today.
  • in Acapulco, the song Where are you now Claudia Brant is a winner at the end of the XX edition of the OTI Festival.
• December 15: CANTV is privatized at the facilities of the Central Bank of Venezuela.
• 16 December: Kazakhstan is independent of the Soviet Union.
• December 20: In Australia, Bob Hawke resigns as prime minister and is succeeded by Paul Keating.
• December 25: In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from the presidency of the Soviet Union and declares the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union.
• 31 December:
  • The Soviet Union ceases to exist officially, becoming de facto the Russian Federation.
  • In Japan, Sumio Iijima discovers the carbon nanotubes.
  • In Venezuela the transmissions of the National Televisor, channel 5.

Births

January

• January 2: Ben Hardy, British actor.
• January 2: Davide Santon, Italian footballer.
• January 2: Yurem Rojas, Mexican actor.
• January 4th: Charles Melton, American actor and model.
• January 7: Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer.
• January 7: Roberto Pereyra, Argentine footballer.
• January 7: Caster Semenya, South African athlete.
• January 8: Jimin, South Korean singer.
• January 12: Pixie Lott, British singer.
• January 12: Raquel González, American professional fighter.
• January 13: Goo Hara, South Korean actress and singer (f. 2019).
• January 15: Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer.
• January 19: Erin Sanders, American actress.
• January 19: Laura de León, actress, model and Colombian television presenter.
• January 20: Jolyon Palmer, British Motor Vehicle Pilot Formula 1.
• January 20: Renato Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer.
• January 21: Javier Calvo, actor, director, screenwriter and Spanish producer.
• January 25: Lucas Buelvas, actor and Colombian model.
• January 27: Julio Teherán, Colombian baseball player.

Calum Worthy

• January 28: Calum Worthy, Canadian actor.
• January 29: Hugh Grosvenor, British aristocrat.

February

• February 2: Nathan Delfouneso, British footballer.
• February 4: Aya ⋅masa, Japanese actress and model.
• February 5: Dio Maddin, American football player, commentator and professional American fighter.
• February 6: Elle Alexandra, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• February 8: Woohyun, singer, actor and South Korean dancer.

Emma Roberts

• February 10: Emma Roberts, American actress.
• February 10: Christofer Drew, American singer.
• 11 February: Sierra Deaton, excomponent singer of the musical duo Alex & Sierra.
• February 14: Karol G, Colombian singer.
• February 16: Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer.
• February 16: Micah Stephen Williams, American actor.
• February 17: Bonnie Wright, British actress.
• February 17: Ed Sheeran, British singer.
• February 17: 6ix, American producer and composer of Bowie, Maryland.
• February 18: Henry Surtees, British motor racing pilot (f. 2009).
• February 18: Vadhir Derbez, Mexican actor.
• February 18: Malese Jow, American actress.
• February 19: Andrea Luna, Peruvian actress and model.
• February 19: Christoph Kramer, German footballer.
• February 21: Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer.

Solar

• February 21: Solar, South Korean singer and composer, leader of the Mamamoo group.
• February 21: Tatiana Ariza, Colombian footballer.
• February 23: Igor Levchenko, Ukrainian footballer.

CL

• February 26: CL, South Korean rapper.
• February 28: Sarah Bolger, Irish actress.
• February 28: Alejandro Valencia, Mexican actor and model.

March

• March 5: Ramiro and Rogelio Funes Mori, Argentine soccer players.
• March 6: Tyler, The Creator, rapper and American producer.

Devon Werkheiser

• March 8: Devon Werkheiser, American actor and singer.
• March 8: Yūichirō Umehara, Japanese voice actor.
• March 8: Alan Pulido, Mexican footballer.
• March 8: Axel Sjöberg, Swedish footballer.
• March 8: Michael Rangel, Colombian footballer.
• March 9: Giannis Anestis, Greek footballer.
• March 11: Qian Lin, Chinese singer.
• March 13: Kwon Nara, South Korean actress and singer.
• March 15: Kie Kitano, actress, singer and Japanese idol gravure.
• March 15: Nataniel Sánchez, Peruvian actress and dancer.
• March 19: Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer.
• March 19: Garrett Clayton, American actor, singer and dancer.
• March 20: Luis Arturo Villar "Luisito Comunica", youtuber Mexican.
• March 21: Antoine Griezmann, French footballer.
• March 21: Djaniny Tavares, a Cape Verdean footballer.
• March 21: Mateus Uribe, Colombian footballer.
• March 24: Eduardo Casanova, actor, screenwriter and Spanish director.
• March 25: Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
• March 26: Estefanía Piñeres, actress, screenwriter and Colombian film producer.
• March 28: Hoya, singer, dancer and South Korean rapper, from the Infinite band.
• March 29: Hayley McFarland, American actress.

Irene

• March 29: Irene, South Korean singer and rapper, group leader Red Velvet.

April

• April 1: Yoav Landau, Israeli-American musician and composer.
• April 3: Hayley Kiyoko, American actress, singer and dancer.

Jamie Lynn Spears

• April 4: Claudia Arce Lemaitre, Bolivian actress and model.
• April 4: Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress.
• April 4: Martín Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• April 7: Anne-Marie, American singer.
• April 8: Audrey Aleen Allen, American model.
• April 8: Melanie Rios, Colombian pornographic actress.
• April 9: Izaro Diez, singer and rapper euskaldun.
• April 10: Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress.
• April 10: Conor Leslie, American actress and photographer.
• April 11: Thiago Alcántara, Spanish footballer.
• April 14: James Frecheville, Australian actor.
• April 14: Pedro Causil, Colombian skater.
• April 16: Nolan Arenado, American baseball player.
• April 22: Alejandro Chumacero, Bolivian footballer.
• April 23: Nathan Baker, British footballer.
• April 27: Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer.

May

• May 1st: Bartosz Salamon, Polish footballer.
• May 1st: Creagen Dow, American actor.
• 2nd of May: Valentin Villafañe, Argentine actor.
• May 2nd: Jonathan Villar, Dominican baseball player.
• 3 May: Carlo Acutis, first Italian millennial beato (f. 2006).
• May 6: Nicolás Cotignola, an Argentine driver of motorism.
• May 9: Oswaldo Arcia, Venezuelan baseball player.
• May 11th Gata Cattana (Ana Isabel García Llorente), Spanish poet and rapper (f. 2017).
• May 13: Francisco Lachowski, Brazilian model.
• May 15: Guillermo Blanco, Peruvian actor and model.
• May 17: Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor.
• May 19: Jordan Pruitt, American singer.
• May 21: Williams Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player.

Suho

• May 22: Suho, South Korean actor and singer, leader of the EXO group.
• May 23: Lena Meyer-Landrut, singer, composer and German actress.
• May 26: Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress.
• May 30: Chloe Amour, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• May 31: Azealia Banks, American rapper.

June

• June 3: Natasha Dupeyrón, Mexican actress and singer.
• June 4: Kathryn and Megan Prescott, British actresses.
• June 5: Martha Sabrina, Mexican actress.
• June 5: Rowen Muscat, Maltese footballer.
• June 7: Emily Ratajkowski, British-American actress and model.
• June 11: Dan Howell, youtuber British.
• June 11: Eduardo Espinilla, Spanish actor.
• June 13: Hana Jirickova, Czech model.
• June 14: Jesy Nelson, British singer.
• June 14: André Carrillo, Peruvian footballer.
• June 18: Willa Holland, American actress and model.
• June 21: Min, South Korean singer.
• June 26: Yeison Jiménez, Colombian singer and composer of popular music.
• June 26: Jesuita Barbosa, Brazilian actor.
• June 27: Germán Pezzella, Argentine footballer.

Seohyun

• June 28: Seohyun, singer, dancer, model, actress, voice actress and South Korean composer, member of the group Girls' Generation.
• June 28: Kang Min Hyuk, South Korean singer and actor.
• June 29: Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player.

Kaho

• June 30: Kaho: Japanese actress and model.

July

• July 1st: Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer.
• July 2: Aczino, Mexican freestyler
• July 3: Tomomi Itano, actress, singer and Japanese model.

Jason Dolley

• July 5: Jason Dolley, American actor and musician.
• July 5: Felipe Rivero, Venezuelan baseball player.
• July 8: Jamie Blackley, British actor.
• July 8: Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer.

Mitchel Musso

• July 9: Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer.
• July 12: Erik Per Sullivan, American actor.
• July 12: James Rodriguez, Colombian footballer.
• July 15: Juana del Rio, Colombian actress.
• July 16: Alexandra Shipp, American actress.
• July 18: Eugenio Suárez, Venezuelan baseball player.

• July 23: Christiane Endler, Chilean footballer
• July 24: Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress.
• July 26: Yeison Jiménez, Colombian singer.
• July 27: Giselle Roberts, American actress.
• July 27: Adam Page, American professional fighter.
• July 29: Orlando Ortega, a Spanish athlete.
• July 29: Paulina Goto, Mexican actress and singer.
• July 30: Diana Vickers, British singer.
• July 30: Carolina Yuste, Spanish actress.

August

• August 1st: Verónica Rodríguez, pornographic actress and erotic Venezuelan model.
• August 2: José Ramón Barreto, Venezuelan actor and singer.
• August 3: Martín Pérez Disalvo, Argentine streamer.
• August 5: Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer.
• August 5: Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican Formula 1 pilot.
• August 7: Mike Trout, American baseball player.
• August 8: Joel Matip, Cameroonian footballer.
• August 9: Alexa Bliss, WWE's American fighter.
• August 9: Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress
• August 11: Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer.
• August 12: Lakeith Stanfield, American actor, poet and rapper.
• August 16: Evanna Lynch, Irish actress.
• August 16: Hayley Chase, American actress.
• August 16: Kwon Ri-Se, Japanese singer and model (f. 2014).
• August 16: Diletta Leotta, Italian model and presenter.

Austin Butler

• August 17: Austin Butler, American actor, singer and model.
• August 18: Richard Harmon, Canadian actor.
• August 18: Viviana Dávila, Colombian model and presenter.
• August 20: Juan Daniel Roa, Colombian footballer.
• August 21: Leandro Bacuna, a priest footballer.
• August 21: Raquel Pélissier, Haitian model.
• August 22: Shany Nadan, Ecuadorian actress.
• August 26: Dylan O'Brien, American actor.
• August 26: Arnaud Démare, French cyclist.

Kyle Massey

• August 28: Kyle Massey, American actor and singer.
• August 28: Samuel Larsen, American actor, singer and model.

September

• September 2: Christian Bethancourt, Panamanian baseball player.
• September 4: Carter Jenkins, American actor.
• September 5: Skandar Keynes, British actor.
• September 6: Laura Cantillo, model and queen of Colombian beauty.
• September 9, Kelsey Chow, American actress.
• September 9: Oscar, Brazilian footballer.
• September 9: Joselyn Gallardo, actress, model and Ecuadorian speaker.
• September 11: Kygo, Norwegian DJ.
• September 12: María Riot, an Argentine sex worker.
• September 13: Eduardo Fernández Rubiño, a Spanish politician and activist.
• September 13: Macarena Paz, Argentine actress.
• September 14: Nana, singer, actress and South Korean model.
• September 15: Lee Jung Shin, member of the CNBLUE group.
• September 15: Tristan Caruana, Maltese footballer.

Marlon Teixeira

• September 16: Marlon Teixeira, Brazilian model.
• September 17: Mena Massoud, Canadian actor.
• September 17: Minako Kotobuki, Japanese singer and voice actress.
• September 20: Genesis Carmona, Venezuelan model (f. 2014).
• September 23: Key, South Korean singer and model, member of the SHINee group.
• September 23: Melanie Oudin, American tennis player.
• September 23: Zia Quizon, Filipino singer.
• 23 September: Mohammad Ansari, Iranian footballer.
• September 23: Bakhtiar Rahmani, Iranian footballer.
• September 23: Kōki Arita, Japanese footballer.
• September 23: Keiya Nakami, Japanese footballer.
• September 23: Nick van der Lijke, Dutch cyclist.
• September 23: Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer.
• September 27: Thomas Mann, American actor.
• September 27: Dillion Harper, an Irish-born American pornographic actress.
• September 27: Blake, Spanish rapper.
• September 28: Carolina Venegas, Costa Rican footballer
• September 29: Natalie Vértiz, model and Peruvian presenter.

October

• October 1: Chiara Molina, Peruvian actress.
• October 2: Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer.
• October 4: Leigh-Anne Pinnock, British singer, Little Mix band.

Xiao Zhan

• October 5: Xiao Zhan, Chinese singer and actor.
• October 6: Roshon Fegan, American actor.
• October 7: Mike Foltynewicz, American baseball player.
• October 7: Lay, Chinese singer and model, member of the EXO group.
• October 7: Nicole Jung, South Korean singer, Kara band.
• October 8: Lina Tejeiro, Colombian actress.
• October 10: Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist.

Lali

• October 10: Lali Espósito, singer and Argentine actress.
• October 13: Diego Domínguez, Spanish actor and singer.
• October 16: Jedward, Irish singers.
• October 17: Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress and singer.
• October 18: Tyler Posey, American actor and musician.
• October 23: Mako of Akishino, Japanese aristocrat.
• October 21: Álex Batllori, Spanish actor.
• October 25: Andrew Norwell, American football player.
• October 27: Islam Makhachev, Russian mixed martial art fighter.

November

• November 5: Molly Stewart, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• November 6: Pierson Fodé, American actor and model.
• November 8: Riker Lynch, American singer and bassist, from the R5 band.
• 9 November: Ashley, South Korean singer, from the Ladies band Code.
• 9 November: Maria Grazia Gamarra, Peruvian actress and singer.

Matt Bennett

• November 13: Matt Bennett, American actor.
• 13 November: Devon Bostick, Canadian actor.

Shailene Woodley

• November 15: Shailene Woodley, American actress.
• 16 November: Tomomi Kasai, Japanese singer and actress.
• November 20: Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model.
• November 23: Christian Cueva, Peruvian footballer.

December

• December 2: Charlie Puth, American singer.
• December 3: Pietro Boselli, Italian model and engineer.
• December 5: Christian Yelich, American baseball player.
• December 6: Ariadna Gaya, Spanish actress.
• December 9: Minho, singer, model and South Korean actor, member of the SHINee group.
• December 11: Daniel Fernández Delgado, component of the Auryn musical group.
• December 13: Gastón Soffritti, actor and Argentine singer.

Mitsuki Takahata

• December 14: Mitsuki Takahata, Japanese actress and singer.
• December 15: Javier Abad, Spanish actor.
• December 17: Lee Jae Jin, South Korean singer.
• December 18: Rosmeri Marval, Venezuelan actress.
• December 19: Jorge Blanco, Mexican singer, actor and dancer.
• December 19: Declan Galbraith, British singer.
• December 19: Sumire Uesaka, voice actress and Japanese singer.
• December 20: Jillian Rose Reed, American actress.
• December 20: Colin Woodell, American actor.

Louis Tomlinson

• December 24: Louis Tomlinson, British singer.
• December 26: Eden Sher, American actress.
• December 27: Chloe Bridges, American actress.
• December 27: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, German actor and rapper.
• December 29: Denis Martin, Argentine motor racing pilot (f. 2015).
• December 31: Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player.
• December 31: Ihor Kostenko, journalist, student activist and Ukrainian wikipedist (f. 2014).

Unknown dates

• Marialbert Barrios, Venezuelan politics.

Deaths

Art and literature

• The novelist Alfredo Conde is Nadal Prize The other days.
• The novelist José Saramago publishes the book The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.
• The philosopher Fernando Savater publishes the book The Value of Educating.
• Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina (1956-) publishes the novel The Polish rider.

Science and technology

Computer Science

• October 6: at Helsinki University (Finland), Linus Torvalds creates the Linux kernel based on Unix systems
• The first version of Microsoft Publisher is created in the United States.

Astronautics

• July 17: launch of the European Earth Observation Satellite ERS.
• 29 October: the ship GalileoOn the way to Jupiter, overflew the asteroid (951) Gaspra.

Medicine and Biology

• Until 1991 2114 genes of the human genome have been identified.
• The Peruvian government imposes the state of emergency on a cholera epidemic.
• Robert Gallo withdraws the lawsuits against Luc Montagnier on the priority of the discovery of the AIDS virus.
• Julio Reyes, James Mead and Koen van Waerebeek describe for the first time the minor zifio (Mesoplodon peruvianus).

Video games

Important Facts

• February 6: Capcom Releases Street Fighter II: The World Warrior for Arcades. It has become the most successful video game of fights of the franchise and helped revitalize the videogames industry for Arcades.
• April: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console for sale in Europe, in Spain on June 12 and Australia in July and Latin America in August.
• June 23: the video game is published Sonic the Hedgehog, starring the homonymous character who becomes a pet of SEGA.
• July 19: sale in Japan for the Super Nintendo, Final Fantasy IV, the fourth title of the Squaresoft saga that introduces 16-bit graphics.

August: Game Informer, a specialized video game magazine, goes on sale in the United States.

• October: the first copy of Hobby Consoles comes out for sale.
• November 6: Capcom's video game, named Captain Commando, comes out.
• December: the first copy of the Club Nintendo Magazine of Mexico is released for sale.
• December 12: The Sega Mega CD is first launched in Japan.

• December 26: The U.R.S.S. After 69 years of existence and 2 years after losing the cold war, Announce the Dissolution and Dismantling of the U.R.S.S.

Video game companies

• February 1st: born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the American developer Id Software, founded by John Carmack, Adrian Carmack and John Romero.
• February 8: US company Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) was founded where he was responsible for video games to other studies.
• May: the American developer Bungie is born, a study of the acclaimed franchise of Halo and Marathon.
• September 12: Founded in North America The 3DO Company, by the businessman and co-founder of Electronic Arts, Trip Hawkins.

List of video games

• Lemmings
• Mega Man 4
• Final Fantasy IV
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
• Super Castlevania IV
• Super Bowl
• Metroid II: Return of Samus
• Civilization
• Starblade (Arcade)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
• Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
• Road Rash
• Another World
• Alien Breed
• Sonic The Hedgedog

Sports

Athletics

• World Athletic Championship: the third edition is held in Tokyo, Japan.

Motor Racing

• Formula 1: Ayrton Senna gets his third and final title, aboard a McLaren.
• WRC: Juha Kankkunen wins the title on board a Lancia Delta Integrale
• Rally Dakar: Ari Vatanen wins competition on board a Citroën ZX
• NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt wins the title on board a Chevrolet Lumina
• CART: Michael Andretti wins the title aboard a Lola-Chevrolet
• 500 Miles from Indianapolis: Rick Mears wins the competition
• Road Tourism: Oscar Aventín wins the title on board a Ford Falcon
• Tourism Competition 2000: Juan María Traverso wins the title on board a Coupé Fuego

Basketball

• FC Barcelona is proclaimed champion of the King of Basketball Cup.
• Chicago Bulls gets his first NBA championship. Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen are the top stars of that title.

Handball

• FC Barcelona is proclaimed champion of the Balonmano European Cup.

Baseball

• Venezuela, January 29. Lara's Cardinals get their first championship after 25 years in the Venezuelan League of Professional Baseball when they beat the Caracas Lions with a score of 1-0 in the sixth game of the Final.

Cycling

• World Trial Championship: Jordi Tarrés (Spain), world champion.
• Miguel Induráin wins his first Tour de France.

Football

• Women's World Cup Soccer: is celebrated in China the first edition of the Women's World where the United States is proclaimed champion after winning Norway by 2:1.
• Intercontinental Cup: Red Star.
• Mexican League: Pumas de la UNAM. Champion of the 1990/91 league to the Club America.

• Champions League: Red Star.
• Copa Libertadores de América: Collo-Colo.
• Coup Europe: Manchester United.
• UEFA Cup: Internazionale.
• European Super Cup: Manchester United.
• Recopa Sudamericana: Olympia.
• South American Super Cup: Cruzeiro EC.
• Concacaf Champions Cup: Puebla FC.
• Inter-American Cup: Club America.

• FC Barcelona is proclaimed champion of the Spanish Football League.
• The Club Atlético de Madrid wins the final of the Copa del Rey de Football.
• Golden Ball: the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Papin, of the Olympique de Marseille, is appointed best footballer in the world of the year by the magazine France Football.
• Colo-Colo de Chile is proclaimed champion of the Chilean football league.
• Newell's Old Boys of Argentina is dedicated champion for the third opportunity in its history of the First Argentine division after winning the 1990/1991 Integration Tournamentdefeating at the end the Boca Juniors Club.
• Barcelona is a champion for the eleventh time in its history of the Ecuadorian Football Championship.
• Chilean Cup: Catholic University
• Professional Colombian Football: National athletic
• Bolivian football championship: Bolívar (La Paz) Champion; San José (Oruro) Subcampeón.
• Beginning of the First Women ' s Division of Argentina

Rhythmic Gymnastics

The Spanish set of rhythmic gymnastics with gold in the World Cup of Athens (1991).

• October 12: The Spanish set of rhythmic gymnastics achieves the first gold medal for Spain in a World Championship of Ritmic Gymnastics. World champion was proclaimed in the general contest Athens World Championship. The group consisted of Débora Alonso, Lorea Elso, Bito Fuster, Isabel Gómez, Montse Martín and Gemma Royo, as well as Marta Aberturas and Cristina Chapuli as alternates.

Swimming

• In Perth, Australia, the sixth edition of World Swimming Championship.
• January 2: Martín López Zubero wins the first gold medal in the history of Spanish swimming.

Tennis

• Wimbledon: Men: Michael Stich to Boris Becker. Women: Steffi Graf to Gabriela Sabatini.
• Roland Garros: Men: Jim Courier to Andre Agassi. Women: Mónica Seles a Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.
• US Open: Men: Stefan Edberg to Jim Courier. Women: Monica Seles to Martina Navratilova.
• Australian Open: Men: Boris Becker to Ivan Lendl. Women: Monica Seles to Mary Joe Fernández.

Cinema

Premieres

• 13 February: The Silence of the Lambs (The silence of the lambs / The silence of the innocentJonathan Demme.
• 24 May: Thelma and Louise Ridley Scott.
• 3 July: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Terminator 2: The Final JudgmentJames Cameron.
• 12 July: Boyz n the hood by John Singleton
• 9 August: Double Impact of Sheldon Lettich.
• 21 August: Barton Fink Joel and Ethan Coen.
• August 30: Child's Play 3 by Don Mancini.
• 13 November: Beauty and the Beast (The beauty and the beastGary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.

Music

The British band Oasis is formed.

• 2Pac: 2Pacalypse Now
• a-ha: Headlines and Deadlines: The Hits of a-ha
• Aerosmith: Pandora's Box
• Acoustic Alchemy: Back on the Case
• Alberto Plaza: Propellers
• Alvaro Torres: Nothing compares to you.
• Alejandra Guzmán: Paper flower
• Alejandro Sanz: Living fast (20 August).
• Alix Bauer: For the first time
• Ana Gabriel: My Mexico
• Atheist: Unquestionable presence
• Bad Religion: Against the grain
• Badlands: Voodoo Highway
• White Band: Caracol Soup
• Barricada: By instinct
• Gold Binomial: From America
• Blur: Leisure
• Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991
• Bronco: Salvaje and Tierno
• Bryan Adams: Waking Up The Neighbours
• Witchcraft: Cheetazos!
• Björk: Gling-Gló
• B'z: In the live (27 November).
• Camilo Sesto: At the will of heaven (15 October)
• Singing Learning to Speak: Vol. 2
• Cheap Trick: The Greatest Hits
• Cher: Love Hurts
• David Bryan: Netherworld
• Death: Human
• Dire Straits: On Every Street
• Diomedes Díaz: My musical life
• Eduardo Capetillo: You got me.
• Electronic: Electronics
• Enya: Shepherd Moons
• Europe: Prisoners In Paradise
• Eurythmics: Greatest Hits
• Fobia: Happy World
• Fear Factory: Concrete
• Gaby Ruffo and Liza Echeverría: TVO
• Genesis: We can't dance
• George Harrison: Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989
• Glass Tiger: Simple Mission
• Gloria Estefan: Into the light
• Gloria Trevi: Your guardian angel
• Green Day: 1.039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
• Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I
• Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II
• Hermetics: Argentinian acid
• Helloween: Pink Bubbles Go Ape
• Ivan Villazón: The company
• Julian: Fly my imagination (19 November)
• Kraftwerk: The Mix
• The Law: opposite
• Lacrimosa: Angst
• Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said
• Loco Mía: Crazy vox
• Los Chiches del Vallenato: Impact
• The Chichos: Friends don't pass na
• The Devils: Tennis
• The Northern Tigers: Untiring
• The Toribians: The Toribians
• The Three: The Three
• Lucero: I just think of you..
• Lucia Méndez: Kiss me.
• Luis Angel: From the heart of man
• Luis Miguel: Romance, his first album of boleros produced by Armando Manzanero and co-produced by Luis Miguel.
• Magneto: Fly, fly
• Mariah Carey: Emotions
• Martika: Martika's Kitchen
• Massive Attack: Blue Lines
• Mecano: Aidalai
• Mercedes Ferrer: Imam
• Metallica: Metallica (The Black Album)
• Michael Jackson: Dangerous (26 November)
• Miguel Mateos: Kryptonita
• Mikel Erentxun: Shipwrecks
• Mike Oldfield: Heaven's open
• Morbid Angel: Blessed Are The Sick
• Motörhead: 1916
• Mr. Big: Lean Into It (album)
• Mr. Big: To Be With You
• Musikit: Musikit
• My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
• Mylène Farmer: L'Autre...
• Nirvana: Nevermind (24 September)
• NOFX: "Ribbed"
• I know who and the Nose how many: With the respect they deserve
• Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tears
• Pandora: With eternal love
• Paradise Lost Gothic
• Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota: Fly and soup
• Pearl Jam: Here.
• Pestilence: Testimony Of The Ancient
• Pet Shop Boys: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
• Primal Scream: Screamadelica
• Project M: Arde that you burn me (19 November)
• Public Enemy: Apocalypse '91...the Enemy Strikes Black
• Queen: Innuendo
• Queen: Greatest Hits II
• White Rat: Rainbow Warrior
• Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (24 September)
• Ricardo Arjona: The other side of the sun
• Ricardo Montaner: In the last place of the world
• Ricky Martin: Ricky Martin. (26 November)
• Rod Stewart: Vagabond Heart
• Los Rodríguez: Good luck.
• Rosendo: Let me tell you no!
• Roxette: Joyride
• Rush: Roll the Bones
• Sasha Sokol: I'm sorry.
• Seal: Seal
• Sepulture: Arise
• Shakira: Magic
• Simple Minds: Real Life
• Simply Red: Stars
• Skid Row: Slave to the Grind
• Slayer: Decade of Aggression
• Slowdive: Just For A Day
• Soda Stereo: Rex-Mix
• Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (8 October)
• Sting: The Soul Cages
• Tarkan: Dudu
• Thalía: World of glass
• Texas: Mothers Heaven
• The Silencers: Dance to the Holy Man
• The Smashing Pumpkins: Gish
• Timbiriche: Timbiriche 11
• U2: Achtung Baby
• Van Halen: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
• Vico C: Hispanic Soul
• Vital Remains: The Black Mass
• X: Jealousy

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
• Chemistry: Richard R. Ernst.
• Medicine: Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann.
• Literature: Nadine Gordimer.
• Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi.
• Economy: Ronald Coase.

Prince of Asturias Awards

• Arts: Victoria de los Angeles, Teresa Berganza, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Pilar Lorengar, Alfredo Kraus and Plácido Domingo.
• Social Sciences: Miguel Artola Gallego.
• Communication and Humanities: Luis María Anson.
• Concordia: Doctors Without Borders and Medicus Mundi.
• International cooperation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
• Sports: Sergéi Bubka.
• Scientific and Technical Research: Francisco Bolívar Zapata.
• Letters: Puerto Rico Village.

Cervantes Award

• Francisco Ayala.