What Happened in 1999 — Events, Births & Deaths

The Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).

The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.

Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.

The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.

War on drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.

Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 19 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.

Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.

Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.

United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.

China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes in Rui'an, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.

Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four.

Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.

Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.

Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.

Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.

Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.

United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an American McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle shoots a passenger train, killing between 20 and 60 people.

NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.

A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.

Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.

Outbreak of CIH computer virus.

Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.

Panamanian general election: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.

The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 484 ± 32 kilometres per hour (301 ± 20 mph). In meteorology, the term "May 3" is synonymous with the F5 tornado.

Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.

The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

Mother's Day bus crash kills 22 passengers and injures another 22, including the driver in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.

In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.

Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

53 people are killed in a stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus.

American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.

U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.

In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.

The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.

ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.

Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.

Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.

The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.

Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

One person is killed and five people are injured in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.

Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.

In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.

China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.

Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.

The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.

The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.

A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.

The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affects the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.

Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.

The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.

Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

The magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake strikes Southern California

Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.

The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.

A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.

Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.

EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.

Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.

Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.

TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.

At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.

Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.

The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female prime minister in New Zealand's history.

Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.

NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

In Worcester, Massachusetts, firefighters responded to a fire at the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. facility, which takes the lives of 6 firefighters.

A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.

Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.

SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, killing six people, injuring 40, and causing power outages that affected the capital Manila.

Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.

The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.

Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.

Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).

Cubana de Aviación Flight 310, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Bejuma, Carabobo State, Venezuela, killing 22 people.

The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.

Burger King and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission order a recall of plastic Poké Ball containers after they are determined to be a choking hazard.

The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.

Tomás Chancalay, Argentine footballer

Azmy Qowimuramadhoni, Indonesian-Azerbaijani badminton player

Georgios Kalaitzakis, Greek basketball player

Fernando Tatís Jr., Dominican baseball player

Aaron Wiggins, American professional basketball player

Wessam Abou Ali, Palestinian footballer

Daniel Arzani, Iranian-Australian footballer

Jan-Niklas Beste, German footballer

Nico Hischier, Swiss ice hockey player

Jaeman Salmon, Australian rugby league player

Collin Sexton, American basketball player

Mattias Svanberg, Swedish footballer

Filip Ugrinić, Swiss footballer

Polo G, American rapper

Mac McClung, American basketball player

Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player

Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter

Mason Mount, English footballer

Youssouf Fofana, French footballer

Jeanette Hegg Duestad, Norwegian sport shooter

Lim Sung-jin, South Korean volleyball player

Brandon Wakeham, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

Xavier Tillman, American basketball player

Tyler Roberts, Welsh footballer

Declan Rice, English footballer

Emerson Royal, Brazilian footballer

D'Andre Swift, American football player

Isa Briones, American actor and singer

Karan Brar, American actor

Tee Higgins, American football player

Djorkaeff Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer

Gary Trent Jr., American basketball player

Mateus Ward, American actor

Jonathan Taylor, American football player

Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer

Rubina Ali, Indian actress

Fūju Kamio, Japanese actor

Alisha Lehmann, Swiss footballer

Andrew Thomas, American football player

Alban Lafont, French footballer

Vitalie Damașcan, Moldovan footballer

Niki, Indonesian singer and songwriter

Tristan Wirfs, American football player

Leonardo Balerdi, Argentine footballer

Travis Etienne, American football player

Mohamed Abdelmonem, Egyptian footballer

Jeff Okudah, American football player

Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress

MJ Lenderman, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Omar Marmoush, Egyptian footballer

Alessia Russo, English footballer

Tiffany Espensen, American actress

Tyler Adams, American soccer player

Ignatius Ganago, Cameroonian footballer

Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer

Alex de Minaur, Australian tennis player

Jarrett Culver, American basketball player

Metawin Opas-iamkajorn, Thai actor and singer

Harry Brook, English cricketer

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer

Matvey Safonov, Russian footballer

Rocky, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter

Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player

Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer

Isiah Pacheco, American football player

Iñaki Peña, Spanish footballer

Corey Kispert, American basketball player

Brooklyn Beckham, English model and socialite

Madison Beer, American singer-songwriter

Justin Fields, American football player

Yeri, South Korean singer and actress

Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player

Ronald Araújo, Uruguayan footballer

Nathan McSweeney, Australian cricketer

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Finnish ice hockey player

Cole Kmet, American football player

Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player

Olivia Dean, English singer-songwriter

Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player

Diogo Dalot, Portuguese footballer

Nico Collins, American football player

Mick Schumacher, German racing driver

Katie Swan, English tennis player

Mikey Madison, American actress

Jesser, American YouTuber

Alex O'Connor, English media personality

Japhet Tanganga, English footballer

Brooke Scullion, Irish Singer

Jens Odgaard, Danish professional footballer

Denys Strekalin, Ukrainian-born pair skater

Adam Chrzanowski, Polish professional footballer

Santiago Chocobares, Argentine rugby union player

Ballou Tabla, Canadian professional soccer player

Elžbieta Kropa, Lithuanian figure skater

Edon Zhegrova, professional footballer

Shiann Salmon, Jamaican track and field athlete

Ben Williams, Welsh professional footballer

Luca Pizzul, Italian professional footballer

Sander Raieste, Estonian professional basketball player

Jonas Røndbjerg, Danish ice hockey player

Adele Tan, Singaporean sports shooter

Nuno Pina, Portuguese football player

Tereza Jančová, Slovak skier

Maren Lutz, German female canoeist

Shehana Vithana, Sri Lankan-Australian professional squash player

Providence Cowdrill, English cricketer

Ricardo Felipe, Brazilian footballer

Gabe Davis, American football player

Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

Bobby Miller, American baseball player

CeeDee Lamb, American football player

Stanley Nsoki, French footballer

Lil Nas X, American rapper

Rúben Vinagre, Portuguese footballer

Alessandro Bastoni, Italian footballer

András Schäfer, Hungarian footballer

Chase Young, American football player

Denis Shapovalov, Israeli-Canadian tennis player

Sebastian Kris, Australian-NewZealand rugby league player

Choi Hyun-suk, South Korean rapper

Son Chaeyoung, South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter

Laufey, Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician

Ziyu He, Chinese violinist

Jerry Jeudy, American football player

Peter Hola, Australian rugby league player

Mateo Retegui, Argentine-Italian footballer

Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster

Krit Amnuaydechkorn, Thai actor and singer

YNW Melly, American rapper

Tiffany Stratton, American wrestler

Tom Hartley, English cricketer

Ella Langley, American singer-songwriter

Nathan Chen, American figure skater

Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer

Pato O'Ward, Mexican racing driver

Tommy Fury, English boxer

Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer

Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress

Hiroki Itō, Japanese footballer

Óscar Mingueza, Spanish footballer

Aníbal Moreno, Argentine footballer

Anastasia Gasanova, Russian tennis player

Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter

Samuel Chukwueze, Nigerian footballer

Femke Huijzer, Dutch model

Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler

James Charles, American internet personality

Trinidad Cardona, American singer and songwriter

Sandro Mamukelashvili, Georgian-American basketball player

Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor

Brec Bassinger, American actress

Ibrahima Konaté, French footballer

Micah Parsons, American football player

Georgia Wareham, Australian cricketer

Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer

Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model

Cameron Boyce, American actor (died 2019)

Jodie Burrage, British tennis player

Park Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and singer

Eddie Nketiah, English footballer

Guanyu Zhou, Chinese race car driver

Technoblade, American YouTuber and streamer (died 2022)

Dmytro Udovychenko, Ukrainian violinist

Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league player

Cameron Green, Australian cricketer

Dzhem Yamenov, Bulgarian politician

Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress

Drew Pavlou, Australian activist

Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer

Blanche, Belgian singer

Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer

Kai Havertz, German footballer

CarryMinati, Indian YouTuber

Chou Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer

Justin Jefferson, American football player

Ibrahima Koné, Malian footballer

Snail Mail, American singer-songwriter

Henri Jokiharju, Finnish ice hockey player

Brianna LaPaglia, American influencer and podcaster

Elena Rybakina, Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player

Choi Ye-won, South Korean singer and actress

Trippie Redd, American rapper

Jordan Poole, American basketball player

Ky Rodwell, Australian rugby league player

Sam Retford, Australian-English actor

Darwin Núñez, Uruguayan footballer

Connor Dewar, Canadian ice hockey player

Will Levis, American football player

Chandler Riggs, American actor

Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player

Nefisa Berberović, Bosnian tennis player

Moa Kikuchi, Japanese musician

Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player

Kang Hye-won, South Korean actress and singer

Moussa Diaby, French footballer

İpek Öz, Turkish tennis player

Claire Corlett, American voice actress

April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer

San, South Korean singer and dancer

Braydon Trindall, Australian rugby league player

Mohamed Sobhy, Egyptian footballer

Jarred Kelenic, American baseball player

Miro Heiskanen, Finnish ice hockey player

Kim So-hye, South Korean actress and singer

Pop Smoke, American rapper and singer (died 2020)

Goga Bitadze, Georgian basketball player

Evan McPherson, American football player

Sidney Chu, Hong Kong skater

Jason Robertson, American ice hockey player

GloRilla, American rapper

Joey King, American actress

Tom Pidcock, professional cyclist and Olympian

Anastasios Douvikas, Greek footballer

Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

Joël Piroe, Dutch-Surinamese footballer

Zach Wilson, American football player

Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer

Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

Kim Si-hyeon, South Korean singer

Hunter Greene, American baseball player

Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter

Xiaojun, Chinese singer

Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater

Ja Morant, American basketball player

Ritomo Miyata, Japanese racing driver

Nick Suzuki, Canadian ice hockey player

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, Indonesian badminton player

Changbin, South Korean rapper

Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer

Dream, American YouTuber

Jule Niemeier, German tennis player

GK Barry, social media star and presenter

Lennon Stella, Canadian singer and actress

Paola Reis, BMX rider

Karen Chen, American figure skater

Cassius Stanley, American basketball player

Ethan Cutkosky, American actor and musician

Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player

Florentino Luís, Portuguese footballer

Maxim Knight, American actor

Saya Sakakibara, Australian cyclist

Rosa, former sea otter at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Naz Reid, American basketball player

Kotoshoho Yoshinari, Japanese sumo wrestler

Cam Reddish, American basketball player

Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper and singer

Filip Chytil, Czech ice hockey player

Gracie Abrams, American singer-songwriter

Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist

Ellie Kildunne, English rugby player

Vivianne Härri, Swiss alpine skier

Shubman Gill, Indian cricketer

Laura Taylor, Australian swimmer

jschlatt, American YouTuber and singer

Jerome Ford, American football player

Açucena, Brazilian politician

Yeonjun, South Korean singer, songwriter and dancer

Jaren Jackson Jr., American basketball player

Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player

Jaimee Fourlis, Australian tennis player

Daniel Huttlestone, English actor

Precious Achiuwa, Nigerian basketball player

Alexander Isak, Eritrean-Swedish professional footballer

Wang Junkai, Chinese singer

Lizzy McAlpine, American singer-songwriter

Curry Barker, American filmmaker and actor

Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor

Kim You-jung, South Korean actress

Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer

Kayla Day, American tennis player

Choi Ye-na, South Korean singer and dancer

Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer

Trevor Lawrence, American football player

Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Turkish footballer

Putthipong Assaratanakul, Thai actor and singer

Camila Rossi, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

Leicester Fainga'anuku, New Zealand rugby union player

Keldon Johnson, American basketball player

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician

Andrew Capobianco. American diver

Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player

Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer

Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer

Aaron Nesmith, American basketball player

Nicolò Bulega, Italian motorcycle racer

Carlotta Truman, German singer-songwriter

Chuu, South Korean singer and television personality

YoungBoy Never Broke Again, American rapper

Matteo Gabbia, Italian footballer

Geraldo Perdomo, Dominican baseball player

Yui Kobayashi, Japanese idol

Amon-Ra St. Brown, American football player

Clara Soccini, Italian singer-songwriter, actress and model

Romeo Langford, American basketball player

Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

Danielle Rose Russell, American actress

Léa Serna, French figure skater

Park Woo-jin, South Korean singer

Emma Maltais, Canadian ice hockey player

Mink Nutcharut, Thai snooker player

Isaac Bonga, German basketball player

Katherine Uchida, Canadian rhythmic gymnast

Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer

Armand Duplantis, Swedish-American pole vaulter

Michael Cimino, American actor

Hugo Duro, Spanish footballer

João Félix, Portuguese footballer

Michael J. Keplinger, Austrian musician and filmmaker

Kiernan Shipka, American actress

X González, American activist

Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and actress

Brett Baty, American baseball player

Lando Norris, British-Belgian race car driver

Bol Bol, South Sudanese-American basketball player

Mats Wieffer, Dutch footballer

Gabi Gonçalves, Brazilian politician

Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater

Jaelin Howell, American soccer player

Trey McBride, American football player

Dwight McNeil, English footballer

Boubacar Kamara, French footballer

Jaycee Horn, American football player

Olivia O'Brien, American singer-songwriter

Jacob Shaffelburg, Canadian soccer player

Jung Wooyoung, South Korean singer and dancer

Trey Jemison, American basketball player

Lloyd Pope, Australian cricketer

Nico Schlotterbeck, German footballer

Kim Do-yeon, South Korean singer and actress

Kang Mi-na, South Korean actress and singer

Boo Buie, American basketball player

Pavol Regenda, Slovak ice hockey player

Reece James, English footballer

Tyrus Wheat, American football player

Reiss Nelson, English footballer

Marina Bassols Ribera, Spanish tennis player

Holly Humberstone, English singer-songwriter

Mirei Sasaki, Japanese singer, model, and actress

Dorka Juhász, Hungarian basketball player

Samuel Lino, Brazilian footballer

Adut Akech, South Sudanese-Australian fashion model

Brock Purdy, American football player

Iqbaal Ramadhan, Indonesian actor and singer

Andreas Skov Olsen, Danish footballer

Francisco Trincão, Portuguese footballer

Calvin Bassey, Italian-Nigerian footballer

Leif Davis, English footballer

Joe D'Amato, Italian director and cinematographer (born 1936)

Jay Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded the Hyatt Corporation (born 1922)

King Hussein of Jordan (born 1935)

William Bronk, American poet and academic (born 1918)

Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (born 1922)

Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (born 1918)

Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (born 1914)

Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (born 1924)

Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (born 1914)

Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)

Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (born 1906)

Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (born 1922)

Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (born 1919)

Buddy Rogers, American actor (born 1904)

Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1926)

Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator (born 1930)

Omer Côté, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1906)

Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (born 1902)

Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1918)

Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (born 1928)

John Archer, American actor (born 1915)

Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1942)

Madeline Kahn, American actress, comedian, and singer (born 1942)

Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (born 1909)

Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)