Historical figures in 1994
The atlas holds 47 people and 86 moments here, in 1994. The most recorded lives are Selena, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Whitney Houston. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Musicians and Composers.
Notable people
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1994
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Kim Dae-jung
in 1994
1 moment here
South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
Kim Il Sung
in 1994
1 moment here
Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Kurt Cobain
in 1994
4 moments here
American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and founding member of Nirvana. This chronology maps documented residences, recording sessions, performances,…
Maryam Mirzakhani
in 1994
1 moment here
Iranian mathematician whose work transformed the study of hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces, and dynamics.…
Mercedes Sosa
in 1994
1 moment here
Argentine folk singer and leading exponent of the nuevo cancionero movement, internationally known for interpreting Latin American popular song and…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1994
2 moments here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Nelson Mandela
in 1994
4 moments here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Richard Nixon
in 1994
2 moments here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Ronald Reagan
in 1994
3 moments here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Parks
in 1994
1 moment here
American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Selena
in 1994
12 moments here
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known mononymously as Selena, was an American Tejano singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and business owner.…
Silvio Berlusconi
in 1994
1 moment here
Italian media entrepreneur, owner of AC Milan, and politician who served three terms as prime minister of Italy (1994–1995, 2001–2006, and…
Stephen Hawking
in 1994
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1994
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sydney Brenner
in 1994
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Teresa Teng
in 1994
1 moment here
Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng (Teng Li-yun; 1953–1995) became one of the most influential popular vocalists in the Chinese-speaking world and across…
Trần Đại Quang
in 1994
1 moment here
Vietnamese police general and politician who served as Minister of Public Security from 2011 to 2016 and as President of Vietnam from April 2016…
Tupac Shakur
in 1994
1 moment here
American rapper, actor, poet, and political activist, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli. His documented life included childhood in New York City and…
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
in 1994
2 moments here
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) was a Russian politician, founder and long-time leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.…
Whitney Houston
in 1994
6 moments here
American singer, actress, producer, and cultural icon known for recordings including “I Will Always Love You,” major world tours, film roles, and…
Yasser Arafat
in 1994
1 moment here
Palestinian political leader, founding member of Fatah, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004, and president of the…
Yitzhak Rabin
in 1994
2 moments here
Israeli military officer, statesman, prime minister, ambassador, and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.…
Moments
- 1994 Lindau lecture on Newton and Michelangelo Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1994 Arrival in Moscow after rail journey Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1994 Death at Ilmington Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1994 Death at Hyangsan residence Kim Il Sung
- 1994 FIFA World Cup closing ceremony Whitney Houston
- 1994 Washington Declaration with Jordan Yitzhak Rabin
- 1994 Attack at her Detroit home Rosa Parks
- 1994 Universal Amphitheater concert Selena
- 1994 State visit to Moscow Jiang Zemin
- 1994 D.C. Armory concert Selena
- 1994 Guatemala City concert Selena
- 1994 Javits Center appearance Selena
- 1994 Visit to Israel Abdurrahman Wahid
- 1994 Speech at the State Duma Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1994 Stayed in the Moscow Kremlin Elizabeth II
- 1994 Visited Saint Petersburg Elizabeth II
- 1994 Assassination attempt outside Agouza home Naguib Mahfouz
- 1994 Arrival in Pyongyang Vladimir Zhirinovsky
- 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty signing Yitzhak Rabin
- 1994 Meeting in Kuala Lumpur Jiang Zemin
- 1994 Lusaka Protocol signing José Eduardo dos Santos
- 1994 Tours library after diagnosis announcement Ronald Reagan
- 1994 Quad Studios shooting Tupac Shakur
- 1994 Cape Town South Africa concert Whitney Houston
- 1994 First South Africa concert Whitney Houston
- 1994 Johannesburg South Africa concert Whitney Houston
- 1994 Summit of the Americas Alberto Fujimori
- 1994 Command post at the Presidential Palace Aslan Maskhadov
- 1994 First post-prison visit to Cuba Hugo Chávez
- 1994 Speech at the University of Havana Hugo Chávez
- 1994 Nobel Prize award ceremony Kenzaburō Ōe
- 1994 Second Christmas Concert at the Vatican Mercedes Sosa
- 1994 Hospital recovery after stabbing Naguib Mahfouz
- 1994 Addresses ANC conference in Bloemfontein Nelson Mandela
- 1994 Hemisfair Arena fashion-show concert Selena
- 1994 San Diego Convention Center concert Selena