Historical figures in 1995
The atlas holds 49 people and 91 moments here, in 1995. The most recorded lives are Mercedes Sosa, Selena and Jacques Chirac. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Jurists.
Notable people
Marlon Brando
in 1995
1 moment here
American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…
Maryam Mirzakhani
in 1995
2 moments here
Iranian mathematician whose work transformed the study of hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces, and dynamics.…
Mercedes Sosa
in 1995
11 moments here
Argentine folk singer and leading exponent of the nuevo cancionero movement, internationally known for interpreting Latin American popular song and…
Mother Teresa
in 1995
1 moment here
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Muhammad Ali
in 1995
1 moment here
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) was an American boxer, activist, humanitarian, and global cultural figure.…
Nelson Mandela
in 1995
3 moments here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Pierre Nkurunziza
in 1995
1 moment here
Burundian educator, CNDD–FDD rebel leader, and president of Burundi from 2005 until his death in 2020.…
Pope John Paul II
in 1995
1 moment here
Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005), Pope John Paul II from 1978, was a Polish Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope.…
Robert Mugabe
in 1995
1 moment here
Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017.…
Selena
in 1995
9 moments here
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known mononymously as Selena, was an American Tejano singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and business owner.…
Siad Barre
in 1995
1 moment here
Mohammed Siad Barre was a Somali military officer and president of Somalia from 1969 to 1991.…
Soong Mei-ling
in 1995
2 moments here
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1995
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Suharto
in 1995
1 moment here
Indonesian army officer and politician who served as acting president from 1967 and president of Indonesia from 1968 until his resignation in 1998.…
Sydney Brenner
in 1995
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 1995
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…
Toni Morrison
in 1995
1 moment here
Toni Morrison (Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American novelist, editor, and professor whose career moved through Ohio, Washington, D.C., New York,…
Tupac Shakur
in 1995
4 moments here
American rapper, actor, poet, and political activist, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli. His documented life included childhood in New York City and…
Violeta Chamorro
in 1995
1 moment here
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan newspaper publisher and politician. After succeeding her assassinated husband at La Prensa, she…
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
in 1995
1 moment here
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) was a Russian politician, founder and long-time leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.…
Võ Nguyên Giáp
in 1995
1 moment here
Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician. Giáp was a leading commander of the Việt Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam, served…
V. S. Naipaul
in 1995
4 moments here
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad-born British novelist, essayist, and travel writer.…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1995
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Yasser Arafat
in 1995
1 moment here
Palestinian political leader, founding member of Fatah, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004, and president of the…
Moments
- 1995 Peace talks in Grozny Aslan Maskhadov
- 1995 Received International Leonardo Prize in Moscow Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1995 Visit to Venice Biennale Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1995 OAU conference convoy attack Hosni Mubarak
- 1995 National Press Club memoir speech Margaret Thatcher
- 1995 Attends Rugby World Cup final Nelson Mandela
- 1995 Dakar press appearance Jacques Chirac
- 1995 Admission to Mater Dei Clinic Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1995 Death in Buenos Aires Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1995 Divine Rapture filming in Ballycotton Marlon Brando
- 1995 Honored at the United States Capitol Soong Mei-ling
- 1995 N-250 first-flight ceremony B. J. Habibie
- 1995 Official visit to Sydney Fidel V. Ramos
- 1995 Visit to Parliament House Fidel V. Ramos
- 1995 Visits Betsie Verwoerd in Orania Nelson Mandela
- 1995 Death at University of Chicago Hospitals Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women Benazir Bhutto
- 1995 Address at the Fourth World Conference on Women Mother Teresa
- 1995 Department of Commerce address Violeta Chamorro
- 1995 Live session at KCRW Cesária Évora
- 1995 Political event in Buenos Aires Hugo Chávez
- 1995 Franco-German press conference in Bonn Jacques Chirac
- 1995 State visit to Tunis Jacques Chirac
- 1995 Astronaut-candidate work at Ames Kalpana Chawla
- 1995 Release from Clinton Correctional Facility Tupac Shakur
- 1995 Return to Los Angeles and Death Row Tupac Shakur
- 1995 BJP prime-ministerial candidacy conference Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- 1995 North American tour performance in Vancouver Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour opening in Berkeley Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour performance at Kennedy Center Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour performance at Lincoln Center Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour performance in Austin Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour performance in Boston Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour performance in Miami Beach Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 United States tour performances in Los Angeles Mercedes Sosa
- 1995 Meeting with Robert McNamara Võ Nguyên Giáp
- 1995 Tour of evacuated West Bank towns Yasser Arafat
- 1995 Death at Ichilov Hospital Yitzhak Rabin
- 1995 Peace rally at Kings of Israel Square Yitzhak Rabin
- 1995 Interview from an SS-22 missile silo Dzhokhar Dudayev
- 1995 White House meeting with Bill Clinton José Eduardo dos Santos