Events

*Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL
*February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
*December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.

Top grossing films of the year

#Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara,
#Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles
#Dances with Wolves, starring and directed by Kevin Costner
#Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
#Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
#The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery
#Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
#Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
#Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, Madonna
#Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller

Academy Awards

*Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
*Best Supporting Actress: Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

Births

*March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
*April 15 - Emma Watson, actress
*July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
*October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor

Deaths

*January 6 - Ian Charleson, actor
*January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian
*January 15 - Gordon Jackson, actor
*January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress
*January 24 - Madge Bellamy, actress
*January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress
*March 5 - Gary Merrill, actor
*March 17 - Capucine, actress
*April 15 - Greta Garbo, actress
*April 23 - Paulette Goddard, actress
*May 6 - Charles Farrell, actor
*May 10 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
*May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer
*May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of Muppets
*May 18 - Jill Ireland, actress
*June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor
*July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress
*August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, 36, guitarist/songwriter
*September 4 - Irene Dunne, actress
*September 19 - Hermes Pan, choreographer
*October 15 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress
*October 20 - Joel McCrea, actor
*November 3 - Mary Martin, actress
*November 12 - Eve Arden, actress
*December 2 - Robert Cummings, actor
*December 7 - Joan Bennett, actress
*December 8 - Martin Ritt, director

Other movies released

*Pump Up the Volume

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