Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
Jessie Alice Tandy, known professionally as Jessica Tandy, was an English and American actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV…
Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (born 1909)
Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut who became the first physician to travel to space.
Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)
Tom Ewell was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer. His most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch, a chara…
Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)
Marika Krevata was a Greek actress of theatre and film.
Marika Krevata, Greek actress (born 1910)
John Irvin Delafose was an American French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist from Louisiana.
John Delafose, American accordion player (born 1939)
Vytautas "Vitas" Kevin Gerulaitis was an American professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1978. G…
Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player and coach (born 1954)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known fo…
Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1902)
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also known by his pen name Abioseh Nicol, was a Sierra Leone Creole physician, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of the first direct…
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924)
Jule Styne was a British-American songwriter and composer widely known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became success…
Jule Styne, American composer (born 1905)
Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (born 1914)
Carl Jerome Barber was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. He had seven wins on tour, including a major title, the PGA Championship in 1961.
Jerry Barber, American golfer (born 1916)
Lucie Madeleine Renaud was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including Remorques and L…
Madeleine Renaud, French actress (born 1900)
Urmas Alender was an Estonian singer and musician, the vocalist of popular Estonian bands Ruja and Propeller.
Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (born 1953)
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu was a Mexican political figure. He was governor of Guerrero from 1987 to 1993. He then served as the general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionar…
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (born 1946)
Herschel "Harry" Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer. He is best remembered for co-producing the first nine of the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. Apa…
Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (born 1915)
Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror, and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He al…
Robert Bloch, American author and screenwriter (born 1917)
Barry Chapman Bishop was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member o…
Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (born 1932)
Karaikal Arunachalam Thangavelu popularly known as "Danaal Thangavelu", was an Indian actor and comedian popular in the 1950s to 1970s. Not known for physical, acrobatic comedy lik…
K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (born 1917)
André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Paul Lorenzen was a German philosopher and mathematician, founder of the Erlangen School and inventor of game semantics.
Paul Lorenzen, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1915)
John C. Champion was an American producer and screenwriter.
John C. Champion, American producer and screenwriter (born 1923)
Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in come…
Dub Taylor, American actor (born 1907)
Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. was an American virtuoso guitarist who combined blues, rockabilly, jazz, and country to create a musical style he called "redneck jazz", a term which he took…
Danny Gatton, American guitarist (born 1945)
Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS was a Danish immunologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein "for theories concerning th…
Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)