Explore 4231 historical events from 1990–1999.
Edward Quillan was an American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s…
Eddie Quillan, American actor (born 1907)
Herbert Turner Jenkins was an American law enforcement official and the longest-serving police chief of Atlanta.
Herbert Turner Jenkins, American police officer (born 1907)
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintada…
Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1932)
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful att…
Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (born 1937)
Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television and video tape recorders. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he bui…
Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (born 1899)
Robert James Byrd, known by the stage name Bobby Day, was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and songwriter. He is best known for his hit record "Rockin' Ro…
Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1928)
René Toribio was a French politician and was a member of the French Senate representing Guadeloupe from 1959 to 1968.
René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (born 1912)
Jill Esmond was an English actress of stage and screen.
Jill Esmond, English actress (born 1908)
Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancell…
Bruno Kreisky, Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (born 1911)
Ian Reginald Edward Gow was a British politician and solicitor. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 1974, until his as…
Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (born 1937)
Joseph Albert Florimond Leduc was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League from 1925 to 1935. with the New York Rangers, Ottawa Senato…
Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1902)
Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (born 1897)
Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature. Maclean is known for his …
Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (born 1902)
Edwin Richfield was an English actor.
Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (born 1921)
Ettore Maserati was an Italian automotive engineer, one of five brothers who founded the Maserati firm in Bologna 1914. He was born in Voghera.
Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (born 1894)
Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of…
Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (born 1912)
Joseph Mercer was an English footballer and manager. He played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal and managed Aston Villa and Manchester City, and served as caretaker manager of…
Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (born 1914)
Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.
Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (born 1903)
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and influential bands in the history of Russian music.
Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician and actor (born 1962)
Patrick John O'Connor was a New Zealand-American amateur wrestler and professional wrestler. Regarded as one of the premier workers of his era, O'Connor held the AWA World Heavywei…
Pat O'Connor, New Zealand wrestler and trainer (born 1925)
Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special…
Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (born 1918)
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 194…
B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (born 1904)
Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century.
Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (born 1941)
Gely Abdel Rahman Arabic: جيلي عبد الرحمن was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of the 20th century.
Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (born 1931)