Explore 2474 historical events from 1990–1999.
Denis Charles Scott Compton was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a w…
Denis Compton, English cricketer and footballer (born 1918)
Allan James Francovich was an American film maker. He is best known for creating a number of films critical of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), linking them to terrorist atta…
Allan Francovich, American director and producer (born 1941)
Patrick Layton Paulsen was an American comedian and satirist known for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers television shows, and for his satirical campaigns for President…
Pat Paulsen, American comedian and activist (born 1927)
Eugene Morrison Stoner was an American machinist and firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by C…
Eugene Stoner, American engineer, designed the AR-15 rifle (born 1922)
Ann Petry was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to s…
Ann Petry, American novelist (born 1908)
Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicag…
Mike Royko, American journalist and author (born 1932)
Fernand Dumont was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec. A longtime professor at Université Laval, he won the Governor General's Award for French-l…
Fernand Dumont, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (born 1927)
Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize wi…
John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in…
Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher and academic (born 1921)
Sébastien Olivier Enjolras was a French racing driver. Considered to be one of the most promising French drivers of his generation, he was killed in a crash during practice for the…
Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (born 1976)
Narciso Yepes was a Spanish guitarist. He is considered one of the finest virtuoso classical guitarists of the twentieth century.
Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (born 1927)
Rawya Ateya[I] was an Egyptian woman who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world in 1957.
Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (born 1926)
Marco Ferreri was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death …
Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1928)
Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats.
Harry Blackstone Jr
Boris Khristoforovich Parsadanian was a Soviet Armenian and Estonian composer, violinist, and arts administrator.
Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (born 1925)
Elbridge Durbrow was a Foreign Service officer and diplomat who served as the Counselor of Embassy and Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the late 1940s and then as the US ambass…
Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (born 1903)
Alziro Bergonzo was an Italian architect and painter. His primary style was the rationalized Stile Littorio.
Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (born 1906)
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.
Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
Edward Mulhare was an Irish actor whose career spanned five decades. He is best known for his starring roles in two television series, sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968-70) and ac…
Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (born 1923)
Ralph Horween was an American football player and coach. He played fullback and halfback and was a punter and drop-kicker for the unbeaten Harvard Crimson football teams of 1919 an…
Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (born 1896)
Jeffrey Scott Buckley was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he attracted a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in the East V…
Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1966)
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the grandfather of musician Theo Croker.
Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (born 1905)
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (born 1908)
Dennis James was an American television personality, philanthropist, and commercial spokesman. Until 1976, he had appeared on TV more times and for a longer period than any other t…
Dennis James, American actor and game show host (born 1917)