Explore 3969 historical events from 1990–1999.
Donald Montgomery Hutson, nicknamed "the Alabama Antelope", was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). In the era of the one-plat…
Don Hutson, American football player and coach (born 1913)
William Edward Hickey was an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as U…
William Hickey, American actor (born 1927)
Marjorie Linklater was a Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment on the island of Orkney. She gave up acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to get involved in conser…
Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (born 1909)
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAF…
Robert Mitchum, American actor (born 1917)
Charles George Werner was an American editorial cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and later worked 47 years for the Indianapolis Star.
Charles Werner, American cartoonist (born 1909)
James Maitland Stewart was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991. His…
James Stewart, American actor (born 1908)
Charles Bishop Kuralt was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segme…
Charles Kuralt, American journalist (born 1934)
John Zachary Young, generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century".
John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (born 1907)
Arunasalam Thangathurai was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (born 1936)
Chetan Anand was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose first film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize at the first ever Cannes Film Fes…
Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
François Furet was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of Fr…
François Furet, French historian and author (born 1927)
Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a Spanish economist and municipal politician and a member of the People's Party, in Ermua, the Basque Country. He was kidnapped and murdered by the …
Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (born 1968)
Justinas Lagunavičius was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas.
Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1924)
Mohamed Ehuttar Hadjiar Maharoof was a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament.
M. E. H. Maharoof, Sri Lankan politician (born 1939)
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fra…
Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (born 1946)
Olaf Kopvillem was a prominent Estonian World War II refugee. Having settled in Canada, he engaged in the organisation of Estonian exile activities there, and is known for his nume…
Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (born 1926)
Chūhei Nambu was a Japanese track and field athlete. As of 2024, he is the only person to have held world records in both the long jump and the triple jump.
Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and journalist (born 1904)
William Joseph Brennan Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1990. He was the eighth-longe…
William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and jurist (born 1906)
Saw Maung was a Burmese military leader and statesman who served as Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and Prime Minister of Burma from 1988 until 1992…
Saw Maung, Burmese general and politician, seventh Prime Minister of Burma (born 1928)
William Ben Hogan was an American professional golfer who is considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He profoundly influenced golf swing theory, an…
Ben Hogan, American golfer (born 1912)
Rosalie Sylvia Crutchley was a British actress. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, she was perhaps best known for her television performances, but had a long and successful car…
Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (born 1920)
Mom Rajawongse Seni Pramoj was a Thai professor and politician who served as Prime Minister of Thailand three times. A descendant of the Thai royal family, he was the great-grandso…
Seni Pramoj, Thai lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1905)
Bảo Đại, born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was de jure emperor of Đại Nam,…
Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (born 1913)
Harald Kihle was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is particularly known for his pictures with motifs from Telemark.
Harald Kihle, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1905)