Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
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)
Ronald Frederick Lane was an English musician and songwriter who was the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Small Faces (1965–1969) and Faces (1969–1973).
Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1946)
Jay Anthony Lukas was an American journalist and author, best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a …
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George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. His first science fiction story and n…
George Turner, Australian author and critic (born 1916)
Karen Elizabeth Wetterhahn, also known as Karen Wetterhahn Jennette, was an American professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, who specialized in toxic…
Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (born 1948)
Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federati…
Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (born 1908)
Nguyễn Mạnh Tường (1909–1997) was a Vietnamese lawyer and intellectual. He was known to be one of the active participators in the Nhân Văn affair in the mid-1950s which saw many in…
Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (born 1909)
Richard Jaeckel was an American actor. A veteran character player whose career spanned six decades, Jaeckel appeared in nearly 200 film and television roles between 1943 and 1994, …
Richard Jaeckel, American actor (born 1926)