Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
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)
Pietro Rizzuto was an Italian-born Canadian politician.
Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Shin Ki-ha, was a South Korean politician. A four-term lawmaker, he was a former parliamentary leader of the South Korean political party National Congress for New Politics.
Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (born 1941)
Samuel Conlon Nancarrow was a US-born Mexican composer. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical …
Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican pianist and composer (born 1912)
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a postmodern author who influenced undergr…
William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1914)
Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a Nigerian musician and political activist. He is regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, a Nigerian music genre that combines West African music w…
Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (born 1938)
Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who is the oldest person in recorded history whose age has been verified, with a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days. …
Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)
Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. Born to a working class family in Montreal, Quebec, Lauzon dropped out of high school and worked various jobs before s…
Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (born 1953)
Jack Delano was a Russian Empire-born Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and composer, who spent much of his life in Puerto Rico. In the United States, he worked for the Works Prog…
Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (born 1914)
Ida Gerhardt was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition.
Ida Gerhardt, Dutch poet and educator (born 1905)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, also known as NFAK, was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music director, primarily associated with qawwali, a form of Suf…
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (born 1948)
Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, also known by his daak naam Badshah, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, teacher and author. He established numerous madrasas in Bangladesh and was the f…
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (born 1914)
Norris Edwin Bradbury was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who pe…
Norris Bradbury, American soldier, physicist, and academic (born 1909)
Léon Dion was a Canadian political scientist.
Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (born 1922)
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from his country's independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979. Gairy al…
Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (born 1922)