Explore 4231 historical events from 1990–1999.
Roger Tory Peterson was an American naturalist, conservationist, citizen scientist ornithologist, artist and illustrator, educator, and a founder of the 20th-century environmental …
Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and academic (born 1908)
Rurik (Ric) Nordman was a businessman and politician in Manitoba, Canada.
Ric Nordman, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1919)
Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory. In addition…
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (born 1920)
Jason Matthew Thirsk was an American musician who was the bass player of the California punk rock band Pennywise from 1988 through his death in 1996. He grew up in Hermosa Beach, C…
Jason Thirsk, American singer and bass player (born 1967)
Claudette Colbert, also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin ; was a French-American stage and film actress. She began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and pro…
Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (born 1903)
Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the i…
Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Lucille Teasdale-Corti was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. With her husband she co-founded a university hospital…
Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (born 1929)
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President C…
Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th prime minister of France (born 1912)
Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive fina…
Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1917)
Mohamed Farrah Hasan Garad, popularly known as General Aidid or Aideed, was a Somali military officer, diplomat, and warlord.
Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th president of Somalia (born 1934)
Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area betw…
Sergey Golovkin, Russian serial killer and rapist, last person executed by Russia (born 1959)
Hans Jørgen Garde was a Danish admiral.
Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (born 1939)
Geoffrey Stephen Hamilton was an English gardener, broadcaster and author, best known as presenter of BBC television's Gardeners' World in the 1980s and 1990s.
Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (born 1936)
Sir Nevill Francis Mott was a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems,…
Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
Jüri Randviir was an Estonian chess player and journalist, who four times won the Estonian Chess Championship.
Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (born 1927)
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted…
Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (born 1907)
Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE was a Czech conductor and composer.
Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (born 1914)
Ambrosio "Paddy" Bibby Padilla was a Filipino basketball player, lawyer, and an elected member of the Senate of the Philippines. He was one of the most important figures in Asian b…
Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (born 1910)
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading astronomers, he is widely regarded as the fou…
Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (born 1908)
Mark Eugene Gruenwald was an American comic book writer, editor, and occasional penciler known for his long association with Marvel Comics.
Mark Gruenwald, American author and illustrator (born 1953)
António Sebastião Ribeiro de Spínola was a Portuguese military officer, author and conservative politician. During the Estado Novo regime he became one of Portugal's most senior mi…
António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (born 1910)
Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music s…
Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)
Ralph Christian Möbius, known professionally as Rio Reiser, was a German musician and from 1970 to 1985 the lead singer and main lyric-writer for the rock group Ton Steine Scherben…
Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (born 1950)
Mary Two-Axe Earley was a Canadian Mohawk and Oneida women's rights activist from the reserve of Kahnawake in Quebec. After losing her legal Indian status due to marrying a non-sta…
Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (born 1911)