Explore 2478 historical events from 1990–1999.
Harold Lloyd Jenkins, better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American singer and songwriter. Initially a part of the 1950s rockabilly scene, Twitty was best known as …
Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1933)
Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s,…
Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (born 1921)
Leslie Dawson was an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and pianist. He was known for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona, musical routines, and jokes about his mother…
Les Dawson, English comedian, actor, writer and presenter (born 1931)
Raymond Sharkey Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Glo…
Ray Sharkey, American actor (born 1952)
Gérard Côté, was a Canadian marathon runner and a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.
Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (born 1913)
Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first c…
Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot and astronaut (born 1924)
John Bowden Connally Jr. was an American politician who served as the 39th governor of Texas from 1963 to 1969 and as the 61st United States secretary of the treasury from 1971 to …
John Connally, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1917)
James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British racing driver and broadcaster who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1979. Nicknamed "the Shunt", Hunt won the Formula One World Drivers' Ch…
James Hunt, English racing driver and sportscaster (born 1947)
Craig L. Rodwell was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967 - the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian auth…
Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (born 1940)
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second…
Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912)
William Harrison Riker was an American political scientist known for applying game theory and mathematics to political science. He helped establish University of Rochester as a cen…
William H
Arthur Lindsay Hassett was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and the Australian national team. The diminutive Hassett was an elegant middle-order batsman, described b…
Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1913)
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in…
William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Roy Campanella, nicknamed "Campy", was an American professional baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played in the Negro leagues and Mexican League for …
Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (born 1921)
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa's most important and influential vocalists, Lavoe played …
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne was an American actor, artist, and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as we…
Fred Gwynne, American actor (born 1926)
Donald Scott Drysdale, nicknamed "Big D", was an American professional baseball pitcher and broadcaster who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 14-year caree…
Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1936)
Bona Arsenault, was a Canadian historian, genealogist and a federal and provincial politician.
Bona Arsenault, Canadian historian, genealogist, and politician (born 1903)
Mia Katherine Zapata was an American musician who was the lead vocalist and lyricist of the punk rock band the Gits. As part of the burgeoning Seattle music scene, she was noted fo…
Mia Zapata, American singer (born 1965)
Abul Hasan Jashori was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, author, teacher and freedom fighter. He was the founding principal and Shaykh al-Hadith of the Jamia Ezazia Darul …
Abul Hasan Jashori, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and freedom fighter (born 1918)
Metin Altıok was a Turkish poet of Alevi faith, who - together with 34 other people, mostly Alevi intellectuals - fell victim to the 1993 Sivas massacre.
Metin Altıok, Turkish poet and educator (born 1940)
Ruth Ida Krauss was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print.
Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (born 1901)
Rıfat Ilgaz was a Turkish teacher, writer and poet. He became especially known for his novel "Hababam Sınıfı". He maintained a socialist line both in his writings and in his person…
Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (born 1911)
Samuel Harris Rolfe was an American screenwriter best known for creating the 1950–60s highly rated CBS television series Have Gun – Will Travel, as well as his work on the 1960s NB…
Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (born 1924)