Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
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)
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)
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)
Erwin Komenda was an Austrian automobile designer and Porsche employee, and a lead contributor to the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars.
Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (born 1904)
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography If Everyone Cared, in 1977; a n…
Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (born 1904)
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)
Francis Gregory Alan Morris was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Barney Collier on the television series Mission: Impossible and Lieutenant David Nelson on Vega$…
Greg Morris, American actor (born 1933)
Christine Pascal was a French actress, writer, and director known for Le Petit Prince a dit, 1992.
Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1953)
Patrick Bernard Clift was a Zimbabwean first class cricketer for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, who was educated at St. George's College, Harare. He was a right-armed medium b…
Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (born 1953)
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, also spelled Emily Kam Kngwarray, was an Aboriginal Australian (Anmatyerr) artist from Alhalker, in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory. Kngwarreye…
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian painter (born 1910)
Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personall…
Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (born 1917)
Rose-Alma Ouellette OQ, also known by her stage name La Poune was a Quebec actress, comedian, theatre manager and artistic director. Ouellette was born to François Ouellette and Jo…
Rose Ouellette, Canadian actress and manager (born 1903)
Basil Salvadore D'Souza was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore from 22 March 1965 until his death on 5 September 1996. He was the longest-serving bishop in the d…
Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (born 1926)
William Smith Monroe was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who created the bluegrass music genre. For this reason, he is often called the "Father of Bluegrass".
Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (born 1911)
Joanne Dru was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, All the King's Men, and Wagon Master.
Joanne Dru, American actress (born 1922)
Hans List was a technical scientist and inventor and entrepreneur.
Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (born 1896)