Explore 1748 historical events from 1990–1999.
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)
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)
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)
Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev was a Soviet author and dissident.
Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (born 1912)
Cahit Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched…
Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1917)
Shintaro Katsu was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker. He is known for starring in the Akumyo series, the Hoodlum Soldier series, the Hanzo the Razor series, and the Zatoichi…
Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1931)
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet …
Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1924)
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez was the preeminent Mexican union leader of the 20th century. In 1936 he was one of the original founders, along with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the Confe…
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union leader (born 1900)
Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad, known internationally as Ted, was a Swedish singer, songwriter, and actor. Gärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, signin…
Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)
Gérard Pelletier was a Canadian politician, diplomat and journalist from Quebec best known for his association with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that started decades befo…
Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1919)
Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate who was married to Malcolm X.
Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (born 1936)
Robert Alba Keith, known professionally as Brian Keith, was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade career gained recognition for his work in films such…
Brian Keith, American actor (born 1921)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatu…
Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (born 1910)
Donald Montgomery Hutson, nicknamed "the Alabama Antelope", was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). In the era of the one-plat…
Don Hutson, American football player and coach (born 1913)
William Edward Hickey was an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as U…
William Hickey, American actor (born 1927)
Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-vol…
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Marjorie Linklater was a Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment on the island of Orkney. She gave up acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to get involved in conser…
Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (born 1909)