Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
Consalvo Sanesi was best known as the Alfa Romeo works' test driver in the period following World War II, but he also competed in races with the Alfa Romeo Tipo 158/159 cars in the…
Consalvo Sanesi, Italian racing driver (born 1911)
Jerome Robbins was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.
Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (born 1918)
Robert Emil Schmidt, nicknamed Buffalo Bob, was an American radio and television personality and presenter; he was well known as the host of the children's show Howdy Doody.
Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (born 1917)
Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics, known professionally as Eva Bartok, was a Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950, and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She…
Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (born 1927)
Shari Lewis was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, comedian, singer, actress, author, and symphony conductor…
Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (born 1933)
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist…
Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and journalist (born 1934)
Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.
Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)
Otto Kretschmer was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War.
Otto Kretschmer, German naval officer and submariner (born 1912)
Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1956 until 1989 as General Secretary of…
Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (born 1911)
André Weil was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth c…
André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (born 1906)
Mahmoud Saremi was an Iranian reporter, working for IRNA, as the news agency's head of office in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. He was killed by the Taliban when they occupied the Ir…
Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (born 1968)
Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari, known as Nino Ferrer, was an Italian-born French singer-songwriter and author.
Nino Ferrer, Italian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)
Edward Leonard Ginzton was a Ukrainian-American engineer.
Edward Ginzton, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (born 1915)
Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote primarily in French, although he also wrote some works in English. Over a lo…
Julien Green, American author (born 1900)
Rafael Orlando Robles Natera was a Dominican shortstop in Major League Baseball. He was born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. He was signed by the San Francisco Giants …
Rafael Robles, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1947)
Phil Leeds was an American character actor. He appeared in many movies and television series, including guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Maude, The Monkees, Friends, Ba…
Phil Leeds, American actor (born 1916)
Dorothy West was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated bl…
Dorothy West, American journalist and author (born 1907)
Władysław Stefan Komar was a Lithuanian-born Polish shot putter, actor and cabaretist. Competing in three Summer Olympics between 1964 and 1972, he won the gold medal at the Munich…
Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (born 1940)
Tadeusz Ślusarski was a Polish Olympic gold medalist in pole vault at the 1976 Summer Olympics, as well as a silver medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (born 1950)
Persis Khambatta was an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder best remembered for playing Lieutenant Ilia in the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (born 1948)
Vũ Văn Mẫu was a South Vietnamese diplomat and politician, who was the last Prime Minister of South Vietnam, serving under President Dương Văn Minh's leadership in 1975. He held th…
Vũ Văn Mẫu, 10th and final Prime Minister of South Vietnam (born 1914)
Everett Eugene Grunz, known professionally as E. G. Marshall, was an American actor. One of the first group of actors selected for the new Actors Studio, Marshall, by 1948, had per…
E. G. Marshall, American actor (born 1910)
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (born 1907)
Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may …
Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)