Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
Jahanara Imam was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is known for her efforts to bring war criminals to trial for war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. She…
Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (born 1929)
Kurt Peter Eichhorn, was a German conductor.
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor and educator (born 1908)
Merriam Modell was an American writer of short stories, suspense and pulp fiction, who wrote primarily under the pen name Evelyn Piper. Many had a common theme: the domestic confl…
Merriam Modell, American author (born 1908)
Andrés Escobar Saldarriaga was a Colombian professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played for Atlético Nacional, BSC Young Boys, and the Colombia national team. Nic…
Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (born 1967)
Lewis Alan Hoad was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur. He was a member of the Australian team th…
Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player and coach (born 1934)
Joseph Anthony Marella was an American professional wrestling referee for the World Wrestling Federation and son of former wrestler and then WWF announcer Gorilla Monsoon from Will…
Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (born 1964)
Ahmet Haxhiu was a Kosovo Albanian political activist and one of the main gunrunners for Kosovo Liberation Army in the early 1990s. He was one of the leading figures of the Revolut…
Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist (born 1932)
Carlo Chiti was an Italian racing car and engine designer best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo's racing department. He also worked for Ferrari and was involved in th…
Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (born 1924)
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte was a German paratroop officer during World War II who later served in the armed forces of West Germany, achieving the rank of General. Fol…
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (born 1907)
Christian-Jaque was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including Lucrèce Borgia (1953), Madame du …
Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (born 1904)
Kim Il Sung was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North…
Kim Il Sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (born 1912)
Lars-Eric Lindblad was a Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer, who pioneered tourism to many remote and exotic parts of the world. He led the first tourist expedition to Anta…
Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (born 1927)
Richard Stanford Cox, known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor. He is best known for being the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy sitcom Be…
Dick Sargent, American actor (born 1930)
William Mosienko was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a right winger for 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1942 to 19…
Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921)
Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the operating system CP/M among other operating systems and …
Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (born 1942)
Eila Muriel Joice Campbell was an English geographer and cartographer. She was best known for her work on Domesday Geography of England and her work on the international journal, I…
Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer (born 1915)
Julian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work …
Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Jean Laurent Robert Borotra was a French tennis champion. He was one of the "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was i…
Jean Borotra, French tennis player (born 1898)
Paul Tiulana was an Iñupiaq artist and dancer from Alaska. Originally from King Island, Tiulana was drafted in World War II and injured; his leg was broken and eventually amputated…
Paul Tiulana, Iñupiat artist and dancer (born 1921)
Victor Barbeau, was a Quebec writer and academic.
Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (born 1896)
Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often con…
Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (born 1897)
Jacques Dumas, better known as Marijac, was a French comics writer, artist, and editor.
Marijac, French author and illustrator (born 1908)
Helen Cordero was a Cochiti Pueblo potter from Cochiti, New Mexico. She was renowned for her storyteller pottery figurines, a motif she invented, based upon the traditional "singin…
Helen Cordero, Cochiti Pueblo (Native American) Pueblo potter (born 1915)
James Luther Adams, an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarian parish minister. …
James Luther Adams, American theologian and academic (born 1901)