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1990 (MCMXC
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) was a common year starting on Monday

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).

It is often considered the final year of the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
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January

January 4 - A train accident in Ghotki
Ghotki

Ghotki Ghotki is a town of Northern Sindh, Pakistan. Mirpur Mathelo is capital of Ghotki District. It was the site of the July 13, 2005, Ghotki rail crash....
, Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
kills 307.
January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply The Tower of Pisa is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa....
is closed to the public due to safety concerns.

* January 9 - Uganda

Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
n Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello

Bazilio Olara-Okello

Bazilio Olara-Okello was a Ugandan Officer and one of the commanders of the Uganda National Liberation Army that together with the Tanzania People's Defence Force overthrew Idi Amin in 1979....
, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote

Milton Obote

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-76054-0003, Leipzig, Kenia-Tag, Gerald G?tting.jpgApolo Milton Obote , Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and President of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from the United Kingdom colonialism administration in 1962....
's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum is the Capital of Sudan and of Khartoum . It is located at the confluence point of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia....
, Sudan

Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
.

January 10 - Time Warner
Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
January 11 - In Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
January 13 - Douglas Wilder
Douglas Wilder

Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American politician, the List of firsts#Leaders African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the second to serve as governor....
becomes the first elected African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....
.
January 15 - Thousands storm the Stasi
Stasi

The Ministry for State Security,...
headquarters in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
in an attempt to view their government records.
January 18 - In Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, Mayor Marion Barry
Marion Barry

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. , is an American politician who served as the second elected List of mayors of Washington, D.C. of Washington, D.C. from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999....
is arrested for drug
Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational purposes rather than for employment, Medicine or Spirituality purposes, although the distinction is not always clear ....
possession in an FBI sting.
January 20 - Soviet troops occupy Baku
Baku

Baku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bak?, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan....
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
, under the state of emergency decree issued by Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.
January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
January 25 - Avianca Flight 52
Avianca Flight 52

Avianca Flight 52 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogot? to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport via Medell?n Jos? Mar?a C?rdova International Airport....
crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials.
January 25–26 - The Burns' Day storm
Burns' Day storm

The Burns' Day Storm occurred on January 25–January 26, 1990, over north-western Europe, and is one of the strongest storms on record. Starting on the birthday of Scotland poet Robert Burns, it caused widespread damage and hurricane-force winds over a wide area....
kills 97 in northwestern Europe.

January 27 - The city of Tiraspol
Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the de facto independent Transnistria . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester....
in the Moldavian SSR
Moldavian SSR

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union....
briefly declares independence.
January 29 - The trial of Joseph Hazelwood
Joseph Hazelwood

Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood is an American sailor. He was the Captain of the Exxon Valdez during its Exxon Valdez oil spill. He was accused of being drunk at the time of the accident, though at trial he was cleared of this charge....
, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez
Exxon Valdez

Exxon Valdez was the original name of an Petroleum Tanker owned by the former ExxonMobil Shipping Company, a division of the former Exxon Corporation....
, begins in Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is a consolidated city-Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 279,671 municipal residents in 2007 , it is Alaska's largest city and constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population....
. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill
Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term often refers to Marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters....
to date.
January 31 - The first McDonald's
McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving nearly 58 million customers daily. McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts....
in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
opens.

February

February 2 - Apartheid: In South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress
African National Congress

The African National Congress has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in May 1994....
to legally function again and promises to free Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
.
February 5 - Manuel Fraga becomes the president of Galicia, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
.
February 10 - South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
n President
President of South Africa

The President of the Republic of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa's Constitution of South Africa. From 1961 to 1994, the head of state was called the State President of South Africa....
F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
will be released the next day.
February 11 - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, also known as Malik Abdul, is a retired United States Boxing. He was the List of undisputed boxing champions#Heavyweight and remains the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old....
to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.
February 11 - Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town
Cape Town

Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial Capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislature capital of South Africa, where the Parliament of South Africa and many government offices are located....
, South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, after 27 years behind bars.
February 13 - German reunification
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
.
February 15 - The United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
's invasion of the Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located from the coast of Argentina, west of the Shag Rocks , and north of the British Antarctic Territory ....
, a British Dependent Territory
British overseas territories

The British Overseas Territories are fourteen territories that are under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, but which do not form part of the United Kingdom itself....
, in 1982.
February 26 - The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaragua
Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
n elections.
February 26 - The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
by July, 1991.
February 27 - Exxon Valdez oil spill
Exxon Valdez oil spill

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989 . It is considered one of the most devastating man-made environmental disasters ever to occur at sea....
: Exxon
Exxon

Exxon is a brand of fuel sold by ExxonMobil....
and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

March

March 1 - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo
Cairo

Cairo , which means "the triumphant", is the Cairo and largest city of Egypt.It is the most populous metropolitan area in Egypt and is also one of the most populous in the world....
, Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
, kills 16 people.
March 1 - Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson , that creates and publishes role-playing game, board game, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid ....
is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit organization advocacy and legal organization based in the United States with the stated purpose of being dedicated to preserving the right to freedom of speech, such as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, in the context of today's digital age ....
.
March 1 - The Royal New Zealand Navy
Royal New Zealand Navy

The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. In April 2006 the fleet consisted of ten ships, with the combat force consisting of two frigates....
discontinues its daily rum
Rûm

R?m, also Roum or Rhum , is a very indefinite term used at different times in the Muslim world to refer to the Balkans and Anatolia generally, and for the Byzantine Empire in particular, for the Seljuk Sultanate of R?m in Asia Minor, and for Greeks inhabiting Ottoman Empire or modern Turkey territory as well as for Greek Cypriots....
ration.
March 6 - An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
March 9 - Police seal off Brixton
Brixton

Brixton is an area of the London Borough of Lambeth, in inner London-South London. It is bordered by Stockwell, Clapham Common, Streatham, Camberwell, Tulse Hill and Herne Hill....
in South London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
after another night of protests
Poll Tax Riots

The Poll Tax Riots were mass disturbances, or riot, in UK cities during protests against the Community Charge , introduced by the Conservative Party government led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher....
against the poll tax
Poll tax

A poll tax, head tax, or capitation tax is a tax of a portioned, fixed amount per individual in accordance with the census . When a corv?e is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax ....
.
March 9 - Antonia Novello
Antonia Novello

Antonia Coello Novello is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a Vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993....
is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States
Surgeon General of the United States

The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the Federal government of the United States....
, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
March 9 - Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
Premier Clyde Wells
Clyde Wells

Clyde Kirby Wells is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, Court of Appeal. He is a former politician and former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador....
confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord
Meech Lake Accord

The Meech Lake Accord was a set of failed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney and the provincial premiers, including Premier of Quebec Robert Bourassa....
.
March 10 - Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril
Prosper Avril

Prosper Avril is a former president of Haiti, one of the most influential Haitian political figures of the last thirty years. He was born in Thomazeau village, near Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince....
is ousted in Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
.
March 11 - Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
declares independence from the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 signed by the members of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, proclaimed the re-establishment of Lithuania's independence on March 11, 1990....
.
March 11 - Patricio Aylwin
Patricio Aylwin

Patricio Aylwin Az?car was the first president of Chile after its Chilean transition to democracy in 1990, following the military government of General Augusto Pinochet....
is sworn in as the first democratically elected Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
an president since 1970.
March 15 - Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
hangs British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
journalist Farzad Bazoft
Farzad Bazoft

Farzad Bazoft was an Iranian-born journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s. He worked as a freelance reporter for The Observer....
for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
March 15 - Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
.
March 15 - The Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
announces that Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
's declaration of independence is invalid.
March 18 - Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and near the Back Bay Fens....
in Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
history, and the paintings have not been recovered.
March 18 - East Germany holds its first free elections.
March 20 - Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edral?n Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate ....
's widow, Imelda Marcos
Imelda Marcos

Imelda redirects here; for other uses see Imelda .'Imelda Remedios Visitacion Romualdez-Marcos' , is the widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and is herself an influential political figure in the Philippines....
, goes on trial for bribery
Bribery

Bribery, a form of pecuniary corruption, is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behaviour of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the Offer and acceptance, Gift, Offer and acceptance, or Solicitation of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other pers...
, embezzlement
Embezzlement

Embezzlement is the act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting assets, usually financial in nature, by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted....
, and racketeering.
March 21 - After 75 years of South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
n rule, Namibia
Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....
becomes independent
History of Namibia

The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colony in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990....
.
March 24 - Australian federal election, 1990: The government of Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n prime minister Bob Hawke is re-elected for a 4th term.
March 25 - In New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, a fire due to arson
Arson

Arson is the crime of deliberately and maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires caused by lightning for example....
at an illegal social club called "Happy Land
Happy Land Fire

The Happy Land Fire was an arson fire which killed 87 people trapped in an unlicensed social club called "Happy Land" in New York City, on March 25 1990....
" kills 87.
March 25 - Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
Robert Runcie
Robert Runcie

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon Military Cross Privy Council of the United Kingdom was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991....
announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.
March 26 - The 62nd Academy Awards
62nd Academy Awards

The 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was not only hosted in Hollywood, California, but it was also co-hosted in five cities around the globe....
, hosted by Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

'William Edward' "'Billy'" 'Crystal' is an United States actor, writer, film producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes Wh...
, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center . The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall....
in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, with Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 in film film adapted from the Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy for Warner Bros. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford with Morgan Freeman reprising his role and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy....
winning Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
.
March 27 - Propaganda
Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
: The United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
begins broadcasting TV Martí
TV Martí

TV Mart? was created by the Federal government of the United States to provide news and current affairs programming to Cuba. It is named after Cuban independence leader Jos? Mart?, and is the television equivalent to Radio Marti....
to Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
.
March 28 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
posthumously awards Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an United States Athletics athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 metres relay team....
the Congressional Gold Medal.
March 31 - "The Second Battle of Trafalgar
Poll Tax Riots

The Poll Tax Riots were mass disturbances, or riot, in UK cities during protests against the Community Charge , introduced by the Conservative Party government led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher....
": A massive anti-poll tax
Poll tax

A poll tax, head tax, or capitation tax is a tax of a portioned, fixed amount per individual in accordance with the census . When a corv?e is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax ....
demonstration in Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is a square in central London, England. With its position in the heart of London, it is a tourist attraction; its trademark is Nelson's Column which stands in the centre and the four lion statues that guard the column....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.

April

April 1 - Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.
April 6 - Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe was an United States photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men....
's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
April 7 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter
John Poindexter

John Marlan Poindexter is a retired American naval officer and United States Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and United States National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration....
is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
April 8 - Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
to Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
, leaving 158 dead.
April 13 - The Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
apologizes for the Katyn Massacre
Katyn massacre

The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre , was a mass murder of thousands of Poles military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian pow by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940....
.
April 15 - Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an engagement
Engagement

An engagement is a promise to marriage, and also the period of time between proposal and marriagewhich may be lengthy or trivial. During this period, a couple is said to be affianced, betrothed, engaged to be married, or simply engaged....
party in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh , [often referred to as U.P.] is a States and territories of India located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 190 million people,...
.
April 20 - STS-31
STS-31

STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the American Space Shuttle program, which launched the Hubble Space Telescope astronomical observatory into LEO....
: The Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope is a Space observatory that was carried into Low Earth orbit STS-31 in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble....
is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the three currently operational Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States....
.
April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the three currently operational Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States....
places the Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope is a Space observatory that was carried into Low Earth orbit STS-31 in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble....
into orbit
ORBit

ORBit is a Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker . It features mature C , C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp , Pascal , Ruby , and Tcl....
.
April 24 - West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
April 25 - Violeta Chamorro
Violeta Chamorro

Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was born October 18, 1929 is a Nicaraguan political leader, former president and publisher. She became president of Nicaragua on April 25, 1990, when she unseated Daniel Ortega....
is elected President
President

President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
of Nicaragua
Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
, making her the first woman President in Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
.

May

May 2 - In London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, a man brandishing a knife robs courier Nicholas Lane of bearer bond
Bearer bond

A bearer bond is a debt security issued by a business entity, such as a corporation, or by a government. It differs from the more common types of investment securities in that it is unregistered – no records are kept of the owner, or the transactions involving ownership....
s worth £292 million (the largest mugging
Mugging

Mugging or mugger may refer to:* A type of street robbery**Steaming , a variation of this type of robbery*Model Mugging, a self-defense training technique....
to date).
May 4 - Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
declares independence from the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
.
May 5 - The 35th Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....
takes place in Zagreb
Zagreb

Zagreb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the Culture of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Cinema of Croatia, Economy of Croatia and Government of Croatia center of the Croatia....
, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia

File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
.
May 15 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch people Post-Impressionism artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art....
is sold for a record $82.5 million
List of most expensive paintings

This is a list of the highest prices paid for paintings. Very valuable paintings, if sold, are usually sold at auctions.The world's most famous paintings, especially works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless....
.
May 17 - The World Health Organization
World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health....
removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
May 20 - The first post-Communist
Communism

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
.
May 22 - The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen Arab Republic

The Yemen Arab Republic , also known as North Yemen or Yemen , was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the northern part of what is now Yemen....
and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Democratic Yemen, South Yemen or Yemen was a socialist republic in present-day southern and eastern Provinces of Republic of Yemen....
announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.
May 22 - Microsoft
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of computer software products for computing devices....
releases Windows 3.0
Windows 3.0

Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Microsoft Windows, and was released on 22 May 1990. It became the first widely successful version of Windows and a powerful rival to Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front....
.
May 24 - The Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers

The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The team is currently part of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
defeat the Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
in the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals
1989-90 NHL season

The 1989?90 NHL season was the List of NHL seasons Season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-one teams each played 80 games. The List of Stanley Cup champions were the Edmonton Oilers, who won the best of seven series 4?1 against the Boston Bruins....
for their fifth Stanley Cup.

June

June 1 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
and Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
sign a treaty
Treaty

A Treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely states and international organizations. A Treaty may also be known as: agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, exchange of letters, etc....
to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
June 1 - Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield
Lichfield

Lichfield is a city status in the United Kingdom and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. One of seven civil parishes with city status in England, Lichfield is situated 25 km north of Birmingham and 200 km northwest of central London....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.
June 2 - The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak
Super Outbreak

The Super Outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period. From April 3 to April 4, 1974, there were 148 tornadoes confirmed in 13 United States states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia , North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the...
of April 1974.
June 7 - Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida

Universal Studios Florida is an amusement park located in Orlando, Florida. Opened on June 7, 1990, the park's theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television....
opens to the public.
June 8 - The 1990 FIFA World Cup
1990 FIFA World Cup

The 1990 FIFA World Cup, the 14th staging of the World Cup, was held in Italy from 8 June to 8 July. Italy was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1990 FIFA World Cup by FIFA on 19 May 1984, making it the second country to host the event twice....
begins in Italy.
June 12 - The parliament of the Russian Federation
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
formally declares its sovereignty.
June 14 - 1990 NBA Finals
1990 NBA Finals

The 1990 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1989-90 NBA season. The series pitted the Detroit Pistons against the Portland Trail Blazers....
: The Detroit Pistons
Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills....
defeat the Portland Trail Blazers
Portland Trail Blazers

The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon, Oregon....
.
June 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale kills thousands in the Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
ian city of Manjil
Manjil

Manjil is a historical town in Gilan Province in the southern basin of Caspian in Northern Iran....
.
June 22 - Underwater volcano Mount Didicas
Mount Didicas

LocationDidicas Volcano, one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, formed its own island located 22 km NE of Camiguin Island, in the Babuyan Islands, in the Provinces of the Philippines of Cagayan, in the Cagayan Valley Regions of the Philippines, in the Luzon Strait north of the island of Luzon, in the Philippines....
erupts in the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
.
June 24 - Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
Belfast

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....
, becoming the first Anglican women priests in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.
June 25 - The first television program in HDTV airs.
June 26 - U.S. President Bush breaks his 1988 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.

July

July 2 - A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca
Mecca

Mecca , also spelled Makkah , Makka is a city in Saudi Arabia. Home to the Masjid al-Haram, it is the holy city in Islam and plays an important role in the faith....
kills 1,426.
July 6 - Somali
Somalia

Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
president Siad Barre
Siad Barre

Mohamed Siad Barre was the President of Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Prior to his presidency, he was very educated army commander under then corrupted democratic government of Somalia , which had been in place since independence in June 1960....
's bodyguards massacre antigovernment demonstrators during a soccer match; 65 people are killed, over 300 seriously injured.
July 7 - In Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, on the night before soccer's 1990 FIFA World Cup
1990 FIFA World Cup

The 1990 FIFA World Cup, the 14th staging of the World Cup, was held in Italy from 8 June to 8 July. Italy was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1990 FIFA World Cup by FIFA on 19 May 1984, making it the second country to host the event twice....
, the Three Tenors sing together for the first time. The event is broadcast live on television and watched worldwide by millions of people; the highlight is Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti Italian orders of merit was an Italian opera tenor, who also crossed over into popular music. He was the most commercially successful tenor of all....
's performance of "Nessun Dorma
Nessun dorma

Nessun dorma is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera....
" from Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's opera Turandot
Turandot

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
.
July 8 - West Germany
Germany national football team

The German national football team is the association football team representing the country of Germany in international competition since 1908....
defeats Argentina
Argentina national football team

The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Asociaci?n del F?tbol Argentino . Argentina has the world record for most international titles won by any national team....
1-0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup
1990 FIFA World Cup

The 1990 FIFA World Cup, the 14th staging of the World Cup, was held in Italy from 8 June to 8 July. Italy was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1990 FIFA World Cup by FIFA on 19 May 1984, making it the second country to host the event twice....
.
July 15 - Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo
Colombo

Colombo is the largest city and former administrative capital of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the present administrative capital of Sri Lanka....
, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
.
July 16 - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1,600 in the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
.
July 25 - George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells
Bishop of Bath and Wells

The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.The present diocese covers the vast majority of the county of Somerset and a small area of Dorset....
, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
.
July 25 - The Serbian Democratic Party
Serbian Democratic Party

The Serbian Democratic Party is a ultra-nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is led by Mladen Bosic. He succeeded Dragan Cavic....
declares the sovereignty
Sovereignty

File:Leviathan gr.jpgSovereignty is the exclusive right to control a government, a State, a people, or oneself. A sovereign is a supreme lawmaking authority....
of the Serbs in Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
.
July 26 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
July 27 - The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain
Port of Spain

Port of Spain is the Capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third largest municipality, after San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and Chaguanas....
, Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen
Jamaat al Muslimeen

The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with a membership of predominantly Afro-Trinidadians....
in a coup d'état
Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
, A.N.R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
July 27 - Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR.
July 28 - Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori is a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from July 28, 1990 to November 17, 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of authoritarianism and human rights violations....
becomes president of Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
.
July 30 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
car bomb
Car bomb

A car bomb is an improvised Bomb placed in a automobile or other vehicle and then vehicle explosion. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupants of the vehicle, people near the blast site, or to damage buildings or other property....
kills British M.P. Ian Gow
Ian Gow

Ian Reginald Edward Gow Territorial Decoration was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and a solicitor. While serving as Member of Parliament for Eastbourne , he was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army who exploded a car bomb at his home in Sussex....
, a staunch unionist.

August

August 2 - Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
: Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
invades Kuwait
Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
, eventually leading to the Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
.
August 6 - Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
: The United Nations Security Council
United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council is one of the principal organs charged with the maintenance of international security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of international sanctions, and the authorization of war....
orders a global trade embargo against Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
in response to its invasion of Kuwait
Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
.
August 19 - Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
's Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven began concentrated work on his Symphony No. 7 in A major in 1811, while he was staying in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice in the hope of improving his health....
performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
.
August 23 - East Germany and West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
announce they will unite on October 3.
August 24 - Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
writer Brian Keenan
Brian Keenan (hostage)

Brian Keenan is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling, an account of the four-and-a-half years he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon from 11 April 1986 to 24 August 1990....
is released from Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
August 28 - The Plainfield Tornado
Plainfield Tornado

The Plainfield-Crest Hill-Joliet Tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 350....
(F5 on the Fujita scale
Fujita scale

The Fujita scale , or Fujita-Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation....
) striles the towns of Plainfield
Plainfield, Illinois

Plainfield is a village in Will County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. As of the 2007 special census, the population is 37,334.The Village includes land in Plainfield Township, Will County, Illinois and Wheatland Township, Will County, Illinois townships....
, Crest Hill
Crest Hill, Illinois

Crest Hill is a city in Will County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. The population was 13,329 at the 2000 census and the 2007 census population estimate was 20,463....
, and Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is a city in Will County, Illinois and Kendall County, Illinois in the U.S. state of Illinois, located southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County....
, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area).

September

September 2 - Transnistria
Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR
Moldavian SSR

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union....
; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
September 9 - First Liberian Civil War: Liberia
Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, C?te d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean....
n president Samuel Doe
Samuel Doe

Samuel Kanyon Doe was the President of Liberia from 1980 to 1990. His regime was characterized by ethnically-based dictatorship and the suppression of political opposition....
is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson
Prince Johnson

Prince Yormie Johnson is a Liberian political and former military figure. He was elected to serve as a Senate of Liberia in the Liberian congress in the historic 2005 election....
and killed in a filmed execution.
September 11 - Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
: President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i soldiers from Kuwait
Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
.
September 12 - The two German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany
Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

The Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany was negotiated in 1990 between the West Germany , the East Germany , and the Allied Control Council which Military occupation Germany at the end of World War II in Europe: France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the Soviet Union ....
in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, paving the way for German reunification
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
.
September 19 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry
Peter Terry

Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry Order of the Bath is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander.Terry took up the post of Vice Chief of the Air Staff on 25 March 1977....
at his home near Stafford
Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire in England. It lies in the north of the West Midlands , between Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent. The population of Stafford was given in the 2001 census as 63,681, with that of the wider Stafford as 124,531....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar
Governor of Gibraltar

The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territories of Gibraltar. The Governor is appointed by the Monarchy of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Her Majesty's Government....
survives.
September 29 - Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
's National Cathedral is finished.

October

October 3 - East Germany and West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
reunify
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
into a single Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
.
October 5 - After 150 years, 10 months and 2 days (Friday, January 3, 1840 – Friday, October 5, 1990), The Herald
Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of News Limited and owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
broadsheet
Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of matter, from ballads to political satire....
newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
October 6 - Collingwood wins the AFL Grand Final rematch against Essendon by 48 points.
October 8 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli?Palestinian conflict is an ongoing dispute between Israelis and the Palestinian people. It forms part of the wider Arab?Israeli conflict....
: In Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock

The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was completed in 691, making it the oldest extant Islamic building in the world....
mosque on the Temple Mount
Temple Mount

The Temple Mount , also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary , is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem of Jerusalem....
October 9 - Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
announces his retirement from conducting; unbeknownst to anyone other than himself and his doctors, he is terminally ill.
October 13 - Lebanese Civil War
Lebanese Civil War

conflict=Lebanese Civil War |date=1984 - 1990|place=Lebanon|result=Taif Agreement|combatant1=|combatant2=|commander1=|commander2=|strength1=|strength2=...
: Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
n military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon
Mount Lebanon

Mount Lebanon , as a geographic designation, is the Lebanon mountain range, known as the Western Mountain Range of Lebanon. It extends across the whole country along about 160 km , parallel to the Mediterranean Sea coast with the highest peak, Qurnat as Sawda', at 3,088 m .Lebanon has historically been defined by these mountains, which provi...
, ousting General Michel Aoun
Michel Aoun

Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese people Military of Lebanon commander and politician. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he served as List of Prime Ministers of Lebanon and acting List of Presidents of Lebanon of one of two rival governments that contended for power....
's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
October 14 - Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
dies of a heart attack at his home in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. He is 72 years old.
October 15 - Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
for his efforts to lessen Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
tensions and reform his nation.
October 21 - The first Apple Day
Apple Day

Apple Day is an annual celebration, held on October 21 each year, of apples and orchards. It is celebrated mainly in the United Kingdom.Apple Day was initiated by Common Ground in 1990 and has been celebrated in each subsequent year by people organizing hundreds of local events....
is set up by Common Ground
Common Ground (charity)

Common Ground is a United Kingdom charity and lobby group. Founded in 1982 by Sue Clifford and Angela King , Common Ground aims to promote "Spirit of place" ....
in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.
October 25 - Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....
defeats James 'Buster' Douglas for the Heavyweight Boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
crown.
October 27 - The Supreme Soviet
Supreme Soviet

The Supreme Soviet of the USSR was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments....
of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east....
chooses Askar Akayev
Askar Akayev

Askar Akayevich Akayev served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until he was overthrown in March 2005 in the Tulip Revolution.As late as 1993 political analysts saw Akayev as a "prodemocratic physicist."...
as the republic's first president
President of Kyrgyzstan

The President of Kyrgyzstan is the head of state and the highest official of Kyrgyzstan. The President, according to the constitution, "is the symbol of the unity of people and state power, and is the guarantor of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic, and of an individual and citizen." He or she is directly elected for no more than two fiv...
.
October 27 - The New Zealand general election 1990 returns the New Zealand National Party
New Zealand National Party

The New Zealand National Party is the largest party in the New Zealand House of Representatives and in November 2008 formed a minority government with support from three minor parties....
with record number of 67 seats.

November

November 1 - Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the President_of_Ireland#List_of_Presidents_of_Ireland, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002....
defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland
President of Ireland

The President of Ireland is the head of state of Republic of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms....
.
November 5 - Rabbi Meir Kahane
Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir David Kahane was an United States-Israeli Orthodox Judaism rabbi and a member of the Israeli Knesset.Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political, nationalist views, exemplified in his promotion of a Greater Israel based on Jewish law....
, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
hotel.
November 12 - Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
.
November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Arts is an English people computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web....
publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web
World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
.
November 14 - Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
and Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line
Oder-Neisse line

The Oder-Neisse line was drawn in the aftermath of World War II as the eastern border of Germany and the western border of Poland. The line is formed primarily by the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, and meets the Baltic Sea west of the seaport cities of Szczecin and Swinoujscie ....
.
November 15 - STS-38
STS-38

STS-38 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 37th shuttle mission, and carried a classified information in the United States payload for the U.S....
: Space Shuttle AtlantisSpace Shuttle Atlantis

Space Shuttle Atlantis is one of the three currently operational Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States....
is launched on a classified military mission.
November 22 - Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election
Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 1990

The 1990 Conservative Party leadership election in the United Kingdom took place in November 1990 following the decision of former Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Heseltine to stand against the incumbent Conservative leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher....
for the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
.
November 25 - Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa is a Poland politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity , the Eastern bloc first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995....
and Stanislaw Tyminski
Stanislaw Tyminski

Stanislaw "Stan" Tyminski is a Canada businessman of Poland origin, dealing in electronics and computers, and a sometime-politician in both Poland and Canada....
win the first round of the first presidential elections
Polish presidential election, 1990

Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 25 , and Sunday December 9, 1990 . 60.6% of citizens cast their votes during the first round, 98.5% of those were valid....
in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
.
November 27 - John Major
John Major

Sir John Major, Order of the Garter, Order of the Companions of Honour, Chartered Institute of Bankers , was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom and Leaders of the Conservative and Unionist Party of the Conservative Party during 1990 to 1997....
wins the second ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election and his two rivals, Michael Heseltine
Michael Heseltine

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a British people businessman, Conservative Party politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group....
and Douglas Hurd
Douglas Hurd

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council , is a senior United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995....
, concede defeat.
November 28 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the UK; John Major
John Major

Sir John Major, Order of the Garter, Order of the Companions of Honour, Chartered Institute of Bankers , was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom and Leaders of the Conservative and Unionist Party of the Conservative Party during 1990 to 1997....
succeeds her as Party Leader and is appointed Prime Minister
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom and the head of government Her Majesty's Government....
by Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
.
November 29 - Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
: The United Nations Security Council
United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council is one of the principal organs charged with the maintenance of international security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of international sanctions, and the authorization of war....
passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait
Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

December

December 1 - Establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and the mainland of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
since the last Ice Age
Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
, Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel , also known by the portmanteau Chunnel, is a undersea rail transport tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, Kent in England with Coquelles near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover....
workers from the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel
English Channel

The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
seabed.
December 2 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany from 1973 to 1998....
wins the first free all-German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
elections since 1932.
December 3 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9
McDonnell Douglas DC-9

The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is a twin-engine, single-aisle jet airliner. It was first manufactured in 1965 with its maiden flight later that year....
) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727
Boeing 727

The Boeing 727 is a mid-size, Narrow-body aircraft, trijet, T-tailed Commercial airliner jet airliner. The 727's fuselage has an outer diameter of ....
) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
December 3 - Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the President_of_Ireland#List_of_Presidents_of_Ireland, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002....
begins her term as the first female President of Ireland
President of Ireland

The President of Ireland is the head of state of Republic of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms....
.
December 6 - Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power....
releases the Western hostages.
December 6 - President Hossain Mohammad Ershad
Hossain Mohammad Ershad

Hussain Muhammad Ershad born is a Bangladeshi politician who previously served as Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh Army and later as Chief Martial Law Administrator 1982 -1986....
of Bangladesh
Bangladesh

, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....
is forced to resign following massive protests.
December 9 - Slobodan Miloševic
Slobodan Miloševic

Slobodan Milo?evic, whose last/family name sometimes is transliteration as Miloshevich was President of Serbia and of President of Yugoslavia....
becomes President of Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
.
December 9 - Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa is a Poland politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity , the Eastern bloc first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995....
wins the 2nd round of Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
's first presidential election
Polish presidential election, 1990

Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 25 , and Sunday December 9, 1990 . 60.6% of citizens cast their votes during the first round, 98.5% of those were valid....
.
December 11 - American mob boss John Gotti
John Gotti

John Joseph Gotti, Jr. was the crime boss of the Gambino crime family after the murder of the previous boss Paul Castellano. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that eventually caused his downfall....
is arrested.
December 16 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a former Roman Catholicism priest who was List of Presidents of Haiti in 1991, again from 1994 to 1996, and then from 2001 to 2004....
is elected president of Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
, ending 3 decades of military rule.
December 31 - Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is a Russian former World Chess Champion, regarded by many as Methods for comparing top chess players throughout history. He is also a writer and political activist....
holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship
World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible to contest this title....
match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess International Grandmaster and former World Chess Championship. He was undisputed World Champion from 1975 to 1985, repeatedly challenged to regain the title from 1986 to 1990, then was FIDE World Champion from 1993 to 1999....
.

Undated

For a brief time in early 1990, Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
has a civil war in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989
Romanian Revolution of 1989

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu....
, the opposition was for Nicolae Ceausescu
Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu was the Secretary General of the Romanian Workers' Party, later the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967 and President of Romania from 1974 until 1989....
and the Communist regime, and those for the new regime
Regime

The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature. It may also be used synonymously with "wiktionary:regimen", for example in the phrases "exercise regime" or "medical regime"....
.
The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
is published in the United States.
Metropolitan Aleksy of Leningrad
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
and all Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.
Channel 7-10 networks go into receivership in Australia.
Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
.

Fictional

The following are references to year 1990 in fiction:

When the Stephen King
Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....
novel The Stand
The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror fiction/science fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. It re-works the scenario in King?s earlier short story, "Night Surf" ....
was re-issued as a "Complete and Uncut Edition", the setting of the story was changed from 1980 to 1990.

World population

World population World population The world population is the total number of living humans on Earth at a given time. As of March 2009, the world's population is estimated to be about 6.76 1,000,000,000 ....
	1990	1985			1995
World World *World* is a common name for the planet Earth seen from a human worldview, as a place inhabited by human beings. It is often used to signify the sum of human experience and history, or the 'human condition' in general....	5,263,593,000	4,830,979,000	432,614,000	+8,95 %	5,674,380,000	410,787,000	+7,80 %
Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....	622,443,000	541,814,000	80,629,000	+14,88 %	707,462,000	85,019,000	+13,66 %
Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....	3,167,807,000	2,887,552,000	280,255,000	+9,71 %	3,430,052,000	262,245,000	+8,28 %
Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....	721,582,000	706,009,000	15,573,000	+2,21 %	727,405,000	5,823,000	+0,81 %
Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....	441,525,000	401,469,000	40,056,000	+9,98 %	481,099,000	39,574,000	+8,96 %
North America Northern America Northern America is the northernmost region of the Americas, and is part of the North American continent. It lies directly north of the region of Middle America ; the land border between the two regions coincides with the border between the United States and Mexico....	283,549,000	269,456,000	14,093,000	+5,23 %	299,438,000	15,889,000	+5,60 %
Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....	26,687,000	24,678,000	2,009,000	+8,14 %	28,924,000	2,237,000	+8,38 %

Births

January–June

January 1 - Sadick Adams
Sadick Adams

Sadick Adams is a Ghanaian Football . He is currently an official player of Atl?tico Madrid as of January 1, 2008....
, Ghanaian football striker
January 1 - Ali Murtaza
Ali Murtaza

Ali Ghulam Murtaza is an Indian First-class cricket cricketer. He is currently a member of Indian_Cricket_League#ICL_World_Teams in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition....
, Indian First Class cricketer
January 4 - Toni Kroos
Toni Kroos

Toni Kroos is a German association football who plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He has a younger brother, Felix Kroos, who plays as a striker for FC Hansa Rostock....
, German footballer
January 4 - Alberto Paloschi
Alberto Paloschi

Alberto Paloschi is an Italians Association football who plays for Serie B club Parma F.C.....
, Italian footballer
January 6 - Abhinav Mukund
Abhinav Mukund

Abhinav Mukund is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Chennai Super Kings, India Under-19 cricket team squad and Tamil Nadu. He is the youngest player in the Chennai Super Kings squad....
, cricketer
January 6 - Dominique Aegerter
Dominique Aegerter

Dominique Aegerter , is a Swiss Grand Prix motorcycle racing motorcycle road racing, currently competing in the 125cc World Championship.Aegerter started his career in motocross....
, German motorcycle racer
January 6 - Alex Teixeira Santos
Alex Teixeira Santos

Alex Teixeira Santos or simply Alex Teixeira , is a Brazilian Football positions#Attacking Midfielder. He currently plays for Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama....
, Brazilian footballer
January 7 - Gregor Schlierenzauer
Gregor Schlierenzauer

Gregor "Schlieri" Schlierenzauer is an Austrian Ski jumping. He began his senior career in 2005/06 with one win and three additional podiums in the Ski jumping Grand Prix....
, Austrian ski jumper
January 7 - Camryn Grimes
Camryn Grimes

Camryn Elizabeth Grimes is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress.She was well-known for her role as Cassie Newman on The Young and the Restless, which she started portraying in 1997, winning a Daytime Emmy for her work in 2000....
, American actress
January 7 - Liam Aiken
Liam Aiken

Liam Padraic Aiken is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He more recently starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the series of books....
, American actor
January 8 - Maci Wainwright
Maci Wainwright

Maci Nicole Wainwright is an American country music singer-songwriter from Bethany, Oklahoma....
, American singer-songwriter
January 10 - Tao Li
Tao Li

Tao Li is a China-born Singaporean swimming#Competitive swimming specializing in the backstroke and butterfly stroke.A Singapore Sports School student, Tao has represented Singapore at the Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games and holds several national records....
, Singaporean Olympic swimmer
January 12 - Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Karjakin is a Ukraine chess Grandmaster . He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the youngest grandmaster in history, achieving the title at the age of twelve years and seven months....
, Ukrainian chess player
January 15 - Chris Warren Jr.
Chris Warren Jr.

Christopher Warren Jr. is an American actor.He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of actress Brook Kerr, who is best known for playing Whitney Russell on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions, and her husband Christopher Warren....
, American actor
January 15 - Fernando Forestieri
Fernando Forestieri

Fernando Mart?n Forestieri is an Italians Association football who plays for Serie B club Vicenza Calcio, on loan from Genoa C.F.C.. He is nicknamed El Topa....
, Italian footballer
January 22 - Alize Cornet
Alizé Cornet

Aliz? Cornet is a female tennis player from France and the current French number one. She has a career-high and current ranking of #11, achieved on 16 February 2009....
, French tennis player
January 26 - Christopher Massey
Christopher Massey

Christopher Michael Massey is an American actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known for starring as Michael Barret in Nickelodeon television series Zoey 101....
, American actor
January 30 - Jake Thomas
Jake Thomas

Jake Thomas is an American actor and singer known for his role in the television show Lizzie McGuire, in which he plays Lizzie's younger brother, Matt McGuire....
, American actor
January 30 - Eiza Gonzalez
Eiza González

Eiza Gonz?lez Reyna, known throughout Mexico as Lola, is a Mexican-born actress and singer. She was born on January 30, 1990 and is the daughter of former model Glenda Reyna....
, Mexican actress/singer
February 1 - Laura Marling
Laura Marling

Laura Beatrice Marling , is a folk-pop, singer-songwriter from Hampshire, England.Marling has toured with a number of well-known Indie rock artists in the UK and beyond including Adam Green and Jamie T, who invited her on tour with him in 2006 after he attended her second-ever gig....
, British singer-songwriter
February 3 - Sean Kingston
Sean Kingston

Kisean Anderson better known by his stage name Sean Kingston, is a Jamaican-American reggae/pop music singing and rapping....
, American singer
February 4 - Haruka Tomatsu
Haruka Tomatsu

is a seiyu born on February 4, 1990 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Aichi prefecture. She is employed by Music Ray'n....
, Japanese Seiyu
February 7 - Anna Abreu
Anna Abreu

Anna Eira Margarida Mour?o de Melo e Abreu is a Finnish people-Portuguese people singer. She came to fame as the runner-up on Idols . Her music is primarily Pop music, though her songs also have Rhythm and blues, Soul music and Latin American music rhythms to them....
, Finnish pop singer
February 7 - Steven Stamkos
Steven Stamkos

Steven Stamkos is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League . Stamkos was the first overall pick in the 2005-06 OHL season#OHL_Priority_Selection, from the Markham Waxers of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association, and after a successful career with the Sarnia Sting, S...
, Canadian ice hockey player
February 9 - Camille Winbush
Camille Winbush

Camille Winbush is an United States actress. Her work in television has earned her three NAACP Image Award and a Young Artist Award....
, American Actress
February 9 - Facundo Affranchino
Facundo Affranchino

Facundo Andr?s Affranchino Affranchino made his debut as a 17-year old on November 10, 2007 in a 2-1 away loss to Club Atl?tico Hurac?n where he played 81 minutes as a Winger ....
, Argentine footballer
February 10 - Craig Sorger
Craig Sorger

The murder of Craig Sorger involved a teenager from Ephrata, Washington who was brutally murdered by then-12-year-old playmates Evan Drake Savoie and Jake Lee Eakin ....
, American murder victim (d. 2003)
February 11 - Q'Orianka Kilcher
Q'Orianka Kilcher

Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher is a German-born American actor and singer, perhaps best known for her role as Pocahontas in the 2005 film The New World....
, German-born actress
February 13 - Erdini Qoigyijabu, Tibetan religious figure
February 13 - Olivia Allison
Olivia Allison

Olivia Elizabeth N. Allison is a British Synchronized swimming.Her most notable achievements to date are winning two consecutive gold medals at the British Synchronized Swimming Championships in 2004 and 2005....
, British synchronized swimmer
February 14 - Emily Mae Young
Emily Mae Young

Emily Mae Young is an American actress who starred on the television series Step by Step from 1996 to 1998.Emily Mae Young started her career at the age of six....
, American actress
February 28 - Anna Muzychuk
Anna Muzychuk

Anna Muzychuk is a prominent chess player.Muzychuk is an International Master and Woman Grandmaster with a FIDE Elo rating system of 2540 . In 2004 she became a citizen of Slovenia, where she is the strongest female chess player....
, Ukrainian chess player
March 1 - James Lomas
James Lomas

James Lomas is a British Olivier Award-winning actor best known for his role as one of the original Billy Elliots in Billy Elliot the Musical....
, British stage actor
March 2 - Adderly Fong
Adderly Fong

Adderly Fong Chun-Yu, , born March 2, 1990, is a Hong Kong Chinese race car driver. He started racing in 2004.He is currently competing in the German Formula Three Championship with Performance Racing....
, Hong Kong Chinese race car driver
March 4 - Andrea Bowen
Andrea Bowen

Andrea Elizabeth Bowen is a two time SAG Award- winning American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives....
, American actress
March 8 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel
Abigail and Brittany Hensel

Abigail "Abby" Loraine Hensel and Brittany "Britty" Lee Hensel , are highly symmetric polycephaly conjoined twins, and further, tribrachius, bipedus....
, American conjoined twins
March 14 - Joe Allen
Joe Allen

Joseph Michael "Joe" Allen is a Welsh football , currently playing for Swansea City A.F.C..He attended Preseli School near Crymych and has been a part of the Swansea City A.F.C....
, Welsh footballer
March 19 - Anthony Skorich
Anthony Skorich

Anthony Skorich in Perth, Western Australia is an Australian football player currently playing for A-League club Perth Glory.He attended John Curtin College of the Arts and graduated in 2007....
, Australian footballer
March 23 - Princess Eugenie of York
Princess Eugenie of York

Princess Eugenie of York is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. As such she is sixth, and the second female, in the History of the British line of succession#George VI to the thrones of Commonwealth realm; however, after subsequent evolution of the Commonwealth of Nations, that number of states ha...
March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes

Keisha Castle-Hughes is a New Zealand film actor who rose to prominence playing Paikea, in the successful film Whale Rider. She was cast in the film as "Pai Apirana" at age eleven....
, Australian-born New Zealand actress
March 24 - Aljur Abrenica
Aljur Abrenica

Aljur Guiang Abrenica is a Philippines actor....
, Filipino actor
April 9 - Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart

Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an United States film and television Actor. She is known for roles in the films Panic Room , Zathura , In the Land of Women, Into the Wild , The Messengers, and Twilight ....
, American actress
April 10 - Alex Pettyfer
Alex Pettyfer

Alexander Richard "Alex" Pettyfer is an England actor and Model . The son of an actor and former fashion model, he appeared on stage and in television before being cast as Alex Rider , the main character in the film version of Stormbreaker ....
, English Actor
April 10 - Ben Amos
Ben Amos

Benjamin Paul "Ben" Amos is an English association football who plays as a Goalkeeper for Manchester United F.C.....
, Manchester United Goalkeeper
April 12 - Frank Gotti Agnello, grandson of convicted mobster John Gotti
April 15 - Emma Watson
Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a France-born United Kingdom actor who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter films....
, English actress
April 16 - Lorraine Nicholson
Lorraine Nicholson

Lorraine Broussard Nicholson is an American actress.She is the daughter of Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard, and has three older half-siblings and one younger brother....
, American actress
April 17 - Astrit Ajdarevic
Astrit Ajdarevic

Astrit Ajdarevic is a Swedish professional football player currently playing as a midfielder for Liverpool FC youth team....
, Swedish professional football player
April 19 - Brittany Robertson
Brittany Robertson

Brittany Leanna Robertson, born April 19, 1990 in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an American actress. She's played major roles in movies like Dan In Real Life, along with numerous television appearances....
, American actress
April 23 - Matthew Underwood
Matthew Underwood

Matthew Dillon Underwood is an American actor, best known for his role as Logan Reese on the Nickelodeon TV show Zoey 101. His first film appearance was providing "Additional Voices" in My Neighbors the Yamadas in 1999....
, American actor
April 23 - Dev Patel
Dev Patel

Devesh Patel is a United Kingdom film and television actor as well as a Martial arts. As an actor, he is known for his performances as Anwar Kharral in the teen drama series Skins and as main protagonist, Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's critically acclaimed and multiple Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire , for which Patel...
, British actor
April 27 - Vahid Amraei
Vahid Amraei

Vahid Amraei is an Iranian Football player who currently plays for F.C. Zob Ahan in Iran's Premier Football League and the Iran national under-23 football team....
, Iranian football player
May 1 - Caitlin Stasey
Caitlin Stasey

Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club....
, Australian actress
May 2 - Kay Panabaker
Kay Panabaker

Kay Stephanie Panabaker is an American film and television Actor. She is the younger sister of Sky High star, Danielle Panabaker....
, American actress
May 4 - David Hasler
David Hasler

David Hasler is a Liechtenstein football who currently plays as Striker for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.The most highly-rated young player in Liechtenstein, Hasler signed a three-year contract with Switzerland side FC Basel in 2007 after making his name at USV Eschen/Mauren in his homeland....
, Liechtenstein Footballer
May 5 - Saad Al Sheebi
Saad Al Sheebi

Saad Al Sheebi is a Qatari football who is a goalkeeper for Al-Sadd Sports Club. He is a member of the Qatar national under-20 football team. He was signed from the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence....
, Qatari footballer
May 12 - Florent Amodio
Florent Amodio

Florent Amodio is a French figure skater. He is the 2009 French Figure Skating Championships and the 2008-2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix.He was born in Brazil and adopted as an infant by a French couple....
, French figure skater
May 15 - Gerald Santos
Gerald Santos

Gerald Padua Santos is a Filipino people singer and actor. He is the grand champion of the second season of Pinoy Pop Superstar and is, to date, the youngest ever winner of the said contest....
, Filipino actor and singer
May 16 - Thomas Sangster
Thomas Sangster

Thomas Brodie Sangster is an English people actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Love Actually , Nanny McPhee and The Last Legion ....
, British actor
May 24 - Joey Logano
Joey Logano

Joseph "Joey" Logano nicknamed Sliced_bread#The_greatest_thing_since_sliced_bread by Randy LaJoie, is an American race car driver who currently drives the #20 The Home Depot Toyota Camry in the Sprint Cup Series and the #20 GameStop Toyota Camry in the Nationwide Series for Joe Gibbs Racing....
, American race car driver
May 30 - Matías Nocedal
Matías Nocedal

Mat?as Nocedal is an Argentina professional basketball player. He can play at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 1.94 m in height and 91 kg in weight....
, Argentine basketball player
May 30 - Dean Collins
Dean Collins (actor)

Dean Richard Collins is an American actor, best known for playing the character "Mike Gold" in the Fox Broadcasting Company television sitcom The War at Home ....
, American actor
June 2 - Kristiina Brask
Kristiina Brask

Kristiina Maria Brask is a Finland pop singer. She was a finalist in the third season of Idols in 2007. She was placed third after Ari Koivunen and Anna Abreu....
, Finnish pop singer
June 6 - Ashleigh Chisholm
Ashleigh Chisholm

Ashleigh Chisholm is an Australian actress. She starred as Felicity 'Fliss' Sidebotham in The Sleepover Club, a children's television show about five pre-teenage girls....
, Australian actress
June 10 - Niamh Perry
Niamh Perry

Niamh Perry is a People of Northern Ireland singer and actress who competed as one of the finalists in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008....
, Irish actress and singer
June 17 - Marcell Miklos Ács
Marcell Miklos Ács

Marcell Miklos ?cs is a Hungarian/Australian amateur Muay Thai fighter. He had represented Australia in the 2005 WMF World Muay Thai Championships, and the 2006 WMF World Muay Thai Championships, winning a bronze medal in the 54 kg division on both occasions....
, Hungarian/Australian amateur Muay Thai fighter
June 18 - Sandra Izbasa
Sandra Izbasa

Sandra Raluca Izbasa is a Romanian artistic gymnast. Her best events are the floor exercise, the balance beam , and the all-around. She is the 2008 Olympics champion on floor exercise and a bronze medalist on the Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's artistic team all-around....
, Romanian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
June 21 - Bridget Hall
Bridget Hall (actor)

Bridget Hall is a teenage Canadian actress, best known for appearing in TVO Kids series Spellz, with famed magician Jay Sankey.Bilingual and a resident of Ottawa, she has also done voice acting for the Canadian Museum of Civilisations, called "Canadian Settlement"....
, Canadian actress
June 21 - Håvard Nordtveit
Håvard Nordtveit

H?vard Nordtveit is a Norwegian association football who plays for Arsenal F.C. and the Norway national under-21 football team....
, Norwegian football player
June 21 - Ricardas Berankis
Ricardas Berankis

Ricardas Berankis is a Lithuanian professional tennis player, currently ranked number 453 in the world....
, Lithuanian tennis player
June 28 - Jasmine Richards
Jasmine Richards

Jasmine Richards is a Canada actress. She is the best know of portraying Camp Rock#Characters in Camp Rock....
, Canadian Actress

July–December

July 1 - Angelo Balanta
Angelo Balanta

Angelo Jasiel Balanta is a Colombian association football who plays for Queens Park Rangers F.C. in the Football League Championship....
, Colombian footballer
July 9 - Rafael da Silva
Rafael Pereira da Silva (footballer born 1990)

Rafael Pereira da Silva , commonly known as Rafael or Rafael da Silva, is a Brazilian association football player, currently playing for Manchester United F.C.....
, Brazilian footballer
July 9 - Fabio da Silva
Fábio Pereira da Silva

F?bio Pereira da Silva , commonly known as F?bio or F?bio da Silva, is a Brazilian association football playing as a Defender #Full back for Manchester United F.C....
, Brazilian footballer
July 24 - Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase

Daveigh Elizabeth Chase is an American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Samara Morgan in The Ring and voicing Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch....
, American actress
July 27 - Nick Hogan
Nick Hogan

Nicholas Allan Bollea , also known as Nick Hogan, is an American Reality television actor, best known as the son of professional wrestling Hulk Hogan and for his appearances on the reality show Hogan Knows Best alongside his father, mother Linda Bollea, and elder sibling Brooke Hogan....
, American television personality
July 27 - Indiana Evans
Indiana Evans

Indiana Evans is an Australian actress best known for her role as Matilda Hunter on popular Australian soap opera Home and Away between 2004 and 2008....
, Australian actress
July 28 - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, American rapper
August 1 - Alakina Mann
Alakina Mann

Alakina Mann is an England actress. She is notable for playing Anne in The Others and also appeared in the 2003 movie Girl with a Pearl Earring as Cornelia Vermeer....
, English actress
August 6 - JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Ramsey

JonBen?t Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant contestant made famous by her murder and the subsequent media coverage. She was found dead in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, nearly eight hours after she was reported missing....
, American beauty queen and murder victim (d. 1996)
August 9 - Adelaide Kane
Adelaide Kane

Adelaide Kane, born 9 August 1990 is an actress from Claremont, Western Australia. She became the third actress to play Lolly Allen in the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, having won the role through a series of auditions promoted as a competition in Dolly Magazine....
, Australian actress
August 10 - Tai Woffinden
Tai Woffinden

Tai Woffinden is a motorcycle speedway rider currently riding for the Rye House Rockets in the Speedway Premier League and is the son of former motorcycle speedway rider Rob Woffinden....
, English speedway rider
August 12 - Mario Balotelli
Mario Balotelli

Mario Balotelli Barwuah is an Italians Association football who plays for Serie A club F.C. Internazionale Milano....
, Italian footballer
August 20 - Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Ranomi Kromowidjojo

Ranomi Kromowidjojo is a Netherlands swimmer who mainly specializes in Freestyle but also has potential in Backstroke and Butterfly events. As part of the Dutch team, she holds the world records on the 4x50 m and 4x200 m freestyle relay on short course and 4x100 m freestyle relay on long course....
, Dutch swimmer
August 28 - Bojan Krkic
Bojan Krkic

Bojan Krkic or simply Bojan , is a Spanish association football who plays for FC Barcelona....
, Spanish footballer
August 31 - Oliver Adams
Oliver Adams

Oliver Adams is an American actor who appeared as Bobby in the 2004 film American Crime and in The Celestine Prophecy External links...
, American actor
September 3 - Abbas Ali (footballer)
Abbas Ali (footballer)

Abbas Ali is a Pakistani footballer, who plays for National Bank of Pakistan . He is also a member of Pakistan national football team.Ali plays as a defender but can also play as a defensive midfielder....
, Pakistani footballer
September 8 - Matt Barkley
Matt Barkley

Matt Barkley is an American football player and student athlete at the University of Southern California and playing quarterback for the USC Trojans football....
, American football player
September 9 - Melody Klaver
Melody Klaver

Melody Zo? Klaver is a Dutch actress, born September 9, 1990.Melody played the part of Heleen in Diep, a movie from Simone van Dusseldorp, for which she got a Golden Calf-nomination, one of the most important film-awards in the Netherlands....
, Dutch actress
September 13 - Jamie Anderson (snowboarder)
Jamie Anderson (snowboarder)

Jamie Anderson is an American Snowboard from South Lake Tahoe. During the 06/07-season Anderson won the TTR 6-Star Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships slopestyle, and the Roxy Chicken Jam in Kaprun, Austria, the quarterpipe event at the O'Neill Evolution in Davos, the Billabong slopestyle Jam and the Abominable SnowJam....
, American snowboarder
September 19 - Patrick Breeding, American singer
September 19 - Saki Fukuda
Saki Fukuda

is a Japanese actress as well as a singer.She will be in the 2009 live action film, Yatterman as Yatterman 2 "Ai-chan"....
, Japanese actress
September 20 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
September 21 - Christian Serratos
Christian Serratos

Christian Serratos is an American actress. Her TV credits include a recurring role as Suzie Crabgrass on the Nickelodeon series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, and roles on Hannah Montana, Zoey 101, and a 7th Heaven episode called "Broken Hearts and Promises"....
, American actress
September 21 - Allison Scagliotti-Smith
Allison Scagliotti-Smith

Allison Glenn Scagliotti-Smith is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role on Drake & Josh, as Mindy Crenshaw, Josh's competitive rival, later girlfriend, who hates Drake....
, American actress
September 23 - Agustin Sierra
Agustín Sierra

Agust?n Sierra Romero is an Argentina actor, the best known of portraying Agust?n Maza in popular kids and teenage telenovela Chiquititas, but also roles in Rebelde Way, Floricienta and Casi ?ngeles....
, Argentine actor
September 23 - Laurent Alvarez
Laurent Alvarez

Laurent Alvarez is a Swiss figure skater. He is the 2002 Swiss junior national champion and placed fourth at the 2007 Swiss Figure Skating Championships....
, Swiss figure skater
September 25 - Mao Asada
Mao Asada

is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships and Four Continents Championships, the 2005-06 and 2008-09 season Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the 2005 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and a three-time Japanese Figure Skating Championships....
, Japanese figure skater
October 12 - Henri Lansbury
Henri Lansbury

Henri George Lansbury is an English association footballer who plays for Scunthorpe United F.C. as a midfielder, on loan from Arsenal F.C.....
, English footballer
October 18 - Carly Schroeder
Carly Schroeder

Carly Brook Schroeder is an American film and television actress.She is best known for playing Serena Baldwin, the daughter of Scotty Baldwin and Lucy Coe in the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles....
, American actress
October 21 - Ricky Rubio
Ricky Rubio

Ricard "Ricky" Rubio Vives is a Spain professional basketball player. Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Asociaci?n de Clubs de Baloncesto on October 15, 2005....
, Spanish basketball player
October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki
Jonathan Lipnicki

Jonathan William Lipnicki is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Jerry Maguire, Stuart Little and Like Mike....
, American actor
October 23 - Stevie Brock
Stevie Brock

Stephen Ray Brock is an American pop music singer. He grew up outside of Dayton, Ohio. Brock began singing when he was two years old. At eight, he wrote his first song: "Little Waves"....
, American singer
October 23 - Dalmar Abuzeid
Dalmar Abuzeid

Dalmar Abuzeid in Toronto, Canada is an Canadian actor. He plays the character Danny Van Zandt on the Canadian series Degrassi: The Next Generation....
, Canadian Actor
October 25 - Austin Peralta
Austin Peralta

Austin Peralta is a musician and composer, son of the legendary Z-Boys skateboarder and award winning film director Stacy Peralta. He has gained notoriety in the jazz world for having two CD's released by CBS/Sony in Japan by the age of 16....
, American jazz musician and composer
November 4 - Jean-Luc Bilodeau
Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Jean-Luc Bilodeau is a Canada actor best known for his role as Josh Trager in the ABC Family channel program Kyle XY.Bilodeau first appeared in a film called Ill Fated in which he played the role of young Bobby....
, Canadian actor
November 7 - Matt Corby
Matt Corby

Matthew John "Matt" Corby is an Australian singer, who was the runner-up to Natalie Gauci on the fifth season of Australian Idol in 2007.. His surname comes from the United Kingdom town of Corby....
, Australian singer
November 7 - Marisa Siketa
Marisa Siketa

Marisa Julia Siketa is an Australian actress who played Summer Hoyland on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2002 to 2007....
, Australian actress
November 14 - Jessica Jacobs
Jessica Jacobs

Jessica Madison "Jessie" Jacobs was an Australian actress and singer. She was known for her roles in children's television series in Australia including The Saddle Club, Fergus McPhail, and Holly's Heroes....
, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
November 15 - Kanata Hongo
Kanata Hongo

is a Japanese people actor and model who has appeared several times in music videos, movies, TV series, and magazines. His major breakthrough role was as the anime character Ryoma Echizen in the The Prince of Tennis of The Prince of Tennis, and became even more widely known when he was cast as Shin in Nana 2....
, Japanese actor
November 19 - James Chichester, Earl of Belfast
James Chichester, Earl of Belfast

James Arthur Chichester, Earl of Belfast is an Irish courtesy peer, styled Viscount Chichester until his grandfather died in 2007.He is the son of Patrick Chichester, 8th Marquess of Donegall and Caroline Mary Philipson....
, Irish Peer
November 29 - Diego González
Diego González

Diego Gonz?lez BiographyDiego became famous on the reality TV. show, C?digo F.A.M.A.. He came in 5th place in the American Idol-like show....
, Mexican singer, actor, and song writer
November 30 - Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen

Magnus ?en Carlsen is a Norway chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy.On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, the third Chess prodigy#List of youngest grandmasters in history....
, Norwegian chess player
December 10 - Giulia Boverio
Giulia Boverio

Giulia Caterina Boverio is an Italian actress that works for Disney Channel Italy. She also starred in the Disney Channel Games and was part of the Green Team....
, Italian actress
December 10 - Vivien Endicott-Douglas
Vivien Endicott-Douglas

Vivien Endicott-Douglas is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Marnie in the television series ShoeBox Zoo.Vivien works in film and television and does considerable work in voiceovers....
, Canadian actress
December 13 - Corey Anderson
Corey Anderson

Corey James Anderson is a New Zealand cricket team cricketer who plays for Canterbury cricket team.Anderson came into the Canterbury Wizards Squad in the 2006-2007 season freshly promoted from his outstanding showing playing for the New Zealand Under 19 Cricket Team, having perfected his great form for his High School 1st XI team at Christc...
, New Zealand cricketer
December 17 - Folashade Abugan
Folashade Abugan

Folashade Abugan is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 50.89 seconds, achieved during the 2008 African Championships....
, Nigerian sprinter
December 17 - John Rooney
John Rooney (footballer)

John Richard Rooney is an England Association football who plays as a striker for Macclesfield Town F.C. in Football League Two....
, English footballer
December 20 - JoJo, American singer/actress
December 21 - Abdullah Nabeel Al Ahmad
Abdullah Nabeel Al Ahmad

Abdullah Nabeel Al Ahmad is a Kuwaiti footballer. At 13 years of age, Al Ahmad joined the youth ranks at Kazma, and was put on the Under-17, becoming the youngest player in Kuwaiti footballing history to join an Under-17 team for any sport....
, Kuwaiti footballer
December 22 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Jean-Baptiste Maunier , nicknamed JB or Jean-Bapt is a French actor and singer....
, French actor
December 23 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle

Anna Maria Perez de Tagl? is a Filipino-American teen Actor, model, and singer. She is known for her role as Ashley Dewitt on Hannah Montana and Ella Pador on Camp Rock....
, American actress
December 26 - Aaron Ramsey
Aaron Ramsey

Aaron James Ramsey is a Wales international association football, who plays as a central midfielder for Arsenal F.C., but can also play on either wing or at fullback....
, Welsh footballer
December 28 - David Archuleta
David Archuleta

David Archuleta, is a former United States Air Force Airman of Okinawan stationary troops and is currently an American male kickboxing....
, American singer

Deaths

January–March

January 2 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
January 4 - Sir Henry Bolte
Henry Bolte

Sir Henry Edward Bolte Order of St Michael and St George , Australian politician, was the 38th and longest serving Premier of Victoria. In his later years he became known as the last Australian politician to advocate, and use, capital punishment....
, Australian politician, former Premier of Victoria (b. 1908)
January 4 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
January 6 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 for his scientific contributions....
, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
laureate (b. 1904)
January 9 - Spud Chandler
Spud Chandler

Spurgeon Ferdinand "Spud" Chandler was an United States right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the New York Yankees from 1937 through 1947....
, American baseball player (b. 1907)
January 18 - Melanie Appleby
Melanie Appleby

Melanie Susan Appleby was one half of the 1980s England pop music duet Mel and Kim.Born in London Borough of Hackney, London of mixed-race to a Jamaican father and a United Kingdom mother, Appleby initially worked as a Glamour photography and then joined her sister Kim Appleby to form Mel and Kim, enjoying considerable record chart...
, British musician (b. 1966)
January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
, American actress (b. 1907)
January 20 - Hayedeh
Hayedeh

Hayedeh , born Masoumeh Dadehbala , was a legendary Persian music Pop music and Classical music diva with a contralto vocal range....
, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
January 22 - Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac was a renowned Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central Europe and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust....
, Russian-American photographer (b. 1897)
January 23 - Allen Collins
Allen Collins

Larkin Allen Collins Jr.. was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and co-wrote most of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant....
, American musician (b. 1952)
January 25 - Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years......
, American actress (b. 1922)
January 26 - Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford was an United States historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of city and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career as a writer that also included a period as an influential literary critic....
, American historian of science (b. 1895)
February 2 - Joe Erskine
Joe Erskine

Joseph "Joe" Erskine was a heavyweight boxing from the Butetown district of Cardiff, Wales, Wales. He was trained by Archie Rule. He held the British heavyweight title from August 1956 to June 1958....
, British boxer (b. 1934)
February 2 - Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was a drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents. His birth name was Melvin Sokoloff....
, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
February 7 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (b. 1913)
February 7 - Alfredo M. Santos
Alfredo M. Santos

General Alfredo M. Santos was born on July 13, 1905 and was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 1962 to 1965, making him the first four-star general of the Philippines' armed forces....
, Filipino general and World War II hero (b. 1905)
February 8 - Del Shannon
Del Shannon

Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
, American musician and singer (b. 1934)
February 19 - Michael Powell
Michael Powell (director)

Michael Latham Powell was a British people film director, renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger which produced a series of classic British films under the aegis of "Powell and Pressburger."...
, British director (b. 1905)
February 16 - Keith Haring
Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s....
, American pop artist (b. 1954)
February 24 - Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes....
, American publisher (b. 1919)
February 27 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Nahum Norbert Glatzer

Nahum Norbert Glatzer was a noted American literary scholar, theologian, and editor.Glatzer was born in Lemberg, then within the administrative boundaries of the Austria-Hungary ....
, American scholar (b. 1903)
March 13 - Karl Münchinger
Karl Münchinger

File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F026295-0025, Bonn, Konzert Landesvertretung Baden-W?rttemberg.jpgKarl M?nchinger was a German conducting of European classical music....
, German conductor (b. 1915)
March 13 - Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim , a Jewish native of Austria, became known as a child psychology and writer after immigrating as a refugee to the United States in 1939....
, American child psychologist (b. 1903)
March 17 - Ric Grech
Ric Grech

Richard Roman Grech was an English musician.Born in Bordeaux, France in 1946, Grech was a versatile, accomplished, and sought after British rock musician....
, British musician (b. 1946)
March 17 - Capucine
Capucine

Capucine was a Golden Globe-nominated France actor and Model best known for her role as Simone Clouseau in the 1963 comedy The Pink Panther ....
, French actress (b. 1933)
March 19 - Andrew Wood
Andrew Wood

Andrew Wood , born in Columbus, Mississippi, was the lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone, and earlier of Malfunkshun. He was only 24 when he died of a heroin overdose coupled with a cerebral hemorrhage just before the release of Mother Love Bone's debut album Apple ....
, American musician (b. 1966)
March 20 - Lev Yashin
Lev Yashin

Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian, USSR national football team goalkeeper , considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game....
, Russian footballer (b. 1929)

April–June

April 3 - Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
, American jazz vocalist (b. 1924)
April 8 - Ryan White
Ryan White

Ryan Wayne White was an United States teenager from Kokomo, Indiana who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after being expelled from school because of his infection....
, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
April 15 - Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
April 17 - Ralph Abernathy
Ralph Abernathy

Ralph David Abernathy was an American civil rights activist and leader and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference....
, American civil rights leader (b. 1926)
April 18 - Gory Guerrero
Gory Guerrero

Salvador Guerrero Quesada , better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestling in the early days of Lucha libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico....
, American wrestler and father of Eddie Guerrero
Eddie Guerrero

Eduardo Gory Guerrero was a Mexican-American Professional wrestling born into a Mexico wrestling family. He wrestled in Mexico and Japan and in several major professional wrestling promotions in the United States He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling , World Championship Wrestling , and in World Wrestling Entertainment ....
(b. 1921)
April 21 - Romain de Tirtoff
Romain de Tirtoff

Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian-born France artist and designer known by the pseudonym Ert?, the French language pronunciation of his initials, R.T....
, French Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
artist (b. 1892)
April 23 - Paulette Goddard
Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child Model and in several Broadway theatre productions as Ziegfeld Follies, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s....
, American actress (b. 1910)
May 8 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich
Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich

Tom?s S?amus Cardinal ? Fiaich was an Irish cardinal , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland from 1978 until his death....
, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1923)
May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor, dancer, and singer (b. 1925)
May 16 - Jim Henson
Jim Henson

'James Maury "Jim" Henson' , was one of the most widely known puppeteers in American television history. He was the creator of The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, and the leading force behind their long run in the television series Sesame Street and The Muppet Show and films such as The Muppet Movie and The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth...
, American puppeteer and filmmaker (b. 1936)
May 18 - Jill Ireland
Jill Ireland

Jill Dorothy Ireland was an England actress, best known for her many films with second husband Charles Bronson....
, English actress (b. 1936)
May 25 - Vic Tayback
Vic Tayback

Victor "Vic" Tayback was a New York City-born United States actor of Syrian descent....
, American actor (b. 1930)
June 2 - Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
, English actor (b. 1908)
June 3 - Robert Noyce
Robert Noyce

Robert Norton Noyce , nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip....
, American businessman and inventor (b. 1927)
June 3 - Stiv Bators
Stiv Bators

Steven John Bator, known as Stiv Bators , was an American rock and roll and punk rockvocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church....
, American singer (The Dead Boys
The Dead Boys

The Dead Boys were an American punk band from Cleveland, Ohio. Among one of the first bands to play punk rock, the band was initially active from 1976 to 1979, they reunited several times until a so far permanent break-up in 2005....
) (b. 1949)
June 16 - Dame Eva Turner
Eva Turner

Dame Eva Turner Order of the British Empire was a dramatic soprano whose well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power.Born in Werneth, Oldham, England, her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham, the teacher of Clara Butt....
, British soprano (b. 1892)
June 22 - Ilya Frank
Ilya Frank

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Tamm, also of the Soviet Union....
, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
laureate (b. 1908)

July–September

July 7 - Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen

William Lawrence Francis "Bill" Cullen was an United States radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. He was best known for television game shows, where he hosted multiple series and served as a panelist for over twenty years combined on I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth....
, American game show host (b. 1920)
July 7 - Cazuza
Cazuza

Agenor Miranda Ara?jo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer, singer and poet, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
July 15 - Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough Pictures movie The Wicked Lady....
, English actress (b. 1916)
July 18 - Yun Po Sun, President of South Korea
President of South Korea

The President of the South Korea is, according to the Constitution, chief executive of the government, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces....
(b. 1897)
July 18 - Johnny Wayne
Johnny Wayne

Johnny Wayne was a Canada comedian and comedy writer best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster alongside Frank Shuster....
, Canadian comedian (b. 1918)
July 18 - Yves Chaland
Yves Chaland

Yves Chaland During the 1980s, together with Ted Beno?t, Serge Clerc and Floc'h, he relaunched the Ligne claire style in Franco-Belgian comics....
, French cartoonist (b. 1957)
July 22 - Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

Manuel Puig was an Argentina author. Among his best known novels are La traici?n de Rita Hayworth , Boquitas pintadas , and El beso de la mujer ara?a , which was made into a Kiss of the Spider Woman by the Argentine-Brazilian Director, H?ctor Babenco and in 1993 into a Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
July 23 - Kenjiro Takayanagi
Kenjiro Takayanagi

was a Japanese pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the Western world, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television"....
, Japanese television engineer (b. 1899)
July 26 - Brent Mydland
Brent Mydland

Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the United States rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years and, despite being often referred to as "the new guy", he was with the band for a longer time than any other keyboardist, during which time they had their highest-charting material....
, American keyboard player (b. 1952)
August 2 - Edwin Richfield
Edwin Richfield

Edwin Richfield was an England actor.His film credits include: X the Unknown, Quatermass 2, The Camp on Blood Island, The Face of Fu Manchu and Quatermass and the Pit ....
, British actor (b. 1921)
August 9 - Joe Mercer
Joe Mercer

Joseph 'Joe' Mercer, Order of the British Empire was an English football player and manager....
, English footballer (b. 1914)
August 12 - Dorothy Mackaill
Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill was a British people-born United States actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s.Born in Kingston upon Hull, England, Dorothy Mackaill lived with her father after her parents separated when she was eleven....
, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
August 15 - Victor Tsoi, Russian singer, actor and poet (b. 1962)
August 17 - Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey

Pearl Mae Bailey was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway theatre debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946....
, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
August 18 - B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform,and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974....
, American psychologist (b. 1904)
August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released....
, American guitarist (b. 1954)
September 4 - Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne was an American film actor and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated for five-time Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama ....
, American actress (b. 1898)
September 7 - A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percival Taylor was a renowned English historian of the 20th century....
, English historian (b. 1906)
September 16 - Len Hutton
Len Hutton

Sir Leonard Hutton was an England cricketer, who dominated the national and international cricket scene for the decade after the Second World War and was honoured with the England team captaincy, breaking an age-old tradition that the position could be held only by an amateur....
, English cricketer (b. 1916)
September 26 - Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italy novelists of the 20th century. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....
, Italian novelist (b. 1907)
September 30 - Patrick White
Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author who was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays....
, Australian writer, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
laureate (b. 1912)

October–December

October 5 - Peter Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1928)
October 13 - Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho

L? ??c Th? was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician.L? ??c Th? was born Phan ??nh Kh?i in the Nam Ha province of Vietnam....
, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
(b. 1911)
October 14 - Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
November 5 - Meir Kahane
Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir David Kahane was an United States-Israeli Orthodox Judaism rabbi and a member of the Israeli Knesset.Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political, nationalist views, exemplified in his promotion of a Greater Israel based on Jewish law....
, American rabbi and political figure (b. 1932)
November 17 - Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter

Robert Hofstadter was the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."...
, American physicist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
laureate (b. 1915)
November 23 - Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian people parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, In which he became a flying ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both Children's literature and adults, and became one of the world's bes...
, English writer (b. 1916)
November 27 - David White
David White (actor)

David White was an United States stage, film and television actor. His best known role was the character "Larry Tate" in Bewitched....
, American actor (b. 1916)
December 1 - Tomáš Tatar
Tomáš Tatar

Tom? Tatar is a Slovakia ice hockey player. He is currently playing for HKm Zvolen in Slovak Extraliga.ReferencesExternal links...
, Slovak ice hockey player
December 2 - Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
, American composer (b. 1900)
December 6 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos
Pavlos Sidiropoulos

Pavlos Sidiropoulos was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek rock in rock music, at a time when most Greek Rock music Musical ensemble were using English lyrics....
, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
December 7 - Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas

Reinaldo Arenas was a Cubans poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the Cuban Revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Politics of Cuba....
, Cuban writer (b. 1943)
December 7 - Joan Bennett
Joan Bennett

Joan Geraldine Bennett was an Cinema of the United States stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the theatre, Bennett appeared in more than 70 film from the era of silent film through half a century of the sound film....
, American actress (b. 1910)
December 14 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich D?rrenmatt was a Switzerland German literature and theater. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II....
, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
December 15 - Edmund Parker, American Kenpo founder (b.1931)
December 16 - Douglas Campbell
Douglas Campbell (aviator)

Douglas Campbell was an United States aviator and World War I flying ace. He was the first American aviator flying in an American unit to achieve the status of ace....
, American World War I pilot (b. 1896)
December 16 - Jackie Mittoo
Jackie Mittoo

Jackie Mittoo was a Jamaican keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. He was a founding member of The Skatalites and was a mentor to many younger performers, primarily through his work as the musical director at the Studio One record label....
, Jamaican musician (b. 1948)

Nobel Prizes

Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
- Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman

Jerome Isaac Friedman is an United States of America physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up....
, Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall was an American physicist.He was born in Boston and attended Deerfield Academy and later Amherst College. He taught for much of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
, and Richard Edward Taylor
Richard E. Taylor

Richard Edward Taylor, Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada is a Canadian-American professor at Stanford University....
Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
- Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey

Elias James Corey is an United States organic chemistry. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis....
Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
- Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
E. Donnall Thomas

Dr. Edward Donnall Thomas is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center....
Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
- Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomacy, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature....
Peace
Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
- Harry Markowitz
Harry Markowitz

Harry Max Markowitz is a professor at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his pioneering work in Modern Portfolio Theory, studying the effects of asset risk, correlation and Diversification on expected investment portfolio returns....
, Merton Miller
Merton Miller

Merton Howard Miller shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Forsyth Sharpe....
, William Sharpe
William Forsyth Sharpe

William Forsyth Sharpe is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....

Templeton Prize

Baba Amte
Baba Amte

Baba Amte , born Murlidhar Devidas Amte was an Indian social activist who is particularly known for his work for leprosy patients. Baba founded several ashrams for rehabilitation and treatment of leprosy patients, the Disability, and people from marginalized sections of society....
(Joint Award)
L. Charles Birch (Joint Award)

Fields Medal

Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, Shigefumi Mori
Shigefumi Mori

Shigefumi Mori is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds....
, Edward Witten
Edward Witten

Edward Witten is an United States theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the world's leading researchers in superstring theory....

Right Livelihood Award

Alice Tepper Marlin
Alice Tepper Marlin

Alice Tepper Marlin serves as President and CEO of Social Accountability International , a global standard-setting organization for improving workplaces and communities headquartered in New York City....
, Bernard Lédéa Ouedraogo, Felicia Langer
Felicia Langer

Felicia Langer is an Israeli human rights Lawyer known for her defense of Palestinians charged with political violations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip....
and ATCC
ATCC

ATCC may refer to:* American Touring Car Championship* American Type Culture Collection* Asociaci?n de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare* Asian Touring Car Championship...
(Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare)

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