What happened in 1990
400 entries recorded for 1990, listed by date. That was 36 years ago.
1990 at a glance
- Years ago
- 36 (as of 2026)
- Century
- 20th century
- Decade
- 1990s
- Generation born
- Millennials (Generation Y)
- Entries here
- 400
- Breakdown
- 95 historical events · 305 births
January
- January 3
United States invasion of Panama
United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, the deposed strongman of Panama, surrendered to American forces outside the apostolic nunciature in Panama City.
- January 4
Sukkur rail disaster
In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
- January 7
Liam Aiken
Liam Aiken, American actor
- January 7
Gentleman Jack Gallagher
Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler
- January 8
Blair Walsh
Blair Walsh, American football player
- January 10
WarnerMedia
Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- January 10
Martin Jones (ice hockey)
Martin Jones, Canadian ice hockey player
- January 10
Cody Walker (rugby league)
Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player
- January 10
John Carlson (ice hockey)
John Carlson, American ice hockey player
- January 10
Ishiura Shikanosuke
Ishiura Shikanosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler
- January 11
Malik Jackson (defensive lineman)
Malik Jackson, American football player
- January 12
Baku pogrom
A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
- January 13
Douglas Wilder
Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
- January 13
Vincenzo Fiorillo
Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer
- January 14
Lelisa Desisa
Lelisa Desisa, Ethiopian runner
- January 14
Kacy Catanzaro
Kacy Catanzaro, American athlete and wrestler
- January 14
Grant Gustin
Grant Gustin, American actor and singer
- January 14
Áron Szilágyi
Áron Szilágyi, Hungarian fencer
- January 15
Robert Trznadel
Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer
- January 15
Sidney Franklin (actor, born 1990)
Sidney Franklin, American actor and tap dancer
- January 16
Dennis Kelly (American football)
Dennis Kelly, American football player
- January 18
Sting operation
In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
- January 18
Marion Barry
Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- January 19
Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.
- January 19
Tatiana Búa
Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player
- January 19
Shaunette Renée Wilson
Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-American actress
- January 20
Red Army
The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
- January 20
Black January
Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- January 22
Logic (rapper)
Logic, American rapper
- January 22
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
- January 22
Mike Hauschild
Mike Hauschild, American baseball player
- January 23
Alex Silva (wrestler)
Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler
- January 24
Hiten (spacecraft)
Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft (pictured), the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
- January 24
Mao Abe
Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
- January 25
Avianca Flight 052
Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
- January 25
Lee Jun-ho
Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor
- January 25
Apostolos Giannou
Apostolos Giannou, Greek-Australian footballer
- January 27
Tim Beckham
Tim Beckham, American baseball player
- January 31
Nicolás Laprovíttola
Nicolás Laprovíttola, Argentine basketball player
- January 31
Cro (musician)
Cro, German rapper
February
- February 1
Tyler Myers
Tyler Myers, American-Canadian ice hockey player
- February 2
Apartheid
Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
- February 3
Sean Kingston
Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter
- February 4
Haruka Tomatsu
Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer
- February 5
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer
- February 5
Jordan Rhodes
Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
- February 5
Dmitry Andreikin
Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
- February 6
Adam Henrique
Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player
- February 6
Jermaine Kearse
Jermaine Kearse, American football player
- February 6
Aida Rybalko
Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater
- February 7
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
- February 8
Bethany Hamilton
Bethany Hamilton, American surfer
- February 8
Klay Thompson
Klay Thompson, American basketball player
- February 11
Buster Douglas
Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
- February 11
Nelson Mandela
Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, having been a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa.
- February 12
Carmen Lawrence
Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
- February 12
Robert Griffin III
Robert Griffin III, American football player
- February 12
Katherine Barrell
Katherine Barrell, Canadian actress, director, writer, and producer
- February 13
Mamadou Sakho
Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
- February 13
Nathan Eovaldi
Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player
- February 14
Voyager 1
The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
- February 14
Indian Airlines Flight 605
Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashed near Hindustan Airport during its approach to the airport, which resulted in 92 out of the 146 people on board being killed.
- February 14
NASA
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured), a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
- February 14
Brett Dier
Brett Dier, Canadian actor
- February 14
Bogdan Kiselevich
Bogdan Kiselevich, Russian ice hockey player
- February 14
Sefa Yılmaz
Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer
- February 14
Chris Babb
Chris Babb, American basketball player
- February 15
Callum Turner
Callum Turner, English actor
- February 16
The Weeknd
The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
- February 17
Edin Višća
Edin Višća, Bosnian footballer
- February 17
Marianne St-Gelais
Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater
- February 18
Monica Aksamit
Monica Aksamit, American saber fencer
- February 18
Didi Gregorius
Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
- February 20
Ciro Immobile
Ciro Immobile, Italian footballer
- February 21
Mattias Tedenby
Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player
- February 23
Marco Scandella
Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
- February 23
Kevin Connauton
Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player
- February 24
Derek Wolfe
Derek Wolfe, American football player
- February 24
Dwayne Allen
Dwayne Allen, American football player
- February 25
Félix Peña
Félix Peña, Dominican baseball player
- February 26
Takanoiwa Yoshimori
Takanoiwa Yoshimori, Mongolian sumo wrestler
- February 27
Chandler Jones
Chandler Jones, American football player
- February 27
Adam Morgan (baseball)
Adam Morgan, American baseball player
- February 27
Lindsey Morgan
Lindsey Morgan, American actress
- February 28
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.
- February 28
Sebastian Rudy
Sebastian Rudy, German footballer
- February 28
Ryan Allen (American football)
Ryan Allen, American football player
- February 28
Takayasu Akira
Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
March
- March 1
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- March 2
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is elected deputy president of the African National Congress.
- March 2
Malcolm Butler
Malcolm Butler, American football player
- March 2
Rauno Alliku
Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer
- March 3
Vlado Janković
Vlado Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player
- March 4
Lennox Sebe
Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo.
- March 4
College basketball
College basketball player Hank Gathers died after collapsing during a West Coast Conference tournament semifinal game in Los Angeles.
- March 4
Basketball
American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game.
- March 6
Derek Drouin
Derek Drouin, Canadian high jumper
- March 7
West Virginia
Teachers in West Virginia began a labor strike that involved several thousand educators across the state.
- March 7
Jeff Withey
Jeff Withey, American basketball player
- March 8
Kristinia DeBarge
Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and actress
- March 8
Kevin Zeitler
Kevin Zeitler, American football player
- March 8
Asier Illarramendi
Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
- March 8
Brandon Kozun
Brandon Kozun, American-Canadian ice hockey player
- March 8
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
- March 9
Daley Blind
Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
- March 9
YG (rapper)
YG, American rapper
- March 10
Prosper Avril
Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.
- March 10
Haiti
In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988.
- March 10
Stefanie Vögele
Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player
- March 11
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- March 11
Patricio Aylwin
Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
- March 11
Ayumi Morita
Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player
- March 14
Tamás Kádár
Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer
- March 14
Joe Allen
Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
- March 14
Haru Kuroki
Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress
- March 15
Farzad Bazoft
Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.
- March 15
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union.
- March 17
Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player
- March 17
Hozier
Hozier, Irish musician
- March 18
Art theft
In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
- March 18
East Germany
Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
- March 18
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
Unidentified thieves stole thirteen works of art collectively valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (pictured) in Boston, Massachusetts.
- March 19
Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
- March 19
Anders Nilsson (ice hockey)
Anders Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- March 19
EJ Manuel
EJ Manuel, American football player
- March 20
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- March 20
Marcos Rojo
Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
- March 20
Brad Hand
Brad Hand, American baseball player
- March 20
Blake Ferguson (rugby league)
Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
- March 21
Namibia
Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
- March 24
Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war
Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
- March 24
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
- March 24
Aljur Abrenica
Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
- March 24
Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer
- March 24
Lacey Evans
Lacey Evans, American wrestler
- March 24
JonTron
JonTron, American YouTuber
- March 24
Starlin Castro
Starlin Castro, American baseball player
- March 25
Alexander Esswein
Alexander Esswein, German footballer
- March 25
Mehmet Ekici
Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer
- March 27
Cuban dissident movement
The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
- March 27
Erdin Demir
Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer
- March 27
Luca Zuffi
Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer
- March 27
Ben Hunt
Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player
- March 27
Nicolas Nkoulou
Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer
- March 27
Kimbra
Kimbra, New Zealand musician
- March 27
Brodha V
Brodha V, Indian rapper and music producer
- March 28
George H. W. Bush
United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- March 28
Delroy Edwards
Delroy Edwards, American musician
- March 28
Laura Harrier
Laura Harrier, American actress and model
- March 29
Czechoslovakia
The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
- March 29
Lyle Taylor
Lyle Taylor, English footballer
- March 30
Thomas Rhett
Thomas Rhett, American country music singer and songwriter
- March 30
Michal Březina
Michal Březina, Czech figure skater
- March 31
Poll tax riots
Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
April
- April 1
Strangeways Prison riot
The longest prison riot in British penal history began at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, lasting 25 days.
- April 1
Julia Harting
Julia Fischer, German discus thrower
- April 2
Miralem Pjanić
Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer
- April 2
Amr El Solia
Amr El Solia, Egyptian footballer
- April 2
Evgeniya Kanaeva
Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast
- April 3
Natasha Negovanlis
Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer
- April 3
Karim Ansarifard
Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer
- April 3
Sotiris Ninis
Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer
- April 3
Madison Brengle
Madison Brengle, American tennis player
- April 4
Flag of Hong Kong
The current flag of Hong Kong (pictured) was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
- April 6
Lachlan Coote
Lachlan Coote, Australian rugby league player
- April 7
Anna Bogomazova
Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler
- April 7
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter
- April 7
Sorana Cîrstea
Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player
- April 7
Trent Cotchin
Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer
- April 8
New Democracy (Greece)
The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis is elected in the Greek parliamentary election.
- April 8
Jonghyun
Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (died 2017)
- April 9
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia
An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants.
- April 9
Irish Republican Army
An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
- April 9
Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement
The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
- April 10
Ben Amos
Ben Amos, English footballer
- April 10
Alex Pettyfer
Alex Pettyfer, English actor
- April 10
Andile Jali
Andile Jali, South African footballer
- April 11
Middlesbrough
Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
- April 11
Thulani Serero
Thulani Serero, South African footballer
- April 11
Dimitrios Anastasopoulos
Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer
- April 12
Widerøe Flight 839
Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
- April 12
Jim Gary
Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
- April 12
Hiroki Sakai
Hiroki Sakai, Japanese footballer
- April 15
Emma Watson
Emma Watson, English actress
- April 16
Tony McQuay
Tony McQuay, American sprinter
- April 16
Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
Reggie Jackson, American basketball player
- April 16
Vangelis Mantzaris
Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
- April 17
Jonathan Brown (Welsh footballer)
Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
- April 18
Wojciech Szczęsny
Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
- April 19
Kim Chiu
Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
- April 19
Jackie Bradley Jr.
Jackie Bradley Jr., American baseball player
- April 20
Kyle Higashioka
Kyle Higashioka, American baseball player
- April 20
Jason Behrendorff
Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer
- April 22
Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
- April 22
Kevin Kiermaier
Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player
- April 22
MGK
Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor
- April 23
Namibia
Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- April 23
Dev Patel
Dev Patel, English actor
- April 23
Rui Fonte
Rui Fonte, Portuguese footballer
- April 24
STS-31
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- April 24
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.
- April 24
Gruinard Island
Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.
- April 24
Kim Tae-ri
Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress
- April 24
Jan Veselý
Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player
- April 25
Violeta Chamorro
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
- April 25
Jean-Éric Vergne
Jean-Éric Vergne, French racing driver
- April 25
Taylor Walker (footballer)
Taylor Walker, Australian footballer
- April 26
Nevin Spence
Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (died 2012)
- April 26
Joey Wendle
Joey Wendle, American baseball player
- April 26
Mitch Rein
Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
- April 26
Jonathan dos Santos
Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer
- April 27
Austin Dillon
Austin Dillon, American race car driver
- April 29
Chris Johnson (basketball, born 1990)
Chris Johnson, American basketball player
- April 29
James Faulkner (cricketer)
James Faulkner, Australian cricketer
May
- May 1
Caitlin Stasey
Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
- May 1
Scooter Gennett
Scooter Gennett, American baseball player
- May 2
Kay Panabaker
Kay Panabaker, American actress
- May 2
Paul George
Paul George, American basketball player
- May 3
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka, American golfer
- May 3
James Pattinson
James Pattinson, Australian cricketer
- May 3
Harvey Guillén
Harvey Guillén, American actor
- May 4
Latvia
Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- May 5
Tatiana Schlossberg
Tatiana Schlossberg, American journalist and author (died 2025)
- May 5
Darcy Kuemper
Darcy Kuemper, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 6
Jose Altuve
Jose Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player
- May 6
Péter Gulácsi
Péter Gulácsi, Hungarian footballer
- May 7
Sydney Leroux
Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer
- May 8
Lane Johnson
Lane Johnson, American football player
- May 8
Kemba Walker
Kemba Walker, American basketball player
- May 8
Iyo Sky
Iyo Sky, Japanese wrestler
- May 10
Ivana Španović
Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper
- May 10
Salvador Perez
Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player
- May 12
Etika
Etika, American YouTuber and live streamer (died 2019)
- May 12
Florent Amodio
Florent Amodio, French figure skater
- May 13
Dinamo–Red Star riot
The Dinamo–Red Star riot takes place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
- May 15
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.
- May 15
Jordan Eberle
Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 15
Lee Jong-hyun
Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
- May 15
Stella Maxwell
Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
- May 16
Darko Šarović
Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter
- May 16
Omar Strong
Omar Strong, American basketball player
- May 16
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor
- May 16
Amanda Carreras
Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player
- May 17
World Health Organization
The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
- May 17
Fabian Giefer
Fabian Giefer, German footballer
- May 17
Charlie Gubb
Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player
- May 17
Guido Pella
Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player
- May 17
Will Clyburn
Will Clyburn, American basketball player
- May 17
Katrina Hart
Katrina Hart, English runner
- May 18
TGV
In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
- May 18
Dimitri Daeseleire
Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
- May 18
Yuya Osako
Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
- May 18
Josh Starling
Josh Starling, Australian rugby league player
- May 20
Communism
The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
- May 20
Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor, British actor
- May 22
Wyatt Roy
Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
- May 24
Joey Logano
Joey Logano, American race car driver
- May 24
Mattias Ekholm
Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
- May 25
Nikita Filatov
Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
- May 25
Bo Dallas
Bo Dallas, American wrestler
- May 28
Kyle Walker
Kyle Walker, English footballer
- May 28
Riquna Williams
Riquna Williams, American basketball player
- May 29
Congress of People's Deputies of Russia
The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
- May 29
Joe Biagini
Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher
- May 29
Erica Garner
Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (died 2017)
- May 30
Croatian Parliament
Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
- May 30
Andrei Loktionov
Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
- May 30
Zack Wheeler
Zack Wheeler, American baseball player
- May 30
Lim Yoona
Im Yoon-ah, South Korean singer and actress
- May 31
Erik Karlsson
Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
June
- June 1
Cold War
Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- June 1
Miller Bolaños
Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer
- June 1
Roman Josi
Roman Josi, Swiss ice hockey player
- June 1
Carlota Ciganda
Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer
- June 2
June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak
The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
- June 2
Dane Rampe
Dane Rampe, Australian rules footballer
- June 4
Evan Spiegel
Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur
- June 5
Radko Gudas
Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey player
- June 6
Gavin Hoyte
Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
- June 6
Anthony Rendon
Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
- June 6
Pape Souaré
Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer
- June 7
Iggy Azalea
Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model
- June 9
LaSirena69
Antonella Alonso, Venezuelan pornographic actress
- June 9
Matthias Mayer
Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier
- June 10
British Airways Flight 5390
British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.
- June 11
Christophe Lemaitre
Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
- June 12
Russia Day
Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
- June 12
Jrue Holiday
Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
- June 12
David Worrall
David Worrall, English footballer
- June 13
June 1990 Mineriad
First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
- June 13
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
- June 13
Nicole Riner
Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player
- June 13
James McCann (baseball)
James McCann, American baseball player
- June 14
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Norwegian long-distance runner
- June 14
Patrice Cormier
Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 16
John Newman (singer)
John Newman, English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
- June 17
Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson, English footballer
- June 17
Josh Mansour
Josh Mansour, Australian rugby league player
- June 18
Christian Taylor (athlete)
Christian Taylor, American triple jumper
- June 18
Sandra Izbașa
Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast
- June 18
Luke Adam
Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 18
Derek Stepan
Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player
- June 19
Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
- June 19
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
- June 19
Xavier Rhodes
Xavier Rhodes, American football player
- June 19
Moa Hjelmer
Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
- June 19
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch, American actress, writer, and director
- June 20
1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake
The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
- June 20
Asteroid
Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- June 20
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Senegalese writer
- June 20
Ding Ning
Ding Ning, Chinese table tennis player
- June 20
DeQuan Jones
DeQuan Jones, American basketball player
- June 21
Håvard Nordtveit
Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer
- June 21
Ričardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player
- June 21
François Moubandje
François Moubandje, Swiss footballer
- June 21
Sergei Matsenko
Sergei Matsenko, Russian chess player
- June 22
Cold War
Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
- June 22
Sebastian Jung
Sebastian Jung, German footballer
- June 23
Laura Ràfols
Laura Ràfols, Spanish footballer
- June 23
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player
- June 23
Clévid Dikamona
Clevid Dikamona, French footballer
- June 24
Richard Sukuta-Pasu
Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
- June 24
Michael Del Zotto
Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 25
Andi Eigenmann
Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress
- June 26
Belaynesh Oljira
Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
- June 27
Bobby Wagner
Bobby Wagner, American football player
- June 28
Paperback Software
Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program.
- June 29
Yann M'Vila
Yann M'Vila, French footballer
- June 29
Kim Little
Kim Little, Scottish footballer
- June 30
German reunification
East and West Germany merge their economies.
July
- July 1
German reunification
German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
- July 2
Singing Revolution
Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament agreed to suspend the effects of their act to re-establish Lithuania as a state.
- July 2
1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy
In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
- July 2
Morag McLellan
Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player
- July 2
Kayla Harrison
Kayla Harrison, American judoka
- July 2
Danny Rose (footballer, born 1990)
Danny Rose, English footballer
- July 2
Bill Tupou
Bill Tupou, New Zealand rugby league player
- July 2
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
- July 2
Merritt Mathias
Merritt Mathias, American soccer player
- July 3
Nathan Gardner
Nathan Gardner, Australian rugby league player
- July 3
Alison Riske-Amritraj
Alison Riske-Amritraj, American tennis player
- July 3
Bobby Hopkinson
Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer
- July 3
Lucas Mendes (footballer, born 1990)
Lucas Mendes, Brazilian footballer
- July 4
Ihar Yasinski
Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
- July 4
Richard Mpong
Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
- July 4
Naoki Yamada
Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
- July 4
Jake Gardiner
Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
- July 5
1990 ARCO explosion
An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Channelview, Texas, United States, killed 17 people and injured 5 others.
- July 5
Abeba Aregawi
Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner
- July 6
Jamal Idris
Jamal Idris, Australian rugby league player
- July 6
Justin Schultz
Justin Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player
- July 6
Jae Crowder
Jae Crowder, American basketball player
- July 6
Magaye Gueye
Magaye Gueye, French footballer
- July 7
Pascal Stöger
Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer
- July 7
Lee Addy
Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
- July 8
Germany national football team
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only goal.
- July 8
Kevin Trapp
Kevin Trapp, German footballer
- July 9
Earl Bamber
Earl Bamber, New Zealand race car driver
- July 9
Fabio (footballer, born 1990)
Fábio, Brazilian footballer
- July 9
Rafael (footballer, born 1990)
Rafael, Brazilian footballer
- July 10
Adam Reynolds
Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
- July 10
Trent Richardson
Trent Richardson, American football player
- July 10
Chiyonokuni Toshiki
Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
- July 11
Oka Crisis
Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.
- July 11
Mona Barthel
Mona Barthel, German tennis player
- July 11
Adam Jezierski
Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer
- July 11
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
- July 11
Connor Paolo
Connor Paolo, American actor
- July 13
Lenin Peak disaster
Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.
- July 13
Eduardo Salvio
Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer
- July 13
Kieran Foran
Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player
- July 14
Paulo Muacho
Paulo Muacho, Portuguese politician
- July 15
Zach Bogosian
Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
- July 15
Olly Alexander
Olly Alexander, English singer and actor
- July 16
Verkhovna Rada
The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
- July 16
1990 Luzon earthquake
The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.
- July 16
Surface-wave magnitude
A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
- July 16
Wizkid
Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter
- July 16
James Maslow
James Maslow, American actor, singer and dancer
- July 16
Johann Zarco
Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
- July 18
Canelo Álvarez
Canelo Álvarez, Mexican boxer
- July 20
Lars Unnerstall
Lars Unnerstall, German footballer
- July 21
Republic of China Military Police
Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
- July 21
Republic of China Armed Forces
The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat holds, causing 25 deaths due to suffocation.
- July 22
Greg LeMond
Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.
- July 23
Kevin Reynolds (figure skater)
Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
- July 25
Thodoris Karapetsas
Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer
- July 26
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
- July 26
Bianca Santos
Bianca Santos, American actress
- July 27
Jamaat al Muslimeen
Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group, began a coup attempt against the government of Trinidad and Tobago by taking hostages, including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson, before surrendering five days later.
- July 27
Cheyenne Kimball
Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- July 27
Kriti Sanon
Kriti Sanon, Indian actress
- July 27
Paolo Hurtado
Paolo Hurtado, Peruvian footballer
- July 27
Stephen Li-Chung Kuo
Stephen Li-Chung Kuo, Taiwanese-American figure skater
- July 28
Soulja Boy
Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
- July 28
Simone Pizzuti
Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
- July 29
Shin Se-kyung
Shin Se-kyung, South Korean actress, singer and model
- July 30
Conservative Party (UK)
British Conservative member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- July 30
Ian Gow
Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
- July 30
Chris Maxwell (footballer)
Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer
Questions about 1990
What happened in 1990?
This site records 400 entries for 1990, including United States invasion of Panama on January 3. They are listed below by date.
How long ago was 1990?
36 years ago, counting from 2026. Anyone born in 1990 turns 36 this year.
Which century is 1990 in?
1990 falls in the 20th century, in the 1990s.
Which generation was born in 1990?
Millennials (Generation Y) (1981–1996). Came of age around the year 2000 and the rise of the internet.
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