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:''This article is about the year. For other uses, see [[1990 (disambiguation)]].''
:''"'''MCMXC'''" redirects here; for the [[Enigma (musical project)|Enigma]] album, see '''[[MCMXC a.D.]]'''.''
'''1990''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXC]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
==Events==
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===January===
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* [[January 3]] - The former leader of [[Panama]], [[Manuel Noriega]], surrenders to [[United States|American]] forces.
* [[January 4]] - Over 300 people are killed in a train accident in [[Ghotki]], [[Pakistan]].
* [[January 7]] - The [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
* [[January 9]] - Lt. Gen. [[Bazilio Olara-Okello]], the man who led the coup against Dr. Apolo [[Milton Obote]]'s government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in [[Khartoum]], [[Sudan]].
* [[January 10]] - [[Time Warner]] is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
* [[January 11]] - Two hundred thousand demonstrate in favor of [[Lithuania]]n independence.
* [[January 13]] - [[Douglas Wilder]] becomes the first elected [[African American]] governor as he takes office in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], [[Virginia]].
* [[January 15]] - Thousands storm the [[Stasi]] headquarters in [[Berlin]] in an attempt to view their government records.
* [[January 18]] - [[Washington, DC]], Mayor [[Marion Barry]] is arrested for [[recreational drug use|drug]] possession in an [[FBI]] sting.
* [[January 22]] - [[Robert Tappan Morris, Jr.]] is convicted of releasing the [[Morris worm|1988 Internet worm]].
* [[January 25]] - [[Avianca Flight 52]] crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and [[John F. Kennedy airport|JFK airport]] officials.
* [[January 25]]-[[January 26]] - The [[Burns' Day storm]] rages over northwestern Europe, leaving 97 dead.
* [[January 27]] - The city of [[Tiraspol]] in the [[Moldavian SSR]] briefly declares independence.
* [[January 28]] - The [[San Francisco 49ers]] trounce the [[Denver Broncos]], 55-10, in [[Super Bowl XXIV]].
* [[January 29]] - The trial of the former skipper of the [[Exxon Valdez]], [[Joseph Hazelwood]], begins in [[Anchorage, Alaska]]. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst [[oil spill]] to date.
* [[January 31]] - The first [[McDonald's]] in [[Moscow]], [[USSR]] opens.
===February===
{{MonthR_28_Th|February}}
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* [[February 2]] - [[Apartheid]]: In [[South Africa]], President [[F.W. de Klerk]] allows the [[African National Congress]] to legally function again and promises to free [[Nelson Mandela]].
* [[February 7]] - [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]]: The Central Committee of the [[Soviet Communist Party]] agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
* [[February 9]] - [[Perrier]] issues a worldwide recall of its mineral water after traces of [[benzene]] are found in some bottles.
* [[February 10]] - [[South Africa]]n [[President of South Africa|President]] [[F.W. de Klerk]] announces that [[Nelson Mandela]] will be released the next day.
* [[February 11]] - [[James Buster Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]] knocks out [[Mike Tyson]] to win world heavyweight boxing crown.
* [[February 11]] - [[Nelson Mandela]] is released from Victor Verster Prison, near [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]].
* [[February 13]] - [[German reunification]]: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite [[Germany]].
* [[February 15]] - The [[United Kingdom]] and [[Argentina]] restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to [[Argentina|Argentina's]] invasion of the [[Falkland Islands]], a [[British overseas territories|British Dependent Territory]], in [[1982]].
* [[February 26]] - The [[Sandinista]]s are defeated in [[Nicaragua]]n elections.
* [[February 26]] - The [[USSR]] agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from [[Czechoslovakia]] by [[July]], [[1991]].
* [[February 27]] - [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]]: [[Exxon]] and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.
===March===
{{MonthR_31_Th|March}}
* [[March 1]] - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in [[Cairo, Egypt]] kills 16.
* [[March 1]] - [[Steve Jackson Games]] is raided by the [[U.S. Secret Service]], prompting the later formation of the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]].
* [[March 1]] - The [[Royal New Zealand Navy]] discontinues its daily [[rum]] 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]] in South [[London]] after another night of protests against the [[poll tax]].
* [[March 9]] - [[Antonia Novello|Dr. Antonia Novello]] is sworn in as [[Surgeon General of the United States]], becoming the first female and [[Hispanic American|Hispanic]] to serve in that position.
* [[March 9]] - [[Newfoundland and Labrador]] Premier [[Clyde Wells]] confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the [[Meech Lake Accord]].
* [[March 10]] - Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, [[Prosper Avril]] is ousted in [[Haiti]].
* [[March 11]] - [[Lithuania]] declares independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[March 11]] - [[Patricio Aylwin]] is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected [[Chile]]an president since [[1970]].
* [[March 15]] - [[Iraq]] hangs [[United Kingdom|British]] journalist [[Farzad Bazoft]] for spying. [[Daphne Parish]], a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
* [[March 15]] - [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] is elected as the first executive president of the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[March 15]] - The [[Soviet Union]] announces that [[Lithuania]]'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]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in [[United States|US]] history, and the paintings (as of [[2006]]) have not been recovered.
* [[March 18]] - [[East Germany]] holds its first free elections since [[1932]].
* [[March 20]] - [[Ferdinand Marcos]]'s widow, [[Imelda Marcos]], goes on trial for [[bribery]], [[embezzlement]], and [[racketeering]].
* [[March 21]] - After 75 years of [[South Africa]]n rule, [[Namibia]] becomes independent.
* [[March 23]] - [[Gerald Bull]], a Canadian engineer who developed long-range [[artillery]], is assassinated in [[Brussels]].
* [[March 24]] - The government of [[Australia]]n prime minister Bob Hawke is [[Australian legislative election, 1990|re-elected]] for a 4th term.
* [[March 25]] - In [[New York City]], a fire due to [[arson]] at an illegal [[social club]] called "[[Happy Land]]" kills 87.
* [[March 27]] - [[Propaganda]]: The [[United States]] begins broadcasting [[TV Martí]] to [[Cuba]].
* [[March 28]] - U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] posthumously awards [[Jesse Owens]] the [[Congressional Gold Medal]].
* [[March 31]] - A massive anti-[[poll tax]] demonstration in [[Trafalgar Square]], [[London]], turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested. The incident is subsequently known as "The Second Battle of Trafalgar."
===April===
{{MonthR_30_Su|April}}
* [[April 1]] - The largest prison riot in Britain's history begins at [[Strangeways Prison]] in [[Manchester]], and will continue for nearly four weeks, until [[April 25]].
* [[April 6]] - [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]'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]] is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
* [[April 7]] - ''[[Scandinavian Star]]'', a [[Bahamas]]-registered ferry, catches fire en route from [[Norway]] to [[Denmark]], leaving 158 dead.
* [[April 13]] - The [[Soviet Union]] apologizes for the [[Katyn Massacre]].
* [[April 15]] - Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an [[engagement]] party in [[Uttar Pradesh]].
* [[April 20]] - The [[Hubble Space Telescope]] was launched.
* [[April 24]] - The Space Shuttle ''[[Discovery]]'' places the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] into [[orbit]].
* [[April 24]] - [[West Germany|West]] and [[East Germany]] agree to merge currency and economies on [[July 1]].
===May===
{{MonthR_31_Tu|May}}
* [[May 2]] - In [[London]], [[England]], a man brandishing a knife robs courier Nicholas Lane of [[bearer bond]]s worth £292 million (the largest [[mugging]] to date).
* [[May 4]] - [[Latvia]] declares independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[May 15]] - ''[[Portrait of Doctor Gachet]]'' by [[Vincent van Gogh]] is sold for a record $82.5 million.
* [[May 16]] - The entertainers [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] and [[Jim Henson]] died on this same day.
* [[May 17]] - The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
* [[May 20]] - The first post-[[communism|Communist]] presidential and parliamentary elections are held in [[Romania]].
* [[May 22]] - The leaders of the [[Yemen Arab Republic]] and the [[People's Democratic Republic of Yemen]] announce the unification of their countries as the [[Republic of Yemen]].
* [[May 24]] - The [[Edmonton Oilers]] defeat the [[Boston Bruins]] in the [[1989-90 NHL season|1990 Stanley Cup Finals]].
* [[May 29]] - [[Rhode Island]] celebrates its [[1790|bicentennial]] statehood.
===June===
{{MonthR_30_Fr|June}}
* [[June 1]] - U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[Soviet Union]] leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] sign a [[treaty]] to end [[chemical weapon]] production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
* [[June 1]] - Members of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the [[British Army]]. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in [[Dortmund, Germany]] and Davies is killed at a railway station in [[Lichfield]], England]].
* [[June 12]] - The parliament of the [[Russia|Russian Federation]] formally declares its sovereignty.
* [[June 14]] - The [[Detroit Pistons]] defeat the [[Portland Trail Blazers]] in the [[1990 NBA Finals]].
* [[June 15]] - An IRA bomb detonates in Manchester, England, injuring hundreds. There are no fatalities.
* [[June 20]] - British [[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]] [[John Major]] proposes a new [[Euro|European currency]] which would circulate alongside existing national currencies.
* [[June 22]] - Underwater volcano [[Mount Didicas]] erupts in the [[Philippines]].
* [[June 26]] U.S. President [[George H.W. Bush]] breaks his [[1988]] 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.
*[[June 26]] - In Phoenix, Arizona, the termperature reaches a all-time record high for the city of 122 degrees.
===July===
{{MonthR_31_Su|July}}
* [[July 2]] - A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to [[Mecca]] kills 1,426.
* [[July 8]] - At 12:34:56 p.m., the time and date by U.S. reckoning is 12:34:56 7/8/90.
* [[July 8]] - [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] defeats [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] 1-0 to win the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]].
* [[July 12]] - [[Square Co., Ltd.]] releases ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' in North America.
* [[July 15]] - [[Tamil Tigers]] kill 168 Muslims in [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]].
* [[July 16]] - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the [[Richter Scale]] kills over 1600 in the [[Philippines]].
* [[July 25]] - The [[Serbian Democratic Party]] declares the [[sovereignty]] of the [[Serb]]s in [[Croatia]].
* [[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]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] are stormed by the [[Jamaat al Muslimeen]] in a [[coup d'état]] attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then [[Prime Minister]], [[A. N. R. Robinson|A.N.R. Robinson]], who is shot in the leg).
* [[July 27]] - [[Belarus]] declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the [[USSR]].
* [[July 28]] - [[Alberto Fujimori]] becomes president of [[Peru]].
* [[July 30]] - An [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] [[car bomb]] kills British M.P. [[Ian Gow]], a staunch [[Unionism (Ireland)|unionist]].
===August===
{{MonthR_31_We|August}}
* [[August 2]] - [[Gulf War]]: [[Iraq]] invades [[Kuwait]], eventually leading to the [[Gulf War]].
* [[August 6]] - [[Gulf War]]: The [[United Nations Security Council]] orders a global [[trade embargo]] against [[Iraq]] in response to [[Iraq|Iraq's]] invasion of [[Kuwait]].
* [[August 7]] - At 12:34:56 (both a.m. and p.m.) the time and date by British reckoning is 12:34:56 7/8/90.
* [[August 19]] - [[Leonard Bernstein]] conducts his final concert, ending with [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 7]] performed by the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]].
* [[August 24]] - [[North Ireland]] writer [[Brian Keenan]] is released from [[Lebanon]] after being held hostage for nearly five years.
* [[August 27]] - Blues musician [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] dies in a helicopter crash along with 4 others following a concert near [[East Troy, Wisconsin]].
===September===
{{MonthR_30_Sa|September}}
* [[September]] - The sculpture ''Good Defeats Evil'' by sculptor [[Zurab Tsereteli]] is erected outside the [[United Nations headquarters]] in [[New York City]].
* [[September 2]] - [[Transnistria]] declares its independence from the [[Republic of Moldova|Moldavian]] SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
* [[September 9]] - [[Liberian Civil War]]: [[Liberia|Liberian]] president [[Samuel Doe]] is captured by rebel leader [[Prince Johnson]] and killed in a filmed execution.
* [[September 11]] - [[Gulf War]]: President [[George H. W. Bush]] delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove [[Iraq|Iraqi]] soldiers from [[Kuwait]].
* [[September 12]] - The two [[Germany|German]] states and the [[Four Powers]] sign the [[Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany]] in [[Moscow]], paving the way for [[German re-unification]].
* [[September 19]] - The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near [[Stafford]], [[England]]. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former [[Governor of Gibraltar]] survives.
===October===
{{MonthR_31_Mo|October}}
* [[October 3]] - [[East Germany]] and [[West Germany]] [[German reunification|reunify]] into a single [[Germany]].
* [[October 5]] - After 150 years, 10 months and 2 days (Friday, [[January 3]], [[1840]] - Friday, [[October 5]], 1990), ''[[The Herald]]'' [[broadsheet]] newspaper in [[Melbourne, Australia]] is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
* [[October 8]] - [[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]: In [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]]i police kill 17 [[Palestinian]]s and wound over 100 near the [[Dome of the Rock]] mosque on the [[Temple Mount]].
* [[October 13]] - [[Lebanese Civil War]]: [[Syrian]] military forces invade and occupy [[Mount Lebanon]], ousting General [[Michel Aoun]]'s government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
* [[October 15]] - [[Soviet Union]] leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] is awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his efforts to lessen [[Cold War]] tensions and reform his nation.
* [[October 20]] - The [[Cincinnati Reds]] defeat the [[Oakland Athletics]] to win the [[1990 World Series]].
* [[October 25]] - [[Evander Holyfield]] defeats [[James Buster Douglas|James 'Buster' Douglas]] for the Heavyweight [[Boxing]] crown.
* [[October 27]] - The [[Supreme Soviet]] of [[Kyrgyzstan]] chooses [[Askar Akayev]] as the republic's first [[President of Kyrgyzstan|president]].
* [[October 27]] - The [[New Zealand]] general [[New Zealand general election 1990|election]] returns the [[New Zealand National Party|National]] with record number of 67 seats.
===November===
{{MonthR_30_Th|November}}
* [[November 1]] - [[Mary Robinson]] defeats odds-on favourite [[Brian Lenihan]] to become the first female [[President of Ireland]].
* [[November 5]] - Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]], founder of the far-right [[Kach movement]], is shot dead after a speech at a [[New York City]] hotel.
* [[November 11]] - [[Gulf War]]: The [[U.N. Security Council]] passes [[UN Security Council Resolution 678]], giving Iraq until Tuesday, [[January 15]], [[1991]] to withdraw its forces from Kuwait.
* [[November 12]] - [[Akihito, Emperor of Japan|Akihito]] is enthroned as the 125th emperor of [[Japan]].
* [[November 12]] - [[Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a more formal proposal for the [[World Wide Web]]. [http://www.w3.org/Proposal]
* [[November 13]] - The first known [[World Wide Web|web]] page is written.
* [[November 14]] - [[Germany]] and [[Poland]] sign a treaty confirming the border at the [[Oder-Neisse line]].
* [[November 15]] - [[Space Shuttle program]]: Space Shuttle ''[[Atlantis]]'' launches with flight [[STS-38]].
* [[November 21]] - The [[Super Famicom]] (aka [[Super Nintendo]]) is released in [[Japan]].
* [[November 22]] - [[Margaret Thatcher]] announces she will not contest the second ballot of the [[Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 1990|leadership election]] for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].
* [[November 25]] - [[Lech Wałęsa]] and [[Stanisław Tymiński]] win the first round of the [[Polish presidential election, 1990|first presidential elections]] in [[Poland]].
* [[November 27]] - [[John Major]] wins the second ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election and his two rivals, [[Michael Heseltine]] and [[Douglas Hurd]], concede defeat.
* [[November 28]] - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the U.K. [[John Major]] succeeds her as Party Leader and is appointed [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]].
* [[November 29]] - [[Gulf War]]: The [[United Nations Security Council]] passes [[UN Security Council Resolution 678]], authorizing military intervention in [[Iraq]] if that nation does not withdraw its forces from [[Kuwait]] and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, [[January 15]], [[1991]].
===December===
{{MonthR_31_Sa|December}}
* [[December 1]] - [[Channel Tunnel]] workers from the [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]] meet 40 meters beneath the [[English Channel]] seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the [[United Kingdom]] and the mainland of [[Europe]] since the last [[Ice Age]].
* [[December 2]] - A coalition led by Chancellor [[Helmut Kohl]] wins the first free all-[[Germany|German]] elections since [[1932]].
* [[December 3]] - At [[Detroit Metropolitan Airport]], a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9]] carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with a [[Boeing 727]] carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
* [[December 3]] - [[Mary Robinson]] is elected the first female president of the [[Republic of Ireland]].
* [[December 6]] - [[Saddam Hussein]] releases the Western hostages.
* [[December 6]] - President [[Hossain Mohammad Ershad]] of [[Bangladesh]] is forced to resign following massive protests.
* [[December 9]] - [[Slobodan Milošević]] becomes President of [[Serbia]].
* [[December 9]] - [[Lech Wałęsa]] wins the 2nd round of [[Poland]]'s [[Polish presidential election, 1990|first presidential election]].
* [[December 11]] - [[John Gotti]] is arrested.
* [[December 16]] - [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] is elected president of [[Haiti]], ending 3 decades of military rule.
* [[December 31]] - [[Russia]]n [[Garry Kasparov]] holds his title by winning the [[World Chess Championship]] match against his countryman [[Anatoly Karpov]].
== Births ==
===January-June===
* [[January 7]] - [[Liam Aiken]], American actor
* [[January 7]] - [[Camryn Grimes]], American actress
* [[January 12]] - [[Sergey Karjakin]], Ukrainian chess player
* [[January 30]] - [[Jake Thomas]], American actor
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* [[February 11]] - [[Q'Orianka Kilcher]], German-born actress
* [[February 13]] - [[Erdini Qoigyijabu]], eleventh Panchen Lama
* [[February 14]] - [[Emily Mae Young]], American child actress
* [[February 23]] - [[Christian Copelin]], American actor
* [[February 28]] - [[Anna Muzychuk]], Ukrainian chess player
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* [[March 1]] - [[James Lomas]], British stage actor
* [[March 4]] - [[Andrea Bowen]], American actress
* [[March 8]] - [[Abigail and Brittany Hensel]], American conjoined twins
* [[March 23]] - [[Princess Eugenie of York]]
* [[March 24]] - [[Keisha Castle-Hughes]], Australian-born actress
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*[[April 15]] - [[Emma Watson]], English actress
* [[May 1]] - [[Caitlin Stasey]], Australian actress
* [[May 2]] - [[Kay Panabaker]], American actress
* [[May 15]] - [[Gerald Santos]], Filipino actor and singer
* [[May 16]] - [[Thomas Sangster]], English actor
* [[May 30]] - [[Matías Nocedal]], Argentine basketball player
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*[[June 9]] - [[Kellie]], American actress
* [[June 26]] - [[Ryan Ward]], American actor
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===July-December===
* [[July 24]] - [[Daveigh Chase]], American actress
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* [[August 6]] - [[JonBenét Ramsey]], American beauty queen and murder victim (d. [[1996]])
* [[August 17]] - [[Rachel Hurd-Wood]], British actress
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* [[October 5]] - [[Myles Jeffrey]], American actor
* [[October 18]] - [[Carly Schroeder]], American actress
* [[October 21]] - [[Ricky Rubio]], Spanish basketball player
* [[October 22]] - [[Jonathan Lipnicki]], American actor
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* [[November 7]] - [[Marisa Siketa]], Australian actress
* [[November 27]] - [[Shane Haboucha]], American actor
* [[November 29]] - [[Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit]], twin American actors
* [[November 30]] - [[Magnus Carlsen]], Norwegian chess player
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* [[December 17]] - [[Ashley Edner]], American actress
* [[December 20]] - [[Joanna Noelle Levesque]], American singer/actress
* [[December 22]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Maunier]], French actor
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== Deaths ==
===January===
* [[January 2]] - [[Alan Hale Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1921]])
* [[January 4]] - [[Doc Edgerton]], American electrical engineering (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 6]] - [[Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1904]])
* [[January 9]] - [[Spud Chandler]], baseball player (b. [[1907]]
* [[January 20]] - [[Barbara Stanwyck]], American actress (b. [[1905]])
* [[January 22]] - [[Roman Vishniac]], Russian-American [[photographer]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Allen Collins]], one of the founding members of [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] (b. 1952)
* [[January 25]] - [[Ava Gardner]], American actress (b. [[1922]])
* [[January 26]] - [[Lewis Mumford]], American historian of science (b. [[1895]])
===February===
* [[February 7]] - [[Jimmy Van Heusen]], American composer (b. [[1913]])
* [[February 8]] - [[Del Shannon]], American musician and singer (b. [[1934]])
* [[February 19]] - [[Michael Powell (director)|Michael Powell]], British director (b. [[1905]])
* [[February 16]] - [[Keith Haring]], American Pop-artist (b. [[1954]])
* [[February 24]] - [[Malcolm Forbes]], publisher of [[''Forbes'' magazine]] (b. [[1919]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Nahum Norbert Glatzer]], Jewish-American scholar (b. [[1903]])
===March===
* [[March 13]] - [[Karl Münchinger]], German conductor (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Bruno Bettelheim]], American child psychologist (b. [[1903]]
* [[March 17]] - [[Ric Grech]], British rock bassist ([[Family (band)|Family]], [[Blind Faith]], [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]) (b. [[1946]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Capucine]] (born Germaine Lefebvre), French actress (b. [[1933]])
* [[March 20]] - [[Lev Yashin]], Russian footballer (b. [[1929]])
===April===
* [[April 3]] - [[Sarah Vaughan]], American jazz vocalist (b. [[1924]])
* [[April 8]] - [[Ryan White]], AIDS activist (b. [[1971]])
* [[April 15]] - [[Greta Garbo]], Swedish actress (b.[[1905]])
* [[April 17]] - [[Ralph Abernathy]], American civil rights leader (b. [[1926]])
* [[April 21]] - [[Romain de Tirtoff]] (pseudonym Erté), French [[Art Deco]] artist (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Paulette Goddard]], American actress (b. [[1910]])
===May===
* [[May 8]] - [[Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich]], Northern Irish clergyman (b. [[1923]])
* [[May 16]] - [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], American actor, dancer, and singer (b. [[1925]])
* [[May 16]] - [[Jim Henson]], American puppeteer (Sesame Street) (b. [[1936]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Jill Ireland]], English actress (b. [[1936]])
===June===
* [[June 3]] - [[Stiv Bators]], American singer ([[The Dead Boys]]) (b. [[1949]])
* [[June 16]] - Dame [[Eva Turner]], British soprano (b. [[1892]])
* [[June 22]] - [[Ilya Frank]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1908]])
===July===
* [[July 7]] - [[Bill Cullen]], American game show host (b. [[1920]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Margaret Lockwood]], English actress (b. [[1916]])
* [[July 18]] - [[Yun Po Sun]], [[President of South Korea]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[July 18]] - [[Johnny Wayne]], of the Canadian comic duo [[Wayne and Shuster]] (b.1918)
* [[July 18]] - [[Yves Chaland]], French cartoonist (b. [[1957]])
* [[July 22]] - [[Manuel Puig]], Argentinian writer (b. [[1932]])
===August===
* [[August 9]] - [[Joe Mercer]], English footballer (b.[[1914]])
* [[August 12]] - [[Dorothy Mackaill]], British-born American actress (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 17]] - [[Pearl Bailey]], American singer and actress (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 18]] - [[B. F. Skinner]], American psychologist (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], American guitarist (b. [[1954]])
===September===
* [[September 7]] - [[A. J. P. Taylor]], English historian (b. [[1906]])
* [[September 16]] - [[Len Hutton]], English cricketer (b. [[1916]])
* [[September 26]] - [[Alberto Moravia]], Italian novelist (b. [[1907]])
* [[September 30]] - [[Patrick White]], Australian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1912]])
===October===
* [[October 5]] - [[Peter Taylor]], English footballer and manager (b. [[1928]])
* [[October 13]] - [[Le Duc Tho]], Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[October 14]] - [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (b. [[1918]])
===November===
* [[November 5]] - Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]], founder of [[Kach movement]]
* [[November 17]] - [[Robert Hofstadter]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1915]])
* [[November 23]] - [[Roald Dahl]], English writer (b. [[1916]])
===December===
* [[December 2]] - [[Aaron Copland]], American composer (b. [[1900]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Pavlos Sidiropoulos]], Greek rock singer/songwriter (b. [[1948]])
* [[December 7]] - [[Joan Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1910]])
* [[December 14]] - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (b. [[1921]])
*[[December 16]] - [[Douglas Campbell (aviator)|Douglas Campbell]], American World War I flying ace (b. [[1896]])
==[[Nobel prize]]==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Jerome Isaac Friedman]], [[Henry Way Kendall]], and [[Richard E. Taylor|Richard Edward Taylor]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Elias James Corey]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Joseph E. Murray]], [[E. Donnall Thomas]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Octavio Paz]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]]
*[[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] - [[Harry Markowitz]], [[Merton Miller]], [[William Forsyth Sharpe|William Sharpe]]
==[[Fields Medal|Fields Medalists]]==
*[[Vladimir Drinfeld]], [[Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones]], [[Shigefumi Mori]], [[Edward Witten]]
==[[Templeton Prize]]==
* [[Baba Amte]] (Joint Award)
* [[L. Charles Birch]] (Joint Award)
== [[Right Livelihood Award]] ==
* [[Alice Tepper Marlin]], [[Bernard Lédéa Ouedraogo]], [[Felicia Langer]] and [[ATCC]] (Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare)
== Uncertain dates ==
For a brief while in early 1990, [[Romania]] had a civil war in the aftermath of the [[Romanian Revolution of 1989]], the opposition was for [[Nicolae Ceauşescu]] and the [[Communist]] regime, and those for the new [[regime]].
* New Revised Standard Version of the [[Bible]] is published in the United States.
* Metropolitan Aleksy of [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of [[Moscow]] and all [[Russia]].
* First [[Anglican]] female priests in the United Kingdom are ordained at [[St. Anne's Cathedral]], [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].
* [[Robert Runcie]] announces resignation as [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. [[George Carey]] succeeded him.
* Channel 7 + 10 networks go into receivership (Australia)
* Homosexual Acts between Consenting adults decriminalized in Queensland
*General continuation of [[1980s]]-style pop culture as large events in [[1991]] and [[1992]] such as the [[Grunge]] movement start the Nineties pop cultural era
* TV Series "Mama's Family" ends
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