* Brett Austin ( 1959 – 1990 ), New Zealand swimmer

A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Charlie McDermott, American actor

* 1990 – Natalya Milnichenko, Russian guitarist and singer ( Ranetki Girls )

* 1990 – Kyle Swann, American actor

* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

* 1990 – Francesca Halsall, British swimmer

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer

* 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Adelaide Kane, Australian actress

* 1990 – Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor

* 1906 – Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Shila, Malaysian singer-songwriter

* 1990 – Sae Miyazawa, Japanese singer and actress ( AKB48 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 1936 – Jill Ireland, British actress ( d. 1990 )

Politics and Steel in Britain, 1967-1988: The Life and Times of the British Steel Corporation ( 1990 )

* British Steel plc and C Walker & Sons ( Holdings ) Ltd, 1990 Competition Commission report

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

* Carrion Comfort ( 1989 ) – Bram Stoker Award winner 1989 ; British Fantasy Award winner, World Fantasy Award nominee, 1990

* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club Vol.

* 1990 – Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

1988 saw the setting up of the monument Gure Aitaren Etxea, by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, and in 1990 Large Figure in a Shelter, by British sculptor Henry Moore, was erected beside it.

Category: 1990 British television programme debuts

Category: 1990 British television programme endings

* 1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be sucked from the cockpit, no one dies.

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

On the other hand, it was during Major's premiership that the British economy recovered from the recession of 1990 – 1992.

* 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver ( d. 1990 )

He became a Commander of the British Empire CBE in 1990, and a member of the Companions of Honour in 2003.

* 1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.

Taylor, British historian ( d. 1990 )

* 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar ( d. 1990 )

* The Monk ( 1990 film ), a British film

In November 1989 SWAPO won 57 % of the votes in the Namibian General Election and immediately requested the help of a British Military Advisory and Training Team following independence on 21 March 1990.

Most recently, British archaeologist and Assyriologist Professor David Stronach of the University of California, Berkeley conducted a series of surveys and digs at the site from 1987 – 1990, focusing his attentions to the several gates and the existent mudbrick walls, as well as the system that supplied water to the city in times of siege.

* 1910 – Pat Reid, British Army officer and Colditz escapee ( d. 1990 )