* 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.

* Ōita, Japan – since 1990

It was approved in Japan circa 1982 and Germany in 1990.

Fellini won the Praemium Imperiale, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts, awarded by the Japan Art Association in 1990.

By 1990, income per capita in Japan equalled or surpassed that in most countries in the West.

Australia was the largest single supplier of coal, iron ore, wool, and sugar to Japan in 1990.

In 1990, Capcom produced a video game for the NES, titled Little Nemo: The Dream Master ( known as Pajama Hero Nemo in Japan ), a licensed game based on the 1989 film.

* 1954: Finland, West Germany ( from 1990 Germany ), Japan

* 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

* 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

The Neo Geo console was officially launched on 31 January, 1990 in Osaka, Japan.

is a Japanese computer and video game developer established in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan in 1990, originally known as Sega AM8.

A surge in imports of South Korean products into Japan in 1990 was partly the result of production by Japanese investors in South Korea.

The system was released in Japan on October 6, 1990, North America, Europe and Argentina in, and Australia in 1992.

However, the Treaty of Peace with Japan was not signed until 1951, and that with Germany not until 1990.

It was initially released in the UK and Japan by Atlantic Records on 15 October 1990.

* Fukuoka Hyatt Hotel and Office Building, Fukuoka, Japan, 1990

* Kasumi Research and Training Center, Tsukaba, Japan, 1990

* Onjuku Town Hall, Onjuku, Japan, 1990

Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as, is a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990 and originally published in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine.

In 1990 Menuhin was the first conductor for the Asian Youth Orchestra which toured around Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with Julian Lloyd Webber and a group of young talented musicians from all over Asia.

By 1990 Japan was ranked third, behind the then-Soviet Union and the United States, in total defense expenditures, and the United States urged Japan to assume a larger share of the burden of defense of the western Pacific.

The involvement of Japan in the Gulf War of 1990, or lack of involvement, has provoked significant criticism.