* 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 – 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.

* 1990 – Nyusha, Russian singer-songwriter

* 1990 – Anna Bogomazova, Russian kickboxer, professional wrestler and valet

The RSFSR, until the establishment of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1990, was the only Soviet republic lacking a republic-level party organisation.

In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic itself there was no separate Communist Party until 1990 as affairs were controlled directly by the CPSU.

But while on its mission, the submarine is destroyed by Godzilla ; Terasawa learns that a Russian nuclear submarine sank in the same region Godzillasaurus was teleported to, giving off enough radiation to create the same Godzilla who destroyed Tokyo in 1985 and battled Biollante in 1990.

* 1990 – Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.

* 1990 – Alexander Yakin, Russian actor

In 1990, he returned to the Cold War political thriller genre with The Fourth War with Roy Scheider ( with whom Frankenheimer had worked previously on 52 Pick-Up ) as a loose cannon Army colonel drawn into a dangerous personal war with a Russian officer.

Beginning in mid-August 1990, Kazakh and Russian nationalists began to demonstrate frequently around Kazakhstan's parliament building, attempting to influence the final statement of sovereignty being developed within.

* Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution ( Knopf, 1990 )

* 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.

* 1990 – Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player

The Soviet Union itself collapsed between 1990 and 1991, with a rise of secessionist nationalism and a political power dispute between Gorbachev and the new non-communist leader of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.

* 1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1990 )

He was elected to the Soviet Russian Congress of People's Deputies in 1990.

All of them were considered to be Soviet socialist republics ( SSR ), and all of them, with the exception of the Russian SFSR ( until 1990 ), had their own Communist parties, part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* 1990 – Evgeny Novikov, Russian race car driver

He became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union ( Russian Academy of Science since 1991 ) in 1990.

* The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Moscow in 1990 with then-President of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR and future Russian President Boris Yeltsin attending, symbolizing Russia's transition towards a capitalist free market economy and a move towards adopting elements of western culture.

** Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1990 )

* April 19 – Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov, Russian figure skater ( d. 1990 )

* September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist ( d. 1990 )