* 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

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 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese idol ( Hey!

Japanese Music: Another Tradition, Other Sounds: Earlham College Press, January 1990.

The next couple of years saw Lola improve slightly — their car was arguably marginally superior to the Reynard in 1990 — and March slip, but both were crushed by the Reynard teams and by the mid-90s, F3000 was a virtual Reynard monopoly, although Lola did eventually return with a promising car and the Japanese Footwork and Dome chassis were seen in Europe.

In 1990 Australia accounted for 5. 3 percent of total Japanese imports, a share that held relatively steady in the late 1980s.

* 1990 – Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer ( AKB48 )

* 1990 – Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer

* 1990 – Kei Inoo, Japanese actor and singer

* 1990 – Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter

* 1990 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna ( b. 1925 )

* 1990 – Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer

* 1990 – Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef ( b. 1912 )

* 1990 – Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player

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

* 1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole ( 3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians ) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

The is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.

* 1990 – Amina Sato, Japanese singer ( AKB48 )

In 1990, Porsche drew up a memorandum of understanding with Toyota to learn and benefit from Japanese lean manufacturing methods.

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.

* 1990 – Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer

* June 27 – Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef ( d. 1990 )

* Yutaro Hara ( 原 裕太郎, born 1990 ), a Japanese football player

In 1990, the NBC-TV series Unsolved Mysteries broadcast an interview with a Saipanese woman who claimed to have witnessed Earhart and Noonan's execution by Japanese soldiers.

Nick Cain of The Wire identifies the " primacy of Japanese Noise artists like Merzbow, Hijokaidan and Incapacitants " as one the of the major developments in noise music since 1990.