* 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.

East Germany's culture was strongly influenced by communism and particularly Stalinism and was described by East German psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz in 1990 as having produced a " Congested Feeling " among East Germans as a result of the East German state's goal to protect people from dangers of deviant cultural influence and dangers of popular expression deviating from the state's ideals through enforcing official ideals through physical and psychological repression of these tendencies via its institutions, particularly the Stasi.

It was characterized by East German psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz in 1990 as having produced a " Congested Feeling " among Germans in the East as a result of Communist policies criminalizing personal expression that deviates from government approved ideals, and through the enforcement of Communist principals by physical force and intellectual repression by government agencies, particularly the Stasi.

By 1990 only a handful of Polonized Germans, prewar citizens of Liegnitz, remained of the pre-1945 German population.

* Die Deutschen und ihre Nachbarn ( The Germans and their Neighbours ), Siedler, Berlin 1990.

The Peaceful Revolution, a series of protests by East Germans, led to the GDR's first free elections on 18 March 1990, and to the negotiations between the GDR and FRG that culminated in a Unification Treaty, whilst negotiations between the GDR and FRG and the four occupying powers produced the so-called " Two Plus Four Treaty " ( Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany ) granting full sovereignty to a unified German state, whose two parts had previously still been bound by a number of limitations stemming from their post-WWII status as occupied regions.

Although she gradually softened her opposition, as late as March 1990 Thatcher summoned historians and diplomats to a seminar at Chequers to ask " How dangerous are the Germans?

The USSR did not make such great demands, however, with Gorbachev stating in February 1990 that " The Germans must decide for themselves what path they choose to follow ".

In May 1990 he repeated his remark in the context of NATO membership while meeting Bush, amazing both the Americans and Germans.

In June 1990, Irving went to the German provinces that had formerly been part of East Germany on a well-publicized tour entitled " An Englishman Fights for the Honour of the Germans ," on which he accused the Allies of having used " forged documents " to " humiliate " the German people.

None of these events were reported in the press, and they only became known to the public after 1990, because the official Communist Party line in Russia and Poland was that there were no Germans in these areas.

After West Germany's 1990 World Cup win, with assistant Berti Vogts taking over as the national team coach, the retiring Beckenbauer infamously predicted that the German team, with additional former East Germans to choose from, would be invincible for years to come.

In the treaty, the Germans renounced nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and stated their intention to reduce the ( combined ) German armed forces to 370, 000 within 3 to 4 years after the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed in Paris on 19 November 1990, entered into force.

However, with the retreat of the Germans in 1944 – 1945, Soviet hegemony was re-established, and existed until 1990.

Thus, shortly before his death he wrote in Remembering War ( Keyssar, Posner, 1990 ) that he had been shot down three times, had been taken captive by the Germans and, after a week, escaped riding a burro ; that a Russian pilot mistakenly shot him down, and that the Russian was promptly shot ; and that he negotiated the shuttle-bombing project directly with Stalin in May 1944.

East Germans invading the Stasi headquarters on January 16, 1990.

He joined the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania in 1990, and served as a member of its board of education in Transylvania from 1997, and a member of the local party board in Sibiu from 1998.

Many Germans have left the city after World War II, and especially in 1990, within months of the fall of the Iron Curtain.

In March 1990, President Havel stated that the expulsions were " the mistakes and sins of our fathers " and apologized for massacres of Germans during the expulsion on behalf of his people.

In the year of German reunification ( 1990 ), West Germany secured its third World Cup as West and East Germans celebrated together.

( 1990 ): " Rain Forest Encounters: The Beti Meet the Germans, 1887 – 1916 ".