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

* 1990 – Charlie McDermott, American actor

* 1990 – Kyle Swann, American actor

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

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

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

* 1915 – Gary Merrill, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Skylar Diggins, American basketball player

* 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founder of the Jewish Defense League ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress

* 1990 – Jennifer Lawrence, American actress

* 1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Bo Burnham, American comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor

* 1990 – Big Chocolate, American singer-songwriter, and producer ( Burning the Masses )

* 1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, pianist, and composer ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Wesley Singerman, American voice actor

* 1990 – Amy Castle, American actress

* 1990 – Roscoe Dash, American rapper

* 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Jane Randall, American model

* 1990 – Nicole Anderson, American actress

* 1990 – Julia Vlassov, American figure skater

* 1990 – Britt Robertson, American actress

* 1990 – Christian Alexander, American actor

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

The name of Ciby 2000, the French film production and distribution company founded in 1990, is a play on words on DeMille's name, since " 2000 " in French is " Deux Milles ".

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

( 1990 film ), an Indian Hindi film

* Cadence ( film ), a 1990 film directed by Martin Sheen

He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 film Gremlins and directed the Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch ( 1990 ).

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

was a 2008 musical based on the 1990 anime film of the same name.

" Ebudæ " is also featured on the soundtrack to the Robin Williams feature film Toys, while the 1990 feature film Green Card features " River ", " Watermark ", and " Storms In Africa ".

Probably the most noted film of the period is Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for which Giuseppe Tornatore won a 1990 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film, Memphis Belle, in 1990.

* The Hot Spot, a 1990 film with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly

His other film roles have been in The Lightship ( 1986 ), Streets of Gold ( 1986 ), Burning Secret ( 1988 ), The Russia House ( 1990 ), White Fang ( 1991 ), Becoming Colette ( 1992 ), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ( 1999 ), and Everyman's Feast ( 2002 ).

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.

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks.

In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation.

* In Terry Bisson's Voyage to the Red Planet ( 1990 ), the first expedition to Mars is organized by a Hollywood producer so he can film a science fiction movie on location.

* The Monk ( 1990 film ), a British film