1990s

The 1990s was the decade that started on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999.

From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993; The World Wide Web becomes more popular worldwide; Boris Yeltsin and followers stand on a tank against the August Coup, which leads to the end of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991; Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell; The funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, who dies in 1997 from a car crash in Paris, and is mourned by millions; Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people are killed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

• 1990 — Gulf War
• 1990 — German reunification
• 1991 — The end of the Cold War.
• 1991 — Breakup of Yugoslavia.
• Yugoslav Wars
• 1991 — Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
• 1992 — Established European union.
• 1993 — Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
• 1994 — Genocide in Rwanda
• 1994 — End of Apartheid in South Africa
• 1997 — Handover of Hong Kong

People

• Pope John Paul II, Pope in the 1990s (the last full decade he would serve as Pope until his death in 2005)
• Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• Pete Sampras, American tennis player
• Michael Schumacher, German formula 1 driver
• Backstreet Boys, American boy band
• Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia from 1989 to 2000
• Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990
• John Major, British Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997
• Tony Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007
• George H. W. Bush, President of the United States until 1993
• Bill Clinton President of the United States from 1993–2001
• François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995
• Jacques Chirac, President of France from 1995 to 2007
• Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002
• Alberto Fujimori President of Peru 1990–2000
• Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
• Elizabeth II, British queen since 1952
• Madonna, singer-songwriter
• The Prodigy, electronic dance group
• Britney Spears, American singer
• Spice Girls, music group
• Mariah Carey, singer
• Celine Dion, singer
• Whitney Houston, singer
• Mel Gibson, actor
• Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR 1985–1991
• Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
• Michael Jordan, American basketball player
• Tom Hanks, American actor
• Nicole Kidman, actress
• Sandra Bullock, American actress
• Tom Cruise, American actor
• Robin Williams, American actor and comedian
• Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• George Clooney, American actor
• Brad Pitt, American actor
• Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor
• Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host
• Ellen DeGeneres, American talk show host
• Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979–2003
• Helmut Kohl, German chancellor until 1998
• Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa 1994–1999
• Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa 1999–2008
• Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister
• Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
• Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan dictator from 1969 to 2011
• Nirvana, rock band
• Steven Seagal, American actor
• Julia Roberts, American actor/actress
• Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005
• Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
• Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
• Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
• Kim Jong-il, dictator of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
• Tupac Shakur, American rapper
• Diana, Princess of Wales
• Gianni Versace, fashion designer
• Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
• Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple

Other websites

Source for some items:

• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
• http://m-w.com/