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Greta Garbo
Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Rajneesh
Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 193119 January 1990), also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and commonly known as Osho (), was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers t
Patrick White
English-born Australian writer
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
Ava Gardner
American actress (1922–1990)
Lev Yashin
Player for U.S.S.R (1929–1990)
Barbara Stanwyck
American actress (1907–1990)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Swiss author and dramatist (1921-1990)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
Pavel Cherenkov
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
Louis Althusser
French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)
Ilya Frank
Soviet physicist
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
Sandro Pertini
Italian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
Yun Po-sun
2nd President of South Korea (1897-1990)
Paulette Goddard
American actress (1910–1990)
Tunku Abdul Rahman
first Prime Minister of Malaysia (1903-1990)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Le Duc Tho
Vietnamese diplomat (1911–1990)
Keith Haring
American artist and social activist (1958-1990)
Stevie Ray Vaughan
American blues guitarist (1954–1990)
Jim Henson
American puppeteer (1936–1990)
Sergei Parajanov
Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990)
Rex Harrison
British actor (1908–1990)
Bruno Kreisky
Austrian diplomat and chancellor (1911–1990)
Lawrence Durrell
British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (1912–1990)
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian diplomat and politician (1900-1990)
Irene Dunne
American actress and singer (1898–1990)
Norbert Elias
German sociologist (1897–1990)
Sergei Dovlatov
Soviet writer (1941–1990)
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Joan Bennett
American actress (1910–1990)
Taro Kagawa
Japanese association football player (1922–1990)
Sarah Vaughan
American jazz and classical singer (1924–1990)
Sammy Davis Jr.
American entertainer (1925–1990)
Jacques Demy
French film director (1931-1990)
A. J. P. Taylor
English historian (1906-1990)
Samuel Doe
21st President of Liberia
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Mariano Rumor
Italian politician (1915-1990)
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Anne Revere
American actress (1903-1990)
Dexter Gordon
American jazz saxophonist (1923–1990)
Oldřich Nejedlý
Czech footballer (1909–1990)
John Stewart Bell
Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)
Capucine
Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre (, 6 January 1928 – 17 March 1990), known by her mononym stage name Capucine (), was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther (1963) and ''What's New Pussycat?'' (1965). She appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990.
Eve Arden
American actress (1908–1990)
Angelo Schiavio
Italian footballer (1905-1990)
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990)
José Figueres Ferrer
Costa Rican politician (1906–1990)
Naruhiko Higashikuni
Japanese prince (1887-1990)
Arthur Kennedy
American actor (1914–1990)
Pearl Bailey
American actress and singer (1918–1990)
Reinaldo Arenas
Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
Bruno Bettelheim
Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)
Ronald Evans
NASA astronaut (1933-1990)
Luigi Nono
Italian composer (1924-1990)
Miguel Muñoz
Spanish association football player and manager (1922–1990)