What Happened in 1990 — Events, Births & Deaths

David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.

Seven people are killed and one injured in a mass shooting in Narsaq, Greenland.

United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.

In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.

Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.

Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.

Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.

Avianca Flight 052 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73.

Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.

Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.

Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.

Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.

Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.

Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Nelson Mandela is elected deputy president of the African National Congress.

American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game.

Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo.

In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988.

Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.

Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union.

Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.

Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.

Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.

Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.

The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.

United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.

Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.

The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.

A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.

John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair. In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal.

The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis is elected in the Greek parliamentary election.

An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.

The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.

An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants.

Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.

Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.

Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.

Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.

The Dinamo–Red Star riot takes place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).

The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).

The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.

The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.

Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.

British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.

Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.

First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.

The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

Asteroid Eureka is discovered.

The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.

Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

East and West Germany merge their economies.

German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.

In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.

West Germany win the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only goal.

Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.

Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.

The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.

The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.

Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.

Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people.

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily establishes the Republic of Kuwait puppet state on the orders of Saddam Hussein, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.

Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.

The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.

Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.

Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.

Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.

Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.

A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.

The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign the Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.

The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.

Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.

The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.

Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.

The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.

After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.

First Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.

Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.

Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.

British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.

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

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

While on approach to Zurich Airport, Alitalia Flight 404 crashes into Stadlerberg Mountain near Weiach, killing 46.

The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified mission for the Department of Defense.

Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.

Bangkok Airways Flight 125 crashes on approach to Samui Airport, killing 38.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.

Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-35, carrying the ASTRO-1 spacelab observatory.

A military jet of the Italian Air Force, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.

Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.

Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured

Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.

Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.

History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.

Cristian Erbes, Argentine footballer

Sean Kilpatrick, American basketball player

Liam Aiken, American actor

Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler

Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper

Blair Walsh, American football player

John Carlson, American ice hockey player

Martin Jones, Canadian ice hockey player

Ishiura Shikanosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler

Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player

Malik Jackson, American football player

Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer

Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor

Kacy Catanzaro, American athlete and wrestler

Lelisa Desisa, Ethiopian runner

Grant Gustin, American actor and singer

Áron Szilágyi, Hungarian fencer

Sidney Franklin, American actor and tap dancer

Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer

Slava Voynov, Russian ice hockey player

Chris Warren, American actor

Dennis Kelly, American football player

Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer

Tyler Zeller, American basketball player

Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player

Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-American actress

Alizé Cornet, French tennis player

Mike Hauschild, American baseball player

Logic, American rapper

Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler

Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

Apostolos Giannou, Greek-Australian footballer

Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor

Tim Beckham, American baseball player

Melissa Duncan, Australian track and field athlete

Eiza González, Mexican actress and singer

Luca Sbisa, Italian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach

Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer

Jake Thomas, American actor

Cro, German rapper

Nicolás Laprovíttola, Argentine basketball player

Tyler Myers, American-Canadian ice hockey player

Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter

Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer

Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player

Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer

Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer

Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player

Jermaine Kearse, American football player

Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater

Morris Claiborne, American football player

Jacksepticeye, Irish YouTuber

Gianluca Lapadula, Italian footballer

Bethany Hamilton, American surfer

Klay Thompson, American basketball player

Randall Delgado, Panamanian baseball player

Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer

Q'orianka Kilcher, German-American actress

Katherine Barrell, Canadian actress, director, writer, and producer

Robert Griffin III, American football player

Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player

Mamadou Sakho, French footballer

Chris Babb, American basketball player

Brett Dier, Canadian actor

Bogdan Kiselevich, Russian ice hockey player

Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer

Callum Turner, English actor

The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer

Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater

Edin Višća, Bosnian footballer

Monica Aksamit, American saber fencer

Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player

Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player

Bryan Oviedo, Costa Rican footballer

Ciro Immobile, Italian footballer

Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player

Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player

Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player

Dwayne Allen, American football player

Derek Wolfe, American football player

Félix Peña, Dominican baseball player

Takanoiwa Yoshimori, Mongolian sumo wrestler

Chandler Jones, American football player

Adam Morgan, American baseball player

Lindsey Morgan, American actress

Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler

Ryan Allen, American football player

Sebastian Rudy, German footballer

Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer

Malcolm Butler, American football player

Luke Combs, American singer-songwriter

Tiger Shroff, Indian actor

Vlado Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player

Danny Drinkwater, English footballer

Mason Plumlee, American basketball player

Alex Smithies, English footballer

Derek Drouin, Canadian high jumper

Jeff Withey, American basketball player

Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and actress

Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer

Brandon Kozun, American-Canadian ice hockey player

Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player

Kevin Zeitler, American football player

Daley Blind, Dutch footballer

YG, American rapper

Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player

Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player

Anicet Abel, Malagasy footballer

Marcell Dareus, American football player

Joe Allen, Welsh footballer

Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer

Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer

Nick Ahmed, American baseball player

Tavon Austin, American football player

JD McDonagh, Irish professional wrestler

Josh Johnson, American comedian and writer

Andre Young, American basketball player

Hozier, Irish musician

Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player

Jean Segura, Dominican baseball player

EJ Manuel, American football player

Anders Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player

Brad Hand, American baseball player

Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer

Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer

Ryann Krais, American runner and heptathlete

Darius Miller, American basketball player

Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish race car driver

Mark Barberio, Canadian ice hockey player

Princess Eugenie, English royal

Gordon Hayward, American basketball player

Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor

Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress

Starlin Castro, American baseball player

Lacey Evans, American wrestler

Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer

JonTron, American YouTuber

Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer

Alexander Esswein, German footballer

Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor

Matteo Guidicelli, Filipino actor, model, singer and former kart racer

Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (died 2016)

Yuya Takaki, Japanese idol, singer, dancer, model and actor

Xiumin, South Korean singer and actor

Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer

Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player

Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer

Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer

Kimbra, New Zealand musician

Brodha V, Indian rapper and music producer

Delroy Edwards, American musician

Laura Harrier, American actress and model

Lyle Taylor, English footballer

Thomas Rhett, American country music singer and songwriter

Michal Březina, Czech figure skater

Julia Fischer, German discus thrower

Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast

Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer

Amr El Solia, Egyptian footballer

Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer

Madison Brengle, American tennis player

Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer

Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer

Elizabeth Booker Houston American lawyer, public health professional, stand‑up comedian, and political commentator.

Lachlan Coote, Australian rugby league player

Charlie McDermott, American actor

Andrei Veis, Estonian footballer

Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter

Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler

Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player

Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer

Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (died 2017)

Kristen Stewart, American actress

Ryan Williams, American football player

Ben Amos, English footballer

Andile Jali, South African footballer

Alex Pettyfer, English actor

Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer

Thulani Serero, South African footballer

Hiroki Sakai, Japanese footballer

Emma Watson, English actress

Reggie Jackson, American basketball player

Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player

Tony McQuay, American sprinter

Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer

Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer

Jackie Bradley Jr., American baseball player

Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer

Kyle Higashioka, American baseball player

Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer

Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor

Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player

Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler

Rui Fonte, Portuguese footballer

Dev Patel, English actor

Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress

Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player

Jean-Éric Vergne, French racing driver

Taylor Walker, Australian footballer

Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer

Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player

Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (died 2012)

Joey Wendle, American baseball player

Austin Dillon, American race car driver

James Faulkner, Australian cricketer

Chris Johnson, American basketball player

Jonny Brownlee, English triathlete

Mac DeMarco, Canadian singer-songwriter

Kaarel Kiidron, Estonian footballer

Paula Ribó, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress

Scooter Gennett, American baseball player

Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress

Kay Panabaker, American actress

Paul George, American basketball player

Harvey Guillén, American actor

Brooks Koepka, American golfer

James Pattinson, Australian cricketer

Tatiana Schlossberg, American journalist and author (died 2025)

Darcy Kuemper, Canadian ice hockey player

Jose Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player

Péter Gulácsi, Hungarian footballer

Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer

Lane Johnson, American football player

Iyo Sky, Japanese wrestler

Kemba Walker, American basketball player

Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player

Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper

Florent Amodio, French figure skater

Etika, American YouTuber and live streamer (died 2019)

Mychal Givens, American baseball player

Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player

Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist

Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model

Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor

Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter

Omar Strong, American basketball player

Will Clyburn, American basketball player

Fabian Giefer, German footballer

Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player

Katrina Hart, English runner

Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player

Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer

Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer

Josh Starling, Australian rugby league player

Josh O'Connor, British actor

Kierre Beckles, Barbadian athlete

Rene Krhin, Slovenian footballer

Wyatt Roy, Australian politician

Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player

Joey Logano, American race car driver

Bo Dallas, American wrestler

Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player

Kyle Walker, English footballer

Riquna Williams, American basketball player

Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher

Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (died 2017)

Im Yoon-ah, South Korean singer and actress

Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player

Zack Wheeler, American baseball player

Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer

Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer

Roman Josi, Swiss ice hockey player

Dane Rampe, Australian rules footballer

Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur

Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey player

Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago

Anthony Rendon, American baseball player

Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer

Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model

Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier

Antonella Alonso, Venezuelan pornographic actress

Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter

Jrue Holiday, American basketball player

David Worrall, English footballer

James McCann, American baseball player

Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor

Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player

Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Norwegian long-distance runner

John Newman, English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

Jordan Henderson, English footballer

Josh Mansour, Australian rugby league player

Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player

Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast

Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player

Christian Taylor, American triple jumper

Ashly Burch, American actress, writer, and director

Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter

Xavier Rhodes, American football player

Ding Ning, Chinese table tennis player

DeQuan Jones, American basketball player

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Senegalese writer

Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player

Sergei Matsenko, Russian chess player

François Moubandje, Swiss footballer

Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer

Isabel Pires, Portuguese politician

Sebastian Jung, German footballer

Clevid Dikamona, French footballer

Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player

Laura Ràfols, Spanish footballer

Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player

Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer

Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress

Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner

Iman Shumpert, American basketball player

Igor Subbotin, Estonian footballer

Brandon Sklenar, American actor

Bobby Wagner, American football player

Kim Little, Scottish footballer

Yann M'Vila, French footballer

Kayla Harrison, American judoka

Merritt Mathias, American soccer player

Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player

Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer

Danny Rose, English footballer

Bill Tupou, New Zealand rugby league player

Nathan Gardner, Australian rugby league player

Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer

Lucas Mendes, Brazilian footballer

Alison Riske-Amritraj, American tennis player

Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player

Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer

Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer

Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer

Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner

Jae Crowder, American basketball player

Magaye Gueye, French footballer

Jamal Idris, Australian rugby league player

Justin Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player

Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer

Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer

Kevin Trapp, German footballer

Earl Bamber, New Zealand race car driver

Fábio, Brazilian footballer

Rafael, Brazilian footballer

Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player

Trent Richardson, American football player

Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler

Mona Barthel, German tennis player

Connor Paolo, American actor

Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer

Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player

Bebé, Portuguese footballer

Rachel Brosnahan, American actress

Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player

Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer

Paulo Muacho, Portuguese politician

Olly Alexander, English singer and actor

Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player

Damian Lillard, American basketball player

Tyler Young, American racing driver

James Maslow, American actor, singer and dancer

Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter

Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer

Canelo Álvarez, Mexican boxer

Lars Unnerstall, German footballer

Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater

Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer

Bianca Santos, American actress

Paolo Hurtado, Peruvian footballer

Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Stephen Li-Chung Kuo, Taiwanese-American figure skater

Kriti Sanon, Indian actress

Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor

Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer

Shin Se-kyung, South Korean actress, singer and model

Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

Tom Morris, Australian journalist

Shekinna Stricklen, American basketball player

Aledmys Díaz, Cuban baseball player

Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player

Vitalia Diatchenko, Russian tennis player

Skylar Diggins, American basketball player

Jourdan Dunn, English model

Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer

Jake Allen, Canadian ice hockey player

Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter

Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer

Parker Kligerman, American race car driver

Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer

Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain

İshak Doğan, Turkish footballer

Sarah McBride, American LGBT activist and US Representative

Stuart McInally, Scottish rugby player

Brice Roger, French skier

D'Arcy Short, Australian cricketer

Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor

Cruze Ah-Nau, Australian rugby player

Lee Sung-kyung, South Korean model, actress, and singer

Lucas Till, American actor

Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player

Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer

DeMarcus Cousins, American basketball player

Benjamin Stambouli, French footballer

Jennifer Lawrence, American actress and producer

Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer

Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress

Macauley Chrisantus, Nigerian footballer

Culoe De Song, South African music producer and DJ

Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer

Bradley Klahn, American tennis player

Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer

Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet

Christian Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player

Randall Cobb, American football player

Drew Hutchison, American baseball player

Robbie Rochow, Australian rugby league player

Adam Thielen, American football player

Seth Curry, American basketball player

Mike Yastrzemski, American baseball player

Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentinian actor and singer

Luke Lawrence, American sailor

Max Muncy, American baseball player

Lorenzo Brown, American basketball player

Irina-Camelia Begu, Romanian tennis player

Tori Bowie, American athlete (died 2023)

Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer

Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer

Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer

Chris Taylor, American baseball player

Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer

Tadeja Majerič, Slovenian tennis player

Aisling Loftus, English actress

Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer

Marcus Ericsson, Swedish race car driver

Shayla Worley, American gymnast

James Bay, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lance Stephenson, American basketball player

Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater

Franco Zuculini, Argentine footballer

John Wall, American basketball player

Libor Hudáček, Slovak ice hockey player

Fedor Klimov, Russian figure skater

Billy Hamilton, American baseball player

Shaun Johnson, New Zealand rugby league player

Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter and actress

Andrew Smith, American basketball player (died 2016)

Jordan Tabor, English footballer (died 2014)

Corban Knight, Canadian ice hockey player

Jo Inge Berget, Norwegian footballer

Craig Cunningham, Canadian ice hockey player

Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress

Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer

Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer

Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer

Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer

Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer

Aaron Mooy, Australian footballer

Matt Shively, American actor

Megan Stalter, American actress and comedian

Pixie Geldof, English model and singer

Sean Scannell, English footballer

Marcus Semien, American baseball player

Lewis Holtby, German footballer

Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer

Savvas Gentsoglou, Greek footballer

Stephon Gilmore, American football player

Kieran Trippier, English footballer

Ken Giles, American baseball player

Carlos Hyde, American football player

Donatas Motiejūnas, Lithuanian basketball player

Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player

Al-Farouq Aminu, American basketball player

Danny Batth, English footballer

Rob Cross, English darts player

Ivan Dorschner, American-Filipino model and actor

Sam Kasiano, New Zealand rugby league player

Allison Scagliotti, American actress and musician

Christian Serratos, American actress

Denard Robinson, American football player

Vontaze Burfict, American football player

Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater

Dion Lewis, American football player

Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player

Kirsten Prout, Canadian-American actress

Jordan Schroeder, American ice hockey player

Pedro Filipe Mendes, Portuguese footballer

Albert Prosa, Estonian footballer

Samantha Barks, Manx actress and singer

Johan Le Bon, French cyclist

Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer

Saki, Japanese guitarist and songwriter

Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler

Nathan Peats, Australian rugby league player

Scarlett Byrne, English actress

Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player

Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player

Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress

Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer

Rachel Klamer, Zimbabwean-Dutch triathlete

Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer

Jake Lamb, American baseball player

Shelby Miller, American baseball player

Geno Smith, American football player

Kolten Wong, American baseball player

Joo, South Korean singer and actress

Sebastian Rode, German footballer

Henri Lansbury, English footballer

Andrej Rendla, Slovak footballer

Adrián Sardinero, Spanish footballer

Jakob Silfverberg, Swedish ice hockey player

Jordan Clark, English cricketer

Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer

Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player

Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer

Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer

Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player

Drew Crawford, American basketball player

Brittney Griner, American basketball player

Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality

Tom Kilbey, English footballer

Janet Leon, Swedish singer-songwriter and dancer

Ciara Renée, American actress and singer

Endō Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler

Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player

Bengali-Fodé Koita, French footballer

Mathieu Peybernes, French footballer

Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player

Kristján Þórður Snæbjarnarson, Icelandic politician

Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor

David Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

Elijah Greer, American middle-distance runner

İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer

Mohammed Jahfali, Saudi Arabia international footballer

Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player

Alex Bentley, American-Belarusian basketball player

Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer

Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer

Ender Inciarte, Venezuelan baseball player

Ben Proudfoot, Canadian filmmaker

Eric Saade, Swedish singer

Joe Panik, American baseball player

Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter

JID, American rapper

Tim Frazier, American basketball player

Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer

Kendall Schmidt, American singer, songwriter, and actor

Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer

Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor

André Schürrle, German footballer

Akua Shōma, Japanese sumo wrestler

Bowen Yang, Australian-born American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer

Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer

Matt Corby, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

David de Gea, Spanish footballer

Joelle Hadjia, Australian singer-songwriter

Flavinha, Brazilian politician

Ingrid Puusta, Estonian sailor

Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer

Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer

James Segeyaro, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer

Florent Manaudou, French swimmer

Marcell Ozuna, Dominican baseball player

Harmeet Singh, Norwegian footballer

Siim-Sander Vene, Estonian basketball player

Brenden Dillon, Canadian ice hockey player

Roman Bürki, Swiss footballer

Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (died 2008)

Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor

Dénes Dibusz, Hungarian football player

Elías Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player

Arnett Moultrie, American basketball player

Marquise Goodwin, American football player

Josh Lambo, American football and soccer player

John Moore, American ice hockey player

Benedikt Schmid, German footballer

Haley Anderson, American swimmer

Mark Christian, Manx cyclist

Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder

Dani King, English cyclist

Georgie Twigg, English field hockey player

Brock Osweiler, American football player

Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer and actor

Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer

Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist

Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater

Christopher Quiring, German footballer[better source needed]

Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer

Sarah Hyland, American actress

Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter

Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player

Stephanie Hsu, American actress

Avery Bradley, American basketball player

Chip, English rapper

Gabriel Paulista, Brazilian footballer

Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress

Danny Welbeck, English footballer

Josh Dubovie, English singer

Dedryck Boyata, Belgian footballer

Bradley Smith, English motorcycle racer

Diego Boneta, Mexican actor and singer

Sheldon Richardson, American football player

Andrej Šustr, Czech ice hockey player

Yacouba Sylla, French footballer

Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player

Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer

Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player

Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Ghanaian footballer

Gastón Ramírez, Uruguayan footballer

Christian Benteke, Belgian footballer

Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player

Matt Reynolds, American baseball player

Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer

Blake Leary, Australian rugby league player

Montee Ball, American football player

Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player

Cameron Bairstow, Australian basketball player

David Goffin, Belgian tennis player

Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper

Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player

Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player

Ashleigh Brewer, Australian actress

SungWon Cho, American YouTuber and actor

Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer

Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer

Sakiko Matsui, Japanese singer and actress

Wil Myers, American baseball player

Teyana Taylor, American singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actress

Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (died 2010)

Alexa Demie, American actress and singer

Nixon Chepseba, Kenyan runner

Dawin, American singer-songwriter

Victor Moses, Nigerian footballer

Tyron Smith, American football player

Fletcher Cox, American football player

Joseph Garrett, English YouTuber, actor, and author

Arantxa Rus, Dutch tennis player

Robert Covington, American basketball player

Graham Rogers, American actor

Greg Bretz, American snowboarder

Torrey Craig, American basketball player

JoJo, American singer and actress

Marta Xargay, Spanish basketball player

Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer

Brice Dja Djédjé, Ivorian footballer

Mitch Haniger, American baseball player

Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress and singer

Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper

Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer

Cory Jefferson, American basketball player

Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer

Max Lindholm, Finnish figure skater

Jonathan Marchessault, Canadian ice hockey player

Milos Raonic, Canadian tennis player

Zelina Vega, American wrestler

Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner

Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer

David Archuleta, American singer

John Henson, American basketball player

Bastiaan Lijesen, Dutch swimmer

Allen Kim, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (U-KISS)

Bruno Henrique, Brazilian footballer

Joe Root, English cricketer

C. J. Wilcox, American basketball player

Erté, Russian-French illustrator (born 1892)

Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (born 1916)

Stratos Dionysiou, Greek Singer, composer and lyricist (born 1935)