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LEAD: A determined group of younger musicians, mostly women, is scrambling to find ways to bring the harp into the late 20th century. For an instrument that numbers diminutive angels and a Marx brother among its best-known virtuosos, that is no easy or straightforward task. Some harpists are following the Swiss star Andreas Vollenweider into New Age washes.
LEAD: It has taken a decade for the message to sink in, but the advertising industry has come to accept the fact that consumers do not receive information only from the usual sources - network television, newspapers and magazines. They are continuously bombarded with sights, sounds and sentence fragments, often unconsciously, as they drive by billboards, glance at T-shirt logos and open their mail.
LEAD: Everybody expected the Tour de France to get off to a new beginning today, and it did as Erik Breukink and Greg LeMond went on a long breakaway and made up nearly five minutes of their deficit on the man in the yellow jersey, Claudio Chiappucci.
LEAD: The danger peaks near dawn, said a man named Jenkins, when Government soldiers, sometimes wearing masks, stalk the gates in front of the makeshift refugee camp within the walls of the American Cooperative School.
LEAD: With a sense of affection and urgency, two leaders of the landmarks movement in Queens have compiled an 88-page book titled ''Historic Preservation in Queens.'' It lists buildings that are official city landmarks or are on the National Register of Historic Places, as well as structures that were designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission but later stripped of landmark status by the Board of
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 11, 1990, covering July 15, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Wilson Phillips
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Olly Alexander, English singer and actor[†]
Oliver Alexander Thornton is an English singer, actor and LGBTQ activist who rose to prominence as the lead singer of the English pop band Years & Years, who achieved two No. 1 albums on the UK Albums Chart, a No. 1 single and five Top 10 entries on the UK Singles Chart. Between 2021 and 2023 he continued to release music under the name until their dissolution in 2024. During their career Years & Years were nominated for six Brit Awards.
1990Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player[†]
Zachary M. Bogosian is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Atlanta Thrashers, Winnipeg Jets, Buffalo Sabres, Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs. Bogosian won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Lightning in 2020.
1990Damian Lillard, American basketball player[†]
Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Dame Time", he played college basketball for the Weber State Wildcats and earned third-team All-American honors in 2012. He was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft, and was named the NBA Rookie of the Year for the 2012–13 season. With the team, he made seven NBA All-Star selections, seven All-NBA Team selections, and is the franchise's all-time leading scorer. As of the end of the 2024-25 season, he ranked fourth on the NBA all-time list of three-point field goals made (2,804).
1990Tyler Young, American racing driver[†]
Tyler Randall Young is an American former professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He owns Young's Motorsports, a team in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, fielding the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro and in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series which fields the Nos. 02 and 20 Chevrolet Silverados. He also has been a driver for his own team, last starting a race in 2018. Before stepping back to driving part-time to focus on the ownership side of the team, Young drove his No. 02 full-time in 2014 and 2015.
1990Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (born 1920)[†]
Zaim Topčić was a Bosnian writer of novels. He twice won the Annual Award of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the novels Lump of Sun and Black Snows.
1990Margaret Lockwood, English actress (born 1916)[†]
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE, was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included The Lady Vanishes (1938), Night Train to Munich (1940), The Man in Grey (1943), and The Wicked Lady (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film Cast a Dark Shadow. She also starred in the television series Justice (1971–74). Ronald Bergan of The Guardian called her "one of the most beautiful, energetic, and spirited actresses in the history of British cinema."
1990Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th Syrian Ambassador to the United States (born 1910)[†]
Omar Abu Risha was a Syrian poet and diplomat. He served as the Syrian ambassador to the United States from 1961 to 1964 and was a renowned poet who lyricized Fī Sabīli al-Majd , Syria's de facto national anthem.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]