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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Tori Bowie, American athlete (died 2023)[†]
Frentorish "Tori" Bowie was an American track and field athlete, who primarily competed in the long jump, 100 meters, and 200 meters. She won the silver medal in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, bronze and gold in the 100 m at the 2015 and 2017 World Championships, respectively, and also earned gold medals as part of U.S. women's 4 × 100 m relays at both the 2016 Olympic Games and 2017 World Championships.
1990Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer[†]
Luuk de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker and captains Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven.
1990Avdy Andresson, Estonian soldier and diplomat (born 1899)[†]
Avdy Andresson was the Estonian Minister of War in exile from April 3, 1973, until two months before his death on June 20, 1990, and disputed Commander of Armed Forces from 14 October 1975.
1990Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1954)[†]
Stephen Ray Vaughan was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is considered one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He was the younger brother of guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.
LEAD: Refugees pouring into Jordan from Kuwait talked today of rising fears of chemical warfare and occasional skirmishing between Iraqi troops and Kuwaiti guerrilla groups.
LEAD: Nudging a Bureaucracy After five months on the job, New York's welfare chief is struggling -some say unsuccessfully - to improve her agency. Page B1. Chrysler Ads Assailed The No. 3 auto maker, whose ads carry a patriotic theme, has provoked charges of hypocrisy by buying Japanese machinery.
LEAD: The job is daunting and she knows it. Barbara J. Sabol, New York City's new Human Resources Administrator, is struggling -some say without success - to nudge a mammoth bureaucracy not known for compassion into being more responsive to the city's most vulnerable citizens.
LEAD: As members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered informally here today to confront some of the most crucial issues in the group's 30-year history, some predicted that a formal meeting would be announced on Monday to address questions of oil production and prices.
LEAD: In his eighth month on the job, Mayor David N. Dinkins finally seems to have met a man he doesn't like.
LEAD: When the Casino Control Commission gave grudging approval this week to a bank loan package for Donald J. Trump's tottering casino empire, it tacitly acknowledged that its extraordinary regulatory powers had failed to shield New Jersey's casinos from the high-rolling borrowing practices of the 1980's.
LEAD: Former United States Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., an independent running for governor, has enjoyed nothing less than a political honeymoon for the last six months. He has held wide leads in all public opinion polls. His campaign has been gentlemanly and issue-oriented. He also has been successful at raising funds, frequently attracting the news media and collecting endorsements from Democrats and
LEAD: The star of the proceedings at the Federal Reserve's annual summer retreat, dedicated this year to a discussion of central banking in Eastern Europe, turned out to be the Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Klaus.
LEAD: With a flourish of patriotism, the Chrysler Corporation's latest advertising campaign, ''Advantage: Chrysler,'' takes aim at the company's Japanese competitors, but the company is being accused of hypocrisy.
LEAD: The price of crude oil jumped more than 70 percent since the beginning of July, the financial markets have plunged, and the economic future of the industrial world has been thrown into question, all because of an interruption in supplies that may turn out to be quite modest. A host who bought two cases of beer for a party and broke one bottle would face about the same degree of shortage.
LEAD: Publishing used to be about trust. But today, the old relationships between authors and publishers have given way to growing differences over the contracts that define the business ties between them.
LEAD: Confronted with a fragile economy and haunted perhaps by the slide of the 1970's, consumers in the New York region are cutting spending and delaying purchases in a display of frugality that seems likely to make the slump worse.