About the day » Thursday January 18, 1990Calender converter

• Damon Lyle Wood, Iowa Falls, Hardin County, Iowa († 2009)
• Joris Pieter Voskamp, De Lier, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Zane David Grilliot, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Garrett Hunter, Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada

• Anna Margareth Wubbels (88)
• Anna van Harten (92), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Marinus Stramrood (77), Bussum
• Peetam (53)
• "Jean" Engelbert Joseph Ghislain Le Grelle (78), Anvers, Belgique
• BASTIAANTJE MUDDE (72), ROTTERDAM
• Adelia Agnes Elsie Hallett (48), Lloydminster, Division No. 10, Alberta, Canada
• Bastiaantje Mudde (72), Rotterdam
• Alma V. Hill (83), Greenville, Montcalm County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna M. Prost (86), Perryville, Perry, Missouri, Verenigde Staten

• 1988 » Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
• 1988 » Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
• 1988 » Boy van Poppel, Dutch cyclist
• 1988 » Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player
• 1990 » Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner
• 1990 » Nacho, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer

• 1984 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
• 1984 » Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b. 1940)
• 1990 » Melanie Appleby, English singer (b. 1966)
• 1990 » Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
• 1993 » Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• 1996 » N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
• January 4 » In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
• January 20 » Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
• February 12 » Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
• April 7 » Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
• April 24 » STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• May 18 » In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3km/h (320.2mph).

The temperature on January 18, 1990 was between 1.4 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.