The following lists events that happened in

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (; born 15 April 1930) is an Icelandic politician who served as the fourth president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996. She was the world's first woman who was democratically elected as president. With a presidency of exactl ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

– Steingrímur Hermannsson

Events

Births

*4 February –

Karen Knútsdóttir Karen Knútsdóttir (born 4 February 1990) is an Icelandic handballer who plays for Icelandic top division side Fram and the Icelandic national team as a middle back. On April 26, 2018, Karen won her first national championship with Fram Fram ...

, handball player *5 February – Ásta Guðrún Helgadóttir, politician *14 March –

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (; born 14 March 1990) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a forward. Currently a free agent, he most recently played for Allsvenskan club IFK Göteborg. Before being signed by Ajax for a fee of €4.5&n ...

, footballer *30 March – Stella Sigurðardóttir, handball player *29 April – Kristinn Steindórsson, footballer. *13 May –

Ólafur Guðmundsson Ólafur Andrés Guðmundsson (born 13 May 1990) is an Icelandic handball player for GC Amicitia Zürich and the Icelandic national team. He represented Iceland at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Men's Handball ...

, handball player *19 May – Stefán Rafn Sigurmannsson, handball player *29 May –

Björn Daníel Sverrisson Björn Daníel Sverrisson is an Icelandic footballer who currently plays for FH as a midfielder. Career Björn has played club football in Iceland and Norway for FH and Viking FK. Björn signed with Danish club AGF in 2018, but at the end o ...

, footballer *4 August –

Kristinn Jónsson Kristinn Jónsson (born 4 August 1990) is an Icelandic football player, currently playing for Icelandic club Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur. Breiðablik Kristinn came through the youth ranks at Breiðablik, making his first appearance for the ...

, footballer *29 September –

Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir (born 29 September 1990) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie A club Juventus FC and captains the Iceland women's national team. Sara Björk has been part of the Icela ...

, footballer *16 October –

Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (born 16 October 1990), known outside Iceland as Yohanna, is an Icelandic-Danish singer. Beginning her music career as a child singer, Yohanna received international recognition after representing Iceland in the ...

, singer *27 October –

Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson (born 27 October 1990) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Burnley and the Iceland national team. Jóhann began his senior career at Breiðablik for a single season before movin ...

, footballer

Full date missing

* Sunneva Einarsdóttir, handball player

Deaths

*1 September – Geir Hallgrímsson, politician (b. 1925). *1 September –

Stefán Kristjánsson Stefán Kristjánsson (8 December 1982 – 28 February 2018) was an Icelandic chess grandmaster and professional poker player. Stefán began playing chess at the age of 11 and earned his international master title in 2002, at age 19. He won t ...

, alpine skier (b. 1924).

References

{{Year in Europe, 1990 1990s in Iceland

Years of the 20th century in Iceland