This is a list of people and topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1990s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.
For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.
1990 DateNames or topicsJanuary 1Mikhail Gorbachev, Man of the DecadeJanuary 8Rumania & PanamaJanuary 15 Antarctica January 22Charles StuartJanuary 29Joe Foss February 5Nelson MandelaFebruary 12 Military SpendingFebruary 19Starting Over: Mikhail Gorbachev & Vladimir LeninFebruary 26Michael MilkenMarch 5GossipMarch 12 Soviet UnionMarch 19 Pete & Christine BusalacchiMarch 26GermanyApril 2Richard NixonApril 9America's DemographicsApril 16 Colossal CollidersApril 23Dan QuayleApril 30Vietnam: 15 Years LaterMay 7Foul-Mouthed Pop CultureMay 14Andrei SakharovMay 21 John SununuMay 28Emergency RoomsJune 4Mikhail GorbachevJune 11Scott TurowJune 18Child Warriors: Tin Hle in Karen conflictJune 25The Spotted OwlJuly 2 Nelson MandelaJuly 9 Abortion's QuestionsJuly 16The Next GenerationJuly 23The Palestinians July 30Helmut KohlAugust 6David SouterAugust 13 Saddam HusseinAugust 20 Saddam Hussein & George H. W. BushAugust 27War in the Gulf?September 3 GI in Saudi ArabiaSeptember 10 Saddam HusseinSeptember 17 New York CitySeptember 24King FahdOctober 1 David LynchOctober 8 America's Children October 15 High Anxiety (Harold Lloyd in Safety Last!)October 22Wynton MarsalisOctober 29 GM's SaturnNovember 1Special Issue: WomenNovember 5Ronald ReaganNovember 12 Dick Cheney & Colin PowellNovember 19U.S. Congress (1990 elections)November 26The Junk Mail ExplosionDecember 3Margaret ThatcherDecember 10U.S. SoldierDecember 17Too Little RestDecember 24 KuwaitDecember 31 Bart Simpson
1991 DateNames or topicsJanuary 7 George H. W. Bush, Man of the YearJanuary 14Breast CancerJanuary 21 Saddam HusseinJanuary 28America Declares WarFebruary 4Norman SchwarzkopfFebruary 11Saddam's Weird War (Battle of Khafji)February 18Thomas JenkinsFebruary 25The End of the Gulf War in SightMarch 4 Allied Troops Enter KuwaitMarch 11Kuwait is LiberatedMarch 18 The Troops Come Home March 25Boris YeltsinApril 1 Why Cops Turn ViolentApril 8 The Simple LifeApril 15 Saddam's Postwar VictimsApril 22Nancy ReaganApril 29 Nuclear PowerMay 6 Scientology ExposedMay 13 Kids of Crack Addicted ParentsMay 20A Possible New Vice President for Bush: Dick Cheney, Nancy Kassebaum, Pete Wilson, Carroll A. Campbell Jr. & Colin PowellMay 27The Magic of OrlandoJune 3Katie KoestnerJune 10The Nature of EvilJune 17Marissa & Anissa AyalaJune 24Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)July 1Inside the Cocaine BusinessJuly 8 Who Are Americans?July 15What's in a Label?July 22The Colorado RiverJuly 29 The B.C.C.I. Scandal August 5 Saddam HusseinAugust 12The American CharacterAugust 19John McCarthy & Terry Anderson August 26 Science Under SiegeSeptember 2 Boris YeltsinSeptember 9The Soviet Union in Chaos September 16Lamar AlexanderSeptember 23Vanishing Cultures (Highland tribesman from Papua New Guinea)September 30 Curing InfertilityOctober 7A New Nuclear BalanceOctober 14Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)October 21Anita Hill & Clarence ThomasOctober 28 Oliver NorthNovember 4New Age MedicineNovember 11Privacy in AmericaNovember 18California's Dilemma November 25The Health-Care Crisis December 2 Pearl Harbor RememberedDecember 9One Nation, Under GodDecember 16Terry AndersonDecember 23Mikhail GorbachevDecember 30Search for Virgin Mary
1992 DateNames or topicsJanuary 6Ted Turner, Man of the YearJanuary 13The RecessionJanuary 20Why Are Men and Women Different?January 27Bill ClintonFebruary 3The Fraying of America February 10Japan & AmericaFebruary 17Vanishing OzoneFebruary 24Ronald Reagan & Pope John Paul IIMarch 2Angry VoterMarch 9 Susan Faludi & Gloria Steinem March 16Jay LenoMarch 23Bill Clinton & Paul TsongasMarch 30Garth BrooksApril 6VitaminsApril 13High Cost of CollegeApril 20Bill ClintonApril 27Pan Am 103May 4Roe v. WadeMay 11Los Angeles RiotsMay 18Roger Keith ColemanMay 25Ross PerotJune 1World Conservation Summit June 8The Balkans (Executed Croat in Vukovar)June 15Sam WaltonJune 22AllergiesJune 29Ross PerotJuly 6Pills for the Mind (Kevin Buchberger)July 13World's Last EdenJuly 20Bill Clinton & Al GoreJuly 27Kim Zmeskal (1992 Summer Olympics)August 3AIDS EpidemicAugust 10 Doomsday PlanAugust 17 The Balkans (Prisoners in a detention camp)August 24George H. W. BushAugust 31Woody AllenSeptember 7 Agony of AfricaSeptember 14Hillary ClintonSeptember 21 Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown)September 28The EconomyOctober 5LyingOctober 12George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton & Ross Perot October 15The New MillenniumOctober 19Bill Clinton & George H. W. BushOctober 26Ötzi the Stone Age ManNovember 2Bill ClintonNovember 9 Can GM Survive?November 16Bill ClintonNovember 23God & WomenNovember 30Princess DianaDecember 7Russia (Kolkhoz women photographed by Margaret Bourke-White)December 14Somalia's AgonyDecember 21U.S. Enters SomaliaDecember 28Science & God
1993 DateNames or topicsJanuary 4Bill Clinton, Man of the Year January 11Problems of MegacitiesJanuary 18Rita CollinsJanuary 25Bill ClintonFebruary 1Zoe BairdFebruary 8CyberpunkFebruary 15Chemistry of LoveFebruary 22Bill Clinton as Uncle SamMarch 1Bill ClintonMarch 8 World Trade Center BombingMarch 15David Koresh & Sheik Omar Abdel RahmanMarch 22 Can Animals Think?March 29Boris YeltsinApril 5Boomers at ChurchApril 12Information SuperhighwayApril 19Los AngelesApril 26 DinosaursMay 3David KoreshMay 10 Hillary ClintonMay 24Kids, Sex & ValuesMay 31Dr. Jack KevorkianJune 7Bill Clinton on the DeclineJune 14RU 486: Birth ControlJune 21Global ProstitutionJune 28FatherhoodJuly 5Striking at TerrorismJuly 12Janet RenoJuly 19The Adoption Quandary July 26Floods in the MidwestAugust 2Kids & GunsAugust 9Maya CultureAugust 16Overturning ReaganomicsAugust 23America the ViolentAugust 30 David LettermanSeptember 6Boom Time in the RockiesSeptember 13Yitzhak Rabin & Yasser ArafatSeptember 20Clinton's Health PlanSeptember 27Video GamesOctober 4Muslim Militant Mahmud the Red October 11How Life BeganOctober 18Michael DurantOctober 25Eddie VedderNovember 1Howard Stern & Rush LimbaughNovember 8 Cloning HumansNovember 15Billy GrahamNovember 18The New Face of AmericaNovember 22A New Job Climate November 29Is Freud Dead?December 6Fidel CastroDecember 13Bob Eaton, Alex Trotman & Jack SmithDecember 20Enough ViolenceDecember 27Angels
1994 DateNames or topicsJanuary 3Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, F. W. De Klerk & Nelson Mandela, Men of the YearJanuary 10 Las VegasJanuary 17Genetic Science: How Far Do We Go?January 24Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan (1994 United States Figure Skating Championships)January 31California EarthquakeFebruary 7Tough on CrimeFebruary 14Gender PoliticsFebruary 21Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan (1994 Winter Olympics)February 28Louis FarrakhanMarch 7Aldrich AmesMarch 14Rewriting EvolutionMarch 21Hillary Rodham & Bill ClintonMarch 28Endangered TigersApril 4Bill Clinton & George StephanopoulosApril 11Derivatives on Wall StreetApril 18Battle Against TobaccoApril 25Fighting CancerMay 2Richard NixonMay 9 Nelson MandelaMay 16War in RwandaMay 23Comet Hits JupiterMay 30Jacqueline KennedyJune 6Dwight D. EisenhowerJune 13Kim Il SungJune 20Welfare ReformJune 27O. J. Simpson (Murder of ex-wife and friend and arrest)July 4Domestic-Abuse Victim 'Rita' July 11Vladimir ZhirinovskyJuly 18Attention Deficit DisorderJuly 25The InternetAugust 1Rwandan RefugeesAugust 8Hipper Than Thou August 15InfidelityAugust 22Baseball StrikeAugust 29Nuclear TerroristsSeptember 5Fidel CastroSeptember 12Killer MicrobesSeptember 19Robert SandiferSeptember 26U.S. Enters HaitiOctober 3Jimmy CarterOctober 10Bill T. JonesOctober 17Sex in AmericaOctober 24Poverty in Boom TimesOctober 31New Hope for Public SchoolsNovember 7Newt GingrichNovember 14Susan SmithNovember 21The G.O.P. Storms Washington November 28William Shatner & Patrick Stewart (Star Trek)December 550 Leaders for America's FutureDecember 12The Dangers of Overbreeding Dogs December 19Newt Gingrich as Uncle ScroogeDecember 26Pope John Paul II, Man of the Year
1995 DateNames or topicsJanuary 9Newt GingrichJanuary 16Girth of a NationJanuary 23Rush LimbaughJanuary 30Earthquake in JapanFebruary 6Johnnie Cochran, O. J. Simpson, and Robert ShapiroFebruary 13Stone Age PaintingsFebruary 20Fidel CastroFebruary 27Strengthening MarriagesMarch 1CyberspaceMarch 6When Did the Universe Begin?March 13Nicholas LeesonMarch 20 Social SecurityMarch 27David Geffen, Steven Spielberg & Jeffrey KatzenbergApril 3Shoko AsaharaApril 10The Resurrection by Noël Coypel (commons)April 17Claudia SchifferApril 24VietnamMay 1Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma City bombingMay 8Right-Wing Zealots May 15Ralph ReedMay 22The Budget RevolutionMay 29Ramesses IIJune 5Bill GatesJune 12Pop Culture & Values June 19Scott O'GradyJune 26EstrogenJuly 3Cyber PornJuly 10Colin PowellJuly 17Inside the BrainJuly 24Legacy of WacoJuly 31Bob DoleAugust 7Cultural Funding August 14Mysteries of the DeepAugust 21Cyber WarAugust 28Automat by Edward HopperSeptember 4The Rape of Siberia September 11NATO Bombs The SerbsSeptember 18Colin PowellSeptember 25Michael CrichtonOctober 2Emotional IntelligenceOctober 9 O. J. SimpsonOctober 16 O. J. Simpson VerdictOctober 23Dick CarverOctober 30 Urban BlacksNovember 6Pat BuchananNovember 13Yitzhak RabinNovember 20Bob DoleNovember 27Andrew F. HawleyDecember 4Big BangDecember 11Elisa IzquierdoDecember 18Is the Bible Fact or Fiction?December 25Newt Gingrich, Man of the Year
1996 DateNames or topicsJanuary 8Fat-Free FatJanuary 15William Bratton, New York City's Top CopJanuary 22What Your Doctor Can't Tell You January 29 Steve ForbesFebruary 5Is Anybody Out There?February 12Magic JohnsonFebruary 19Marc AndreessenFebruary 26Pat Buchanan, Lamar Alexander & Bob DoleMarch 4George Galatis, Nuclear WhistleblowerMarch 11Princess DianaMarch 18Hillary ClintonMarch 25Can Machines Think?April 1Norman SchwarzkopfApril 8Search for JesusApril 15Ted KaczynskiApril 22Jessica DubroffApril 29Back to SegregationMay 6John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy & Caroline KennedyMay 13Billy & Franklin GrahamMay 20TwistersMay 27Special Report: RussiaJune 3Who Speaks for Kids?June 10Benjamin NetanyahuJune 17America's 25 Most Influential PeopleJune 24Faith & HealingJune 28 Summer Olympics 1996July 1Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Dole July 8Aliens Have LandedJuly 15Boris YeltsinJuly 22Prince WilliamJuly 29 TWA Flight 800August 5Centennial Olympic Park bombing August 12Michael JohnsonAugust 19Bob Dole & Jack KempAugust 26Christopher ReeveSeptember 2Dick Morris & Bill ClintonSeptember 9Dick Morris & Eileen McGannSeptember 16Bill GatesSeptember 23Diet PillSeptember 30Ned JohnsonOctober 7Diane Keaton, Bette Midler & Goldie Hawn (The First Wives Club)October 14Working Mom Lori LucasOctober 21News WarsOctober 28Genesis RediscoveredNovember 4Bob Dole & Bill ClintonNovember 11Suspect Political Donations November 18Bill ClintonNovember 25Forever YoungDecember 2O. J. SimpsonDecember 9 Pot & ParenthoodDecember 16Jesus OnlineDecember 23Best of '96December 30Dr. David Ho, Man of the Year
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