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List of covers of Time magazine (1990s)

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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

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Date Names or topics
January 1 Mikhail Gorbachev, Man of the Decade
January 8 Rumania & Panama
January 15 Antarctica
January 22 Charles Stuart
January 29 Joe Foss
February 5 Nelson Mandela
February 12 Military Spending
February 19 Starting Over: Mikhail Gorbachev & Vladimir Lenin
February 26 Michael Milken
March 5 Gossip
March 12 Soviet Union
March 19 Pete & Christine Busalacchi
March 26 Germany
April 2 Richard Nixon
April 9 America's Demographics
April 16 Colossal Colliders
April 23 Dan Quayle
April 30 Vietnam: 15 Years Later
May 7 Foul-Mouthed Pop Culture
May 14 Andrei Sakharov
May 21 John Sununu
May 28 Emergency Rooms
June 4 Mikhail Gorbachev
June 11 Scott Turow
June 18 Child Warriors: Tin Hle in Karen conflict
June 25 The Spotted Owl
July 2 Nelson Mandela
July 9 Abortion's Questions
July 16 The Next Generation
July 23 The Palestinians
July 30 Helmut Kohl
August 6 David Souter
August 13 Saddam Hussein
August 20 Saddam Hussein & George H. W. Bush
August 27 War in the Gulf?
September 3 GI in Saudi Arabia
September 10 Saddam Hussein
September 17 New York City
September 24 King Fahd
October 1 David Lynch
October 8 America's Children
October 15 High Anxiety (Harold Lloyd in Safety Last!)
October 22 Wynton Marsalis
October 29 GM's Saturn
November 1 Special Issue: Women
November 5 Ronald Reagan
November 12 Dick Cheney & Colin Powell
November 19 U.S. Congress
November 26 The Junk Mail Explosion
December 3 Margaret Thatcher
December 10 U.S. Soldier
December 17 Too Little Rest
December 24 Kuwait
December 31 Bart Simpson

1991

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Date Names or topics
January 7 George H. W. Bush, Man of the Year
January 14 Breast Cancer
January 21 Saddam Hussein
January 28 America Declares War
February 4 Norman Schwarzkopf
February 11 Saddam's Weird War (Battle of Khafji)
February 18 Thomas Jenkins
February 25 The End of the Gulf War in Sight
March 4 Allied Troops Enter Kuwait
March 11 Kuwait is Liberated
March 18 The Troops Come Home
March 25 Boris Yeltsin
April 1 Why Cops Turn Violent
April 8 The Simple Life
April 15 Saddam's Postwar Victims
April 22 Nancy Reagan
April 29 Nuclear Power
May 6 Scientology Exposed
May 13 Kids of Crack Addicted Parents
May 20 A Possible New Vice President for Bush: Dick Cheney, Nancy Kassebaum, Pete Wilson, Carroll A. Campbell Jr. & Colin Powell
May 27 The Magic of Orlando
June 3 Katie Koestner
June 10 The Nature of Evil
June 17 Marissa & Anissa Ayala
June 24 Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon
July 1 Inside the Cocaine Business
July 8 Who Are Americans?
July 15 What's in a Label?
July 22 The Colorado River
July 29 The B.C.C.I. Scandal
August 5 Saddam Hussein
August 12 The American Character
August 19 John McCarthy & Terry Anderson
August 26 Science Under Siege
September 2 Boris Yeltsin
September 9 The Soviet Union in Chaos
September 16 Lamar Alexander
September 23 Vanishing Cultures (Highland tribesman from Papua New Guinea)
September 30 Curing Infertility
October 7 A New Nuclear Balance
October 14 Jodie Foster
October 21 Anita Hill & Clarence Thomas
October 28 Oliver North
November 4 New Age Medicine
November 11 Privacy in America
November 18 California's Dilemma
November 25 The Health-Care Crisis
December 2 Pearl Harbor Remembered
December 9 One Nation, Under God
December 16 Terry Anderson
December 23 Mikhail Gorbachev
December 30 Search for Virgin Mary

1992

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Date Names or topics
January 6 Ted Turner, Man of the Year
January 13 The Recession
January 20 Why Are Men and Women Different?
January 27 Bill Clinton
February 3 The Fraying of America
February 10 Japan & America
February 17 Vanishing Ozone
February 24 Ronald Reagan & John Paul II
March 2 Angry Voter
March 9 Susan Faludi & Gloria Steinem
March 16 Jay Leno
March 23 Bill Clinton & Paul Tsongas
March 30 Garth Brooks
April 6 Vitamins
April 13 High Cost of College
April 20 Bill Clinton
April 27 Pan Am 103
May 4 Roe v. Wade
May 11 Los Angeles Riots
May 18 Roger Keith Coleman
May 25 Ross Perot
June 1 World Conservation Summit
June 8 The Balkans (Executed Croat in Vukovar)
June 15 Sam Walton
June 22 Allergies
June 29 Ross Perot
July 6 Pills for the Mind (Kevin Buchberger)
July 13 World's Last Eden
July 20 Bill Clinton & Al Gore
July 27 Kim Zmeskal
August 3 AIDS Epidemic
August 10 Doomsday Plan
August 17 The Balkans (Prisoners in a detention camp)
August 24 George H. W. Bush
August 31 Woody Allen
September 7 Agony of Africa
September 14 Hillary Clinton
September 21 Candice Bergen
September 28 The Economy
October 5 Lying
October 12 George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton & Ross Perot
October 15 The New Millennium
October 19 Bill Clinton & George H. W. Bush
October 26 Ötzi the Stone Age Man
November 2 Bill Clinton
November 9 Can GM Survive?
November 16 Bill Clinton
November 23 God & Women
November 30 Princess Diana
December 7 Russia (Kolkhoz women photographed by Margaret Bourke-White)
December 14 Somalia's Agony
December 21 U.S. Enters Somalia
December 28 Science & God

1993

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Date Names or topics
January 4 Bill Clinton, Man of the Year
January 11 Problems of Megacities
January 18 Rita Collins
January 25 Bill Clinton
February 1 Zoe Baird
February 8 Cyberpunk
February 15 Chemistry of Love
February 22 Bill Clinton as Uncle Sam
March 1 Bill Clinton
March 8 World Trade Center Bombing
March 15 David Koresh & Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman
March 22 Can Animals Think?
March 29 Boris Yeltsin
April 5 Boomers at Church
April 12 Information Superhighway
April 19 Los Angeles
April 26 Dinosaurs
May 3 David Koresh
May 10 Hillary Clinton
May 24 Kids, Sex & Values
May 31 Dr. Jack Kevorkian
June 7 Bill Clinton on the Decline
June 14 RU 486: Birth Control
June 21 Global Prostitution
June 28 Fatherhood
July 5 Striking at Terrorism
July 12 Janet Reno
July 19 The Adoption Quandary
July 26 Floods in the Midwest
August 2 Kids & Guns
August 9 Maya Culture
August 16 Overturning Reaganomics
August 23 America the Violent
August 30 David Letterman
September 6 Boom Time in the Rockies
September 13 Yitzhak Rabin & Yasser Arafat
September 20 Clinton's Health Plan
September 27 Video Games
October 4 Muslim Militant Mahmud the Red
October 11 How Life Began
October 18 Michael Durant
October 25 Eddie Vedder
November 1 Howard Stern & Rush Limbaugh
November 8 Cloning Humans
November 15 Billy Graham
November 18 The New Face of America
November 22 A New Job Climate
November 29 Is Freud Dead?
December 6 Fidel Castro
December 13 Bob Eaton, Alex Trotman & Jack Smith
December 20 Enough Violence
December 27 Angels

1994

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Date Names or topics
January 3 Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, F.W. De Klerk & Nelson Mandela, Men of the Year
January 10 Las Vegas
January 17 Genetic Science: How Far Do We Go?
January 24 Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan
January 31 California Earthquake
February 7 Tough on Crime
February 14 Gender Politics
February 21 Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan
February 28 Louis Farrakhan
March 7 Aldrich Ames
March 14 Rewriting Evolution
March 21 Hillary Rodham & Bill Clinton
March 28 Endangered Tigers
April 4 Bill Clinton & George Stephanopoulos
April 11 Derivatives on Wall Street
April 18 Battle Against Tobacco
April 25 Fighting Cancer
May 2 Richard Nixon
May 9 Nelson Mandela
May 16 War in Rwanda
May 23 Comet Hits Jupiter
May 30 Jacqueline Kennedy
June 6 Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 13 Kim Il Sung
June 20 Welfare Reform
June 27 O. J. Simpson
July 4 Domestic-Abuse Victim 'Rita'
July 11 Vladimir Zhirinovsky
July 18 Attention Deficit Disorder
July 25 The Internet
August 1 Rwandan Refugees
August 8 Hipper Than Thou
August 15 Infidelity
August 22 Baseball Strike
August 29 Nuclear Terrorists
September 5 Fidel Castro
September 12 Killer Microbes
September 19 Robert Sandifer
September 26 U.S. Enters Haiti
October 3 Jimmy Carter
October 10 Bill T. Jones
October 17 Sex in America
October 24 Poverty in Boom Times
October 31 New Hope for Public Schools
November 7 Newt Gingrich
November 14 Susan Smith
November 21 The G.O.P. Storms Washington
November 28 William Shatner & Patrick Stewart
December 5 50 Leaders for America's Future
December 12 The Dangers of Overbreeding Dogs
December 19 Newt Gingrich as Uncle Scrooge
December 26 John Paul II, Man of the Year

1995

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Date Names or topics
January 9 Newt Gingrich
January 16 Girth of a Nation
January 23 Rush Limbaugh
January 30 Earthquake in Japan
February 6 Johnnie Cochran, O. J. Simpson, and Robert Shapiro
February 13 Stone Age Paintings
February 20 Fidel Castro
February 27 Strengthening Marriages
March 1 Cyberspace
March 6 When Did the Universe Begin?
March 13 Nicholas Leeson
March 20 Social Security
March 27 David Geffen, Steven Spielberg & Jeffrey Katzenberg
April 3 Shoko Asahara
April 10 The Resurrection by Noël Coypel (commons)
April 17 Claudia Schiffer
April 24 Vietnam
May 1 Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma City bombing
May 8 Right-Wing Zealots
May 15 Ralph Reed
May 22 The Budget Revolution
May 29 Ramesses II
June 5 Bill Gates
June 12 Pop Culture & Values
June 19 Scott O'Grady
June 26 Estrogen
July 3 Cyber Porn
July 10 Colin Powell
July 17 Inside the Brain
July 24 Legacy of Waco
July 31 Bob Dole
August 7 Cultural Funding
August 14 Mysteries of the Deep
August 21 Cyber War
August 28 Automat by Edward Hopper
September 4 The Rape of Siberia
September 11 NATO Bombs The Serbs
September 18 Colin Powell
September 25 Michael Crichton
October 2 Emotional Intelligence
October 9 O. J. Simpson
October 16 O. J. Simpson Verdict
October 23 Dick Carver
October 30 Urban Blacks
November 6 Pat Buchanan
November 13 Yitzhak Rabin
November 20 Bob Dole
November 27 Andrew F. Hawley
December 4 Big Bang
December 11 Elisa Izquierdo
December 18 Is the Bible Fact or Fiction?
December 25 Newt Gingrich, Man of the Year

1996

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Date Names or topics
January 8 Fat-Free Fat
January 15 William Bratton, New York City's Top Cop
January 22 What Your Doctor Can't Tell You
January 29 Steve Forbes
February 5 Is Anybody Out There?
February 12 Magic Johnson
February 19 Marc Andreessen
February 26 Pat Buchanan, Lamar Alexander & Bob Dole
March 4 George Galatis, Nuclear Whistleblower
March 11 Princess Diana
March 18 Hillary Clinton
March 25 Can Machines Think?
April 1 Norman Schwarzkopf
April 8 Search for Jesus
April 15 Ted Kaczynski
April 22 Jessica Dubroff
April 29 Back to Segregation
May 6 John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy & Caroline Kennedy
May 13 Billy & Franklin Graham
May 20 Twisters
May 27 Special Report: Russia
June 3 Who Speaks for Kids?
June 10 Benjamin Netanyahu
June 17 America's 25 Most Influential People
June 24 Faith & Healing
June 28 Summer Olympics 1996
July 1 Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Dole
July 8 Aliens Have Landed
July 15 Boris Yeltsin
July 22 Prince William
July 29 TWA Flight 800
August 5 Centennial Olympic Park bombing
August 12 Michael Johnson
August 19 Bob Dole & Jack Kemp
August 26 Christopher Reeve
September 2 Dick Morris & Bill Clinton
September 9 Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
September 16 Bill Gates
September 23 Diet Pill
September 30 Ned Johnson
October 7 Diane Keaton, Bette Midler & Goldie Hawn
October 14 Working Mom Lori Lucas
October 21 News Wars
October 28 Genesis Rediscovered
November 4 Bob Dole & Bill Clinton
November 11 Suspect Political Donations
November 18 Bill Clinton
November 25 Forever Young
December 2 O. J. Simpson
December 9 Pot & Parenthood
December 16 Jesus Online
December 23 Best of '96
December 30 Dr. David Ho, Man of the Year

1997

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Date Names or topics
January 13 Bill Gates
January 20 Where the Jobs Are?
January 27 Bill Cosby
February 3 How a Child's Brain Develops
February 10 The Return of Star Wars
February 17 O. J. Simpson
February 24 Echoes of the Holocaust
March 3 Deng Xiaoping
March 10 Dolly, Cloned Sheep
March 17 College Tuition
March 24 Does Heaven Exist?
March 31 FAA Blunders
April 7 Marshall Applewhite
April 14 Ellen DeGeneres
April 21 America's 25 Most Influential People
April 28 What's Wrong With the FBI?
May 5 How We Get Addicted
May 12 Dr. Andrew Weil
May 19 Steven Spielberg
May 21 American Visions
May 26 What's Cool This Summer?
June 2 Kelly Finn
June 9 Generation X Reconsidered
June 16 Timothy McVeigh
June 23 Roswell Files
June 30 Tobacco Settlement
July 7 America: The Inside Story
July 14 Pathfinder Lands on Mars
July 21 Jewel and the New Women of Rock
July 28 Gianni Versace & Andrew Cunanan
August 4 Mormon Tabernacle
August 11 Sharks
August 18 Steve Jobs
August 25 Death of Privacy
September 1 George Soros
September 8 Princess Diana
September 15 Princess Diana
September 22 Steve Case
September 29 How Mood Drugs Work...& Fail
October 1 Heroes of Medicine
October 6 The Promise Keepers
October 13 Brad Pitt
October 20 Hillary Clinton
October 27 What Makes a Good School?
November 3 Michael Foale
November 10 Alan Greenspan
November 17 John F. Kennedy
November 24 Bill Clinton & Saddam Hussein
December 1 Kenny McCaughey & Bobbi McCaughey
December 8 Small Towns
December 15 Al Gore
December 22 Princess Diana
December 29 Andrew Grove, Man of the Year

1998

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Date Names or topics
January 12 Jerry Seinfeld
January 19 Toni Morrison
January 26 Fidel Castro & John Paul II
February 2 Monica Lewinsky & Bill Clinton
February 9 Kenneth Starr
February 16 Bill Clinton
February 23 The Flu Hunters
March 2 Bill Clinton
March 9 Time's 75th anniversary
March 16 John Travolta
March 23 Paula Jones
March 30 Africa Rising
April 6 Armed & Dangerous
April 13 Time 100: Leaders & Revolutionaries
April 20 The Shroud of Turin
April 27 The Future of Money
May 4 Viagra: The Potency Pill
May 11 Where Are My Girls?
May 18 Cancer
May 25 Frank Sinatra
June 1 Jim Carrey
June 8 Time 100: Artists & Entertainers
June 15 Kids & Sex
June 22 Michael Jordan
June 29 Is Feminism Dead?
July 6 The Gun In America, 1998
July 13 Health Insurance
July 20 Online Shopping
July 27 Ken Griffey Jr. & Mark McGwire
August 3 E. Coli
August 10 Monica Lewinsky & Bill Clinton
August 17 John Glenn
August 24 Bill Clinton
August 31 The Clintons
September 7 Boris Yeltsin & Bill Clinton
September 14 Is this Boom Over?
September 21 The Starr Report
September 28 White House Scandal
October 5 Oprah Winfrey
October 12 A Week in the Life of an L.A. Hospital
October 19 How to Make Your Kid a Better Student
October 26 The War Over Gays
November 2 Tom Wolfe
November 9 Corporate Welfare
November 16 Newt Gingrich
November 23 Herbal Medicine
November 30 Ritalin
December 7 Time 100: Builders & Titans
December 14 Moses
December 21 Bill Clinton
December 28 Kenneth Starr & Bill Clinton, Men of the Year

1999

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Date Names or topics
January 11 The Future of Medicine
January 18 End of the World
January 25 Too Much Homework
February 1 Bill Clinton
February 8 Lauryn Hill
February 15 Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin & Lawrence Summers
February 22 The Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal
March 1 Hillary Clinton
March 8 The Truth About Women's Bodies
March 15 Monica Lewinsky
March 22 Bill Gates
March 29 Time 100: Scientists & Thinkers
April 5 Slobodan Milosevic
April 12 War in Kosovo
April 19 Genealogy
April 26 Star Wars
May 3 Columbine Murders
May 10 Growing Up Online
May 17 Madeleine Albright
May 24 Ricky Martin
May 31 How to Spot a Troubled Kid
June 7 The Next Cold War
June 14 Time 100: Heroes & Icons
June 21 George W. Bush
June 28 Kosovo: The Awful Truth
July 5 Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise
July 12 Sports-Crazed Kids
July 19 Women's Soccer
July 26 John F. Kennedy Jr.
August 2 John F. Kennedy Jr.
August 9 The Atlanta Massacre
August 16 The Blair Witch Project
August 23 How Man Evolved
August 30 Taking Care of Our Parents
September 6 Why We Take Risks?
September 13 The I.Q. Gene
September 20 Harry Potter
September 27 The New Silicon Valley
October 4 Bill Bradley
October 11 Laser Eye Surgery
October 18 Steve Jobs
October 25 Aftermath of Columbine
November 1 Low-Carb Diets
November 8 Beyond 2000
November 15 Bill Gates
November 22 Pokémon
November 29 Simple New Year's Eve
December 6 Jesus at 2000
December 13 John McCain
December 20 Columbine Tapes (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold)
December 27 Jeff Bezos, Person of the Year
December 31 Albert Einstein, Person of the Century

References

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