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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1990.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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August 1990
1
- Michel Arnaud, 74, French general, heart attack.
- Roar Berthelsen, 55, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1960).[1]
- Carl Ekern, 36, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), traffic collision.[2]
- Norbert Elias, 93, German sociologist.[3]
- Michael Glenny, 62, British academic and translator, heart attack.[4]
- Lotta Hitschmanova, 80, Czech-Canadian humanitarian, cancer.
- Robert Krieps, 67, Luxembourgish politician.[5]
- Bárbara Mujica, 46, Argentine actress, heart attack.
- Tiger Joginder Singh, 71, Indian professional wrestler.
- Graham Young, 42, English convicted serial killer, heart attack.
2
- Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 44, Kuwaiti royal and sports administrator, killed in battle.
- André De Wulf, 67, Belgian Olympic bobsledder (1952).
- Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer.[6]
- Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors).[7]
- Norman Maclean, 87, American novelist.[8]
- François Perrier, 68, French psychoanalyst.[9]
- Edwin Richfield, 68, English actor.[10]
- Nikolaus Riehl, 89, German nuclear physicist.
- Al Rosen, 80, American actor, cancer.[11]
3
- Betty Amann, 85, German-American film actress.[12]
- Nella Maria Bonora, 86, Italian actress.
- Bob Brown, 79, American baseball player (Boston Braves/Bees).[13]
- Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician.
- Jeff Modesitt, 26, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer.
- Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician.
- George Stavrinos, 42, Greek-American illustrator, complications of pneumonia.[14]
- Mariano Trigo, 89, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1928).
- Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member (Manson Family), leukemia.
4
- Ian Allison, 81, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936).[15]
- As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama.
- Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist.[16]
- Umar Khan, 70-71, Pakistani cricketer and umpire.
- Chua Phung Kim, 51, Singaporean weightlifter and Olympian (1964).
- Norman Malcolm, 79, American philosopher.
- Ettore Maserati, 95-96, Italian automotive engineer (Maserati).[17]
- Wajahat Mirza, 82, Indian filmmaker.
- Pierre Nguyễn Huy Mai, 77, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ban Mê Thuột (1967–1990).[18]
- Lajos Somló, 77, Hungarian Olympic triple jumper (1936).
- John T. Wilson, 76, American academic.[19]
5
- Ivan Blatný, 70, Czech-British poet.[20]
- Aldo Grimaldi, 47-48, Italian filmmaker, cancer.[21]
- Jacob J. Hecht, 66, American rabbi, writer and radio commentator, heart attack.[22]
- Jack Hubbert, 74, Australian rules footballer.
- Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach.
- Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish Olympic football player (1952).[23]
- Zhou Keqin, 53, Chinese writer.
- George Quin, 76, Irish Anglican prelate.
6
- Charles Arnt, 83, American actor, cancer.[24]
- Taylor G. Belcher, 70, American diplomat, cancer.[25]
- Leo Bird, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect.[26]
- George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player.
- Francesco Golisano, 61, Italian film actor.
- Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer (1924, 1928, 1936).[27]
- Magnús Pálsson, 77, Icelandic Olympic water polo player (1936).
- Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr., 94, American general, bone cancer.[28]
- Jacques Soustelle, 78, French politician.[29]
- Antoon van Schendel, 80, Dutch road bicycle racer.[30]
- Pat Wall, 57, English politician.
7
- Diego Carpitella, 66, Italian professor of ethnomusicology.[31]
- Tamara Deutscher, 77, Polish-British writer.[32]
- Phiny Dick, 77, Dutch illustrator and children's writer.[33]
- Gebhard Müller, 90, German politician.
- Chepudira Muthana Poonacha, 79, Indian politician.
8
- Harry Bulpit, 95, Australian rules footballer.
- Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer.[34]
- Wallace Douglas, 78, Canadian producer, director and actor.
- Joseph H. Harper, 89, United States Army officer.[35]
- Laurier Régnier, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).
- Gopal Singh, 72, Indian Governor and politician.
- Urho Teräs, 75, Finnish football player.
9
- Dorothy Appleby, 84, American actress.
- William Bosworth Castle, 92, American physician.[36]
- Joe Mercer, 76, English football player.[37]
- Władysław Orlicz, 87, Polish mathematician.
- Pepillo, 73, Spanish footballer.
- Max Starcevich, 78, American football player.
- Art Van Tone, 71, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions).[38]
10
- Jacobo Arenas, 66, Colombian guerrilla leader, cancer.
- Harold Boyd, 89, Australian football player.
- Martha Dodd, 81, American writer.[39]
- Billy Haddleton, 64, Canadian football player.
- Cookie Lavagetto, 77, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers).[40]
- Helmut Lipfert, 74, German flying ace during World War II.
- David Martin, 57, Australian politician, lung cancer.
- Eugenia Ravasio, 82, Italian Roman Catholic nun.[41]
- Joško Vidošević, 55, Yugoslav football player.
11
- Bonnie Baker, 73, American singer.
- Gonzalo Gaviria, 43, Colombian drug lord, shot.
- Asa S. Knowles, 81, American academic.[42]
- Florio Martel, 67, French Olympic field hockey player (1952).
- Guy le Mouroux, 72, French Olympic sailor (1952).
- Charles Marquis Warren, 77, American filmmaker, ventricular aneurysm.[43]
12
- Paul Cuba, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[44]
- Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination.[45]
- Les Harvey, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Christa Jungnickel, 55, German-American science historian.[46]
- B. Kliban, 55, American cartoonist, pulmonary embolism.[47]
- Dorothy Mackaill, 87, British-American actress, liver failure.[48]
- Piotr Perkowski, 89, Polish composer.[49]
- Sara Seegar, 76, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.[50]
- James Stewart, 80, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936).[51]
- Fay Thomas, 86, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.[52]
- Roy Williamson, 54, Scottish songwriter, brain cancer.
13
- Caridad Bravo Adams, 82, Mexican screenwriter.[53]
- Dallas Bixler, 80, American Olympic gymnast (1932).[54]
- Hedley Donovan, 76, American magazine editor.[55]
- Inés Mendoza, 82, Puerto Rican writer, first lady (1949–1965).
- Alejandro Otero, 69, Venezuelan painter and sculptor.[56]
- Jimmy Starr, 86, American screenwriter.[57]
- Henry Swoboda, 92, Czech-American conductor.[58]
14
- Henry Crown, 94, American industrialist.[59]
- John Fox, 38, American writer, AIDS.[60]
- Lafayette Leake, 71, American jazz musician, diabetes.[61]
- Sun Lianzhong, 97, Taiwanese general.
- Thomas Matthewman, 87, British Olympic sprinter (1924).[62]
- Liu Xingyuan, 81, Chinese politician and general.
15
- Nina Bara, 70, American actress.
- Jimmy Carruthers, 61, Australian boxer, lung cancer.[63]
- Lew DeWitt, 52, American musician, kidney failure.
- Bob Garbark, 80, American baseball player.[64]
- Billy Hume, 54, Scottish football player.[65]
- Inger Koppernæs, 62, Norwegian politician.
- Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, 76, Indian dancer.
- Arthur McMahon, 69, Irish Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972).
- Zdenko Švigelj, 87, Yugoslavian Olympic cross-country skier (1924).
- Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision.[66]
- Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.[67]
16
- Frank Asling, 78, Australian rules footballer.
- Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist.[68]
- Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Houston Oilers).[69]
- Louis Kozma, 52, Belgian Olympic swimmer (1956).
- Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer.
- Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player.
- Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican football player and tennis Olympian (1924).[70]
17
- Pearl Bailey, 72, American actress (Hello, Dolly!) and singer ("Takes Two to Tango"), cardiovascular disease.[71]
- David A. Burchinal, 75, American general, cancer.[72]
- Roderick Cook, 58, English actor and playwright, heart attack.[73]
- James Thomas Foley, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of New York).
- Ian Handysides, 27, English footballer, brain cancer.[74]
- Gordon Parsons, 63, Australian country music singer-songwriter.
- Maria Paudler, 87, German actress.
- Larry Weldon, 75, American football player (Washington Redskins).[75]
- Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.
18
- Edmund Edwards, 80, Australian cricketer.
- Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer.
- József Kovács, 79, Hungarian Olympic hurdler (1936).[76]
- D. Scott Rogo, 40, American writer, murdered.
- Mary Shaw Shorb, 83, American biochemist.[77]
- B. F. Skinner, 86, American social philosopher, leukemia.[78]
19
- Olavi Alakulppi, 75, Finnish military officer and cross-country skier.
- Ilham Aliyev, 29, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Jim Cavanagh, 77, Australian politician.
- Ercole Gallegati, 78, Italian Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936, 1948, 1952).[79]
- Tony Mancini, 77, Canadian Olympic boxer (1932).
- Sandy Paris, 81, Scottish cricketer.
- Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, 80, Dutch writer of children's novels.[80]
- Stephen Edward Smith, 62, American political consultant, lung cancer.[81]
- Richard Strout, 92, American journalist, complications from a fall.[82]
20
- Tim Barrett, 61, English actor.[83]
- Larry Buhler, 73, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).
- Howard Clifton, 51, American Olympic bobsledder (1968).
- Bill Curry, 54, English football player.[84]
- Wiley Feagin, 52, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Washington Redskins).
- Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German football player and Olympian (1936).
- Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist.[85]
- Ray Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals).[86]
- John La Nauze, 79, Australian historian.[87]
- Olav Lofthaug, 81, Norwegian politician.
- Ike Sewell, 86, American businessman (Uno Pizzeria & Grill), leukemia.
21
- Antonio Argilés, 58, Spanish footballer.
- Larry Buhler, 73, American football player.[88]
- Ed Glancy, 73, American basketball player.
- Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[89]
- Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).[90]
22
- John A. Bolger Jr., 82, American sound engineer (The Hindenburg).
- Luigi Dadaglio, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.[91]
- Patrick McAlinney, 76, Irish actor.[92]
- Edward W. Pattison, 58, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1979), liver cancer.[93]
- Boris Shcherbina, 70, Soviet politician.
23
- Samuel J. Brown, 72, American fighter pilot during World War II.
- Ron Clegg, 62, Australian rules footballer.
- Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner (1984), accident.[94]
- Karl Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, 86, German noble, head of the house of Löwenstein-Wertheim (since 1952).
- Parviz Natel-Khanlari, 76, Iranian politician.
- Billy King, 70, Australian rules footballer.
- David Rose, 80, American songwriter ("The Stripper"), heart attack.[95]
- Omero Tognon, 66, Italian football player.[96]
24
- Victor Civita, 83, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher.
- Sergei Dovlatov, 48, Soviet writer, heart failure.[97]
- Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, 89, British politician and artist.
- Harold Masursky, 67, American geologist.[98]
- Nick Metz, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[99]
- Jack Sanders, 86, Australian rules footballer.
- Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player (New York Giants, New York Yankees).[100]
25
- Talbert Abrams, 95, American photographer and aviator.[101]
- Willard Leon Beaulac, 91, American diplomat, Alzheimer's disease.[102]
- Morley Callaghan, 87, Canadian writer.[103]
- David Hampshire, 72, British racing driver.
- Ingvarda Røberg, 95, Norwegian politician.
26
- Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, 61, Iranian poet.
- Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, 90, British politician.
- Mário Pinto de Andrade, 62, Angolan poet and politician.[104]
- Sture Ericson, 61, Swedish Olympic modern pentathlete (1960).
- Stuart Hamilton, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- Minoru Honda, 77, Japanese astronomer.
- Roh Ogura, 74, Japanese composer.
- Paul Potts, 79, British-Canadian poet.[105]
- Krešo Pukšec, 69, Yugoslavian footballer.
- Retta Scott, 74, American animator.
- Harold Taylor, 80, English cricketer.
- Tom Toner, 40, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.[106]
27
- Avdy Andresson, 90, Estonian Minister of War in exile[107]
- Ed Balatti, 66, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).[108]
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian.
- Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma.[109]
- Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician.[110]
- Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss Olympic athlete (1948), and football coach.[111]
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician and guitarist, helicopter crash.[112]
28
- Sumitra Devi, 67, Indian actress.
- Larry Jackson, 59, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer.[113]
- Gedeon Ladányi, 76, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1948).
- Richard Lauffen, 83, German actor.[114]
- Edmund H. North, 79, American screenwriter.[115]
- Rosely Roth, 31, Brazilian LGBT activist, suicide.
- Paul Rowe, 73, Canadian football player.
- Victorio Spinetto, 79, Argentine footballer.[116]
- Eva Stiberg, 69, Swedish actress.[117]
- Willy Vandersteen, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Spike and Suzy).[118]
- Earl Ernest Veron, 68, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana).
29
- Luigi Beccali, 82, Italian Olympic runner (1928, 1932, 1936).[119]
- Manly Palmer Hall, 89, Canadian philosopher.[120]
- Chin Fung Kee, 70, Malaysian civil engineer.
- Solomon Mikhlin, 82, Soviet mathematician, stroke.
- Sayyid Shahab al-DIn Mar'ashi Najafi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
- Juozas Vinča, 84, Lithuanian-American boxer and Olympian (1928).[121]
30
- Rhett Baynes, 26, Australian rules footballer.
- Lou Garland, 85, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[122]
- Edmund G. Love, 78, American author, heart attack.[123]
- Ch'ien Mu, 95, Chinese-Taiwanese historian and philosopher.
- Bernard D. H. Tellegen, 90, Dutch electrical engineer.[124]
31
- Bert Assirati, 82, English professional wrestler, bladder cancer.
- Nathaniel Clifton, 67, American Hall of Fame basketball player (New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons).[125]
- James H. Donovan, 66, American politician, colon cancer.[126]
- André Dufau, 85, French Olympic sprinter (1928).
- Henry From, 64, Danish footballer and Olympian (1952, 1960).[127]
- Frank Hindman Golay, 75, American economist.[128]
- Johnny Lindsay, 81, South African cricket player.[129]
- Jack Marshall, 82, American baseball player.
- Jack C. Rowan, 79, American football coach.
- Sergey Volkov, 41, Soviet figure skater and Olympian (1968, 1976), stomach cancer.[130]
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