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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 1990
1
- Ingvald Bjerke, 82, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1928).[1]
- Arundhati Devi, 66, Indian actress, director, and singer.
- Carmen Hill, 94, American baseball player.[2]
- Joe Hardstaff Jr, 78, English cricket player.[3]
- Patrick Kelly, 35, American fashion designer, AIDS.[4]
- Ernst Kuzorra, 84, German football player and Olympian (1928).[5]
- Raymond Petit, 79, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).[6]
- Niyazi Sel, 81, Turkish Olympic footballer (1936).[7]
- T. B. Simatupang, 69, Indonesian National Armed Forces chief of staff.
- Max Trepp, 65, Swiss Olympic sprinter (1948).[8]
- James W. Wood, 65, American aeronautical engineer and astronaut.
2
- Lawrence Alloway, 63, English-American art critic, cardiac arrest.[9]
- Evangelos Averoff, 79, Greek right wing politician and author, heart attack.[10]
- Bill Beckmann, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals).[11]
- Dally Duncan, 80, Scottish footballer.[12]
- Alan Hale, Jr., 68, American actor (Gilligan's Island, Hang 'Em High, Casey Jones), thymus cancer.[13]
- Leonhard Merzin, 55, Soviet actor.
- Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, 81, British politician.[14]
- T. R. Raghunath, 77, Indian film director.
- Ben Reifel, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971), cancer.[15]
- Marianne C. Sharp, 88, American Mormon charity activist.[16]
- Philippe Tisson, 86, French Olympic swimmer (1928).[17]
- Vladimir Ussachevsky, 78, Soviet-American composer.[18]
3
- Loraine Boettner, 88, American theologian.
- Mauro Cía, 70, Argentine Olympic boxer (1948), and actor.[19]
- Roy Ilowit, 72, American football player and coach.[20]
- Reuben Jones, 57, British equestrian rider and Olympian (1964, 1968).[21]
- Joseph A. Loftus, 82, American journalist, stroke.[22]
- Peter van Steeden, 85, Dutch-American composer.[23]
- William Wells, 81, English politician.
- Bandara Wijethunga, 50, Sri Lankan writer.
4
- Robert Adams, 56, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Lydia Bilbrook, 101, English actress.
- Henry Bolte, 81, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria.[24]
- Alberto Lleras Camargo, 83, Colombian politician, president (1958–1962).[25]
- Ed Ecker, 66, American footballer player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins).[26]
- Doc Edgerton, 86, American electrical engineer and academic.[27]
- George Gearry, 66, New Zealand cricketer.[28]
- Bonnie Hollingsworth, 94, American baseball player.[29]
- Edmund Hood, 91, Australian rules footballer.[30]
- Florrinell F. Morton, 85, American librarian.
- Boris Nikolsky, 89, Soviet chemist.
- Per Samuelshaug, 84, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (1936).[31]
- Olaf Ussing, 82, Danish actor.[32]
- Wim Volkers, 90, Dutch football player.
- Alfred Michael Watson, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate.
5
- Bobby Balcena, 64, American MLB player (Cincinnati Redlegs).[33]
- Alan Handley, 77, American television producer, heart attack.[34]
- Dick Hart, 69, British painter.[35]
- Lola Iturbe, 87, Spanish trade unionist, activist, and journalist.[36]
- Arthur Kennedy, 75, American actor (Bright Victory, Peyton Place, Lawrence of Arabia), Tony winner (1949), brain cancer.[37]
- Bartell LaRue, 57, American actor.
- Kléber Piot, 69, French racing cyclist.[38]
- Robert G. Rayburn, 74, American academic and theologian, cancer.
- Jaroslav Rössler, 87, Czechoslovak photographer.[39]
- Thomas Schuster, 52, Fijian Olympic boxer (1956).[40]
- Genrikh Sidorenkov, 58, Soviet Russian Olympic ice hockey player (1956, 1960).[41]
6
- Gordon Aitchison, 80, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936).[42]
- Walter Anderson, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[43]
- Tadashi Asai, 54, Japanese wrestler and Olympian (1956, 1960).[44]
- Ian Charleson, 40, Scottish actor (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), AIDS.[45]
- Pavel Cherenkov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).[46]
- Peter Cookson, 76, American actor, bone cancer.[47]
- Hans Jaray, 83, Austrian actor and playwright.[48]
- Wally Kelly, 75, Australian rules footballer.[49]
- Gerald Mann, 82, American football player.
- Sophie Piccard, 85, Russian-Swiss mathematician.[50]
- Robin Schofield, 50, New Zealand cricketer.[51]
- William Smith, 89, English cricketer.[52]
- Jake Weber, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks).[53]
7
- Tadeusz Brzeziński, 93, Polish-Canadian diplomat, pneumonia.[54]
- Eero Böök, 79, Finnish chess player.
- Edward Ennis, 82, American civil rights lawyer, diabetes.[55]
- Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, 89, British politician.[56]
- Rose Kushner, 60, American journalist, breast cancer.[57]
- Avraham Abba Leifer, 71, Romanian-American-Israeli rabbi.
- Bronko Nagurski, 81, Canadian-American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Bears), cardiac arrest.[58]
- Joe Robbie, 73, American politician and football executive.[59]
- Harry L. Shapiro, 87, American anthropologist.[60]
- Napua Stevens, 71, American entertainer.
- Horace Stoneham, 86, American baseball executive.[61]
- Shag Thompson, 96, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[62]
- Johanna Töpfer, 60, German politician, suicide.
8
- Georgie Auld, 70, American musician, lung cancer.[63]
- Mario Brignoli, 87, Italian Olympic racewalker (1936).[64]
- Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, 87, German royal and art historian.
- Leo Connors, 71, Australian rules footballer.[65]
- Jaime Gil de Biedma, 60, Spanish poet, AIDS.[66]
- Paul A. Kennon, 55, American architect, heart attack.[67]
- Bernard Krigstein, 70, American artist.[68]
- Raymond Krug, 65, French Olympic footballer (1948).[69]
- Muni Lal, 76, Indian cricketer.[70]
- Fred McDaniel, 76, American baseball player.[71]
- Adam Michel, 53, Polish footballer.[72]
- John Schick, 74, American basketball player.[73]
- August Sturm, 77, Austrian Olympic gymnast (1936).[74]
- Johnny Sylvester, 74, American businessman.
- Terry-Thomas, 78, English comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin Hood, Bachelor Flat), Parkinson's disease.
9
- Paul Bauer, 93, German poet.
- Roger Bower, 86, British soldier.
- Northern Calloway, 41, American actor (Sesame Street), beaten, cardiovascular disease.[75]
- Spud Chandler, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees).[76]
- Rosemarie Clausen, 82, German photographer.[77]
- Jim Gillette, 72, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions).[78]
- Rufus Mayes, 42, American football player (Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles), bacterial meningitis.[79]
- Edward McTiernan, 97, Australian politician and judge.
- Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1971).[80]
- Bazilio Olara-Okello, 60-61, Ugandan soldier and politician, president (1985).
- Shlomo Pines, 81, French-Israeli theologian.[81]
- Robert B. Pirie, 84, American naval admiral.[82]
- Cemal Süreya, 58-59, Turkish poet, diabetes.
10
- John Benham, 89, British Olympic athlete (1924).[83]
- Juliet Berto, 42, French actress, breast cancer.[84]
- Mino Guerrini, 62, Italian film director.[85]
- Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
- Gene Phillips, 74, American musician.[86]
- Liesel Schuch, 98, German singer.[87]
- Otto Weidinger, 75, German nazi SS-obersturmbannführer during World War II.
- Lyle R. Wheeler, 84, American art director (Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Rebecca), five-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.
- Herbert Williams, 81, American sailor and Olympic champion (1956).[88]
11
- Carolyn Haywood, 92, American children's writer and illustrator.[89]
- Earl D. Johnson, 84, United States Under Secretary of the Army.[90]
- Mario Minatelli, 64, Italian Olympic boxer (1948).[91]
- Ihsan Abdel Quddous, 71, Egyptian journalist, novelist and short-story writer, stroke.[92]
- Kittens Reichert, 79, American actress.[93]
- José Luis García Traid, 53, Spanish footballer, complications during surgery.
12
- Joseph Sill Clark Jr., 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969).[94]
- Whitey Dienelt, 68, American basketball player.[95]
- John Hansen, 65, Danish footballer and Olympian (1948).[96]
- Ralph Heikkinen, 72, American football player.
- Laurence J. Peter, 70, Canadian-American educator, stroke.[97]
- Paul Pisk, 96, Austrian-American composer.[98]
13
- Gaston Crunelle, 91, French flautist.
- Francisco Hormazábal, 69, Chilean football player and manager.
- Madhavsinh Jagdale, 75, Indian cricketer.[99]
- Roy Jarvis, 63, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).[100]
- Jenő Kalmár, 81, Hungarian footballer.
- Richard Liebscher, 79, German Olympic fencer (1952).[101]
- Stuart McVicar, 71, New Zealand cricketer.[102]
- Sir Dermot Milman, 8th Baronet, 77, English cricketer.[103]
- Avraham Ofek, 54, Bulgarian-Israeli artist.[104]
- Pierre Pascal, 80, French poet and translator.
- Gerhard Sturmberger, 49, Austrian football player.[105]
- Peter Tippett, 63, Australian rules footballer.[106]
14
- Edgar Douglas Richmond Bissett, 99, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1926-1930).[107]
- Ruth Bunzel, 91, American anthropologist.[108]
- Sten-Åke Cederhök, 76, Swedish actor.
- Sabri Dino, 48, Turkish footballer, suicide.[109]
- India Edwards, 94, American journalist.[110]
- Ken Kilrea, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[111]
- Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, 82, British biochemist.
- Anno Smith, 74, Dutch artist.[112]
- Walter Wenger, 78, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1948).[113]
- James Arthur Williams, 59, American antiques dealer, heart failure.
- Tommy Williams, 80, Australian rules footballer.[114]
- John Witty, 74, British film and television actor.
15
- Bill Albans, 64, American Olympic athlete (1948).[115]
- Mani Madhava Chakyar, 90, Indian performance artist and sanskrit scholar.[116]
- Brainard Cheney, 89, American writer.[117]
- R. R. Diwakar, 95, Indian politician and writer.[118]
- František Douda, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic shot putter (1928, 1932, 1936).
- Gordon Jackson, 66, Scottish actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Great Escape, The Ipcress File), bone cancer.[119]
- Donold Lourie, 90, American businessman and football player.
- Lin McLean, 71, Australian rugby league player.[120]
- Fred Mundee, 76, American football player (Chicago Bears).[121]
- William O'Neal, 40, American FBI Black Panther Party informant, suicide by traffic collision.
- Sverre Østhagen, 71, Norwegian politician.[122]
- Peggy van Praagh, 79, British-Australian ballet dancer and choreographer.[123]
16
- Lady Eve Balfour, 91, British farmer and organic farming pioneer.
- Bill Heaton, 71, English footballer.[124]
- Clarence Janecek, 78, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[125]
- Gilbert Jessop, 83, English cricketer.[126]
- Robert Lamartine, 54, French footballer.[127]
- Earl Naylor, 70, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers).[128]
- Jean Saint-Fort Paillard, 76, French Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952, 1956).[129]
- Louis Serrurier, 84, South African cricketer.[130]
- Ruskin Spear, 78, English painter.[131]
17
- Andreas Aulie, 92, Norwegian jurist.
- Fritz Brocksieper, 77, German musician.[132]
- Danie Burger, 56, South African Olympic hurdler (1956).[133]
- Anna Arnold Hedgeman, 90, American civil rights activist.[134]
- Charles Hernu, 66, French politician.[135]
- André Morice, 89, French politician.[136]
- Léon Motchane, 89, French mathematician.
- Simon Nicholson, 55, British artist.
- Inzer Bass Wyatt, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York).[137]
- Y. C. James Yen, 96, Chinese educator and organizer, pneumonia.[138]
18
- Harold Albiston, 73, Australian rules footballer.[139]
- Melanie Appleby, 23, English singer, pneumonia.[140]
- Kim Chang-Hee, 68, South Korean weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952, 1956).[141]
- Rusty Hamer, 42, American actor, suicide by gunshot.[142]
- Edouard Izac, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947), heart failure.[143]
- Candy Jones, 64, American model and broadcaster, cancer.[144]
- Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, 78, British explorer and botanist, ALS.
19
- Carlo Bagno, 69, Italian actor.
- Pierre Barbizet, 67, French pianist.[145]
- Viña Delmar, 86, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.[146]
- Arthur Goldberg, 81, American judge and diplomat, heart failure.[147]
- Movses Gorgisyan, 28, Soviet Armenian independence activist and soldier, killed in battle.
- Aldo Gucci, 84, Italian businessman (Gucci), prostate cancer.[148]
- George Gulyanics, 68, American football player (Chicago Bears).[149]
- Myles Horton, 84, American educator, brain tumor.[150]
- Alexander Pechersky, 80, Soviet soldier and humanitarian.
- Rajneesh, 58, Indian mystic, heart failure.[151]
- Alberto Semprini, 81, English pianist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Maharram Seyidov, 37, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Herbert Wehner, 83, German politician, diabetes.[152]
- J. Ernest Wharton, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1965).[153]
20
- Jack Arkwright, 87, English rugby player.
- Claude Auclair, 46, French cartoonist.[154]
- Robert Donington, 82, British musicologist.[155]
- Hayedeh, 47, Iranian singer, heart attack
- Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 102, Japanese royal and politician, prime minister (1945), heart failure.[156]
- Bror Kraemer, 89, Finnish Olympic high jumper (1924).[157]
- Hugh Ross, 91, American choral director.[158]
- Barbara Stanwyck, 82, American actress (Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, The Big Valley), Emmy winner (1961, 1966, 1983), heart failure.[159]
- Fernand Vandernotte, 87, French Olympic rower (1932, 1936).[160]
- Aris Vatimbella, 73, Greek Olympic alpine skier (1956).[161]
- Fred Venturelli, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears).[162]
21
- Asbjørn Bryhn, 83, Norwegian police officer and resistance member during World War II.
- Frank Gervasi, 81, American writer and foreign correspondent, stroke.[163]
- Trude Fleischmann, 94, Austrian-born American photographer.[164]
- Rosa Gutiérrez, 70, Mexican Olympic diver (1948).[165]
- Perce Horne, 99, Australian rugby league player.[166]
- Patrick Mulligan, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
- Mark Sugden, 87, Irish rugby player.
22
- Gordon Buehrig, 85, American automobile designer.[167]
- Giorgio Caproni, 78, Italian writer.[168]
- Ernesto Crotti, 53, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1956).[169]
- James Dyson, 75, British physicist.[170]
- Bill Ferrar, 96, English mathematician.
- Karl Frankenstein, 84, German-Israeli educator.[171]
- Ezra Henniger, 62, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner (1948).[172]
- Maria Jacoby, 89, Luxembourgian painter.[173]
- Helmut Krausnick, 84, German historian and writer.[174]
- Art Laster, 41, American football player (Buffalo Bills).[175]
- Gabriella Marchi, 33, Italian Olympic gymnast (1972).[176]
- Bradley Ross, 26, Australian rules footballer.[177]
- Mariano Rumor, 74, Italian politician, prime minister (1968–1970, 1973–1974), heart attack.[178]
- José Salomón, 73, Argentine football player.
- Roman Vishniac, 92, Russian-German-American photographer, colon cancer.[179]
23
- Buzz Boll, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans, Boston Bruins).[180]
- Clarence Bruce, 65, American baseball player.[181]
- Allen Collins, 37, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), pneumonia.[182]
- Wilhelm Dommes, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- Gerald Gibbs, 82, English cinematographer.[183]
- Nikolaus Hofreiter, 85, Austrian mathematician.[184]
- Charley Eugene Johns, 84, American politician, governor of Florida (1953–1955).[185]
- Les Neal, 76, Australian rules footballer.[186]
- Derek Royle, 61, British actor, cancer.
- Enrique Sieburger Jr., 65, Argentine Olympic sailor (1948, 1960).[187]
24
- Madge Bellamy, 90, American actress, heart failure.[188]
- John Blacking, 61, British anthropologist.
- Cyril Coote, 80, English cricketer.[189]
- Helga Gnauer, 60, Austrian Olympic fencer (1960).[190]
- Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, 87, German royal.
- Gerry Johnson, 71, American actress and television host.[191]
- Muhammad Juman, 54, Pakistani musician.
- Bohuslav Kirchmann, 87, Czechoslovakian Olympic fencer (1936).[192]
- Saadia Kobashi, 86, Yemenite Jewish community leader in Israel.
- Araken Patusca, 84, Brazilian footballer.
- Shantilal C. Sheth, 77, Indian pediatrician and academic.
25
- Dámaso Alonso, 91, Spanish poet and literary critic.[193]
- Dan Corry, 87, Irish Olympic equestrian (1948).[194]
- Ava Gardner, 67, American actress (Mogambo, The Night of the Iguana, The Killers), pneumonia.[195]
- Edward C. Gleed, 73, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
- Miloš Hrazdíra, 44, Czechoslovak racing cyclist and Olympian (1972).[196]
- Joseph Lennon, 56, Irish politician.
- Alexander Lockwood, 87, American actor.[197]
- Georges Mantha, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[198]
- John L. McCrea, 98, American naval officer during World War I and World War II, pneumonia.[199]
- Andy Puplis, 74, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[200]
- John Ramsey, 62, American sports announcer, heart attack.
26
- Dodo Abashidze, 65, Soviet actor and film director.
- George C. Carr, 60, American district judge (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida).[201]
- Hal Draper, 75, American socialist activist, pneumonia.[202]
- Lewis Garnsworthy, 67-68, Canadian Anglican prelate.[203]
- Bob Gerard, 76, English racing driver.
- Toninho Guerreiro, 47, Brazilian football player, stroke.[204]
- Miloslav Ištvan, 61, Czechoslovak composer.[205]
- Borislav Kamenski, 78-79, Bulgarian footballer.[206]
- Ned Miller, 90, American songwriter, composer, and actor.[207]
- Lewis Mumford, 94, American historian.[208]
- Philip Nichols, 82, American judge, heart attack.[209]
- Boy Trip, 68, Dutch politician.[210]
27
- Miklós Borsos, 83, Hungarian sculptor.[211]
- Pit Corder, 71, British linguist.
- Helen Jerome Eddy, 92, American actress, heart failure.[212]
- Stan Eve, 64, English cricketer.[213]
- S. Charles Lee, 90, American architect.[214]
- Steffen Thomas, 84, German-American artist and poet.[215]
- Travis Webb, 79, American racing driver.
- Henry Winterfeld, 88, German-American writer.
28
- Joseph Payne Brennan, 71, American author and poet.[216]
- Tibor Flórián, 70, Hungarian chess player.
- Nancy Gruver, 58, American bridge player.[217]
- Puma Jones, 36, American singer, breast cancer.
- Jan Lambrichs, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.[218]
- Alfred McCoy, 90, American gridiron football player.
- Chesley G. Peterson, 69, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.[219]
- Edward Ścigała, 63, Polish Olympic weightlifter (1952).[220]
- Edward Szymkowiak, 57, Polish Olympic football player (1952, 1960).[221]
- Casey Tibbs, 60, American cowboy and rodeo performer, bone cancer.[222]
- F. W. Winterbotham, 92, British RAF officer and spy during World War II.[223]
29
- Stan Batinski, 72, American football player (Detroit Lions, Boston Yanks).[224]
- Elise Blumann, 93, German-Australian artist.[225]
- Ted Bogan, 80, American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.[226]
- Irma Brandeis, 84, American scholar of Dante Alighieri.[227]
- Arnaud d'Usseau, 73, American screenwriter, stomach cancer.[228]
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1949).
30
- M. A. B. Beg, 55, Pakistani-American theoretical physicist.
- Severino Canavesi, 79, Italian racing cyclist.[229]
- Bob Fosdick, 95, American football player.[230]
- John Lindgren, 90, Swedish skier and Olympian (1932).[231]
- João Uva de Matos Proença, 51, Portuguese diplomat.
31
- Muammer Aksoy, 73, Turkish academic.
- Lance Arnold, 63, Australian rules footballer.[232]
- Ricardo Bordallo, 62, American politician and businessman, suicide.
- Sigmund Frogn, 85, Norwegian footballer.[233]
- Homer Griffith, 77, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[234]
- Rashad Khalifa, 54, Egyptian-American biochemist, stabbed.
- Yitzhak Klinghoffer, 84, Austrian-Israeli politician.
- Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 88, German-Brazilian zoologist.
- Ramon Olalkiaga, 91, Spanish footballer.[235]
- Samuel C. Phillips, 68, American Air Force general, cancer.[236]
- Hans Putz, 69, Austrian actor.[237]
- Hazel Marguerite Schmoll, 99, American botanist.
- Dick Wilson, 55, American Oglala tribal chairman, kidney failure.
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