Deaths in June 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1990.

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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.

June 1990

1

• Eric Barker, 78, English actor (Carry On).^[1]
• Wilhelm Borchert, 83, German actor.^[2]
• Dow Hover, 89, American executioner, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Wieslaw Kielar, 70, Polish filmmaker and author.

2

• Ivor Aldridge, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Claude Chabauty, 80, French mathematician.
• Walter Davis, 57, American pianist, liver and kidney disease.^[3]
• Rex Harrison, 82, English actor (My Fair Lady), pancreatic cancer.^[4]
• Shriram Sharma, 78, Indian author and freedom fighter.^[5]

3

• Tom Brown, 77, American actor, lung cancer.^[6]
• Cécile Lesprit-Poirier, 84, French Olympic diver (1936).
• Robert Noyce, 62, American physicist and entrepreneur (Intel), heart attack.^[7]
• Richard Sohl, 37, American musician, heart attack.
• Juan Rovira Tarazona, 60, Spanish politician.^[8]
• Aino Taube, 77, Swedish actress.

4

• Stiv Bators, 40, American punk rock vocalist and guitarist, traffic collision.^[9]
• Yulian Bromley, 69, Soviet anthropologist.
• Victor Campbell, 85, British Army officer.
• René Desroches, 84, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).
• Robert Edwards, 85, British politician.
• Jack Gilford, 81, American actor (Save the Tiger), stomach cancer.^[10]
• Ivor Raymonde, 63, British musician.^[11]
• Antônio da Silveira, 84, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1932).
• Roma Wagner, 77, Austrian Olympic swimmer (1936).

5

• Abdul Aziz, 77, Sri Lankan politician.
• Luís Viana Filho, 82, Brazilian politician.^[12]
• Jim Hodder, 42, American drummer (Steely Dan), drowned.^[13]
• Vasily Kuznetsov, 89, Soviet politician, acting head of state (1982–1983, 1984, 1985).^[14]
• Charles Lambert, 58, French Olympic water polo player (1960).
• Fred Stenson, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1965).
• Peter Throckmorton, 61, American archaeologist and photojournalist.^[15]

6

• Albert Alderman, 82, English cricketer and footballer.^[16]
• Aurora de Albornoz, 64, Spanish academic, cerebral hemorrhage.^[17]
• Mato Dukovac, 71, Yugoslav flying ace during World War II .
• Marcel Grignon, 75, French cinematographer.^[18]
• Sobir Kamolov, 80, Soviet politician.
• Butch Lindley, 42, American racing driver, racing accident.^[19]
• Joe Loss, 80, British musician.^[20]
• Fyodor Remezov, 93, Soviet general.
• Gerald O. Young, 60, American air force officer, Medal of Honor recipient.

7

• Robert Perceval Armitage, 83, British colonial administrator.
• Barbara Baxley, 67, American actress and singer, heart attack.^[21]
• Lou Blackburn, 67, American trombonist.^[22]
• Mary Katherine Campbell, 84, American beauty pageant contestant.
• Adrian Gore, 90, British army officer and cricketer.
• Alfredo Poveda, 64, Ecuadorian politician, interim president (1976–1979), heart attack.^[23]
• Moh Yoon-sook, 80, South Korean poet.
• Petar Šegvić, 59, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1952).^[24]

8

• Rafael Cabrera, 65, Cuban baseball player.
• José Figueres Ferrer, 83, Costa Rican politician, president (1948–1949, 1953–1958, 1970–1974).^[25]
• Herbie Matthews, 76, Australian rules football player.
• Neb Stewart, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[26]
• Remy Van Lierde, 74, Belgian flying ace during World War II.

9

• Asad Bhopali, 68, Indian lyricist and poet.
• James Carreras, 81, British film producer.^[27]
• C.P. de Cumont, 88, Belgian general.
• Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher, 87, British politician.^[28]
• John Holland, 63, New Zealand Olympic hurdler (1948, 1952), cancer.^[29]
• Angus McBean, 86, Welsh photographer.^[30]

10

• Russel Carrero, 39, Nicaraguan Olympic sprinter (1972).^[31]
• André Conrardy, 62, Luxembourgian Olympic canoeist (1960).
• Ludvig Holm-Olsen, 76, Norwegian linguist.
• Fritz Huhn, 89, German Olympic high jumper (1928).
• Jack Lyngcoln, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Hanna Olsen, 100, Swedish Olympic fencer (1924, 1928).^[32]
• Hubert Rostaing, 71, French musician.^[33]

11

• Vicente Aguirre, 89, Argentine football player.^[34]
• Irakly Andronikov, 81, Soviet and Russian literature historian and media personality.
• Willy Bührer, 78, Swiss Olympic athlete (1936).
• Seosamh Mac Grianna, 89, Irish writer.
• Bram Kool, 53, Dutch racing cyclist.^[35]
• John H. Manley, 82, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project).
• Clyde McCoy, 86, American trumpeter, Alzheimer's disease.
• Oldřich Nejedlý, 80, Czechoslovak footballer.
• Bert Norris, 91, English Olympic runner (1936).^[36]
• Joan Stevens, 81, New Zealand academic.^[37]
• Isaac D. White, 89, American general.^[38]
• Vaso Čubrilović, 93, Yugoslav scholar and politician.

12

• Solomon Freehof, 97, British-American rabbi and scholar.^[39]
• Glen Gorbous, 59, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Moushegh Ishkhan, 77, Armenian diasporan poet, writer and educator.^[40]
• Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, 89, Japanese poet and film critic.
• Gerald Marchesi, 61, Italian-Australian football player.
• George McNamara, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Georg Meistermann, 78, German painter.
• Terence O'Neill, 75, Northern Irish politician, prime minister (1963–1969), cancer.^[41]
• Billy Taylor, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.^[42]
• Jim Walkup, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[43]
• Willy Ørskov, 69, Danish sculptor.^[44]

13

• Antony Andrewes, 80, English historian.^[45]
• Barbara Claßen, 32, German Olympic judoka (1988), suicide.
• Gidsken Jakobsen, 81, Norwegian aviator.
• Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, 85, Pakistani politician, first lady (1947–1951).^[46]
• Michiyo Kogure, 72, Japanese actress.^[47]
• Frank McGuren, 80, Australian politician.
• Thomas Ponsonby, 3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 59, British politician.

14

• Erna Berger, 89, German singer.^[48]
• Ted Buckle, 65, English football player.^[49]
• Jay Gorney, 93, American songwriter.^[50]
• Ralf Liivar, 87, Estonian Olympic football player (1924).
• Chet McNabb, 69, American basketball player.^[51]
• Roy Nutt, 59, American computer engineer, lung cancer.^[52]
• Jean-François Pintat, 66, French politician.^[53]
• Heinrich Reinhardt, 87, German-Argentine chess player.

15

• Nobuo Arai, 80–81, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1928).^[54]
• St. Clair Drake, 79, American sociologist.
• Raymond Huntley, 86, English actor.^[55]
• Cynthia Irwin-Williams, 54, American archaeologist.^[56]
• Bucky Jacobs, 77, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[57]
• Halvor Kongsjorden, 78, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter (1948).
• Józef Machnik, 58, Polish footballer.
• George Nakashima, 85, American furniture designer.^[58]
• Leonard Sachs, 80, South African-British actor, kidney failure.
• Marjorie van Vliet, 67, American teacher and pilot, plane crash.^[59]

16

• Herman S. Bloch, 78, American chemist, heart attack.^[60]
• Tom Chilvers, 71, Australian rugby league player.
• Thomas George Cowling, 83, English astronomer.^[61]
• Dennis Dyer, 76, South African cricket player.^[62]
• Martin Gallagher, 60, Australian rugby league player.
• Truus Kerkmeester, 68, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1936).
• Megan Leigh, 26, American pornographic actress, suicide by gunshot.
• Jack K. McFall, 84, American diplomat.
• Feliciano Monti, 87, Italian Olympic footballer (1924).
• Zoltan Sztehlo, 68, Hungarian-Canadian Olympic equestrian (1968).
• Dame Eva Turner, 98, English singer.^[63]
• Ruedi Walter, 73, Swiss actor and comedian, complications from surgery.^[64]

17

• Konrad Bauer, 71, German flying ace during World War II.
• Henry T. Bream, 90, American baseball player.^[65]
• Mark Americus Costantino, 70, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York).
• Dick Elffers, 79, Dutch artist.
• Gervais Gindre, 62, French Olympic cross-country skier (1952).
• Paul Giovanni, 57, American playwright and composer, AIDS.^[66]
• Bob Hamerton, 79, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1936).^[67]
• Aleksandrs Leimanis, 76, Soviet film director.
• Francisco Solano Patiño, 66–67, Paraguayan football player.
• Ronald F. Tylecote, 74, British archaeologist.^[68]

18

• Arthur Bryse, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Barbara Cason, 61, American actress, heart attack.^[69]
• Arran Hoffmann, 87, German Olympic sports shooter (1936).
• Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz, 91, Polish Olympic equestrian (1936).
• Ronald Lewis, 80, British politician.
• Rolf Stranger, 99, Norwegian politician.
• John Edward Swindler, 46, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
• Barbra Walz, 39, American fashion photographer, breast cancer.^[70]

19

• Isabella Smith Andrews, 84, Scottish-born New Zealand playwright.^[71]
• Charles R. Farnsley, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967), Alzheimer's disease.^[72]
• Aleksandr Goncharov, 31, Soviet field hockey player and Olympian (1980).^[73]
• Leena Häkinen, 61, Finnish actress.
• Melvin Mayfield, 71, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Børge Monberg, 84, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1928).
• Steen Eiler Rasmussen, 92, Danish architect.
• Jack Sullivan, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Karel Sys, 76, Belgian boxer.
• Bill Westwick, 81, Canadian sports journalist.^[74]
• G. Yogasangari, Sri Lankan politician, shot.

20

• Ina Balin, 52, American actress (From the Terrace), pulmonary hypertension.^[75]
• Mario Dal Fabbro, 76, Italian American artist and author.^[76]
• Tom Hopkinson, 85, British journalist.^[77]
• Levin Kipnis, 95, Russian-Israeli author.^[78]
• James Nguyễn Ngọc Quang, 80, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cần Thơ (1965–1990).^[79]
• Kōsaku Yosida, 81, Japanese mathematician.

21

• Cedric Belfrage, 85, English journalist.^[80]
• Neil Boyd, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• June Christy, 64, American singer, kidney failure.^[81]
• Eliahu Eilat, 86, Soviet-Israeli diplomat.^[82]
• Ross Munro, 76, Canadian war correspondent during World War II.
• Tony Sarausky, 77, American football player (New York Giants).^[83]
• Eino Valle, 58 Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1964).
• Margaret J. Winkler, 95, American animation producer.
• Zheng Yanfen, 88, Taiwanese politician, cerebral hemorrhage.

22

• Norm Duncan, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Ilya Frank, 81, Soviet nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).
• Elizabeth Harwood, 52, English singer, cancer.^[84]
• Binod Kanungo, 78, Indian author, freedom fighter, and encyclopedia compiler.
• Joseph Murumbi, 79, Kenyan politician.^[85]
• Sabeena Rafi, 71, Indian literary critic.
• Steve Stevens, 87, Australian rules footballer.

23

• Harindranath Chattopadhyay, 92, Indian politician, actor and playwright, cardiac arrest.^[86]
• Frank Gatliff, 62, Australian-English actor.
• Wim Kat, 85, Dutch Olympic runner (1924).^[87]
• Ellis Marcus, 72, American television writer, heart attack.
• Hermann Rahn, 77, American physiologist.
• Matthew Ward, 39, American translator, AIDS.^[88]

24

• Marvin Burns, 61, American Olympic water polo player (1952, 1960).
• Germán Suárez Flamerich, 83, Venezuelan politician, president (1950–1952).^[89]
• Sean Hughes, 44, British history teacher and politician, cancer.
• William Kneale, 84, English logician.^[90]
• Paul Lindemann, 72, American basketball player, Goodpasture syndrome.
• Joji Ohara, 87, Japanese cinematographer.

25

• Jorge Alcalde, 78, Peruvian Olympic footballer (1936).^[91]
• Bizunesh Bekele, 53–54, Ethiopian singer.
• Sydney Boehm, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia.^[92]
• Robert Carney, 95, American naval admiral, cardiac arrest.^[93]
• Bob Garner, 55, American football player (Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders).
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks, 77, Australian composer.^[94]
• Melba Roy Mouton, 61, American mathematician, brain cancer.
• Yevgeniya Sechenova, 71, Soviet Olympic runner (1952).^[95]
• Ronald Gene Simmons, 49, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• John Stoll, 76, British art director.
• Paul Stråhlman, 61, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).

26

• Anni Blomqvist, 80, Finnish-Swedish novelist.
• Albert Byrd, 74, American Olympic racing cyclist (1936).^[96]
• Hubert Ebner, 84, German Olympic cyclist (1932).
• Doc Kauffman, 89, German-American electric guitar engineer.
• Wolfe Kelman, 66, Austrian-American rabbi, melanoma.^[97]
• J. C. R. Licklider, 75, American computer scientist, asthma.
• Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina, 72, Spanish author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays, cancer.^[98]
• Carroll Ringwalt, 82, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans, Frankford Yellow Jackets).^[99]
• William Robins, 83, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Hans Schwerdtfeger, 87, German-Canadian-Australian mathematician.
• James Edward Smith, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Sidney Smith, 82, English snooker player.
• Glen Milton Storr, 68, Australian zoologist.

27

• Olav Benum, 92, Norwegian politician.
• Don Greenwood Jr., 61, American set decorator (How the West Was Won).
• Lambert Anthony Hoch, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• José Marrone, 74, Argentine actor, cardiovascular disease.
• José Clemente Maurer, 90, German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Joe O'Rourke, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[100]
• Gilberto Román, 28, Mexican boxer and Olympian (1980), traffic collision.^[101]

28

• Juan Friede Alter, 89, Ukrainian-Colombian historian of Jewish descent.^[102]
• Per Bergersen, 29, Norwegian musician, assisted suicide by gunshot.
• Geoff Farrelly, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Borys Ivchenko, 49, Ukrainian actor and film director.
• Herbert Jobst, 74, German writer.^[103]
• Bernie Winkler, 64, American football player.

29

• Dick Barton, 78, South African boxer and Olympian (1932).^[104]
• René Boël, 91, Belgian industrialist.
• Boyd Perry, 76, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[105]
• Irving Wallace, 74, American novelist, pancreatic cancer.^[106]

30

• Lynne Carol, 76, British actress, heart attack.
• Marquis Childs, 87, American journalist, cardiovascular disease.^[107]
• Renee Clama, 79, British actress.
• Miguel Cuenco, 85, Filipino politician.
• Eli Whitney Debevoise, 90, American lawyer.^[108]
• Dudu Pukwana, 51, South African musician, liver failure.^[109]
• Brian Tiler, 47, English footballer and football executive, traffic collision.^[110]