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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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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October 1990
1
- John Stewart Bell, 62, Northern Irish physicist, cerebral haemorrhage.[1]
- June Emerson, 66, Canadian baseball player.[2]
- Edmund George Irving, 80, British hydrographer.
- Jean Flammang, 85, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1924).[3]
- Andrzej Krzanowski, 39, Polish composer.[4]
- Augustin Laurent, 94, French politician.[5]
- Curtis LeMay, 83, American general, heart attack.[6]
- Russell Thacher, 71, American film producer (Soylent Green), complications from surgery.[7]
- Tommy Thompson, 63, American football player (Cleveland Browns), cancer.[8]
2
- Peter Herman Adler, 90, Austrian-born American conductor.[9]
- Xosé María Díaz Castro, 76, Galician poet and translator.[10]
- John Groff, 100, American general, heart attack.[11]
- Jaime Mendes, 77, Portuguese Olympic long distance-runner (1936).[12]
- Loni Nest, 75, German actress.[13]
- Karl Neumeister, 87, Austrian Olympic equestrian (1936).[14]
- Isolina Rondón, 77, Puerto Rican nationalist.
- Fred Rwigyema, 33, Rwandan soldier, shot.
- Heinie Schuble, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Lions).[15]
- Mercedes Simone, 86, Argentinian singer and actress.
- Norbert Vesak, 53, Canadian choreographer, brain aneurysm.[16]
3
- Winslow Ames, 83, American art historian, heart attack.[17]
- Amy Bailey, 94, Jamaican civil rights activist.
- Charlotte Boyle, 91, American Olympic swimmer (1920).[18]
- Stefano Casiraghi, 30, Italian powerboat racer, boating accident.
- Res Jost, 72, Swiss theoretical physicist.[19]
- Ellis Pringle, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans).[20]
- Eleanor Steber, 76, American opera singer, complications from heart surgery.[21]
- Bill White, 73, Australian rules footballer.[22]
4
- Alyn Ainsworth, 66, British musician.
- Jill Bennett, 63, English actress, drug overdose.[23]
- Avis Bunnage, 67, English actress.[24]
- Erwin Bünning, 84, German biologist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Luciano Catenacci, 57, Italian actor.
- Roy Charman, 60, English sound engineer.
- Jacques de Mahieu, 74, French-Argentine anthropologist and peronist.
- Vance Dinges, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[25]
- George Gordon, 88, Australian rules footballer.[26]
- Sergey Lapin, 78, Soviet diplomat.
- František Nekolný, 82, Czechoslovak Olympic boxer (1928).[27]
- Waldemar Philippi, 61, German footballer.[28]
- Ray Stephens, 35, American singer (Village People) and actor (The Great Space Coaster), AIDS.
- Peter Taylor, 62, English football player, lung disease.
5
- Félix Dafauce, 93, Spanish actor.
- Marvin Gelber, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1963-1965).[29]
- André Grabar, 94, Ukrainian-American art historian.[30]
- Dixie Howell, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers).[31]
- Yoshio Kondo, 80, American Biologist and malacologist.
- J. Murray Mitchell, 62, American climatologist.[32]
- Ernesto Parga, 54, Argentine Olympic water polo player (1960).[33]
- Roberto Soundy, 90, Salvadorian Olympic sports shooter (1968).[34]
- Sam Taylor, 74, American saxophonist.[35]
- Ramkumar Verma, 85, Hindi poet.[36]
- Đorđe Vujadinović, 80, Yugoslav football player.[37]
- Jan Hendrik Waszink, 81, Dutch Latin scholar.[38]
6
- Märta Dorff, 81, Swedish film actress.[39]
- Asser Fagerström, 78, Finnish pianist, composer and actor.
- James E. Newcom, 85, American film editor.
- Danny Rodriguez, 22, American Christian rapper, shot.[40]
- Richard P. Ross Jr., 84, American general.
- Dick Starzyk, 69, American basketball player.[41]
- Henryk Vogelfanger, 86, Polish actor.[42]
- Bahriye Üçok, 70-71, Turkish politician and journalist, assassinated.
7
- Chiara Badano, 18, Italian Catholic activist, osteosarcoma, bone cancer.[43]
- Bellarmino Bagatti, 84, Italian archaeologist.[44]
- Darrel Brown, 67, American basketball player.[45]
- Beatrice Hutton, 97, Australian architect.
- Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 78, Emirati politician, prime minister (since 1979).[46]
- Scott M. Matheson, 61, American politician, governor of Utah (1977–1985), multiple myeloma.[47]
- Grim Natwick, 100, American animator (Fleischer Studios), pneumonia.[48]
- Manuel Ramos Otero, 42, Puerto Rican writer, AIDS.
- Walt Ripley, 73, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[49]
8
- Juan José Arévalo, 86, Guatemalan politician, president (1945–1951).[50]
- Frank Cope, 74, American football player.[51]
- William Henry Harrison III, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1955, 1961–1965, 1967–1969), heart failure.
- William James Jameson, 92, American judge.[52]
- Jeppe Johannes Ladegaard-Mikkelsen, 75, Danish Olympic equestrian (1948).[53]
- Jimmy Mills, 96, Scottish-American footballer.
- Robert F. Murphy, 66, American anthropologist, heart failure.[54]
- Kamalapati Tripathi, 85, Indian politician.
- Eric Wennström, 81, Swedish Olympic hurdler (1928).[55]
- B.J. Wilson, 43, English drummer, pneumonia.
9
- Mildred Bayer, 81, American humanitarian.
- Murray Bowen, 77, American psychologist.[56]
- John Brooks, 80, American Olympic long jumper (1936).[57]
- Georges de Rham, 87, Swiss mathematician.[58]
- Dessie Grew, 37, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
- Markku Hakulinen, 34, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1980), suicide by train collision.[59]
- Martin McCaughey, 23, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
- Richard Murdoch, 83, English actor.[60]
- Arnold Olsen, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971).[61]
- Géza Ottlik, 78, Hungarian writer and mathematician.[62]
- Boris Paichadze, 75, Soviet footballer.[63]
- Lars Thörn, 86, Swedish Olympic sailor (1956, 1964).[64]
10
- George Barnicle, 73, American MLB player (Boston Bees/Braves).[65]
- Kenneth Cross, 74, British physiologist.
- Emil Josef Diemer, 82, German chess player.[66]
- Walter Hammersen, 79, German politician.
- Eric Huxtable, 81, Australian rules footballer.[67]
- Dick Jorgensen, 56, American football official, cancer.[68]
- Ziggy Marcell, 74, American baseball and basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).[69]
- Irene Mayer Selznick, 83, American theatrical producer, breast cancer.[70]
- Jerónimo Mihura, 88, Spanish film director.[71]
- Wally Moses, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox).[72]
- Tom Murton, 62, American prison warden, cancer.
- Floyd R. Newman, 100, American oil businessman.[73]
- Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 51, American politician, cancer.[74]
- Edward Szostak, 79, Polish Olympic basketball player (1936).[75]
- Carlos Thompson, 67, Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.[76]
- Josef Trousílek, 72, Czechoslovak Olmypic ice hockey player (1948).[77]
11
- Ichio Asukata, 75, Japanese politician.[78]
- Anatole Broyard, 70, American writer and journalist, prostate cancer.[79]
- George Corbett, 82, American football player (Chicago Bears).[80]
- Günter Kuhnke, 78, German submarine commander.
- Ken Spain, 44, American basketball player (Pittsburgh Condors) and Olympian (1968), cancer.[81]
- Robert Tessier, 56, American actor, cancer.[82]
- Adri van Male, 80, Dutch footballer.[83]
- Joseph Whiteside, 84, English Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932).[84]
12
- Rifaat el-Mahgoub, 64, Egyptian politician, shot.
- Leonard Krieger, 72, American historian.[85]
- Leif Larsen, 84, Norwegian sailor and war hero.[86]
- Rahman Morina, 47, Yugoslav politician, heart attack.
- John O'Brien, 65, New Zealand politician.
- Frederick Rossini, 91, American thermodynamicist.
- Bridget Bate Tichenor, 72, British surrealist painter and fashion editor.[87]
- Peter Wessel Zapffe, 90, Norwegian philosopher.
13
- Jim Collins, 94, Australian rules footballer.[88]
- Lino Donoso, 68, Cuban baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[89]
- Douglas Edwards, 73, American newscaster, bladder cancer.[90]
- Hans Freudenthal, 85, German-born Dutch mathematician.[91]
- Mario Guerci, 77, Argentine Olympic rower (1948).[92]
- Hans Namuth, 75, German-American photographer, traffic collision.[93]
- Le Duc Tho, 78, Vietnamese politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1973), cancer.[94]
- Lewis Veraldi, 60, American automotive engineer, heart attack.[95]
14
- Leonard Bernstein, 72, American conductor and composer (West Side Story), pneumonia.[96]
- Tom Brigance, 77, American fashion designer.
- Leon Brown, 71, American basketball player.[97]
- Daniel Guilet, 91, French-American violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.[98]
- Irina Odoyevtseva, 95, Russian poet, novelist and memoirist.[99]
- Clifton Pugh, 65, Australian artist, heart attack.[100]
- Carin Swensson, 85, Swedish actress.
15
- Tibor Berczelly, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).[101]
- Helen Bray, 100, American silent film actress.[102]
- Sam Dolgoff, 88, Russian-American anarchist.[103]
- Wilhelm Magnus, 83, German-American mathematician.[104]
- David McCalden, 39, British-American far-right activist, AIDS.[105]
- William Edwin Minshall, Jr., 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1974).[106]
- Gwen Nelson, 89, English actress.
- Yu Pingbo, 90, Chinese literary critic.
- Boris Piotrovsky, 82, Soviet archaeologist.[107]
- Delphine Seyrig, 58, French actress, ovarian cancer.[108]
- Om Shivpuri, 52, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Vital Van Landeghem, 77, Belgian football player.[109]
16
- Art Blakey, 71, American drummer, lung cancer.[110]
- Jorge Bolet, 75, Cuban-American pianist, AIDS-related complications.[111]
- Douglas Campbell, 94, American flying ace during World War I.[112]
- Dorothy M. Healy, 76, American historian.
- Berl Huffman, 83, American sports coach.
- Carl Just, 93, Norwegian journalist.
- Ambrose Palmer, 80, Australian rules footballer.[113]
- Blake Pelly, 83, Australian politician and businessman.
- Roger Powell, 94, English bookbinder.[114]
- Giovanni Varglien, 79, Italian footballer.[115]
- Alexander Zakin, 87, Russian-American pianist, heart failure.[116]
17
- Ralph Bowman, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles, Detroit Red Wings).[117]
- Denis Cordner, 66, Australian footballer.[118]
- Harry Fletcher, 80, Australian politician.
- Emil Görlitz, 87, Polish footballer and Olympian (1924).[119]
- Seth Morgan, 41, American novelist, traffic collision.[120]
- Jordan Olivar, 75, American football player, cancer.[121]
- Tadashige Ono, 81, Japanese artist.
- Paul Seabury, 67, American political scientist, kidney failure.[122]
18
- Michael Bigg, 50, English-Canadian marine biologist, leukemia.
- Marie-France Dufour, 41, French singer, leukemia.
- Nick Etten, 77, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees).[123]
- Pyotr Fedoseyev, 82, Soviet philosopher.
- Sol Furth, 83, American Olympic jumper (1932).[124]
- Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 99, British scientific administrator (CERN).[125]
- Harry Marker, 91, American film editor.
- Heinz Oskar Vetter, 72, German politician.
19
- Jerry Cronin, 65, Irish politician, Parkinson's disease.
- Haim Gvati, 89, Israeli zionist activist and politician.
- René Highway, 35, Canadian dancer, AIDS.
- Augusto Tiezzi, 80, Italian cinematographer.
- Samuel Wilbert Tucker, 77, American lawyer.[126]
- Lew Worsham, 73, American golfer.[127]
20
- Colette Audry, 84, French writer.[128]
- Américo Hoss, 76, Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer.
- Freda Jackson, 82, English actress.[129]
- Alma Theodora Lee, 78, Australian botanist and plant taxonomist.
- Joel McCrea, 84, American actor, pneumonia.[130]
- Kona Prabhakara Rao, 74, Indian politician, cardiopulmonary failure.
21
- Karl Egil Aubert, 66, Norwegian mathematician.[131]
- Tom Carvel, 84, Greek-American businessman.[132]
- Dany Chamoun, 56, Lebanese politician, murdered.
- Eugen Haugland, 78, Norwegian triple jumper and Olympian (1936).[133]
- Freddie Hooghiemstra, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1960).[134]
- Jo Ann Kelly, 46, English musician, brain cancer.[135]
- Lotar Olias, 76, German composer.[136]
- Brij Sadanah, 57, Indian filmmaker, suicide by gunshot.
- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, 69, Indian composer and guru, heart attack.[137]
- Athol Shmith, 76, Australian photographer.
- Ruth Stockton, 74, American politician.
- Frank Waddey, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[138]
22
- Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack.[139]
- Jack Doherty, 75, Australian rules footballer.[140]
- Gerry Hickey, 78, Australian rules footballer.[141]
- Kamil Lhoták, 78, Czechoslovak artist.[142]
- Nikolay Rybnikov, 59, Soviet and Russian film actor, heart attack.[143]
- Frank Sinkwich, 70, American football player, Heisman Trophy recipient.[144]
23
- Norman Buchan, 67, British politician.
- P. K. Kelkar, 81, Indian scientist.
- Berthold Lubetkin, 88, Georgian-British architect.[145]
- Zephania Mothopeng, 77, South African political activist, lung cancer.
- Dave Murray, 37, Canadian skier and Olympian (1976, 1980), skin cancer.[146]
- Bob Scott, 95, Australian rules footballer.[147]
- Thomas Williams, 63, American novelist, lung cancer.[148]
24
- André Aumerle, 83, French Olympic cyclist (1928).[149]
- Jim Clark, 63, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[150]
- Ivan Krevs, 77, Yugoslavian Olympic long-distance runner (1936).[151]
- Boris Maluev, 61, Soviet and Russian painter.
- John Sex, 34, American singer, AIDS.
- Richard Tyler, 62, American sound engineer.
25
- Ed Bagdon, 64, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Washington Redskins).[152]
- Max Biggs, 67, American basketball player.[153]
- Leif Børresen, 81, Norwegian footballer.[154]
- Major Holley, 66, American bassist, heart attack.[155]
- Zara Mints, 63, Soviet literary scientist.
- Bennie Oosterbaan, 84, American football player.[156]
- Alberto da Costa Pereira, 60, Portuguese footballer.[157]
- Ikey Robinson, 86, American banjoist.[158]
- Williamson A. Sangma, 71, Indian politician.
- Heber Smith, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957-1968).[159]
26
- Lawrence Andreasen, 44, American Olympic diver (1964), accidental fall.[160]
- Robert Antelme, 73, French writer.
- Joan Brown, 52, American painter, blunt force trauma, accident.[161]
- Arne Dagfin Dahl, 96, Norwegian soldier.
- Guillermo Garcia Gonzales, 36, Cuban chess Grandmaster, traffic collision.
- Breandán Ó hEithir, 60, Irish writer and broadcaster.
- Ödön Lendvay, 47, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1964).[162]
- William S. Paley, 89, American television executive, kidney failure.[163]
- Johnny Sanders, 68, American football executive, heart failure.[164]
- Harry Wilson, 88, American multi-athlete.[165]
27
- Chet Adams, 75, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns).[166]
- Rafael Banquells, 73, Cuban-Mexican actor, director and TV producer.
- Dudley Bragg. 73, Australian rules footballer.[167]
- Xavier Cugat, 90, Spanish musician, heart failure.[168]
- Bob Davie, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[169]
- Jacques Demy, 59, French film director and lyricist, AIDS.[170]
- Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, 89, Austrian noble, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
- Wacław Kowalski, 74, Polish actor.[171]
- Garvin Mugg, 69, American football player (Detroit Lions).[172]
- Leo O'Halloran, 65, Australian rules footballer.[173]
- Elliott Roosevelt, 80, American general and politician, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, heart failure.[174]
- Woodrow Bradley Seals, 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas).[175]
- Ugo Tognazzi, 68, Italian actor and filmmaker, cerebral hemorrhage.[176]
- Béla Volentik, 82, Hungarian football player.
28
- Aleksandra Chudina, 66, Soviet Olympic athlete (1952), stomach cancer.[177]
- Ernst Rudolf Huber, 87, German jurist.[178]
- Gervasio, 42, Uruguayan singer.
- Kolau Nadiradze, 95, Soviet poet.
- Geminio Ognio, 72, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).[179]
- Robert Jan Verbelen, 79, Belgian nazi collaborator during World War II.
29
- Aleksei Alelyukhin, 70, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
- Joseph Attles, 87, American actor.[180]
- Herbert Brodkin, 77, American producer and director of film and television.[181]
- Emrys Roberts, 80, Welsh politician.
- William French Smith, 73, American lawyer, attorney general (1981–1985), cancer.[182]
- Juha Vainio, 52, Finnish musician, heart attack.
- Volker von Collande, 76, German actor and filmmaker.[183]
30
- Wim Gijsen, 57, Dutch author.[184]
- Willy Jürissen, 78, German Olympic football player (1936).[185]
- Harry Lauter, 76, American actor, heart attack.[186]
- Vinod Mehra, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Craig Russell, 42, Canadian drag queen and actor, AIDS.[187]
- Alfred Sauvy, 91, French demographer.[188]
- V. Shantaram, 88, Indian actor and filmmaker.[189]
- Tom Steele, 81, American stuntman.
- Piroska Szekrényessy, 74, Hungarian pair skater and Olympian (1936).[190]
- Kwok Tak-Seng, 79, Hong Kong businessman, heart attack.[191]
- Germaine Van Dievoet, 91, Belgian Olympic swimmer (1920).[192]
31
- Carl Belew, 59, American country musician, cancer.[193]
- Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, 84, British diplomat.[194]
- Bert Cadieu, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1972, 1974-1979).[195]
- Vasco de Carvalho, 88, Brazilian Olympic rower (1932).[196]
- Jim Foster, 55, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
- Ukko Hietala, 86, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete (1936).[197]
- Aya Kōda, 86, Japanese novelist, heart attack.
- Hugh McPhillips, 70, American actor and television director, traffic collision.[198]
- Ivan Porter, 72, Australian rules footballer.[199]
- Roger Price, 72, American humorist and author.[200]
- Carmine Saponetti, 77, Italian cyclist.[201]
- Marian Siejkowski, 50, Polish Olympic rower (1964, 1972).[202]
- M. L. Vasanthakumari, 62, Indian singer, cancer.[203]
- André Verdeil, 86, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1924).[204]
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