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Famous People Who Died in June 1990

  • Jun 1 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
  • Jun 2 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76

Rex Harrison (1908-1990)

Jun 2 English actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82

  • Jun 2 Robert Noyce, American inventor (co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968), dies at 62
  • Jun 2 Shriram Sharma, Indian spiritual leader and founder of "All World Gayatri Pariwar", dies at 78
  • Jun 2 Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol), dies
  • Jun 2 Walter Davis Jr., American hard bop pianist (Davis Cup, Illumination), dies of liver and kidney disease at 57
  • Jun 3 Stiv Bators [Steven Bator], American punk rock singer and guitarist (The Dead Boys; The Lords of the New Church), dies from brain injury after being struck by a car in Paris, at 40
  • Jun 3 Tom Brown, American actor (Buck Privates Come Home, In Old Chicago), dies from cancer at 77
  • Jun 4 Jack Gilford, American comedic actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), dies at 81 of stomach cancer
  • Jun 5 Jan Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist and anatomist, dies at 83
  • Jun 5 Jim Hodder, American drummer, and singer (Steely Dan, 1972-74), drowns in his home swimming pool at 42
  • Jun 5 Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
  • Jun 7 Barbara Baxley, American stage and screen actress and singer (Norma Rae; Nashville; Countdown), dies of a heart attack at 67
  • Jun 8 Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies
  • Jun 8 Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies
  • Jun 11 Clyde McCoy, American jazz trumpeter ("Sugar Blues"; the wah-wah sound), bandleader and co-founder of "Down Beat" magazin, dies at 86
  • Jun 12 Glen Gorbous, Canadian MLB outfielder (record for longest throw of a regulation baseball [445' 10"]), dies at 59

Terence O'Neill (1914-1990)

Jun 12 Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (Ulster Unionist Party: 1963-69), dies of cancer at 75

  • Jun 14 Erna Berger, German lyric soprano, and voice teacher, dies at 89
  • Jun 15 Carlo Prosperi, Italian composer, dies at 69
  • Jun 15 George Nakashima, American furniture maker and architect (American Craft Movement), dies at 85
  • Jun 15 Leonard Sachs, British actor (The Good Old Days; John Wesley), dies of kidney failure at 80
  • Jun 16 Eva Turner, British operatic soprano, dies at 98
  • Jun 16 Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer, dies at 83
  • Jun 17 Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist and painter (Holland Festival), dies at 79
  • Jun 17 Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 44
  • Jun 18 Dennis Dyer, South African cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies at 76
  • Jun 19 Antonio Martinez, Spanish rock guitarist (Los Bravos - "Black Is Black", dies in a motorcycle accident at 44
  • Jun 20 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
  • Jun 21 Cedric Belfrage, English writer and journalist (co-founder of National Guardian), dies at 85
  • Jun 21 June Christy, American jazz singer (Tampico), dies at 64
  • Jun 22 Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank, Russian Physicist and Nobel Laureate (Cherenkov radiation), dies at 81
  • Jun 24 Joseph Proce, American murder victim (3rd person attacked by NYC's Zodiac killer), dies in hospital at 78
  • Jun 25 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer (Triad), dies at 77
  • Jun 26 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
  • Jun 28 Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies
  • Jun 29 Irving Wallace, American author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
  • Jun 30 Dudu Pukwana [Mtutuzel], South African saxophonist and composer, dies at 51