Famous People Who Died in 1990 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 554

• May 21 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
• May 22 Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies
• May 22 Rocky Graziano, American boxer (World Middleweight title 1947-48; famous Tony Zale trilogy) and entertainer (Pantomime Quiz, Miami Undercover), dies of heart failure at 71

• May 25 Victor "Vic" Tayback, American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore "), dies of a heart attack at 60
• May 27 Robert B. Meyner, American politician (44th Governor of New Jersey), dies at 81
• May 28 Giorgio Manganelli, Italian writer and journalist (Gruppo 63 movement), dies at 67
• May 28 Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies
• May 28 Joseph Hardy, American character actor (Husbands; The Clock), dies at 71
• May 28 Julius Eastman, American pianist, vocalist, and minimalist composer (The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc; Gay Guerrilla), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
• Jun 1 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
• Jun 2 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76

• 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

• 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
• Jul 1 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
• Jul 1 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
• Jul 2 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist and General Secretary of SASO, dies in automobile accident at 39
• Jul 2 Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
• Jul 3 Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
• Jul 4 Ludi Claire, American actress, dies at 70
• Jul 5 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
• Jul 6 Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
• Jul 6 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
• Jul 6 Paul Wynne, American reporter who chronicled their battle with Aids, dies of AIDS at 46
• Jul 7 Bill Cullen, American game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
• Jul 7 Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer, dies at 32
• Jul 7 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest and Buddhism Zen teacher, dies at 92
• Jul 8 Howard Duff, American actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing), dies of a heart attack at 76
• Jul 8 Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies at 61
• Jul 9 Brigitte D'Ortschy, German author, trnslator and Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
• Jul 10 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet, dies at 55
• Jul 10 Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59
• Jul 11 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift), dies at 67
• Jul 12 João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (Brazil 1969-70), dies at 73
• Jul 12 Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
• Jul 13 Lois Moran Young, American actress (Stella Dallas) dies of cancer at 81
• Jul 14 Dallas Alinder, American actor, dies at 58
• Jul 14 Philip Leacock, English director and producer, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
• Jul 15 Alison Leggatt, British character actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86
• Jul 15 Margaret Lockwood, British actress (Cast a Dark Shadow, The Lady Vanishes), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 73
• Jul 15 Troy Dixon, American rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall
• Jul 16 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), dies at 62
• Jul 16 Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and theater organist, dies from an intentional medication overdose at 82
• Jul 17 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
• Jul 17 Tony Pugsley, British rear-admiral during World War II (Walcheren attack 1944, Battle of the Scheldt), dies at 88
• Jul 18 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Astérix, Tintin), dies at 79
• Jul 18 Gerry Boulet, French Canadian rock singer (Offenbach; Rendez-vous doux), dies of colon cancer at 44
• Jul 18 Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
• Jul 18 Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
• Jul 19 Eddie Quillan, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Julia, Hell Town), dies of cancer at 83
• Jul 19 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
• Jul 19 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
• Jul 20 Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
• Jul 20 Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
• Jul 21 Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
• Jul 21 Rich Vogler, American auto racer (most combined wins in USAC history [171]), dies in a race crash at 39
• Jul 21 Sacha Piteoff, Swiss-French actor and stage director, dies of heart failure at 70
• Jul 21 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
• Jul 22 Otmar Nussio, Swiss conductor and composer (Boccaccio Suite), dies at 87
• Jul 22 Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
• Jul 23 Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
• Jul 23 Joe Turner, American jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
• Jul 23 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
• Jul 23 Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
• Jul 24 Alan Clarke, English director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
• Jul 26 Brent Mydland, American rock keyboardist and vocalist (Grateful Dead - "Hell In A Bucket"; "I Will Take You Home"), dies of a cocaine and morphine "speedball" overdose at 38
• Jul 27 Bobby Day [Robert Byrd], American rock musician (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
• Jul 27 Elizabeth Allan, English actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies at 80
• Jul 27 Kim Thomas-Friedland, American news anchor (FNN), murdered at 32
• Jul 27 Nick Pippins, American actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
• Jul 27 Salim Ali, Indian Ornithologist (Birdman of India), dies at 90
• Jul 28 Armando Frid, Argentinian horse tamer and centenarian, dies reportedly at 124
• Jul 28 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician (Chancellor, 1970-83; Foreign Minister, 1959-66), dies at 79
• Jul 28 Jill Esmond, English actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82
• Jul 28 Maurice Braddell, English actor (Things to Come), dies at 89
• Jul 29 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
• Jul 30 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
• Jul 30 Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
• Jul 31 Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (Stanley Cup 1930, 31 Montreal Canadiens), dies at 87
• Jul 31 Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72
• Aug 1 Lotta Hitschmanova, Canadian humanitarian (founder of the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada), dies at 80 [1]
• Aug 1 Norbert Elias, German-British sociologist and philosopher (Process of Civilization), dies at 93
• Aug 2 Edwin Richfield, British actor (Interpol Calling, The Avengers), dies at 68
• Aug 2 Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
• Aug 5 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
• Aug 6 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
• Aug 6 Gordon Metcalfe, American actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
• Aug 6 Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and Minister of Information (Free French forces), dies at 78
• Aug 6 Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician who founded the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), dies at 62
• Aug 6 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
• Aug 7 Eva Sully Block, American vaudeville actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88
• Aug 8 Andrzej Dobrowolski, Polish classical and experimental composer, dies at 68
• Aug 9 Dorothy Appleby, American actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies at 84
• Aug 9 Joe Mercer, English soccer midfielder (5 caps; Everton, Arsenal) and manager (Manchester City, Aston Villa, England 1974), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 76
• Aug 10 Cookie Lavagetto, American baseball third baseman (MLB All Star 1938-41; Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers) and manager (Washington Senators 1957-61), dies at 77
• Aug 10 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
• Aug 12 B. Kliban, American cartoonist known for his drawings of cats, usually with horrible puns (Love to Eat Them Mousies), dies at 55
• Aug 12 Dorothy Mackaill, British-American actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
• Aug 12 Piotr Perkowski, Polish composer, dies at 89
• Aug 12 Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
• Aug 13 Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
• Aug 14 Chester Zardis, American jazz 'slap-style' double-bassist, dies at 90
• Aug 15 Lew DeWitt, American country singer and composer (Statler Brothers - "Flowers on the Wall"), dies of Crohn's disease complications at 52
• Aug 15 Nina Bara [Frances Bauer], Argentinian actress (Missile to the Moon, Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 70
• Aug 15 Viktor Tsoi, Russian rock singer-songwriter (Kino), dies in a car accident at 28
• Aug 16 Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
• Aug 17 Pearl Bailey, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress, singer and dancer (Hello, Dolly!), dies of a heart attack at 72
• Aug 17 Roderick Cook, English actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
• Aug 18 B F Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
• Aug 18 Grethe Ingmann (née Clemmensen), Danish pop singer (Eurovision, 1963), dies of cancer at 52
• Aug 18 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), dies at 64
• Aug 19 Anna Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, Dutch children's book writer, dies at 80
• Aug 20 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist and writer, dies at 90
• Aug 22 "Boogie" Bill Webb, American Louisiana blues and R&B guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Bad Dog"), dies at 66
• Aug 22 Merlin Marston, American actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 46
• Aug 22 Thomas W. McKnew, American President of the National Geographic Society, dies at 94
• Aug 23 David Rose, American Emmy Award-winning composer ("The Stripper"; "Holiday For Strings"), and orchestra leader (The Red Skelton Show), dies at 80
• Aug 24 Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese writer and poet (b. 1931)
• Aug 24 Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer, dies at 48
• Aug 25 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and radio personality, dies at 87
• Aug 26 Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (discovered 12 comets), dies at 77
• Aug 26 Roh Ogura, Japanese composer and writer, dies at 74
• Aug 27 Raymond St Jacques, American actor, director and producer, who was the 1st African-American to hold a regular role in a western series (Simon Blake in "Rawhide"), dies of cancer at 60

• Aug 28 Larry Jackson, American baseball pitcher (5 × MLB All-Star; MLB wins leader 1964; St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies), dies from cancer at 59
• Aug 28 Pamela Harrison, British concert pianist and composer, dies at 74
• Aug 28 Patience Strong [Winifred Emma May], English poet and journalist, dies at 83
• Aug 28 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies at 77
• Aug 29 Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
• Aug 30 Edmund G. Love, American historian and author (A Small Bequest, Subways Are for Sleeping), dies at 78
• Aug 31 Johnny Lindsay, South African cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests, 5 dismissals; North Eastern Transvaal), dies at 81
• Aug 31 Nathaniel Clifton "Sweetwater", American NBA player (NY Knicks), dies of a heart attack at 65
• Sep 2 John Bowlby, British psychologist, dies at 83
• Sep 3 David Acer, American dentist from Florida, dies of AIDS after allegedly infecting 6 of his patients
• Sep 4 Henry Faas [Wandelganger], Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies

• Sep 5 Beppo Brem, German actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
• Sep 5 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
• Sep 6 Issan Dorsey, American founder of the Hartford St Zen Center in San Francisco, dies of AIDS at 57
• Sep 6 Len Hutton, English cricket batsman (79 Tests, 19 x 100, HS 364, BA 56.67; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 74

• Sep 7 Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force 4-star general during Korean War, dies at 90
• Sep 8 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), dies at 85
• Sep 9 Rimantas Stankevičius, Lithuanian cosmonaut, dies at 46
• Sep 9 Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
• Sep 10 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
• Sep 11 Ben Frank, American actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of a heart attack at 56
• Sep 11 Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed to death by Guatemalan military for criticising the government at 40
• Sep 12 Athene Seyler, English actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
• Sep 13 Samuel S. Stratton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 73
• Sep 14 Wime de Craene, Flemish singer and composer, dies at 40
• Sep 15 Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Soviet-Russian 'lost' cosmonaut who was dismissed for disciplinary reasons, dies at 60
• Sep 16 Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84
• Sep 16 Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of a heart attack at 71
• Sep 19 Werner Janssen, American conductor and composer (New Years Eve in NY), dies at 91
• Sep 20 Jackie Moran, American actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
• Sep 24 Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
• Sep 26 Alberto Moravia [Pincherle], Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
• Sep 27 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, Russian-Soviet composer of popular songs and film music ("Katyusha"), dies at 87
• Sep 28 Lawrence F. O'Brien, American political strategist (Watergate conspirators broke into his office, in-charge of JFK's presidential campaign), dies at 73 [1]
• Sep 30 Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and journalist, dies at 60
• Sep 30 Liesbeth de Uyl, Dutch feminist and wife of PM Joop du, dies at 66
• Sep 30 Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist and writer, dies at 89
• Sep 30 Patrick White, Australian writer and playwright (Nobel Prize for Literature 1973), dies at 78
• Oct 1 Andrzej Krzanowski, Polish classical composer and accordionist (The Wind Carries the Echo Across a Wood Clearing), dies at 49

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