Famous Deaths for Year 1990

Months in Year 1990: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 481

Jan 1st - Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82
Jan 1st - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (23 Tests for England, 1636 runs), dies
Jan 1st - Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies
Jan 2nd - Alan Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
Jan 2nd - Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78
Jan 3rd - Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies
Jan 3rd - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
Jan 4th - Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
Jan 4th - Robert F Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
Jan 4th - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
Jan 4th - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
Jan 5th - Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
Jan 5th - Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
Jan 6th - Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies
Jan 6th - Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
Jan 7th - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
Jan 7th - Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
Jan 7th - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
Jan 7th - Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
Jan 8th - Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
Jan 9th - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
Jan 9th - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
Jan 10th - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
Jan 10th - Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
Jan 11th - Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies
Jan 12th - Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70
Jan 12th - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96
Jan 14th - David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies
Jan 14th - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
Jan 15th - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
Jan 17th - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
Jan 18th - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
Jan 18th - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
Jan 19th - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, indian guru, dies at 58
Jan 19th - Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
Jan 19th - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
Jan 20th - Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82
Jan 20th - Miloslav Istvan, composer, dies at 61
Jan 20th - Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
Jan 20th - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
Jan 23rd - Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
Jan 23rd - Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
Jan 24th - Madge Bellamy, American actress, dies of heart failure at 90
Jan 25th - Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies
Jan 25th - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
Jan 25th - Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
Jan 26th - FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
Jan 26th - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
Jan 26th - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
Jan 27th - Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92
Jan 31st - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
Feb 2nd - Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79
Feb 2nd - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
Feb 4th - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
Feb 6th - Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94
Feb 6th - John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies
Feb 7th - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
Feb 7th - Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
Feb 7th - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
Feb 7th - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
Feb 8th - Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50
Feb 8th - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
Feb 13th - Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
Feb 14th - Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
Feb 14th - Jean Wallace, [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66
Feb 14th - Tony Holiday, German singer
Feb 15th - Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77
Feb 15th - Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68
Feb 16th - Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31
Feb 17th - Erik Rhodes, actor (Top Hat), dies of pneumonia at 84
Feb 17th - Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39
Feb 17th - Keith Haring, US graffiti-artist, dies at 31
Feb 17th - Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies
Feb 17th - Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
Feb 18th - Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
Feb 19th - Michael Powell, Engl director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
Feb 22nd - Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies
Feb 23rd - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
Feb 23rd - James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
Feb 23rd - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
Feb 24th - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
Publisher Malcolm Forbes (Feb 24th) Feb 24th - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
Feb 24th - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
Feb 24th - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
Feb 25th - Deborra Hampton, actress (Crossroads, 2 of a Kind), dies at 30
Feb 26th - Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53
Feb 26th - Leslie Ames, cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies
Feb 26th - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies
Feb 26th - Scott Jarvis, musician (Great Expectationa), dies
Feb 27th - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
Feb 28th - Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
Feb 28th - Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
Feb 28th - Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies
Mar 1st - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
Mar 3rd - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
Mar 3rd - Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
Mar 4th - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
Mar 5th - Gary Merrill, American actor, dies of a lung cancer at 74
Mar 5th - Gloria Carter Spann, Pres Carter's sister, dies of cancer at 63
Mar 7th - Max Neuhaus, composer, dies at 50
Mar 10th - Michael Stewart, UK Sect of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies
Mar 11th - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
Mar 12th - Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
Mar 13th - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
Mar 13th - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
Mar 13th - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
Mar 15th - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70
Mar 15th - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
Mar 15th - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
Mar 16th - Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
Mar 17th - Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59
Mar 17th - Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
Mar 18th - Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36
Mar 19th - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
Mar 20th - Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
Mar 20th - Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
Mar 20th - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
Mar 22nd - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
Mar 24th - Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
Mar 24th - An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer
Mar 24th - Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
Mar 24th - Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56
Mar 26th - International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
Mar 26th - Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
Mar 28th - Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
Mar 29th - Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
Mar 31st - Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies
Apr 2nd - Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
Apr 3rd - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
Apr 3rd - Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
Apr 5th - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
Apr 6th - Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
Apr 6th - Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
Apr 8th - Doreen Sloane, dies
Apr 8th - Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56
Apr 8th - Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18
Apr 11th - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
Apr 11th - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
Apr 11th - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
Apr 12th - Henry Kendrick, dies
Apr 13th - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
Apr 13th - Ronald Ibbs, Irish actor, dies at 74
Apr 14th - Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
Apr 14th - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
Apr 14th - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
Actress Greta Garbo (Apr 15th) Apr 15th - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
Apr 17th - Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
Apr 18th - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
Apr 18th - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
Apr 19th - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52