Deaths in January 1990
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 1990
1
- Arundhati Devi, 65, Indian actress, director, and singer.
- Carmen Hill, 94, American baseball player.
- Joe Hardstaff Jr, 78, English cricket player.
- Patrick Kelly, 35, American fashion designer, AIDS.
- Ernst Kuzorra, 84, German football player.
- Niyazi Sel, 81, Turkish footballer.
- T. B. Simatupang, 69, Indonesian National Armed Forces chief of staff.
- James W. Wood, 65, American aeronautical engineer and astronaut.
2
- Lawrence Alloway, 63, English-American art critic, cardiac arrest.
- Evangelos Averoff, 79, Greek right wing politician and author, heart attack.
- Bill Beckmann, 82, American baseball player.
- Dally Duncan, 80, Scottish footballer.
- Alan Hale, Jr., 68, American actor (Gilligan's Island, Hang 'Em High, Casey Jones), thymus cancer.
- Leonhard Merzin, 55, Soviet actor.
- Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, 81, British politician.
- T. R. Raghunath, 77, Indian film director.
- Ben Reifel, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971), cancer.
- Marianne C. Sharp, 88, American Mormon charity activist.
- Vladimir Ussachevsky, 78, Soviet-American composer.
3
- Loraine Boettner, 88, American theologian.
- Mauro Cía, 70, Argentine boxer and actor.
- Reuben Jones, 57, British equestrian rider and Olympian.
- Joseph A. Loftus, 82, American journalist, stroke.
- Peter van Steeden, 85, Dutch-American composer.
- William Wells, 81, English politician.
- Bandara Wijethunga, 50, Sri Lankan writer.
4
- Robert Adams, 56, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Lydia Bilbrook, 101, English actress.
- Henry Bolte, 81, Australian politician.
- Alberto Lleras Camargo, 83, Colombian politician, president (1958–1962).
- Harold Eugene Edgerton, 86, American electrical engineer and academic.
- Bonnie Hollingsworth, 94, American baseball player.
- Florrinell F. Morton, 85, American librarian.
- Boris Nikolsky, 89, Soviet chemist.
- Olaf Ussing, 82, Danish actor.
- Wim Volkers, 90, Dutch football player.
- Alfred Michael Watson, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate.
5
- Alan Handley, 77, American television producer, heart attack.
- Lola Iturbe, 87, Spanish trade unionist, activist, and journalist.
- Arthur Kennedy, 75, American actor (Bright Victory, Peyton Place, Lawrence of Arabia), Tony winner (1949), brain cancer.
- Bartell LaRue, 57, American actor.
- Kléber Piot, 69, French racing cyclist.
- Robert G. Rayburn, 74, American academic and theologian, cancer.
- Jaroslav Rössler, 87, Czechoslovak photographer.
- Genrikh Sidorenkov, 58, Russian ice hockey player.
6
- Gordon Aitchison, 80, Canadian basketball player.
- Walter Anderson, 92, American baseball player.
- Tadashi Asai, 54, Japanese wrestler and Olympian.
- Ian Charleson, 40, Scottish actor (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), AIDS.
- Pavel Cherenkov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).
- Peter Cookson, 76, American actor, bone cancer.
- Hans Jaray, 83, Austrian actor and playwright.
- Gerald Mann, 82, American football player.
- Sophie Piccard, 85, Russian-Swiss mathematician.
- Jake Weber, 71, American basketball player.
7
- Tadeusz Brzeziński, 93, Polish-Canadian diplomat, pneumonia.
- Eero Böök, 79, Finnish chess player.
- Edward Ennis, 82, American civil rights lawyer, diabetes.
- Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, 89, British politician.
- Rose Kushner, 60, American journalist, breast cancer.
- Avraham Abba Leifer, 71, Romanian-American-Israeli rabbi.
- Bronko Nagurski, 81, Canadian-American football player, cardiac arrest.
- Joe Robbie, 73, American politician and football executive.
- Harry L. Shapiro, 87, American anthropologist.
- Napua Stevens, 71, American entertainer.
- Horace Stoneham, 86, American baseball executive.
- Johanna Töpfer, 60, German politician, suicide.
8
- Georgie Auld, 70, American musician, lung cancer.
- Mario Brignoli, 87, Italian Olympic racewalker (1936).
- Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, 87, German royal and art historian.
- Jaime Gil de Biedma, 60, Spanish poet, AIDS.
- Paul A. Kennon, 55, American architect, heart attack.
- Bernard Krigstein, 70, American artist.
- Raymond Krug, 65, French footballer.
- Johnny Sylvester, 74, American businessman.
- Terry-Thomas, 78, English comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin Hood, Bachelor Flat), Parkinson's disease.
9
- Paul Bauer, 93, German poet.
- Roger Bower, 86, British soldier.
- Northern Calloway, 41, American actor (Sesame Street), beaten, cardiovascular disease.
- Spud Chandler, 82, American baseball player.
- Rosemarie Clausen, 82, German photographer.
- Jim Gillette, 72, American football player.
- Rufus Mayes, 42, American football player, bacterial meningitis.
- Edward McTiernan, 97, Australian politician and judge.
- Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1971).
- Bazilio Olara-Okello, 60-61, Ugandan soldier and politician, president (1985).
- Shlomo Pines, 81, French-Israeli theologian.
- Robert B. Pirie, 84, American naval admiral.
- Cemal Süreya, 58-59, Turkish poet, diabetes.
10
- John Benham, 89, British athlete.
- Juliet Berto, 42, French actress, breast cancer.
- Mino Guerrini, 62, Italian film director.
- Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
- Gene Phillips, 74, American musician.
- Liesel Schuch, 98, German singer.
- Otto Weidinger, 75, German nazi SS-obersturmbannführer during World War II.
- Lyle R. Wheeler, 84, American art director (Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Rebecca), five-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.
- Herbert Williams, 81, American sailor and Olympic champion.
11
- Carolyn Haywood, 92, American children's writer and illustrator.
- Earl D. Johnson, 84, United States Under Secretary of the Army.
- Ihsan Abdel Quddous, 71, Egyptian journalist, novelist and short-story writer, stroke.
- Kittens Reichert, 79, American actress.
- José Luis García Traid, 53, Spanish footballer, complications during surgery.
12
- Joseph Sill Clark Jr., 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969).
- John Hansen, 65, Danish footballer.
- Ralph Heikkinen, 72, American football player.
- Laurence J. Peter, 70, Canadian-American educator, stroke.
- Paul Pisk, 96, Austrian-American composer.
13
- Gaston Crunelle, 91, French flautist.
- Francisco Hormazábal, 69, Chilean football player and manager.
- Roy Jarvis, 63, American baseball player.
- Jenő Kalmár, 81, Hungarian footballer.
- Avraham Ofek, 54, Bulgarian-Israeli artist.
- Pierre Pascal, 80, French poet and translator.
- Gerhard Sturmberger, 49, Austrian football player.
14
- Ruth Bunzel, 91, American anthropologist.
- Sten-Åke Cederhök, 76, Swedish actor.
- Sabri Dino, 48, Turkish footballer, suicide.
- India Edwards, 94, American journalist.
- Ken Kilrea, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, 82, British biochemist.
- Anno Smith, 74, Dutch artist.
- James Arthur Williams, 59, American antiques dealer, heart failure.
- John Witty, 74, British film and television actor.
15
- Bill Albans, 64, American Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).
- Mani Madhava Chakyar, 90, Indian performance artist and sanskrit scholar.
- Brainard Cheney, 89, American writer.
- R. R. Diwakar, 95, Indian politician and writer.
- František Douda, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic shot putter (1932).
- Gordon Jackson, 66, Scottish actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Great Escape, The Ipcress File), bone cancer.
- Donold Lourie, 90, American businessman and football player.
- Fred Mundee, 76, American football player.
- William O'Neal, 40, American FBI Black Panther Party informant, suicide by traffic collision.
- Peggy van Praagh, 79, British-Australian ballet dancer and choreographer.
16
- Lady Eve Balfour, 91, British farmer and organic farming pioneer.
- Bill Heaton, 71, English footballer.
- Clarence Janecek, 78, American gridiron football player.
- Robert Lamartine, 54, French footballer.
- Earl Naylor, 70, American baseball player.
- Jean Saint-Fort Paillard, 76, French equestrian and Olympic champion.
- Ruskin Spear, 78, English painter.
17
- Andreas Aulie, 92, Norwegian jurist.
- Fritz Brocksieper, 77, German musician.
- Danie Burger, 56, South African Olympic hurdler (1956).
- Anna Arnold Hedgeman, 90, American civil rights activist.
- Charles Hernu, 66, French politician.
- André Morice, 89, French politician.
- Léon Motchane, 89, French mathematician.
- Simon Nicholson, 55, British artist.
- Y. C. James Yen, 96, Chinese educator and organizer, pneumonia.
18
- Melanie Appleby, 23, English singer, pneumonia.
- Kim Chang-Hee, 68, South Korean weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
- Rusty Hamer, 42, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
- Edouard Izac, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947), heart failure.
- Candy Jones, 64, American model and broadcaster, cancer.
- Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, 78, British explorer and botanist, ALS.
19
- Carlo Bagno, 69, Italian actor.
- Pierre Barbizet, 67, French pianist.
- Viña Delmar, 86, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
- Arthur Goldberg, 81, American judge and diplomat, heart failure.
- Movses Gorgisyan, 28, Soviet Armenian independence activist and soldier, killed in battle.
- Aldo Gucci, 84, Italian businessman (Gucci), prostate cancer.
- Myles Horton, 84, American educator, brain tumor.
- Alexander Pechersky, 80, Soviet soldier and humanitarian.
- Rajneesh, 58, Indian mystic, heart failure.
- Alberto Semprini, 81, English pianist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Maharram Seyidov, 37, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Herbert Wehner, 83, German politician, diabetes.
- J. Ernest Wharton, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1965).
20
- Jack Arkwright, 87, English rugby player.
- Claude Auclair, 46, French cartoonist.
- Robert Donington, 82, British musicologist.
- Hayedeh, 47, Iranian singer, heart attack.
- Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 102, Japanese royal and politician, prime minister (1945), heart failure.
- Hugh Ross, 91, American choral director.
- Barbara Stanwyck, 82, American actress (Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, The Big Valley), Emmy winner (1961, 1966, 1983), heart failure.
- Fernand Vandernotte, 87, French Olympic rower (1932, 1936).
21
- Asbjørn Bryhn, 83, Norwegian police officer and resistance member during World War II.
- Frank Gervasi, 81, American writer and foreign correspondent, stroke.
- Trude Fleischmann, 94, Austrian-born American photographer.
- Patrick Mulligan, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
- Mark Sugden, 87, Irish rugby player.
22
- Gordon Buehrig, 85, American automobile designer.
- Giorgio Caproni, 78, Italian writer.
- James Dyson, 75, British physicist.
- Bill Ferrar, 96, English mathematician.
- Karl Frankenstein, 84, German-Israeli educator.
- Helmut Krausnick, 84, German historian and writer.
- Mariano Rumor, 74, Italian politician, prime minister (1968–1970, 1973–1974), heart attack.
- José Salomón, 73, Argentine football player.
- Roman Vishniac, 92, Russian-German-American photographer, colon cancer.
23
- Buzz Boll, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Clarence Bruce, 65, American baseball player.
- Allen Collins, 37, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), pneumonia.
- Wilhelm Dommes, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- Gerald Gibbs, 82, English cinematographer.
- Nikolaus Hofreiter, 85, Austrian mathematician.
- Charley Eugene Johns, 84, American politician, governor of Florida (1953–1955).
- Derek Royle, 61, British actor, cancer.
24
- Madge Bellamy, 90, American actress, heart failure.
- John Blacking, 61, British anthropologist.
- Helga Gnauer, 60, Austrian Olympic fencer (1960).
- Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, 87, German royal.
- Gerry Johnson, 71, American actress and television host.
- Muhammad Juman, 54, Pakistani musician.
- Saadia Kobashi, 86, Yemenite Jewish community leader in Israel.
- Araken Patusca, 84, Brazilian football player.
- Shantilal C. Sheth, 77, Indian pediatrician and academic.
25
- Dámaso Alonso, 91, Spanish poet and literary critic.
- Ava Gardner, 67, American actress (Mogambo, The Night of the Iguana, The Killers), pneumonia.
- Edward C. Gleed, 73, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
- Miloš Hrazdíra, 44, Czechoslovak racing cyclist and Olympian.
- Joseph Lennon, 56, Irish politician.
- Alexander Lockwood, 87, American actor.
- Georges Mantha, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
- John L. McCrea, 98, American naval officer during World War I and World War II, pneumonia.
- Andy Puplis, 74, American football player.
- John Ramsey, 62, American sports announcer, heart attack.
26
- Dodo Abashidze, 65, Soviet actor and film director.
- Hal Draper, 75, American socialist activist, pneumonia.
- Lewis Garnsworthy, 67-68, Canadian Anglican prelate.
- Bob Gerard, 76, English racing driver.
- Toninho Guerreiro, 47, Brazilian football player, stroke.
- Miloslav Ištvan, 61, Czechoslovak composer.
- Ned Miller, 90, American songwriter, composer, and actor.
- Lewis Mumford, 94, American historian.
- Philip Nichols, 82, American judge, heart attack.
- Boy Trip, 68, Dutch politician.
27
- Miklós Borsos, 83, Hungarian sculptor.
- Pit Corder, 71, British linguist.
- Helen Jerome Eddy, 92, American actress, heart failure.
- S. Charles Lee, 90, American architect.
- Steffen Thomas, 84, German-American artist and poet.
- Travis Webb, 79, American racing driver.
- Henry Winterfeld, 88, German-American writer.
28
- Joseph Payne Brennan, 71, American author and poet.
- Tibor Flórián, 70, Hungarian chess player.
- Nancy Gruver, 58, American bridge player.
- Puma Jones, 36, American singer, breast cancer.
- Jan Lambrichs, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.
- Alfred McCoy, 90, American gridiron football player.
- Chesley G. Peterson, 69, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
- Edward Szymkowiak, 57, Polish football player.
- Casey Tibbs, 60, American cowboy and rodeo performer, bone cancer.
- F. W. Winterbotham, 92, British RAF officer and spy during World War II.
29
- Stan Batinski, 72, American football player.
- Elise Blumann, 93, German-Australian artist.
- Irma Brandeis, 84, American scholar of Dante Alighieri.
- Arnaud d'Usseau, 73, American screenwriter, stomach cancer.
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1949).
30
- M. A. B. Beg, 55, Pakistani-American theoretical physicist.
- Severino Canavesi, 79, Italian racing cyclist.
- John Lindgren, 90, Swedish skier and Olympian.
- João Uva de Matos Proença, 51, Portuguese diplomat.
31
- Muammer Aksoy, 73, Turkish academic.
- Ricardo Bordallo, 62, American politician and businessman, suicide.
- Rashad Khalifa, 54, Egyptian-American biochemist, stabbed.
- Yitzhak Klinghoffer, 84, Austrian-Israeli politician.
- Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 88, German-Brazilian zoologist.
- Ramon Olalkiaga, 91, Spanish footballer.
- Samuel C. Phillips, 68, American Air Force general, cancer.
- Hans Putz, 69, Austrian actor.
- Hazel Marguerite Schmoll, 99, American botanist.
- Dick Wilson, 55, American Oglala tribal chairman, kidney failure.