Deaths in April 1990

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

April 1990

1

• Benito Díaz, 91, Spanish footballer.
• Girard Edward Kalbfleisch, 90, American district judge.
• Lillian Miller, 92, American television personality.
• Vince Pacewic, 69, American football player.
• Carlos Peucelle, 81, Argentine footballer.
• Bracha Tzfira, 79, Israeli musician and actress.
• Charles Spain Verral, 85, Canadian author.
• Russell Vis, 89, American Olympic wrestler.

2

• Rafael Lorente de No, 87, Spanish neuroscientist.
• Aldo Fabrizi, 84, Italian actor and film director.
• Vanda Godsell, 67, English actress.
• Peter Jones, 60, British broadcaster.
• John Milton Roberts, 73, American anthropologist.

3

• Katharine Balfour, 69, American actress.
• Edward Carlson, 78, American businessman, cancer.
• Arthur Houghton, 83, American industrialist.
• Clair Huffaker, 63, American screenwriter.
• Frederick Keen, 91, Argentine cricketer.
• Willie Musarurwa, 62, Zimbabwean journalist.
• Sloan Nibley, 81, American screenwriter.
• Sarah Vaughan, 66, American singer, lung cancer.
• Otha Wearin, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Ivan Yarmysh, 65, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic racewalker.

4

• Leonid Dushkin, 79, Soviet rocket scientist.
• Mark Fradkin, 75, Soviet composer.
• Robert Dixon Herman, 78, American district judge.
• Andrzej Kobyliński, 58, Polish Olympic equestrian.
• Hubert Ogunde, 73, Nigerian theatre manager.
• Bernhard Rensch, 90, German evolutionary biologist.
• Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 90, American businessman and politician, secretary of commerce, cardiac arrest.
• Paul V. Yoder, 81, American musician.

5

• Carsten Byhring, 71, Norwegian actor, cancer.
• A. B. Masilamani, 75, Indian baptist pastor and evangelist.
• Louis Nelson, 87, American trombonist, traffic collision.
• Vic Samson, 98, Australian rules footballer.
• Lev Skvirsky, 86, Soviet general.

6

• Robert Abernathy, 65, American science fiction author.
• William Clark, 84, Scottish cricketer.
• Peter Doherty, 76, Northern Irish football player.
• James MacNabb, 88, British Olympic rower.
• Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, 85, Brazilian football player.
• B. T. Ranadive, 85, Indian politician.
• Yevgeny Savitsky, 79, Soviet fighter ace during World War II.
• Alfred Sohn-Rethel, 91, French-German economist.
• Zeydin Yusup, 26, Uyghur independence activist, killed in action.

7

• J. Broward Culpepper, 82, American academic.
• Ronald Evans, 56, American astronaut, heart attack.
• Kristian Gestrin, 60, Finnish judge and politician.
• Dick Lundy, 82, American animator.
• Alan Marsham, 69, Australian rules footballer.
• Arthur B. Singer, 72, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.

8

• Emerson Greenaway, 83, American librarian.
• Herman Jessor, 95, American architect.
• Percy Kay, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Bill Kelly, 91, American baseball player.
• Hans Korte, 90, German general.
• J. Kenneth Robinson, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, pancreatic cancer.
• Bellan Roos, 88, Swedish actress.
• Ernest Steward, 76-79, British cinematographer.
• Ryan White, 18, American HIV/AIDS poster child, AIDS.
• Zamazaan, 24-25, French Thoroughbred racehorse.

9

• Joe Asquini, 64-65, Canadian football player.
• Bill Bailey, 73, American NFL player.
• Aldo Bertocco, 78, Italian-French racing cyclist.
• Jack Dermody, 79, Australian footballer.
• John Henry Faulk, 76, American radio personality, cancer.
• Yngve Lindegren, 77, Swedish football player.
• Eric Lucke, 79, South African Olympic sports shooter.
• James V. McConnell, 64, American zoologist, target of Ted Kaczynski.
• Mikio Narita, 55, Japanese actor, linitis plastica.
• Chips Sobek, 70, American basketball player.
• Astrid Sommer, 83, Norwegian actress.

10

• Margarete Adler, 94, Austrian Olympic swimmer and diver.
• Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey, 74, British soldier and magistrate.
• Fortune Gordien, 67, American Olympic discus thrower.
• Gerhard Schrader, 87, German chemist.
• Harrison Lee Winter, 68, American judge.

11

• Harold Ballard, 86, Canadian sports executive.
• Klaas Bolt, 63, Dutch organist.
• Ronald Jasper, 72, British Anglican priest.
• Ivar Lo-Johansson, 89, Swedish writer.
• Margaret Carnegie Miller, 93, American heiress.
• Phyllis Munday, 95, Canadian mountaineer, explorer, and humanitarian.
• Robert Reid, 91, American Olympic cross-country skier.
• Natalino Sapegno, 88, Literary critic and Italian academician.

12

• John Bowe, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• John Brown, 74, New Zealand racing cyclist.
• Geoffrey Harrison, 81, British diplomat.
• Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, 89, Japanese poet and film critic.
• Jef Lahaye, 57, Dutch racing cyclist.
• Otto Neumann, 87, German Olympic runner.
• Johnny Reder, 80, Polish-American baseball and soccer player, heart disease.
• Irving Terjesen, 75, American basketball player.
• Luis Trenker, 97, Italian film producer, writer, actor, and Olympian.
• Albert van Schendel, 77, Dutch racing cyclist.

13

• Sundaram Balachander, 63, Indian musician and filmmaker, heart attack.
• Ivan A. Elliott, 100, American lawyer and politician.
• István Lovrics, 62, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• Hans Reinerth, 89, German nazi archaeologist.
• Ratomir Čabrić, 71, Yugoslav footballer.

14

• Ahmed Balafrej, 81, Moroccan politician, prime minister.
• Mario Frustalupi, 47, Italian footballer, traffic collision.
• Thurston Harris, 58, American singer, heart attack.
• Martin Kessel, 89, German writer.
• Alv Kjøs, 95, Norwegian politician.
• Günther Krupkat, 84, German science fiction author.
• Georges Lacombe, 87, French film director.
• Flor Lambrechts, 80, Belgian footballer.
• Doris Lusk, 73, New Zealand artist.
• Olabisi Onabanjo, 63, Nigerian politician.
• Marco Aurelio Robles, 84, Panamanian politician, president.
• Sabicas, 78, Spanish guitarist, pneumonia.
• Gerardus Siderius, 76, Dutch Olympic canoeist.

15

• Ulrich Becher, 80, German author.
• Jock Bruce-Gardyne, 60, British politician, brain cancer.
• Anna Carena, 91, Italian actress.
• Greta Garbo, 84, Swedish-American actress, pneumonia.
• Helmut Lemke, 82, German politician.
• Spark Matsunaga, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate, prostate cancer.
• Lawson P. Ramage, 81, American naval admiral Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.

16

• Mario Biancalana, 87, Brazilian Olympic fencer.
• Peter J. Grant, 46-47, British ornithologist.
• Slim Keith, 72, American socialite and fashion icon, lung cancer.
• Ewald Kihle, 70, Norwegian footballer.
• James P. O'Donnell, 72, American author and journalist, lung and stomach cancer.
• Stephen Shadegg, 80, American political consultant, cancer.
• Mary Talbot, 86, American entomologist.

17

• Ralph Abernathy, 64, American civil rights activist, blood clot.
• Joseph E. Dillon, 69, American politician.
• Joseph McMillan Johnson, 77, American art director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Michel Labadie, 57, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jafta Masemola, 60, South African anti-apartheid activist, traffic collision.
• Yuko Minamimura, 73, Japanese baseball player.
• Karl Walz, 89, German politician.
• Aubrey Williams, 63, Guyanese artist, cancer.

18

• John Antonelli, 74, American baseball player.
• Bob Drake, 70, American racing driver.
• Gory Guerrero, 69, Mexican professional wrestler, liver failure.
• David Jones, 70, Welsh cricketer.
• Frédéric Rossif, 68, French film and television director.
• Robert D. Webb, 87, American film director.

19

• Wally Coates, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Dave Dexter, Jr., 74, American record producer.
• Sergey Filippov, 77, Soviet and Russianactor and comedian, cancer.
• Bob Kelsey, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• John W. Schwada, 70, American academic.
• Georgios Vikhos, 75, Greek Olympic sport shooter.

20

• Francis William Holbrooke Adams, 85, American lawyer and police commissioner.
• N. H. Gibbs, 80, British academic.
• Alex McCrindle, 78, Scottish actor.
• George Reindorp, 78, British Anglican prelate.
• Horst Sindermann, 74, East German politician.

21

• Johnny Beazley, 71, American baseball player, cancer.
• R. B. Braithwaite, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
• Salvatore Cascino, 72, Italian Olympic racewalker.
• Ralph Cowan, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Erté, 97, Russian-born French artist.
• Frank Lausche, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate, governor of Ohio, heart failure.
• Tadeusz Parpan, 70, Polish soccer player.
• Pavao Pintarić, 77, Yugoslavian Olympic fencer.
• Bogusław Psujek, 33, Polish marathon runner, fall.

22

• Bob Davies, 70, American basketball player.
• Tony Jankowiak, 29, American racing driver.
• Bud Maxwell, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Rosalind Moss, 99, British Egyptologist.
• Albert Salmi, 62, American actor, murder-suicide.
• Gustaf Wejnarth, 87, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Verda Welcome, 83, American politician.

23

• Paulette Goddard, 79, American actress, heart failure.
• Mason Ellsworth Hale, 61, American lichenologist.
• Vincent Joseph Hines, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• José Passera, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
• Mary Turner Shaw, 84, Australian architect.
• Charlie Wilson, 57, English career criminal, shot.
• Pete Wojey, 70, American baseball player.
• Teodor Zaczyk, 90, Polish Olympic fencer.

24

• Vytautas Alantas, 87, Lithuanian-American writer, journalist, and political ideologue.
• Erik Eriksson, 75, Swedish footballer.
• Endel Pärn, 76, Soviet actor and singer.
• Kazem Rajavi, 56, Iranian human rights activist, shot.
• Vladimir Saprykin, 73, Soviet Red Army officer and war hero.
• Laurie Yates, 67, Australian rules footballer.

25

• Irving Fiske, 82, American playwright, stroke.
• Dexter Gordon, 67, American jazz musician, kidney failure.
• Rufus "Speedy" Jones, 53, American jazz drummer.
• Fred Klein, 92, Dutch painter.
• John Watkins Oliver, 75, American district judge.
• Bernard C. Schoenfeld, 82, American screenwriter.
• Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr., 90, American diplomat.

26

• Józef Kosacki, 81, Polish professor, engineer, and inventor.
• Jim Maguire, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Menso Menso, 87, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
• Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, 38, Colombian guerrilla leader, shot.
• Wesley Rose, 72, American record producer.
• John J. Winkler, 46, American philologist and Benedictine monk, AIDS.

27

• Tita Duran, 61, Filipino actress.
• Hal Gensichen, 69, American basketball player.
• Vladimir Kanygin, 41, Russian middleweight weightlifter.
• Alyce Mills, 91, American actress.
• Willy Pieper, 78, Swiss Olympic sailor.
• Malwa Singh, 44, Indian Indian Olympic wrestler.
• Bella Spewack, 91, Romanian-born American playwright.
• Vladimir Stoychev, 98, Bulgarian general and Olympic equestrian.
• Chuck Weimer, 85, American football player.
• Earl Wilson, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

28

• Enrique Accorsi, 73, Chilean Olympic fencer.
• Edwina Dumm, 96-97, American cartoonist.
• Peter Fuller, 42, British art critic, traffic collision.
• Reg Nicholls, 68, Australian rules footballer.
• Neil Watson, 84, New Zealand politician.

29

• Enrique Almada, 55, Uruguayan actor and author, cancer.
• Max Bense, 80, German philosopher.
• Mieczysław Burda, 74, Polish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Charley Davidson, 73, American baseball player.
• Margaret Hance, 66, American politician, cancer.
• Carl Hellmuth Hertz, 69, German physicist.
• Sammy Lawhorn, 54, American blues guitarist.
• Elise Constance Mourant, 68, New Zealand artist.
• Ray Poat, 72, American baseball player.

30

• Ernst Berndt, 74, Czechoslovak track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Ken Chisholm, 65, Scottish footballer.
• Herbert Jankuhn, 84, German archaeologist.
• Miklós Jós, 84, Hungarian writer.
• Reidar Nyborg, 67, Norwegian Olympic skier.
• Angami Zapu Phizo, 85, Indian-British Naga nationalist.
• Mario Pizziolo, 80, Italian footballer.
• Joshua Prawer, 72, Polish-Israeli historian.
• Paul Sears, 98, American ecologist.
• Josef Velek, 50, Czechoslovak journalist, drowned.
• Antoine Vitez, 59, French actor and theatre director.
• Archie Wright, 65, Scottish football player.
• Vasili Yermasov, 77, Soviet football player.
• Mark Zborowski, 82, Soviet anthropologist and spy.