Deaths in August 1990

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

August 1990

1

• Michel Arnaud, 74, French general, heart attack.
• Roar Berthelsen, 55, Norwegian Olympic long jumper.
• Carl Ekern, 36, American football player, traffic collision.
• Norbert Elias, 93, German sociologist.
• Michael Glenny, 62, British academic and translator, heart attack.
• Lotta Hitschmanova, 80, Czech-Canadian humanitarian, cancer.
• Robert Krieps, 67, Luxembourgish politician.
• Bárbara Mujica, 46, Argentine actress, heart attack.
• Tiger Joginder Singh, 71, Indian professional wrestler.
• Graham Young, 42, English convicted serial killer, heart attack.

2

• Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 44, Kuwaiti royal and sports administrator, killed in battle.
• André De Wulf, 67, Belgian Olympic bobsledder.
• Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer.
• Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player.
• Norman Maclean, 87, American novelist.
• François Perrier, 68, French psychoanalyst.
• Edwin Richfield, 68, English actor.
• Nikolaus Riehl, 89, German nuclear physicist.
• Al Rosen, 80, American actor, cancer.

3

• Betty Amann, 85, German-American film actress.
• Nella Maria Bonora, 86, Italian actress.
• Bob Brown, 79, American baseball player.
• Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician.
• Jeff Modesitt, 26, American football player.
• M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer.
• Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician.
• George Stavrinos, 42, Greek-American illustrator, complications of pneumonia.
• Mariano Trigo, 89, Spanish Olympic water polo player.
• Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member, leukemia.

4

• Ian Allison, 81, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama.
• Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist.
• Chua Phung Kim, 51, Singaporean weightlifter and Olympian.
• Norman Malcolm, 79, American philosopher.
• Ettore Maserati, 95-96, Italian automotive engineer.
• Wajahat Mirza, 82, Indian filmmaker.
• Pierre Nguyễn Huy Mai, 77, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ban Mê Thuột.
• Lajos Somló, 77, Hungarian Olympic triple jumper.
• John T. Wilson, 76, American academic.

5

• Ivan Blatný, 70, Czech-British poet.
• Aldo Grimaldi, 47-48, Italian filmmaker, cancer.
• Jacob J. Hecht, 66, American rabbi, writer and radio commentator, heart attack.
• Jack Hubbert, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach.
• Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish Olympic football player.
• Zhou Keqin, 53, Chinese writer.
• George Quin, 76, Irish Anglican prelate.

6

• Charles Arnt, 83, American actor, cancer.
• Taylor G. Belcher, 70, American diplomat, cancer.
• Leo Bird, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect.
• George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player.
• Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer.
• Magnús Pálsson, 77, Icelandic Olympic water polo player.
• Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr., 94, American general, bone cancer.
• Jacques Soustelle, 78, French politician.
• Antoon van Schendel, 80, Dutch road bicycle racer.
• Pat Wall, 57, English politician.

7

• Diego Carpitella, 66, Italian professor of ethnomusicology.
• Tamara Deutscher, 77, Polish-British writer.
• Phiny Dick, 77, Dutch illustrator and children's writer.
• Gebhard Müller, 90, German politician.
• Chepudira Muthana Poonacha, 79, Indian politician.

8

• Harry Bulpit, 95, Australian rules footballer.
• Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer.
• Wallace Douglas, 78, Canadian producer, director and actor.
• Joseph H. Harper, 89, United States Army officer.
• Laurier Régnier, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Gopal Singh, 72, Indian Governor and politician.
• Urho Teräs, 75, Finnish football player.

9

• Dorothy Appleby, 84, American actress.
• William Bosworth Castle, 92, American physician.
• Joe Mercer, 76, English football player.
• Władysław Orlicz, 87, Polish mathematician.
• Max Starcevich, 78, American football player.
• Art Van Tone, 71, American gridiron football player.

10

• Jacobo Arenas, 66, Colombian guerrilla leader, cancer.
• Harold Boyd, 89, Australian football player.
• Martha Dodd, 81, American writer.
• Cookie Lavagetto, 77, American baseball player.
• Helmut Lipfert, 74, German flying ace during World War II.
• David Martin, 57, Australian politician, lung cancer.
• Eugenia Ravasio, 82, Italian Roman Catholic nun.
• Joško Vidošević, 55, Yugoslav football player.

11

• Bonnie Baker, 73, American singer.
• Gonzalo Gaviria, 43, Colombian drug lord, shot.
• Asa S. Knowles, 81, American academic.
• Charles Marquis Warren, 77, American filmmaker, ventricular aneurysm.
• Florio Martel, 67, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Guy le Mouroux, 72, French Olympic sailor.

12

• Paul Cuba, 82, American football player.
• Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination.
• Les Harvey, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Christa Jungnickel, 55, German-American science historian.
• B. Kliban, 55, American cartoonist, pulmonary embolism.
• Dorothy Mackaill, 87, British-American actress, liver failure.
• Piotr Perkowski, 89, Polish composer.
• Sara Seegar, 76, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• James Stewart, 80, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Fay Thomas, 86, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Roy Williamson, 54, Scottish songwriter, brain cancer.

13

• Caridad Bravo Adams, 82, Mexican screenwriter.
• Dallas Bixler, 80, American Olympic gymnast.
• Hedley Donovan, 76, American magazine editor.
• Inés Mendoza, 82, Puerto Rican writer, first lady.
• Alejandro Otero, 69, Venezuelan painter and sculptor.
• Jimmy Starr, 86, American screenwriter.
• Henry Swoboda, 92, Czech-American conductor.

14

• Henry Crown, 94, American industrialist.
• John Fox, 38, American writer, AIDS.
• Lafayette Leake, 71, American jazz musician, diabetes.
• Sun Lianzhong, 97, Taiwanese general.
• Thomas Matthewman, 87, British Olympic sprinter.
• Liu Xingyuan, 81, Chinese politician and general.

15

• Nina Bara, 70, American actress.
• Jimmy Carruthers, 61, Australian boxer and Olympian, lung cancer.
• Lew DeWitt, 52, American musician, kidney failure.
• Bob Garbark, 80, American baseball player.
• Billy Hume, 54, Scottish football player.
• Inger Koppernæs, 62, Norwegian politician.
• Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, 76, Indian dancer.
• Arthur McMahon, 69, Irish Olympic sports shooter.
• Zdenko Švigelj, 87, Yugoslavian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision.
• Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.

16

• Frank Asling, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist.
• Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player.
• Louis Kozma, 52, Belgian Olympic swimmer.
• Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer.
• Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player.
• Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican football player and tennis Olympian.

17

• Pearl Bailey, 72, American actress and singer, cardiovascular disease.
• David A. Burchinal, 75, American general, cancer.
• Roderick Cook, 58, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
• James Thomas Foley, 80, American district judge.
• Ian Handysides, 27, English footballer, brain cancer.
• Gordon Parsons, 63, Australian country music singer-songwriter.
• Maria Paudler, 87, German actress.
• Larry Weldon, 75, American football player.
• Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.

18

• Edmund Edwards, 80, Australian cricketer.
• Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer.
• József Kovács, 79, Hungarian Olympic hurdler.
• D. Scott Rogo, 40, American writer, murdered.
• Mary Shaw Shorb, 83, American biochemist.
• B. F. Skinner, 86, American social philosopher, leukemia.

19

• Olavi Alakulppi, 75, Finnish military officer and cross-country skier.
• Ilham Aliyev, 29, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Jim Cavanagh, 77, Australian politician.
• Ercole Gallegati, 78, Italian Olympic wrestler.
• Tony Mancini, 77, Canadian Olympic boxer.
• Sandy Paris, 81, Scottish cricketer.
• Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, 80, Dutch writer of children's novels.
• Stephen Edward Smith, 62, American political consultant, lung cancer.
• Richard Strout, 92, American journalist, complications from a fall.

20

• Tim Barrett, 61, English actor.
• Larry Buhler, 73, American NFL player.
• Howard Clifton, 51, American Olympic bobsledder.
• Bill Curry, 54, English football player.
• Wiley Feagin, 52, American football player.
• Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German football player and Olympian.
• Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist.
• Ray Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
• John La Nauze, 79, Australian historian.
• Ike Sewell, 86, American businessman, leukemia.

21

• Antonio Argilés, 58, Spanish footballer.
• Larry Buhler, 73, American football player.
• Ed Glancy, 73, American basketball player.
• Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player.
• Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player.

22

• Luigi Dadaglio, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Patrick McAlinney, 76, Irish actor.
• Edward W. Pattison, 58, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, liver cancer.
• Boris Shcherbina, 70, Soviet politician.

23

• Samuel J. Brown, 72, American fighter pilot during World War II.
• Ron Clegg, 62, Australian rules footballer.
• Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner, accident.
• Billy King, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Karl Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, 86, German noble, head of the house of Löwenstein-Wertheim.
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari, 76, Iranian politician.
• David Rose, 80, American songwriter, heart attack.
• Omero Tognon, 66, Italian football player.

24

• Victor Civita, 83, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher.
• Sergei Dovlatov, 48, Soviet writer, heart failure.
• Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, 89, British politician and artist.
• Harold Masursky, 67, American geologist.
• Nick Metz, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jack Sanders, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player.

25

• Talbert Abrams, 95, American photographer and aviator.
• Willard Leon Beaulac, 91, American diplomat, Alzheimer's disease.
• Morley Callaghan, 87, Canadian writer.
• David Hampshire, 72, British racing driver.

26

• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, 61, Iranian poet.
• Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, 90, British politician.
• Mário Pinto de Andrade, 62, Angolan poet and politician.
• Sture Ericson, 61, Swedish Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Stuart Hamilton, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Minoru Honda, 77, Japanese astronomer.
• Roh Ogura, 74, Japanese composer.
• Paul Potts, 79, British-Canadian poet.
• Retta Scott, 74, American animator.
• Tom Toner, 40, American football player, cancer.

27

• Avdy Andresson, 90, Estonian Minister of War in exile
• Ed Balatti, 66, American football player.
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian.
• Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma.
• Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician.
• Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss Olympic athlete, and football coach.
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician and guitarist, helicopter crash.

28

• Sumitra Devi, 67, Indian actress.
• Larry Jackson, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
• Gedeon Ladányi, 76, Hungarian Olympic speed skater.
• Richard Lauffen, 83, German actor.
• Edmund H. North, 79, American screenwriter.
• Rosely Roth, 31, Brazilian LGBT activist, suicide.
• Paul Rowe, 73, Canadian football player.
• Victorio Spinetto, 79, Argentine footballer.
• Eva Stiberg, 69, Swedish actress.
• Willy Vandersteen, 77, Belgian cartoonist.
• Earl Ernest Veron, 68, American district judge.

29

• Luigi Beccali, 82, Italian Olympic runner.
• Manly Palmer Hall, 89, Canadian philosopher.
• Chin Fung Kee, 70, Malaysian civil engineer.
• Solomon Mikhlin, 82, Soviet mathematician, stroke.
• Sayyid Shahab al-DIn Mar'ashi Najafi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
• Juozas Vinča, 84, Lithuanian-American boxer and Olympian.

30

• Rhett Baynes, 26, Australian rules footballer.
• Lou Garland, 85, American baseball player.
• Edmund G. Love, 78, American author, heart attack.
• Ch'ien Mu, 95, Chinese-Taiwanese historian and philosopher.
• Bernard D. H. Tellegen, 90, Dutch electrical engineer.

31

• Bert Assirati, 82, English professional wrestler, bladder cancer.
• Nathaniel Clifton, 67, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• James H. Donovan, 66, American politician, colon cancer.
• André Dufau, 85, French Olympic sprinter.
• Henry From, 64, Danish footballer and Olympian.
• Frank Hindman Golay, 75, American economist.
• Johnny Lindsay, 81, South African cricket player.
• Jack Marshall, 82, American baseball player.
• Jack C. Rowan, 79, American football coach.
• Sergey Volkov, 41, Soviet figure skater and Olympian, stomach cancer.