Deaths in January 1990

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

January 1990

1

• Ingvald Bjerke, 82, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
• Arundhati Devi, 66, 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 and Olympian.
• Raymond Petit, 79, French Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Niyazi Sel, 81, Turkish Olympic footballer.
• T. B. Simatupang, 69, Indonesian National Armed Forces chief of staff.
• Max Trepp, 65, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
• 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, 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, cancer.
• Marianne C. Sharp, 88, American Mormon charity activist.
• Philippe Tisson, 86, French Olympic swimmer.
• Vladimir Ussachevsky, 78, Soviet-American composer.

3

• Loraine Boettner, 88, American theologian.
• Mauro Cía, 70, Argentine Olympic boxer, and actor.
• Roy Ilowit, 72, American football player and coach.
• 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, Premier of Victoria.
• Alberto Lleras Camargo, 83, Colombian politician, president.
• Ed Ecker, 66, American footballer player.
• Doc Edgerton, 86, American electrical engineer and academic.
• George Gearry, 66, New Zealand cricketer.
• Bonnie Hollingsworth, 94, American baseball player.
• Edmund Hood, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Florrinell F. Morton, 85, American librarian.
• Boris Nikolsky, 89, Soviet chemist.
• Per Samuelshaug, 84, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Olaf Ussing, 82, Danish actor.
• Wim Volkers, 90, Dutch football player.
• Alfred Michael Watson, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate.

5

• Bobby Balcena, 64, American MLB player.
• Alan Handley, 77, American television producer, heart attack.
• Dick Hart, 69, British painter.
• Lola Iturbe, 87, Spanish trade unionist, activist, and journalist.
• Arthur Kennedy, 75, American actor, Tony winner, 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, Czech photographer.
• Thomas Schuster, 52, Fijian Olympic boxer.
• Genrikh Sidorenkov, 58, Soviet Russian Olympic ice hockey player.

6

• Gordon Aitchison, 80, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Walter Anderson, 92, American baseball player.
• Tadashi Asai, 54, Japanese wrestler and Olympian.
• Ian Charleson, 40, Scottish actor, AIDS.
• Pavel Cherenkov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize recipient.
• Peter Cookson, 76, American actor, bone cancer.
• Hans Jaray, 83, Austrian actor and playwright.
• Wally Kelly, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Gerald Mann, 82, American football player.
• Sophie Piccard, 85, Russian-Swiss mathematician.
• Robin Schofield, 50, New Zealand cricketer.
• William Smith, 89, English cricketer.
• 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 Hall of Fame 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.
• Shag Thompson, 96, American baseball player.
• Johanna Töpfer, 60, German politician, suicide.

8

• Georgie Auld, 70, American musician, lung cancer.
• Mario Brignoli, 87, Italian Olympic racewalker.
• Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, 87, German royal and art historian.
• Leo Connors, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• 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 Olympic footballer.
• Muni Lal, 76, Indian cricketer.
• Fred McDaniel, 76, American baseball player.
• Adam Michel, 53, Polish footballer.
• John Schick, 74, American basketball player.
• August Sturm, 77, Austrian Olympic gymnast.
• Johnny Sylvester, 74, American businessman.
• Terry-Thomas, 78, English comedian and actor, Parkinson's disease.

9

• Paul Bauer, 93, German poet.
• Roger Bower, 86, British soldier.
• Northern Calloway, 41, American actor, 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.
• Bazilio Olara-Okello, 60-61, Ugandan soldier and politician, president.
• 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 Olympic 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, 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.
• Mario Minatelli, 64, Italian Olympic boxer.
• 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.
• Whitey Dienelt, 68, American basketball player.
• John Hansen, 65, Danish footballer and Olympian.
• 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.
• Madhavsinh Jagdale, 75, Indian cricketer.
• Roy Jarvis, 63, American baseball player.
• Jenő Kalmár, 81, Hungarian footballer.
• Richard Liebscher, 79, German Olympic fencer.
• Stuart McVicar, 71, New Zealand cricketer.
• Sir Dermot Milman, 8th Baronet, 77, English cricketer.
• Avraham Ofek, 54, Bulgarian-Israeli artist.
• Pierre Pascal, 80, French poet and translator.
• Gerhard Sturmberger, 49, Austrian football player.
• Peter Tippett, 63, Australian rules footballer.

14

• Edgar Douglas Richmond Bissett, 99, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• 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.
• Walter Wenger, 78, Swiss Olympic wrestler.
• James Arthur Williams, 59, American antiques dealer, heart failure.
• Tommy Williams, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• John Witty, 74, British film and television actor.

15

• Bill Albans, 64, American Olympic athlete.
• 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, Czech Olympic shot putter.
• Gordon Jackson, 66, Scottish actor, bone cancer.
• Donold Lourie, 90, American businessman and football player.
• Lin McLean, 71, Australian rugby league player.
• Fred Mundee, 76, American football player.
• William O'Neal, 40, American FBI Black Panther Party informant, suicide by traffic collision.
• Sverre Østhagen, 71, Norwegian politician.
• 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.
• Gilbert Jessop, 83, English cricketer.
• Robert Lamartine, 54, French footballer.
• Earl Naylor, 70, American baseball player.
• Jean Saint-Fort Paillard, 76, French Olympic equestrian.
• Louis Serrurier, 84, South African cricketer.
• Ruskin Spear, 78, English painter.

17

• Andreas Aulie, 92, Norwegian jurist.
• Fritz Brocksieper, 77, German musician.
• Danie Burger, 56, South African Olympic hurdler.
• 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.
• Inzer Bass Wyatt, 82, American district judge.
• Y. C. James Yen, 96, Chinese educator and organizer, pneumonia.

18

• Harold Albiston, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• 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, 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, prostate cancer.
• George Gulyanics, 68, American football player.
• 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.

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, heart failure.
• Bror Kraemer, 89, Finnish Olympic high jumper.
• Hugh Ross, 91, American choral director.
• Barbara Stanwyck, 82, American actress, Emmy winner, heart failure.
• Fernand Vandernotte, 87, French Olympic rower.
• Aris Vatimbella, 73, Greek Olympic alpine skier.
• Fred Venturelli, 72, American football player.

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.
• Rosa Gutiérrez, 70, Mexican Olympic diver.
• Perce Horne, 99, Australian rugby league player.
• 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.
• Ernesto Crotti, 53, Italian Olympic ice hockey player.
• James Dyson, 75, British physicist.
• Bill Ferrar, 96, English mathematician.
• Karl Frankenstein, 84, German-Israeli educator.
• Ezra Henniger, 62, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Maria Jacoby, 89, Luxembourgian painter.
• Helmut Krausnick, 84, German historian and writer.
• Art Laster, 41, American football player.
• Gabriella Marchi, 33, Italian Olympic gymnast.
• Bradley Ross, 26, Australian rules footballer.
• Mariano Rumor, 74, Italian politician, prime minister, 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, 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.
• Les Neal, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Derek Royle, 61, British actor, cancer.
• Enrique Sieburger Jr., 65, Argentine Olympic sailor.

24

• Madge Bellamy, 90, American actress, heart failure.
• John Blacking, 61, British anthropologist.
• Cyril Coote, 80, English cricketer.
• Helga Gnauer, 60, Austrian Olympic fencer.
• 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.
• Bohuslav Kirchmann, 87, Czech Olympic fencer.
• Saadia Kobashi, 86, Yemenite Jewish community leader in Israel.
• Araken Patusca, 84, Brazilian footballer.
• Shantilal C. Sheth, 77, Indian pediatrician and academic.

25

• Dámaso Alonso, 91, Spanish poet and literary critic.
• Dan Corry, 87, Irish Olympic equestrian.
• Ava Gardner, 67, American actress, pneumonia.
• Edward C. Gleed, 73, American Air Force officer.
• Miloš Hrazdíra, 44, Czech 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.
• George C. Carr, 60, American district judge.
• Hal Draper, 75, American socialist activist, pneumonia.
• Lewis Garnsworthy, 67-68, Canadian Anglican prelate.
• Bob Gerard, 76, English racing driver.
• Toninho Guerreiro, 47, Brazilian footballer, stroke.
• Miloslav Ištvan, 61, Czech composer.
• Borislav Kamenski, 78-79, Bulgarian footballer.
• 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.
• Stan Eve, 64, English cricketer.
• 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 Ścigała, 63, Polish Olympic weightlifter.
• Edward Szymkowiak, 57, Polish Olympic 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.
• Ted Bogan, 80, American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
• 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.

30

• M. A. B. Beg, 55, Pakistani-American theoretical physicist.
• Severino Canavesi, 79, Italian racing cyclist.
• Bob Fosdick, 95, American football player.
• John Lindgren, 90, Swedish skier and Olympian.
• João Uva de Matos Proença, 51, Portuguese diplomat.

31

• Muammer Aksoy, 73, Turkish academic.
• Lance Arnold, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Ricardo Bordallo, 62, American politician and businessman, suicide.
• Sigmund Frogn, 85, Norwegian footballer.
• Homer Griffith, 77, American football player.
• 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.