Deaths in July 1990

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

July 1990

1

• Carl Christiansen, 81, Norwegian Olympic rower.
• Pat Field, 79, Australian politician, suicide.
• Paul Gondjout, 78, Gabonese politician.
• Lorrie Hunter, 90, New Zealand politician.
• Arthur Lovett, 70, Australian cricketer.
• Anna Palk, 48, English actress, cancer.
• Eric M. Rogers, 87, British physicist.
• Jurriaan Schrofer, 64, Dutch artist.
• Ivan Serov, 84, Russian intelligence officer, head of the KGB.
• Willem Winkelman, 102, Dutch Olympic track and field athlete.

2

• Silvina Bullrich, 74, Argentine novelist, lung cancer.
• Bert Connelly, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ludwig Franz, 67, German politician.
• Marion Rice Hart, 98, American athlete.
• Snooky Lanson, 76, American singer and television personality.
• Mildred Scott Olmsted, 99, American peace activist.

3

• Armand Apell, 85, French Olympic boxer.
• Bodheswaran, 88, Indian poet.
• Maurice Girodias, 71, French publisher, heart attack.
• Potsy Jones, 80, American football player.
• Vic Olsson, 86, New Zealand rower.

4

• Phil Boggs, 40, American Olympic diver, lymphoma.
• Olive Ann Burns, 65, American novelist, heart failure.
• Tom Campbell, 65, Australian rules footballer.
• Beverly Grant, 53, American actress, cancer.
• Marshall Hall, 79, American mathematician.
• Lloyd Jones, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Loyal Oakley, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Sweeney Schriner, 78, Russian-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Willi Soya, 54, German footballer.
• Ernst Wister, 68, Austrian Olympic gymnast.
• Nathaniel Wyeth, 78, American engineer and inventor.

5

• Edith Bülbring, 86, German-English physiologist.
• Tom Curran, 79, American Olympic rower.
• Eugene Guth, 84, Austrian-American physicist.
• Ted Hoppen, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Thistle Yolette Harris, 87, Australian botanist.
• Hellmut Wilhelm, 84, German-American Sinologist.

6

• William R. Higgins, 45, American colonel, torture murder..
• Alfred Maasik, 93, Estonian-American Olympic runner.
• Georg Schmidt, 63, Austrian football manager.
• Angel Zamarripa, 77, Mexican artist, kidney failure.
• Ryoko Ishida, 15, Japanese student, severe injuries to the head.

7

• Don Bessent, 59, American baseball player.
• Bill Cullen, 70, American television personality, lung cancer.
• Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, 91, German interfaith priest.
• Pu Laldenga, 63, Indian politician, lung cancer.
• Ingy Norman, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Tommy Pool, 55, American Olympic sport shooter.

8

• Joe Appiah, 71, Ghanaian lawyer, politician and statesman.
• Albert Barnes, 77, Welsh Olympic boxer.
• Richard Barry Bernstein, 66, American physical chemist, heart attack.
• Ivan Black, 77, Australian politician.
• R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr., 74, American baseball executive, cancer.
• Amélia Rey Colaço, 92, Portuguese actor.
• Howard Duff, 76, American actor, heart attack.
• Hans Faverey, 56, Dutch poet.
• John Galbally, 79, Australian politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Malcolm Hilton, 61, English cricketer.
• Robert Murzeau, 81, French actor.
• Aage Stentoft, 76, Danish composer.
• George Edward Wheeler, 75, American Olympic gymnast.
• David Widder, 92, American mathematician.

9

• Hélène Boschi, 72, Swiss-French pianist.
• René Chanas, 76, French film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
• Sonny Dunham, 78, American trumpeter, cancer.
• Hertha Feist, 94, German expressionist dancer and choreographer.
• Vernon Simeon Plemion Grant, 88, American illustrator.
• Maire Gullichsen, 83, Finnish art collector.
• Emile Nurenberg, 71, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer.
• Ragnar Olsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic racewalker.
• Horst Rittel, 59, German design theorist.
• Eric M. Warburg, 90, German banker.
• Friedrich Wegener, 83, German pathologist.

10

• Alain Chapel, 52, French chef, stroke.
• Henry Coppola, 77, American baseball player.
• Vidya Dhar Mahajan, 77, Indian historian and political scientist.
• Donald McGavran, 92, Indian-American missiologist.
• Sergei Rudenko, 85, Soviet general.
• Alfred Ryan, 86, Australian footballer and cricket player.
• Sandor Szoke, 62, Hungarian-born Australian Olympic fencer.

11

• Ignacio Aguirre, 89, Mexican painter and engraver.
• Steve Rabinovitch, 47, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• Earl Stewart, 68, American golfer.
• George Watts, 75, American football player.
• Sun Yu, 90, Chinese film director.

12

• Bill Burrud, 65, American child actor and television host, heart attack.
• Yang Chin-hu, 91, Taiwanese politician.
• Savkuz Dzarasov, 60, Soviet wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Joan Whitney Kramer, 76, American musician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Reps, 94, American poet.
• João Saldanha, 73, Brazilian football coach.

13

• Alaattin Baydar, 88-89, Turkish Olympic footballer.
• George L. Mabry Jr., 72, American general, Medal of Honor recipient, prostate cancer.
• Lois Moran, 81, American actress, cancer.
• Laura Perls, 84, German psychologist.
• Harry Seltzer, 71, American football player.

14

• Jean Dauven, 89, French Olympic bobsledder.
• Manuel Cárdenas Espitia, 29, Colombian racing cyclist.
• Ralph Humphrey, 58, American painter.
• Philip Leacock, 72, English filmmaker.
• Diego Ordóñez, 86, Spanish Olympic sprinter.
• Walter Sedlmayr, 64, German actor, murdered.

15

• Oleg Kagan, 43, Soviet violinist, cancer.
• Poul Larsen, 73, Danish canoeist and Olympian.
• Alison Leggatt, 86, English actress.
• Margaret Lockwood, 73, English actress, cirrhosis.
• Alexandre Pawlisiak, 77, French racing cyclist.
• Luigi Rigamonti, 70, Italian Olympic wrestler.
• Omar Abu Risha, 80, Syrian diplomat and poet.
• Enn Roos, 81, Soviet sculptor.
• Trouble T Roy, 22, American hip hop dancer, injuries sustained from a fall.
• Bud Thackery, 87, American cinematographer.
• Zaim Topčić, 70, Yugoslav novelist.
• Joe Ungerer, 73, American football player.
• Wilhelm Vorwerg, 90, German actor and art director.

16

• Tomás Blanco, 79, Spanish actor.
• Ibrahim Dadashov, 64, Soviet Azerbaijani Olympic wrestler.
• Mogens Fog, 86, Danish politician.
• Mikhail Matusovsky, 74, Soviet poet.
• Miguel Muñoz, 68, Spanish footballer, internal bleeding.
• Valentin Pikul, 62, Soviet novelist, heart attack.
• Sidney Torch, 82, British musician, suicide by drug overdose.

17

• Bernard Cowan, 68, Canadian actor and television producer.
• Lidiya Ginzburg, 88, Soviet literary critic.
• Guglielmo Giovannini, 64, Italian Olympic footballer.
• Wilf Grant, 69, English footballer.
• Edward A. Murphy, Jr., 72, American aerospace engineer, namesake of Murphy's law.
• Arnold Quick, 75, English cricketer.

18

• Gerry Boulet, 44, Canadian singer, cancer.
• Štefan Čambal, 81, Czechoslovak football player.
• Georges Carcagne, 82, French Olympic boxer.
• Yves Chaland, 33, French cartoonist, traffic collision.
• André Chastel, 77, French art historian.
• Georges Dargaud, 79, French publisher.
• Roy Fagan, 84, Australian politician.
• Karl Menninger, 96, American psychiatrist, abdominal cancer.
• Ilse Meudtner, 77, German Olympic diver.
• Aatto Nuora, 94, Finnish Olympic sports shooter.
• Yun Po-sun, 92, South Korean politician, president, diabetes.
• Johnny Wayne, 72, Canadian comedian, brain cancer.

19

• Egil Aarvik, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Helmut Becker, 63, German viticulturist.
• Georgi Burkov, 57, Soviet actor, thrombosis.
• Børge Hylle, 64, Danish footballer.
• Daniel du Janerand, 71, French painter, muralist, and book illustrator.
• Gusman Kosanov, 55, Soviet Olympic sprinter, suicide.
• Allan Opsahl, 65, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• Eddie Quillan, 83, American actor, cancer.

20

• Carlo Cavagnoli, 83, Italian Olympic boxer.
• Auguste Denise, 84, Ivorian politician and Head of state.
• Wilbert Labeaux, 75, American baseball player.
• Sergei Parajanov, 66, Soviet filmmaker, cancer.
• Viktoras Ražaitis, 82, Lithuanian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Klara Sierońska-Kostrzewa, 76, Polish Olympic gymnast.
• Bruno Splieth, 73, German Olympic sailor.

21

• Heitor Canalli, 80, Brazilian football player.
• Owen DeVol Cox, 80, American district judge.
• Sacha Pitoëff, 70, Swiss actor.
• Stanley Shapiro, 65, American screenwriter.
• P. R. Shyamala, 59, Indian novelist.
• Albert Strange, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Joe Turner, 82, American pianist, heart attack.
• Rich Vogler, 39, American racing driver, racing collision.

22

• Ray Mawby, 68, British politician.
• Preben Neergaard, 70, Danish actor.
• Manuel Puig, 57, Argentine novelist, heart attack.
• Eduard Streltsov, 53, Soviet footballer and Olympian, laryngeal cancer.

23

• Otto Ambros, 89, German chemist and war criminal during World War II.
• Georges Flamant, 86, French film actor.
• Pierre Gandon, 91, French illustrator and engraver.
• James D. Hart, 79, American literary scholar, brain cancer.
• Maxwell Newton, 61, Australian publisher.
• Herbert Oehmichen, 74, American Olympic handball player.
• Norm Simpson, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Bert Sommer, 41, American singer and actor, respiratory illness.
• Kenjiro Takayanagi, 91, Japanese engineer and television pioneer, pneumonia.

24

• Michel Beaune, 56, French actor, cancer.
• Alan John Clarke, 54, English filmmaker, lung cancer.
• Coen Dillen, 63, Dutch football player, heart attack.
• Pasquale Fornara, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
• Freddie Tavares, 77, American designer, engineer, and musician.
• Arno Arthur Wachmann, 88, German astronomer.
• Andy Woehr, 94, American baseball player.

25

• Jean Fourastié, 83, French civil servant, economist, and intellectual.
• Winefreda Geonzon, 48, Filipino lawyer, cancer.
• Sam Grainger, 60, American comic book artist.
• Kashim Ibrahim, 80, Nigerian politician.
• Jim Jewitt, 57, Australian rules footballer.
• Alfredo Pián, 77, Argentine racing driver.
• S. A. Rahman, 87, Pakistani judge.
• Manuel Sagarzazu, 86, Spanish Olympic footballer.
• Paul Shannon, 80, American radio and television announcer, brain cancer.
• Kuzman Sotirović, 81, Yugoslav footballer and Olympian.

26

• Leo Duyndam, 42, Dutch road bicycle racer, heart attack.
• Brent Mydland, 37, American keyboardist, drug overdose.
• Albert Rose, 80, American physicist, lung cancer.
• Giorgio Scarlatti, 68, Italian racing driver.
• John Sylvester, 85-86, American naval admiral.

27

• Elizabeth Allan, 80, English actress.
• Ernest Archer, 80, British art director.
• Bobby Day, 60, American singer, prostate cancer.
• Jimmy De Sana, 40, American artist, AIDS.
• Ed Emshwiller, 65, American visual artist, cancer.
• Maxine Gates, 73, American actress, respiratory failure.

28

• Red Barrett, 75, American baseball player.
• Maurice Braddell, 89, English actor and author.
• Jill Esmond, 82, English actress.
• Lancelot Layne, Trinidad and Tobago musician.

29

• Maceo Clark, 93, American baseball player.
• Cliff Colling, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Georges Conchon, 65, French writer.
• Herbert O. Fisher, 81, American aviation executive, heart failure.
• Bruno Kreisky, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor, heart failure.
• Cai Qiao, 92, Chinese physiologist and physician.
• Arthur Samuel, 88, American computer scientist.

30

• Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, 93, British diplomat.
• Launcelot Fleming, 83, British Anglican prelate.
• Ian Gow, 53, British politician, car bombing.
• Gustaf Jonsson, 87, Swedish Olympic skier.
• Durval Lima, 82, Brazilian Olympic rower.
• Markus Schurch, 82, Swiss Olympic sailor.
• Karl Weber, 74, American actor, heart failure.

31

• Lowell Davidson, 48, American pianist, tuberculosis.
• Nicolae Giosan, 68, Romanian agricultural engineer and politician.
• Albert Leduc, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Wally Milne, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Wilhelm Nowack, 92, German economist and politician.
• Lovro Radonjić, 62, Yugoslav water polo player and Olympic medalist.
• Fernando Sancho, 74, Spanish actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Ludger Westrick, 95, German politician.