Deaths in May 1990

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

May 1990

1

• Fred Blackburn, 87, British politician.
• Sunset Carson, 69, American actor.
• Heciyê Cindî, 82, Kurdish linguist and researcher from Armenia.
• Ștefan Czinczer, 84, Romanian footballer.
• Djalma Dias, 50, Brazilian footballer, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Sergio Franchi, 64, Italian-American singer and actor, brain cancer.
• Lothar Geitler, 90, Austrian botanist.
• Oskar Kuhn, 82, German palaeontologist.
• Rab Bruce Lockhart, 73, Scottish rugby player and academic.
• Jindřich Maudr, 84, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler..
• Frits Warmolt Went, 86, Dutch-American biologist.

2

• Germain Bazin, 88, French art historian.
• Ronald Berndt, 73, Australian anthropologist.
• Ann Casson, 74, English actress.
• William L. Dawson, 90, American composer.
• Evert Johansson, 86, Finnish Olympic canoeist.
• Andy McPartland, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• David Rappaport, 38, English actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Giacomo Scalet, 80, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.

3

• Carlos Cerutti, 21, Argentine basketball player, traffic collision.
• Dovima, 62, American supermodel, liver cancer.
• Audrey Ferris, 80, American actress.
• Mathilda Guez, 71, French Tunisian-Israeli politician.
• Karl Ibach, 75, German politician.
• Shōtarō Ikenami, 67, Japanese author, leukemia.
• Pimen I of Moscow, 79, Soviet patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Charlie Richards, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Mary Lea Johnson Richards, 63, American theatre producer, liver cancer.
• George Wilson, 84, American football player.

4

• Luther Clifford, 66, American baseball player.
• John Ormond, 67, Welsh poet.
• Emily Remler, 32, American guitarist, heart failure.
• Jim Schelle, 73, American baseball player.
• Shepard Stone, 82, American journalist.
• Johnny Wright, 73, American baseball player.

5

• Endre Bohem, 89, Hungarian-American filmmaker.
• Walter Bruch, 82, German electrical engineer and television pioneer.
• Ruy Duarte, 78, Brazilian Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Reginald Goodall, 88, English conductor.
• Cecilia H. Hauge, 94, American nurse.
• Jean Keller, 84, French Olympic runner.
• Elton Rule, 72, American television executive.

6

• Paul Blessing, 71, American NFL player.
• Carlos de Cárdenas Jr., 57, Cuban Olympic sailor.
• Charles Farrell, 89, American actor, heart failure.
• Lotte Jacobi, 93, Prussian-American photographer.
• Verner Løvgreen, 79, Danish Olympic canoeist.
• Irmtraud Morgner, 56, German writer, cancer.
• Eduardo Nicol, 83, Mexican-Catalan philosopher.

7

• Ann Bishop, 90, English biologist, pneumonia.
• Elizete Cardoso, 69, Brazilian singer and actress, cancer.
• Maurice Carlton, 76, French Olympic sprinter.
• Ashley Lawrence, 55, New Zealand conductor.
• Nicholas Sanduleak, 56, American astronomer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• Sam Tambimuttu, 58, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician.
• Charlie Walker, 78, English football player.
• Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 60, Yugoslav royal, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

8

• Severt Dennolf, 69, Swedish Olympic long distance runner.
• Tomás Ó Fiaich, 66, Irish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
• June James, 27, American football player, traffic collision.
• Luigi Nono, 66, Italian composer.
• Edsard Schlingemann, 23, Dutch Olympic swimmer, traffic collision.
• Rudolf Sellner, 84, German actor.

9

• Lü Wei, 23–24, Chinese diver, murdered.
• Pauline Frederick, 82, American journalist, heart attack.
• David Stuart Parker, 71, American territorial administrator, heart failure.
• Patrick Piggott, 75, English composer.
• Misha Raitzin, 59–60, Soviet-Israeli-American singer, lung aneurysm.
• George Kennedy Young, 79, British politician.

10

• Hilda Buck, 75, New Zealand cricket player.
• Walter Mahan, 87, American football player.
• Susan Oliver, 58, American actress and aviator, colorectal cancer.
• Walker Percy, 73, American philosophical writer, prostate cancer.

11

• Gérardo Apruzzese, 87, French Olympic wrestler.
• Stratos Dionysiou, 54, Greek singer, aortic aneurysm.
• Heidemarie Hatheyer, 78, Austrian actress.
• Winford Stokes, 39, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• David Wade, 78, American general.
• Harry Whittle, 68, British hurdler and Olympian.
• Hanne Wieder, 65, German actress, cancer.
• Venedikt Yerofeyev, 51, Soviet writer and dissident, throat cancer.

12

• Bill Bufalino, 72, American Mafia lawyer, leukemia.
• John E. Davis, 77, American politician, governor of North Dakota.
• Andrei Kirilenko, 83, Soviet politician.
• Nate Monaster, 78, American scriptwriter.
• Anthony Masters, 70, British production designer and set decorator.
• Albert Öberg, 101, Swedish Olympic athlete.
• Earl Seibert, 79, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.

13

• Jorge Garate, 72, Argentine film editor.
• Albert Hendrickx, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Ray Jennison, 80, American football player.
• Hans Raff, 79, German Olympic runner.

14

• André Amellér, 78, French composer.
• Georgi Eftimov, 59, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.
• Gerald T. Flynn, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• George Holliday, 73, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Tarcisio Longoni, 76, Italian politician.
• Ruth Mason, 76, New Zealand botanist.
• Mary Oppen, 81, American poet, ovarian cancer.
• Bill Pace, 58, American football player.
• Ned Pines, 84, American publisher.
• Franklyn Seales, 37, American actor, AIDS.

15

• Jerzy Drzewiecki, 87, Polish airplane engineer.
• Peter Grimwade, 47, British television director and screenwriter, leukemia.
• Ray Pratt, 75, Australian rugby league player.
• Anna Schchian, 84, Soviet botanist.
• Yves Van Massenhove, 81, Belgian Olympic racing cyclist.
• Doug Young, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.

16

• Luis Aldás, 80, Argentine actor.
• Rein Aren, 62, Soviet actor.
• Red Carr, 73, Canadian NHL player.
• Fernando Claudín, 74, Spanish historian.
• Sammy Davis Jr., 64, American singer and actor, throat cancer.
• Robert Gall, 71, French lyricist.
• Jim Henson, 53, American puppeteer and film director, toxic shock syndrome.
• Eduardo Mateo, 49, Uruguayan singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.
• Pretzel Pezzullo, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
• Alija Sirotanović, 75, Yugoslav udarnik.

17

• Manuel Anatol, 87, French footballer.
• Rudolf Breuss, 91, Austrian naturopath and pseudoscientific diet advocate.
• Ken Bryant, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Auguste Jordan, 81, French footballer.
• Jimmy Lawrence, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Per Ljostveit, 61, Norwegian footballer.
• Detlev Peukert, 39, German historian, AIDS.
• Carlos Riquelme, 76, Mexican actor.
• Jackie Stewart, 68, Scottish footballer.
• Frank Wright, 54, American jazz musician.

18

• Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn, 69, Vietnamese Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Jill Ireland, 54, English actress and singer, breast cancer.
• Lorna Johnstone, 87, English Olympic equestrian.
• Karl Meyer, 90, German-American biochemist.
• Rafael Hernández Ochoa, 74, Mexican politician.
• Dalton Prejean, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
• Yannis Spyropoulos, 78, Greek painter.
• Eje Thelin, 51, Swedish trombonist.

19

• Jim Balfour, 75, Australian politician.
• Ted Cook, 69, American basketball player.
• Olive Byrne, 86, American writer.
• Hector Dyer, 79, American Olympic sprinter.
• Aladár Háberl, 92, Hungarian Olympic skier.
• Hermann Wulf, 74, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.

20

• Bina Mossman, 97, American musician and politician.
• Peter Rabe, 68, German-American author, lung cancer.
• Aage Rubæk-Nielsen, 76, Danish Olympic equestrian.
• Franklin Williams, 72, American diplomat.

21

• Mrs. Victor Bruce, 94, British racer.
• Morris Levy, 62, American record executive, cancer.
• Ed Steitz, 69, American basketball coach.
• Lily von Essen, 93, Swedish Olympic tennis player.
• Max Wall, 82, English actor and comedian, fall.

22

• Rocky Graziano, 71, American boxer, cardiopulmonary failure.
• Pat Reid, 79, British historian and soldier.
• Ling Shuhua, 90, Chinese modernist writer and painter.
• Leslie Spriggs, 80, British politician.
• Woody Williams, 71, American baseball player.
• Ronald Wood, 60, English cricketer.

23

• Affandi, 83, Indonesian artist.
• Charlie Keller, 73, American baseball player.
• Elliott Lewis, 72, American actor.
• Giuseppe Santomaso, 82, Italian painter and educator.
• Ted Tinling, 79, British-American fashion designer.

24

• Jeanne de Salzmann, 101, French-Swiss choreographer.
• Augie Donatelli, 75, American baseball umpire.
• K. S. Hegde, 80, Indian politician and judge.
• John Kendall-Carpenter, 64, English rugby player.
• Jacques Lob, 57, French comic book artist.
• Dries van der Lof, 70, Dutch racing driver.
• Julijans Vaivods, 94, Soviet Roman Catholic cardinal.

25

• D. S. Amalorpavadass, 57, Indian theologian.
• Athanasios Asimakopulos, 59, Canadian economist, leukemia.
• Ray Atkeson, 83, American photographer.
• Hans-Werner Kraus, 74, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• William Overgard, 64, American cartoonist.
• Vic Tayback, 60, American actor, heart attack.
• Gary Usher, 51, American musician, lung cancer.

26

• Marguerite S. Church, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• René David, 64, French legal scholar.
• Brūno Kalniņš, 91, Latvian politician and historian.
• Emil Konopinski, 78, American nuclear scientist.
• Don McFadyen, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Chris McGregor, 53, South African musician, lung cancer.
• Varlen Pen, 73, Soviet Russian-Korean painter and graphic artist.
• Nicole Riche, 64, French actress.

27

• Heino Dissing, 77, Danish Olympic racing cyclist.
• Adele Duttweiler-Bertschi, 97, Swiss philanthropist.
• Emil Handschin, 62, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player.
• Clarrie Heard, 83, New Zealand Olympic swimmer.
• Joe McDonald Ingraham, 86, American judge.
• Pyotr Lomako, 85, Soviet politician.
• Jessie MacWilliams, 73, English mathematician.
• Robert Baumle Meyner, 81, American politician, governor of New Jersey.
• Mieko Takamine, 71, Japanese actress and singer.

28

• Ralph Alger Bagnold, 94, English geologist.
• Bill Davies, 74, Canadian football player.
• Julius Eastman, 49, American musician, cardiac arrest.
• Wilhelm Effern, 83, Dutch Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Inna Gulaya, 50, Soviet actress, drug overdose.
• Giorgio Manganelli, 67, Italian writer.
• Taiichi Ohno, 78, Japanese industrialist.
• Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 90, German industrial designer and engineer.

29

• Mohamed Shah Alam, 27, Bangladeshi Olympic sprinter.
• Yves Brayer, 82, French painter.
• Jimmy Creighton, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Parkinson's disease.
• Bill MacKenzie, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Fred Patterson, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Albert Spaulding, 75, American anthropologist.
• Alexander Tsvetkov, 75, Bulgarian chess player.

30

• Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere, 92, British academic.
• John Francis Hackett, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Ole Scavenius Jensen, 69, Danish Olympic rower cyclist.
• Wilderich Freiherr Ostman von der Leye, 66, German politician.
• José Solís, 76, Spanish politician.

31

• Clotario Blest, 90, Chilean unionist.
• Jerzy Kaliszewski, 77, Polish actor.
• Art Lund, 75, American singer.
• Michael Raffetto, 90, American actor, throat cancer.
• Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., 72, American CIA agent and writer, heart failure.
• Charlie Shoemaker, 50, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Willy Spühler, 88, Swiss politician.