Deaths in October 1990

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

October 1990

1

• John Stewart Bell, 62, Northern Irish physicist, cerebral haemorrhage.
• June Emerson, 66, Canadian baseball player.
• Edmund George Irving, 80, British hydrographer.
• Jean Flammang, 85, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer.
• Andrzej Krzanowski, 39, Polish composer.
• Augustin Laurent, 94, French politician.
• Curtis LeMay, 83, American general, heart attack.
• Russell Thacher, 71, American film producer, complications from surgery.
• Tommy Thompson, 63, American football player, cancer.

2

• Peter Herman Adler, 90, Austrian-born American conductor.
• Xosé María Díaz Castro, 76, Galician poet and translator.
• John Groff, 100, American general, heart attack.
• Jaime Mendes, 77, Portuguese Olympic long distance-runner.
• Loni Nest, 75, German actress.
• Karl Neumeister, 87, Austrian Olympic equestrian.
• Isolina Rondón, 77, Puerto Rican nationalist.
• Fred Rwigyema, 33, Rwandan soldier, shot.
• Heinie Schuble, 83, American baseball player.
• Mercedes Simone, 86, Argentinian singer and actress.
• Norbert Vesak, 53, Canadian choreographer, brain aneurysm.

3

• Winslow Ames, 83, American art historian, heart attack.
• Amy Bailey, 94, Jamaican civil rights activist.
• Charlotte Boyle, 91, American Olympic swimmer.
• Stefano Casiraghi, 30, Italian powerboat racer, boating accident.
• Res Jost, 72, Swiss theoretical physicist.
• Ellis Pringle, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Eleanor Steber, 76, American opera singer, complications from heart surgery.
• Bill White, 73, Australian rules footballer.

4

• Alyn Ainsworth, 66, British musician.
• Jill Bennett, 63, English actress, drug overdose.
• Avis Bunnage, 67, English actress.
• Erwin Bünning, 84, German biologist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Luciano Catenacci, 57, Italian actor.
• Roy Charman, 60, English sound engineer.
• Jacques de Mahieu, 74, French-Argentine anthropologist and peronist.
• Vance Dinges, 75, American baseball player.
• George Gordon, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Sergey Lapin, 78, Soviet diplomat.
• František Nekolný, 82, Czechoslovak Olympic boxer.
• Waldemar Philippi, 61, German footballer.
• Ray Stephens, 35, American singer and actor, AIDS.
• Peter Taylor, 62, English football player, lung disease.

5

• Félix Dafauce, 93, Spanish actor.
• Marvin Gelber, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• André Grabar, 94, Ukrainian-American art historian.
• Dixie Howell, 70, American baseball player.
• Yoshio Kondo, 80, American Biologist and malacologist.
• J. Murray Mitchell, 62, American climatologist.
• Ernesto Parga, 54, Argentine Olympic water polo player.
• Roberto Soundy, 90, Salvadorian Olympic sports shooter.
• Sam Taylor, 74, American saxophonist.
• Ramkumar Verma, 85, Hindi poet.
• Đorđe Vujadinović, 80, Yugoslav football player.
• Jan Hendrik Waszink, 81, Dutch Latin scholar.

6

• Märta Dorff, 81, Swedish film actress.
• Asser Fagerström, 78, Finnish pianist, composer and actor.
• James E. Newcom, 85, American film editor.
• Danny Rodriguez, 22, American Christian rapper, shot.
• Richard P. Ross Jr., 84, American general.
• Dick Starzyk, 69, American basketball player.
• Henryk Vogelfanger, 86, Polish actor.
• Bahriye Üçok, 70-71, Turkish politician and journalist, assassinated.

7

• Chiara Badano, 18, Italian Catholic activist, osteosarcoma, bone cancer.
• Bellarmino Bagatti, 84, Italian archaeologist.
• Darrel Brown, 67, American basketball player.
• Beatrice Hutton, 97, Australian architect.
• Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 78, Emirati politician, prime minister.
• Scott M. Matheson, 61, American politician, governor of Utah, multiple myeloma.
• Grim Natwick, 100, American animator, pneumonia.
• Manuel Ramos Otero, 42, Puerto Rican writer, AIDS.
• Walt Ripley, 73, American baseball player.

8

• Juan José Arévalo, 86, Guatemalan politician, president.
• Frank Cope, 74, American football player.
• William Henry Harrison III, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
• William James Jameson, 92, American judge.
• Jeppe Johannes Ladegaard-Mikkelsen, 75, Danish Olympic equestrian.
• Jimmy Mills, 96, Scottish-American footballer.
• Robert F. Murphy, 66, American anthropologist, heart failure.
• Kamalapati Tripathi, 85, Indian politician.
• Eric Wennström, 81, Swedish Olympic hurdler.
• B.J. Wilson, 43, English drummer, pneumonia.

9

• Mildred Bayer, 81, American humanitarian.
• Murray Bowen, 77, American psychologist.
• John Brooks, 80, American Olympic long jumper.
• Georges de Rham, 87, Swiss mathematician.
• Dessie Grew, 37, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
• Markku Hakulinen, 34, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, suicide by train collision.
• Martin McCaughey, 23, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
• Richard Murdoch, 83, English actor.
• Arnold Olsen, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Géza Ottlik, 78, Hungarian writer and mathematician.
• Boris Paichadze, 75, Soviet footballer.
• Lars Thörn, 86, Swedish Olympic sailor.

10

• George Barnicle, 73, American MLB player.
• Kenneth Cross, 74, British physiologist.
• Emil Josef Diemer, 82, German chess player.
• Walter Hammersen, 79, German politician.
• Eric Huxtable, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Dick Jorgensen, 56, American football official, cancer.
• Ziggy Marcell, 74, American baseball and basketball player.
• Irene Mayer Selznick, 83, American theatrical producer, breast cancer.
• Jerónimo Mihura, 88, Spanish film director.
• Wally Moses, 80, American baseball player.
• Tom Murton, 62, American prison warden, cancer.
• Floyd R. Newman, 100, American oil businessman.
• Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 51, American politician, cancer.
• Edward Szostak, 79, Polish Olympic basketball player.
• Carlos Thompson, 67, Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Josef Trousílek, 72, Czechoslovak Olmypic ice hockey player.

11

• Ichio Asukata, 75, Japanese politician.
• Anatole Broyard, 70, American writer and journalist, prostate cancer.
• George Corbett, 82, American football player.
• Günter Kuhnke, 78, German submarine commander.
• Ken Spain, 44, American basketball player and Olympian, cancer.
• Robert Tessier, 56, American actor, cancer.
• Adri van Male, 80, Dutch footballer.
• Joseph Whiteside, 84, English Olympic swimmer.

12

• Rifaat el-Mahgoub, 64, Egyptian politician, shot.
• Leonard Krieger, 72, American historian.
• Leif Larsen, 84, Norwegian sailor and war hero.
• Rahman Morina, 47, Yugoslav politician, heart attack.
• John O'Brien, 65, New Zealand politician.
• Frederick Rossini, 91, American thermodynamicist.
• Bridget Bate Tichenor, 72, British surrealist painter and fashion editor.
• Peter Wessel Zapffe, 90, Norwegian philosopher.

13

• Jim Collins, 94, Australian rules footballer.
• Lino Donoso, 68, Cuban baseball player.
• Douglas Edwards, 73, American newscaster, bladder cancer.
• Hans Freudenthal, 85, German-born Dutch mathematician.
• Mario Guerci, 77, Argentine Olympic rower.
• Hans Namuth, 75, German-American photographer, traffic collision.
• Le Duc Tho, 78, Vietnamese politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient, cancer.
• Lewis Veraldi, 60, American automotive engineer, heart attack.

14

• Leonard Bernstein, 72, American conductor and composer, pneumonia.
• Tom Brigance, 77, American fashion designer.
• Leon Brown, 71, American basketball player.
• Daniel Guilet, 91, French-American violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Irina Odoyevtseva, 95, Russian poet, novelist and memoirist.
• Clifton Pugh, 65, Australian artist, heart attack.
• Carin Swensson, 85, Swedish actress.

15

• Tibor Berczelly, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Helen Bray, 100, American silent film actress.
• Sam Dolgoff, 88, Russian-American anarchist.
• Wilhelm Magnus, 83, German-American mathematician.
• David McCalden, 39, British-American far-right activist, AIDS.
• William Edwin Minshall, Jr., 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Gwen Nelson, 89, English actress.
• Yu Pingbo, 90, Chinese literary critic.
• Boris Piotrovsky, 82, Soviet archaeologist.
• Delphine Seyrig, 58, French actress, ovarian cancer.
• Om Shivpuri, 52, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Vital Van Landeghem, 77, Belgian football player.

16

• Art Blakey, 71, American drummer, lung cancer.
• Jorge Bolet, 75, Cuban-American pianist, AIDS-related complications.
• Douglas Campbell, 94, American flying ace during World War I.
• Dorothy M. Healy, 76, American historian.
• Berl Huffman, 83, American sports coach.
• Carl Just, 93, Norwegian journalist.
• Ambrose Palmer, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Blake Pelly, 83, Australian politician and businessman.
• Roger Powell, 94, English bookbinder.
• Giovanni Varglien, 79, Italian footballer.
• Alexander Zakin, 87, Russian-American pianist, heart failure.

17

• Ralph Bowman, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Denis Cordner, 66, Australian footballer.
• Harry Fletcher, 80, Australian politician.
• Emil Görlitz, 87, Polish footballer and Olympian.
• Seth Morgan, 41, American novelist, traffic collision.
• Jordan Olivar, 75, American football player, cancer.
• Tadashige Ono, 81, Japanese artist.
• Paul Seabury, 67, American political scientist, kidney failure.

18

• Michael Bigg, 50, English-Canadian marine biologist, leukemia.
• Marie-France Dufour, 41, French singer, leukemia.
• Nick Etten, 77, American baseball player.
• Pyotr Fedoseyev, 82, Soviet philosopher.
• Sol Furth, 83, American Olympic jumper.
• Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 99, British scientific administrator.
• Harry Marker, 91, American film editor.
• Heinz Oskar Vetter, 72, German politician.

19

• Jerry Cronin, 65, Irish politician, Parkinson's disease.
• Haim Gvati, 89, Israeli zionist activist and politician.
• René Highway, 35, Canadian dancer, AIDS.
• Augusto Tiezzi, 80, Italian cinematographer.
• Samuel Wilbert Tucker, 77, American lawyer.
• Lew Worsham, 73, American golfer.

20

• Colette Audry, 84, French writer.
• Américo Hoss, 76, Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer.
• Freda Jackson, 82, English actress.
• Alma Theodora Lee, 78, Australian botanist and plant taxonomist.
• Joel McCrea, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
• Kona Prabhakara Rao, 74, Indian politician, cardiopulmonary failure.

21

• Karl Egil Aubert, 66, Norwegian mathematician.
• Tom Carvel, 84, Greek-American businessman.
• Dany Chamoun, 56, Lebanese politician, murdered.
• Eugen Haugland, 78, Norwegian triple jumper and Olympian.
• Freddie Hooghiemstra, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Jo Ann Kelly, 46, English musician, brain cancer.
• Lotar Olias, 76, German composer.
• Brij Sadanah, 57, Indian filmmaker, suicide by gunshot.
• Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, 69, Indian composer and guru, heart attack.
• Athol Shmith, 76, Australian photographer.
• Ruth Stockton, 74, American politician.
• Frank Waddey, 85, American baseball player.

22

• Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack.
• Jack Doherty, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Gerry Hickey, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Kamil Lhoták, 78, Czechoslovak artist.
• Nikolay Rybnikov, 59, Soviet and Russian film actor, heart attack.
• Frank Sinkwich, 70, American football player, Heisman Trophy recipient.

23

• Norman Buchan, 67, British politician.
• P. K. Kelkar, 81, Indian scientist.
• Berthold Lubetkin, 88, Georgian-British architect.
• Zephania Mothopeng, 77, South African political activist, lung cancer.
• Dave Murray, 37, Canadian skier and Olympian, skin cancer.
• Bob Scott, 95, Australian rules footballer.
• Thomas Williams, 63, American novelist, lung cancer.

24

• André Aumerle, 83, French Olympic cyclist.
• Jim Clark, 63, American baseball player.
• Ivan Krevs, 77, Yugoslavian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Boris Maluev, 61, Soviet and Russian painter.
• John Sex, 34, American singer, AIDS.
• Richard Tyler, 62, American sound engineer.

25

• Ed Bagdon, 64, American football player.
• Max Biggs, 67, American basketball player.
• Leif Børresen, 81, Norwegian footballer.
• Major Holley, 66, American bassist, heart attack.
• Zara Mints, 63, Soviet literary scientist.
• Bennie Oosterbaan, 84, American football player.
• Alberto da Costa Pereira, 60, Portuguese footballer.
• Ikey Robinson, 86, American banjoist.
• Williamson A. Sangma, 71, Indian politician.
• Heber Smith, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

26

• Lawrence Andreasen, 44, American Olympic diver, accidental fall.
• Robert Antelme, 73, French writer.
• Joan Brown, 52, American painter, blunt force trauma, accident.
• Arne Dagfin Dahl, 96, Norwegian soldier.
• Guillermo Garcia Gonzales, 36, Cuban chess Grandmaster, traffic collision.
• Breandán Ó hEithir, 60, Irish writer and broadcaster.
• Ödön Lendvay, 47, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• William S. Paley, 89, American television executive, kidney failure.
• Johnny Sanders, 68, American football executive, heart failure.
• Harry Wilson, 88, American multi-athlete.

27

• Chet Adams, 75, American football player.
• Rafael Banquells, 73, Cuban-Mexican actor, director and TV producer.
• Dudley Bragg. 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Xavier Cugat, 90, Spanish musician, heart failure.
• Bob Davie, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jacques Demy, 59, French film director and lyricist, AIDS.
• Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, 89, Austrian noble, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
• Wacław Kowalski, 74, Polish actor.
• Garvin Mugg, 69, American football player.
• Leo O'Halloran, 65, Australian rules footballer.
• Elliott Roosevelt, 80, American general and politician, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, heart failure.
• Woodrow Bradley Seals, 72, American district judge.
• Ugo Tognazzi, 68, Italian actor and filmmaker, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Béla Volentik, 82, Hungarian football player.

28

• Aleksandra Chudina, 66, Soviet Olympic athlete, stomach cancer.
• Ernst Rudolf Huber, 87, German jurist.
• Gervasio, 42, Uruguayan singer.
• Kolau Nadiradze, 95, Soviet poet.
• Geminio Ognio, 72, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Robert Jan Verbelen, 79, Belgian nazi collaborator during World War II.

29

• Aleksei Alelyukhin, 70, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
• Joseph Attles, 87, American actor.
• Herbert Brodkin, 77, American producer and director of film and television.
• Emrys Roberts, 80, Welsh politician.
• William French Smith, 73, American lawyer, attorney general, cancer.
• Juha Vainio, 52, Finnish musician, heart attack.
• Volker von Collande, 76, German actor and filmmaker.

30

• Wim Gijsen, 57, Dutch author.
• Willy Jürissen, 78, German Olympic football player.
• Harry Lauter, 76, American actor, heart attack.
• Vinod Mehra, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Craig Russell, 42, Canadian drag queen and actor, AIDS.
• Alfred Sauvy, 91, French demographer.
• V. Shantaram, 88, Indian actor and filmmaker.
• Tom Steele, 81, American stuntman.
• Piroska Szekrényessy, 74, Hungarian pair skater and Olympian.
• Kwok Tak-Seng, 79, Hong Kong businessman, heart attack.
• Germaine Van Dievoet, 91, Belgian Olympic swimmer.

31

• Carl Belew, 59, American country musician, cancer.
• Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, 84, British diplomat.
• Bert Cadieu, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Vasco de Carvalho, 88, Brazilian Olympic rower.
• Jim Foster, 55, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
• Ukko Hietala, 86, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Aya Kōda, 86, Japanese novelist, heart attack.
• Hugh McPhillips, 70, American actor and television director, traffic collision.
• Ivan Porter, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Roger Price, 72, American humorist and author.
• Carmine Saponetti, 77, Italian cyclist.
• Marian Siejkowski, 50, Polish Olympic rower.
• M. L. Vasanthakumari, 62, Indian singer, cancer.
• André Verdeil, 86, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player.